The Market Guys’ Five Points for Trading Success is a general financial trading book that professionally teaches reader the major points of trader’s successful behavior. The authors of this book — AJ Monte and Rick Swope are both professional traders, experienced analysts and long-time trading teachers. Their book adheres to their trading philosophy — Keep It Super Simple (KISS). They try to understand something difficult (e.g. Forex trading) in a super simple way. And they also try to make their readers use this philosophy in trading. Their main five points of success are: following the trend, finding support level, waiting for pivot points, protecting position and acting for result.

Trading Chaos is one of the greatest trading books from one of the greatest writers and the leading theoretician of the dynamic trading — Bill Williams. If the only tools that you use to trade are the «linear» ones — like moving average, RSI, MACD etc. — then you will definitely revise your trading style after reading this book. Going from nature and its laws to market and its connection with natural laws, Bill Williams will lead you through 5 levels of trader’s proficiency and expertise. This book is worth reading even for tough and experienced traders who think that they know everything. New trader that starts from this book will encounter significantly less mistakes and problems during his practical course.

It’s intended for the various groups of traders from the complete newbies to the traders with some good experience. Of course, it’s quite useless to the expert and professional traders as it covers mostly the basic things, but its College chapter brings some interesting and less popular topics to the reader’s attention, so even well-practiced Forex traders will find something worth there. The whole learning process here is broken up into Pre-School, Elementary School, Middle School, High School and College chapters resulting in 248 pages of study. The language of the book is very easy (sometimes too easy), so one can learn from it with a really low amount of the basic knowledge.

Sure-Fire Forex Trading is a popular Forex ebook created by Mark McRae and aggressively marketed in the on-line Forex trading community. Although, it’s quite old now (more than 2 years old), it can be a good read for the new Forex traders and strategy collectors that wanted to look at this «Sure-Fire» system. The book is quite simple — has a lot of basic explanations and in the first half looks a lot like the School of Pipsology manual. The second half is dedicated to the system itself — I can’t say that it’s very unique strategy that can make everyone a profitable Forex trader, but it’s, nevertheless, interesting. Don’t know if it was worth its money to anyone, but this book is definitely worth reading — from the beginning if you are new to Forex and the second half — if you are the experienced trader and want find out more about the strategy promoted by this book.

Sniper Trading Workbook offers a technical approach to the analysis of the overbought and oversold market situation with the possible relation the past cycles of the same instruments. This book is mostly about the stocks and some chapters of it can’t be related to the Forex market at all, but the main approach that’s described by George Angell is applicable in almost any financial market. The method itself is in some way a continuation of the Taylor’s technical analysis. Fundamental analysis isn’t touched in this book, but the technical side is approached in every possible aspect, from the charts to the trading days to the exit strategies.

Preparing for the Worst is a famous trading book almost entirely dedicated to the compensations of the downside risk if the financial trading. Like with many other trading books, this one was also written with the stock markets in mind, hence the important role of the portfolio analysis and weighing in the risk management system. In Forex trading portfolios usually don’t exist and can’t be a part of the risk management, but this book has a lot of information to offer to the currency traders. The authors of this book provide strictly probabilistic and statistical methods for analyzing the downside risks of the trading. Some good level of mathematics is required to understand the concepts presented in Preparing for the Worst, but Ph.D. is not necessary.

Trade Like Jesse Livermore by Richard Smitten is a result of over two years of the deep research. It follows the life and the trading career of the famous stock trader Jesse Livermore. This book describes all technical aspects of the Livermore’s system — order conditions, timing, money management and emotional control. Jesse Livermore is famous for living through many stock market crashes and gaining success in every kind of a financial market. His career became a basement to several trading books. Trade Like Jesse Livermore tries to offer something similar to Livermore’s system but, unfortunately, you can’t know for sure if it’s exactly that system. Anyway, you can read the book and find out at least some parts of that successful system.

Forex Trading Strategy is a name of the ebook that offers a trading strategy (surprise!) based on the ICWR phenomenon. That’s a rather strange name for the book but, nevertheless, it’s a good read if you are looking for a new strategy. ICWR — the main concept of this book, stand for impulsive waves and corrective waves — those have something in common with Elliot wave and Wolfe wave theories. The book begins with the general description of the Forex market and its advantages, explains the basic concepts of ICWR, presents the intraday and long-term trading rules based on the ICWR theory and offers the examples for both types of rules — intraday and long-term.

The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is a comprehensive guide to the various financial trading systems and strategies, including their implementation using the modern charting, trading and artificial intelligence software. Not only the scientific approach is taken when the system development is researched in this book, but also many trading examples are given for an easy understanding of the concepts presented in this book. And, while this Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies can’t be considered a full compendium of all the trading strategies that currently exist, the most general types of such strategies are described and explained here.

Amazing Forex System offers a not-so-amazing Forex trading strategy based on the news announcement trading. News trading strategy, which is described in this ebook, is quite simple yet it has a huge profits potential thanks to a very nice money management tactics (the risk-to-reward ratio is usually greater than 1:4). Of course, like any other news trading strategy this one is also extremely dangerous and can easily become a target of the Forex broker’s unethical actions, whereas some brokers explicitly prohibit news trading as their trader’s technique. Nevertheless, if you were looking for a good news trading Forex strategy, seek no further, this ebook is for you.