TeeJay

Markets by TeeJay

How the Market
Really Works

A practical guide to reading markets through price action, trends, risk, cycles, and process. 27 lessons across survival, method, and judgment under pressure.

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Start here

  1. The Market Does Not Owe You Certainty
  2. Five Ideas Hold the Whole Guide Together
  3. Start Simple. Go Deeper When Ready.
  4. The Simplest Way to Start

Part One Survival

  1. 01 Prices Are Emotions, Not Equations
  2. 02 Easy Enough for a Parrot, Hard Enough for Lehman
  3. 03 Know Your Time Horizon
  4. 04 You Cannot Fight Panic With Logic
  5. 05 Chase Every Hot Sector and You End Up With Toothpicks
  6. 06 Do Not Confuse Hype With Value
  7. 07 Leverage Turns Volatility Into Ruin
  8. 08 Do Not Run Out of Cash
  9. 09 Take Buckets From the Ocean
  10. 10 Index First, Leaders Second, Process Always

Part Two The Method

  1. 11 Price Action Works for Investors Too
  2. 12 Why the Weekly Chart Is My Lens
  3. 13 Trend Comes Before Prediction
  4. 14 Believe the Reaction, Not the Headline
  5. 15 Chop Is Patience. Breakdown Is Risk.
  6. 16 Strength Is Information
  7. 17 Volume Leaves Footprints
  8. 18 Every Strategy Has a Season
  9. 19 Do Not Buy the Fall. Buy the Turn.

Part Three Judgment Under Pressure

  1. 20 The Story Can Be Right and the Price Wrong
  2. 21 Price the Whole Company, Not the Share
  3. 22 High Yield Is Often a Warning
  4. 23 Beta Is Not a Personality Trait
  5. 24 Own an Umbrella Before the Storm
  6. 25 Crowds Move in Cycles
  7. 26 Know the Anatomy of Your Own Capitulation
  8. 27 The Final Edge Is Process

Reference

  1. The Weekly Decision Framework
  2. The Trader's Operating System
  3. Market Words in Plain English
  4. The market is a test of behaviour, not only analysis.
  5. Written by TeeJay
  6. Where the numbers come from
  7. Educational only