The Series

Money, Mastered

A premium finance book series — eight books, nearly twelve hundred pages — that builds from what money is to how markets work, with every chart drawn from real market data and every formula worked out by hand.

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Books · series complete

1,170+

Pages of depth

160k+

Words

100%

Real market data

Cost · Free to read

⚠ Education, not advice. These books teach how money, markets and investing work in principle. They are not investment advice and recommend no specific security or product. Markets carry real risk including loss of capital; no return is guaranteed. Figures are illustrative. Verify current rules and figures for your country and situation, and consult a licensed/fiduciary professional before acting.

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The Series

A note on currency. The series is written globally (prices in $, applicable anywhere) with one exception: Book 3 teaches market structure through the Indian market (₹, NSE/BSE/SEBI, T+1) because a concrete market beats an abstract one — the concepts transfer directly to any exchange. Indian readers can pair Book 3 with The Stock Market, From Scratch below as a dedicated India track; readers elsewhere can read Book 3 for the concepts and map the institutions to their own regulator and exchanges.

Stage 2 · The Markets · Global · Newest

Book 5 — Technical Analysis

250 pages · 42 chapters · 32 real charts · Python companion · 60+ exercises

The encyclopedic volume. Foundations · candlesticks (every pattern scanned from real market data) · chart patterns · indicators with the full math · risk management · six historical case studies (1929/1987/2000/2008/2020/2022) · the deep schools (Dow / Wyckoff / Elliott / Ichimoku / Point & Figure) · harmonic patterns · volume profile · alternative chart types · backtesting done properly · a 60+ exercise workbook with full answer keys · a Python companion with code for every indicator.

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Stage 1 · Foundations · Global

Book 1 — Money, From Zero

66 pages · ~17,400 words · 11 figures

What money is, why fiat works, inflation as a silent tax, savings vs investing, compounding (with a real 95-year S&P 500 chart and the actual FV formula), risk & reward.

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Stage 1 · Foundations · Global

Book 2 — Where to Put Your Money

63 pages · ~20,000 words · 14 figures

Cash, bonds (with see-saw math), stocks, funds (a 1% fee costs ~22% of a 30-year pot, worked), property, gold, diversification, dollar-cost averaging.

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Stage 2 · The Markets · India edition (₹)

Book 3 — How the Market Works

121 pages · 33 figures · real Nifty & Reliance charts

The company, the share, IPOs, exchanges, the order book, SEBI, depositories, T+1, indices (with worked free-float calc), the itemised true cost of a ₹50,000 trade.

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Stage 2 · The Markets · Global

Book 4 — Fundamental Analysis

94 pages · 18 figures · real Apple FY2023 case

Income statement · balance sheet · cash flow · P/E and DCF · DuPont · moats · margin of safety · a real worked Apple FY2023 analysis using actual SEC data.

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Stage 2 · The Markets · Global

Book 6 — Funds, SIPs & Portfolios

93 pages · 18 chapters · 11 figures · worked retirement plan

Portfolio theory (MPT, efficient frontier, Sharpe/Sortino/Calmar) · allocation by age and goal · the three-fund portfolio & glide paths · ETFs vs mutual funds · factor investing · SIPs & DCA · rebalancing · tax-efficient investing (asset location, tax-loss harvesting) · decumulation (4% rule, dynamic withdrawal, sequence-of-returns risk) · a complete worked retirement plan.

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Stage 2 · The Markets · Global

Book 7 — Derivatives, Tax, Psychology & Safety

89 pages · 18 chapters · 8 figures · the defensive volume

Derivatives without the mystique (forwards, futures, calls, puts, the Greeks, what survives scrutiny) · tax without the headache (income, capital gains, accounts, TLH, international) · psychology — your real adversary (loss aversion, the emotional cycle, the IPS-driven habit stack) · safety — recognising the cons (the five universal scam markers, Ponzi/pyramid, modern variants, the salesperson disguised as advisor) · a closing defensive framework that pulls the four threads into a single checklist.

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Stage 3 · Wealth · Global · The Capstone

Book 8 — Building & Protecting Wealth

90 pages · 18 chapters · 7 figures · the capstone of the series

The wealth equation (income × savings rate × time, with the worked tables showing why savings rate dominates returns); net worth and the ratios that matter; debt as accelerator or destroyer; the emergency fund. The big life decisions: buy vs rent (the 5% rule), insurance against ruin, career capital as your largest asset, children and education. The life-cycle decades: 20s systems, 30s-40s accumulation, the 50s consolidation, the 60s+ decumulation. Estate planning, generational wealth (the Williams-Preisser causes), philanthropy, the three legacies. Closing with the question of enough plus a one-page synthesis across all eight books.

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Standalone reads

Companion Volumes

Global · Encyclopedia

The Complete Money

143 pages · panoramic overview

A visual encyclopedia of finance, wealth and economics — history, money, banking, markets, crises, investing, behavioural finance, all in one volume.

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India · Single-volume overview

The Stock Market, From Scratch

88 pages · in ₹

An express tour of the Indian stock market in one book — exchanges, regulators, the trading day, basic analysis, and how the system fits together.

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A page from inside

What real data looks like

A page from Book 1 showing the real growth of $1 in the S&P 500 from 1927 to today on a log scale — From **Book 1**, Chapter 8 — the real growth of $1 in the S&P 500 from 1927 to today on a log scale, with the future-value formula and a worked numeric calculation alongside. Every chart in the series is built from real market data.

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The Design

Broadsheet editorial style. Fraunces (display), Spectral (body), Archivo (small-caps furniture) — ink on warm paper, with a single gold accent. No drop-shadows, no rounded "cards", no generic SaaS look — the visual language of a serious printed broadsheet, transposed to screen and print.

Real charts. Every market chart in Book 5 is built from real OHLC data — S&P 500, AAPL, NFLX, META, TSLA, Nifty 50, Reliance — rendered through mplfinance against the data. Every figure is independently verifiable; the back of Book 5 lists every chart with instrument and date range.

Real math. Every formula is followed by a worked numeric calculation. Compound growth, real return (Fisher), expense-ratio drag, the 1% position-sizing rule, Bollinger Bands, ATR, RSI, MACD, Ichimoku — all computed by hand and shown step by step.

Real depth. Book 5 alone is 42 chapters in 10 parts, with case studies of the 1929, 1987, 2000, 2008, 2020 and 2022 episodes on actual price data, a 60+ exercise workbook with full answer keys, and a Python companion that ships code for every indicator.