AIA Investor Education » Useful Books on Investing in the Share Market

There is a huge array of available books on investing in the share market. The following list includes general texts and those which deal more specifically with fundamental and technical analysis.  The list is by no means exhaustive but most of these books would have a place on the bookshelves of experienced investors/traders.  They are categorised under different areas of difficulty as well as a section devoted to books on the market by Australian authors.

As guide to content, in the following listings:

G  indicates a general text of a non analytical nature or covering all areas of analysis
F  indicates a text dealing primarily with fundamental approaches to investing
T   indicates a book which has an emphasis on technical analysis

Introductory Books

T   Elder, Alexander (1993), Trading for a Living, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
G  Lynch Peter, (1989) One up on Wall Street. Penguin Books
F  Pardoe, James (2005), How Buffett Does It, McGraw-Hill
F   Roth, Martin (annual), Top Stocks, Wright Books
G  Weinstein, Stan (1988), Secrets of Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, Irwin

Intermediate Books

T   Darvas, N (1986), How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Kensington Publishing  NY.
G  Elder, A (2002), Come into my Trading Room, Wiley Trading
G  Nicholson, C (2006), Psychology of Investing, Wilkinson
F  Schroeder, A (2008), The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Random House
G Schwager, J (1993),   Market Wizards, Harper Collins, New York

More Advanced Books (some are older classics)

G  Douglas, M (2000), Trading in the Zone,  New York Institute of Finance
T   Edwards, R D and Magee, J (1948),  Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, New York Inst of Finance
F   Graham, Ben (1973), The Intelligent Investor, Harper Row,  New York
T   Tharp, V (1999), Trade your way to Financial Freedom, McGraw Hill, New York
T   Williams, W (1998), New Trading Dimensions, John Wiley

Australian Books on Investing

T   Guppy, D (2004), Trend Trading, Wright Books
G  Higgins, E and Abey, A (1995), Fortune Strategy - Investment Planning in the Nineties, Allen Unwin
T   Hull, A (2008), Blue Chip Investing, Wright Books
T   Nicholson, C (2005), The Aggressive Investor, Huntley’s Wealth Series
T   Nicholson, C (2009), Building Wealth in the Share Market, John Wiley and Sons
T   Radge, N (2006), Adaptive Analysis for Australian Stocks, Wright Books
G  Sykes, T, (1994), The Bold Riders – Behind Australia’s Corporate Collapses, Allen and Unwin