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Futures Day Trader Path

Intraday futures: read the market first, learn desk process, build the review habit, then study what rule-following through drawdowns actually feels like.

1

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

John J. Murphy · 1999 · Level: beginner

The standard textbook: trend, support and resistance, chart patterns, indicators, and intermarket relationships in one reference.

For prop traders: The reference to own before the pattern encyclopedias. Most prop traders only need the first half, done properly.

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2

Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar

Al Brooks · 2009 · Level: advanced

Brooks's dense, complete treatment of price action: every bar tells you who is in control and what is likely next.

For prop traders: Demanding, but the closest thing to a full price-action curriculum for intraday futures traders.

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3

One Good Trade

Mike Bellafiore · 2010 · Level: all levels

Inside SMB Capital, a real proprietary firm: how desk traders are trained, reviewed, and cut, and what separates the survivors.

For prop traders: Written from an actual prop desk. The review culture it describes is the culture an evaluation is silently grading.

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4

The Daily Trading Coach

Brett Steenbarger · 2009 · Level: all levels

101 short lessons you work through like a coach-led program: journaling, self-talk, pattern change, and building on strengths.

For prop traders: The closest thing to a prop desk coach in book form. Built for daily review habits, which is what evaluations quietly test.

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5

Way of the Turtle

Curtis Faith · 2007 · Level: intermediate

The original Turtle experiment told by a Turtle: the rules were simple, and the hard part was following them through drawdowns.

For prop traders: Proof that a written system plus sizing discipline beats improvisation, told by someone who lived it.

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