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Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some cour

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to mention, broad economical trends and projections etc. Thanks!

tmbsundar 11y ago
What do you mean by FT? "Financial Technology" or "Futures Trading"?
- manish_gill 11y ago
  Financial Technology, but I guess Future Tradings would also be something I would want to learn? I'm at the beginner stage where I don't know what I need to know! But my long term goal is to combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it, if that makes any sense.
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mynegation 11y ago
Have recommended that before: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation materials. You can buy used ones for cheap as they lose their value extremely fast for people preparing for the exam, but small changes of accounting regulations should not concern you if you are reading just to educated yourself. They might seem overwhelming, but I am yet to find another set of books with such neatly organized and concentrated material on Economics and Finance.
- manish_gill 11y ago
  Thanks, will check them out.
alimw 11y ago
https://www.coursera.org/course/money https://www.coursera.org/course/money https://www.coursera.org/course/money2 https://www.coursera.org/course/money2 I took the first of these and intend to take the second, which I think came out as Coursera's top course at one point. There's a lot to learn here about what money is and how banks operate. That necessarily involves a historical perspective.
tmbsundar 11y ago
> broad economical trends and projections Any good Economics Text book will do: like Principles of Economics/ Principles of Microeconomics, Gregory Mankiw You can also try, although, personally I have not taken these: https://www.coursera.org/course/microecon https://www.coursera.org/course/microecon https://www.coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics https://www.coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics > FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me For Investment valuation and Corporate Finance Damodaran is one of the best sources: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/ http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/ Visit his blog, read his books. He has online classes as well Also you can try, (I've not taken this course): https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets For Value Investing, Benjamin Graham is a classic: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Investing-Essentials/dp/0060555661/ref=la_B000APZXBQ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448898823&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest... > For Technical Analysis and Futures Trading though, there are tonnes of books. May be you can start with these: http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-Comprehensive/dp/0735200661 http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-C... http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edition/dp/0130090565 http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edit... And lastly, > combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing
- manish_gill 11y ago
  Fantastic. Thanks for this!
- phrogdriver 11y ago
  Damodaran and Graham are fantastic, as is Shiller's Financial Markets. His 2008 course on Open Yale was an early spark in my career. After a quick look at the "Technical Analysis" book preview on Amazon, I would caution that technical analysis is generally a rorschach test of humans finding patterns in data when there really aren't any. Skip that one.

tmbsundar 11y ago

What do you mean by FT? "Financial Technology" or "Futures Trading"?

manish_gill 11y ago
Financial Technology, but I guess Future Tradings would also be something I would want to learn? I'm at the beginner stage where I don't know what I need to know! But my long term goal is to combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it, if that makes any sense.
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mynegation 11y ago

Have recommended that before: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation materials. You can buy used ones for cheap as they lose their value extremely fast for people preparing for the exam, but small changes of accounting regulations should not concern you if you are reading just to educated yourself. They might seem overwhelming, but I am yet to find another set of books with such neatly organized and concentrated material on Economics and Finance.

manish_gill 11y ago
Thanks, will check them out.

alimw 11y ago

https://www.coursera.org/course/money https://www.coursera.org/course/money https://www.coursera.org/course/money2 https://www.coursera.org/course/money2 I took the first of these and intend to take the second, which I think came out as Coursera's top course at one point. There's a lot to learn here about what money is and how banks operate. That necessarily involves a historical perspective.

tmbsundar 11y ago

> broad economical trends and projections Any good Economics Text book will do: like Principles of Economics/ Principles of Microeconomics, Gregory Mankiw You can also try, although, personally I have not taken these: https://www.coursera.org/course/microecon https://www.coursera.org/course/microecon https://www.coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics https://www.coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics > FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me For Investment valuation and Corporate Finance Damodaran is one of the best sources: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/ http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/ Visit his blog, read his books. He has online classes as well Also you can try, (I've not taken this course): https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets For Value Investing, Benjamin Graham is a classic: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Investing-Essentials/dp/0060555661/ref=la_B000APZXBQ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448898823&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest... > For Technical Analysis and Futures Trading though, there are tonnes of books. May be you can start with these: http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-Comprehensive/dp/0735200661 http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-C... http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edition/dp/0130090565 http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edit... And lastly, > combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing

manish_gill 11y ago
Fantastic. Thanks for this!
phrogdriver 11y ago
Damodaran and Graham are fantastic, as is Shiller's Financial Markets. His 2008 course on Open Yale was an early spark in my career. After a quick look at the "Technical Analysis" book preview on Amazon, I would caution that technical analysis is generally a rorschach test of humans finding patterns in data when there really aren't any. Skip that one.