Books like Financial Risk Taking by Mike Elvin

James Montier guides investors through common psychological pitfalls—bias, emotion, overconfidence—offering practical strategies to recognize and avoid these traps, improve decision‑making, and enhance investment returns.

Robert Lichello’s AIM system teaches investors how to earn profits automatically in stocks and mutual funds, regardless of market conditions or investment size, using a timing-based strategy rather than complex stock picking.

James P. O'Shaughnessy explains how the 2000 market cycle shift favors small and mid‑cap stocks, value names, and intermediate bonds, offering practical, data‑driven steps for investors to rebuild their portfolios.

The essential reference for financial risk management Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, the Financial Risk Manager Handbook is the core text for risk management training programs worldwide. Presented in a clear and consistent fashion, this completely updated Fifth Edition-which comes with an interactive CD-ROM containing hundreds of multiple-choice questions from previous FRM exams-is one of the best ways to prepare for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) exam. Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Fifth Edition supports candidates studying for the Global Association of Risk Professional's (GARP) annual FRM exam and prepares you to assess and control risk in today's rapidly changing financial world. Authored by renowned risk management expert Philippe Jorion-with the full support of GARP-this definitive guide summarizes the core body of knowledge for financial risk managers. Offers valuable insights on managing market, credit, operational, and liquidity risk Examines the importance of structured products, futures, options, and other derivative instruments Identifies regulatory and legal issues Addresses investment management and hedge fund risk Financial Risk Manager Handbook is the most comprehensive guide on this subject, and will help you stay current on best practices in this evolving field. The FRM Handbook is the official reference book for GARP's FRM® certification program. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included.

A practical guide that blends psychology and trading skills, offering 101 self‑coaching lessons to help traders—new and experienced—overcome common market hurdles and improve performance.

Explore how personality, cognition, and emotional factors shape investment decisions and performance in "The Psychology of Money," a guide blending behavioral science with practical tools for investors and financial professionals.

This book offers an extensive and up-to-date review of market risk measurement, focusing particularly on the estimation of value at risk (VaR) and expected tail loss (ETL).Measuring Market Risk provides coverage of parametric and non-parametric risk estimation, simulation, numerical methods, liquidity risks, risk decomposition and budgeting, backtesting, stress testing, and model risk, as well as appendices on mapping delta-gamma approximations and options VaR. Divided into two parts, the book also comes with a Toolkit containing 11 toolboxes dealing with technical issues often used in market risk measurement, including quantile error estimation, order statistics, principal components and factor analysis, non-parametric density estimation, fat-tailed distributions, extreme-value theory, simulation methods, volatility and correlation estimation, and copulas. The book is packaged with a CD containing a MATLAB folder of 150 risk measurement functions, with additional examples in Excel/VBA.Measuring Market Risk is designed for practitioners involved in risk measurement and management. It will also be of use to MBA, MA and MSc programmes in finance, financial engineering, risk management and related subjects in addition to academics and researchers working in this field.

Investing without emotion can be dangerous. Dr. John Nofsinger’s book shows how psychological biases—confidence, regret, herd behavior—reduce returns and increase risk, and offers behavioral‑finance tools to regain control.

A practical guide to market speculation, drawing on the author’s experience running a highly profitable futures firm and later refocusing on stocks, futures, and options.

Learn 20 practical, uncorrelated trading strategies from hedge‑fund professional James Altucher, designed to boost portfolio value while managing risk.

A practical guide that blends psychological insight with market strategy, offering traders tools to understand and improve their decision‑making and emotional responses to stocks and speculation.

Dr. Brett Steenbarger teaches traders how to turn talent into skill, using structured expertise development to master the market.

Mastering Trading Stress teaches traders how to manage emotions and stress, using real‑life examples, personality profiles, and practical techniques from psychiatrist Ari Kiev to improve performance in speculative and hedge fund markets.

"The definitive guide to quantifying risk vs. return--fully updated to reveal the newest, most effective innovations in financial risk management since the 2008 financial crisisWritten for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for: Measuring and transferring credit risk Increasing risk-management transparency Implementing an organization-wide Enterprise risk Management (ERM) approach Michel Crouhy is head of research and development at NATIXIS and the founder and president of the NATIXIS Foundation for Quantitative Research. Dan Galai is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance and Business Administration at the School of Business Administration, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Robert Mark is the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond Risk which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting, risk software tools, and transaction services. "--

Take the risk out of financial risk management Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company. Through easy-to-follow instruction, you'll find out how to manage risk, firstly by understanding it, and then by taking control of it. Plus, you'll discover how to measure and value financial risk, set limits, stop losses, control drawdowns and hedge bets. Financial risk management uses financial instruments to manage exposure to risk within firms, large and small particularly credit risk and market risk. From managing and measuring risk to working in financial institutions and knowing how to communicate risk to your company and clients, Financial Risk Management For Dummies makes it easy to make sense of the management of risk when working in various different financial institutions and concludes by covering the topic of how to communicate risk how to report it properly and how to deal with and comply with all of the regulations.

Trend Trading offers clear, practical guidance on applying trend‑following techniques to equity markets, combining sound money‑management with advanced technical analysis for both individual stocks and entire portfolios.