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Best Breakout and Momentum Books
The lineage of breakout trading in order: Darvas and O'Neil built it, Weinstein framed it, Minervini modernized it, and the roundtable shows it practiced.
How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
A dancer trading by telegram develops the Darvas box: buy strength breaking out of a range, trail a stop, ignore the noise. Short and readable in a day.
How to Make Money in Stocks
The CAN SLIM system: earnings growth, new highs, cup-and-handle bases, and strict loss cutting. The root text of modern breakout trading.
Stan Weinstein's Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets
The four-stage framework: only buy stage 2 advances, never stage 4 declines, and let the 30-week average do the filtering.
Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
Minervini's SEPA method in full: stage analysis, volatility contraction patterns, and risk rules that keep drawdowns shallow.
Think & Trade Like a Champion
The companion volume: trade management, position sizing by risk, journaling, and the psychology of a US Investing Champion.
Momentum Masters
A roundtable with four momentum masters answering the same questions: entries, exits, sizing, worst drawdowns, and what beginners get wrong.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
The fictionalized life of Jesse Livermore: tape reading, pyramiding winners, and going broke by ignoring his own rules. A century old and still current.