Full Title: Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street Author: Arron Brown Publisher/Date:  Wiley (2011) List Cost/Pages:  $35 Hardcover / 432 pages Cover Notes: From 1987 to 1992, a small group of Wall Street quants invented an entirely new way of managing risk to maximize success: risk management for risk-takers. This is the secret that lets tiny quantitative edges [...]
Full Title: Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude Author: Mark Douglas Publisher/Date:  Prentice Hall Press (2001) List Cost/Pages:  $50 Hardcover / 240 pages Cover Notes: Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the [...]
Full Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusin de Confusiones Authors: Charles Mackay / Joseph de la Vega / Martin Fridson Publisher/Date:  Wiley (1995) List Cost/Pages:  $37 Softcover /  224 pages Cover Notes: "The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These two venerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuable books on the securities markets, and [...]
Full Title: The Inner Voice of Trading: Eliminate the Noise, and Profit from the Strategies That Are Right for You Author: Michael Martin Publisher/Date: FT Press (2011) List Cost/Pages:  $27 Paperback / 192 pages Cover Notes: Want to be a successful trader? It's not enough to master generic trading strategies: you must first know yourself. You must understand your own emotional [...]
Full Title: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Author: Lawrence G. McDonald (Twitter @Convertbond) Publisher/Date: Crown Business (2009) List Cost/Pages:  $40 Hardcover / 368 pages Cover Notes: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to [...]
Full Title: Forecasting Financial Markets: The Psychology of Successful Investing Author: Tony Plummer Publisher/Date: Wiley (2010) List Cost/Pages:  $ Hardcover / 259 pages Cover Notes: Forecasting Financial Markets provides a compelling insight into the psychology of trading behavior and shows how "following the herd" can have disastrous results. It demonstrates how one's ability to make money in the world's financial markets depends [...]