Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard

Business and economics

Print length: 352 pagesMcGraw Hill, 2013

Description

Mark Minervini presents a rule-based approach to finding stocks capable of unusually strong price advances while controlling the losses that inevitably accompany speculation. His method, Specific Entry Point Analysis, combines company fundamentals with price and volume behavior, favoring businesses with accelerating earnings, market leadership, and favorable supply-and-demand characteristics. He explains how to recognize constructive chart patterns, time entries, set stop-losses, size positions, and sell when evidence changes rather than when hope does. Examples from his trading career connect the framework to actual decisions, including mistakes and drawdowns. The book is less a catalogue of tips than a system for disciplined growth-stock trading, emphasizing preparation, selectivity, risk management, and consistent execution.

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Writing style

Descriptive · Direct · Technical

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Cerebral · Detached · Earnest

Structure

Argumentative

Focus

Argument · Ideas · Information

Emotional intensity

2 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 3 / 5
Ideas: 4 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 4 / 5

Themes

AmbitionKnowledge and truthObsessionWealthWork

About Mark Minervini

Mark Minervini writes practical guides to stock trading, drawing on personal experience to present speculation as a disciplined, rule-bound practice. His work combines company fundamentals with close attention to price, volume, market leadership, and supply and demand. In Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard, this approach takes shape as Specific Entry Point Analysis, a method for identifying stocks with strong growth potential while containing losses. Think & Trade Like a Champion broadens the emphasis to preparation, execution, and the psychology of following a plan under pressure. Momentum Masters places his methods in conversation with those of other experienced traders. Across these books, Minervini is distinguished by his direct treatment of risk, timing, and repeatable decision-making.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: McGraw Hill
Language: English
ISBN: 9780071807227

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