This is the trading platform that I will be using in the upcoming competition. It's called TradingView. You can sign up here for a FREE account. 

This is required reading as far as I'm concerned, if you want to make it in the real world of professional trading.  If you love psychology, and enjoy understanding the way people think, then this book is for you.  

Mark Douglas was a genius and way ahead of his time in the world of trading psychology. You will have so many "light-bulb" moments reading this book.  Take notes, underline passages, and use a highlighter.  Just study this book and you will start to understand why you are sitting here today wanting to trade your own account. 

Larry Hite was the first hedgefund manager to reach $1B in assets for Mint Capital.  The book goes into his trading techniques and methodology using what he calls "asymmetrical leverage".   

He clearly demonstrates how to look at asymmetrical leverage, and also does a deep dive into the importance of the 1% rule of risk management. .

Make sure you buy the version by Stephen Kaufman.  His translation of the original text is more modern and relatable to the present day we live in. This is a trendy underground book that Japanese businessmen read.  It is a book that must be studied and not merely skimmed through.  Each time you pick it up you will learn something new.  

Being a professional trader takes discipline, intention, and conviction.  Who better to learn this from than a 2000 year old Samurai who is considered to be a sword saint.  

What separates the world's top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful investors? In this iconic financial classic, Jack Schwager sets out to answer this question in his interviews with superstar money-makers, including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin, and more in this audiobook. 

This interview-style audiobook from a financial expert is a must-listen for traders and professional financiers alike, as well as anyone interested in gaining insight into how the world of finance really works. 

A hundred-thousand investors have turned to this best-selling guide for mastering successful trading by Dr. Alexander Elder, a professional trader, a world-class expert in technical analysis, and a practicing psychiatrist. He believes that successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps discipline your mind, shows you the methods for trading the markets, and shows you have to manage money in your trading accounts. 

In The Black Swan, Nissim Taleb outlines a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragility and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish.

Way of the Turtle reveals, for the first time, the reasons for the success of the secretive trading system used by the group known as the “Turtles.” Top-earning Turtle Curtis Faith lays bare the entire experiment, explaining how it was possible for Dennis and Eckhardt to recruit 23 ordinary people from all walks of life and train them to be extraordinary traders in just two weeks.