Archive for category: Books

Logically

1 April, 2009 (16:34) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

Trading research involves a lot of time spent trying to find and evaluate new or interesting techniques and approaches.
Everyone has their own filters that need to be gotten past before a golden nugget is deemed to have been uncovered. These filters get more sophisticated, targeted and refined as experience is gained.
Often times new [...]

Ten thousand hours

30 January, 2009 (15:26) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

I’ve been reading (or to be completely accurate, listening) to a few Malcolm Gladwell books recently.
I’m intrigued by his assertion in

Goodies Giveaway

1 March, 2008 (11:22) | Books, Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I have a few trading related items that I would like to give away this month.
I have a copy of Rob Booker’s Adventures of a Currency Trader book, as well as two copies of Rob’s ‘Don’t be a stunt monkey’ CD.
If you would like to have the chance to win one of these items then [...]

Review of Stock Market Wizards

23 November, 2007 (20:52) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

The first two books in Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards series are often considered to be trading book classics. I read both soon after I first got interested in trading over five years ago. It has thus taken me a pretty long time to get around to reading the third instalment: Stock Market [...]

Review of The Dhandho Investor

8 November, 2007 (11:54) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

If anything can be described as the Holy Grail of trading and investment then following a low risk method that generates high returns is surely it.
For Mohnish Pabrai, the author of The Dhandho Investor, value investing is that method. I read this book on the recommendation of a colleague who was just getting started [...]