Trade Like a Stock Market

Wizard: How to Achieve Super

Performance in Stocks in Any
Market
Minervini, Mark
McGraw-Hill

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Created by Vinayak Hulabutti – Last synced February 9, 2022

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The more I practice, the luckier I get. —Gary Player 18

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If you want a decent return, you can always put your money 21
with a good mutual fund manager, in a hedge fund, or in an
index fund. If you want superperformance, you are going to
have to go the extra mile. But first you need to understand
that your greatest challenge is not the stock market. It’s you.

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Do the work, own your failures, and you will own your 23
success.

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perils 24

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Any pattern of action repeated continuously will eventually 24

become habit

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As the old Wall Street saying goes, “You will never lose your 29
job losing your clients’ money in IBM.”

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impairs 30

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nostrums 30

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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other 31

people are unwilling to do.

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Odds are that you won’t be the best value trader, the best 31
growth trader, the best day trader, and the best long-term
investor.

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Once you define your style and objectives, it becomes much 33

easier to stick to a plan and attain success.

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The key to success is to become a successful thinker and then 33

act on those thoughts.

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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” 33

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Go boldly after what you want and expect some setbacks, 33

some disappointments, and some rotten days. Embrace them
all as a valuable part of the process and learn to say, “Thank
you, teacher.”

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known as reverse factor modeling) 36

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From Love, I learned historical precedent analysis and 37

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the commonalities of superperformance stocks; from Jensen, 37

blueprinting and profiling; from Donchian, trend following;
and from Jiler, chart patterns, including his famous saucer
with platform, which is now known as the cup-and-handle
pattern, popularized by William O’Neil, who also worked at
Hayden Stone in the 1960s.

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Livermore with the book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 38

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How to Trade in Stocks. Reading Livermore’s book 38

crystallized my thoughts.

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