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Real resources

The founder library.

Resources that shaped Theia — books and materials worth knowing when you want the deeper version. Curated, not exhaustive.


Investing ClassicsThe books that keep being right, decade after decade.↓

One Up On Wall Street

gentle

Peter Lynch

Buying what you know: your daily life as legitimate research. The gentlest serious book in finance.

In Theia: What Is A Stock? · Price vs Value

The Intelligent Investor

moderate

Benjamin Graham

The original price-vs-value discipline, and the famous idea of the market as a moody business partner.

In Theia: Price vs Value · Risk

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

moderate

Philip Fisher

What makes a business genuinely excellent — and the patience to hold one.

In Theia: What Is A Stock? · Growth Expectations

The Essays of Warren Buffett

moderate

Warren Buffett, arranged by Lawrence Cunningham

Ownership thinking, temperament, and the clearest business writing in the field.

In Theia: What Is Investing? · Price vs Value

Security Analysis

serious

Graham & Dodd

The deep end of valuation. Not a beginner book; listed for honesty about where the ideas come from.

In Theia: Valuation

Trading & Market PsychologyThe chart is fine. The nervous system is the project.↓

Trading In The Zone

moderate

Mark Douglas

Why discipline beats prediction, and how professionals think in probabilities instead of certainties.

In Theia: Trading Rules · Trading vs Investing

The Daily Trading Coach

moderate

Brett Steenbarger

101 short, practical lessons on managing yourself — the actual hardest position.

In Theia: Overchecking · Revenge Trading

Enhancing Trader Performance

serious

Brett Steenbarger

Skill-building as deliberate practice: treating trading like a performance discipline, not a mood.

In Theia: Trading Rules · Building A Real Investment Process

Market Wizards

moderate

Jack Schwager

Interviews with great traders. The recurring theme is not genius — it's risk control and survival.

In Theia: Survival · Position Sizing

SMB Capital educational materials

serious

SMB Capital

How a professional trading desk actually trains people: process, review, and playbooks.

In Theia: Trading Rules · Building A Real Investment Process

Bubbles, Crashes & RiskEvery generation swears it's different. The reading list disagrees.↓

Manias, Panics, and Crashes

serious

Charles Kindleberger

The anatomy of every bubble: same stages, new costumes, for four hundred years.

In Theia: Bubbles · Crowd Psychology

Devil Take the Hindmost

moderate

Edward Chancellor

A history of speculation — proof that your FOMO has excellent historical company.

In Theia: Bubbles · FOMO

The Big Short

gentle

Michael Lewis

2008 as a story you can actually follow: incentives, leverage, and the loneliness of being early.

In Theia: Bubbles · Tail Risk

Liar's Poker

gentle

Michael Lewis

Inside a 1980s trading floor — how the industry's culture was built, cigar smoke included.

In Theia: Trading vs Investing

When Genius Failed

moderate

Roger Lowenstein

Nobel-level brains, catastrophic leverage: why intelligence does not exempt anyone from risk math.

In Theia: Leverage · Tail Risk

Personal Finance & Money ThinkingBefore markets: how money actually behaves in a life.↓

The Psychology of Money

gentle

Morgan Housel

Nineteen short essays on why smart people do ruinous things with money. Read this one first.

In Theia: Risk · Cash Is Not Stupid · Life Outside Markets

Your Money or Your Life

gentle

Vicki Robin

Money as life energy: what you're actually trading for every purchase.

In Theia: Asset vs Lifestyle Purchase

The Richest Man in Babylon

gentle

George Clason

Pay-yourself-first and other ancient basics that survived because they work.

In Theia: Cash Is Not Stupid · What Is Investing?

Official Investor EducationThe unglamorous, reliable places — free, public, and allergic to hype.↓

Investor.gov

gentle

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Plain-language official explanations of stocks, bonds, funds, and fraud warnings. The reference Theia checks definitions against.

In Theia: What Is A Stock? · What Is A Bond? · What Is An ETF?

FINRA Investor Education

gentle

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

How brokers and markets are supervised, plus practical scam-avoidance tools.

In Theia: Risk · Scams And Yield Traps

Central bank education pages

moderate

Federal Reserve and peers

What interest rates and inflation actually are, from the people who set and measure them.

In Theia: What Is Inflation? · Interest Rates

Exchange & ETF issuer education

moderate

Nasdaq, NYSE, major fund issuers

Mechanics of listings, orders, and funds — from the venues themselves. Mind the marketing around the education.

In Theia: What Is An ETF? · Volume

Valuation & BusinessFor the day you want the numbers underneath.↓

Damodaran's valuation materials

serious

Aswath Damodaran (NYU)

The reference for how businesses get valued — much of it freely published lectures and notes.

In Theia: Valuation · P/E Ratio

Company annual reports

moderate

The companies themselves

The primary source. Start with a brand you know and read how it describes its own risks.

In Theia: Balance Sheet · Revenue

Investor letters

moderate

Berkshire Hathaway and others

How owners talk about businesses when they write to partners instead of the press.

In Theia: What Is Investing? · Valuation

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Theia adapts, simplifies, and explains ideas in its own language. These resources are for deeper study and source transparency — not a reading assignment, and not an endorsement of any product.

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