One Shot – One Kill Trading presents a structured approach to selecting, entering, managing, and exiting trades. John Netto organizes the method around buying pullbacks within rising trends, selling rebounds within falling trends, and taking profits at predetermined targets. Examples concentrate on stocks, the Nasdaq 100, and Nasdaq E-mini futures.
The central framework is the Netto Number, a trade assessment score ranging from 0 to 30. Chart formations, Fibonacci levels, and technical indicators each contribute up to 10 points. Netto uses this framework to evaluate prospective setups and guide capital allocation, while considering the direction of the broader market and relevant sector.
The book progresses from trading infrastructure and analytical tools to preparation, intraday timing, entry confirmation, and exit management. It explains Fibonacci retracements and expansions, moving averages, the Trend Reversal Index, MACD, and other indicators as components of a coordinated trading process. Its Money Management Matrix addresses partial exits, stop adjustments, and systematic additions to winning positions.
Historical trade walkthroughs show how these components work together in practice. The book is suited to active traders seeking a defined discretionary method that connects technical analysis with execution and capital management. Its closing chapters address trading goals, recurring mistakes, and the author’s discussion of trader taxation.
✅ What You’ll Learn
- Evaluate trade candidates using the three components of the 30-point Netto Number.
- Identify double tops, double bottoms, triangles, and reversal setups within market context.
- Construct potential entry zones and profit targets using Fibonacci retracements and expansions.
- Combine moving averages, trend channels, TRI, MACD, and VHF to assess technical confirmation.
- Prepare a trading play list and compare stock, sector, and broader market conditions.
- Distinguish trading opportunities across different periods of the trading day.
- Plan pullback entries, confirmation signals, and staged position entry.
- Manage stops, partial exits, and additions to winning trades through the Money Management Matrix.
- Recognize execution errors such as chasing stocks, fighting trends, and retaining losing positions.
💡 Key Benefits
- Provides a common framework for connecting setup evaluation with trade execution.
- Establishes a repeatable preparation routine for discretionary trading.
- Makes the relationship between prospective reward, defined loss, and capital exposure explicit.
- Illustrates position management through historical examples and detailed trade walkthroughs.
- Encourages selective participation and disciplined follow-through on a trading plan.
👤 Who This Book Is For
- Intermediate stock traders familiar with basic charts who want a more structured approach to technical setups.
- Active day traders seeking guidance on preparation, intraday timing, and execution.
- Nasdaq index and E-mini futures traders interested in the instruments used throughout the examples.
- Experienced discretionary traders reviewing their allocation, exit, and position management practices.
📚 Table of Contents
- Importance of Ease of Operation
- Technical Analysis Indicators: Weapons of War
- Profitable Chart Formations
- Fibonacci Levels: The Basis of Price Targets
- Profiting with Inflection Points
- Going Short: Profiting from Those Less Able
- Trade Preparation: Using the One Shot –One Kill Method
- Dynamics of a Trading Day: Where to Focus
- Entry Techniques: Knowing When to Strike
- How to Exit a Trade, Lock in Profits, and Limit Losses
- The Importance of Eliminating Mistakes
- Making A Real-Time Trade One Shot – One Kill: From the Chalkboard to the Battlefield
- Implementing the One Shot – One Kill Method into Your Trading
One Shot One Kill Trading By John Netto


Avah West (verified owner) –
John Netto seems to be a trader with one huge advance over most other traders…he has BOTH intelligence and discipline. While some of the tools that Netto uses have been around for a while, others are the breath of fresh air that I have been looking for. Furthermore, the mental concepts that he tries to teach are invaluable. His book teaches precision trading through the use of patience and preparation. I would have given this book a rating of 5, however I did feel that the flow of the information within the book could have been better structured.
With the variations of technical knowledge and tools for mental toughness that this book provides, I am more confident in my abilities as a trader. Also, Netto has embarked on a new training tool that I have never seen before. On his website, […] Netto offers a very unique resource. His SniperScope trading platform allows you to view and hear his day-to-day trading decisions/positions in real time with real money. The whole idea is something that I am very excited about.
Zain Horn (verified owner) –
Finally a book that anyone from the novice to advanced trader can benefit from. This book has helped me elevate my technical analysis skills in identifying specific price targets in a way that is almost uncanny. Perhaps one of the most important elements of trading is money management. Mr. Netto’s explanation of this all important aspect of trading makes his book invaluable to all traders. This book is straightforward, easy to understand and will pay for itself in your first few trades.
Rayna Bridges (verified owner) –
I am the author of the book and I wanted to share with you a little bit about myself as well as the mindset that went behind writing the book. As a trader I have always had an appetite for knowledge and to learn as much as possible about the market and then be able to share this information with others. One Shot – One Kill Trading is a byproduct of this.
The book is a compilation of ideas, anecdotes and experiences that ultimately morphed itself into a trading method that I have used to consistently make money trading. I touch on a number of things in here that I had to learn the hard way when it came to trading. I believe strongly in the basis of my method which consists of buying weakness in rising markets, selling strength in falling markets, and taking profits at predetermined price targets. The book lays out in clear terms how to do this.
Beyond understanding the methodology; understanding how to trade from abundance is just as, if not even more important. I delve into this as well because if you trade from scarcity your winning trades end up being cut too short and your losing trades end up going too long. Trading from abudance only comes when you have the confidence that you are trading with a method that works.
In order to assist anyone who reads the book and is unclear on the content, I am very open and willing to correspond with those individuals interested in learning more. I have responded to every email to date and readers often comment how surprised they are at how fast I get back to them.
I am a former Marine and the discipline and ability to function and think clearly under stress is important in trading. My Marine Corps experiences are so important to me that I am taking 100 percent of the profits from this book and donating them to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. I would encourage everyone to please look into donating to this very worthy charity.
Itzel Rojas (verified owner) –
Apart from the occassional typo this book is fantastic. Not only does it expertly explain Fibonacci expansions and retracements, but it also clearly outlines how to use them. John Netto also does a great job in utilizing a multitude of indicators to identify key pivot points. I have found that his choice fo the 15 adnd 39 day MAs work much better than the standard MAs of 20 and 50.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to actually “make money” trading.
Aden Leon (verified owner) –
Whether you have just started investing or have been at it for a while, this book has techniques and concepts that will make you money and protect your capital. His initial comments encourage the reader to grab a highlighter, pen, and pencil and actively mark up the book, making it an interactive tool to be questioned, tested, and tailored to your individual situation.
How many times have you been right about a move but wrong about the time and had to close a position only to see it do what you thought it would within days? Mr. Netto has developed a comprehensive “plan of attack” that maximizes reward potential while minimizing risk. His capital allocation method compounds on letting winners run and cutting losers off at the knees.
The techniques and strategies Mr. Netto uses are scalable for day traders, swing traders, and long-term investors.
I recommend reading it a minimum of three times: the first time to get the concepts, the second to glean the gems that you missed, and the third time to begin building a comprehensive investing/trading plan.
Amora Shah (verified owner) –
I have fortunately read numerous books on trading as well as technical and fundamental analysis and I have no doubt that each book has contributed to my current knowledge of and interest in trading the markets. Unfortunately (I am not blaming the books), they all left me looking for more guidance in formulating a trading strategy.
John Netto’s book appealed to my burning need to develop a coherent trading strategy. John’s writing style makes his book easy to read without becoming too technical to grasp the underlying principles. This is a book that will reveal more each time it is read and it certainly needs to be read more than once if the reader is to benefit from John’s approach to trading. My only regret is that I did not read this book a lot earlier in my quest for knowledge of trading systems.
Are there better books on trading? – If you like lots of technical detail, the answer is probably yes! However few books are going to provide the required level of detail with a workable trading plan all written in an easy to read style.
Mohammed Beil (verified owner) –
John, clearly you are one of the brilliant accomplished (proven) traders.
I read your book and the Schwager (Wizard) interview.
You very successfully continued to evolve your trading process.
Could you update us on some issues not discussed in Jack Schwagers book? I hope you can please indulge the following questions (and thank you):
For example, although you mentioned 3% risk in this book (for some traders) what is the risk per trade you take and have during the 10 years track record from 2010-2019?
How many positions do you typically hold at once?
What is your typical holding period?
What metric do you use to measure exposure and risk (however you define it)?
How much will you hold of risk (or expsoure) for each instrument (per position) and for the whole portfolio?
Do you have a maximum % stop for the account each day, or maximum % exposure each day?
How many trades per day, or month, is typical?
What question would you ask of a successful asset manager?
Diego McDowell (verified owner) –
I found One Shot – One Kill Trading to be a breath of fresh air rounding out a number of intuitions that I had about the market. I did find a few things as well about the book that were perplexing, and I had to reread a couple of times before I really understood the point that Netto was trying to convey, in particular his Netto Numbers. What I liked the most about the book was the fairly straightforward explanation of how he gets into positions and how he trades. In this regard, the book is very powerful…I have found that since using parts of his method in my own trading that when I get in, I am usually up money in the trade and can take profits as opposed to being down right away which is a problem I had been dealing with.
I have used Fibonacci numbers off and on for some time and I must say the book did a great job of explaining how to use his Fibonacci friends to enter positions. Netto puts a different twist on Fib Numbers in Chapter five of trading inflection points that I have never come across. I was able to correspond with him via email from his site ([…]) and actually had a nice phone call with him as well where he reinforced the concepts in this book. I have to say, I never expected that he would be so responsive and I thought he might try to sell me something, but he was very approachable and I felt he genuinely wanted me to succeed as a trader. Like every book though, there were some drawbacks and I wish the charts in this book could have been a little more seamless to use as they were not as user friendly as they could have been. With that said, this is one of the best trading books I have read because it presents a trading plan that is easy to understand and is grounded in some solid trading advice and based on my own personal results has improved.