Here are the best 4 books for traders according to Citadel Securities, one of Wall Street's largest trading firms

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• Citadel Securities, one of the largest trading firms in the world, released a fall reading list based on recommendations from its traders.
• The books are centered around four topics its team felt traders should read more on: Statistics, game theory, Python, and options and futures.
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If your reading list is looking bare as summer winds down, one of the largest trading firms in the world has you covered.

Citadel Securities, the market maker founded by Ken Griffin, released a fall reading list based on four topics it believes traders should read more on.

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The firm, which trades roughly 21% of all US equities volume, asked its traders to recommend books, "that will prepare you to challenge the impossible with the combined knowledge of statistics and coding, as well as a passion for markets," according to a LinkedIn post.

The result was four books spanning a wide range of topics, touching on everything from a popular programming language to game theory. The suggestions are all highly analytical, which should come as no surprise coming from a firm that prides itself on taking such an analysis-driven approach to everything it does, including hiring interns.

Here are the recommendations: