The reason you may not be getting the answers you want is because your question is not particularly precise. It's kind of like asking "which programming books are good?" - Well, it depends on what you want to build. Some people will recommend Assembly books, some LISP books, some Python, and others Javascript, depending on what they fancy. Building a web application is different from building a compiler. There is some overlap, but what you need to know to be successful is different.<p>Trading is kind of like that. Long-term value investing, portfolio management, day trading, options trading, quantitative strategies, high-frequency trading, etc, are vastly different approaches, ranging from "assembly" to using a drag and drop website builder. All these can be used to make money, but what you need to know, and how you approach the problem, is different. Books will be useful for one, and totally useless for other approaches. Just like an assembly book won't teach you how to make a website.<p>You may want to think about what "kind" of trading you're interested in, and then ask for specific recommendations related to that. Otherwise you will just get people recommending random stuff they have some personal relationship with, like recommending SICP to learn programming. Looking at the answers in this thread, this is what's happening. They are all over the places at different levels of abstraction.<p>EDIT: Also, few people explicitly make these distinctions. Most traders I've talked to are "locked into" their approach and will talk about it as if there were no others. That's becuase of the bias they have. E.g. someone trading on fundamentals may talk to you about earnings reports but will likely not even be aware of techniques using ML models to optimize order execution or fancy order types. Just like many web developers will not be aware of how TCP/IP works, but only vaguely know that it exists somewhere.