>it's basically a vehicle of self promotion for his academic career

i would say that a full ~25% of technical books are this - solely for the purposes of building brand rather than communicating effectively.

What books would u recommend from ur experience? That aren't self promotion

"Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners" is a good introductory book that covers how markets work on a high level. It doesn't teach you how to build profitable systems. That you won't find anywhere anyway.

Link for the lazy of a Draft Copy available made in 2002:

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~keechung/MGF743/Readings/Tradin...

Also a weird book-like slide set that explains what the book is about (and the very important concepts/market participants):

https://rkbookreviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/trading-an...

Thanks for the recommendations. Since, I dont work on the field as closely and mostly on a observatory capacity. Ill take a look at the recommendations.

This book is great for complete non practitioners. It was such a great read in 2015 when I graduated and went to work at a large broker-dealer.