The most successful turtle was apparently Curtis
Faith. Trading records show that Mr. Faith, who
was only 19 when he started the program, made
about $31.5 million in profits for Mr. Dennis.
—Stanley W. Angrist, The Wall Street Journal

The above is a dangerous citation. No one should use it as assurance.
Not every amateur day-trader succeeds like Curtis Faith. Many beginners
lose all of their start-up capital—sometimes more than once.
The purpose of The Truth About Day Trading Stocks is to caution, and to
some degree reprogram, the na¨ıve, heedless amateur day-trader. I want to
prevent beginners from watching their money disappear.
In this book, I offer the amateur day-trader, a candid account of the
challenges I’ve encountered while developing in the profession. By candid
I mean brutally truthful, mostly about myself, mostly with the side-splitting
laughter that the distance of hindsight provides!
This is my personal story, and I tell it like it is, just as if we were kicking
back and having ourselves some brews, letting it all hang out at times—
that is, confessing all my mistakes. My personal day-trading horror stories
are a constant, vivid motif. Laced through that saga is my identification of
key psychological factors that destroy wise day-trading performance, interspersed
with my cache of antidotes, all self-disciplinary, that I’ve