Hi Guys, I’m shopping around Amazon.com and wondering if you guys have any good books you’ve read that complements the CFA (or any good finance books in general). If you could state the author and title this’ll be a great thread to see what we’re reading other than CFAI. Thanks!
Alsrs, I would highly recommend “Investment Valuation: Tools and techniques for determining the value of any asset” by Aswath Damodaran. The actual book is ugly, no pictures, all black and white, boring exhibits etc… but the valuation techniques and tricks he teaches you are amazing. Highly recommended to supplement the CFA level 2 curriculum.
Leo_Land, Thanks for the response. Good reviews on Amazon. I think I’ll go ahead with that recommendation. Thanks, alsrs ps. Any further books that AF members are reading would be great. Please post.
Fabozzi - Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies Hull - Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
Jeff Augen’s books are the best on options trading Ive read by a mile. Everythign else here ive read and is worth a look Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Technology: The Complete Guide (Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services) by Kendall Kim (Paperback - 13 Aug 2007) Volatility Edge in Options Trading: The New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets by Jeff Augen (Hardcover - 14 Feb 2008) Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business (Wiley Trading) by Ernie Chan (Nov 28, 2008) Product Details Taleb on Risk: Dynamic Hedging by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover - 23 Jan 1997) The Crash of 2008 And What It Means: The New Paradigm For Financial Markets by George Soros (Paperback - 31 Mar 2009) The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager (Paperback - 31 Jan 1994) The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown (Hardcover - 28 Mar 2006) Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction (Dover books on mathematics) by Morton D. Davis (Paperback - 21 Nov 1997) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Paperback - 28 Feb 2008) Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Paperback - 3 May 2007) Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Mr Satyajit Das (Paperback - 20 April 2006) Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame by Jeff Augen (April 16, 2009) Spread Trading: An Introduction to Trading Options in Nine Simple Steps: An Introductory Guide to Trading Options in Nine Simple Steps (Wiley Trading) Reading and Understanding Economics by Mr Kevin Boakes (Nov 27, 2008) Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders by Curtis Faith (April 1, 2007) High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems (Wiley Trading) by Irene Aldridge (Jan 20, 2010) Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning by Katherine Burton (Hardcover - 3 Nov 2007) Getting Started in Technical Analysis by Jack D. Schwager (Paperback - 16 Feb 1999)
I’d go with the recommended reading by CFAI first, given the objective
How about Schweser notes by Kaplan. They seem to be a great complement to the CFAI texts…
Ha! Books to compliment CFAI - not a chance I will concern myself with such distractions. I will concern myself with independent discovery of truth when this silly hurdle is cleared! First of all: - Every moment of free time will be directed to preparation using Schweser or CFAI materials - I will distract myself with the sports pages or non-financial reading for those few moments I have free - I would not want to pick up any “Non-CFA” sanctioned concepts or views (the truth of which may is irrelevant from the CFA vantage point) and I would be wary of straying from the CFA “book” I am impressed with your commitment and open minded pursuit of knowledge but for the time being I will stay in my little CFA cubby hole and run with the blinders on.
^^^wise words.