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Super Trader: Make Consistent Profits in Good and Bad Markets |  | Author: Van Tharp
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Sales Rank: 6487
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0071632514
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780071632515
ASIN: 0071632514
Publication Date: July 30, 2009
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Product Description
How do you transform yourself from mild-mannered investor to Super Trader? Think clearly. Plan accordingly. Commit completely. In other words, become a trader. And no one is better suited to help you make the transformation than legendary trading educator and author Van K. Tharp. Combining the sharp insight and technical brilliance that has 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 master the market. You can put this plan to use immediately in order to: - Master the psychology of trading
- Craft a “business plan”—a working document to guide your trading
- Develop a trading system tailored for your personal needs and skills
- Create position-sizing strategies to meet your objectives
- Monitor yourself constantly to minimize mistakes
Throughout the book, Tharp asks 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 field where most people fail.
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 Waste of Money October 16, 2009
DJOlde (Oakland, CA United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought that this book would address a specific issue and I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't. It seems like he just churned this one out because he owed his publisher another manuscript. Take your $18.00 and buy a one or two more shares of stock instead of investing in this book. You will make more money that way.
 The Big Picture October 15, 2009
C. Watts (AZ)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Van Tharp has written another really useful book for traders and investors. The approach he took seems to be one of presenting the bigger picture for traders to consider. The book contains all the major concepts that Tharp teaches in detail in his workshops and other books but presented in the macro view. I personally enjoyed this book and consider it a "must" for any traders library. By Tharp taking the big picture approach, this book will be great for reading once a year to remind me of the major concepts and to make me aware of any of the areas I may be letting slide in my trading business. I have been trading for 10 years and own Tharps' Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom book and also attended one of his workshops about 10 years ago. He is very fundamental, disciplined, and thorough in his approach to trading and requires his readers and students to do the same. You cannot lose if your willing to fully consider and follow his recommendations and guidance.
arnold brull October 8, 2009
Arnold Brull (israel)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A very good book that takes all aspects of trading into considaration
It is best for those that are familiar with Dr.Tharp's work.
avery one gets from this superb book according to his personal level in trading or investing
it covers a lot of material and the best benefit is for those that follow all the tasks in the exsercise
 You've Got to be Kidding September 30, 2009
JBeary (LA, Calif)
39 out of 44 found this review helpful
Where did Van Tharp go?
Wow, this is feels like it's for school children. Maybe I've been trading for too many years to understand the mind set of the newbie's, but I'll pass on this, thanks.
One of Van Tharp's other books, "Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom," was at least interesting. In this book he purees the carrots. The question then is who is invited to dinner.
Van Tharp isn't a professional trader. His business is selling books and seminars to people who want to be traders. It's decent niche market for those who can't make enough money to live on from trading, or who don't have the skills and ability to trade.
Trading seminars are big business. Books mostly sell the seminars, DVD courses or website subscriptions. Trading books don't make much money because the market is small, and it gets even smaller when the newbie's follow the advice in the books and lose all their money. At least Van Tharp discloses that he hasn't been a professional trader, so the people buying the books aren't under the illusion he's made a fortune in the trading business, and now he wants to share the knowledge so everyone else can get rich too!
Steve Nison is another guy who sells Candlechart books but doesn't trade. Explain the logic to me! If he's the world's leading expert on Candlecharts, and he won't trade with his superior knowledge because the risk of ruin is too high, what does that say about either his knowledge or the futility of using his knowledge to trade?
If Van Tharp simply applied all of his advice on soul searching, fitting trading systems to one's personality and money management as the ultimate money making tool, to himself, he would never have to do a seminar again because he would be a multi-millionaire trader, and his trading account would be growing geometrically. I guess it isn't that simple!
I noticed none of the other reviewers so far (6) have reviewed more than this book or perhaps maybe two total. I always get flamed whenever I point out that a particular trading book won't help anyone to make any money. Well, how did I figure that out. I've read well over 100 trading books over the last 30 years. I've been trading a long time, and not one of the books ever gave me a system that I use today to make money. If any of the books had strategies or systems that worked, just imagine how many people would be wealthy today as the result of reading the book. That book would sell millions of copies.
Call me a skeptic, but pureed carrots ain't gonna get it done.
(If you're a Van Tharp fan, look at the book in the bookstore. Maybe you'll like better than I did.)
A very practical investing/trading guide. September 30, 2009
John K. C. Yeung (Hong Kong)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a book to reveal the secrets of getting the holy grail of investing/trading.
Tharp put the most important emphasis on psychology which is normally ignored by most of the people. Tharp suggests some way to deal with our trading psychology problem of which anyone helps a lot.
And then the guide to write a trading plan to guide trading so that we don't trade blindly which dramatically increase our trading performance.
Finally the author's position sizing concepts is surely the secrets of the holy grail.
I can say this book is a very practical book to read and follow if you want to be a winner in the markets.
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