The Whole-Brain Trader’s Guide to Swing Trading

Curtis Faith

The way to reliably make money from the markets is to identify repeatable psychological market phenomena in which market prices appear to already reflect an overreaction or underreaction on the part of market participants, and trade against that reaction or anticipate an overreaction or underreaction based on previous market behavior. You can make money from both overreactions and underreactions, either by predicting them or by reacting to them. Predicting market prices themselves is very hard. Predicting human reaction to market prices is somewhat easier. But easiest of all is detecting what has already happened and reacting to that existing market condition.

If the market overreacts, ...