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  1. Trading Systems Developer Interview Guide (C++ Edition)
    Trading Systems Developer Interview Guide (C++ Edition)
    Insider's Guide to Top Tech Jobs in Finance
    Jeff Vogels and Mark Thunderberg

    This book will help you with interview preparation for landing high-paying software engineering jobs in the financial markets industry – Hedge Funds, Banks, Algo Trading firms, HFT firms, Exchanges, etc. Questions that are comparable difficulty level to those asked at top financial firms.

  2. Building a Production Quant Trading System

    Most writing about quant trading is about finding edges. This book is about everything that happens after you think you've found one: proving it's real, wiring it to a broker without lying to yourself, sizing it so a bad month doesn't end you, and running it as a process that survives restarts, data outages, and your own future mistakes. Repository (https://github.com/rayan-azhari/titan-quant).

  3. Double-Entry Accounting - A Literate Programming Implementation
    Double-Entry Accounting - A Literate Programming Implementation
    C, SQLite and an AI bookkeeper, built chunk by chunk
    Alex Insulae Rivers

    A book that compiles into the software it describes.Learn double-entry accounting by building a complete ledger in C and SQLite, using literate programming. From journal entries and accounting invariants to an AI-powered bookkeeper through MCP, every component is explained and implemented.

  4. Alternative Investments
    Alternative Investments
    Expanding Frontiers
    Kathryn Wilkens, PhD, CAIA

    Alternative investments are no longer “alternatives.” This book shows how they really work, and how to analyze them with clarity, rigor, and modern data-driven insight.

  5. Lean Finance for Managers
    Lean Finance for Managers
    How to Connect Numbers with Flow
    Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

    Lean Finance for Managers shows you how to connect financial numbers with Lean principles so you can see your business more clearly and make better decisions. Written in plain language, with practical examples and case studies, it helps managers at every level turn accounting into a tool for performance—not just compliance.

  6. Vibe to First Sale: Vibecoding a Lean AI Business from $0 to $29

    Turn AI into leverage, engineer your first $29 sale, and prove your business is real - in days, not months.

  7. Amazon KDP for Introverts

    The most truly passive online business I know is Amazon KDP. If you want to stay anonymous and build a passive online business system the hard way, this book is for you.

  8. AI Money Systems
    AI Money Systems
    The Finxter Playbook for AI-Driven Wealth
    Finxter

    Stop selling hours and start owning systems that compound. This technical field manual provides eight executable "money identities" to help you graduate from trading time for dollars into designing AI-powered systems that generate "Agentic Wealth".

  9. Leaving the Rat Race with Python
    Leaving the Rat Race with Python
    An Insider's Guide to Freelance Developing
    Finxter and Lukas Rieger

    Is There a Six-Figure Freelance Developer in You?Leaving the Rat Race with Python shows you how to nurture, grow, and harness your work-from-home coding business online --- and live the good life!It's an insider's guide to freelance developing. Start your new thriving coding business now!

  10. Implementing QuantLib
    Implementing QuantLib
    Luigi Ballabio

    Quantitative finance in C++: an inside look at the architecture of the QuantLib library.

  11. QuantLib Python Cookbook
    QuantLib Python Cookbook
    Luigi Ballabio and Goutham Balaraman

    Quantitative finance in Python: a hands-on, interactive look at the QuantLib library through the use of Jupyter notebooks as working examples.

  12. The Ultimate Guide to Self-Directed Trading
    The Ultimate Guide to Self-Directed Trading
    Markets, Exchanges & Technology for the Independent Trader
    Viktor Eldvik

    The wrong trading platform can cost you before you place your first trade. Zero commission doesn't mean zero cost. An advertised API doesn't mean your account can use it. Discover how to compare brokers, exchanges, forex, futures, crypto, trading software, market data, and true execution costs in this comprehensive 330-page guide—and build a trading setup that works on your terms.

  13. The Sovereign Prosperity Framework
    The Sovereign Prosperity Framework
    Building Government Capability for Generational Prosperity
    The Unappointed

    What if the real test of government isn't how much it spends, but what it leaves behind? The Sovereign Prosperity Framework challenges conventional political debate and explores how better decisions, stronger national capabilities and long-term stewardship can create lasting prosperity.

  14. Leveraged Prediction Markets: Theory and Design
    Leveraged Prediction Markets: Theory and Design
    Market Microstructure, Finality, Credit, and Protocol Engineering
    Maksym Nechepurenko

    A rigorous framework for leveraged prediction markets: payoff geometry, microstructure, finality, credit, and protocol design, with empirical studies of Polymarket and Kalshi.

  15. AI Trading: The Uncomfortable Truth
    AI Trading: The Uncomfortable Truth
    Why AI Won't Make Most Traders Rich, and What It Can Still Do for You
    Julian Vellner

    AI can analyze a thousand charts in seconds. So why can't it reliably make you rich? Discover the uncomfortable truth about AI trading, the mistakes most people overlook, and what these powerful tools can actually do for you.