Investors, Traders and Gamblers

Interviews with traders such as Kovner, Dennis and Tudor Jones on their methods.

Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.

From beating blackjack with maths to pricing warrants and running a hedge fund.

How Jim Simons's Renaissance used maths and data to earn the best returns on record.

The methods of nine great investors, including Buffett, Graham, Fisher and Templeton.

An early account of Buffett's investing method, from 1987.

Buffett's method as tests of the business, its managers, its finances and price.

A fund manager of sixty years on investing, business and a long life.

Profiles of exceptional investors: their backgrounds, methods and records.

George Soros's life from wartime Europe to finance and philanthropy.

Georges Doriot, who showed that investing in small, risky firms could pay.

Blackstone from its 1985 founding through its 2007 public offering and the crisis.

Fortune's articles by and about Buffett from 1966 to 2012, with commentary.

An investor in Russia is expelled, his firms seized, and his lawyer Magnitsky dies.

Bill Gross and how he built PIMCO into the largest bond manager, until 2014.

An investigation of Bridgewater that contradicts the firm's public image.

An early outside biography of the speculator Jesse Livermore.

Templeton's method: buying at the point of maximum pessimism worldwide

The only full biography; Icahn cooperated then repudiated it.

Part life, part method; based on interviews with his circle.

Sprawling, repeatedly expanded compendium of Buffett material.

The only biography; stops two decades before indexing won.

Journalistic and secondary; Soros declined to participate.

Memoir of a hedged-equity pioneer's seven decades on Wall Street

The only full biography; written with Munger's cooperation.

The life of the trader Jesse Livermore, drawn from family sources.

A short seller's campaigns against companies he publicly accused of fraud.

Three generations compounding a fortune through insurance stocks

The MIT blackjack team; dramatised and disputed in places.

Tiger Management, the firm that set the long-short template.

From a Nebraska diner to Lehman, Washington and co-founding Blackstone.

George Soros's Open Society foundations and what they funded.

Peter Cundill's deep-value practice, drawn from his own journals.

Profiles of the hedge fund managers who ran their strategies at scale after 2008.

The only full biography; workmanlike rather than definitive.

Wiley edition confirmed elsewhere.

Spier on the psychology and habits behind durable value investing.

Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.

Miller reconstructs Buffett's partnership-era rules and results.

Four women venture capitalists and the deals the industry forgot

Biography of the man who named and institutionalised growth investing.

Subtitled Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.

Bloomberg analyst on Vanguard's economics

Based on the career of broker John K. Wing.

Short monograph by a student and colleague.

Interviews in which successful traders explain the strategies behind their results.

Published posthumously; edited by Seymour Chatman.

A money writer's adventures, from Russian anti-smoking ads to unseen Miami property.

Life as speculation, with lessons on markets, games, careers and relationships.

Smitten's first Livermore volume, largely superseded by his 2001 biography.

Profiles of the hedge fund managers who rose above thousands of others in a decade.

A poker player covers the murder of Ted Binion and plays the World Series of Poker.

Manager's memoir of running a technology long-short book through a bubble.

The rise and fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, called the greatest poker player.

Interviews with twelve of Canada's top money managers on how they pick stocks.

Popular retelling; foreword by Paul Tudor Jones.

Thirty-three profiles of great investors.