Ask HN: Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance
I have been an AI engineer for the last 10 years of my life, and have continued to build small algo-trading systems during my weekends.
I'm getting into finance full time and starting to build a product in the net worth tracking / agentic finance / LLM driven investing space (B2C)
I would love to read up on as many books as I can just to deeply understand the field, the way things run, etc.
Recommendations? Doesn't have to be just books. Would also appreciate any advice. Read the Anthropics GitHub finance skills files!!!! How much better a curated knowledge distillation can you ask for? There are multiple repositories with relevant materials, though this one is most evident. https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services Skills aren’t just for LLMs! this is such a great answer, thanks! printing them out and reading them today I am looking for someone with your background. I have an existing finance content offering and looking to build tools for our audience. Let me know if interested. Unfortunately we already have a product we're building. Probably can't find any extra time. No prob! I used to follow Ben Felix who provides opinions based on empirical research: https://www.youtube.com/@BenFelixCSI/ Might end up demotivating you though if you want to do something in algo trading. His TLDR is just put your money in well-diversified index funds. I know it certainly been the case for me!