Free Trading eBooks

Here is a list of free trading eBooks and free trading courses to aid you in your trading. These free trading eBooks and free trading courses will be updated regularly and more will be added as they come available. The resources below are believed to be freely available (although not necessarily easy to find). If you are the copyright owner and wish to have a trading ebook or trading course  removed from this page please contact us and we will remove it.

The views expressed in these books are not necessarily those of this Site and no warranty is provided.

Sun Tzu on the Art of War - Here is the classic book on military strategy in .pfd format.

Hagakure-Book of the Samurai - Written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a Samurai in the early 1700s.

Forex Seasonal Patterns eBook - The seasonal patterns of the EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, USD/CAD and Dollar Index by Cory Mitchell, CMT.

The Trading Parables eBook - A collection of short trading parables based on the lessons of history. Articles written and compiled by Cory Mitchell, CMT.

A Six Part Study Guide to Market Profile - The Chicago Board of Trade’s (CBOT) six part guide to using Market Profile.

Core Point and Figure Chart Patterns - An introduction to Point and Figure charting and patterns.

How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicholas Darvas – Darvas Box is a fairly well known indicator now, but here is the book by the man who started it, and made millions from the method.

How George Soros Knows What He Knows - Towards a General Theory of Reflexivity by Flavia Cymbalista, Ph.D. – An academic paper which looks at George Soros, his ideas and his success.

Calming The Mind So The Body Can Perform by Robert M. Nideffer, Ph.D. – A 9 page eBook on getting into “the zone” for peak mental and physical performance. The article used athletes in the examples, but it is also applicable to traders.

Day Traders Bible – My Secrets of Day Trading by Richard D. Wyckoff – Written in 1919 this is one of my favorite stock trading books next to Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.  While the book is old it is loaded with usable and applicable information for today’s trader.

Technical Analysis from A to Z - This is great resource for understanding the basic interpretation and calculation methods for technical analysis indicators. It is compiled in the form of an HTML help menu (.chm file, although I have put it in a .zip file for easier downloading) which means when you open the file you can click on anything in the index and it will instantly take you to your point of interest, making it a quick and easy resource to use.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds  by Charles Mackay – A classic, and extensive, book on bubbles and the irrationality of crowds first published in 1841. This was the precursor to more recent books such as Irrational Exuberance.

Elliott Wave Principle eBook – The classic guide by Prechter and Frost for learning and understanding the Elliott Wave Principles.

18 Trading Champions Share Their Keys_to Top Trading Profits

Coders Guru Full Course - MetaTrader 4 Code Guide by Coder’s Guru

Market Profile Basics - Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

 

Below are free eBooks, videos or article which focus on “socionomics” or the study of social trends and how those trends affect investors.

40-PAGE REPORT

Staying Ahead of Social Trends: Highlights From The Socionomist’s First Two Years
This special “Anniversary” report, originally
available exclusively to subscribers, is packed with
some of The Socionomist’s most important research
from its first two years.
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Academic Papers and Works by Nassim Taleb

Below is an assortment of works by Nassim Taleb mostly focused on statistics and probabilities. His views are not necessarily those of this site, but the works are interesting for those partial to a more statistical look at things. For those who are unfamiliar with Nassim Taleb, here is how Wikipedia summarizes him:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb…is a Lebanese American essayist whose work focuses on problems of randomness and probability. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. [He also authored Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets‎ in 2004]

He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently making a fortune out of the late-2000s financial crisis. He advocates what he calls a “black swan robust” society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.

A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error – Taleb

Companion Volume to Antifragility and The Black Swan – Taleb

The Future Has Thicker Tails than the Past – Model Error as Branching Counterfactuals – Taleb

The Illusion of Thin-Tails Under Aggregation – Taleb

The Problem is Beyond Psychology – The Real World is More Random than Regression Analyses – Taleb

Why We Don’t Know What We Talk About When We Talk About Probability – Taleb  

 

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