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The Breakout Lineage
Modern breakout trading descends in a straight line: Darvas boxes, O'Neil's CAN SLIM, Weinstein's stages, Minervini's SEPA. Today's momentum traders, including Kristjan Kullamagi, work in this tradition and name O'Neil and Minervini as influences. Read the shelf in order and you have the whole family tree.
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.