Trading Books
Published trading books in the ChartClub Directory, with editorial notes kept separate from community ratings.
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The Zurich Axioms
Max Gunther · Intermediate
The Zurich Axioms is Max Gunther's set of speculative rules about risk, greed, and when to leave a bet. ChartClub lists the 6 October 2020 Harriman Classics paperback. The axioms are a philosophy. They are not a tested trading method, and the stories of Swiss bankers getting rich are the book's claims.
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Portfolio Management Formulas
Ralph Vince · Advanced
Portfolio Management Formulas is Ralph Vince's early book on how bet size changes the path of an account. ChartClub lists the January 1991 Wiley hardcover. A formula for an optimal fraction is not the size of the next order.
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Investment Valuation
Aswath Damodaran · Advanced
Investment Valuation is Aswath Damodaran's reference on how to value a business, a project, or another asset. ChartClub lists the January 2025 University Edition, fourth edition, the paperback whose cover file matches. A valuation model is a set of assumptions. It is not the future price.
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The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing
Pat Dorsey · Intermediate
The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing is Pat Dorsey's process for reading financial statements and paying less than a business is worth. ChartClub lists the December 2004 Wiley paperback. The rules are a checklist. They are not proof the reader will beat the market.
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The Little Book That Builds Wealth
Pat Dorsey · Intermediate
The Little Book That Builds Wealth is Pat Dorsey's account of economic moats: why a business might keep its profits. ChartClub lists the March 2008 Wiley hardcover that matches this cover. A moat is a research question, not a promise that the stock will compound.
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Dynamic Hedging
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Advanced
Dynamic Hedging is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's professional book on hedging vanilla and exotic options. ChartClub lists the January 1997 Wiley hardcover. It is a risk manual for people who already trade options, not a strategy that pays because it was published.
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Understanding Bitcoin
Pedro Franco · Advanced
Understanding Bitcoin is Pedro Franco's technical account of how Bitcoin is built, from keys and transactions to the economics around the network. ChartClub lists the November 2014 Wiley hardcover. Explaining a protocol is not a reason to own the asset.
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The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous · Intermediate
The Bitcoin Standard is Saifedean Ammous's argument that Bitcoin belongs in the history of money. ChartClub lists the April 2018 Wiley hardcover. The monetary thesis is the author's case, not an established fact, and the book is not a trading system.
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Market Microstructure Theory
Maureen O'Hara · Advanced
Market Microstructure Theory is Maureen O'Hara's academic account of how prices form when some traders know more than others. ChartClub lists the April 1995 Wiley hardcover. It is a theory book, not a set of tape-reading setups.
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Evidence-Based Technical Analysis
David Aronson
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis asks whether a technical rule survives a statistical test, especially after many rules were tried. ChartClub lists the 2006 Wiley edition. The book is a warning about data mining, not a catalog of signals that work.
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Quantitative Trading
Ernest P. Chan
Quantitative Trading is Ernest P. Chan's second edition on building a small systematic trading operation, from data and testing to execution. ChartClub lists the July 2021 Wiley edition that matches this cover. A later revised printing exists and is not this record.
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument about rare events that dominate outcomes and about how people explain them afterward. ChartClub lists the 2010 second edition. It is a risk essay, not a trading system, and its stronger claims are not treated as settled.
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Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market
Kathy Lien
Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market is Kathy Lien's third edition on how the FX market is structured and how she frames currency trades. ChartClub lists the 2015 Wiley edition that matches this cover. A currency strategy in the book is not a tested edge.
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Trading Options Greeks
Dan Passarelli
Trading Options Greeks is Dan Passarelli's second edition on delta, gamma, theta, vega, and how those measures change an options position. ChartClub lists the 2012 hardcover. Knowing the Greeks is not a profitable strategy.
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Against the Gods
Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods is Peter L. Bernstein's history of how people learned to think about probability and risk. ChartClub lists the 1998 Wiley edition. It is a history, not a trading or position-sizing manual.
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The Mathematics of Money Management
Ralph Vince
The Mathematics of Money Management is Ralph Vince's technical book on how bet size changes the path of a trading account. ChartClub lists the 1992 Wiley edition. Optimal-f math is not a license to size up.
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Philip A. Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits is Philip A. Fisher's case for studying a business before buying the stock. ChartClub lists the 2003 Wiley edition, which also includes other writings. Scuttlebutt is a research habit, not a valuation formula.
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The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market is Joel Greenblatt's updated explanation of a simple value formula. ChartClub lists the 2010 Wiley edition that matches this cover. The book's tests are not a guarantee that the formula will beat the market.
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Following the Trend
Andreas F. Clenow
This is the second edition of Andreas F. Clenow's Following the Trend, a plain account of diversified managed-futures trend following. ChartClub lists the 2023 Wiley edition beside the 2012 record. A revised rule set is still not a fund result.
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Algorithmic Trading
Ernest P. Chan
Algorithmic Trading is Ernest P. Chan's book of mean-reversion and momentum examples, with the testing and implementation problems attached. ChartClub lists the May 2013 Wiley edition. An example strategy is not a live business.
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Advances in Financial Machine Learning
Marcos López de Prado
Advances in Financial Machine Learning is Marcos López de Prado's technical book on applying machine learning to financial data without fooling yourself. ChartClub lists the 2018 Wiley edition. The math does not create a trading edge by itself.
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Volatility Trading
Euan Sinclair
Volatility Trading is Sinclair's earlier book on measuring volatility, hedging, and sizing an options trade. ChartClub lists the 2008 Wiley edition. Measuring volatility is not the same as having an edge.
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Option Trading
Euan Sinclair
Option Trading is Euan Sinclair's book on pricing, volatility, and how a professional thinks about an options book. ChartClub lists the 2010 Wiley print edition as a framework. A described strategy is not a measured edge.
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Following the Trend
Andreas F. Clenow
Following the Trend explains diversified managed-futures trend following in plain rules. ChartClub lists the 2012 first edition. A described rule set is not a live fund result, and a later edition exists.
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The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing collects Howard Marks's memos on risk, cycles, and second-level thinking. ChartClub lists it as an investing risk book. It is not a trading setup text, and it does not need its own category.
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness argues that people mistake luck for skill in markets and in life. ChartClub lists the 2008 Penguin Random House edition as a risk and judgment book, not as a trading method.
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's book on judging decisions by the odds at the time, not by the outcome afterward. ChartClub lists it for traders because that distinction matters. It is not a poker system and not a market system.
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's set of short chapters on how people behave with money. ChartClub lists it as a decision book for traders and investors. It is not a method for entries or exits.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is Edwin Lefèvre's 1923 narrative about a speculator in bucket-shop and exchange markets. ChartClub lists the 2006 Wiley edition as market history, not as a modern trading manual.
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The Psychology of Trading
Brett N. Steenbarger
The Psychology of Trading is Steenbarger's earlier book on using structured self-observation in markets. ChartClub lists it as a process book. It is not clinical treatment, and it is not The Daily Trading Coach.
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Beyond Candlesticks
Steve Nison
Beyond Candlesticks is Nison's follow-up on renko, kagi, and three-line break charts. ChartClub lists the 1994 Wiley edition as a second chart language, not as a newer edge.
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Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
Steve Nison
Steve Nison's second edition is the standard Western reference for reading candlestick shapes. ChartClub lists it as a chart language. A candle pattern is not a tested signal by itself.
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The Art and Science of Technical Analysis
Adam Grimes
Adam Grimes ties price action and market structure to trade management and a warning about edge. ChartClub lists the 2012 hardcover as a framework, not as proof that technical patterns pay.
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Trading Price Action Trading Ranges
Al Brooks
Trading Price Action Trading Ranges covers sideways markets, breakouts, and trade management in the Brooks series. ChartClub lists it as the range volume, not as a breakout formula.
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Trading Price Action Reversals
Al Brooks
Trading Price Action Reversals is the Brooks volume on turns, wedges, and failed moves. ChartClub lists the hardcover as a specialist reference. A reversal label is not a forecast.
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Trading Price Action Trends
Al Brooks
Trading Price Action Trends is Al Brooks's bar-by-bar book on trend structure. ChartClub lists the Wiley hardcover as a dense price-action reference. Reading a bar does not by itself create an edge.
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Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
Thomas N. Bulkowski
Thomas N. Bulkowski's third edition is a reference catalog of chart patterns with the author's own statistics. ChartClub lists it as a lookup book. Pattern statistics are not a promise that the next example will work.
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Unknown Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Unknown Market Wizards interviews traders who were not famous when Schwager found them. ChartClub lists the 2023 Harriman House edition as more case studies. Headline returns in the book are not audited here.
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Hedge Fund Market Wizards interviews managers who traded with institutional constraints. ChartClub lists the 2012 print edition as a look at professional process, not a retail playbook.
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Stock Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Stock Market Wizards collects Schwager's interviews with stock traders after a long bull market. ChartClub lists it as a set of equity case studies, not as proof that those results repeat.
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The New Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager's second interview collection talks with traders whose methods do not match one another. ChartClub lists this Wiley edition as more case studies in process and risk, not as a single system.
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Best Loser Wins
Tom Hougaard
Tom Hougaard's Best Loser Wins is a first-person account of how he thinks about losses, discomfort, and execution. ChartClub lists it as one trader's argument about behavior. Provocative lines in the book are not treated here as established fact.
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The New Trading for a Living
Alexander Elder
Alexander Elder's 2014 revision ties a trading plan to psychology, chart tools, and money management. ChartClub lists the updated edition as an integrated primer. Risk rules in the book are part of the method, not a guarantee.
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The Mental Game of Trading
Jared Tendler
Jared Tendler's The Mental Game of Trading is a workbook-style look at repeated trading mistakes such as tilt, fear, and forcing trades. ChartClub lists it as a performance-pattern guide. It is not medical or clinical treatment.
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The Daily Trading Coach
Brett N. Steenbarger
Brett N. Steenbarger organizes The Daily Trading Coach as short lessons for traders who want to review their own behavior. ChartClub reads it as a self-coaching manual: structured review, habits, and practice, not a market-calling service.
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Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager's updated interview book collects conversations with traders who made money in different markets and with different methods. ChartClub lists it as a set of case studies about process, risk, and adaptability, not as proof of one winning system.
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One Good Trade
Mike Bellafiore · Intermediate
One Good Trade approaches trading as professional skill development rather than a search for predictions. Mike Bellafiore uses the environment of a proprietary trading desk to explore preparation, discipline, stocks in play, execution, tape reading, deliberate practice and the habits that separate improving traders from traders who repeatedly make the same mistakes.
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
John J. Murphy · Beginner to advanced
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets is a broad reference to the language and mechanics of technical analysis. John J. Murphy covers chart construction, trends, support and resistance, patterns, indicators, candlesticks and relationships between markets. Rather than focusing on a single setup, the book provides a foundation for understanding how technical traders organize and interpret price behavior.
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Trading in the Zone
Mark Douglas · All levels
Trading in the Zone focuses on one of the hardest parts of trading to quantify: the trader's own thinking. Mark Douglas examines why traders can understand markets and setups yet still struggle with consistency, discipline and emotional decision-making. The central theme is learning to think in probabilities, accept risk before entering a trade and separate good decision-making from the outcome of any single trade.
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