Here is my list of the top 100 trading books of all time based on a combination of all time sales, author popularity, and my own opinion after reading these books. This is a guide for traders to dig deeper in their own trading education and see which books fit their own trading time frame, risk tolerance, return goals, and helps them develop their own system for markets and strategies to trade. These books are very different in methodologies, time frames, and markets traded. The authors are diverse in their writing styles from highly technical, focused on risk management, or focusing on the right psychology for trading success. Readers will see a common thread through all of these books on what it takes to be a profitable trader.
- Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
- Think & Trade Like a Champion: The Secrets of a Stock Market Wizard by Mark Minervini
- Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence by Mark Douglas
- Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win by Jack D. Schwager
- Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes by Brian Shannon
- Trade Like a Casino: Find Your Edge, Manage Risk, and Win Like the House by Richard L. Weissman
- Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you’ve never heard of by Jack D. Schwager
- Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard by Mark Minervini
- Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison
- Stan Weinstein’s Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein
- The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
- The New Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder
- Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander Elder
- How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad by William J. O’Neil
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
- How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas
- Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders by Jack D. Schwager
- How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action by Matthew Galgani
- How to Make Money in Stocks Success Stories: New and Advanced Investors Share Their Winning Secrets by Amy Smith
- Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders by Scott Patterson
- How to Trade In Stocks by Jesse Livermore
- Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street’s Champion Day Trader by Martin Schwartz
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Complete TurtleTrader by Michael W. Covel
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System by William Poundstone
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
- Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legends by Curtis Faith
- Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
- The Perfect Stock: How a 7000% move was set-up, started and finished by Brad Koteshwar
- Street Smarts by Larry Connors and Linda Raschke
- The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes by Mark Douglas
- The Perfect Speculator: How to Win Big in Up Markets and Lose Nothing in Down Markets by Brad Koteshwar
- How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short by William J. O’Neil
- Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets by Michael W. Covel
- Martin Zweig’s Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig
- Stocks on the Move: Beating the Market with Hedge Fund Momentum Strategies by Andreas Clenow
- Laughing at Wall Street: How I Beat the Pros at Investing by Chris Camillo
- Price Action Trading Secrets: Trading Strategies, Tools, and Techniques by Rayner Teo
- Moving Averages 101: Second Edition: Incredible Signals That Will Make You Money by Steve Burns
- New Trader Rich Trader: 2nd Edition: by Steve Burns
- Advanced Techniques in Day Trading by Andrew Aziz
- The 1 Hour Trade: Make Money With One Simple Strategy, One Hour Daily by Brian Anderson
- $25K Options Trading Challenge by Nishant Pant
- A Beginner’s Guide To Day Trading Online by Toni Turner
- Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond by Chris Burniske
- How to Day Trade for a Living by Andrew Aziz
- Day Trading Made Easy: A Simple Strategy for Day Trading Stocks by Matthew R. Kratter
- Covered Calls Made Easy: Generate Monthly Cash Flow by Selling Options by Matthew R. Kratter
- Options Trading QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Options Trading by ClydeBank Finance