Trading like a Professional - Resources

Alex Good is a stellar trader that posts not that often on Twitter, but when he does, the information is super valuable. Someone with a track record that is worth following.

Here is a list of resources he recommends to become a professional trader. Note that this is mostly a list of books and likely will take months to work through. Thus, this is not a get rich quick type of post, but an actual educational one of substance.

Topic	Books/Resources	Notes
Culture and Lingo	Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
Industry History	More Money than God	Hedge Funds
M&A and corporate intrigue	Barbarians at the Gate The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Economic Cycles	Big Debt Crises, Ray Dalio	Helps with understanding what the hell the Fed is doing all the time.
Crashes I	Too Big to Fail
Crashes II	Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing	Tech Bubble
Crashes III	When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management	LTCM
Crashes IV	The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The IMF	Emerging Markets
Crashes V	A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History	Black Monday
Crashes VI	The Great Crash 1929	The Great Depression
Crashes VII	The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession	Japan's lost Decade
Crashes VIII	Confusion de Confusiones	Amsterdam 1600
Origins of financial instruments	Ascent of Money, Ferguson
Studying Traders I	Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Studying Traders II	The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
Studying Traders III	Soros on Globalization
Studying Traders IV	Soros Essays	Read all of them.
Studying Traders V	Stan Druckenmiller Interviews	Stan was the star trader of Soros. Watch all his interviews.
Studying Traders VI	The Education of a Speculator	Soros predicted Victor Niederhoffer losing all his money.
Studying Traders VII	Michael Platt	Watch all his Youtube interviews
Studying Traders VIII	Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
Trading Technology	Flash Crash
Studying Traders IX	Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market	Jim Rogers is the business partner of Soros.
Studying Traders X	Paul Tuoder Jones trading documentary - Soros/Platts comments	Also watch the documentary itself.

This is it. Study crashes and market/industry history and study George Soros and his partners.