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TIM Reads

Here's a collection of some of my favorite books. Click on the cover to buy directly from Amazon.com. If you like to suggest some of your favorite books, get in touch with me or leave a comment below.

  • Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  • Mergers
  • The Essentials of Trading : From the Basics to Building a Winning Strategy (Wiley Trading)
  • A Money Mind at Ninety
  • A Reporter’s Life
  • Alexander the Great
  • All About Hedge Funds : The Easy Way to Get Started
  • American Psycho
  • Art of Contrary Thinking
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
  • Beating the Street
  • Being Digital
  • Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend (Trailblazers, Rediscovering the Pioneers
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  • Bloomberg by Bloomberg
  • Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street
  • Boy Wonder of Wall Street: The Life and Times of Financier Eddie Gilbert
  • Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
  • Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
  • Blunders in International Business
  • Charlie D.: The Story of the Legendary Bond Trader
  • The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
  • Confessions of an Advertising Man
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
  • Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy: A Novel
  • Confessions of a Street Addict
  • Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
  • Cybertrends (Penguin Business)
  • Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
  • The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison
  • Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader
  • Duveen: A Life in Art
  • The e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World’s Hottest Internet Company
  • The Education of a Speculator
  • Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life
  • Evil Money: The Inside Story of Money Laundering and Corruption in Government Bank and Business
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones (A Marketplac
  • Fidelity’s World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant
  • The Publishing Game: Find an Agent in 30 Days (The Publishing Game)
  • Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  • FUN WHILE IT LASTED: MY RISE AND FALL IN THE LAND OF FAME AND FORTUNE
  • Funny Money
  • Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
  • God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader
  • Goldman Sachs : The Culture of Success
  • Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City)
  • After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall S
  • Handbook of Hedge Funds (The Wiley Finance Series)
  • Hedge Fund Masters: How Top Hedge Fund Traders Set Goals, Overcome Barriers, and Achieve Peak Perfor
  • Hedgehogging
  • History of the Great American Fortunes
  • Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders’ Bible, Updated
  • Hollywood Animal : A Memoir
  • How I Made One Million Dollars … Last Year … Trading Commodities
  • How I Made a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Two Days: Including the How-To Principles Behind It
  • Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
  • How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short (Wiley Trading)
  • How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition
  • How They Achieved: Stories of Personal Achievement and Business Success
  • How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund: A Professional’s Guide
  • Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Specu
  • Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
  • Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition
  • Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

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UPDATES

May 9, 2008

Made a cool 20% in 2 days on VRML, just a perfectly executed trade from start to finish, nap time

May 9, 2008

VRML about to crack $3.40, could take 20 minutes or so, enough time to listen to the latest TIMradio podcast with Thinkorswim founder / industry badass Tom Sosnoff!

May 9, 2008

10 stocks to watch today, don't worry about not finding shares to short, few are ideal anyway

May 8, 2008

10 of my 20 all-time fav finance books, finally, for your reading pleasure!

TIMtrades

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Date Stock Buy Sell Net
May 7 VRML $3.05 $3.75 $890
May 6 VRML $4.42 $4.36 $180
May 5 LGDI $4.42 $4.67 $353
May 2 VM $3.97 $4.01 $12
Apr 30 BSHF $2.61 $2.55 ($74)

Total: $19,330 ( 56% )

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