By: Steve Burns And Holly Burns

Stolly Media, LLC (November 28, 2015)
49 pages

So You Want To Be A Trader is simply a great place to start if you are considering a career in, or simply making a hobby of, trading. Sure there are many books that are more advanced. But if you want the basics, without all the rest of the fluff about trading, start here. Aren’t we all tired of financial books that should be articles? I know I am. If you or a friend are considering getting into the trading business, this book is where to begin.

Two of my favorite quotes:

“Many traders lose a lot of money by approaching trading like it’s a hobby. In trading, making money is the goal, and must be kept at the forefront of a trader’s mind if they are to be successful. Fun and excitement in trading can be expensive entertainment. The reality is that most of the time, trading is boring. A trader must treat the market like they would any other business by utilizing discipline and great care to grow their capital and be successful.”

“Trading is about math, ego control, risk management, psychology, focus, perseverance, passion, and dedication. If you are missing one, you may not make it.”

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By: Annie Lamott

Anchor; Reprint edition (March 8, 2005)
272 pages

Read this book, it’s hilarious. Anne Lamott seems to fumble at everything. She is a mess. She fumbles at being a new mother, fumbles providing a living for her new son, and fumbles with her spirituality. Finally, like every good writer, she fumbles at that too. Lamott makes every mistake you can think of and laughs at herself along the way. The best part is that she chronicles this first year of her son’s life, so we can enjoy it with her. Bless her for that.

Two of my favorite quotes:

“I know it is odd to a lot of people that I am religious—I mean, it’s odd to me that I’m religious, I never meant to be. I don’t quite know how it happened: I think that at some point, a long time ago, I made a decision to believe, and then every step of the way, even through the worst of it, the two years my dad was sick with brain cancer, the last few years of my drinking, I could feel the presence of something I could turn to, something that would keep me company, give me courage, be there with me, like the seeing man in this movie. The movie so exactly captured how I feel these days, that Jesus is there with us everyplace Sam and I go.”

“I had a few great hours of heavy but epiduralized labor. Then it became hard at the end, and everything went wrong. I couldn’t push the baby out, and Pammy and Steve stood by my feet in the labor room for an hour, exhorting, encouraging me to push, telling me how beautifully I was doing. I was in despair. I made a tiny little poo on the table, which they didn’t mention at the time but which they now manage to work into about two-thirds of all our conversations.”

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