"Trading in the Zone" is the book that traders recommend to one another more often than any other book on market psychology. Mark Douglas wrote it in 2000 after ten years of working as a trading psychology coach and following his previous book, "The Disciplined Trader." While the first book identified the problem, *Trading in the Zone* offers a specific mental model—a way of thinking that allows you to trade without fear, without self-sabotage, and without the need to be right on every trade.

"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is a book that is over a century old and remains on the required reading list for any serious trader. Formally, it is a first-person fictional novel, but in reality, it is an almost documentary-style biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the most outstanding speculators in the history of the American markets.

"The Trader's Little Encyclopedia" is a book that holds a special place in the history of post-Soviet trading. Written by Ukrainian financier Eric Naiman in the late 1990s, it became the first serious Ukrainian- and Russian-language source on technical and fundamental analysis for an entire generation of traders at a time when high-quality literature was virtually nonexistent in the post-Soviet space.

In 1983, trader and speculator Richard Dennis made a bet: he convinced his partner, William Eckhardt, that anyone could be taught to trade successfully. To prove it, Dennis selected a group of people with varying levels of experience—and some with none at all—taught them his trend-following system, and gave them real money.

"The Psychology of Trading" is a book that lies at the intersection of the author’s two professions. Brett Steenbarger is both a clinical psychologist and an active trader, so he views the stock market not merely as a market, but as a space where human psychology is acutely on display.

"One Good Trade" is an insider's account. Mike Bellafiore doesn't write about the markets from a distance; he describes the day-to-day life of the proprietary trading floor at SMB Capital, a New York firm he founded with a partner.

"The Great Hedge Fund Wizards": the fourth book in Jack Schwager's iconic "Market Wizards" series. While the first volumes covered a wide range of traders—from futures traders to currency speculators—this one focuses exclusively on hedge fund managers.