Again, I don't mean to frustrate you, but the idea of best introductory books just doesn't jump out to me. So I will take three paths in suggesting what answer I can give to you.
1. I would suggest that you ask folks on Piffer OT thread or others that you find interesting and knowledgeable.
2. I offer these as "best" picks rather than "intro" picks:
a. Anything written by Jim Grant. He is the best financial author that I know. Not only extremely market savvy, but a great wordsmith, too. He has written four books and has a website grantspub.com I also suggest that you subscribe to his free email newsletter.
b. For trading, the Market Wizard series by Schwager is excellent.
c. For value investing, start with The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and if you are really motivated read Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham.
d. For efficient market and index fund information read Bernstein's "Capital Ideas" and his book "Against the Gods" and read John Bogle Sr.'s book "Bogle on Mutual Funds".
e. For great informative reading in a fiction context but really packed with great stuff, read anything by Edwin Lefevre, particularly "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator"
f. For a great website with superior financial titles for ideas, see fraserbooks.com in fact, order their hardcopy catalog.
g. Read Tommy Dorsey's Point and Figure. Not only is it a superior book written by a very nice fellow, you have quite a crowd of his employees and followers on si. Also you can ask questions directly of Tommy Dorsey. Member 7518731
His main employee for helpfulness and information on si is Ms. X (Jan) Member 3348639
h. For a more bearish (and I believe realistic view of where the markets are right now) watch posts by my friend Bill Meehan Member 641660
He makes frequent appearances on cnbc, cnn, cnnfn, etc. Bill balances fundamental analysis with technical analysis.
i. For a bearish point of view from a more strict fundamental point of view, read Michael Burke for awhile Member 1346235 He ran what at the time was the largest mutual fund in the United States and will answer any question you want to fire at him.
j. Adam Smith, Andrew Tobais, and Peter Lynch all write very good stuff that is very easy to follow. Perhaps that is as close to an "intro" type text that I could suggest. Particularly Tobias and Lynch. Smith is very good also, but a little less intro.
3. Back to reading material, I can give reviews on the list below if you are considering reading any of the titles there.
Ackerman The Gold Ring
Adams The Big Fix
Adams & Frantz A Full Service Bank
Alger Coming Back on Wall Street
Alger Getting Creamed on Wall Street
Alletzhauser The House of Nomura
Allrich The On-Line Investor
Anders Merchants of Debt
Angly Oh Yeah?
Auletta Greed and Glory on Wall Street
Bailey Fall from Grace
Baldwin & Stotts Mortgage-Backed Securities
Barnett The Nissan Report
Barrett Trump
Batra The Great Depression of 1990
Beardstown Ladies Common-Sense Investment Guide
Beebe The Big Spenders
Benedict The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Bernstein Grounded
Bernstein Capital Ideas
Bernstein Against the Gods
Bianco Rainmaker
Binstein & Bowden Trust Me (Charles Keating and the Missing Billions)
Birmingham America's Secret Aristocracy
Bogle Bogle on Mutual Funds
Bogle The Triumph of Indexing
Boland Wall Street's Insiders
Bonker America's Trade Crisis
Brashler Traders
Brimelow The Wall Street Gurus
Brooks The Autobiography of American Business
Brooks The Go-Go Years
Bruck The Predators' Ball
Burrough Vendetta
Burrough & Helyar Barbarians at the Gate
Burstein Yen
Bygrave & Timmons Venture Capital at the Crossroads
Caes Tools of the Bear
Campbell Understanding Stocks
Caplan The Options Advantage
Carlson Free Lunch on Wall Street
Chase Mugged on Wall Street
Chernow The House of Morgan
Chilton The Wealthy Barber
Chorafas Chaos Theory in the Financial Markets
Cox & Rubinstein Options Markets
Crawford & Sihler The Troubled Money Business
Crump The Theory of Stock Speculation
Darvas Wall Street, the other Las Vegas
Davidson & Rees-Moog The Great Reckoning
Dicke Franchising in America
Donoghue w/ Tiling No-Load Mutual Fund Guide
Dolan Straight Talk on Money
Dorfman The Stock Market Directory
Drucker The Effective Executive
Dunlap Mean Business
Eccles & Crane Doing Deals
Economist, the Buide to Business Numeracy
Edwards & Magee Technical Analysis of Stock Trends
Eichenwald Serpent on the Rock
Ellis Institutional Investing
Emmott The Sun Also Sets
Epstein & Garfield The Psychology of Smart Investing
Fahy w/ LeBlanc The Streetwise Investor
Federal Reserve Purposes & Functions
Fehrenbach The Gnomes of Zurich
Fischel Payback
Foster Towers of Debt
Frantz From the Ground Up
Frantz Levine & Co.
Fraser 10 Rules for Investing
Fraser 10 Ways to become Rich
Fraser P.S. What do you think of the market
Fraser The Art of Selling Stocks
Friedman & Meehan House of Cards
Fullman Options: A Personal Seminar
Galbraith Economics in Perspective
Galbraith The Anatomy of Power
Galbraith The Great Crash
Galbraith Money
Gardner/Gardner The Motley Fool Investment Guide
Garrett Where the Money Grows
Gates The Road Ahead
German The Only Money Book for the Middle Class
Gibson Asset Allocation
Givens Wealth without Risk
Gleick Chaos
Gold Modern Futures Markets
Goldberg Getting the Talk Right
Goldenberg Trading
Gordon The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street
Graham The Intelligent Investor
Graham & Dodd Security Analysis
Grant Bernard Baruch
Grant Money of the Mind
Grant Minding Mi$ter Market
Grant The Trouble with Prosperity
Gray A Thousand Miles From Wall Street
Greider Secrets of the Temple
Griffeth 10 Steps to Financial Prosperity
Griffeth The Mutual Fund Masters
Grossman American Express
Hagstrom The Warren Buffett Way
Haight & Singer Understanding Real Estate
Heilbroner & Thurow Economics Explained
Henriques Fidelity's World
Hickling Men and Idioms of Wall Street
Hoyne Speculations its Sound Principles & Rules for its practice
Iacocca w/ Kleinfield Talking Straight
IFA Franchising Opportunities Guide
Inc. Magazine Guide to Finding Capital
Investment Co. Inst. 1992 Directory of Mutual Funds
Ishihara The Japan that can say no
Jacobs Break the Wall Street Rule
Jacobs Short-Term America
Jensen The Financiers
Johnson Takeover
Johnson Roller Coaster
Jones The Buck Starts Here
Kamoroff Small-Time Operator
Katzenstein Funny Business
Kaufman Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World
Kerzner Understanding Corporate Bonds
Kilpatrick Warren Buffett
King How to profit from the next great Depression
Kornbluth Highly Confident
Lamb Running American Business
Lampert True Greed
Leeb Getting in on the Ground Floor
Lefevre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Lefevre Sampson Rock
Lefevre The Golden Flood
Lefevre The Making of a Stockbroker
Lefevre The Plunderers
Lehmann DJI Guide to Using The Wall Street Journal
Levine w/ Hoffer Inside Out
Lewis Liar's Poker
Lewis Pacific Rift
Lewis The Money Culture
Loeb The Battle for Investment Survival
Loeb The Battle for Stock Market Profits
Longstreet Viewpoints of a Commodity Trader
Love McDonalds, behind the arches
Lowe Benjamin Graham on Value Investing
Lowenstein What's Wrong with Wall Street
Lowenstein Buffett, The Making of an American Capitalist
Lynch Beating the Market
Lynch One Up on Wall Street
Lynch Learn to Earn
Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Malabre Lost Prophets
Malkiel A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Malkiel A Random Walk Down Wall Street 1996 edition
Mamis The Nature of Risk
Mann Beijing Jeep
Martin Railroads Triumphant
Maturi The 105 Best Investments for the 21st Century
Maturi Divining the Dow
Maturi Main Street Beats Wall Street
Mayer Markets
Mayer Stealing the Market
Mayer The Bankers
Mayer The Money Bazaars
McCormack What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School
McMillan Options as a Strategic Investment
Metz & Stasen It's a sure thing
Metz Black Monday
Millman The Floating Battlefield
Mobius The Investor's Guide to Emerging Markets
Morita Made in Japan
Mrkvicka The Bank Book
Muller Adam Smith in his time and ours
Nadler Paul Nadler writes about Banking
Naisbitt Global Paradox
Natenberg Option Volatility and Pricing Strategy
Neill The Art of Contrary Thinking
Newman King of the Castle
Ney The Wall Steet Jungle
Ney The Wall Street Gang
Niederman This is not your Father's Stockpicking Guide
Noddings The Investors Guide to Convertible Bonds
Ohmae The Mind of the Strategist
Olien/Olien Easy Money
Oliver The Real Coke, The Real Story
O'Donnell w/ Rutherford Trumped
O'Neill How to make money in stocks
O'Neill 100 Ways to improve your Investment Results (tape)
O'Rourke Eat the Rich
O'Shea The Daisy Chain
Pacelli The Speculator's Edge
Pedersen Play Money
Petersen A Better Idea
Pickens Boone
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo Inside Job
Powell Risk, Ruin & Riches
Pratt & Zeckhauser Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business
Prendergast Uncommon Profits through Stock Purchase Warrants
Preston American Steel
Pring How to Forecast Interest Rates
Rand Anthem
Rand The Virtue of Selfishness
Rappaport The Affluent Investor
Rawnsley Total Risk
Ringold How to Lose Money in the Stock Market
Rogers Investment Biker
Rogers The Future of American Banking
Rosenberg Inside the Wall Street Journal
Rosenberg Stock Market Primer
Roth Leaps
Rothchild Going for Broke
Rukeyser How to Make Money in Wall Street
Salacuse Making Global Deals
Saler Lies Your Broker Tells You
Sartoris & Hill The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Cash Management Course
Sauerhaft The Merger Game
Schulte The Fall of First Executive
Schwager Market Wizards
Schwager The New Market Wizards
Scott Wall Street Words
Seidman Full Faith and Credit
Seiver Outsmarting Wall Street
Seto The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide
Shaleen Volume and Open Interest
Sheimo Dow Theory Redux
Shook & Shook The Winner's Circle
Silver The Inside Raider
Skousen Scrooge Investing
Slater Soros
Smalley & Sturdivant The Credit Merchants
Smith The Money Game
Smith Paper Money
Smith Supermoney
Smith The Roaring '80s
Sobel AMEX
Sobel Dangerous Dreamers
Soble & Dallos The Impossible Dream
Soros The Alchemy of Finance
Soros Soros on Soros
Springer The Mutual Fund Trap
Sprouse If Time is Money, No Wonder I'm not Rich
Stein A License to Steal
Sterngold Burning Down the House
Stevens The Big Six
Stevens King Icahn
Stewart Den of Thieves
Stolper w/ Mattlin Wealth: An Owner's Manual
Stone April Fools
Tamarkin The New Gatsbys
Taub Taurus
Teweles & Jones The Futures Game
Thomas The Plungers and the Peacocks
Thomsett The Mathematics of Investing
Thurow The Zero-Sum Society
Tobias The Funny Money Game
Tobias The Invisible Bankers
Tobias Getting by on $100,000 a Year
Tobias The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
Tobias Still the only Investment Guide (tape)
Tolchin Buying into America
Toppel Zen in the Markets
Train Famous Financial Fiascos
Train The Craft of Investing
Trimble Sam Walton
Trump w/ Leerhsen Surviving at the Top
Trump w/ Schwartz The Art of the Deal
Tuccille Rupert Murdoch
Ulmann & Bercoon The Dow Jones Irwin Guide to Using IRA's
Unger How to Invest in Real Estate
Vicker Retirement Planning
Volcker & Gyohten Changing Fortunes
Walden The 100 Best Stocks to own in America
Walton Sam Walton--Made in America
Warfield How to buy Foreign Stocks and Bonds
Watkins The Great Depression
Watson w/ Petre Father, Son & Co.
Wechsberg The Merchant Bankers
Weiner Stock Index Futures
Weinstein Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets
Weiss Managing for Peak Performance
Weiss Going Public
Wilbanks The Investments Reader
Wilmsen Silverado
Winans Malcolm Forbes
Winkelman Ten Years of Wall Street
Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities
Wright On a clear day you can see General Motors
Yergin The Prize
Zielinski & Holloway Unequal Equities
Zweig Winning on Wall Street (tape) |
