have had a few posts about books, please feel free to add to the lists.
here are some books about the markets, and history that are worth reading......in my opinion.
1. The Big Score : Robert Friedland and the Voisey Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish
a)Diamond fields was a penny stock that found one of the biggest nickel deposits in the world.
b) well written, great characters, and story.
2. Reminiscences of a stock operator by Edwin Lefevere
a) based on Jesse Livermore this is a classic and has many stories that refer to his trading rules
b) some people believe this book is out of date, what use is a 100 yr. old book.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE!!!. sometime will give a more detailed answer to why nothing has changed but the game is basically the same. book should read every couple of years....
3. Extraordinary popular Delusions and the madness of crowds Charles Mackay
a) hard to read, however a great book that has history of hundreds of years....
b) was reading the book in 1999,......
4. Barbarians at the Gate :The Fall of RJR Nabisco
a) if you do not have time you can buy the HBO movie well done about how a paper boy from Winninpeg Manitoba Canada...went to be ceo of Nabisco and tried to take the company private, and make a billion or so........
b) great characters, and there is a part in the book about KKR, and them closing a deal, great to learn from, sometimes you do not say anything.....
Frank Ross was judged harshly after all he did almost double the shares, can point to dozens and dozens of US companies that pay management hundread of millions for doing nothing for shareholders.....
NON FICTION
Stung by Gary Ross
a) this is about Brian Molony, a film owning Molony is based on the story. well written and a great story, believe though it was a large case of fraud has a happy ending.
b) Molony had a gambling problem, if you are betting 5000/10000 on each home team in one league or road team in the other then you may have a problem. or lose a million or two at the tables in vegas.
great story.
Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown
believe you can still get this book in Canada through chapters.
in the winter of 2004/05 Dec Jan had a few people in the hospital, and almost die, touch and go....anyways someone I know who reviews books gave me a few to read.
so since there was illness all around I picked out the book on Scurvy :shrug:
254 pages and maybe not a page turner but things I learned about Scurvy.
1. was one of the most important decided factors in the naval wars between the british /french/spanish
2. American revolution would have had a different outcome....though the author believes it would have been history delayed, not changed..
3. how sometimes science do not use the facts that they are facing...
4. you cannot get scurvy anymore....yes even if you do not touch a vegetables and eat junk food and the worse diet, no scurvy....by the way you will die from other things though....
5. if you ever believe you are tough, you should read this book and understand what men would do for money and food,/survival....it shows how strong the human spirit truly is....
book plan to read some year.
Paris 1919, about the peace conference following WW1.
thanks
selkirk
here are some books about the markets, and history that are worth reading......in my opinion.
1. The Big Score : Robert Friedland and the Voisey Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish
a)Diamond fields was a penny stock that found one of the biggest nickel deposits in the world.
b) well written, great characters, and story.
2. Reminiscences of a stock operator by Edwin Lefevere
a) based on Jesse Livermore this is a classic and has many stories that refer to his trading rules
b) some people believe this book is out of date, what use is a 100 yr. old book.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE!!!. sometime will give a more detailed answer to why nothing has changed but the game is basically the same. book should read every couple of years....
3. Extraordinary popular Delusions and the madness of crowds Charles Mackay
a) hard to read, however a great book that has history of hundreds of years....
b) was reading the book in 1999,......
4. Barbarians at the Gate :The Fall of RJR Nabisco
a) if you do not have time you can buy the HBO movie well done about how a paper boy from Winninpeg Manitoba Canada...went to be ceo of Nabisco and tried to take the company private, and make a billion or so........
b) great characters, and there is a part in the book about KKR, and them closing a deal, great to learn from, sometimes you do not say anything.....
Frank Ross was judged harshly after all he did almost double the shares, can point to dozens and dozens of US companies that pay management hundread of millions for doing nothing for shareholders.....
NON FICTION
Stung by Gary Ross
a) this is about Brian Molony, a film owning Molony is based on the story. well written and a great story, believe though it was a large case of fraud has a happy ending.
b) Molony had a gambling problem, if you are betting 5000/10000 on each home team in one league or road team in the other then you may have a problem. or lose a million or two at the tables in vegas.
great story.
Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown
believe you can still get this book in Canada through chapters.
in the winter of 2004/05 Dec Jan had a few people in the hospital, and almost die, touch and go....anyways someone I know who reviews books gave me a few to read.
so since there was illness all around I picked out the book on Scurvy :shrug:
254 pages and maybe not a page turner but things I learned about Scurvy.
1. was one of the most important decided factors in the naval wars between the british /french/spanish
2. American revolution would have had a different outcome....though the author believes it would have been history delayed, not changed..
3. how sometimes science do not use the facts that they are facing...
4. you cannot get scurvy anymore....yes even if you do not touch a vegetables and eat junk food and the worse diet, no scurvy....by the way you will die from other things though....
5. if you ever believe you are tough, you should read this book and understand what men would do for money and food,/survival....it shows how strong the human spirit truly is....
book plan to read some year.
Paris 1919, about the peace conference following WW1.
thanks
selkirk
