Books 2-4 below are essential reads. Ed thorp is the man. I’d also throw in Against the Gods: the remarkable story or risk. Way more exciting of a read than the title implies!
Honestly the best thing I ever did for myself as a trader was study the history of markets. Especially today as narrative and emotion rules all, you need to learn how humans will react…cycles are predictable when they are based on human emotion as the stocks might change but the people never do.
My top 5 books to nail this down:
1. Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch
2. The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
3. A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp
4. Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone
5. The Great Game by John Steele Gordon
I’ll be writing an article later in the week detailing some of the lessons from these books, but really it boils down to understanding that humans, when faced with similar circumstances, will act in similar ways. Reading these books will give you so many examples from history that are directly applicable to the situations we seem to be experiencing almost every day in these markets