Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living

[mrbaseball]

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Can you please share your list of the most important/"must read" books for a trader to read? Thanks!

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For psychology I like Trading in the Zone by Douglas. His first book is good too but I liked Zone better.

For technical trading ideas I like High Probability Trading by Marcell Link. If you have a rudimentary knowledge of technical analysis this book shows a lot of good ways and methods to use various indicators.

For a little bit of both I like Mastering the Trade by John Carter even though parts of it piss me off since he intentionally leaves out parts of some of the systems he talks about and tries to sell them on his websight. For his insights into trading mentality and a great treatise on pivot points it's worth a read

If you use Bollinger Bands (or even if you don't) Bollinger on Bollinger Bands by John Bollinger is very good and is good at tieing different strategies together. The bands are a wonderful tool with lots of uses and he describes them well.

If I had to throw away all of my trading books and only keep 4 these are the ones I would keep. There are a zillion trading books on the market and a lot of them are pure crap or just rehashes of other works. But these are the ones I think that have helped me the most.