I’m looking for something written in plain english that a person with an average IQ can read and use. A practical nuts and bolts stock market technical analysis is what I’m looking for. Also, I don’t want the old classics from like the 30’s – 80’s. I don’t like the dry puffy language they use which is to try and impress the reader with their vocabulary. That’s stupid. I want books that focus on making money, not that are trying to impress a freakin English teacher or something. Only newer books please.

I know exactly what you mean. I have a lot of those “kings english” trading books that are suppose to be “classics” and frankly, they suck. The Internet an online trading has made most of them obsolete.

Here’s a few good ones to check out on Amazon:

Technical Analysis from A to Z, 2nd Edition
Written by the president and founder of Equis International. This book contains an introduction to technical analysis, plus a complete reference to over 100 indicators and studies.

Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets, New Expanded Edition, (Paperback)
A most interesting book — definitely a ‘must have’ on your shelf. Pull out the plastic and get it!…Trend Following is well written. Backed up by trading ‘legends’ like Ed Seykota, it convincingly argues that the most successful trading systems are based on trend following…While you may read the book in bed, especially the first time, it is best read at a desk with a notepad handy. While seeming to come from the perspective of technical analysis it is still a very good book on trading psychology…The book is both a great read and an insightful textbook for all traders and investors.

The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing
For over a decade, Jason Kelly has provided investors with the insider knowledge and time-tested strategies they need to maximize their investment programs. This thoroughly updated edition of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing includes:
• Kelly’s Maximum Midcap Strategy, an innovative investment program that consistently outperforms the market
• Real-life examples of investment strategies that paid big dividends
• Tips from master investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Bill Miller
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is a highly effective approach to investing.

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
How do the world’s top traders make millions of dollars in the markets – sometimes in a matter of only weeks or even days? That’s precisely the question Jack Schwager was trying to answer when he interviewed 17 superstar money-makers including Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin and others. After reading this best-selling book, you’ll know what ingredients enable these top traders to consistently work their financial magic in the markets while so many others walk away losers. One of the top-selling trading books of all-time!

The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist (Wiley Trading)
Dr. Steenbarger has been helping traders help themselves for many years. Simply put, this book is a must-read for anyone who desires to achieve great success in the market. There are 101 lessons in The Daily Trading Coach, each averaging several pages in length. Each lesson follows the same general format: identifying an everyday challenge that traders face, an approach to meeting that challenge, and a specific suggestion for implementing that approach. The lessons cover a range of topics relevant to trading psychology and trading performance, including detailed instruction for utilizing psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral brief therapy methods to change problematic behavior patterns and instill new, positive ones. The chapters are independent of one another, so that you can read them in order or you can use the Table of Contents or Index to read, each day, the lesson that most applies to your current trading. In addition, the book includes insightful self-coaching perspectives from eighteen successful trading professionals who share their work online.

Stock Investing For Dummies
Want to make money in stocks without losing your shirt? This practical guide gives you proven strategies for weathering the current economic crisis and for selecting and managing profitable investments in either a bear or bull market. You’ll navigate the new economic landscape and choose the right stocks for different situations — and you’ll find fresh real-world examples that show you how to maximize your returns. Get started with the basics — understand stock value, assess your finances, set your investing goals, and know your investing style. Recognize the risks — explore different kinds of risk and weigh risk against return. Make informed investing decisions — research stocks, understand growth and income investing, and use basic economics to improve your stock strategy. Build a strong foundation for your portfolio — investigate industries, evaluate a company’s financial health, and understand the effect of politics/government on stock investing. Capitalize on emerging sector opportunities — from precious metals to alternative energy, discover the hot sectors that will make your portfolio thrive. Build (and hold on to) your wealth — get expert tips and tactics for utilizing brokerage orders, buying with fewer costs, and keeping the taxman at bay. In this book here are just a few trading secrets you will find: the differences between stock investing and trading, how to understand and use indexes, the various types of brokers and how to choose one, new ways to gather stock information online, methods for tracking insider trading, early signs of megatrends that can affect your portfolio, solutions for protecting your profits and investing resources and financial ratios.

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude
Maximizing the trader’s state of mind is the key to successful results. Conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes in thinking can spell disaster for even a highly motivated, astute and well grounded trader. Mark Douglas, a trader, personal trading coach, and industry consultant since 1982, sends the message that “thinking strategy” will profoundly influence a trader’s success rate. Douglas addresses five very specific issues to give traders the insight and understanding about themselves that will make them consistent winners in the market. Trading In The Zone offers specific solutions to the “people factor” of commodity price movement. It uncovers the true culprit for lack of consistency when it comes to stock picking: lack of focus and self-confidence. Through simple exercises, traders will learn how to think in terms of probabilities, and adopt the specific beliefs necessary to developing a winner’s mindset. Along the way, they’ll gain valuable insights into their own entrenched misconceptions about the market. Backed by compelling examples, Trading In The Zone adds a new dimension to getting an edge on the market. Through a better understanding of themselves, as well as of Wall Street’s realities, traders will come to leverage the power of their psyche for unprecedented profitability.

Stan Weinstein’s Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets
Stan Weinstein’s Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets reveals his successful methods for timing investments to produce consistently profitable results. Topics include: Stan Weinstein’s personal philosophy on investing, the ideal time to buy, refining the buying process, knowing when to sell, selling short, and using the best long-term indicators to spot Bull and Bear markets.

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term is a winner’s game. Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), but after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser’s game. Common sense tells us—and history confirms—that the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation’s publicly held businesses at very low cost. The classic index fund that owns this market portfolio is the only investment that guarantees you with your fair share of stock market returns. To learn how to make index investing work for you, there’s no better mentor than legendary mutual fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over the course of his long career, Bogle—founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the world’s first index mutual fund—has relied primarily on index investing to help Vanguard’s clients build substantial wealth. Now, with The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, he wants to help you do the same. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing will show you how to incorporate this proven investment strategy into your portfolio. It will also change the very way you think about investing. Successful investing is not easy. (It requires discipline and patience.) But it is simple. For it’s all about common sense. With The Little Book of Common Sense Investing as your guide, you’ll discover how to make investing a winner’s game: why business reality—dividend yields and earnings growth—is more important than market expectations, how to overcome the powerful impact of investment costs, taxes, and inflation, how the magic of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs, what expert investors and brilliant academics—from Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul Samuelson and Burton Malkiel—have to say about index investing. You’ll also find warnings about investment fads and fashions, including the recent stampede into exchange traded funds and the rise of indexing gimmickry. The real formula for investment success is to own the entire market, while significantly minimizing the costs of financial intermediation.

High Probability Trading Strategies: Entry to Exit Tactics for the Forex, Futures, and Stock Markets (Wiley Trading)
Trading today’s markets—including stocks, futures, or Forex—can be a challenging and difficult endeavor. But it is possible to achieve consistent success in this field, if you’re prepared to learn a complete trading plan from entry to exit. In High Probability Trading Strategies, author and well-known trading educator Robert Miner skillfully outlines every aspect of a practical trading plan—from entry to exit—that he has developed over the course of his distinguished twenty-plus-year career. The result is a complete approach to trading that will allow you to trade confidently in a variety of markets and time frames. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly learn how to recognize high-probability trading opportunities, pinpoint exact entry and stop prices, and manage a trade until it’s completely closed out. You’ll discover how the four key factors of dual-time-frame-momentum, pattern, price, and time can guide you down the path to trading profits. As you become familiar with the proven strategies and techniques taught in High Probability Trading Strategies, you’ll also come to understand the type of market information you can use to make specific trade decisions and how to execute those decisions from start to finish. Miner teaches in a practical, step-by-step manner until a complete trading plan is developed. While the ideas found here are essential to trading success, the best way to learn is by example. That’s why Miner has devoted an entire chapter—called “Real Traders, Real Time”—to trade examples submitted by his past students. In it, you’ll see how they apply the strategies taught throughout the book to markets around the world. A companion video CD completes this comprehensive learning package. It’s not a word-for-word review of the material in the book, but rather an additional tool to illustrate more examples. With it, you’ll learn how to put high-probability trading strategies into practice, day by day and bar, by bar for many different markets and time frames. Written with the serious trader in mind, High Probability Trading Strategies details a practical approach to analyzing market behavior, identify-ing profitable trade setups, and executing and managing trades—from entry to exit—that will allow you to both preserve and grow your capital. If you’re looking to make the most of your time in today’s markets, look no further than High Probability Trading Strategies.

The Little Book That Beats the Market (Little Books. Big Profits)
Contrary to efficient-market naysayers, this engaging investment primer contends that ordinary stock-market investors can indeed get better-than-market returns over the long haul. Greenblatt (You Can Be a Stock Market Genius), a Columbia Business School adjunct professor, touts a “value-oriented” approach that looks for bargain stocks whose share price is cheap relative to the company’s profitability. His version is a “magic formula” that ranks stocks on the basis of two variables—the earnings yield and the business’s return on capital. His Web site, magicformulainvesting.com, virtually automates the procedure for novices. Greenblatt offers lots of statistical proof of the formula’s success, but emphasizes the importance of faith in seeing the investor through inevitable short-term downturns: “It will be your belief in the overwhelming logic of the magic formula that will make the formula work for you in the long run.” He conveys his ideas through a lucid if rudimentary and rather corny explanation of basic investment concepts about risk, return, interest and business valuation. Although the fabulous returns he touts seem too good to be true, Greenblatt’s formula is a reasonable variant of mainstream value-investing methods. Investors seeking a little more hands-on excitement than the average mutual fund offers won’t go too far wrong following his advice.

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market
How did a world-famous dancer with no knowledge of the stock market, or of finance in general, make 2 million dollars in the stock market in 18 months starting with only $10,000? Darvas is legendary, and with good reason. Find out why.