Campbell and Company

Mr. Mike Harris (Former President of Campbell & Company) recommended the following reading list for those interested in a career in Finance: 

Textbooks 

• WSJ Guide to Understanding Money & Investing (Morris / Morris) 
• Getting Started in Futures (Lofton) 
• Getting Started in Currency Trading (Archer)  
• Getting Started in Options (Thomsett) 
• Getting Started in Chart Patterns (Bulkowski)  
• Getting Started in Hedge Funds (Strachman)  
• Getting Started in Candlestick Charting (Logan) 
• Getting Started in Commodities (Fontanills) 
• Getting Started in Forex Trading (Archer) 
• Getting Started in Technical Analysis (Schwager) 
• Getting Started in Bonds (Saltzgiver) 
• Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis (Thomsett) 
• Getting Started in Stocks (Hall) 
• Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (Murphy) 
• The Futures Game (Teweles & Jones) 
• Market Wizards (Schwager) 
• The New Market Wizards (Schwager) 
• Sun Tzu's Art of War for Traders and Investors (Lundrell)  
• Trend Following (Covel)  
• Way of the Turtle (Faith)  
• Complete Turtle Trader (Covel)  
• The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook (Burghardt)  
• The Treasury Bond Basis (Burghardt / Belton / Lane / Papa)  
• The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators (Bloomberg)  
• By the Numbers: A Survival Guide to Economic Indicators (Slifer)  
• Economics (The Harper Collins Dictionary) 
• Statistics Demystified (Gibilisco)  

Educational Stories 

• Liar's Poker (Lewis)The Money Game (Lewis) 
• Merton Miller on Derivatives (Miller) 
• Fiasco (Partnoy) 
• Against the Gods (Bernstein) 
• How I Became a Quant (Schachter) 
• The Age of Turbulence (Alan Greenspan) 
• Hedge Hogging (Biggs) 
• Inside the House of Money (Drobny) 
• When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)  
• 100 Minds that Made the Market (Fischer)  
• The Alchemy of Finance (Soros)  
• The Money Bazaar (Krieger) 
• Education of a Speculator (Neiderhoffer) 
• Den of Thieves (Stewart) 
• The Black Swan (Taleb) 
• Hedge Hunters (Burton) 
• The Trading Athlete (Murphy / Hirschboro)
• Super Crunchers (Ayres) 
• Freakanomics (Levitt / Dubner) 
• The World is Flat (Friedman) 
• The Lexus & the Olive Tree (Friedman) 
• Megatrends (Naisbitt)  
• Megatrends Asia (Naisbitt) 
• Traders, Guns and Money (Das) 
• Where are the Customer's Yachts (Schwed) 
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefevre) 
• Wisdom from the Robber Barons (Smith /Dalzell) 
• The Financier (Dreiser) 
• The Coffee Trader (Liss) 
• The Pit (Norris) 
• The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki) 
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Mackay) 
• Monkey Business (Rolfe / Troob) 
• Goldman Sachs (Endlich) 
• Escape to the Futures (Melamed) 
• The Vandal's Crown (Millman) 
• Maestro (Woodward)  
• Charlie D: the story of the Legendary Bond Trader (Falloon)  
• Fooled by Randomness (Taleb) 
• No One Would Listen (Markopolos) 
• The Quants (Patterson) 
• When Bubbles Burst (Calverley) 
• For Crying Out Loud (Melamed) 
• Fools Gold (Tett) 
• The Ascent of Money (Ferguson) 
• Animal Spirits (Akerlof & Shiller) 
• This Time is Different (Reinhart & Rogoff) 
• Too Big Too Fail (Sorkin) 
• The Big Short (Lewis) 
• Panic (Lewis) 
• Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Rajan)