John Wooten - Nine to Noon: The Secret Workday of Uber-Wealthy Americans

Nine to Noon

The Secret Workday

of Uber-Wealthy Americans

By John F. Wooten, IV

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This book was the most difficult project of my life, balanced endlessly with academics, athletics, and trading. Its a culmination of years of painstaking failures, too many all-nighters, and finding success that eventually led to our first hedge fund. Since then, weve exclusively used the strategies in this book to achieve what others plainly thought impossible, year after year. For instance, youll learn about a special tool in Chapter 22 nobody talks about that we used to short the 2020 covid crash before the news broke. Average analysis time: 35 minutes.

Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, neither the author nor the publisher have received payment for it. For all the painstaking thirty-hour weekends and writing-filled holidays, I implore you to support this works official release if it fits your budget. For those in more dire financial situations, the PDF torrent if readily available online.

For the student, friend, and classmate

who showed me it was all worth it.

Thank you, Jake Crapster

For the invaluable help editing, thank you

Originally published on January 28, 2019 in association with

Whenever new friends ask what I do for fun, I get laughed at. Trading stocks is awesome, they hear back just before chucking at my infatuation. You may never fall in love with the thrilling ups and downs of the market, as Ive seen so many get hooked on myself. Thats fine. This book will start your journey to get there, should you desire, but its not the reason Im on a train at 4am (market time) scribing this preface rather than research or trade.

Few comprehend even the basics of financial markets. When we let such market wizards too-easily convince us that investing is much too complex or requires a full-time commitment, we place our financial futures in the hands of others incentivized to seek modest returns while collecting crippling management fees for oftentimes trivial analysis. Over and over, even at the best brokerage firms, accountants who pass all the tests end up influencing or directly managing your diversified portfolio with lackluster strategies and returns all while professional money managers run outperforming hedge funds systematically available only to very wealthy investors. Thats wrong, and this book will help you join the latter group.

In todays world , nobody should settle for below-average investment returns due to lack of information. That ends now.

Copyright John F. Wooten, IV

All rights reserved.

Full disclaimer at end of book.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7945-6685-9

Hardback ISBN: 979-8-4829-2018-3

Table of Contents

Preface

1. The Day (8)
2. Starting to Get There (15)
3. Why Should I Trade Stocks? (17)
4. Fundamentals (25)
5. Following the Rules to Wealth (29)
6. Retirement Funds & Taxes (31)
7. College (43)
8. Do Your Taxes (57)
9. A Quick Note on Debt (79)
10. Discovering the Stock Market (81)
11. Reading Stock Charts (85)
12. Bulls, Bears, and Shares (88)
13. News and Principles (90)
14. Selling Short (92)
15. Breaking Down Key Statistics (94)
16. Long-Term Low-Management Investing (112)
17. ETFs and Mutual Funds (118)
18. Commodities and Currencies (127)
19. Order Types (142)
20. Active Trader Status (149)
21. Options (157)
22. Bonds & Interest Rates (170)

Technical Analysis

1. Charts Expanded (190)
2. Draw on Your Charts (202)
3. Trendlines (208)
4. Triangles and Wedges (211)
5. Consolidation and Flags (218)
6. The ABCD Setup (223)
7. The Head-and-Shoulders Setup (229)
8. Candlestick Setups (233)
9. Moving Averages and MACD (236)
10. RSI, Stochastics, and Bollinger Bands (244)
11. VWAP and Circuit Breakers (258)
12. Combining Trendlines and Indicators (267)
13. Diversification (272)
14. Stock Screeners (293)
15. Brokers (299)
16. The Mentality (322)

Preface to the Second Edition

When I started trading six years ago, I was lost. There was a ton of information around the web on modern investing but much of it was contradictory. For instance, youll learn how to use a powerful yet often misunderstood trading strategy in Chapter 26. When first experimenting with this tool, I accidently sold a major holding when the strategy was telling me to buy based on a false article claiming the pattern was bad for the company, missing a fortune.

Once I realized my error, it was already too late, and the stock gapped up 25% off earningsa textbook breakout play. That hurt me inside. Why should some blog writers mistake cost me money? Moreover, how could anyone expect to successfully invest without a PhD in finance if there existed so much misinformation about successful investing strategies?

That trade, among thousands of others, set me down a path of trial and error many pit traders aptly call market tuition. Thats slang for losing money and learning from your own gut-wrenching reactions to the market. My bill came out to well over six figures, and it took the better part of half a decade to fully understand every investable market.

Now, though upswings and downturns, I write excitedly knowing that what follows is nothing but the best of modern trading strategies. This book will give you my top 38 battle-tested lessons so you can shortcut your knowledge of successful trading and finally invest like a hedge fund manager yourself. These are the investing tools I hope my kids take to the grave.

Heres to building incredible portfolios and enjoying the VIX,

Chapter 1

The Day

It is nine in the morning; you sit down. You do not know what the approaching trading day has in store, but you are ready to tackle anything the market throws at you.

You are not in an office building. You are not on Wall Street. You are not even fully dressed. But none of that matters. You sit at your computer this morning eager to work because you want to reap the rewards. You work from anywhere with an internet connection, linking you directly into the greatest financial market this world has ever seen.

First thing is first: premarket screeners. You scan through twenty gapping stocks as quickly as you can. You carefully analyze volume, price range, and percent change on the fly. Tickers fly down your screen as you pick your favorite movers. Everything you see has crossed your eyes a thousand times before.

Fifteen percent gainer?

Twenty-four percent gainer?

Sixty-two percent gainer? With that volume?

Is that $TOPS?

You see all the same things over and over every day, but somehow it is always different. You never remember the tickers that never stay around, yet you always come back to find more. The potential is here, and you can see it.