There's not one word carrying an ounce of soul in any of those books.

>>24798499
Not everyone's got a trust fund like you. Some of us need to pay the bills somehow.

>>24798511
I'm poor as fuck. I don't even have money to invest if I wanted to.

>>24798511
if you're being real and you dont have a trust fund, get out stocks now, unless you're already rich and can suffer big hits it's basically buying lotto scratchers

>>24798511
True but is an anonymous Indian really the best source of advice on that?

>>24798490
Alice in Wonderland

>>24798523
>lotto tickets
Sure, if you have no risk management. If you read any of these books you'd know buying low and selling high is a consumer mindset. You should be buying confirmed strength after breaking through a resistance level. Sell after the trend is exhausting or reversing. Of course have a stop loss so there's no way to lose money and you don't end up "poor as fuck" and "soulful" like >>24798520

>>24798490
I wouldn't read a single one of those

>>24798511
Financebro books are written like they're trying to teach a concept to an ape. I read "Richest Man in Babylon" and it keeps inventing ways to say "set aside 10% of your income and use compound growth". It's not that it's a long book (160 pages), it's that it could be summarized in a single fucking page.

Read another one I can't even remember the name of and it's constantly using broad generic terms like "value" or "growth potential" or other mealy mouthed shit, but it doesn't want to put it in specifics of P/E numbers or sectors, even take a stand on something as simple as dividend versus growth. It was just trying to convince you that if you invested in the right stocks you'd be rich. Yeah no shit and if I was psychic I could draw the powerball every time.

Read Taleb and he's bending over backwards to reference how fucking smart he is and how dumb everyone else is for not seeing the black swan risks and dealing with "fat tails" - the amount of actionable information was close to zero but he felt the need to expound on such vital information as why he doesn't read newspapers anymore and how he's so great because he reads literature and has free time.

Closely related is all the "genius biographies" that end up in the same isle as the financebro shit, because if you read a hagiography about Elon Musk you'll be able to recapture his success with pure bootstrap pulling. You just gotta believe harder. It's fucking prosperity gospel for secularists.

>No 'Security Analysis'
>Not one Damodaran book
>Nothing about quantitative stuff
>No 'Capital Returns'

>>24798552
We're not all geniuses like you. Some of need to read and practice a lot of different things before we figure out a path that works. We may read a few stock books, try it, fuck up, learn from our mistakes, read more to understand other ways to avoid mistakes, try more, succeed more often than not, rinse and repeat forever until successful. Of course it's still not guaranteed but it's all about maximizing one's odds. When one's not a genius you have to utilize every possible resource to help level the playing field or you end up poor as fuck like that first anon.

>>24798582
>bro you just have to read a bunch of con man nonsense until you figure it out

>>24798490
Are techbros or financebros a bigger cancer to society?

>>24798595
Who cares they're both about to get absolutely rekt

>>24798552
finance bros don't read pop finance books for tards, they all have mbas and are cfas and cpas.

that has to be a troll image, "in search of excellence" has been highly criticized because most of the "excellent" companies from the 1980s that is covered aren't even around today or are stinking it up in a sad state of decline.

>>24798490
>The Pickwick Papers
>Some Wodehouse and Chesterton

>>24798625
No. The truth is more stupid than that. Finance bros are just like /lit/ bros. They love showing off shit they haven't actually read. Bro just googled good finance books and ordered them off of Amazon. Probably skimmed a couple and then a took a pic of his cool knowledge stack.

>>24798620
Well it’s funny that half the finance books must shit on those MBAs then. Taleb certainly does. That said the financebro label is far bigger than actual MBA holders otherwise this book market wouldn’t even exist.

how do the financially inclined cope with people like Togi walking around?

>>24798490
Journey to the End of the Night because I relate to it more and more as I grow older.

‘ a high wind in Jamaica ’ by Richard Hughes the last four years or so.