There are several threads on this forum devoted to book recommendations.
Some titles keep coming up in recommendations, over and over again.
Here are several — in no particular order — that get repeated often:
Mark Douglas: Trading in the Zone, and The Disciplined Trader
Dr. Alexander Elder: Trading for a Living, Come Into My Trading Room, and Sell & Sell Short
Kathy Lien: Day Trading the Currency Market, and Day Trading & Swing Trading the Currency Market
Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg: Millionaire Traders
Jack Schwager: The New Market Wizards
Brett Steenbarger: Enhancing Trader Performance
Michael Covel: The Complete Turtle Trader
Curtis Faith: Way of the Turtle, and Inside the Mind of the Turtles
Van Tharp: Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, and Super Trader
Max Gunther: The Zurich Axioms: Investment Secrets of the Swiss Bankers
John Murphy: Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
Steve Nison: Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, and Beyond Candlesticks
Mark Galant and Brian Dolan: Currency Trading for Dummies
Barbara Rockefeller: Technical Analysis for Dummies
If you’re very new to forex trading, you’re probably wondering which one, or two, or three of these books you should start with. Ask any 5 traders, and you will get 5 different answers to that question.
My answer would be: Technical Analysis for Dummies, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, and either one of the Mark Douglas books.
Forex education is essentially a do-it-yourself endeavor. And it should be a life-long pursuit. For the duration of your career as a trader, you should be reading and learning. So, take it a step at a time.
Clint