<p>What specifically do you guys recommend for learning more about Wall street/ trading/ banking - about the general culture, work involved, education, etc?</p>
<p>Beginner level stuff: Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards, Alchemy of Finance, Monkey Business, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, When Genius Failed. </p>
<p>More advanced stuff include Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (Hull), Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (wilmott).</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. Btw...is there anything besides reading that can be done to learn? Is there any like trading programs out there? Also...what are the best business newspapers and magazines?</p>
<p>Loads of stuff. I dont understand what you mean by trading programs? Charting programs? Screens? Automation? Best business newspaper/magazines: Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and I also read a bunch of other daily news wires like at <a href="http://www.fxstreet.com%5B/url%5D">www.fxstreet.com</a>, i also get free subscription to Dow Jones Newswire, finance.yahoo.com, marketwatch, futures.fxstreet.com. I read these pretty much daily.</p>
<p>Mahras when did you start exploring this financial stuff?</p>
<p>Ummm when I was about 12 or so. 16 and a half now so I guess 3.5 years.</p>