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The Breakout Path

The momentum lineage as a course: Darvas for the simple version, O'Neil for the system, Minervini for the modern form, the roundtable for practice.

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How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market

Nicolas Darvas · 1960 · Level: beginner

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.

For prop traders: The simplest complete breakout system ever put in a book, and a clean first read before O'Neil.

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2

How to Make Money in Stocks

William J. O'Neil · 1988 · Level: beginner

The CAN SLIM system: earnings growth, new highs, cup-and-handle bases, and strict loss cutting. The root text of modern breakout trading.

For prop traders: Nearly every momentum method in use today, including the ones prop traders run on futures, descends from this.

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3

Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard

Mark Minervini · 2013 · Level: intermediate

Minervini's SEPA method in full: stage analysis, volatility contraction patterns, and risk rules that keep drawdowns shallow.

For prop traders: His risk-first framing maps directly onto accounts with a trailing drawdown limit.

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4

Momentum Masters

Mark Minervini, Dan Zanger, David Ryan and Mark Ritchie II · 2015 · Level: intermediate

A roundtable with four momentum masters answering the same questions: entries, exits, sizing, worst drawdowns, and what beginners get wrong.

For prop traders: Four working answers to 'how do you survive the losing streak' from traders who trade this exact style.

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5

Think & Trade Like a Champion

Mark Minervini · 2016 · Level: intermediate

The companion volume: trade management, position sizing by risk, journaling, and the psychology of a US Investing Champion.

For prop traders: The record-keeping chapters are a template for the review routine an evaluation demands.

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