Back to Library

You Can Still Make It In The Market

by Nicolas Darvas (1977)

Quick summary -- an in-depth PhD-level extended summary (10-30 pages) for this book is coming soon.

You Can Still Make It In The Market

By Nicolas Darvas

Quick Summary

This PDF is a scanned image-based document with no extractable text. Based on the title and known publication history, this is Nicolas Darvas's follow-up to his bestselling "How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market," in which he revisits his box theory trading method and demonstrates how it continued to work in the changed market conditions of the 1970s. The book could not be fully processed for a detailed summary due to the scanned format.

Categories

  • Trading
  • Technical Analysis

Detailed Summary

"You Can Still Make It In The Market" by Nicolas Darvas is a 147-page book that could not be fully processed because the PDF is a scanned image without embedded text (OCR was not performed on this document).

Based on the known content of this work: Darvas, a professional dancer who famously turned $10,000 into over $2 million trading stocks in the 1950s using his self-developed "box theory," wrote this follow-up to address whether his methods remained viable in the different market environment of the 1970s. The box theory identifies stocks trading within defined price ranges (boxes) and triggers buy signals when prices break above the box on increased volume, with stops placed at the bottom of the box. Darvas combined this technical approach with a fundamental filter requiring strong earnings growth. The book argues that while market conditions change, the underlying principles of trend following, discipline, and cutting losses remain timeless.