Stock Patterns for Day Trading

Once you are in the trade, Rudd does not just leave you to fend for yourself.

This book is about as close as you can get to understand how to make day trading successful.

I found this to be an honest and detailed look into the mind and procedures of a trader.

All in all, I have to give a strong recommendation to this book. It is well worth the money.


Solid, but hardly spectacular   April 17, 2003
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

Reading all the reviews below, I can see the view of both the positive and negatives. The publisher is Traders Press, who are known for their over priced books, huge pages, fonts and often minimal content. This is no exception. There are 200+ pages in this book, but half of the pages are just charts that may take 3 seconds to look over before moving on. I finished reading this book in about an hour with little effort.

I do like Rudd's style, he gets straight to the point with his pattern setups with very simple (sometimes vague) explanations. He uses typical TA that we already know - support, resistance, price targets, open, close, high, gap resistances. Nothing particularly special for an informed trader. I can't say this is a bad book, the price is reasonable compared to a Joe Ross book and a trader may pick up a thing or two that he isn't aware of.


Not very impressed   July 29, 2002
David L Jarmoluk (Bradford, RI United States)
13 out of 19 found this review helpful

Although the book does contains some useful information, it could have easily been sold as a daytraders handbook of some kind for much less. 1/2 of the book is illustrations (overkill in my opinion). Later parts of the book simply repeat information presented in earlier parts of the book.

This could have easily been a 75 page handbook for [less money]. In my opinion, the [book is] severly overpriced. Because of this, I give a 2 star rating.