--- product_id: 6909169 title: "Mastering The Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups" price: "€ 169.21" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/6909169-mastering-the-trade-proven-techniques-for-profiting-from-intraday-swing store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Mastering The Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups **Price:** € 169.21 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mastering The Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups - **How much does it cost?** € 169.21 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/6909169-mastering-the-trade-proven-techniques-for-profiting-from-intraday-swing) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The essential guide to launching a successful career in trading—updated for today’s turbulent markets “ Mastering the Trade is an excellent source for a basic understanding of market action, be it day and/or longer-term trend trading. A programmer will have a field day with the many ideas that are in this book. It is highly recommended.” —John Hill, president of Futures Truth magazine “John Carter’s new book focuses quickly on the critical area of trader psychology, a realm that will often separate the trader from his wallet if it is not mastered first. The in-depth trading strategies clearly show how to respond to market moves based on real-world examples.” —Price Headley, founder of BigTrends.com and author of Big Trends in Trading “Well written and packed with the kind of insight about the nature of trading and the markets that can surely benefit every level of trader.” —Mark Douglas, author of Trading in the Zone and The Disciplined Trader “This is a must read for all new traders, specifically for the psychological aspect of trading. I am recommending it to all of my clients.” —Carolyn Boroden, FibonacciQueen.com About the Book: When it was first published in 2005, Mastering the Trade became an instant classic in the world of day trading. Now, veteran day trader and educator John F. Carter has updated his time-proven swing trading technique to help you succeed in an environment vastly transformed by volatility and technology. Universally acclaimed for its sophisticated yet easy-to-execute methods, this practical, results-driven guide provides everything you need to make a lucrative career as a day trader—from preparing yourself psychologically for the unique demands of day trading to timing the market, managing risk, and planning future trades. Mastering the Trade sets aside timeworn basics and rehashed ideas to examine in detail the underlying factors that cause prices to move. Providing the tools you need to make the right decisions at the right times, it helps you enter market shifts early and either pull out before losses accrue or hang on for a long and refreshingly predictable ride. Mastering the Trade covers: The five psychological truths that will transform you from a mistake-prone novice into a savvy trading professional Exact entry, exit, and stop-loss levels for the intraday trading of stocks, options, ETFs, e-mini futures, 30-year bonds, currencies, and more Seven key internals , from $TICKS to five-minute volume—critical for gauging pending market direction from the opening bell Premarket checklists for analyzing recent market behavior and calculating on each trading day what you plan to do, how you plan to do it, and why Airtight risk control techniques for protecting trading capital—the most important component of a professional trading career After spending many years on various trading desks, Carter has developed an intuitive understanding of how the markets work. In Mastering the Trade , he gives you unlimited access to everything the markets have taught him—so you can make an exceptional living on the frontlines of professional trading. Review: Incredible Journey... - It took me almost three weeks of persistent nightly (extended hours) and weekend intense reading to complete this book. Why? Because I read it three times, it was that instructive and thorough. Mr Carter's writing style is absolutely fantastic, balancing wit and humor with big, important teachable moments. This book is full of real-time actual trading set ups and examples of simple (but not easy) methodologies for technical analysis entries and exits in the e-minis, futures and simple stock options. What separates "Mastering the Trade" from the rest of the trading books in the vast literary ocean (and I have recently read at least 30 different books on everything trading), is Mr. Carter's ability to encourage the reader to think so far beyond the specific setups. There are many books on setups that are boring and provoke no further thought than the technical execution of the trade. "Mastering the Trade" is the PERFECT title for this book, and this is why I read it three times, I did not want to miss critical information, and spent valuable time recreating many of the tracking and maintenance systems presented. Mr. Carter makes clear that, although his setups are excellent and time-tested, any trader can still blow-out his/her account without understanding and utilizing all of the other pillars supporting a complete trading business plan (excellent examples also included). This book is by far a book that I will return to continuously to keep focused and on the path to successful trading. If you follow the strict guidelines in this book, you will greatly increase your chances of becoming more successful in your trading. I am a real trader (amateur, but improving rapidly) that recognized many of the bad traits of the unsuccessful trader in myself (being brutally honest), and discovered actual measurable means to track and overcome these bad traits. Before stating some actual winning trades as a result of this book, I want to state that the BIGGEST win was not a winning trade at all. It was the recognition of my over trading and other faults, and the realization that sometimes the best trade is the trade not taken! Read this book carefully and I promise you will find fault in your trading, if you are honest with yourself. From this realization your trading will improve. Regarding my trading, I have cut my trade frequency to about half of the velocity traded prior to reading this book, yet my ROI is now higher. I take my losing trades with a better attitude and feel much less stress during any trade. On one specific trade that benefited from the knowledge gained from this book, I tweaked my option strategy based on the simple call or put buying based on the "internals" and other indicators fully explained in the book. I recently purchased 20 ITM, -70 delta put contracts at $2.20 based on a specific setup from the book. As of today, the puts are marked at $6.20 and are at a -88 delta, and have about 50 days of extrinsic value remaining. You do the math...prior to this book I likely would have purchased the OTM puts and would be lamenting my poor return or loss. This book is highly recommended... Review: Great Book, Very Helpful... - I've never heard of John Carter or Mastering the Trade, but based on the reviews here on desertcart I decided to give it a shot. Turns out that that was a good decision. The book, the 2nd Edition, helps fill in the blanks where other books and educational materials fall short. For Example.. Why you might want to consider trading the futures markets over the equities markets. Why you will want to use larger stops (and the math that proves this point). Psychology--did you know about Type C personality and how, even if you are a Type A, it will affect your trading? How can you tell that the open of the markets will be choppy? On which days should you ignore short setups? On which days should you ignore long setups? On which days should you focus on setups that do well in choppy markets? On which days should you focus on setups that do well in trending markets? What is the best setup ever for a beginner? Are you trading the best market for your personality? Are you asking too much from the market you are trading? The book is littered with nuggets that will require you to highlight them, and commit them to memory. Most of them, I've noticed, are not to be found anywhere else, and one will want to pay attention to the information on the top of page 54 regarding winning traders vs. losing traders. This information, and this information alone, could make you turn the corner as a trader to consistent profitability. The book did have a critical psychology section in the beginning, and I thought this was good, as it wasn't just thrown in as an afterthought. Mastering the Trade also has a diet section, which I thought was interesting (you are going to want to know about heavy caffeine use and blood pH levels, something that I've struggled with). While I was surprised to read about the diet section in the book, I was really shocked that there wasn't any mention about self-hypnosis or meditation, something that has really helped a lot of traders. One can find pretty good self-hypnosis videos on YouTube to help calm a trader down and keep them objective, making them trade like they would be trading in their paper account. Also to be found in this book, and not other trading books, is information about a detailed trading plan and business plan, plus humor about a scary Arowana fish, a llama, and Mr. Carter's terrible fear of his 3 year old daughter taking a dump in his car. A lot of information not to be found anywhere else makes this a great purchase! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,311,786 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,498 in Stock Market Investing (Books) #1,864 in Introduction to Investing #4,637 in Finance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 Reviews | ## Images ![Mastering The Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61XwOLNQl4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible Journey... *by B***K on May 1, 2014* It took me almost three weeks of persistent nightly (extended hours) and weekend intense reading to complete this book. Why? Because I read it three times, it was that instructive and thorough. Mr Carter's writing style is absolutely fantastic, balancing wit and humor with big, important teachable moments. This book is full of real-time actual trading set ups and examples of simple (but not easy) methodologies for technical analysis entries and exits in the e-minis, futures and simple stock options. What separates "Mastering the Trade" from the rest of the trading books in the vast literary ocean (and I have recently read at least 30 different books on everything trading), is Mr. Carter's ability to encourage the reader to think so far beyond the specific setups. There are many books on setups that are boring and provoke no further thought than the technical execution of the trade. "Mastering the Trade" is the PERFECT title for this book, and this is why I read it three times, I did not want to miss critical information, and spent valuable time recreating many of the tracking and maintenance systems presented. Mr. Carter makes clear that, although his setups are excellent and time-tested, any trader can still blow-out his/her account without understanding and utilizing all of the other pillars supporting a complete trading business plan (excellent examples also included). This book is by far a book that I will return to continuously to keep focused and on the path to successful trading. If you follow the strict guidelines in this book, you will greatly increase your chances of becoming more successful in your trading. I am a real trader (amateur, but improving rapidly) that recognized many of the bad traits of the unsuccessful trader in myself (being brutally honest), and discovered actual measurable means to track and overcome these bad traits. Before stating some actual winning trades as a result of this book, I want to state that the BIGGEST win was not a winning trade at all. It was the recognition of my over trading and other faults, and the realization that sometimes the best trade is the trade not taken! Read this book carefully and I promise you will find fault in your trading, if you are honest with yourself. From this realization your trading will improve. Regarding my trading, I have cut my trade frequency to about half of the velocity traded prior to reading this book, yet my ROI is now higher. I take my losing trades with a better attitude and feel much less stress during any trade. On one specific trade that benefited from the knowledge gained from this book, I tweaked my option strategy based on the simple call or put buying based on the "internals" and other indicators fully explained in the book. I recently purchased 20 ITM, -70 delta put contracts at $2.20 based on a specific setup from the book. As of today, the puts are marked at $6.20 and are at a -88 delta, and have about 50 days of extrinsic value remaining. You do the math...prior to this book I likely would have purchased the OTM puts and would be lamenting my poor return or loss. This book is highly recommended... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book, Very Helpful... *by J***N on April 19, 2014* I've never heard of John Carter or Mastering the Trade, but based on the reviews here on Amazon I decided to give it a shot. Turns out that that was a good decision. The book, the 2nd Edition, helps fill in the blanks where other books and educational materials fall short. For Example.. Why you might want to consider trading the futures markets over the equities markets. Why you will want to use larger stops (and the math that proves this point). Psychology--did you know about Type C personality and how, even if you are a Type A, it will affect your trading? How can you tell that the open of the markets will be choppy? On which days should you ignore short setups? On which days should you ignore long setups? On which days should you focus on setups that do well in choppy markets? On which days should you focus on setups that do well in trending markets? What is the best setup ever for a beginner? Are you trading the best market for your personality? Are you asking too much from the market you are trading? The book is littered with nuggets that will require you to highlight them, and commit them to memory. Most of them, I've noticed, are not to be found anywhere else, and one will want to pay attention to the information on the top of page 54 regarding winning traders vs. losing traders. This information, and this information alone, could make you turn the corner as a trader to consistent profitability. The book did have a critical psychology section in the beginning, and I thought this was good, as it wasn't just thrown in as an afterthought. Mastering the Trade also has a diet section, which I thought was interesting (you are going to want to know about heavy caffeine use and blood pH levels, something that I've struggled with). While I was surprised to read about the diet section in the book, I was really shocked that there wasn't any mention about self-hypnosis or meditation, something that has really helped a lot of traders. One can find pretty good self-hypnosis videos on YouTube to help calm a trader down and keep them objective, making them trade like they would be trading in their paper account. Also to be found in this book, and not other trading books, is information about a detailed trading plan and business plan, plus humor about a scary Arowana fish, a llama, and Mr. Carter's terrible fear of his 3 year old daughter taking a dump in his car. A lot of information not to be found anywhere else makes this a great purchase! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth reading but... *by A***R on May 13, 2012* Pros Good sections on trading psychology. Excellent Business Plan walkthroughs. A nice window into the life of a full time trader. Cons Many of the setups outlined require purchasing indicators from the author's website. There is often no explanation about how the required indicator works so reproducing them is a guessing game. The section on health/diet is pretty out there and frankly off-topic (the author recommends drinking raw milk which makes me question taking ANY of his advice). I guess my biggest problem with the book is that the author seems to think that using any old trading setup will work fine as long as you execute it mechanically. If this were true than anyone with the ability to write a trading robot would be rich. As an engineer who has written dozens of trading robots I can assure you that even the best setups, even when fully optimized, produce very jagged equity curves and lead to unacceptable drawdowns even when they are profitable. Overall, a worthwhile read, just needs to be taken with a grain of salt. ## Frequently Bought Together - Mastering The Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups - How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology (Stock Market Trading and Investing) - Mastering the Trade, Third Edition: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/6909169-mastering-the-trade-proven-techniques-for-profiting-from-intraday-swing](https://www.desertcart.be/products/6909169-mastering-the-trade-proven-techniques-for-profiting-from-intraday-swing) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-06-11*