#1 Best Selling Trading Book
The Traders Price Action & Setup Guide — The Chart-Reading System Behind Every High-Probability Trade eBook
You don't need fifty indicators. You need to actually read the chart in front of you.
Most traders stare at candles every day without ever learning what they're actually looking at. They memorize indicator settings, chase breakouts that turn out to be traps, and force patterns onto charts because they want a reason to click buy. The Traders Price Action & Setup Guide fixes that at the source — teaching you to read raw price the way professional traders do, and turn that reading into a complete, defined trade setup.
Inside, you'll learn:
- How to read a single candlestick and know exactly what the fight between buyers and sellers looked like
- How to find support and resistance levels that actually have a chance of holding — and tell them apart from lines nobody else is watching
- The five chart patterns and four candlestick signals worth knowing (out of the dozens that don't matter)
- How to tell a genuine breakout from a fakeout before it costs you, not after
- How to stack multiple signals into one high-confluence setup instead of trading a single weak signal alone
- How to turn any setup into a specific entry, stop, and target — all pulled directly from chart structure, not guesswork
- A full worked trade walkthrough showing every concept applied together, start to finish
- A 30-day chart-reading drill to build real pattern-recognition speed, not just theory
Every concept is explained with a worked, numbered example. This isn't abstract theory — it's a toolkit built to be used with a live chart open next to it.
Part of The Traders Series by Jay — the companion volume to The Traders Risk Manual. This book finds and defines the trade; the Risk Manual sizes and protects it. Together they cover both halves of every trade you'll ever place.
33 pages. Instant digital download (PDF).
An indispensable chair-side reference for FNP students and practitioners alike — everything you need, organized exactly how you need it.
The Traders Series by Jay
Most Traders Don't Fail
From One Mistake.
They Fail From Five.
Bad habits. Reading charts wrong. Oversized risk. Breaking their own rules under pressure. No system for consistency. Fix one and the other four still take you out. The Traders Series is five books, each built to close exactly one of those five gaps — together, they're the closest thing to a complete trading education Jay has ever put in writing.
No structure
Can't read the chart
Oversized risk
Breaks their own rules
No consistency
The System, In Order
Each book was written to solve the specific failure point that comes right after the one before it. Read in this order, they build on each other — skip one, and the next book has a gap it can't fill alone.
1
Build
The Traders Playbook
Replaces bad trading habits with real structure — the foundation everything else is built on.
2
Find
Price Action & Setup Guide
Teaches you to read a chart like a professional and turn it into a defined, high-probability setup.
3
Protect
The Traders Risk Manual
The capital preservation math that keeps one setup from ever being able to end an account.
4
Execute
The Traders Mindset Manual
The psychology behind why traders break their own rules under pressure — and how to stop.
5
Sustain
The Traders Journal
A 30-day workbook that turns everything above into a daily habit instead of a one-time read.
Why One Book Alone Isn't Enough
Structure without risk control still blows up
The Playbook fixes your habits. Without the Risk Manual's position sizing, one oversized trade can still undo months of discipline.
Chart reading without psychology still gets abandoned
The Price Action Guide finds the setup. Under real pressure, the Mindset Manual is what stops you from second-guessing it mid-trade.
Knowledge without a daily system fades in a month
Every concept in the other four books only compounds if it's practiced. The Journal is what makes it a habit instead of a memory.
Five Gaps. One Series.
Zero Excuses Left.
Every trader who's serious about getting profitable eventually needs all five of these skills. The only question is whether you build them one expensive mistake at a time — or all at once.
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