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Top Investment & Business Book Gifts

by Fred Fuld III

There are only several more days until Christmas, and you are probably looking for that last minute gift for a relative or a friend. Why not give a present of an investment or business book?

Here are some examples that you may want to consider, broken down by category.

Stock Trading & Investing Books

These books are all about either day trading, swing trading, or investing in stocks.

Beat The Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest The Herd By Thinking Differently
by Ken Fisher

Investment Guide
by Gary Charles Palmer

Unleash Your Investments
by John Hagensen

Stock Traders Almanac
by Jeffrey A. Hirsch
(every stock trader should have this book)

Day Trading Journal
Wall Street News Network

Stock Trading Journal
Wall Street News Network

How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginners Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management
by Andrew Aziz

How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad
by William J. O’Neil

Stock Trading: THE BIBLE This Book Includes: The beginners Guide + The Crash Course + The Best Techniques + Tips and Tricks + The Advanced Guide Immediate Cash With Stock Trading
by Samuel Rees

A Beginner’s Guide To Day Trading Online 2nd Edition
by Toni Turner

The 1 Hour Trade: Make Money With One Simple Strategy, One Hour Daily
by Brian P Anderson

Investment Trivia
by Fred Fuld III

Trade Like Warren Buffett
by James Altucher
Most people don’t realize that not only is Warren Buffett an investor, but he is also a trader, and a successful one at that.

High-Probability Trade Setups: A Chartists Guide to Real-Time Trading
by Timothy Knight
How to use technical approaches to find the best stock trade setups.

Think & Trade Like a Champion: The Secrets, Rules & Blunt Truths of a Stock Market Wizard
by Mark Minervini
The book covers personal trading rules and the secret techniques that made the author one of America’s most successful stock traders.

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude
by Mark Douglas
Learn the reasons for lack of consistency and how to overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost money.

Wall Street News Network Day Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Log for your Stock, ETF, and Option Trades
by Wall Street News Network
A journal with over 100 pages of specially designed fill-in-the-blank pages to track all your stock, ETF, and option trades, whether they are long or short trades. Fields include: Date, Symbol, Company, Transaction Recommended By, Why decision was made to do this transaction, Buy or Short, # of Shares, Price/share, Commission, Subtotal of opening transactions, Total opening transaction, and much more.

Wall Street News Network Stock Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Log for tracking your stocks, options, and ETFs trades
by Wall Street News Network
A logbook for tracking your stock trades and investments, priced at less than $7.

Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques, 2nd Edition
by Sheldon Natenberg
An extensive guide to trading stock options.

Swing Trading with Options: How to Trade Big Trends for Big Profits
by Ivaylo Ivanov
Using stock momentum to generate profits on options over a three to six month time period.

Penny Stock Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Tracker of Your Penny Stock Transactions
by Borsa Valori
A five star rated book designed for you to keep track of your penny stock trades and transactions.

Warren Buffett Books

Here are his recommended books about himself.

Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

50 Years of Berkshire Hathaway Wall Print
This is actually a wall print poster.

Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist

Buffett’s Bites: The Essential Investor’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters

Historical Books About Wall Street

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – first published in 1923
by Edwin Lefevre
This is the classic book on investing, trading, market timing, and crowd psychology, just as true today as it was almost a century ago. It is based on the life of top notorious trader, Jesse Livermore.

My Adventures with Your Money – first published in 1911
by George Graham Rice
About a conman who make money off the early gold mining stock boom.

The PLUNGERS and the PEACOCKS. 150 years of Wall Street – published in 1967
by Dana L. Thomas
Written during the bull market of the 1960s, it provides an entertaining history of the stock market.

Den of Thieves – published in 1991
by James B. Stewart
The “newest” of these old books, it covers the insider trading scandals involving Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and other Wall Street financiers during the 1980s.

Storming The Magic Kingdom – published in 1987
by John Taylor
A must read book about the fight for control of one of America’s most famous companies.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) by Charles Mackay included as part of Stock Market Trivia Volume 2 (2014)
The Extraordinary Popular Delusions book was written in the mid-1800s. It has many chapters, but most are unrelated to investing, such as alchemy, witches, haunted houses, etc. However, three of the chapters have extensive and entertaining information about three of the largest investment bubbles in history: the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania. These three chapters are included as the last half of the Stock Market Trivia Volume 2 book. (In interest of full disclosure, I wrote the Stock Market Trivia 2 book.) In addition, the trivia book includes such things as the chocolate chip cookie/stock market correlation, celebrity stock indices, weird stock certificates, and more.

Books About Investment Scams

Wolf of Wall Street Books

The Wolf of Wall Street
by Jordan Belfort
This is the autobiographical story about the guy who made hundreds of millions of dollars by pumping and dumping low priced and penny stocks. The book is filled with sex and drugs and every other kind of decadence. A Martin Scorsese movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio was made from this story. Be forewarned: the chapter that took place in the hospital gave me nightmares for a couple weeks.

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
by Jordan Belfort
This is the followup to the previous book. What happens when Belfort is arrested, how a case was built against him, and what happens after prison.

Bernie Madoff Books

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos
A New York Times bestseller about how Markopolos uncovered Madoff’s scam.

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
by Diana B. Henriques
All about how Madoff pulled off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Over 130 five star ratings on Amazon.

The End of Normal: A Wife’s Anguish, A Widow’s New Life
by Stephanie Madoff Mack
An inside look at the Madoff family written by the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff.Over 200 five star ratings.

Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff
by Andrew Kirtzman
An in-depth look at Madoff and his victims.

Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos Books

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. An in-depth look at Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. Over 2,600 five star ratings.

Billion Dollar Facade: The Rise And Fall Of Theranos And Elizabeth Holmes
by Phil C. Senior
Short 140 page summary of the Theranos scam.

Other Books about Scams

Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today’s Rip-off Artists
by Frank W. Abagnale
Abagnale was the guy who wrote the book on scamming, Catch Me If You Can, which was made into a major motion picture.

How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
by Ken Fisher
How investment fraudsters operate and how to avoid them. Written my billionaire money manager and former long time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher.

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, it is about the man who swindles $5 billion with the help of Goldman Sachs.

Real Estate Investing

The following are some recent top selling books on real estate investing, shown by category.

Rental Property Investing
by Charles Pennyfeather

Real Estate Investment
by Lee Strong

Preparing for a Property Upturn: Trends and Pitfalls in Real Estate Investments
by Ku Swee Yong

Keep Claiming It!: A Guide To Property Depreciation
by Tyron Hyde

Real Estate Investment 101: Learn The Passive Income That Everyone Is Talking About
by Meir Zaslavskiy

Real Estate Investing UNCENSORED: Real Answers From The Flipping Coach
by Delinda Harrelson

Success Secrets of Real Estate Investors
by Peter Crisp

How To Jump Into Property Investing: Without Being Eaten By Sharks
by Mike Harvey

Real Estate Trivia
by Fred Fuld III

Business Books

Strategize to Win
By Carla A. Harris
A Wall Street veteran offers proven strategies for success.

The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Building Your Business
By Kevin Devine
Each step of the entrepreneur’s journey.

Boost Your Career
By Sander Flaum and Mechele Flaum
How to climb the corporate ladder.

The Serving Mindset
By Farnoosh Brock
Practical guide to making sales pitches.

The 7 Principles of Public Speaking
By Richard Zeoli
Improve your communication skills.

10-Minute Focus
By Daniel Walter
Guide to maintaining your focus and maximizing productivity.

Chasing the High
By Michael G. Dash
How to manage the highs and lows of business.

Getting to Yes
By Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
Master the art of win-win agreements.

Your Living Trust & Estate Plan
By Harvey J. Platt
Tips on creating a living trust, will, and estate plan.

Happy Reading! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year!

Disclosure: A few of the above books were written by me.

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From the Foster House to the White House – Book Review

by Fred Fuld III

What do you think eventually happens to a child who is born to a mother addicted to crack, no father around, shuffled to numerous foster homes, beaten, abused, and starved? Does he end up in jail? In a gang? Dead?

Wrong! He ends up becoming an extremely successful entrepreneur, comedian, and Internet star, with over three million Facebook followers, over one million Twitter followers, and more than half a million Instagram followers.

Terrence K. Williams is that example of success. His autobiography, From the Foster House to the White House, is the story about how he persevered through all the roadblocks that the average person couldn’t even imagine.

He turned his challenges into lessons and inspirations to succeed. He became an independent thinker, developing his own thoughts, and speaking his own mind.

This is an inspirational book that shows you that the American Dream is possible, no matter how bad your obstacles were growing up. I highly recommend that you read From the Foster House to the White House and give it as a gift to someone who needs inspiration.

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Looking for a Last Minute Gift? Get The Maxim’s of Wall Street

by Fred Fuld III

How would you like to give your friends and relatives some great investment advice as a gift? The advice would come from such famous investment professionals as:

Warren Buffett
Peter Lynch
Bill Gates
Sir John Templeton
Sir Harry Schultz
J.P. Morgan
Benjamin Graham

Well now you can. The book, The Maxims of Wall Street, is packed with great quotations about investing, business, the stock market, and the economy. The book was compiled by Dr. Mark Skousen, publisher of the very popular Forecasts & Strategies investment newsletter. (On a side note, I have been a subscriber for many, many years.)

Although the book can be found on Amazon, it is an older version and may be sold out.

However, you can order The Maxims of Wall Street directly from Skousen Books and get the new 10th Anniversary Edition by going to the following site.

https://skousenbooks.com

If you don’t have this book on your bookshelf, then you may also want to get this as a gift for yourself.

Happy investing!

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The Money Plot: A History of Currency’s Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate

by Fred Fuld III

As a financial historian, the book, The Money Plot: A History of Currency’s Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate by Frederick Kaufman, is right up my alley. This is an engrossing treatise on the history of money, but not just the facts about money, but the psychology behind it.

The author covers the very beginning of currency with ostrich eggs, then the cowrie shells which were the world’s first global reserve currency, all the way up to cryptocurrency. Have you heard of the CannabisCoin crypto for marijuana or Dentcoin crypto for dentists?

Chapter 2, called The Trophy Wife, contains the somewhat disturbing yet extremely fascinating details about women as money. Kaufman even mentions that females were advertised for sale on Instagram as recently as last year.

There is a lot of history about investments and the stock market, especially in Chapter 10, The End of Money.

If you have any interest in money at all, and you are looking for a great read during the holidays or even a nice gift, I highly recommend The Money Plot.

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Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank

by Fred Fuld III

The book, Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank, is an engaging look at how an American private equity firm, took over and turned around South Korea’s largest bank.

The author, Weijian Shan, takes you through the trials and tribulations of getting the deal don after more than a year of negotiations. My favorite chapter was Chapter 12 Sign It or Forget It.

The book includes photographs and even a few comics. Also included is A Primer on Commercial Banking, which is in the Appendix.

The author has a way of making private equity sound fascinating. If you want an interesting business-related read, I recommend Money Games.

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed

by Fred Fuld III

The book, The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed, by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp, is a great resource for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs.

The authors break down the phases needed for success into seven steps:

The Awakening
The Shift
The Place
The Launch
The Money
The Test
The Scale

There is a chapter covering each one of stages, and within each chapter, the authors give real life example of various types of entrepreneurs, and how they succeeded.

As a matter of fact you can find out what type of entrepreneurial archetype you are and what other types you need to bring on board to round out the organization, by going to a free online quiz, which can be found at the following link:

susannacamp.typeform.com/to/pPYSe5pb

For those who are planning on starting their own business or just getting started, I suggest you check out The Entrepreneur’s Faces.

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Exclusive Interview with Ken Fisher about the Stock Market Under Trump versus Biden

by Fred Fuld III

The following informative interview was provided by Kenneth L. Fisher, founder and chairman of the money management firm Fisher Investments, who had the longest continuous running column in Forbes Magazine. He is a billionaire on the Forbes 400 list and author of numerous investment related books.

According to Investment Advisor magazine, he is one of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. Fisher is considered to be the largest wealth manager in the United States.

We cover a lot in this interview, including:

The stock market under President Donald Trump versus former Vice President Joe Biden
The influence of corporate tax rate on the stocks
The potential of the reversal of Trump’s tax bill on Day One if Joe Biden & Kamila Harris win the election
The market under Republicans versus Democrats
Whether inflation is on the horizon
The petroleum industry
Gross Output, GDP, and the economy versus the stock market
Are stock ratios dead? (PE, PS, PEG)
And much, much more

Two Timeless Books Mentioned by Ken Fisher in the Interview

The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don’t (A great companion to the Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently book, which I enjoyed reading.)

Wall Street Waltz

(My favorite of all his books is The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) Second Edition, because it is so different from all the other financial publications. It basically tells you ten ways, with all the steps, to get really rich, including “marrying a billionaire.” Lot’s of insight and lots of humor. You can find more info about this book on a previous podcast: Interview with Billionaire Ken Fisher about the 10 Roads to Riches.)

The Interview

Enjoy listening to the great insights and information that Ken Fisher provides.

To stream the interview, click:

HERE

You can also download the interview as an mp3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”

Enjoy the interview and Happy Investing!

All opinions are those of Ken Fisher, and do not represent the opinions of this site or the interviewer. Neither this site, nor the interviewer, nor the interviewee are rendering tax, legal, or investment advice in this interview.

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Investment Books Recommended by Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) (BRKB), really came out with a list of books that he recommends on how to invest.

At last year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Buffett actually provided such a list. The books he recommended about himself can be found here and here.

However, if you are interested in reading books about how to invest, that are recommended by Warren Buffett, they can be found on the list below:

Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition

The Great Crash 1929

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communications

Happy Reading!

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Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

by Fred Fuld III

When I first got the book Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term, the first thing that caught my eye was the list of successful people who gave it endorsements, including Bob Iger, Executive Chairman of Disney, Hank Paulson, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Marc Benioff, Co-CEO of Salesforce, and Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo.

The author, David M. Cote, was the CEO behind the enormous success of Honeywell. He covers, in great detail, the process for successfully achieving both short-term goals and long-term goals for your company. Every chapter has a summary at the end called Questions to Ask yourself.

The book includes many informative and sometimes amusing anecdotes, which help to explain his process for business success for both a short term and long term basis.

I found Chapter 4 Focus on Process, to be the most important. It explains how it is imperative to get employees involved in improving company processes, and the utilization of phases to improve success.

Whether you are the head of a large publicly traded corporation, the CEO of a mid-size business, or managing a fast growing startup, I recommend that you read Winning Now, Winning Later as you will find extensive advice and information that will help your organization.

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