«Soros — The Unauthorized Biography» tells the story of the «world’s greatest investor». George Soros is one of the most prominent figures in the investment and financial trading world and all his professional career can serve as a guide for learning the way of a trader. Robert Slater made this biography without the help or supervision of Soros, basing his book on the well-known facts and the stories of the people that know or knew George Soros (thus «unauthorized biography»). This book is mostly about the Soros’ life and the reasons that had led him to the world of investments and how he managed to reach the success. There’s almost nothing about trading techniques or the investment principles themselves in this book; but, nevertheless, I suggest reading it because it will certainly help everyone to understand the way of thinking of such a great man as George Soros.

Investment Performance Measurement is a book dedicated to the less popular part of every financial trading or investing process, known as the results analysis. When you have a strategy to use, the money management system to follow, all the necessary tools to trade and invest you go deep into the process. But each activity should have some results and these results should satisfy you somehow, and more than that — your should be able to tell the bad result from the good one, even when not everything is clear and can’t be measured by the exact numbers yet. This book describes and demonstrates the techniques that can be used to measure the investment or trading performance.

Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns is indeed a great book, listing almost all possible technical analysis chart patterns with the detailed description for each pattern and the statistical background of its consequences. The total of 47 chart patterns are listed and explained on almost 700 pages of this trading ebook. If you like using technical analysis but often find yourself unprepared to react in an organized way on some of the patterns then this book will definitely help you. For each chart pattern its results snapshot, introductory information, identification guidelines, failures description, statistics, trading tactics and an example of a sample trade are presented.

Trading with the Odds is the untraditional view on the traditional technical analysis. The author offers a scientific approach to probability and statistics evaluation with the simplicity that makes it accessible by a common financial trader. This book proposes a new way to look at the markets — simultaneous views from the most important angles with the following compilation of the analysis results. The knowledge gained from this book will help you to replace empirical methods with mathematically derived models, manipulate the data to improve performance and to condense the information to improve your trading strategy further.

Essential Technical Analysis is one of the many fundamental works on the technical analysis for the financial markets. This book probably won’t be very interesting to the experienced traders that already employ their own technical strategies and know a lot about the technical analysis from their own experience or from the knowledge earned before. But this book will definitely help to put a complete trading rookie on the hard rails of the technical analysis. Without going deep into describing and explaining every possible chart pattern, Leigh Stevens offers deep explanations of the basic principles of the technical analysis. All known problems, advantages, disadvantages, myths and other related facts a detailedly researched in this book.

Essential Technical Analysis is one of the many fundamental works on the technical analysis for the financial markets. This book probably won’t be very interesting to the experienced traders that already employ their own technical strategies and know a lot about the technical analysis from their own experience or from the knowledge earned before. But this book will definitely help to put a complete trading rookie on the hard rails of the technical analysis. Without going deep into describing and explaining every possible chart pattern, Leigh Stevens offers deep explanations of the basic principles of the technical analysis. All known problems, advantages, disadvantages, myths and other related facts a detailedly researched in this book.

Surfing the Market Waves is a documentation e-book written by Jan Arps to explain the usage techniques of the certain market indicators that were released in his Swing Trader’s Toolkit in 1998. But because the indicators of this toolkit (Elliot waves, ZigZag, various pivot points and Fibonacci retracements) are available to any Forex trader today (for example from MetaTrader 4 platform), the documentation from this book would be useful to any trader. The main idea of the book is to show the right techniques to use the right indicators in order to trade on the market swings — e.g. to buy near the low of the trend and sell near the high of trend. One of the best features of the swing trading techniques offered in this book is the low risk/reward ratio, which is keeping your capital safe and allows you to gain the profits.

The Trading Game is the new classics of the money management theory for the financial trading and investing. Ryan Jones starts off with showing some really evident examples of why the money management is so important in every activity that involves risk, then he continues with descriptions of some classic theories and techniques regarding application of the money management in the trading. Then he proceeds to explaining his own vision of the risk control and the reward-to-risk scheme, offering a completely new technique, which he calls Fixed Fractional and Fixed Ratio Trading methods. The main focus of the chapters, describing his methods, is on the proper relation between the risk, reward and the total trading account size.

New Trading Dimension is another book by the financial trading genius Bill Williams. Bringing the chaos theory into the trading is one of the most notable Bill’s ideas that have brought him success and allowed him to share his knowledge and techniques to make other financial traders succeed through these innovative and natural trading methods. This book explores the psychological abilities of every man and woman that allow succeeding in trading the currencies or in any other market, if the proper techniques are used. The non-linear methods proposed by Bill Williams offer a new approach to the technical analysis, which usually relies only on the straightforward liner and static analytical math. The good thing is that you don’t have to be a mathematical guru to understand everything presented in this book. All you have to do is to read it and apply the received knowledge in your actual trading.

Forex Revolution is an introduction and a guide into the world of Forex trading, which stands up from the several points of view — the basic, the fundamental, the technical and the professional. The book by Peter Rosenstreich approaches the Forex trading as a daily activity with the advantages and problems that are specific to any type of job, offering his own methods to employ its benefits and neutralize its disadvantages. The history of the currency trading is presented as something very important and is described thoroughly, while the some insights for its future are also given and they certainly deserve your attention. Forex Revolution will be an interesting book to read not only to the Forex beginners (on whom this book is actually aimed) but also to the professional traders that seek to gain more fundamental knowledge about the market.