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The interview took place over a 10-minute period and the English version appears below. A link to the original published version in Portuguese is also provided.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;A 10-Minute Interview with Oliver Velez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Mr. Velez, you began your trading career in 1987. Was this by chance and your passion for trading developed afterwards, or did you possess this passion right from the start?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I developed an interest in the financial markets very early on. My father watched a very popular weekly television show that interviewed many of the best performing money managers in the industry. He required that I watch the show with him before I could watch any of my own popular television shows. So, from the age of 10, I watched this hour-long financial show each Friday for many years by my dad’s side. Many in america would know this show as Lou Rukeyser&#39;s Wall Street Week. At first it was very boring, but by the time I was 16, I was hooked on the market and I understood completely that few people really understood it, but those who did were considered very special. It made me want to know as much about trading and investing as I possibly could. It was at this time (about 16 years of age) that I knew my life in some way would be connected with the financial markets.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I decided to major in Accounting at the university level, because it is known as the language of business. It was also a field of study in which I felt I’d learn how best to delve deeply into any company and understand what made it work. I believed that the study of accounting would further my ability to choose my trades and investments more wisely. At the age of 19, while studying accounting, I opened a small brokerage account and began placing small trades in the stock market but I quickly realized that I was under capitalized. So I started an investment club called Wealth Builders of America (WBA) and I invited friends and family to invest in my club with the idea that I would place trades on behalf of the club. This gave me the ability to be a lot more active with my trades and investments. The first two years went so well, by the time I was 21 the club had over 1,000 investors and I was trading a fairly sizable account each day. I had no doubt at this point, that this is what I wanted to do more than anything in life, trade the markets for a living. I left my university in my 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8.8px; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;rd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt; year in 1987 (I never completed my last year) to start my professional career on Wall Street. The rest is history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;You’re numbers which we’ve spent some time looking over, are quite impressive. Trading only 20 minutes a day on average, you produced a profit of 145% in August. Many &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;traders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt; don’t get even close to that trading the whole day. What is involved with your “Trading The Open Like A Boss” strategy? Can you explain where your approach which has yielded such incredible results in such short time of trading came from?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;One of my first professional trading experiences was as a NASDAQ Market Maker. Trading in this capacity taught me how to quickly determine the path of least resistance at the start of each day and to trade big in that direction. So, today, this skill of being able to read before most which side (the buy side or the sell side) possesses the most power serves me well. I often can determine this inside of the first 30 seconds of trading and often make my commitment then, betting that the direction I’ve chosen will continue over the next 10 to 15 minutes of the morning. The market’s first move is usually very fast and volatile. If you’re able to read it correctly more often than not, the gains come more quickly than any other part of the day. My goal is to quickly find the direction that I believe will follow-through, bet big, and scale out of my position incrementally, but quickly. I want the time my capital is at risk or exposed to the possibility of danger to be very minimal. Many ask me, “Oliver, why do you risk so much capital in your trading?” To me, risk is not in the size of your trade, but rather in the time your position is exposed to danger. My average trade at the open lasts 6-minutes from start to finish. Those who invest in a stock or company for days, months or even years take on far more risk than I do. &amp;nbsp;Time does not always equal money as the saying goes, but time always equals risk, in my opinion. I don’t like risk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;According to our records you had only four losing days in 2015. In your opinion, what differentiates successful traders like yourself from those that end up not having such good results? Is it the lack of a winning strategy or is it more about the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;trader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt; and his personality traits?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-213b-aad3-f1be-d4f35334eb32&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-213b-aad3-f1be-d4f35334eb32&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Yes, I only had four losing days in 2015. I tend to average about 6 losing trading days a year. Fortunately, in 2015 I came up on the lower side of that average. However, this does not mean that I do not have losing trades. I have many, many losing trades. I just don’t have many losing days. There is a big difference.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-213b-aad3-f1be-d4f35334eb32&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;There are many things that differentiate winning traders from losing traders. But if I had to pick one thing, it would be that losing traders are focused on trying to win first, before they learn how to lose properly. If you look at everyone trying to do well trading the market, what are they trying to do? They are trying to win. How many people do you see first focusing on losing properly? No one, right? You must first get the losing side of the trading equation tight and under control before the winning side can flourish. Why? Because with the losing side out of control, the losses will always rise up to dwarf or choke the winning side. Your losses, unless you learn how to first manage and control them, won’t allow you to win consistently. You cannot bring your dirty laundry, your bad habits, your lack of discipline and lack of control into the land of consistent profitability. That country called Profitability demands that you clean up first before you enter to become a permanent citizen. We understand this clearly when we turn our attention to gardening. If you want your roses to grow and flourish unfettered by anything, you must first clear your garden of any and all weeds that have the potential to choke them. You don’t hope for the roses to grow, then after they grow, you remove the weeds. That’s backwards, and that is what 99% of all novices are trying to do. They want their roses without first eliminating their weeds. Life does not work that way. Nor does the trading the market. It is not until you learn how to lose properly will winning consistently begin to happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-213b-aad3-f1be-d4f35334eb32&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-213b-aad3-f1be-d4f35334eb32&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;You wrote five best-selling books about the world of trading, but is there something that only the practice of the markets can teach and no book is capable of explaining?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Yes, I have written five books on trading and these books are translated in numerous languages and sold around world. They have become quite popular over the years. Despite being one of the most popular authors on the topic of trading, I am quick to tell my traders and followers that you cannot learn how to trade the market by reading. If it were that easy, all the librarians and professors of the world would be our billionaires. In fact, no amount of reading or studying will teach you how to trade. They are helpful in some small way and many need to read and study at the very start of their foray into trading and investing, if only to get the lingo and general terms correct. But it is naïve to believe that the more you read or study the better you’ll perform in the market. They have nothing to do with each other. The only way to learn how to trade is to TRADE…and you must trade with purpose and order if you want your trading to be meaningful for your growth. We have all heard the saying that “experience is the best teacher.” Well, in trading or investing, it is no different. When you’re reading, you’re taking in someone else’s experiences, which do not count toward your experiences. You have to begin creating your own experiences to learn from, to grow from. But at the same time, you have to ensure that you are producing the right experiences. This is where a guide, a coach or a real mentor is so crucial. The true guide can help the beginning trader create the experiences that are the most beneficial for the trader’s growth, so that no wasted time occurs. The wrong experiences can actually ruin the trader’s chances of success forever. The right ones can quicken the trader’s growth rate toward mastery. Nothing is going to teach like well-crafted lessons derived from your very own experiences. Over time, this is what makes one seasoned and wise. Many mistake time in the market as experience. Time does not equal experience. Like I said, one can spend a lot of time gaining the wrong experiences, so much so that they move backward instead of forward. The trader who starts off right, who gets the right experiences and learns from them will have the shortest time reaching that desired state called trading mastery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;How many trading championships have you won in your career? And could you talk a little about how these championships are? Here in Brazil this is still very embryonic, it’s hard for us to try to imagine how a competition like this works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;To be truthful, I have not participated in many public trading challenges. These gimmicks are often marketed for the general public and don’t really appeal to true professionals who are busying earning real money from their trading in the markets. But with that being said, I challenge any and all in my industry every day to do what I do, to show their trading live and unfiltered to all. I do this daily. Not many in my industry are bold or confident enough to do this. I post my trading results every single day for all to see. I show my trades live on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.periscope.tv/olvelez007&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;www.periscope.tv/olvelez007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt; every single day. &amp;nbsp;I hide nothing. I do this as a helping aide to my traders as well as to incite interest in what we are doing as an organization. I use my live trading as a recruitment tool for traders to come join my trading team. So in many respects I am involved in several trading challenges each day. I’m challenging every other so called expert trader in my field to do what I do. I also challenge others to show me anyone else doing what I do. I’m not aware of anyone. I’ve been doing this for almost 30 years now and I love it just like I loved it the day I placed my first trade. At the end of the day the ultimate challenge that means the most is the challenge I pose on myself each day. I challenge myself to get better and better and better, every single day. And I do. As I write this, I’m better than I was last week. And next week I’ll be better than I am this week. Growth never stops in this business. The moment you stop growing is the moment you die.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.2;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;You have had a successful career in the trading’ world. But all journeys of success have moments of bad choices and learning that they bring us. What were the biggest rights and wrongs of Oliver Velez the trader in these 28 years of market?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I would need days and many, many hours to explain them all. There are so many. I will start with the good. I would say the best thing I ever did was not to give up. I had some very dark years at the start, and on several occasions I came very close to giving up on my dream of doing this for life. I look back today and really appreciate the fact that I stuck with it. I did not allow myself to quit just because it was hard. It astounds me how quickly people quit today, just because it’s hard, or because it does not go according to their plan right away. Few are willing to put work in over time for the possibility of a big gain in the end. They want instant success, but that is never going to come in this activity called trading. Nothing worthwhile happens instantly, without the need to first endure hardship and build character by overcoming obstacles. I recognized this early and would not allow myself to give up. I kept believing that if I lasted long enough, good fortune would eventually emerge. And it did. The second best thing I ever did was to go out on my own, to leave the firm I traded with and to become independent. My growth mushroomed after this and I had the freedom to also begin to help others who wanted to follow this path of trading. Trading is about freedom and independence. I created a life of freedom with my trading and today help others do the same with their lives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I can’t really point out very big wrongs as a trader because every wrong, properly digested, helps you grow. We grow from our losses and our mistakes. We don’t grow at all from our wins. So I have learned to cherish my losses, to embrace them. My mistakes help guide me toward my future successes as a trader. With that said, I’ll explain one of the most difficult times in my trading career. My biggest losing trading day as a trader came the day the market opened after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. The strike occurred on a Monday morning, just before the market opened on September 11, 2001. This horrific event resulted in the U.S. Stock Market to open one full week later. I had a fairly sizable position on that was up $38,000 before the attack. Once the market opened a week later, my position opened down $1.3 million. It was one of the biggest shocks of my life. I had never experienced a loss of that magnitude in my personal trading account before. I gained my composure and did not sell the position right away. In fact, I began trading around the position, buying more at times when it was down, selling some at times when it went up briefly and I repeated this in and out, in and out, in and out trading style for several weeks until I narrowed my loss to only $101,000. To me, even though I did not get my entire loss back, this was a huge win. The style of trading I discovered and perfected during this catastrophe became the style many of my traders and followers want to learn today. It is the style I use more often than any other and since that terrible event on September 11, 2001 I have made many millions of dollars extra because of what I learned from that misfortune. Everything can be used for the future. I believe this. We may not be able to see this initially, but the good is always there. I have a saying which I repeat for my traders all the time. “Your future winners are hiding inside of your current losses. Crack them open. Find them. They are there.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Here in Brazil, there is a very strong distrust about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;traders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt; that live off the market trading only in the short term. There is an idea that, to have sustainable gains in the stock market you must trade in the long term, otherwise sooner or later you&#39;ll break. What can you say to demystify this idea that is still around?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I am very familiar with this view. It was most prevalent in the United States back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. It is no longer the prevailing view in America today and I suppose over time, the same will occur for Brasil. They are just a bit behind. But let me give you an experiment. If I were to ask you “where are you going to be exactly five years from today at this very hour, and at this very minute of the day?” Would you know? Probably not. If I were to ask you “where are you going to be one month from now on this same day, this very hour and minute,” would you have a better idea? Yes, but you’d likely still not know for sure. Now, If I ask, “where will you be 15-minutes from now,” wouldn’t you know that and be right almost every single time? Yes. So, if you lived your life 15-minutes at a time, you’d live a life of greater certainty right? Yes. The same thing applies to the market. The further you look out, the greater your uncertainty and the more inaccurate you are going to be predicting the future. To me, THAT is huge risk. But if you only extend into the future in small, controllable amounts like 15 to 30 minutes, your accuracy in predicting what is next goes up exponentially. This is clearly much less risky and this is how I trade. I trade in the world with the greatest degree of certainty. I trade in a time frame that allows me to predict what is likely to happen next with a high degree of accuracy. So now, what would you say is the riskier gamble? Buying &amp;nbsp;a stock today, holding it for five years, while hoping and praying everything with the world will be ok then or betting on where you’re going to be 15 minutes from now? Which one seems smarter, safer, more intelligent to you now? I’m willing to bet the short term approach. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-215b-446f-aac4-de94bc4a929b&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Have you ever been to Brazil before? What is your impression about the country and what are the biggest differences you’ve noticed when comparing our market to the American market? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-215a-d39e-f12b-651dfea2cfcd&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Yes I have been to Brasil before, four times in fact, and for many reasons I’m in love with the country, its people and its rich history and customs. I know the country is going through one of its rough times at the current moment, but I still have great faith in its future as one of the world’s great economic powers. It’s going to take time and yes, many things have to be fixed and changed. But just like a developing trader who can go on winning streaks only to have a period of losses eliminate all that was gained, Brasil is a baby as it relates to the new world and futuristically it has great potential to be a force to be reckoned with. I’m betting on Brasil coming out of its current turmoil better than it was before…better, stronger and mightier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;If you were not a trader, what would be your profession, or which profession would you like to have?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.2;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I really don’t like to think this way and usually don’t allow for such pontificating. One can never really know, but I’ve been told I have a gift for motivating others. While I loved learning about accounting in the university, I did not like practicing it as a profession in the real world at all, so perhaps I would have found some work that involved helping people thrive and stay on course while reaching for the stars. We all are going to die one day, but on all the other days except that one, we will be living. I believe those days should be lived completely so that when that one day arrives, there are no regrets. I would have probably spent my life in something spreading that message through some form of work. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.2;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mr. Velez, thank you very much for your time. I&#39;m sure our readers will find your story very fascinating and we hope you enjoy your time in Brasil on your next visit.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 17.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 17.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;The pleasure was all mine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 17.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/analise-tecnica/noticia/4503559/ele-lucrou-145-mes-operando-minutos-por-dia-segredo-aprender&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*The original article appeared here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-7cd8297f-2133-3d3e-eba7-19c87b04c522&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://blog.olivervelez.com/2016/01/10-minute-interview-with-oliver-velez.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Oliver Velez)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cib3V6_NjAc/Vo-pDzwfbmI/AAAAAAAA1Tk/rzsOqg5FFZk/s72-c/Interview.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762638579759861488.post-5813046001199914506</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-03T21:11:53.847-05:00</atom:updated><title>5 Books That Greatly Influenced My Trading</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_4F-p1VYfMU/VomTGFLPdkI/AAAAAAAA04E/ECaXnfClyng/s1600/5%2BBooks.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_4F-p1VYfMU/VomTGFLPdkI/AAAAAAAA04E/ECaXnfClyng/s400/5%2BBooks.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The 5 books that had a great influence on my trading and shaped many of the same ideas I use as a professional today.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Let me start off by saying it once more, &quot;You cannot read your way to success as a trader.&quot; In fact, this point is so important to understand right up front that I am going to repeat it again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&quot;You cannot read your way to trading success.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt; Life does not work that way. It rewards the doer, not the reader, not the study-er, but the doer, and trading is no&amp;nbsp;exception&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;. You&amp;nbsp;excel by building the right trading experiences from which to learn, from which to grow. It&#39;s experiential knowledge that rules this game, not book knowledge. With this point up front and out of the way, I now feel comfortable delving into the subject of this article.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While books can&#39;t propel you to trading success, they can help point one in the right direction. They are pointers. They can motivate the reader as well. Books can prevent traders from quitting when the going gets tough. In this way they are motivators. And they can provide a few ideas with which to go out into the real world and get the proper experiential knowledge&amp;nbsp;necessary&amp;nbsp;to excel. In this way they are idea generators. These are the valuable things books &lt;i&gt;can &lt;/i&gt;do. They can Point. They can Motivate. they can Inspire (ideas). The top five books that did these very things for me during my&amp;nbsp;developmental&amp;nbsp;years are&amp;nbsp;listed below. I hope they help some of you in the same beneficial way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The 5 Books That&amp;nbsp;Greatly&amp;nbsp;Influenced My Trading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/olivvele-20/detail/0471770884&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Reminiscences of a Stock Operator&lt;/a&gt; - Edwin Lefevre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If I had to pick one book in the entire world as mandatory reading, I&#39;d pick Reminiscences every day of the week and twice on Sunday. So&amp;nbsp;influential&amp;nbsp;and moving was this book during my fundamental years as a trader that I had to read it at least once every single year for 20 plus years. I&#39;ve always leaned toward books that dealt&amp;nbsp;primarily&amp;nbsp;with the&amp;nbsp;psychological&amp;nbsp;aspects of&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;game called trading and this one does it in the most creative way I know. It is loosely based on the life and times of the great Jessie Livermore and in story form delves into&amp;nbsp;some&amp;nbsp;of the most crucial aspects of the game of trading. Many of the greatest epiphanies I&#39;ve had during my 29 years of trading were spurred on by digesting this book and its contents over and&amp;nbsp;over&amp;nbsp;again. Try reading it at least once a year for the next few years and watch the impact it begins to have on your mindset as a developing pro. I&#39;d also quickly grab the book to read a few passages&amp;nbsp;whenever&amp;nbsp;you feel down and discouraged. It&amp;nbsp;served as a great motivator for me and kept me going strong during a number of the dark years. It&#39;s a pleasant read and one that will have you&amp;nbsp;reaching&amp;nbsp;for the&amp;nbsp;stars in your trading. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/olivvele-20/detail/0735201447&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Trading In The Zone&lt;/a&gt; - Mark Douglas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In case you did not get the point from the above book&#39;s description, I&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;psychological&amp;nbsp;aspect&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;trading makes up 85% of the game. That&#39;s right, a whopping 85%. 10% is attributed to tactics, technique and trade management and the remaining 5% is attributed to chance in my view. So quite naturally, most of my reading and studying during my formative years as a trader focused largely on the emotional and&amp;nbsp;psychological&amp;nbsp;challenges that traders face. After all, the trading techniques are only as good as the operator of them. In fact, one of the most popular words used in connection with trading is &quot;discipline&quot; and that is simply a specific aspect of trader psychology. No one in the trading industry has ever (or ever will in my opinion) come close to being a better resource for getting a trader on track with his mindset then Mark Douglas. I could read his books all day long and many traders actually should. I am always blown away by the insight this man had into the real mind of the troubled trader. It was almost as if he was speaking directly to me with each read. Today, I&amp;nbsp;am&amp;nbsp;considered to be a mentally strong trader who remains the same no matter what is going on&amp;nbsp;around&amp;nbsp;me and I attribute that strength that everyone senses and sees to Mark Douglas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Unfortunately, I had to choose only one of his books for this article, but in truth every single book written by Mark Douglas should be digested by serious minded traders. This is a must read and frequently, I might add..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/olivvele-20/detail/0735201811&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques&lt;/a&gt; - Steve Nison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This book was largely responsible for me converting from being a pure tape reader to being what I am today, a pure chart reader. For many years I had no inclination to look at a chart, much less trade off the information presented on one. I was a tape reader and I was very skilled at this dying art. At the time, I felt that charts were for the dim-witted who lacked the capacity to take in and decipher all that the tape&amp;nbsp;speedily&amp;nbsp;put out. Tape reading was more art than science. One had to read between the&amp;nbsp;lines, as it were, and it was this that keep those who were skilled at it so exceedingly rare to come by. We were a dying breed in fact and the few that were left took pride in that fact. One day, I met Steve Nison at a talk (we were both invited speakers) and after having a brief conversation with this shy man over a cup of coffee, I decided to read his book over the weekend. It hit home so deeply with all I was doing as a tape reader that I began to&amp;nbsp;incorporate&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;visuals&amp;nbsp;of candlestick charts into some of my trading. I would take a &amp;nbsp;position&amp;nbsp;based on my own tape reading methods, then search the candlestick chart&amp;nbsp;patterns&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;Steve&#39;s book to see if what I just did was represented in his book in some way. And in so many cases it was. I was amazed. This is when it dawned on me that charts (Japanese candlestick charts in particular) were nothing more than the visual footprints of the same prints I was reading on the ticker tape. The only thing the charts did was consolidate and group those ticks into&amp;nbsp;individual&amp;nbsp;bars, while the ticker tape has no such divisions or grouping. And although the ticker tape is&amp;nbsp;truer&amp;nbsp;to what is real, the grouping of the action into&amp;nbsp;pockets of time or bars presented a visual advantage for me in my trading. Gradually, charts began to consume more and more of the reasons for my entries and exits. In the mid to late 1990&#39;s, the ticker was eventually dead for me. Charts ruled the day. Today, I&#39;m regarded as one of the&amp;nbsp;world&#39;s&amp;nbsp;most talented chart readers. Firms and organizations today pay large sums for my&amp;nbsp;chart analysis and&amp;nbsp;numerous&amp;nbsp;traders I&#39;ve taught are now&amp;nbsp;wielding&amp;nbsp;hundreds of millions&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;dollars&amp;nbsp;in the market, all based on the charting techniques I&#39;ve taught them. That all started&amp;nbsp;from this book by Steve Nison. It&#39;s a great read. Try it for yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/olivvele-20/detail/1118273052&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders&lt;/a&gt; - Jack D. Schwager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Market Wizards was a pure, unadulterated motivator for me back in the early days. You could&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;catch me without a copy of this book under my arm or in my briefcase. Over time, I&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;every&amp;nbsp;single line on&amp;nbsp;every single page was underlined, ultimately. What&#39;s funny is that today, I actually disagree with many of the&amp;nbsp;concepts&amp;nbsp;these powerful traders and money managers shared with Jack Schwager, but boy was it motivating to read. You have to understand that back then, I wanted to &quot;be&quot; these traders. I visualized their lifestyles, the freedom and the self-fulfillment&amp;nbsp;these individuals enjoyed. Jack Schwager&#39;s book gave me&amp;nbsp;something&amp;nbsp;to shoot for, a blue print, if you will, to pattern myself after. &amp;nbsp;As I mentioned above, books can point, serve as a source of ideas and they can motivate. This one&amp;nbsp;purely&amp;nbsp;served&amp;nbsp;as a motivator to me.&amp;nbsp;Admittedly&amp;nbsp;I have not read the book in over 15 years and probably never&amp;nbsp;will again, but that is largely because I no longer need an&amp;nbsp;outside&amp;nbsp;source for&amp;nbsp;motivation. What&#39;s more, a number of the traders featured throughout Jack Schwager&#39;s Interviews have become&amp;nbsp;colleagues&amp;nbsp;of mine, so a phone call or&amp;nbsp;a coffee at an industry event will do. However, if you want to know what&#39;s truly possible as a trader, if you want to get fired up by setting some high goals for yourself, read this book. It will have you shooting for the stars, just like I did.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/olivvele-20/detail/0071360530&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tools and Tactics for the Master Day Trade&lt;/a&gt;r - Oliver Velez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Now I know how this may look at first glance. I can hear it now. &quot;This guy is listing his own book? How can his own book have&amp;nbsp;influenced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;him as a trader?&quot; But read me out for a moment. If you were to ask any author who has&amp;nbsp;labored&amp;nbsp;over a work or book of love, one that was&amp;nbsp;dear to their heart, they would tell you that the very experience of&amp;nbsp;writing&amp;nbsp;it was a life&amp;nbsp;changing event for them. There is no doubt that this was the case with me. McGraw Hill sought a book from me for years, but at&amp;nbsp;first&amp;nbsp;I just did not have interest in writing about my&amp;nbsp;trading experiences. I also had a legitimate concern that my institutional&amp;nbsp;client base, which was paying me large sums to train their traders, would decide to go away because it would seem as though I was now sharing my&amp;nbsp;knowledge&amp;nbsp;with the &quot;regular&quot; public. After several years of McGraw Hill begging and sending gifts to my office, I&amp;nbsp;acquiesced. I blocked out a six month period of my life to simply search in my heart for what to share for all those who wanted to do what I was doing: &lt;i&gt;trade for a living&lt;/i&gt;. Through this soul-searching process and&amp;nbsp;through&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;process of&amp;nbsp;transferring my thoughts and my many deeply routed&amp;nbsp;concepts&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;paper,&amp;nbsp;something&amp;nbsp;happened to me, I mean something happened to me at the core. The writing of this book changed me and my trading in so many unbelievable ways. Today, I&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;in the power of writing down&amp;nbsp;your thoughts, your ideas, your goals, your trading plan, etc. When&amp;nbsp;something&amp;nbsp;of value stays locked in&amp;nbsp;the mental world, it lacks a&amp;nbsp;certain&amp;nbsp;solidity or power to effect change.&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;mental&amp;nbsp;realm is more of an&amp;nbsp;embryonic&amp;nbsp;state, and unborn state that has existence, but still lacks life in&amp;nbsp;its fullest form. &amp;nbsp;After I&amp;nbsp;finished&amp;nbsp;transferring&amp;nbsp;some of my deepest thoughts on the topic of trading to paper, my personal trading literally exploded to the upside in ways I had never seen before. Something was unlocked from within,&amp;nbsp;something&amp;nbsp;much bigger than I had ever come in contact with prior. I was not the same me. I was not the same trader. I was bigger, better, sharper. The writing of Tools &amp;amp; Tactics liberated a force that was not yet realized and not just with my trading, but my life as a whole took off into the&amp;nbsp;stratosphere as well. We all have these pivotal events in our lives and this was one of mine. I attribute the final maturation of my trading prowess to writing Tools &amp;amp; Tactics for the Master Day Trader. It was a labor of love that&amp;nbsp;benefited&amp;nbsp;me&amp;nbsp;in ways I cannot&amp;nbsp;adequately&amp;nbsp;explain with words. Many traders who have read my first&amp;nbsp;book have taken the time to express that the book had the same effect on them and their trading. So it is in this spirit that I include my own work. In fact, it is this work that has had the greatest of all&amp;nbsp;influences&amp;nbsp;on my life and my trading and I am proud to say it is one of&amp;nbsp;the most popular trading books of all time. Let me know what effect if any it has on you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In Summary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;So there you have it traders, the 5 most&amp;nbsp;influential&amp;nbsp;books of my trading career. Please understand that there are others, and narrowing down the list to just five was no easy task, but after some deep contemplation, I&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;I have the right five occupying the top spots. Many will&amp;nbsp;undoubtedly ask why there are no books written more recently on the list. I have to admit that I&#39;ve long stopped reading books on the topic of trading, so in all honestly cannot comment on books written today. My gut, however, tells me it is&amp;nbsp;likely&amp;nbsp;much harder to find the real&amp;nbsp;gems, as the proliferation of authors has flooded the marketplace with books of all levels of quality, both good and bad. When I was developing as a trader, books in the field of trading were hard to come by. When you found one, you held on to it. You cherished it and read it over and over again for years. The books did not sell very well back in those days, so the&amp;nbsp;demand&amp;nbsp;for traders like me to write&amp;nbsp;was simply not there. This changed after the boom-boom years of the internet of course. Today, I am willing to bet that many readers have several trading books on your shelves they have not even finished, and they are still&amp;nbsp;likely&amp;nbsp;looking for the next one. 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