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Author of Lessons From the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time, How Legendary Traders Made Millions, Monster Stocks, and Monster Stock Lessons. HISTORY LESSONS
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Study the past so you can profit in the future. History lessons go a long way in the market (up & down). The elite traders mastered fundamental, technical, psychological, AND historical analysis.
Market books on history (legendary traders, past market cycles, best performing
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My Top 10 market books. In order from top to bottom. 1-8 never changes but 9 & 10 come in and out at times since there are a handful of other great ones.
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Big winners can become big losers if you don’t heed the sell signals. From an Advanced IBD session years ago.
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Importance of key moving averages. From IBD this weekend.
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It is with much sadness to hear of the passing of the Greatest Of All Time - William J. O’Neil. You influenced so many people. I am so indebted to you, as are many others. You were so gracious with spreading the knowledge you learned and the gifts you gave to me personally. I
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Learn to study price and volume clues so you don’t give back monster gains you may have made - round tripping a big one hurts.
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My favorite market books as listed in ‘Monster Stock Lessons’
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Wyckoff’s advice for traders after his 40 years in the market (written in 1930).
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How do you make $30 million on one stock? Jim Roppel (he does manage a fund) shows you here. Buying right, pyramiding when you know you’re right, sitting tight, concentrating a large position that’s working, etc. From “How to Make Money in Stocks - Success Stories” - Amy Smith
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Persistence is required to succeed in the market. Many of the best traders over time struggled for many years - 6 years being a common timeframe. I call that earning your Masters degree on Wall Street. Oliver Kell mentioned it was 6 years for him as well. If you’re new and have
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The best traders throughout history had a loss cutting/risk management strategy as their
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rule. From IBD this weekend.
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Great article today in IBD on the 21-day. I have this line in the charts of ‘Monster Stocks’ & ‘Monster Stock Lessons’
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Make sure you know what stage you’re playing on with the market and your stocks. From ‘Secrets For Profiting In Bull and Bear Markets’ - Weinstein
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It doesn’t have to be a tech company to become a “growth” monster stock. Here’s a few from the past.
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Good article in IBD this weekend - another way to make sure a monster gain doesn’t turn and round trip on you.
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This is the key slide from my TraderLion presentation that sums up many of the lessons that can be learned from studying Stock Market History over 120 years.
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Study historic bear markets and always be on the lookout for bottoming signals.
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I’ve had several questions about the charts (since this is mostly a chart study book) to make sure they are clear and readable. Here’s a few pages from the 2020 and 2021 chapters.
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This article about Jim Roppel was a huge inspiration for me back in the day for several reasons. One of which, I hunted him down to see if I could write his story in detail, which of course he agreed to. Get inspired - read this great article!
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I am sorry to announce to those enrolled in the
@TraderLion_
masterclass that we are postponing today and Saturday’s sessions. A revised schedule will come out shortly.
My father and hero unexpectedly passed away this morning. He was my biggest fan (and vice versa) and I miss
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From ‘How I Made $2 Million In The Stock Market’ - Darvas
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Great lesson in patience from Darvas who watched this one for well over a year before he pounced on it when the market and the stock were in sync with each other.
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From IBD this weekend. Simple measure (the M with MVP stocks) that has worked for decades.
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History keeps teaching us lessons. From IBD this weekend.
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I list my favorite (and IMO what I consider the best) stock market books ever written in the Conclusion of my new book coming soon.
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A big THANK YOU to everyone as I approach my 1 year on TWTR. So far only 6 imposters and one Block (called me stupid and told me to shut up cause I posted a new high/new low stat). It’s been fun! I will step it up and post more history as it relates to the current market. Thanks!
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Page 1 of 5 that I typed out from notes from Trading In The Zone - Mark Douglas. I’ve probably read this page several hundred times.
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For those lucky enough to attend one of O’Neil’s advanced sessions back in the day, I probably learned more from this than any other book.
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For $20 you can buy an extra copy of ‘How To Make In Money In Stocks’ and rip out the first 100 pages of charts and study every one from 1885 to 2007. You’ll learn more from that than from any other resource.
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Volume - a vital trait that all the best traders use to gauge demand for a stock.
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William O’Neil stated “Study past big winners and you’ll buy future ones”
A few from the past few years.
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It helps to study past patterns as they many times repeat themselves. Here’s another one from IBD this weekend.
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If you’re not familiar with pocket pivots then read the books by Morales/Kacher (former O’Neil traders). This from ‘In The Trading Cockpit with the O’Neil Disciples’ - 2013
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Study past Monster Stocks so you can spot green, yellow, and red signals in future ones.
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From an old IBD article. Seen many recent prior winners do this - don’t ride the elevator all the way down.
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‘Monster Stock Lessons’ is now available on amazon in paperback. An ebook version will be out shortly. A big THANK YOU to several top traders who agreed to be mentioned in this work.
@markminervini
@1charts6
@Trader_mcaruso
@RyanPierpont
@Upticken
@EBoboch
@RoyLMattox
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TSLA isn’t the first auto stock to sky rocket like it has. Look at GM’s run in 1915
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My simple way of grading my stocks - like to have all A’s and B’s.
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My biggest screw-up this year. Had it, shaken out, took my eye off it, and missed the classic move. Learn from your mistakes!
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Wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for all their positive comments. My 3 month TWTR exercise (not a big social media person) is up and I will continue it. I’ve learned a lot and hope you continue to enjoy the historical posts. Thanks again!
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This has been shown before - shows how a master (guess who and what stock) pyramids a winner and works around a position. Buying off support, offensive and defensive selling, etc.
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I found this book to be a good ‘train your eye’ on price and volume action chart guide
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A few excellent books that help visually train your eye for positive price and volume action within chart patterns.
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If you have benefited from the lifetime work of William O’Neil then please join me in celebrating the birthday (Thur 3/25) of the G.O.A.T. this week. I personally owe a huge debt of gratitude for him making my book ideas a reality. Happy Birthday this week!
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Darvas doing his Sunday post analysis homework with a cold one 😉
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Great article from IBD this weekend about one of my favorite pattern bases. There are a few of those out there right now. Study these patterns from the past so you can identify them in the future.
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My Top 15 favorite market books (two right stacks) - all are timeless classics. I used several of them as references to write summaries on historical market information.
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Stage chart from Stan Weinstein and possible actions to take.
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You can learn a lot by studying price and volume action - on the way up and on the way down.
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From ‘Secrets For Profiting In Bull and Bear Markets’ - Weinstein
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Stock Market Prediction for 2021:
BTW - its from William O’Neil who wrote it in 1988. It’s always accurate so use this one each January and don’t listen to any others - No one can predict what the market will do in advance.
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Example of a stock that held up during a market correction (and the message to not get discouraged) and how it delivered with the next uptrend.
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Rules that still apply today. From 1907 - published in The Ticker Magazine - Richard Wyckoff
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A key metric for both buy and sell strategies that has been used for decades by top traders. From IBD this weekend.
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Stan Weinstein after the worst day in history 35 years ago on what to look for - new lows shrinking - just what we’re looking for today (new highs to exceed new lows)
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Great list from IBD. Even staying away from biotechs (which have burned me too many times in the past) there were Monster Stocks aplenty in 2020. O’Neil has stated many times that it only takes a few big gainers each year, when handled properly, to have a great year.
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The key characteristics of Pocket Pivots. ‘In The Trading Cockpit With The O’Neil Disciples’ - Morales/Kacher
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From ‘Secrets For Profiting In Bull And Bear Markets’ - Weinstein 1988
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Inspiring article in IBD this weekend. Highlighted some points we can all relate to in the markets (and life in general)
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It helps to make sure you have the leading quality stocks as holdings instead of laggards waiting to come back or do something. Here’s an easy way to grade your stocks. I like to have all A’s and B’s
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I post a lot of old books because they’re timeless. Here are some of my favorites from the “modern era” - essential reading!
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More Flashes from ‘Stock Market Technique Vol 1’ - Wyckoff 1933
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Good article in IBD this weekend focusing on one of O’Neil’s sell signals to look for - waning volume at new highs after a solid run.
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From ‘Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets’ - Weinstein
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History lesson in IBD this weekend. History keeps repeating itself in the market - many big leaders from 2020 broke that area and have fallen hard recently.
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Wanted to send out a huge THANK YOU and show my Gratitude for 10,000+ followers. When I started this 5 1/2 months ago I didn’t think interest in historical info would be appreciated that much. Thank you all again - it motivates me to continue!
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From an Advanced IBD session years ago - no need to spread out all over the place. Best traders concentrated their portfolios.
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Look familiar? 50 years ago - another high inflation, high oil price, rising interest rate market environment. Former Monster Stock round trips.
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Sit or Sell? Found this old article - offers a great example and some valid advice.
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Some Livermore strategies from ‘Lessons From The Greatest Stock Traders Of All Time’
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Great stock case study on a big winner and then all the danger signals it showed (so you don’t ride the elevator all the way down).
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Here’s the IBD article on Roppel that I talked about in my TL presentation that made me stalk him to be included in my 2nd book 😉. I called this the modern day Darvas story.
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Livermore & Darvas - both showed how persistence can pay off even after big mistakes are made.
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OCT23 Net New High/Low differential (IBD #’s). All red and 41 straight negative days in a row (all red for Sept too except for the first day). Have to go back to 2008 to see a negative streak this long.
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Some classic great market sayings from the conclusion of ‘Victory In Stock Trading’ - Oliver Kell 2021
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