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A summary of Mark Douglas's The Disciplined Trader: the passive-loser trap, his two rules for losses, and the seven steps to trading without fear.

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A summary of Steve Nison's Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: how to read a candle, the key patterns, and the confluence rule that makes them work.

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A summary of Bob Volman's Understanding Price Action: the buildup test, seven principles, five setups, the 1:2 bracket and the trades he skips.

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Joel Greenblatt's magic formula in plain English: the 2 numbers it ranks, what the 1988–2004 test showed, and the losing years the book warns about.

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How to draw trendlines that hold: connect the touches, judge a break on the close, and wait for the hold. Channels, log scale and what the books disagree on.

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