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How to Make Money in Stocks

William J. O'Neil · 1988 · Level: beginner

The CAN SLIM system: earnings growth, new highs, cup-and-handle bases, and strict loss cutting. The root text of modern breakout trading.

For prop traders: Nearly every momentum method in use today, including the ones prop traders run on futures, descends from this.

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefevre · 1923 · Level: all levels

The fictionalized life of Jesse Livermore: tape reading, pyramiding winners, and going broke by ignoring his own rules. A century old and still current.

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Minervini's SEPA method in full: stage analysis, volatility contraction patterns, and risk rules that keep drawdowns shallow.

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Mark Minervini · 2016 · Level: intermediate

The companion volume: trade management, position sizing by risk, journaling, and the psychology of a US Investing Champion.

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