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So many books and so little time. Try to balance book on psychology, money managment, strategy development. Have stopped buying books and now just reading the ones I already own.
Mark Douglas, Brett Steenbarg and Van Tharp have excellent books on trading psychology.
Trade what you see, highly recommended. Goes from simply to more advanced harmonic numbers, Pattern Recognition etc, Also goes into money and risk management, another helpful section was trading a trend day.
Another of my favourites is one of Mikes above, Trading in the Zone
This book is not about trading, however it was recommended to me by a non-golfing trading mentor. It is currently is on Don Miller's list of books to read.
There are many parallels between the psychological aspects of golf and trading. The book deals with mental preparation, confidence, decision making, decisiveness vs being correct, playing the high percentage shots, playing within your own capabilities, positive expectations and so on. The difference between top pros the middle of the pack, is only a few shots, and how they come back from a bad shot (or losing trade!). This is an easy read, and the principles can easily be applied to trading.
Tsun Tzu's Art of War - the Denma Translation.
Rules of Victory - further commentary on Art of War by Denma Translation.
I know the translators. They spent years on this and know the subject matter in depth. If you take the time to read their truly superior commentary in the first book, the text opens up and becomes applicable to anything from running a business, a family, a lawsuit, a country, a war or... a trading campaign. The second book was a result of the many presentations they gave after publishing the first and is geared towards further interpreting the approach to all situations.
Pay special attention to sections on how to manage shih. It is a very simple, intuitive concept but one lacking in our culture. Briefly put: everything is interconnected and relative. A rock is solid relative to air but not compared to a sun crashing into it. Moreover, a rock does not move in most situations, but place a round rock on top of a hill and give it a little nudge, it will start rolling down and then become a destructive force for those below. That shift in energetic characteristics in a powerful way is 'shih'. It involves seeing into the nature of any situation and its component variables and learning how to perceive, anticipate or engender shih. Highly applicable to getting feel for markets.
Of old the skilled first made themselves invincible to await the enemy's vincibility.
Invincibility lies in oneself. Vincibility lies in the enemy.
Thus the skilled can make themselves invincible.
They cannot cause the enemy's vincibility.
Thus it is said: 'Victory can be known; it cannot be made.'
This is not a book about trading, but more about the psychology of decisions.
It describes that feeling of being right, of the conviction that we make the right decision about something because it FEELS right and how this originates in the mind.
Here's another book along the same vein a friend recommended, but I have not read:
