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25 resources, every one free to read in full — 8 out of copyright, the rest published free by the institution that wrote them. Nothing here is a commercial book with a free label on it.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
A hundred years old and still the most accurate description of what trading does to a person. Every mistake in the psychology lessons appears here first.
Public domainProject GutenbergThe Richest Man in Babylon
Not a trading book. It is about paying yourself first and living below your means, which is what funds a trading account in the first place.
Public domainInternet ArchiveExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Tulip mania, the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme. Read it and every modern bubble looks familiar rather than unprecedented.
Public domainProject GutenbergStudies in Tape Reading
The origin of most modern "smart money" vocabulary, written by someone watching an actual ticker. Useful for seeing which parts of that tradition are old observation and which are recent invention.
Public domainInternet ArchivePsychology of the Stock Market
Short, and startling in how little has changed. Written before charts were common, so it is entirely about the participants.
Public domainProject GutenbergThe ABC of Stock Speculation
Where Dow Theory was first set down in book form. The structural definition of a trend in this curriculum descends directly from it.
Public domainInternet ArchiveThe Art of Speculation
Carret ran a fund for over half a century. His chapter on the difference between speculation and gambling is worth the whole book.
Public domainInternet ArchiveThe Wealth of Nations
Long, and you do not need all of it. Book I on price and value explains what a market is doing better than most modern introductions.
Public domainProject GutenbergBIS Triennial Central Bank Survey — FX turnover
The source for every "$7.5 trillion a day" figure you will see quoted. Read the primary document rather than the blog post citing it.
Free from the publisherBISFX Execution Algorithms and Market Functioning
How large orders actually get executed. The clearest available answer to what is on the other side of your trade.
Free from the publisherBISThe FX Global Code
The conduct standard the wholesale FX market holds itself to. Read the sections on last look and pre-hedging — they describe things retail traders experience without a name for.
Free from the publisherGFXCESMA — Product intervention on CFDs
The regulatory decision that produced the "74-89% of retail accounts lose money" disclosure. The reasoning is more useful than the headline.
Free from the publisherESMAForex Trading Advisory
A regulator describing the common ways retail forex customers lose money. Short, unglamorous, and more honest than most paid courses.
Free from the publisherCFTCFRED Economic Data
Free, authoritative series for rates, inflation and employment. This is where the yield and real-yield charts in the macro lessons come from.
Free from the publisherSt. Louis FedFOMC Summary of Economic Projections
The dot plot, straight from the source, plus every statement and minute. The central banks lesson is about reading these.
Free from the publisherFederal ReserveECB Economic Bulletin
The other half of the EURUSD trade. Divergence between this and the Fed is the thing the pair actually prices.
Free from the publisherECBBank of England Quarterly Bulletin archive
Includes the "Money creation in the modern economy" paper, which corrects what most people were taught about how banking works.
Free from the publisherBank of EnglandIMF World Economic Outlook
Growth and inflation forecasts by country. Useful for the intermarket lesson: it tells you what the consensus already expects.
Free from the publisherIMFCME Group Education — Futures and Options
Written by the exchange, so the mechanics are correct rather than approximate. The margin and settlement material has no retail equivalent.
Free from the publisherCME GroupCommitments of Traders reports
Weekly positioning data for futures, free. Read the caveats: it is delayed, it covers futures rather than spot, and it is over-interpreted constantly.
Free from the publisherCFTCInvestor.gov — Introduction to investing
Includes a compound interest calculator and a fee-impact tool. The fee tool in particular makes the cost arithmetic in our own lessons visible.
Free from the publisherSECAn Introduction to Statistical Learning
The authors publish the full PDF free. If you want to understand overfitting properly — which is what a curve-fitted backtest is — this is the standard reference.
Free from the publisherstatlearning.com — free PDF from the authorsQuantEcon — Quantitative Economics with Python
Free lecture series, openly licensed. Start here if you want to move from spreadsheet backtesting to something you can trust.
Free from the publisherQuantEcon (open licence)Think Stats
Probability and statistics through code rather than proofs. The confidence-interval and Monte Carlo material in our Professional tier assumes exactly this level.
Free from the publisherReleased free by the author (CC licence)Python Data Science Handbook
Pandas and NumPy, in full, free. Enough to load your own trade history and compute everything the journal computes for you.
Free from the publisherReleased free by the author (MIT / CC-BY-NC-ND)
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