{"id":497,"date":"2005-07-10T04:22:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/a-member-recommends-some-reading\/"},"modified":"2005-07-10T04:22:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T09:22:05","slug":"a-member-recommends-some-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/a-member-recommends-some-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"A Member Recommends Some Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m familiar with most of the books recommended. In my humble opinion, they are more of an investment classics actually.<\/p>\n<p>Would recommend 1 more though<\/p>\n<p>Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time &#8211; John Boik.<\/p>\n<p>It includes to-the-point essential techniques and rules, charts, Short and Concise and Easy to read or re-read <br \/>\n( These elements are important and helpful in sustaining a long term <strong>discipline <\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>It features these 5 traders<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jesse Livermore&#8211;<\/strong>How early market defeats taught him the number one rule of profitable trading&#8211;<em>Cut your losses and move on!<\/em> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Bernard Baruch&#8211;<\/strong>Techniques Baruch learned from his $5 a week Wall Street job&#8211;and how they helped him build a multimillion dollar portfolio <\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicolas Darvas&#8211;<\/strong>What this &quot;outsider&quot; did to regularly outmaneuver Wall Street&#8217;s top pros in his spare time <\/li>\n<li><strong>Gerald Loeb<\/strong>&#8211;What Loeb saw that many others missed, allowing him to sidestep the Crash of 1929 <\/li>\n<li><strong>William O&#8217;Neil&#8211;<\/strong>How O&#8217;Neil expanded on the time-honored rules of his predecessors to become a great modern-day success story <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there is only one book that an investor can read, it&#8217;s definitely this one. And just as Nicholas Darvas re-reads Loeb&#8217;s book every 2 weeks while active trading, this is definitely a top choice for current investors.<\/p>\n<p>If sections were prioritized for re-reading, my recommendations would be<br \/>\n1.) <strong>Nicolas Darvas<br \/>\n<\/strong>2.) <strong>William O&#8217;Neil<br \/>\n<\/strong>3.) <strong>Jesse Livermore<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>There &#8216;s another investment classic series which i may intend to acquire and read or recommend :-<br \/>\nA fool&#8217;s money &#8211; John Rothschild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m familiar with most of the books recommended. In my humble opinion, they are more of an investment classics actually. Would recommend 1 more though Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time &#8211; John Boik. It includes to-the-point essential techniques and rules, charts, Short and Concise and Easy to read or re-read ( &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/a-member-recommends-some-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Member Recommends Some Reading<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}