Are you trying to improve your skills and knowledge as a trader or investor? Or maybe you are new to financial markets. Fortunately, A LOT of resources exist to help traders and investors of all types – daytraders, swingtraders, investors – and across a full range of risk spectra. Below I share my favorite YouTube channels and books on trading and investing.
While I am not in the business of selling services or products for traders and investors, each of these channels do offer paid subscriptions and services. I am not directly promoting these offerings or assessing their fit for your particular needs. Please do your own evaluation.
Trading and Investing Videos
Singaporean investor and trader Adam Khoo has his own YouTube channel, but his best video may be his interview with The HumbledTrader in June, 2025. This interview is practically a masterclass in trading and investing and serves as a solid starting point for learning about trading and investing from a person with a wide variety of experiences. I plan to start every year watching this interview to get freshly grounded with my own goals and objectives.
Wall Street Trapper
The Wall Street Trapper is an educator for the masses. He is down to earth and speaks directly to beginners and newbies while at the same exhorting his audience to play the game, stay in the game, and learn about the game of the stock market. Wall Street Trapper is light on technical analysis. He focuses on fundamentals, rich narratives, story-telling, analogies, and metaphors to make the language of markets accessible to all.
Adam Khoo (Piranha Profits)
Adam Khoo also talks plain but communicates like an encyclopedia of market knowledge. In addition to the above interview with HumbledTrader, Khoo’s 2-part series on lessons he learned from Warren Buffet stand out as timeless classics (“20 Buffett Lessons that Made Me Millions Part 1 of 2” and “20 Buffett Lessons that Made Me Millions Part 2 of 2“). Khoo has a rigorous methodology for picking high quality businesses for long-term investment.
Mary Ellen McGonagle by StockCharts TV
Mary Ellen McGonagle weekly delivers a detailed and comprehensive review of stock market technicals. Her presentation is dry but also pure poetry in its methodical precision and sharp observations. McGonagle leaves me feeling like I just took a tour of the entire stock market. she speaks She speaks to an audience already knowledgeable in technical analysis. Her core analytics tools are moving averages, support and resistance, RSI (relative strength indicator), and MACD (moving average convergence/divergence).
ShadowTrader
ShawdowTrader speaks to an advanced audience of technical traders which includes detailed reviews of intraday trading action and futures markets. The content mainly focuses on daytraders and swingtraders. I mainly watch videos from Peter Reznicek who covers the weekend edition. Reznicek is a classic technician who could not care less about the fundamentals of the underlying companies. He mainly cares about price action, supply and demand. Reznicek also offers predictions for potential trading scenarios.
Trading and Investing Books
Below I post several books that teach how to trade and invest. These books (and much more!) helped give me a good grounding in market mechanics, investing philosophies, and trading methods. They form the basis of my musings on financial markets in One-Twenty Two: a different narrative for students and fans of financial markets.
No magic trading system exists to guarantee profits and a comfortable retirement. Every trader and investor needs to construct their own well-informed plan tailor-made for their goals and objectives. Each person must ultimately construct how to trade and invest for themselves. Every well-informed trader and investor studies the wisdom of those who came before us and can speak to the highs and lows of financial markets.
If you have any questions about any of these resources on how to trade and invest, feel free to leave a question in the comments. Each of the links below go directly to Amazon for easy ordering. I wish you much success!
First, EVERY trader and investor must read “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.” (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. All links to books on this page are part of the affiliate program).
Short-Term Trading
Every trader (and even investor) must have a favorite method for reading and interpreting charts in financial markets. Candlestick charting opened my eyes to a world I never knew existed. I recommend this book (or any other related resource) as a key starting point.
Japanese Candlestick Charting TechniquesBollinger Bands (BBs) define a price band a number of standard deviations from a moving average. BBs are key for assessing entry and exit points for short-term trades.
Bollinger on Bollinger BandsTrader Vic is/was an old school traders. He talks about trading in simple and direct terms.
Trader Vic – Methods of a Wall Street MasterWilliam O’Neil is famous for the “CANSLIM” method of investing and trading. O’Neil has a lot of market insights cultivated over decades.
How to Make Money in Stocks – A Winning System in Good Times and BadGalgani wrote an “updated” version of O’Neil’s classic. Pick one or the other, no need for both.
How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started – A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into ActionTraders should know about options even if they do not trade them. Options trading can generate key buy and sell signals. Options can also help mitigate risk.
The Option Advisor – Wealth-Building Techniques Using Equity and Index OptionsEvery trader should read the stories of those who came before. “Reminiscences” is a CLASSIC story about a character named Jesse Livermore and is a must-read.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Trading psychology is an important dimension of success. Trading in the “zone” helps traders identify healthy mindsets critical for managing through the ups and downs of financial markets, profits and loss.
Trading in the Zone – Master the Market with Confidence Discipline and a Winning AttitudeInvesting and Longer Time Horizons
Full-time traders need to have a plan. Read about what it takes to make a living from trading. The lifestyle is NOT for the casual market observer!
Trade Your Way to Financial FreedomWith a longer-term horizon, financial markets can offer a broad range of profit opportunities. Fisher provides a good intro.
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other WritingsBenjamin Graham is famous for long-term investing, particularly in value investing. This method looks for under-priced assets to hold until at least the rest of the market recognizes the true value of the stock.
The Intelligent Investor – The Classic Best Seller on Value InvestingGreenblatt’s book fascinated me with all the myriad ways in which investors can find untapped value in financial markets, including companies resurrected from bankruptcy and spin-offs.
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius – Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market ProfitsEvery long-term investor needs to understand how to read a company’s earnings report. These data are key to understanding intrinsic value and anticipating analyst upgrades and downgrades.
How to Read a Financial Report – Wringing Vital Signs Out of the NumbersOptions are typically used for short-term trading and risk mitigation. However, options can also be used strategically to enhance long-term investing. The book below is like a bible of options techniques. Treat it like a a reference book.
Options as a Strategic InvestmentInvestors must mind the trends. Sometimes following the trend is the easiest and hardest thing to do at the same time. Look for updated versions of Covel’s writing. Covel also has a “Trend Following” podcast.
Trend Following – Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down MarketsAnother value investing classic.
Value Investing – A Balanced Approach