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Finance & Investing

129 books in this section — 55 with a full summary so far

00824 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily— William J. O'Neil
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success is William J. O'Neil's condensed guide to his stock-picking system, adapted from his "26 Weeks to Investment Success" editorial series published in Investor's Business Daily, the financial newspaper he founded. O'Neil, also the author…
015A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market— Edward O. Thorp
A Man for All Markets is Edward Thorp's memoir of an unusually singular life: a mathematician who used probability theory to legally beat the game of blackjack, then applied the same rigorous, quantitative mindset to become one of the earliest and most successful quantitative…
027Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy— Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics is Thomas Sowell's attempt to explain the core logic of economics without graphs, equations, or jargon, aimed at readers with no formal training in the subject. Its foundational claim, restated throughout the book, is that economics is fundamentally the study of…
030Be the Better Broker, Volume 1: So You Want to Be a Broker?— Dustan Woodhouse
Be the Better Broker, Volume 1 is the first in a three-volume series by Canadian mortgage broker Dustan Woodhouse, aimed specifically at people considering or just entering a career as a mortgage broker, agent, or loan originator. Unlike the later volumes in the series, which…
037Bí Quyết Gây Dựng Cơ Nghiệp Bạc Tỷ— Adam Khoo
Bí Quyết Gây Dựng Cơ Nghiệp Bạc Tỷ is the Vietnamese edition of a business-building book by Singaporean entrepreneur and educator Adam Khoo, framed as the second half of a two-book set alongside his earlier Bí Quyết Tay Trắng Thành Triệu Phú (roughly, "The Secret to Becoming a…
040Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist— Roger Lowenstein
Roger Lowenstein's biography traces Warren Buffett from a childhood in Omaha marked by an obsession with numbers and money-making schemes (a paper route, pinball machines, a used-golf-ball business) through to his emergence as the most successful investor of the twentieth…
043Buy Your Next Home With Confidence: A 9 Point Home Buying System— Nadir S. Zulqernain
Buy Your Next Home With Confidence is a self-published, practically oriented guide by real estate broker Nadir S. Zulqernain, built around what the book describes as a nine-point home-buying system designed to take the mystery out of purchasing a house. The book's stated aim,…
044Cách Thức Kinh Doanh Và Đầu Cơ Cổ Phiếu (How to Trade in Stocks)— Jesse Livermore (annotated edition by Richard Smitten)
How to Trade in Stocks is the only book Jesse Livermore wrote himself, published in 1940 shortly before his death, distilling four decades of speculative trading — across booms, crashes, and personal fortunes made and lost multiple times over — into a compact statement of his…
050Cha Giàu Cha Nghèo (Vietnamese edition of *Rich Dad Poor Dad*)— Robert T. Kiyosaki
*Rich Dad Poor Dad* is Robert Kiyosaki's account of growing up with two father figures whose financial philosophies he presents as opposites: his biological father ("Poor Dad"), a well-educated, salaried government employee who believed in the traditional path of school, a…
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor— Tren Griffin
Tren Griffin's book presents Charlie Munger less as a biography in the conventional narrative sense and more as an organized synthesis of Munger's investment philosophy, built around the idea that Munger's real contribution to Berkshire Hathaway's success was intellectual:…
062Debt Free for Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom— David Bach
"Debt Free for Life" is David Bach's plan for eliminating consumer and mortgage debt through automated, incremental changes rather than dramatic lifestyle overhauls or extreme austerity. Writing in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Bach positions debt — especially…
064Digitally Transforming the Mortgage Banking Industry: The Maverick's Quest for Outstanding Profit and Customer Satisfaction— James M. Deitch, CPA, CMB
This book is James M. Deitch's account of what separates the most successful, "maverick" mortgage banking CEOs from the rest of the industry, based on interviews Deitch conducted with roughly fifty mortgage-industry CEOs, twenty-five of whom he identified as standout performers…
066Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter— Dan Ariely & Jeff Kreisler
"Dollars and Sense" applies Dan Ariely's behavioral economics research — the same body of work behind his earlier bestseller "Predictably Irrational" — specifically to everyday spending decisions, co-written with comedian and former lawyer Jeff Kreisler, whose contributions give…
073Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, 3rd Edition— Thomas N. Bulkowski
*Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns* is a reference work rather than a narrative book: it catalogs roughly 75 chart patterns — reversal patterns, continuation patterns, candlestick-style short-term patterns, and event-driven patterns — each documented with identification guidelines,…
076FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer— Robert T. Kiyosaki
*FAKE* is Robert Kiyosaki's argument that ordinary people are being systematically impoverished by three overlapping deceptions: fake money (a fiat currency system detached from any hard asset backing, subject to ongoing devaluation through money printing and inflation), fake…
083Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story, Updated with New Epilogue— David Einhorn
*Fooling Some of the People All of the Time* is hedge fund manager David Einhorn's first-person account of his six-year public battle with Allied Capital, a publicly traded business development company he and his firm, Greenlight Capital, publicly identified as a short-sale…
107How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market: Now Revised & Updated for the 21st Century— Nicolas Darvas, with commentary by Steve Burns
This updated edition pairs Nicolas Darvas's original 1960 memoir-meets-trading-manual with new "Insights by Steve Burns" commentary chapters inserted after each of Darvas's original chapters, aiming to test whether a trading system developed by a professional ballroom dancer…
109How to Be Rich— J. Paul Getty
Written in 1965 by the man Fortune magazine once called the richest private citizen in the world, *How to Be Rich* is less a technical investing manual than a personal philosophy of wealth from an oilman who built one of the twentieth century's great fortunes. Getty is explicit…
110How to Buy a House for $1 (How to Buy a House for a Dollar)— Rick Otton
Rick Otton built his reputation as an Australian property investor who, since the early 1990s, has taught what he calls "creative real estate" strategies — ways of buying, selling, and controlling property without relying on conventional bank financing or large cash deposits.…
163How to Get Mortgage Free Like Me: Real Aussies Reveal How They've Done It Faster, Smarter and Cheaper— Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
*How to Get Mortgage Free Like Me* is Australian finance journalist Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon's practical guide to paying off a home loan faster and more cheaply, built around her own experience clearing her mortgage in seven years and combined with real case studies from other…
112How to Give Your Kids $1 Million Each! (And It Won't Cost You a Cent)— Ashley Ormond
* to address a specific, emotionally resonant problem: parents want to give their children a real financial head start, but most feel they don't earn enough to make a meaningful difference. Ormond's answer is that the size of the eventual gift matters less than the length of…
114How To Pay Off Your Mortgage In 5 Years: Slash Your Mortgage With a Proven System the Banks Don't Want You to Know About— Clayton Morris (with Natali Morris)
Clayton and Natali Morris, a husband-and-wife team who met working as television news broadcasters before moving into real estate investing and personal finance media, wrote this book to lay out a specific, somewhat unconventional strategy for eliminating a home mortgage in a…
122Hướng Dẫn Thực Hành CAN SLIM Cho Người Mới Bắt Đầu (Getting Started in CAN SLIM — companion workbook)— Matthew Galgani (with William O'Neil), translated by Trương Minh Huy
This book is a practical, step-by-step companion to William O'Neil's classic "How to Make Money in Stocks," written by Matthew Galgani, who worked alongside O'Neil at Investor's Business Daily for years hosting the "How to Make Money in Stocks" radio show and building IBD's…
125Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques— Steve Nison
Steve Nison is widely credited with introducing Japanese candlestick charting to Western traders and investors, and this book is the volume that made it a mainstream technical analysis tool outside Japan. Candlestick charting had been used by Japanese rice traders for centuries…
135Kỹ Thuật Để Kiếm Tiền Hàng Ngày: Giao Dịch Trên Thị Trường Chứng Khoán (Day Trade for a Living)— Andrew Aziz
This is the Vietnamese edition of Andrew Aziz's Day Trade for a Living, a practical, business-minded introduction to intraday stock trading written for people considering day trading as an actual profession rather than a hobby. Aziz's central framing throughout is that day…
136Kỹ Thuật Giao Dịch Để Kiếm Tiền Hàng Ngày Nâng Cao Trên Thị Trường Chứng Khoán (Advanced Techniques in Day Trading)— Andrew Aziz
This Vietnamese edition of Advanced Techniques in Day Trading is Andrew Aziz's follow-up to Day Trade for a Living, written for readers who already understand the fundamentals of intraday trading and want a deeper, more example-driven treatment of the strategies he actually…
138Lạc Quan Tếu (Irrational Exuberance)— Robert J. Shiller
Irrational Exuberance is Robert Shiller's foundational argument that speculative financial bubbles — in stocks, and in later editions, housing — are not primarily driven by rational reassessment of underlying value, but by self-reinforcing social and psychological dynamics:…
139Làm Giàu Qua Chứng Khoán (How to Make Money in Stocks)— William J. O'Neil
How to Make Money in Stocks is William J. O'Neil's system for identifying and timing investments in high-growth stocks before their biggest price moves, built around his CAN SLIM framework — an acronym distilling seven characteristics O'Neil's historical research found common to…
144Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business— Peter Lynch and John Rothchild
Learn to Earn is Peter Lynch and John Rothchild's attempt to write the investing book they wish someone had handed them (or their kids) before adulthood — a plain-language explanation of how capitalism, companies, and the stock market actually work, aimed explicitly at people…
147Lột Xác Để Trở Thành Nhà Đầu Tư Giá Trị (The Education of a Value Investor: My Journey from Wall Street to a Saner, Richer Life)— Guy Spier
Guy Spier's memoir traces his own transformation from an ambitious, ethically compromised young Wall Street operator into a disciplined value investor deliberately modeling his career and personal life on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's principles. The book opens with…
156Mastering the Lightning Network: A Second Layer Blockchain Protocol for Instant Bitcoin Payments— Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and René Pickhardt
Mastering the Lightning Network is a technical explanation of why Bitcoin's base layer, secure and decentralized by design, cannot by itself handle the transaction volume of a global, everyday payment system, and how the Lightning Network solves that problem by moving most…
158Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't— Donald J. Trump & Robert T. Kiyosaki
*Midas Touch* is a co-written book in which Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki alternate perspectives to make the case that entrepreneurial wealth is a learnable set of skills and attitudes rather than luck, and that the specific combination of skills required to build a large…
162More Than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny— Dave Ramsey
*More Than Enough* is one of Dave Ramsey's earlier books, written from his own experience of building wealth in real estate, losing it all in bankruptcy, and rebuilding through a disciplined, debt-averse approach that would later become the foundation of his broader…
171Ngày Đòi Nợ (Payback Time, bản tiếng Việt)— Phil Town
, is the follow-up to Town's earlier bestseller Rule #1, aimed at readers who have absorbed the basics of value investing and are ready for a more systematic approach to building long-term wealth. Where Rule #1 was framed around individual stock trades, Payback Time widens the…
178Nghĩ Giàu Làm Giàu (Think and Grow Rich, Vietnamese edition, Yuan Phong translation)— Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich grew out of a twenty-year research project Napoleon Hill said he undertook at the urging of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who wanted someone to distill the common traits of America's wealthiest self-made men into a teachable system. Hill interviewed and…
093Những Quy Tắc Để Giàu Có (The Rules of Wealth: A Personal Code for Prosperity)— Richard Templar
Những Quy Tắc Để Giàu Có is the Vietnamese edition of Richard Templar's The Rules of Wealth, part of his widely translated "Rules" series that also includes books on management, work, and life. Rather than a conventional investing manual with specific financial instruments and…
189One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market— Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch spent thirteen years running Fidelity's Magellan Fund to a record most professional investors never approach, and One Up on Wall Street is his case that the ordinary person who never manages a fund still has a real structural edge over the analysts who do.…
192Payback Time: Making Big Money Is the Best Revenge!— Phil Town
Payback Time is Phil Town's follow-up to his bestselling Rule #1, written in the aftermath of the 2008–2009 financial crisis and aimed at readers who aren't ready to actively trade but still want to escape what Town sees as the quiet wealth destruction of typical mutual-fund…
210Quyền Năng Làm Giàu (Your Right to Be Rich)— Napoleon Hill
*Your Right to Be Rich* (published in Vietnamese as *Quyền Năng Làm Giàu*) began as a 17-week radio and recorded lecture series Napoleon Hill delivered, later compiled into book form, built directly on his decades of research interviewing Andrew Carnegie and hundreds of other…
214Renton's Understanding the Stock Exchange— N.E. Renton AM
Renton's Understanding the Stock Exchange is a long-running Australian reference handbook, first published in 1989 and revised across multiple editions, written to demystify share investing for ordinary Australians rather than professional traders. Nicholas Renton, an actuary by…
033Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job— Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter
Before You Quit Your Job is Robert Kiyosaki's attempt to warn aspiring entrepreneurs about what actually happens after they hand in their resignation. Rather than a cheerleading pitch for self-employment, the book is built around ten hard lessons drawn from Kiyosaki's own…
215Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money— Robert Kiyosaki
Written and originally serialized online in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, Conspiracy of the Rich is Robert Kiyosaki's argument that the crisis wasn't a random accident but the predictable result of a monetary and financial system deliberately structured to…
216Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards: Turn Bad Debt into Good Debt— Robert T. Kiyosaki
This entry in Kiyosaki's Rich Dad series takes direct aim at a piece of mainstream personal finance advice he considers actively harmful: the instruction to simply cut up your credit cards and avoid debt altogether. Kiyosaki's argument is that this advice conflates all debt into…
217Rich Habits Poor Habits (Sự Khác Biệt Giữa Người Giàu Và Người Nghèo)— Tom Corley & Michael Yardney
Rich Habits Poor Habits combines two distinct bodies of work: Tom Corley's original research tracking the daily habits of 233 self-made rich individuals against 128 people living in poverty, and Michael Yardney's parallel expertise in wealth psychology and property investing,…
220Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes— Morgan Housel
Same As Ever argues that most forecasting and planning effort is misdirected. People spend enormous energy trying to predict what will change next — interest rates, technology, politics, markets — when the more reliable and more useful project is studying what never changes: the…
222Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth— T. Harv Eker
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind argues that financial success is determined less by strategy, knowledge, or opportunity than by an individual's underlying "money blueprint" — a largely unconscious set of beliefs and attitudes about money, absorbed early in life, primarily from…
032Secrets to Become a Trusted Financial Advisor Everyone Raves About: Building a Thriving Practice, Thrill Your Clients— Mark W. Purnell
Secrets to Become a Trusted Financial Advisor Everyone Raves About is Mark Purnell's practice-management book aimed at financial advisors seeking to grow beyond a plateaued or moderately successful practice into a genuinely thriving one. S. states, Purnell frames the book around…
223Security Analysis— Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Security Analysis, first published in 1934 by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, two Columbia Business School professors, was written in the direct aftermath of the 1929 crash and the securities losses that followed it, and it remains the dense, technical textbook underlying value…
260The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking— Saifedean Ammous
The Bitcoin Standard spends most of its pages not on Bitcoin but on money itself: what money is, why certain goods historically became money, and why some forms of money survive while others collapse. Ammous, an Austrian-school economist, argues that the deciding factor across…
281The Intelligent Investor— Benjamin Graham
The Intelligent Investor, first published in 1949 and revised by Benjamin Graham through a fourth edition in 1973, is Graham's attempt to translate the technical value-investing discipline he and David Dodd had developed for professional analysts in Security Analysis (1934) into…
288The Little Book of Common Sense Investing— John C. Bogle
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing lays out John Bogle's core argument, developed over his career founding Vanguard and creating the first index mutual fund available to individual investors: that the simplest, lowest-cost investment strategy — buying and holding a broad,…
296The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy— Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
Based on decades of survey research and interviews with actual American millionaires, Stanley and Danko's central finding directly contradicts the popular image of wealth: most millionaires don't look rich, don't live in the most expensive houses on the block, don't drive luxury…
313The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life— Alice Schroeder
Alice Schroeder spent years with direct access to Warren Buffett and his personal archives to write what is widely considered the most intimate and comprehensive Buffett biography, organized around the metaphor in its title: life, like money, works by compounding, and a small…
325Think and Grow Rich— Napoleon Hill
First published in 1937 after Napoleon Hill spent roughly two decades studying successful figures of his era (Andrew Carnegie, who reportedly commissioned the study, along with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and others), Think and Grow Rich distills what Hill claimed was a…
072Visual Guide to Elliott Wave Trading— Wayne Gorman and Jeffrey Kennedy (foreword by Robert R. Prechter Jr.)
*Visual Guide to Elliott Wave Trading* is a practical, chart-heavy manual on applying the Elliott Wave Principle — the idea, originated by Ralph Nelson Elliott and popularized by Robert Prechter, that financial markets move in repeating, fractal wave patterns driven by…

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