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Mr. Mike Harris (Former President of Campbell & Company) recommended the following reading list for those interested in a career in Finance: 

Textbooks 

  • WSJ Guide to Understanding Money & Investing (Morris / Morris) 
  • Getting Started in Futures (Lofton) 
  • Getting Started in Currency Trading (Archer)  
  • Getting Started in Options (Thomsett) 
  • Getting Started in Chart Patterns (Bulkowski)  
  • Getting Started in Hedge Funds (Strachman)  
  • Getting Started in Candlestick Charting (Logan) 
  • Getting Started in Commodities (Fontanills) 
  • Getting Started in Forex Trading (Archer) 
  • Getting Started in Technical Analysis (Schwager) 
  • Getting Started in Bonds (Saltzgiver) 
  • Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis (Thomsett) 
  • Getting Started in Stocks (Hall) 
  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (Murphy) 
  • The Futures Game (Teweles & Jones) 
  • Market Wizards (Schwager) 
  • The New Market Wizards (Schwager) 
  • Sun Tzu's Art of War for Traders and Investors (Lundrell)  
  • Trend Following (Covel)  
  • Way of the Turtle (Faith)  
  • Complete Turtle Trader (Covel)  
  • The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook (Burghardt)  
  • The Treasury Bond Basis (Burghardt / Belton / Lane / Papa)  
  • The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators (Bloomberg)  
  • By the Numbers: A Survival Guide to Economic Indicators (Slifer)  
  • Economics (The Harper Collins Dictionary) 
  • Statistics Demystified (Gibilisco)  

Educational Stories 

  • Liar's Poker (Lewis)The Money Game (Lewis) 
  • Merton Miller on Derivatives (Miller) 
  • Fiasco (Partnoy) 
  • Against the Gods (Bernstein) 
  • How I Became a Quant (Schachter) 
  • The Age of Turbulence (Alan Greenspan) 
  • Hedge Hogging (Biggs) 
  • Inside the House of Money (Drobny) 
  • When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)  
  • 100 Minds that Made the Market (Fischer)  
  • The Alchemy of Finance (Soros)  
  • The Money Bazaar (Krieger) 
  • Education of a Speculator (Neiderhoffer) 
  • Den of Thieves (Stewart) 
  • The Black Swan (Taleb) 
  • Hedge Hunters (Burton) 
  • The Trading Athlete (Murphy / Hirschboro)
  • Super Crunchers (Ayres) 
  • Freakanomics (Levitt / Dubner) 
  • The World is Flat (Friedman) 
  • The Lexus & the Olive Tree (Friedman) 
  • Megatrends (Naisbitt)  
  • Megatrends Asia (Naisbitt) 
  • Traders, Guns and Money (Das) 
  • Where are the Customer's Yachts (Schwed) 
  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefevre) 
  • Wisdom from the Robber Barons (Smith /Dalzell) 
  • The Financier (Dreiser) 
  • The Coffee Trader (Liss) 
  • The Pit (Norris) 
  • The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki) 
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Mackay) 
  • Monkey Business (Rolfe / Troob) 
  • Goldman Sachs (Endlich) 
  • Escape to the Futures (Melamed) 
  • The Vandal's Crown (Millman) 
  • Maestro (Woodward)  
  • Charlie D: the story of the Legendary Bond Trader (Falloon)  
  • Fooled by Randomness (Taleb) 
  • No One Would Listen (Markopolos) 
  • The Quants (Patterson) 
  • When Bubbles Burst (Calverley) 
  • For Crying Out Loud (Melamed) 
  • Fools Gold (Tett) 
  • The Ascent of Money (Ferguson) 
  • Animal Spirits (Akerlof & Shiller) 
  • This Time is Different (Reinhart & Rogoff) 
  • Too Big Too Fail (Sorkin) 
  • The Big Short (Lewis) 
  • Panic (Lewis) 
  • Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Rajan)