Aardvark Book List

    1. Trading and Exchanges by Harris

    2. Fooled by Randomness by Taleb

    3. My Trading Bible by Ritchie

    4. New Market Wizards by Schwager

    5. Liar’s Poker by Lewis

    6. When Genius Failed by Lowenstein

    7. Futures, Options, and Other Derivatives by Hull

    8. Beat the Market by Thorpe

    9. The Money Noose by Skyrm

    10. Value at Risk by Jorion

    11. Risk is Right by Piper

    1. Knightmare on Wall Street by Perez

    2. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawade

    3. Dark Pools by Patterson

    4. The Art of Software Testing by Myers

    5. Inside the Black Box by Narang

    6. Flash Boys by Lewis

    7. The Predictors by Bass

    8. Nerds on Wall Street by Leinweber

    1. Fortune’s Formula by Poundstone

    2. Red Blooded Risk by Brown

    3. Reminisces of a Stock Operator by Lefevre

    1. Inventing Money by Dunbar

    2. Fixed Income Securities by Tuckman

    3. Economics of Money Banking and Financial Markets by Mishikin

    4. The Treasury Bond Basis by Burghardt

    1. Hedge Hogs by Dreyfuss

    2. Metal Men by Copetas

    3. Merchants of Grain by Morgan

    4. Rigged by Mezrich

    1. Option Volatility and Pricing by Natenberg

    2. Volatility Trading by Sinclair

    3. Dynamic Hedging by Taleb

    4. Financial Calculus by Baxter and Rennie

    5. The Business of Options by O’Connell

    1. Fooled by Randomness by Taleb

    2. My Trading Bible by Ritchie

    3. Liar’s Poker by Lewis

    4. When Genius Failed by Lowenstein

    5. Inventing Money by Dunbar

    6. Fortune’s Formula by Poundstone

    7. Reminisces of a Stock Operator by Lefevre

    8. New Market Wizards by Schwager

    9. Market Wizards by Schwager

    10. The Theory of Poker by Sklansky

    11. Red Blooded Risk by Brown

    12. The Poker Face of Wall Street by Brown

    13. Safe Haven by Spitznagel

    14. The Predictors by Bass

    15. Ugly Americans by Mezrich

    16. God in the Pits by Ritchie

    17. Lessons from the Pit by Leninger

    18. The Futures by Lambert

    19. Bringing Down the House by Mezrich

    20. Beat the Dealer by Thorpe

    21. Beat the Market by Thorpe

    22. Knightmare on Wallstreet by Perez

    23. Dark Pools by Patterson

    24. The Quants by Patterson

    25. Flash Boys by Lewis

    26. The Money Noose by Skyrm

    27. The Big Short by Lewis

    28. Boomerang by Lewis

    29. The Myth of the Rational Market by Fox

    30. Inside the Black Box by Narang

    31. Nerds on Wall Street by Leinweber

    32. My Life as a Quant by Derman

    33. The New Investment Superstars by Peltz

    34. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein

    35. A Demon of Our Own Design by Bookstaber

    36. The Vandal’s Crown by Milman

    37. The Money Bazaar by Kreiger

    38. The Crisis of Global Capitalism by Soros

    39. Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Kindleberger

    40. Fiasco by Partnoy

    41. Infectious Greed by Partnoy

    42. The Undoing Project by Lewis

    43. The Alchemy of Finance by Soros

    44. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Zuckerman

    1. Futures, Options, and Other Derivatives by Hull

    2. Trading and Exchanges by Harris

    3. Dynamic Hedging by Taleb

    4. Value at Risk by Jorion

    5. Financial Risk Management for Dummies by Brown

    6. Financial Calculus by Baxter and Rennie

    7. Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets by Cvitanic

    8. Advanced Modeling in Finance using Excel and VBA by Staunton

    9. Market Microstructure Theory by O’Hara

    10. Introduction to High Frequency Finance by Gencay

    11. Futures Trading by Fink

    12. Active Portfolio Management by Grinold and Kahn

    13. Inefficient Markets by Shleifer

    1. Fixed Income Securities by Tuckman

    2. The Treasury Bond Basis by Burghardt

    3. The Eurodollar Handbook by Burghardt

    4. The Mortgage Backed Securities Workbook by Davidson

    5. Pricing and Hedging Swaps by Swanell

    6. Fixed Income Securities by Veronesi

    7. Economics of Money Banking and Financial Markets by Mishikin

    8. A Term at the Fed by Meyer

    9. The Secrets of the Temple by Greider

    10. The Monetary History of the United States by Friedman

    11. A History of Interest Rates by Homer

    1. Hedge Hogs by Dreyfuss

    2. Metal Men by Copetas

    3. Merchants of Grain by Morgan

    4. Rigged by Mezrich

    5. Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language by Leffler

    6. The Art of Grain Merchandising by Lorton and White

    7. Commodities and Commodity Derivatives by Geman

    8. Energy and Power Risk Management by Eydeland

    9. The International Cocoa Trade by Dand

    10. The Sugar King of Havana by Rathbone

    1. Volatility Trading by Sinclair

    2. Option Volatility and Pricing by Natenberg

    3. Option Market Making by Baird

    4. The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formula by Haug

    5. Volatility and Correlation (The Hedger and the Fox) by Rebonato

    6. The Volatility Surface by Gatheral

    7. The Business of Options by O’Connell

    8. Wilmott on Derivatives by Wilmott

    1. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawade

    2. Risk is Right by Piper

    1. The Art of Software Testing by Myers

    2. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Feathers

    3. The Mythical Man Month by Brookes

    4. Introduction to Computation and Programming using Python by Guttag (EdX: MITx: 600.1x and 600.2x)

    5. Clean Code by Martin

    6. Python for Finance by Hilpisch

    7. Python for Data Analysis by McKinney

    1. Calculus and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: NetMath - Math 220: Calc 1)

    2. Calculus and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: NetMath - Math 231: Calc 2)

    3. Vector Calculus and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: NetMath - Math 241: Calc 3)

    4. Differential Equations and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: Netmath - Math 285 : Differential Equations )

    5. Matrices, Geometry, and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: Netmath - Math 415 : Applied Linear Algebra)

    6. Probability, Statistics, and Mathematica by Uhl (University of Illinois: Netmath - Math 461 : Probability Theory)

    1. Good to Great by Collins

    2. The One Minute Manager by Blanchard

    3. Extreme Ownership by Willink

    4. Business Adventures by Brooks

    5. The Outsiders by Thorndike

    1. Principles of Microeconomics by Mankiw

    2. Principles of Macroeconomics by Mankiw