Recommended Books
Increase your industry knowledge
Interested in becoming a derivatives trader or just learning more about the industry? Here is a list of textbooks and other texts that we recommend as useful sources of information:
- The Black Swan, N.Taleb, Random House (NY) - view it on Bol.com
- The Misbehavior of Markets, B. Mandelbrot and R. Hudson, Basic Books (NY), view it on Amazon.com
- The New Market Wizards, J. Schwager, HarperCollins Publishers, view it on Bol.com
- Hedgehogging, B. Biggs, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, view it on Bol.com
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street, B. Malkiel, W.W. Norton & Co, view it on Bol.com
- Rogue Trader, N. Leeson, Little Brown Book Group, view it on Bol.com
- Why Stock Markets Crash, D. Sornette, University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, view it on Bol.com
- When Genius Failed, R. Lowenstein, HarperCollins Publishers, view it on Bol.com
- Infectious Greed, F. Partnoy, Profile Books Ltd, view it on Bol.com
- Against the Gods, P. Bernstein, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, view it on Bol.com
- Liar's Poker, M. Lewis, W.W. Norton & Co, view it on Bol.com
- Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Streer, W. Poundstone, Hill & Wang, view it on Bol.com
- Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One, E. Thorp, Vintage Books, view it on Bol.com
Also, these are more technical works about financial derivatives:
- The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals, A. Kuznetsov, McGraw-Hill Companies, view it on Bol.com
- Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing, M. Baxter, Cambridge University Press, view it on Bol.com
- Investment Science, D. Leuenberger, Oxford University Press, view it on Bol.com
- Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, J. Hull, Pearson Education (US), view it on Bol.com
- Option Market Making: Trading and Risk Analysis for the Financial and Commodity Option Markets, John Wiley & Sons, view it on Bol.com
