Back to books

Don't tell my wife, but I have bought some reading material since she returned to Singapore. Yeah, I'm a chronic book buyer (and sometimes book reader).

"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is the first investment book that I read, and to this day, I constantly refer to it and base my investment philosophy of investing the bulk of my money in indices. The book is quite lengthy and goes into a diatribe of the history of investing (starting from the 16th century!). It explains financial theories such as modern portfolio theory and also includes practical advice regarding taxes and retirement funds such as IRA and 401(k)s.

I went ahead and bought some books which have been sitting in my Amazon cart for a few months now.

"The Intelligent Investor" is written by Benjamin Graham, a proponent of Value Investing. Warren Buffett calls this "the best book about investing ever written." Can't argue with the world's richest man (for now).

I browsed through "The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing" in a book store and it's a nice little package that explains financial jargon in layman terms.



While I was at it, I also got some coding books (ya'know, so that I can keep my job). Now that I think about it, I do tend to overspend on books. Ah well. These two books look interesting, and I can stand to be a better software engineer and less of a computer scientist, especially at my current position.



I will write reviews for these books after I finish reading them.

Holy Cr*p

Stay the course. I will paraphrase a quote from a colleague,

when everyone, not just those who are interested or have vested interest, but, really everyone, even the most bullish TV personality, starts to say "sell", it's a sign that the bottom has arrived.