The best risk management books

Packed with over thirty-five charts, Swing Into It: A Simple System For Trading Pullbacks to the 50-Day Moving Average, lays out an easy-to-follow yet effective strategy for successful swing trading. Detailing the technical indicators and money management strategies that have worked best for him, T. Livingston breaks down what every savvy trader needs to profit in today’s stock market. Topics discussed include how to analyze the general market, which stocks to trade, when to buy, position-sizing, profit targets, and selling rules.

Swing Into It provides a variety of different examples so that the reader will be prepared for various market scenarios. Detailed sample trades are included so that the reader can see how Livingston thinks throughout each phase of his trades. If you’re looking to get started in swing trading or seeking to refine your trading system, Swing Into It belongs in your library.

I set out to help investors succeed by separating illusion from reality. Investment Illusions exposes the fallacies of reflexive contrarianism, putting faith in “hot” stock pickers, and trying to beat the market by predicting the economy’s direction. The book also alerts readers to a variety of scams, some of which operate legally and in plain sight without being widely recognized as flimflams.

In addition, I highlight certain shortcomings of corporate communications with investors, audited financial statements, mutual fund performance rankings, financial journalism—and books about investing. Along the way, Investment Illusions explains why market curmudgeons’ favorite story of out-of-control speculation, the Tulipmania incident, is almost universally misunderstood. When it comes to financial markets, avoiding avoidable mistakes can pay off more richly than obtaining unique insights.

This book shows that the theoretical framework for regulating financial systems available since at least 2001 could have prevented the systemic failure in the United States that led to the collapse of global credit markets in 2008. Step by step the book guides you through what could have been done to prevent the crisis and what investors can do to protect themselves from the next one. It concludes with a key idea for making financial services businesses stand out from the crowd, ensuring future success. For each step, the reader will find: legislative and regulatory background on existing rules; academic research on the theory behind each step; and the facts and data connecting each missing step to the financial crisis of 2008.

After working on Wall Street and in the stock market for over 50 years, I finally found the closest thing to a surefire, history-tested way to retire with a fortune in the stock market. And the formula I explain in the book is blessedly simple! I’m not the only one. Warren Buffett has been advocating a similar approach for even more than 50 years, but is anybody listening? Now is the time!

When Daniel is rudely awakened on the morning of his birthday by his Aunt Tink and his brother and sister, with a cake bearing just 9 candles, a dusty old magic set, and a cactus, instead of the pet he’s long wished for, he is understandably more than a little disappointed. Things are made worse by his irritating little brother Fergus, being as irritating as normal, so feeling rather sorry for himself you can hardly blame Daniel for wishing he had a guinea pig instead of a brother. Imagine his surprise when before his very eyes that’s exactly what happens. Fergus turns into a guinea pig!

Now it’s up to Daniel to somehow find the magic to reverse the spell and turn Fergus back to normal. This is a highly amusing tale that young readers will love, an ideal first-chapter book.

A detailed look at the common characteristics found in most successful traders While there are a variety of approaches to trading in the financial markets, profitable traders tend to share similar underlying characteristics. Most have a methodology that they believe will prove profitable over the long run and are willing to endure short-term setbacks. If you're looking to make the most of your time in today's markets, you need to understand what separates the best from the rest. And with Trade Like a Casino, you'll gain the knowledge needed to excel at this challenging endeavor.

GANs in Action teaches you how to build and train your own Generative Adversarial Networks, one of the most important innovations in deep learning. In this book, you'll learn how to start building your own simple adversarial system as you explore the foundation of GAN architecture: the generator and discriminator networks.

Generative Adversarial Networks, GANs, are an incredible AI technology capable of creating images, sound, and videos that are indistinguishable from the "real thing." By pitting two neural networks against each other—one to generate fakes and one to spot them—GANs rapidly learn to produce photo-realistic faces and other media objects. With the potential to produce stunningly realistic animations or shocking deepfakes, GANs are a huge step forward in deep learning systems.

People serve on nonprofit boards to make a big impact and if a nonprofit is financially unstable it can’t make that impact. However, if you’re not a numbers person, or it’s been a while since you’ve worked with numbers, you may find financial statements hard to decipher. Money Matters for Nonprofits demystifies financial statements to empower nonprofit board members. It makes complex topics easy to understand with lots of examples and stories. The book also provides readers with methods to evaluate the nonprofit including ratios and KPIs. It also provides a list of questions to discuss with the independent public accountant. With this resource, board members will feel equipped to better advise a nonprofit and make an even greater difference.

There’s a tremendous amount to learn about the complex business of software development. Any approach that can help you avoid mistakes and false starts is a real time saver. Also, there’s a lot more to software development than just writing code. You can struggle up all those learning curves yourself, or you can jumpstart your career by learning from others’ experiences.

I wrote Software Development Pearls to share 60 powerful insights that I’ve collected in my 50+ years of software experience about requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. Each lesson describes practical techniques, many true experience stories that illustrate the lesson, and helpful guidance to let you begin applying the lesson immediately in your world.