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Read "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructure-Practitioners/dp/0195144708
by tcoppi 11y ago
Read "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructure-Practitioners/dp/0195144708 http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur...)
This will give you an idea and maybe whet your appetite about how markets and trading actually work, and all the reasons people use markets. From there you can work towards learning more about actually developing trading strategies more complex than buy and hold.
- osullivj 11y agoSeconded: Harris Trading and Exchanges is an excellent book. I read it in 2006 when I was working for a rates trading desk, and wrote a series of blogs posts on it: https://etrading.wordpress.com/category/reading-harris/ https://etrading.wordpress.com/category/reading-harris/