&gt; broad economical trends and projections<p>Any good Economics Text book will do: like Principles of Economics&#x2F; Principles of Microeconomics, Gregory Mankiw<p>You can also try, although, personally I have not taken these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;microecon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;microecon</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;principles-of-macroeconomics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;principles-of-macroeconomics</a><p>&gt; FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me<p>For Investment valuation and Corporate Finance Damodaran is one of the best sources:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.stern.nyu.edu&#x2F;adamodar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.stern.nyu.edu&#x2F;adamodar&#x2F;</a><p>Visit his blog, read his books. He has online classes as well<p>Also you can try, (I&#x27;ve not taken this course):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;financial-markets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;financial-markets</a><p>For Value Investing, Benjamin Graham is a classic:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Investing-Essentials&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0060555661&#x2F;ref=la_B000APZXBQ_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448898823&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest...</a><p>&gt; For Technical Analysis and Futures Trading though, there are tonnes of books. May be you can start with these:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-Comprehensive&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0735200661" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-C...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edition&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0130090565" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Edit...</a><p>And lastly,<p>&gt; combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;computational-investing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;computational-investing</a>