Book recommendations for a beginning stock market investor?

Books are way long and usually out of date,
I recommend the Yahoo Finance education 101 (scroll down on the left)

http://finance.yahoo.com/education/begin...

then the Motley Fool has some interesting takes on things and there are several columnists whose columns are good

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/allbi...

http://www.fool.com/index.htm?ref=topnav

The Complete Idiot's Guide To Making Money On Wall Street

I have 2 books that I would recommend: "The Coming Economic Collapse", and "The Little Book That Beats the Market". This 2nd book discusses a magic formula to find stocks that meet 2 important criteria: low PE and high return-on-capital. There is a website that supports the book: magicformulainvesting.com.

You might want to look at the following portfolio, which invests in stocks that meet the "Little Book" criteria. The user is called "magicformula" :

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewPortfoli...

This portfolio is from http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors. You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.

Here are this month's best traders:

http://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standin...

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