<p><strong>Renowned stock and bond trader Richard D. Wyckoff explains the philosophy and techniques he used to successfully trade on the markets.</strong></p><p>Using many examples from his life, the author explores how to find value investments, how to evaluate market sentiment, and how to pick stocks from an investing &ndash; long term &ndash; perspective and a shorter term, trading perspective. This book is imbued with decades of experience, Richard Wyckoff being a Wall Street figure of substantial renown who associated with Jesse L. Livermore and other famous figures of the 1920s boom era.</p><p>Wyckoff&rsquo;s portfolio expertise was in mining, railroads and the then-emergent automotive sector. His ideas on following the market remain current to this day; the psychology of those who trade, and the influence that rumor or mood on a giving trading day carry, are a frequent theme. Wyckoff encourages the reader to investigate not merely the published fundamentals of a company, but the integrity and past records of those heading a given company; thus an estimate of value is truer to reality, and whether a stock is a reasonably priced bargain or not is determined with greater accuracy.</p>