You Can Still Make It In The Market
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You Can Still Make It in the Market is Nicolas Darvas’s later-stage reflection on stock-market speculation, trend-following, and growth-stock investing following the success of his earlier work How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market. In this book, Darvas revisits and expands his unconventional market philosophy while introducing the “DAR-CARD,” a visual adaptation of his well-known Box Theory methodology.
The book is structured around Darvas’s personal observations of market behavior during the difficult bear market of the early 1970s and the subsequent recovery phase. Rather than relying on traditional balance-sheet analysis, dividends, or price-to-earnings ratios, Darvas focuses on price action, momentum, volume expansion, institutional accumulation, and disciplined stop-loss execution. He repeatedly emphasizes that strong stocks reveal themselves through technical behavior rather than conventional financial analysis.
A major contribution of the work is the introduction of the DAR-CARD framework, which transforms Darvas’s mental trading process into a structured visual system designed to identify buying points, holding zones, and danger areas. The methodology simplifies trend identification by organizing price movement into progressive “boxes” that visually represent resistance levels, breakout zones, and stop-loss thresholds.
Beyond technical execution, the book also explores investor psychology, market misconceptions, speculative behavior, and the emotional challenges of navigating bull and bear cycles. Darvas critiques common investing mistakes such as averaging down, overreliance on dividends, and blind dependence on fundamental analysis. The result is a disciplined trend-following framework focused on market timing, momentum leadership, and capital preservation.
✅ What You’ll Learn:
- How Nicolas Darvas applied and refined his Box Theory methodology
- The mechanics behind the DAR-CARD trading framework
- How to identify strong momentum stocks through price action
- Why volume expansion is critical in detecting institutional buying
- Methods for defining breakout levels and stop-loss zones
- How to avoid common investor mistakes during bear markets
- The importance of trend-following and market timing
- How psychological discipline influences trading performance
- Why growth stocks outperform mature institutional favorites
- How to manage risk during volatile market environments
💡 Key Benefits:
- Simplifies trend-following concepts into a visual decision-making framework
- Reinforces disciplined trading and capital preservation principles
- Provides insight into momentum-based stock selection
- Combines practical speculation techniques with psychological awareness
- Demonstrates how to adapt trading methods to changing market conditions
- Offers historical perspective on navigating major market cycles
👤 Who This Book Is For:
- Intermediate traders interested in momentum trading
- Technical traders studying Nicolas Darvas’s methodologies
- Growth-stock investors seeking structured entry and exit frameworks
- Traders focused on discipline, trend-following, and risk control
You Can Still Make It In The Market by Nicolas Darvas
| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Ebook |
| Format | |
| Skill Level | Beginner to Intermediate |
| Pages | 145 |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Delivery | Instant Download |
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Leonardo McGee (verified owner) –
As a keen market observer and trader for 30+ years, Darvas’ techniques have withstood the test of time. All trend following methods are predicated on identifying support and resistance, making an initial trade on a breakout from a technical level, protecting against false moves with a stop-loss and letting profits run until the price action dictates your exit. Darvas reduces this to a simple to follow “Box” approach. While perhaps less sophistical than models that consider volume, moving average cross-overs and other technical indicators, this is an elegant and easy to implement approach that should keep you in for the ride and allow you to avoid major market corrections…IF ONE CONSISTENTLY FOLLOWS HIS RULES. nice easy read, but nothing earth-shatteringly new here.
Josephine Bennett (verified owner) –
I have read all of his books and he was a real independent thinker. His ideas are all still valid today!
Catalina Choi (verified owner) –
Classic Darvas; A method that works well in a bull market and keeps you out during a bear market.
Kayleigh Donaldson (verified owner) –
The first book , how I made 2 million is a classic and I reread it every few years. It has so many insights. This one is just a bit of a rehash. At this point Darvas was clearly frustrated by the 1970’s stock market. I think you could learn more by just reading the first one again, it was a fun read nonetheless .
Canaan Byrd (verified owner) –
Great book, simple and easy to use
London Keith (verified owner) –
Great book so far about Darvas trading system. Only thing I’ve seen so far is that there is not enough illustrated charts which I prefer. But clearly shows what the author method is.
Aliana Guzman (verified owner) –
great book to read, if your into darvas trading.
Jagger Travis (verified owner) –
For me his first book was a little too abstract. But, with this second book he really brings his theory down to Earth. He explains his investing strategy in practical terms; spells them out. This book is easily worth the $10 I paid for it, and will likely aid me in earning much more than that. Thanks to the author for his kindness.
Giselle Berger (verified owner) –
Darvas always kept it simple and so critical when in the market. Doesn’t hurt to learn from a successful trader
Byron Payne (verified owner) –
Good to read further about how Darvas viewed the 70’s and his quest about learning the current mindset of traders in the 70’s.
Jenesis Maynard (verified owner) –
I have been a successful trader for 25+ years and am a fan of the Darvas Method amongst many others. I suggest reading his initial book at first and then picking up this one. Are they the holy grail of trading books…no, but if you carefully read them and pick up many of the thoughts and techniques they will enhance your trading. In fact many other successful traders, some well known, have reffered to the Darvas books in one way or another.
Landry Bennett (verified owner) –
I love this book and am now using the Darvas Box as one of my main trading tools. It is amazing that a man with no computer experience and traveling all over the world using nothing but dated newspapers could figure out a box pattern as simple and practical still revelant nearly 50 years later. If you are serious about trading stocks please read every book you can find about Nicholas Darvas and his box trading tool.
Khari Bean (verified owner) –
A very good companion to his 1st book, How I Made $2M in the Stock Market, worth re-reading a few times!
Jude Stone (verified owner) –
Really easy to read and easy to apply as well in the stock ,are of today. Highly recommended. The best part is how to keep looking until the stock proves itself.