Table of Contents

Preface: A flea on an elephant 1

Part I Gone fishing

1 How do I start making money? 17

2 Fish finding 36

3 A hitchhiker’s guide to the sharemarket 48

4 No secrets 56

Part II Hey good looking

5 Heads up 67

6 Overcoming bias 79

7 No secrets 93

Part III Line of lode

8 Classic trend lines 101

9 Line managers 110

10 Curve balls 119

11 No secrets 127

Part IV Testing character

12 Building character 137

13 Tracking traders and investors 155

14 Trend travellers 163

15 Using price weakness 175

16 Rally breaks 184

17 Breakout trading 194

18 Better exits 204

19 Bubble baths 212

20 No secrets 225

Part V Price check

21 Breakout confirmation 235

22 Entry management 245

23 Keeping the most 253

24 IPO profits 268

25 No secrets 275

Part VI Calculating size

26 Three figures 285

27 Stop 293

28 A danger to ourselves 306

29 No secrets 317

Part VII Modern Darvas

30 Boxing the trend 329

31 Building a box 341

32 Classic Darvas 352

33 Modern Darvas 362

34 Playing with the edge 376

35 Technical Darvas 382

36 No secrets 388

Part VIII Performance plus

37 Personality blues 399

38 Lucky you 407

39 No secrets 417

40 Found in translation 426

Index 429

About the Author

Daryl Guppy is the founder and director of Guppytraders.com. He is an active private trader in equity and derivative markets. He is the author of several financial market books including, Trend Trading , Share Trading and Trend Trading Master (available in Chinese).Guppy writes in several Chinese language publications, including a fortnightly market commentary column in Beijing's Weekly On Stocks magazine and Shanghai Securities News. His book Trend Trading Master is available in Chinese. He conducts regular financial training seminars in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities in China. He has guest lectured at Xi'an University. Guppy is a regular contributor to trading and investment publications in Singapore and Malaysia, including The Edge , Personal Money , and Smart Investor . He provides certified professional financial market training for the Singapore Society of Remisiers, and the Hong Kong Securities Institute. A member of Technical Analysis Society of Singapore, the Australian Technical Analysis Association, the International Federation of Technical Analysts and Australian Government Securities and Investors Council, he also belongs to the Australian International Business Council and the Australia China Business Council. Guppytraders.com has offices in Australia, Beijing and Singapore.