Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders’ Bible
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Jeff Cooper’s Hit and Run Trading is a landmark guide for traders who thrive on short-term market moves. Drawing on his decades of professional experience, Cooper reveals the precise setups, timing tactics, and risk controls that enable consistent profitability in volatile markets. This book distills the art of momentum trading into a disciplined playbook—combining pattern recognition, tape-reading intuition, and tactical precision.
Cooper’s trademark approach revolves around high-probability intraday and swing setups such as “Expansion Breakouts,” “1-2-3-Pullbacks,” and “Cooper’s Coil,” all designed to capture sharp, repeatable price bursts. Each pattern is explained step-by-step with clear entry, exit, and stop criteria, empowering traders to act with confidence rather than impulse.
Blending practical examples with rigorous trade management rules, Hit and Run Trading shows how to harness volatility instead of fearing it. Whether the goal is daily income or short-term capital growth, Cooper teaches readers to structure trades that respect risk, exploit liquidity, and compound edge through repetition. It remains one of the most respected manuals for precision-based momentum and breakout trading.
✅ What You’ll Learn:
- Proven short-term trading patterns and breakout setups tested across decades
- How to identify expansion pivots, continuation moves, and exhaustion signals
- Methods for timing entries using both intraday and daily chart structures
- Practical money-management and stop-placement systems for volatile markets
- The psychology of fast decision-making and maintaining composure under pressure
- How to build a repeatable short-term trading plan using Cooper’s “Hit and Run” philosophy
💡 Key Benefits:
- Master reliable pattern-based strategies for rapid market swings
- Improve precision and timing for intraday and swing positions
- Gain confidence through clearly defined entry and exit criteria
- Reduce emotional trading by following structured trade setups
- Apply professional risk-control methods suitable for high-velocity markets
👤 Who This Book Is For:
This book is ideal for active traders, proprietary traders, and experienced investors seeking tactical short-term opportunities. It particularly benefits those who already understand charting basics and want to evolve into disciplined momentum or breakout traders who act decisively within well-defined risk parameters.
📚 Table of Contents:
- THE OPENING BELL
- TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING
- RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN-EXCEPT THESE
- CREATING THE HIT LIST
– PART ONE : MAIN STRATEGIES
- EXPANSION BREAKOUTS
- 1-2-3-PULLBACKS
- STEPPING IN FRONT OF SIZE
- EXPANSION PIVOTS
- 180’s
– PART TWO : ANCILLARY STRATEGIES
- GILLIGAN’S ISLAND
- BOOMERS
- SLINGSHOTS
- WHOOPS
- LIZARDS
- SECONDARIES
- PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER (The Most Important Chapter)
- MIND OVER MONEY
- WALKING THE TALK: A WEEK OF HIT AND RUN TRADING
- THE CLOSING BELL
Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders' Bible By Jeff Cooper
| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Ebook |
| Format | |
| Skill Level | Intermediate to Advanced |
| Pages | 170 |
| Publication Year | 2004 |
| Delivery | Instant Download |
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Chase Schultz (verified owner) –
Ok book.
Bellamy Weiss (verified owner) –
Overall not bad. Huge lettering and uses only half a page(or less) sometimes. Some good setups but, he gives bare-bones descriptions…
Autumn Le (verified owner) –
I have read a few trading books in my short career and found Cooper’s book the most useful. It was short and sweet and I was able to pick up the concepts fairly quickly. All his strategies made sense to me and I am able to find winners about 60% of the time with these strategies. I don’t think that absolute beginners or investors will benefit from this but traders who know how to find the ADX and the +DI/-DI (that took me the longest time to figure out but it really was easier than I thought, most trading analysis programs carry it as a standard feature). Computer literacy is a must to successfully use these strategies. If you don’t know much about technical analysis, I recommend the Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns or Getting Started in Technical Analysis before reading this book. You may also want to check out AIQ’s TradingExpert Software. Their manual is very clear with the explanations of the different technical indicators.
Lennox Davidson (verified owner) –
What a waste of money. Back tested these strategies they just do not work. I do not recommend buying this book.
Rome Brooks (verified owner) –
Excellent and very informative my the master of trading. Thanks Jeff.
Ruth Wallace (verified owner) –
I am a new trader, a little over a year in of studying everything I can find. I have read tons of useless crap. This is the first book that connected with me. Over the last year I learned a lot about price action trading intraday. My biggest block was the micro-view I had of the market. I just couldn’t seem to apply what I knew to a larger time frame and make it work. I also knew that once I was able to learn how to take more of a Macro-view of the market things would take off for me. I did a trial of Jeff’s service and got the book with the trial price. The service did not work for me because I am used to trading weekly options on very liquid stocks because of my small account size and Jeff mostly trades shares on a certain kind of stock (he talks about it in the book). But the BOOK was the GAME CHANGER. I got the book in the mail and read it many times over. I built scans for all of the strategies and watched how they played out. I was using what I had learned about price action and combining it with what was happening to the stocks that would be produced by the scans. (each scan populated a watch list) and things really started clearing up and coming together. At this point I changed the scans to only populate on the type of stocks that I was able to trade. Sure, not as many stocks were produced but the of the stocks I did get >80% were winners, big winners. The strategies are SOLID. The clarity and learning the “macro-view” was what changed my trading world. Thank you Jeff for sharing your knowledge, you have blessed me.
Jaylee Fischer (verified owner) –
Buy the book, read it through twice, order his service through Minyanville.com and start with small share lots and gradually get bigger as you get more comfortable. The bottom line is, if you follow his strategy to the T, you will make more money than you lose. He is that good. A must read for new traders.
Dante Ray (verified owner) –
Earning money from stock market is not as difficult as i thought, after reading and practicing the strategies inside this book.
Briella Cherry (verified owner) –
Do not have many ideas that are usable.
Leonidas Aguirre (verified owner) –
I liked the choices of set ups and the logic is there, the only thing a trader needs to do is observe many hours of charts to find the stocks. I have used a few of these set ups and I think the best thing to do is to focus on one at a time and master the fundamentals. I really enjoyed Cooper’s last chapters as he talked about the importance of a trader’s mental make up. This, as he says, is more important than the entry points. Lastly, I admire Cooper’s simplicity in being a discreationary seller.. I think it’s a system that works for him buy I wonder if he looks back at trades to see if the trend continued.
Damien Esquivel (verified owner) –
Obviously, this books is now several years old, but it has not lost its effect on my thinking and trading, especially since Jeff uses funny methaphores for his setups. Maybe one can recognize several by different names, but nevertheless, his names stick in my mind. Personal favorite: 1-2-3 pullbacks plus one day. To re-emphasize the setups, I would suggest to subscribe to his swing/day trading service (at least in the beginning). Well worth the initial investment.
oraline Henson (verified owner) –
I want to say this is an interesting book…but all it taught me was how much time some people have to spend researching stocks to find good moves, thats why i switched to learning how to trade emini futures….and no PDT law either!! bada bing bada boom! For the high price and fairly empty pages…i dunno. Its pretty straightforward with the moves he looks for…just didnt do anything or me. Seems like a book for those who are already cosistent traders and want more ideas