Archive for category: Books


Catharsis

21 September, 2007 (17:00) | Books, Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I feel much more relaxed and even-minded about my week’s trading performance since I wrote my journal entry earlier today. It is as if putting the details of my week’s trades into a journal entry has cleansed them from my mind.
I spent most of yesterday and much of this morning mentally beating myself [...]

Review of Adventures of a Currency Trader

11 June, 2007 (12:19) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

Adventures of a Currency Trader is a different sort of trading book.
It doesn’t have the usual format where topics are discussed in discrete chapters.
The book’s subtitle gives a much better description of what is in store for the intrepid reader: A Fable about Trading, Courage and Doing the Right Thing.
I love fables, so I was [...]

Forex MBA

7 June, 2007 (13:12) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

I have posted a new recommended reading list, with explanations for why I think each individual book might be of interest to any aspiring forex trader.
There’s also a good chance that you’ll be surprised at some of the entries that make it into the list, as some of them are not exactly your run-of-the-mill trading [...]

Review of Way of the Turtle

30 May, 2007 (13:24) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

Curtis Faith is one of the original Turtles. He was a member of the first group of people to take part in a unique trading program. This trading program was the result of a bet between Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt. Could trading be taught? Richard Dennis was willing to put [...]

Preparing for the black swan

21 May, 2007 (16:37) | Books, Psychology | By: Colin McGinley

Although this article has already been highlighted on Rob Booker’s blog and The Forex Project, as well as being written over five years ago, I think it is well worth reading especially if you are not familiar with Nassim Taleb. The article is question was originally published in New Yorker magazine and is titled [...]