Ask HN: Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance

[rallies]

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.

[yepyoukno]

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!

[rallies]

this is such a great answer, thanks! printing them out and reading them today

[Arbinv]

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.

[rallies]

Unfortunately we already have a product we're building. Probably can't find any extra time.

[Arbinv]

No prob!

[mmarian]

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!