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Best Stock Market Books for Every Level
The stock market is an incredibly overwhelming place. That is even to those who have been working with the market intimately for years. Beginners and experienced entrepreneurs and investors reach similar struggles whenever they dive into the market depths, and it can be hard to navigate back to the surface.
When I first jumped into the stock market, I felt myself floundering, barely treading the rough waters around me. Even today, I find that I still rely on the lessons I learn from my life preserver: the best stock market books around.
From asset allocation to managing risks, there is a lot to be learned about the stock market. Sure, spending years and lots of money on my own experimentation would guide me to these same lessons, but why would I skip out on the valuable information that is already out there?
The industry is teeming with experts, and many of them are ready to share their ideas, knowledge, and inspirations with willing minds. That is why plenty of stock market books have been written, covering a wide variety of topics within this massive industry. Some of them include:
- History of the stock market
- Crashes and what effects they had
- Trading advice
- How the market functions and fluctuates
- Investor secrets to looking at the market
When considered more broadly, it’s clear that there is no limit to the number of topics that can be covered. All of those topics can provide something useful to you and I. Despite having thousands of books out there about the stock market, I still cannot possibly read them all.
Today, it would be ideal for us to rely on this list of the best stock market books as recommended by valuable members of the CEO Library community. These members have shared their talent through their recommendations.
Best Stock Market Books
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors
Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography
I'm currently reading a biography of Alan Sugar, a U.K. entrepreneur who created Amstrad from scratch. I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing on launching a new product and this very much sets that tone.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
This book is amazing—it didn't change my mind, so much as it has changed the way I think. It helps to understand the difference between the way you make quick decisions, versus considered decisions—it takes different mechanisms in the brain. Understanding which you're doing at any given time can have a profound impact on what you ultimately decide.
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t
The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition
Islamic Branding and Marketing: Creating A Global Islamic Business
One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Question: What five books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path & why?
Answer:
I know this is sounds self-serving but I’d recommended both of my books, the soon to be released,- “Niche Down: How to Become Legendary by Being Different”
- Harper Collins’ “instant classic,” “Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets”
- The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker
- The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber
- Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
- Back from the Dead, by Bill Walton
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout