Books to Check Out

Wiley Investment Classics:
http://www.amazon.com/Wiley-Investment- ... ANLEXZ8KZF

Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall St.
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Zweigs-Win ... r-mr-title

Trader Vic
http://www.amazon.com/Trader-Vic-Method ... pd_sim_b_1

Books I still need to check out:
a biography of nathan rothschild
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
The Perfect Store: Inside eBay
Exceeding Customer Expectations (Enterprise rentals)
The Google Story
The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship
How Risky Is It, Really? by David Ropeik
Accidental Empires by Cringely (history of PC revolution)
Lincoln
the Wright brothers (Kill Devil Hill)
Edison
Mme Curie
Bruce Lee
Iacocca
Einstein
Napolean
Caesar
JP Morgan [The House of Morgan, Morgan: American Financier]
Sherman
Hellen Keller
Decoded (Jay Z)
The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions
The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart
McDonald's: Behind The Arches
Bands Brands and Billions: My Top Ten Rules for Success in Any Business
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? (Reginald Lewis)
The Best Business Books Ever (Basic Books)
The Search (John Battelle)
The Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff)
MBA in a Book (Kurtzman)
Coders at Work (Peter Seibel)
Personal MBA (Kaufman)
10 Day MBA (Silbiger)
The Ultimate Business Library (Crainer)
First Break All the Rules (Buckingham)
Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management
25 biographies to check out - http://bit.ly/anQb86

Simple But Not Easy (thoughts on investing)

In the post below Mike Burry mentions having read a scam-type book by Ken Roberts, probably either "A Rich Man's Secret" or "The World's Most Powerful Money Manual & Course"
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg. ... gid=371583

Ken Roberts has been around for at least 10 years trying to sell his system which relies essentially on pyramiding one's way to profits. Having read his book that explains the system, it appears very high risk and overly optimistic. Basically the idea is pyramid to multiply profits and sell at tiny losses. Hence you only need to be right 1/3 of the time, according to him. Not much to it. People with ideas like his often get lucky, make a lot of money and then use that to sell books and things because it is so hard to be that lucky year in year out.

Moneyball:
http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax. ... -lewis/10/

Anything by Michael Lewis is a must read inmo (and Seth Klarman's). I read this book after his recommendation. He said its the best book about Value Investing that's not an investing book. Its about a guy who builds a team with cheap players using unconventional metrics and methods.

Another book in the same vein is "The Extra 2%" by Jonah Keri. It's similar to Moneyball and tells how a couple former Goldman Sachs colleagues took over the Tampa Bay Rays and using Sabermetrics (the topic of Moneyball) they took the team from from worst to first. They even made the World Series although were decimated by the Phils. There is an interesing little forward from Mark Cuban on how he did similar things with the Dallas Mavericks.

Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From the Top, to the Bottom, and Back Again

The Aggressive Conservative Investor by Whitman (via Sanjay Bakshi)
The Accidental Mind (via Bakshi)
Accounting for Value by Penman (via Bakshi)
Advances in Behavioral Finance by Thaler (via Bakshi)
The Misbehavior of Markets by Mandelbrot (via Bakshi)
Age of Propaganda by Aronson (via Bakshi)
The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements by Gerald White (via Bakshi)
The Art of Speculation by Carret (via Bakshi)
As a Man Thinketh by Allen (via Bakshi)
Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch (via Bakshi)
Benjamin Franklin by Isaacson (via Bakshi)
The Art of Virtue by Franklin (via Bakshi)
Benjamin Graham on Investing, Compiled by Klein (via Bakshi)
Benjamin Graham on Value Investing by Lowe (via Bakshi)
Benjamin Graham: Memoirs of the Dean of Wall St.
Bernard Baruch by James Grant (via Bakshi)
Beyond Numeracy by Paulos (via Bakshi)
Beyond Reason by Shapiro (via Bakshi)
Beyond the Random Walk by Singal (via Bakshi)

The books below are ones I flipped through while at a B&N:
Boombustology by Mansharamani
Age of Greed by Madrick
Lords of Finance by Ahamed
The End of Wall St by Lowenstein
"Principle of Population" by Malthus
"Principles of Political Economy" by David Ricardo
"Theory of the Leisure Class" by Veblen
General Theory of Employment etc by Keynes
Guide to Financial Markets by Levinson
Red Alert (re: China) by Leeb
Capitalism 4.0 by Kaletsky
The Great Credit Crash by Konings
Chinamerica by Jones
13 Bankers by Johnson
Keynes-Hayek by Wapshott
The Next American Economy by Holstein
Zombie Banks
The Capitalist Spirit by Hirsch
Globalization by Greenwald and Kahn
The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbroner
Borderless Economics by Guest
How the Fed Runs the Country by Greider
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by Graeber
The Long Tail by Anderson
Models Behaving Badly by Derman (of Goldman Sachs)
Inside the Fed by Axilrod
False Economy by Beattie
Price of Prosperity by Bernstein
Wealth, War, and Wisdom by Biggs (looks good, re: market during WW2)
Why People Fail by Reynolds
Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Kindleberger
The Great Hangover (collection of Vanity Fair articles, looks good)
Devil Take the Hindmost by Chancellor
A Farewell to Alms by Clark
Portfolios of the Poor by Rutherford
The Great Contraction by Friedman
Political Economy for Beginners by Fawcett (looks good)
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb by Ferrara
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Contextual Pricing by Doctors et al (looks very interesting)
The End of Growth by Heinberg
Crash of the Titans
Value Investing by Montier
Gen Graham: Building a Profession (iirc its a collection of his writings on what the security analyst profession should be like)
Risk Arbitrage by Wyser-Proette
[end of B&N books I've flipped through]

Winner Take All by Gallacher (via Jeffrey Shaw @ siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=376304)
Options as a Strategic Investment by McMillan (via siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=403883)

Business Biographies to Check Out:
Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
The King of Cash: The Inside Story of Laurence Tisch
Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
Carnegie by Peter Krass
Personal History by Katharine Graham
House of Morgan
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
A.P. Giannini and the Bank of America by Gerald D. Nash
The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, and Videotape by Gail Degeorge
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood by Dennis McDougal
The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly by Richard Korman
John Wanamaker: Philadelphia Merchant by Herbert Ershkowitz
The business biography of John Wanamaker by Joseph Herbert Appel
Thomas Mellon And His Times by Thomas Mellon
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert Edward Rubin

http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/books/

Jesse Livermore: How to Trade in Stocks
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds by Richard D. Wyckoff

I would recommend looking for "The Undeclared Secrets that drive the Stock Market" by Tom Williams if you are interested in learning about Volume and Price Analysis.

The Operation of a Hedge Fund
Hedge Fund Agreements Line by Line
Taxation of U.S. Investment Partnerships and Hedge Funds
Handbook of Alternative Assets by Fabozzi
Hedge Fund Regulation (PLI's Corporate and Securities Law Library)
re: marketing - The Hedge Fund Book: A Training Manual for Professionals and Capital-Raising Executives

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