Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Van K. Tharp

T3InvestorsTrading and speculation

Coach for traders and investors and a founding figure of trading psychology; died of liver failure in Raleigh, North Carolina, on 24 February 2022.

Van Tharp Institute

Van Tharp Institute blog

Well-regarded trader coach whose position-sizing and expectancy framework is widely adopted but rarely cited outside trading.

7 books of their own · 10 letters · 2 articles · 10 appearances

Books 7Letters 10Writing 2Appearances 10Profiles 1

Start here

  1. The Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders1987
  2. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom1999
  3. Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading2000
Trade Your Way to Financial FreedomTrade Your Way to Financial Freedom
T4 Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
Van K. Tharp · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Introduces expectancy, R-multiples and position sizing to a general audience.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Super TraderSuper Trader
T4 Super Trader
Van K. Tharp · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
Van Tharp's Definitive Guide to Position SizVan Tharp's Definitive Guide to Position Sizing
T4 Van Tharp's Definitive Guide to Position Sizing
Van K. Tharp · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads
Safe Strategies for Financial FreedomSafe Strategies for Financial Freedom
T4 Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom
Van K. Tharp, D. R. Barton Jr., Steve Sjuggerud · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads
Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day TraFinancial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading
T4 Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading
Van K. Tharp · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Co-written with Brian June

Trading Beyond the Matrix
T4 Trading Beyond the Matrix
Van K. Tharp · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Peak Performance Course for Investors anThe Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders
T4 The Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders
Van K. Tharp · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Home-study course rather than a trade book.

Trade Your Way to Financial FreedomIntroduces expectancy, R-multiples and position sizing to a general audience.1999T4Mohnish Pabrai
Super Trader–2009–
Van Tharp's Definitive Guide to Position Sizing–2008–
Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom–2004–
Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day TradingCo-written with Brian June2000–
Trading Beyond the Matrix–2013–
The Peak Performance Course for Investors and TradersHome-study course rather than a trade book.1987–

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