This note is a guide to 10 books for individual investors, centered on corporate disclosures, supply and demand, and market mechanics. It briefly presents each book's key points and practical starting points for research.
The first half introduces 10 books explaining how to assess companies and gather information. Focusing mainly on cash equities, the selection provides a starting point for understanding the conditions under which other market participants act.
The second half introduces books offering perspectives for understanding stock lending and borrowing, order mechanics, and supply-and-demand dynamics on a day-to-day basis. Each book aims to organize, from a practical perspective, the relationship between how to read publicly available information and market movements.
Taken as a whole, the collection offers practical ways of thinking not only to broaden the starting points for research but also to continue tracking changes. Readers can connect the information sources and analytical subjects covered by each book and build their own investment case for individual stocks at their own pace.