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Think like a trader. Act like a trader. Become a Super Trader."Let your profits run!" It's the golden rule by which all Super Traders live. With the help of investing guru Dr. Van K. Tharp, you can join the ranks of full-timetraders who consistently master the market.Super Trader provides a time-tested strategy for creating the conditions that allow you to reach levels of trading success you never thought possible. Providingexpert insight into both trading practices and psychology, Tharp teaches you how to steadily cut losses short and meet your investment goals through the use of position sizing strategies--the keys to steady profitability. Tharp offers concepts and tactics designed to help you: CREATE AND MEET YOUR SPECIFIC UNDERSTAND THE BIG PICTURE CONQUER COUNTERPRODUCTIVE THINKING MASTER THE ART OF POSITION SIZING STRATEGIES With Tharp's proven methods, you can live the dream of enjoying above-average profits under various market conditions--up, down, and sideways. Tharp's wisdom, perspective, and tactical expertise are legendary in the world of trading. Follow the master down the path to trading excellence with Super Trader.How do you transform yourself from a mild-mannered investor into a proactive trader who outperforms the market day-in and day-out. Think clearly. Plan accordingly.Commit completely. In other words, become a trader. No one is better suited to help you make the transformation than legendary trading educator Dr. Van K. Tharp.Combining the sharp insight and technical brilliance that have drawn legions of investors to his books and seminars, Tharp provides a holistic approach for becoming a successful full-time trader. His system--a meld of investing psychology and sound trading practice--is the secret to achieving optimum conditions that produce results in both bull and bear markets.Using the lessons of Super Trader, you will approach trading as you would a small business--realistically, systematically, and enthusiastically. Drawing on his decades of experience, Tharp has created a simple plan designed to help anyone successfully navigatethe market that includes the following: Mastering the psychology of trading Crafting a "business plan"--a working document to guide your trading Developing a trading system tailored to your personal needs and skills Creating position sizing strategies to meet your objectives Monitoring yourself constantly to minimize mistakesYou can put this plan to use immediately. Throughout the book, Tharp raises the pertinent questions you must ask yourself about becoming a trader, being a trader, and succeeding as a trader.The rewards that come with being a Super Trader--both financial and personal--make you feel as if you can leap small buildings in a single bound. Whatever your skill level, Tharp provides the formula for succeeding in a fieldwhere most people fail.

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The bestselling holy grail of trading information-now brought completely up to date to give traders an edge in the marketplace“Sound trading advice and lots of ideas you can use to develop your own trading methodology.”-Jack Schwager, author of Market Wizards and The New Market WizardsThis trading masterpiece has been fully updated to address all the concerns of today's market environment. With substantial new material, this second edition features Tharp's new 17-step trading model. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful new interviews with top traders, and features updated examples and charts.

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This book includes masterful trading advice and insights - from two of today's day trading pioneers. More than ever before, a high-income career as a full-time trader is within your grasp. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" shows you how to do it - without risking your savings or your sanity! This step-by-step short course on electronic day trading takes you through the nuts-and-bolts technical and strategic basics you need, then tackles the all-important psychological aspects of trading - transforming you from an awkward, second-guessing novice into a confident, knowledgeable day trading master who knows how to turn market inefficiencies into fast, solid gains.Noted trading coach Van K. Tharp and top-level trader Brian June combine their formidable knowledge and experience to give you: proven market analysis techniques adapted to a day trading perspective; key tactical - and mental - components for developing your personal trading plan; below-the-radar methods to determine a market maker's position. Today's high-volume, high-profit markets are a formidable, but beatable, foe - as long as you have the knowledge and wisdom to not beat yourself." Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" gives you the trading tools and the psychological insights to control your emotions, master every market and trading environment, and knock hundreds of hours - and thousands of dollars - from your electronic trading learning curve. 'Our goal in writing this book is to show you another way...' - Van K. Tharp and Brian June. Every electronic day trader has access to the same technology and information for locating and locking in quick trading profits - along with the same tired advice on how to use these tools. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" shows you how to master a third essential element - trading psychology - and discover how to gain the ultimate market edge. While it gives you numerous examples of what to buy, when to sell, and why, this follow-up to Dr. Tharp's revolutionary "Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom" shifts the focus to using psychological preparedness and expectancy to gain the advantage.Based on the principle that there is no universal strategy that will work for all traders, this hands-on e-trading blueprint combines the latest techniques in business and trading success with established tenets of behavioral finance to detail: broad-based strategic guidelines to help every trader, with specific trading tactics that can be tailored to fit any plan; chapter-ending knowledge keys and calls to action that summarize each chapter's messages - and serve as a fast fingertip reference; recommendations for integrated hardware and software configurations; and, profitable uses of mechanical aspects from expectancy to position sizing; applications of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) to the science of trading. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" isn't out to dazzle you with arcane, elaborate facts and equations. Its only goal is to make you the best trader possible, in the shortest time possible. From Rmultiples, momentum patterns, and market maker tactics to market-making strategies, momentum strategies, and simulations, each of these intricate trading aspects is explained in straightforward, conversational style, easy to understand and apply. Electronic day trading is the first great entrepreneurial opportunity of the twenty-first century. But to be a successful electronic day trader, you must first have the knowledge to understand the markets and the wisdom to understand yourself. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" is the only book on today's crowded trader's bookshelf to give you knowledge and the wisdom to intuitively isolate fast-gain opportunities and grab the profits - dramatically increasing the odds of success on every trade you make.

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