The one book that had the most influence on you

CheckRaiseIRL

I would like to know what is the one book that has influenced you the most when it came to developing your own style of investing.


It would be useful to provide a review (either your own or one from the internet) and a link to an online store such as amazon.

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My choice would be:



The Intelligent Investor - Amazon




Review:




Readability: Like a college text book.
Technicality: Contains basic and advanced material.
Provides Practical, How To Knowledge On: The stock market, building portfolios, evaluating securities, buying bonds, and much more.

Summary: The Intelligent Investor is densely packed with facts and theory about investing. Consider it the textbook of all textbooks when it comes to the topic of investing.

Benjamin Graham provides an overwhelming amount of knowledge with the intention of helping investors avoid major errors and steer clear of common mistakes. He teaches you how to understand risk and return and use this knowledge to make appropriate investments.

Downside: The Intelligent Investor contains over 500 pages of material rich in data. The information is great, but most people will find their attention span wandering rather quickly.

ROK ON

Reminicences of a Stock Operator
Manias Panics & Crashes

strmin

Stocks for the long run by Jeremy Siegel

Read it during market crash. Helped me to keep my head cool.

mono627

Tough one, but it has to be Market Wizards (1 or 2)

arrowloopboy

Trading in the zone,Mark Douglas

Deals more with the physcology of trading than actual trading,helps alot with fear,greed and other stuff that can **** you up.

Timmaay

Alexander Elder - Come Into My Trading Room

willietherock

The Little Book of Commonsense Investing - John C Bogle/
4 Pilliars of Investing/Investors Manifesto - W Bernstein
Bogleheads Guide to Investing
A Random Walk Down Wall Street -Malkiel
Elements of Investing -Malkiel


Sets out a proper practical framework for making investing work for the average Joe Soap investor on the street. Shows what to do, why to do it and how to do it. Disabuses one of the dangerous siren call of stock picking that can ensnare said same Mr Soap.

SBWife

The original edition of Security Analysis by Graham & Dodd

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 by John Brooks

Pj!

Are referrals allowed?
Intelligent thread from the OP. First post on boards too! It's not the only forum it's posted on either.

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CheckRaiseIRL wrote: »

I would like to know what is the one book that has influenced you the most when it came to developing your own style of investing.

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."