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bp - Please recommend Three Books or major blogs
If you could name three books or blogposts to a person who just graduated college about how to successfully invest and manage one's money so that said person won't become a starving artist, what would they be? How should one know when to short, when to long, when to hold, what kinds of things they should diversify in
Everyone here was new at this once, this is a good chance to pass it on!
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Here are two series of posts by Mark Cuban you might want to check out:: http://blogmaverick.co... and http://blogmaverick.co...
I will give you a list of more than three books. Because I don't know exactly what you are looking for I will give you books on investing and trading, technical and fundamental. Also, since you are new I will start with some books that were important to me when I first started out.
The Intelligent Investor--Ben Graham
Contrarian Investment Strategies--David Dreman
One Up on Wall Street--Peter Lynch
Beating the Street--Peter Lynch
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator--Edwin Lefevre
How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market--Nicolas Daravas
How to Make Money in Stocks--William O'Neil
Going Global with Equities--Paul Melton
Mobius on Emerging Markets--Mark Mobius
Passport to Profits--Mark Mobius
Tools of the Bear--Charles Caes
The Art of Short Selling--Kathryn Staley
Market Wizards--Jack Schwager
New Market Wizards--Jack Schwager
Money Masters of Our Time--John Train
Famous Financial Fiascos--John Train
Technical Analysis From A to Z--Steven Achelis
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets--John Murphy
The Alchemy of Finance--George Soros
Soros on Soros--George Soros
Beating the Dow--Michael O'Higgins
Beating the Dow with Bonds--Michael O'Higgins
I could go on further but that should keep you busy for a while. After reading those, you should have gained enough knowledge to know what else you need to read. Good luck.