Books on trading are very thick, in general. They contain wealth of trading knowledge from some of the best traders out there. They are very expensive as well. I have bought a number of trading books, mostly from Amazon. My latest purchase cost me close to S$300 for 3 books!

I was so astonished to find out that electronic versions (aka e-books) of those books that I’ve bought are available right on the Internet for download and FOR FREE!!!

What happened?

Nowadays, almost everyone’s PCs or laptops are connected to the Internet. We need the Internet. Some of us even run web servers off our PCs or laptops to serve out webpages from our PCs/laptops. Well, of course, there may be cases whereby people are not aware that they had their web servers turned on. When we have our web servers turned on, anyone from the Internet can see the files that we have on our PCs/laptops unless we secure them properly of course!

How can we find these people?

Using what is tauted as the most powerful tool on planet earth that can even potentially support acts of terrorism unknowingly - GOOGLE.

Finding free MP3 from the internet

It all started with me asking Daniel for an MP3. He asked me to get it from the Internet and gave me this:

intitle:”index of” +size +modified +(wmv|mp3) +”i will survive”

Enter the above in the Google’s search box and hit Search. You will be able to download the mp3 from the first result in the list.

And I modified it to find trading books!

Now try this:

intitle:”index of” +size +modified +(pdf|doc) +”forex”

This is where I found all the electronic versions for most of the books that I have bought, for free, with many other trading e-books as well, over hundreds of them. This guy is crazy about trading! But the site is down at this point of writing because its bandwidth quota is reached, perhaps for the day. You may want to try another time.

Or, you can try to search for other trading books. You will be surprised at what you can find!

But, do get the original copy of the books if you find that they are really good. Give the authors due credit!

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