Hopefully you have realised by now that we are, religously, trying to keep trading as simple as possible. We keep our
charts clean and "noise-free". The tools we use are minimal so that decision making is quick and stress-free even
in volatile market conditions.
To that end, even though we have (and read) hundreds of books, we only recommend books that we feel fits in with
our method of trading. There won't be any mention of books on Elliott waves, books on "animal patterns" or complicated
theories that only feed the authors' ego and aim to sell books rather than provide solutions.
Please, note that the books below relate to Fibonacci ratios, we trade with differently with non-Fibonacci numbers, however,
we use the same simple tools for measuring swings for entry and exit conditions.
We feel that the books below are more than enough to get any trader on the right side of the balancesheet and no method
should be, need to be, more complicated than the ones described in those book.
This is any easy to read book, about 160 pages, nothing complicated, nicely bound hard-cover book.
Although it does mention Elliott wave theory, it soon discards it for the same
reasons we did in our own article.
Yet another simple, easy to read book. We like the clarity and the writing style of the author, Derrik Hobbs.
The book has lots of clear examples and we like that fact that all steps are numbered and indicated on the
charts - making processes easy to follow. Derrik also introduces some useful filters in his trading which are
worth considering. Also like the large size (A4) of the book, make the charts easy to read.
This book is also A4 size, has plenty of simple examples and a trading method that has some elements of what we
do. There are a number of issues with this book, though. First, it promotes the author's indicators which maybe
hard to get if at all and would probably be expensive. However, the appendix offers alternative indicators the
trader could you to replace the one Kelly uses. There is some "thought-polution" in that some space is wasted on
talking about patterns that are not relevant to the main method explained in the book. May not be detailed enough
for some readers. Another issues we have is that the author calls his method of trading the "Kelly method." We feel
that name is not appropriate in the company of the next book which was published in 1991, over ten years before
this one. Still, we feel that this book deserves a space on your bookshelf.
Charles Lindsay's book is a classic and one that is close to our heart. We beleive that every trader should
have a copy of it. The method the book describes is reasonably easy and many strategies, web courses have been
based in it in one form or another. It is one of the most "objective" methods in this field and we feel that
you should at least read it and see if you can base your trading strategy on the gist of what is in this book.