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Faramarz Kowsari Trading Books Library featuring futures, options, order flow, Smart Money and technical analysis books

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This page is built as a focused trading-book discovery hub. Instead of mixing trading titles with unrelated subjects, it groups the collection by the problems traders actually search for: reading structure, understanding liquidity, working with order flow, trading futures and options, improving entries and exits, controlling risk, and testing strategies with evidence rather than intuition alone.

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8 BOOKS

Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Foundational books for reading price, structure, levels, breakouts, confluence and chart behavior with a practical trading lens.

Book cover of Beyond the Single Candle by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Beyond the Single Candle

A Visual Field Guide to Inside Bars, Engulfing Patterns, and Two-Candle Price Action

Beyond the Single Candle moves away from memorizing isolated candlestick names and studies what changes from Candle 1 to Candle 2. Range, body and close location are kept as separate dimensions so an Inside Bar, body engulfing pattern or Outside Bar has a mechanical definition before context is interpreted. Compression is treated as an observable condition, not a directional prediction.

Two-candle price actionInside BarsEngulfing patternsOutside BarsCompression
Book cover of BREAKOUT & RETEST TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

BREAKOUT & RETEST TRADING

Breakout and Retest: A Rules-Based Trading Strategy

Breakout & Retest Trading organizes the strategy into a fixed chain: context, level, break, acceptance, retest, trigger, invalidation, target space, risk and execution. The book begins by defining meaningful levels and distinguishing a real break from a brief penetration, then studies closes, acceptance, follow-through, volume, overextension and the quality of the return to the broken area.

BreakoutsRetestsAcceptanceRole reversalEntry triggers
Book cover of Candlestick Patterns From Zero by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Candlestick Patterns From Zero

A Visual Trading Course for Beginners

Candlestick Patterns From Zero is a 100-page visual course that teaches candlestick reading from basic OHLC anatomy through pattern recognition, market context, confirmation and risk-aware execution. The book treats candle patterns as clues rather than guarantees: readers learn to interpret bodies and wicks, bullish and bearish candles, doji structures, hammers, shooting stars, engulfing patterns, harami patterns, morning and evening stars, multi-candle formations and gaps while checking trend, support and resistance, volume, volatility and higher-level context.

Candlestick anatomyOHLCBody and wick psychologyDojiHammer and inverted hammer
Book cover of Confluence Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Confluence Trading

A Visual Practical Guide to Combining Price Action, Market Structure, Key Levels, Multiple Timeframes, and Risk

Confluence Trading treats confluence as a way to organize evidence, not a score that makes uncertainty disappear. The early chapters distinguish independent evidence from duplicate evidence and put market structure and location before indicators. Key levels, price action, support and resistance, Fibonacci, moving averages, momentum, volume and multiple timeframes are evaluated according to what new information they add rather than how many boxes they allow the trader to tick.

Confluence tradingIndependent evidenceMarket structureKey levelsPrice action
Book cover of FALSE BREAKOUTS / FAKEOUTS: by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

FALSE BREAKOUTS / FAKEOUTS:

Trading Fakeouts: How to Avoid the Trap

False Breakouts / Fakeouts turns the familiar idea of a failed breakout into an operational sequence that can be recorded before the result is known. The book distinguishes the reference boundary, penetration, acceptance outside the level, reclaim, confirmation and invalidation so a wick beyond support or resistance is not automatically labeled manipulation or reversal.

False breakoutsFakeoutsLiquidity trapsAcceptance and rejectionReclaim
Book cover of Mastering Fibonacci Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Mastering Fibonacci Trading

A practical technical-analysis guide for traders who want clearer chart reading, more structured decisions and a stronger connection between setup logic, invalidation and risk.

Mastering Fibonacci TradingMastering Fibonacci Trading booktrading and financial markets bookMastering Fibonacci Trading guide
Book cover of Mastering Support & Resistance by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Mastering Support & Resistance

80 Practical Visual Infographics for Reading Levels, Entries, Exits, Breakouts, Retests, and Traps

Mastering Support & Resistance is designed as an 80-page visual field guide for turning vague horizontal lines into usable trading decisions. It teaches the reader to identify a meaningful level, convert the line into a realistic zone, wait for price behavior at that area and enter only when the planned confirmation and invalidation logic are present. The book treats support and resistance as maps of probability rather than guaranteed predictions.

Support and resistanceSupply and demand zonesBreakout and retestFake breakoutsWick versus body
Book cover of The Wyckoff Method by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

The Wyckoff Method

A Practical Guide to Accumulation, Distribution, Springs, Upthrusts, and Market Structure

The Wyckoff Method is a working manual for reading ranges and transitions through evidence rather than memorizing an ideal accumulation or distribution schematic. It develops wave comparison, trend health, price-volume relationships, accumulation, distribution, springs, upthrusts, UTADs, reaccumulation, redistribution, structural failure, entry and risk while emphasizing what the market has actually demonstrated and what would invalidate the current hypothesis.

Wyckoff methodAccumulation and distributionSprings and upthrustsPrice and volumeMarket structure

16 BOOKS

Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Liquidity, institutional-style structure, Fair Value Gaps, order blocks, CHoCH/BOS, ICT concepts and related execution frameworks.

Book cover of Algorithmic Time & Price Grids by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Algorithmic Time & Price Grids

Smart Money Trading with Octants, Quadrants, Opening Ranges, PD Arrays, and Intraday Precision

Algorithmic Time & Price Grids develops a disciplined framework for reading intraday markets as a coordinate system in which time and price must be evaluated together. Instead of treating a level as meaningful in isolation, the book asks the reader to define a measured range, identify the relevant time window, locate the price-delivery structure that appears at their intersection, and state in advance what would invalidate the idea. The central operating sequence is simple but demanding: time defines when to look, the measured range defines where to look, the PD Array defines what to look for, and observed price behavior determines whether the hypothesis survives.

Algorithmic time and price gridsTime-price coordinate systemsQuadrants and octantsOpening prices and Opening Range GapsMeasured price expansion
Book cover of Balanced Price Range Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Balanced Price Range Trading

BPR, Opposing Fair Value Gaps, Equilibrium, and Smart Money Entry Zones

Balanced Price Range Trading treats BPR as a measurable overlap between two opposing Fair Value Gaps rather than as a mystical institutional signal. The book separates observation, interpretation, and trading decision: first define the two imbalance intervals and their intersection, then establish the BPR boundaries and Consequent Encroachment midpoint, and only after that evaluate whether context justifies an entry, an invalidation level, an objective, or no trade at all. Historical OHLC examples are used to make the geometry reproducible, and failed examples remain part of the framework rather than being edited out after the fact.

Balanced Price Range (BPR)Opposing Fair Value GapsBPR interval intersectionBPR boundariesConsequent Encroachment (CE)
Book cover of Breaker Block Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Breaker Block Trading

A Rule-Based Guide to Failed Order Blocks, Structural Transitions, Entries, Risk, and Testing

Breaker Block Trading begins where an earlier order-block thesis fails. Instead of treating a breaker as another rectangle to memorize, the book focuses on the event sequence: the prior expectation, the failure, displacement, structural change, retest, invalidation and objective. It compares breaker blocks with order blocks and mitigation blocks, then adds Fair Value Gaps, liquidity sweeps, premium/discount and dealing-range location.

Breaker blocksFailed order blocksDisplacementLiquidity sweepsFair Value Gaps
Book cover of CHoCH & BOS by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

CHoCH & BOS

Reading Market Structure Shifts

CHoCH & BOS: Reading Market Structure Shifts turns two heavily used trading labels into observable, testable structural events. Rather than calling every opposite candle a Change of Character or every broken high a Break of Structure, the book begins with swing selection, pivot stability, candidate versus confirmed pivots, structural hierarchy, protected references, and the prior state that a continuation break is supposed to continue.

CHoCHBOSSwing selectionStructural hierarchyProtected swings
Book cover of Fair Value Gaps by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Fair Value Gaps

A Rule-Based Guide to Imbalance, Structure, Liquidity, Entries, Failure, and Testing

Fair Value Gaps begins with exact three-candle geometry so the concept is defined before interpretation. A gap is identified from the relationship between the first and third candles, while displacement, gap size, volatility, spread, slippage and economic significance are treated as separate filters. The book warns against retrospective adjectives such as clean or institutional unless their properties were specified before the next candle printed.

Fair Value GapsThree-candle imbalanceDisplacementGap sizeMarket structure
Book cover of ICT Kill Zones: Trading the ICT Kill Zones by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

ICT Kill Zones: Trading the ICT Kill Zones

How to Trade London, New York, and High-Probability Time Windows Using Liquidity, Displacement, Market Structure, and Precise Execution

ICT Kill Zones treats time as a filter that narrows observation, not as a trigger that magically creates direction. The book maps the global trading day, London and New York windows, session handoffs, the Asian range and the practical problem of EST, EDT, server time and historical timestamps. A kill zone becomes relevant only when price is near a predefined reference and later behavior supplies enough evidence to justify risk.

ICT Kill ZonesLondon sessionNew York sessionTime zones and DSTAsian range
Book cover of ICT Silver Bullet by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

ICT Silver Bullet

The Silver Bullet Trading Strategy — A Rule-Based Guide to Liquidity, Displacement, Fair Value Gaps, Time Windows, Execution, Risk, and Trade Review

ICT Silver Bullet narrows a broad SMC/ICT vocabulary into one time-bounded operating sequence. The clock is part of the setup: the book works with three New York local-time windows—03:00–04:00, 10:00–11:00 and 14:00–15:00—and emphasizes correct daylight-saving handling rather than hard-coded UTC offsets. Inside the window, the trader looks for a liquidity event, meaningful response, displacement, a relevant Fair Value Gap, retracement, defensible invalidation and rational objective.

ICT Silver BulletNew York time windowsLiquidityDisplacementFair Value Gaps
Book cover of Inducement Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Inducement Trading

Identifying Liquidity Traps Before the True Point of Interest

Inducement Trading defines IDM as a conspicuous internal price reference that may carry clustered orders before price reaches a deeper point of interest, while carefully treating that interpretation as a hypothesis rather than proof of hidden institutional intent. The book establishes higher-timeframe context, dealing ranges, liquidity, protected swings and independent POI selection before asking whether a visible level is a plausible inducement.

InducementIDMPoint of InterestLiquidity trapsProtected swings
Book cover of Inverse Fair Value Gaps (iFVG) by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Inverse Fair Value Gaps (iFVG)

Inverse Fair Value Gap Trading

Inverse Fair Value Gaps (iFVG) starts with ordinary Fair Value Gap geometry and asks what changes when the original imbalance loses its role and price establishes itself on the opposite side. The useful information is the failed expectation, not merely a rectangle changing color. The book defines bullish and bearish iFVGs, then connects inversion to market structure, liquidity sweeps, displacement, premium/discount and dealing-range location.

Inverse Fair Value GapsFair Value Gap anatomyMarket structureLiquidity sweepsDisplacement
Book cover of Liquidity Sweep: by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Liquidity Sweep:

A Practical Guide to Stop Runs, False Breakouts, Market Structure, Trade Confirmation, and Risk-Controlled Execution

Liquidity Sweep treats liquidity first as a visible location problem rather than a claim about invisible actors. Prior highs and lows, equal levels, previous-day and previous-week extremes, session boundaries and range edges are marked before price arrives. A sweep is then classified by what price actually does—penetration, reclaim, acceptance, continuation or structural response—rather than by an assumed stop-hunt narrative.

Liquidity sweepsStop runsFalse breakoutsPrevious-day liquiditySession liquidity
Book cover of Market Structure Shift (MSS) by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Market Structure Shift (MSS)

How to Read Liquidity Sweeps, Displacement, and Structural Confirmation for Faster Entries

Market Structure Shift (MSS) builds a complete framework for deciding when a structural change is meaningful enough to alter the execution map. It starts with swing selection and internal versus external hierarchy, then distinguishes MSS from BOS and CHoCH before adding trend, range, contraction, expansion, liquidity sweeps, displacement, location, time, session and volatility context.

Market Structure ShiftBOS and CHoCHSwing hierarchyLiquidity sweepsDisplacement
Book cover of Market Structure Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Market Structure Trading

A Practical Framework for Swings, BOS, CHoCH, MSS, Liquidity, Displacement, and Multi-Timeframe Decisions

Market Structure Trading organizes price into meaningful swing hierarchy instead of labeling every pivot equally. It develops continuation through BOS, early warning through CHoCH and a stricter MSS standard for cases where the old structural map becomes a worse explanation of price. Internal and external structure, protected highs and lows, trend, range and transition states give each label a decision role.

Market structureSwing hierarchyBOSCHoCHMSS
Book cover of Order Blocks Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Order Blocks Trading

A Practical Guide to Finding, Validating, Refining, and Trading High-Probability Price Zones

Order Blocks Trading presents the order-block idea as an operational price-action method rather than proof of private bank or institutional inventory. The identification sequence is deliberately strict: choose the governing timeframe, mark relevant liquidity, identify displacement, confirm structural consequence, trace the move to its origin, check freshness, and define invalidation before considering an entry. Starting from the rectangle and searching backward for reasons is treated as confirmation bias.

Order BlocksDisplacementMarket structureLiquidity sweepsZone freshness
Book cover of Premium & Discount Zones by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

Premium & Discount Zones

Finding Higher-Quality Entries with Dealing Ranges, Equilibrium, Liquidity & Market Structure

Premium & Discount Zones treats premium and discount as relative coordinates inside a deliberately chosen dealing range, not as automatic buy and sell instructions. The book explains equilibrium, range selection, structural context, liquidity, displacement, and the difference between price being low in a range and a bullish trade actually being justified. It repeatedly separates location from direction so a discount zone is never confused with proof that price must rise.

Premium and discount zonesDealing rangesEquilibriumMarket structureLiquidity
Book cover of Smart Money Concepts by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market StructureMedium article

Smart Money Concepts

A Practical Guide to Market Structure, Liquidity, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps, and High-Probability Trade Setups

Smart Money Concepts organizes market structure, liquidity, displacement, imbalance, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps, location and invalidation into an observable decision framework. The book deliberately separates what a candlestick chart can show from stories about hidden institutional intention: structure can be mapped, a high can be swept, displacement can be measured and a zone can fail, but the private motives of unseen participants are not directly visible from retail candles.

Smart Money ConceptsMarket structureLiquidityDisplacementOrder Blocks
Book cover of SUPPLY AND DEMAND ZONES by Faramarz Kowsari
Smart Money, Liquidity & Market Structure

SUPPLY AND DEMAND ZONES

Supply & Demand Trading: A Visual Guide

Supply & Demand Zones treats every zone as a hypothesis created from observable price behavior, not as proof of invisible institutional orders. The book defines the origin or base, proximal and distal boundaries, departure quality, freshness, width, approach, structural context and liquidity relationships that determine whether a zone deserves attention.

Supply zonesDemand zonesProximal and distal linesDeparture qualityFreshness

8 BOOKS

Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

Books for traders who want to read the auction more closely through footprint, DOM, Level 2, delta, CVD, VWAP, volume and liquidity behavior.

Book cover of CRYPTO LIQUIDATION HEATMAPS by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

CRYPTO LIQUIDATION HEATMAPS

Trading with Liquidation Heatmaps

Crypto Liquidation Heatmaps explains what a liquidation heatmap can and cannot tell a trader. It separates realized liquidations from model-projected liquidation levels and from ordinary order-book liquidity, then examines how heatmap providers construct estimates from leverage assumptions, price paths and incomplete public information. Bright clusters are treated as conditional stress zones rather than guaranteed magnets or future price targets.

Liquidation heatmapsProjected liquidation levelsRealized liquidationsOpen interestFunding rates
Book cover of CVD TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

CVD TRADING

Reading Cumulative Volume Delta, Order Flow, Absorption, Divergence, and Liquidity

CVD TRADING treats Cumulative Volume Delta as evidence about classified aggressive execution, not as a stand-alone prediction line. The book begins with the mechanics behind the indicator: volume versus delta, how trades are classified, how a cumulative curve is built, why session resets and anchors matter, and why two platforms can show different CVD histories. Price and CVD are then read together so the reader can distinguish confirmation from disagreement and ask the more useful question: what happened to price when aggressive buying or selling actually appeared?

Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD)Volume versus deltaTrade classificationBid and ask executionCVD construction and session resets
Book cover of DOM Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

DOM Trading

Depth of Market, Order Book Liquidity, Absorption, Spoofing Awareness, and Execution

DOM Trading treats Depth of Market as a real-time view into part of the electronic auction, not as a prediction machine. The book begins by separating completed price bars from the live mechanics that produce them: resting bids and offers, passive versus aggressive participation, executed volume, spreads, tick size, queue priority, partial fills and the limits of what a single venue or data feed can reveal. The reader is taught to describe what is actually visible before assigning a bullish or bearish story, and to accept uncertainty when the order book does not support a confident conclusion.

Depth of Market (DOM)Order book and electronic auctionBid, ask, spread and tick sizeResting liquidityPassive and aggressive orders
Book cover of Footprint Charts by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

Footprint Charts

Reading Buyers and Sellers Inside the Candle

Footprint Charts expands the information hidden inside a candlestick into executed volume at price, then places that detail inside a disciplined Context → Location → Order Flow → Trigger → Risk hierarchy. It covers data-source limitations, bid × ask, delta, imbalances, absorption, exhaustion, trapped traders, delta divergence, candle POC, Volume Profile, VWAP, market structure, liquidity, volatility, reversals, breakouts, retests, invalidation, slippage, replay and backtesting without treating footprint detail as certainty.

Footprint chart anatomyOrder flowBid × AskDeltaImbalances
Book cover of LEVEL 2 MARKET DATA EXPLAINED by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

LEVEL 2 MARKET DATA EXPLAINED

From Exchange Feeds to Order Book Intelligence, Market Depth, and Real-Time Trading Decisions

LEVEL 2 MARKET DATA EXPLAINED follows market-depth information from the exchange mechanism to the trader's screen and then into a real-time analytical decision. It begins by separating last-traded price, top-of-book quotes and actual depth, then explains the limit order book, Level 1 versus Level 2 versus Level 3, Market by Price (MBP), Market by Order (MBO), venue boundaries and the invisible limits of displayed liquidity.

Level 2 market dataLimit order bookLevel 1, Level 2 and Level 3Market by Price (MBP)Market by Order (MBO)
Book cover of Volume Bubbles Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

Volume Bubbles Trading

Reading Trade Size, Aggression, Delta, Absorption & Institutional Activity Through Order-Flow Bubbles

Volume Bubbles Trading develops a disciplined way to read unusually large executions without confusing visual impact with certainty. The book begins from auction mechanics and the distinction between passive liquidity and aggressive execution, then explains what a volume bubble actually represents, how bubble size can be distorted by aggregation and clustering, and why trade-size filters must be calibrated to the instrument, session and data feed. Its central rule is deliberately conservative: a bubble is evidence that execution occurred, not proof of motive, institutional identity, future direction or hidden intent.

Volume BubblesOrder-flow bubblesMarket auction mechanicsAggressive versus passive participationExecuted volume
Book cover of Volume Profile Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

Volume Profile Trading

POC, VAH, VAL & Beyond

Volume Profile Trading: POC, VAH, VAL & Beyond explains how volume distributed across price can be used to describe balance, acceptance, rejection and areas where the market spent relatively more or less business. It develops the Point of Control, Value Area, VAH, VAL, high-volume nodes, low-volume nodes, thin zones and profile shapes as auction references rather than automatic support and resistance predictions.

Volume ProfilePOCVAH and VALValue AreaHVN and LVN
Book cover of VWAP Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Order Flow, Volume & Market Microstructure

VWAP Trading

Reading Price, Volume, Fair Value, and Institutional Intent with Session VWAP, Anchored VWAP, and Deviation Bands

VWAP Trading presents Volume Weighted Average Price as a dynamic benchmark for organizing price and volume, not as a magical support-and-resistance line or a stand-alone trading signal. The book develops a context-first way to read where price is trading relative to volume-weighted fair value, how that relationship changes through a session, and why the same touch, cross or distance from VWAP can mean very different things in a balanced auction, a directional trend or a transition between regimes. Session VWAP is treated as an evolving reference that must be interpreted together with price behavior, participation, volatility, market structure and execution conditions.

Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)Session VWAPAnchored VWAP (AVWAP)Deviation bandsVolume-weighted fair value

2 BOOKS

Futures & Index Trading

Contract mechanics, Micro E-minis, index futures, margin, execution, sessions, risk and professional futures workflows.

Book cover of FUTURES TRADING FROM ZERO by Faramarz Kowsari
Futures & Index TradingMedium article

FUTURES TRADING FROM ZERO

The Complete Practical Guide to Micro E-mini, E-mini & E-Nano Futures, Contract Mechanics, Margin, Risk Management, Price Action, Order Flow, Backtesting, and Professional Execution

FUTURES TRADING FROM ZERO is built around a simple premise: futures trading becomes dangerous when a trader learns patterns before learning the contract. This book therefore starts below the chart. It explains what a futures contract is, how an exchange, clearinghouse, broker and data feed divide responsibilities, how a buy order becomes an open position, and why the same market move can represent radically different dollar risk depending on the contract family being traded.

Futures tradingMicro E-mini futuresE-mini futuresE-Nano futuresContract mechanics
Book cover of MICRO E-MINI FUTURES TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
Futures & Index TradingMedium article

MICRO E-MINI FUTURES TRADING

A Practical Guide to MES & MNQ Futures, Market Structure, Intraday Strategies, Execution, and Risk

MICRO E-MINI FUTURES TRADING is a practical, evidence-conscious guide to trading the two Micro E-mini equity-index contracts most closely watched by active U.S. index traders: MES, which tracks the S&P 500, and MNQ, which tracks the Nasdaq-100. The book begins before strategy selection. It explains what a futures contract actually represents, how leverage and variation in price translate into dollars, why posted margin is not the same thing as maximum risk, and why a smaller contract can still create losses that are large relative to a small account.

Market StructureIntraday Strategiesand RiskMICRO E-MINI FUTURES TRADING booktrading and financial markets book

5 BOOKS

Options & Volatility

Same-day options, gamma, options flow, volatility, Greeks, structures and fast-moving derivatives decision-making.

Book cover of 0DTE Options: Trading the Same-Day Market by Faramarz Kowsari
Options & VolatilityMedium article

0DTE Options: Trading the Same-Day Market

A Practical Guide to Same-Day Options, Greeks, Market Structure, Execution, Risk Control, and High-Speed Decision-Making

0DTE Options: Trading the Same-Day Market explains how same-day expiration compresses option mechanics, market movement, execution risk and behavioral pressure into a very short decision horizon. The first part builds the language of 0DTE and the Greeks; the middle converts those mechanics into structures and market contexts; the final part integrates execution, risk, evidence and trader behavior rather than treating them as separate subjects.

0DTE optionsSame-day expirationOption GreeksMarket structureOptions execution
Book cover of Gamma Exposure Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Options & Volatility

Gamma Exposure Trading

GEX, Dealer Positioning, Gamma Flip, Call Walls, Put Walls, 0DTE Options, and Intraday Market Structure

Gamma Exposure Trading explains the options-market layer that can influence intraday behavior in indexes, ETFs and futures without presenting GEX as a crystal ball. It starts with the minimum options knowledge needed to understand Delta, Gamma and position-scaled Gamma Exposure, then separates observed option-chain data from inferred dealer positioning. Open interest, static versus intraday estimates, vendor methodology and sign conventions are treated as model inputs with limitations rather than direct observations of every dealer book. The central discipline is conditional: build a map, wait for price to reach a relevant area, then let live market behavior confirm or reject the hypothesis.

Gamma Exposure (GEX)Delta and GammaDealer positioning modelsObserved data versus inferred positioningOpen interest limitations
Book cover of NIFTY 50 OPTIONS TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
Options & Volatility

NIFTY 50 OPTIONS TRADING

Option Chain Analysis, Open Interest, Greeks, Price Action & Risk Management

NIFTY 50 OPTIONS TRADING is a structured, evidence-led guide to trading NIFTY index options that begins with the Indian market and the contract itself before moving into option-chain interpretation, nonlinear option risk, price action, strategy construction, execution, portfolio control and reproducible research. The book repeatedly separates the NIFTY 50 index, NIFTY futures and individual option premiums so that a correct directional view on the index is not mistaken for a guaranteed profitable option trade.

NIFTY 50 options tradingNSE option chainNIFTY 50 index structureNIFTY futuresIndex options
Book cover of Options Flow Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Options & Volatility

Options Flow Trading

Unusual Options Activity, Sweeps, Blocks, Open Interest, Premium Flow, and Institutional Positioning

Options Flow Trading teaches readers to interpret listed-options transaction activity as evidence rather than as a shortcut to hidden institutional intent. The book starts with the mechanics required to read a flow feed responsibly: how an options order reaches the tape, how execution near the bid, ask or mid can be classified, why aggressor labels remain imperfect, and how sweeps, blocks and large prints should be understood without assuming that size or urgency automatically reveals direction.

Options flowUnusual options activityOptions tape readingExecution forensicsBid, ask and mid-price execution
Book cover of OPTIONS TRADING FROM ZERO by Faramarz Kowsari
Options & Volatility

OPTIONS TRADING FROM ZERO

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Calls, Puts, Option Chains, Trading Strategies, the Greeks, and Risk Management

OPTIONS TRADING FROM ZERO is a structured beginner-to-intermediate guide that teaches options from the contract upward rather than from strategy names downward. The book begins with stocks, ETFs, calls, puts, rights and obligations, then builds the four basic option positions carefully so a new trader can distinguish buying from writing, directional exposure from contractual obligation, and limited-loss structures from positions that can carry much larger risk.

Options trading for beginnersCalls and putsOption contractsRights and obligationsLong calls

6 BOOKS

Scalping & Day Trading

Fast intraday frameworks for session structure, opening behavior, short-horizon execution, scalping and disciplined day-trading decisions.

Book cover of Day Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

Day Trading

A practical intraday trading title for readers who want sharper session context, faster decision structure and disciplined execution under short time horizons.

Day TradingDay Trading booktrading and financial markets bookDay Trading guide
Book cover of Day Trading from Zero by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

Day Trading from Zero

A Practical AI-Assisted Roadmap for Beginners

Day Trading from Zero is a beginner roadmap built around essential market principles, risk discipline, chart reading, strategy testing and prompt engineering. It explicitly treats AI as a learning assistant, chart-review partner, journaling coach and structured-thinking tool—not as an oracle or permission to risk money. The book encourages simulation, journaling and evidence before live trading and repeatedly warns that leverage and day trading can produce rapid losses.

Day trading basicsCandlesticks and timeframesMarket structureSupport resistance and volumeLiquidity and FVGs
Book cover of Opening Range Gap Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

Opening Range Gap Trading

The Smart Money Guide to RTH Gaps, Consequent Encroachment, Quadrants, and Intraday Repricing

Opening Range Gap Trading begins with a strict measurable object: the difference between a declared Regular Trading Hours open and a selected previous-session reference price. It distinguishes the Opening Range Gap from both the opening range and the Fair Value Gap, anchors U.S. equity-index analysis to the 09:30 ET cash-market open, and keeps the broader electronic-session context visible so that an RTH gap is not mistaken for an absence of overnight trading. Timezone, daylight-saving, holiday, early-close, contract-roll and reference-price conventions are treated as part of the model rather than as administrative details.

Opening Range Gap (ORG)RTH versus ETH09:30 ET cash-market openPrevious-session reference priceORG upper and lower boundaries
Book cover of The 1-Minute & 5-Minute Scalping Playbook by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

The 1-Minute & 5-Minute Scalping Playbook

A Practical Guide to Market Structure, Precision Entries, Fast Trade Management, and Risk Control

The 1-Minute & 5-Minute Scalping Playbook is built around a strict division of labor between timeframes: the five-minute chart supplies context, structure and location, while the one-minute chart is primarily an execution lens. It covers the cost of trading fast, liquidity and volatility, market structure, session mapping, no-trade conditions, trigger quality, candle sequences, precision entries and stop placement before introducing eight distinct playbooks.

1-minute scalping5-minute market contextPrecision entriesLiquidity sweep and reclaimBreakout and retest
Book cover of The First Hour Dealing Range by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

The First Hour Dealing Range

Trading the 9:30-10:30 New York Session with Smart Money Concepts

The First Hour Dealing Range turns the 9:30-10:30 New York regular-session window into a structured decision framework rather than an automatic setup. The book is intentionally cumulative: pre-market context gives the Opening Range Gap meaning, the 9:30 open makes early information measurable, and the completed first-hour range creates fixed references for disciplined decisions after 10:30. Its recurring operating choice is Trade, Wait, or Reject, with observations kept separate from conviction until price behavior, target space and risk justify action.

First Hour Dealing Range (FHDR)9:30-10:30 New York sessionRegular Trading Hours (RTH)Extended Trading Hours (ETH)Eastern Time and DST integrity
Book cover of Turtle Soup Strategy by Faramarz Kowsari
Scalping & Day Trading

Turtle Soup Strategy

The Turtle Soup Trading Strategy

Turtle Soup Strategy separates the historical failed-breakout idea from the modern vocabulary often layered on top of it. The classic architecture begins with a prior 20-period extreme, a fresh break beyond that boundary and a reclaim; a fresh break without reclaim is not the setup. The book also makes clear that Turtle Soup is not simply the original Turtle trend-following system run in reverse.

Turtle SoupFailed breakouts20-period highs and lowsReclaimBullish Turtle Soup

7 BOOKS

Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

Trend and swing frameworks using Ichimoku, MACD, Renko, Heikin Ashi, moving averages and multi-timeframe confirmation without indicator worship.

Book cover of ICHIMOKU CLOUD TRADING FROM ZERO by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator TradingMedium article

ICHIMOKU CLOUD TRADING FROM ZERO

A Complete Visual Guide to Trend Analysis, Cloud Breakouts, Trading Strategies, Risk Management, and Real-World Applications

ICHIMOKU CLOUD TRADING FROM ZERO is built around a simple idea: an indicator becomes useful only when the trader understands what it measures, what it does not know, and how its signals interact with execution, risk and market structure. The book therefore starts before Ichimoku itself. It begins with the anatomy of a price chart, trends, swings, support, data conventions and the difference between a completed observation and a prediction. From that foundation, it develops the Ichimoku system one component at a time rather than presenting the cloud as a mysterious all-in-one signal generator.

Ichimoku Kinko HyoTenkan-senKijun-senKumo cloudChikou Span
Book cover of MACD Trading Mastery by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

MACD Trading Mastery

A Seven-Book Master Collection for MACD Foundations, Histogram, Crossovers, Divergence, Trend Following, Multi-Timeframe Analysis & Confluence

MACD Trading Mastery is a seven-part master collection built to move the reader beyond the familiar habit of treating MACD as a traffic light. The collection brings together MACD Foundations; MACD Histogram Trading; MACD Crossovers & Zero-Line Trading; MACD Divergence Trading; MACD Trend Following; Multi-Timeframe MACD; and MACD Confluence. Across the full sequence, the indicator is treated as a mathematical transformation of price that must be interpreted inside market structure, regime, timeframe and risk rather than as a stand-alone prediction engine.

MACD foundationsMACD line and signal lineMACD histogramZero-line analysisCrossovers
Book cover of Mastering Renko Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

Mastering Renko Trading

A Practical Visual System for Reading Trends, Filtering Noise, Planning Entries, Managing Risk, and Testing Renko Strategies

Mastering Renko Trading presents Renko as a visual framework for filtering some time-based chart noise and studying price movement through brick construction. The book focuses on reading trends, organizing entries, managing risk and turning Renko observations into rules that can be tested rather than treating the cleaner chart as automatic proof of a better strategy.

Renko chartsRenko bricksTrend readingNoise filteringEntry planning
Book cover of Multi-Timeframe Analysis by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

Multi-Timeframe Analysis

Multi-Timeframe Trading: From Bias to Entry

Multi-Timeframe Analysis treats top-down trading as a decision architecture rather than a ritual of opening several charts. Its deliberate sequence is regime, context, bias, location, setup, trigger, invalidation, target and management. Each timeframe is assigned a job so contradictory information can be described rather than resolved by simply choosing the chart that supports the desired trade.

Multi-timeframe analysisMarket regimeDirectional biasLocationSetup and trigger
Book cover of SWING TRADING MASTERY by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

SWING TRADING MASTERY

A Practical Guide to Price Action, Market Structure, Trading Setups, Risk Management, Backtesting, and Systematic Execution

SWING TRADING MASTERY is a practical, evidence-conscious guide to building a swing-trading process that can survive beyond an attractive chart. It begins by treating swing trading as a decision discipline: define the instruments you can actually monitor, understand how orders reach the market, read price without hindsight distortion, and build a weekly and daily workflow that fits the trader’s time, data and risk constraints. Trend, swing structure, support and resistance, multiple-timeframe analysis, volatility, ATR, volume, market regimes, breadth and intermarket context are developed as complementary layers rather than isolated indicators.

Swing tradingPrice actionMarket structureTrend and swing identificationSupport and resistance zones
Book cover of The Heikin Ashi Trading Strategy by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

The Heikin Ashi Trading Strategy

A Practical Guide to Trend Reading, Transformed Candles, Entries, Risk, and Testing

The Heikin Ashi Trading Strategy explains the transformed candle series as a smoothing and trend-reading tool while keeping it separate from the actual prices available for execution. A Heikin Ashi close is not the market close, and a visually clean transformed sequence can hide the size and volatility of the underlying bars. Entry, stop and backtest rules therefore have to reference executable market prices rather than assume the transformed chart itself can be traded.

Heikin AshiTransformed candlesTrend persistenceExecution pricesGap risk
Book cover of The Mathematical Anatomy of Moving Averages: by Faramarz Kowsari
Swing, Trend & Indicator Trading

The Mathematical Anatomy of Moving Averages:

Advanced Trading, Deep Quantitative Insight, and Professional Applications

The Mathematical Anatomy of Moving Averages treats a moving average as a model of market memory and a filter that estimates a slower market state rather than as a predictive line or guaranteed support level. Its 100-part architecture begins with foundations, then studies core moving averages, formulas, weights and failure modes before moving into advanced and adaptive smoothers, signal processing, statistical mathematics and parameter engineering.

Moving averagesSignal and noiseLag versus smoothnessSMA EMA WMA HMA KAMAConvolution and weights

2 BOOKS

Gold, Silver, Forex & Crypto

Market-specific books for XAUUSD, silver, currencies and crypto, with attention to volatility, sessions, liquidity and execution constraints.

Book cover of SILVER TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
Gold, Silver, Forex & Crypto

SILVER TRADING

XAGUSD Price Action, Silver Futures, Smart Money Concepts & Risk Management

SILVER TRADING is an evidence-led practical guide that connects the physical and industrial silver market with the instruments, price behavior, execution mechanics and risk decisions faced by active traders. It begins by separating silver from the simplified idea of being merely a cheaper form of gold. The book examines supply, recycling, industrial fabrication, inventories, macroeconomic forces, the gold-silver ratio and the global trading network, then asks a more important practical question: what exactly is being traded when a trader sees XAGUSD, a CFD, a futures contract, a metal-linked product or physical exposure on a screen?

Silver tradingXAGUSDSilver futuresSilver market structureIndustrial silver demand
Book cover of XAUUSD Scalping by Faramarz Kowsari
Gold, Silver, Forex & Crypto

XAUUSD Scalping

Trading Gold Intraday

XAUUSD Scalping begins with the mechanics and market structure that make short-horizon gold trading different: the exact product being traded, quote conventions, lot specifications, spreads, commissions, slippage and leverage. It maps the intraday clock through Asia, London, the London–New York overlap and New York event windows, then connects gold to conditional macro drivers such as the dollar, rates, inflation expectations, policy, risk and geopolitics without reducing those relationships to mechanical correlations.

XAUUSDGold scalpingTrading sessionsSpread and slippageLeverage

3 BOOKS

AI, Algorithmic & Systematic Trading

AI-assisted, algorithmic and reproducible trading workflows that turn ideas into rules, tests, data pipelines and controlled decision systems.

Book cover of AI Trading Agents & AI Trading Bots by Faramarz Kowsari
AI, Algorithmic & Systematic Trading

AI Trading Agents & AI Trading Bots

Building Smarter Trading Workflows

AI Trading Agents & AI Trading Bots treats an AI trading system as a governed workflow rather than a model attached directly to execution. It follows the path from evidence and market state through models, policy, abstention and independent risk to order-state reconciliation, portfolio constraints, testing, production architecture, security, graded autonomy and five end-to-end builds. The final sections study failure chains, backtest overfitting, uncertainty and controlled deployment, supported by implementation templates, checklists and incident dossiers.

Trading bots vs AI agentsAgentic trading loopsMarket data and provenanceFeature engineering and regimesNews and LLM inputs
Book cover of AI Trading with Chatbots by Faramarz Kowsari
AI, Algorithmic & Systematic Trading

AI Trading with Chatbots

A systematic trading title focused on turning trading ideas into structured, testable and repeatable workflows with disciplined risk control.

AI Trading with ChatbotsAI Trading with Chatbots booktrading and financial markets bookAI Trading with Chatbots guide
Book cover of AI-Assisted Crypto Futures by Faramarz Kowsari
AI, Algorithmic & Systematic Trading

AI-Assisted Crypto Futures

The Smart Three-Screenshot Method for Multi-Timeframe Futures Trading

AI-Assisted Crypto Futures builds a disciplined workflow around three clean screenshots: 1H for direction, 15M for the working zone and 5M for timing. Screenshots are treated as evidence rather than decoration, so each one must show the timeframe, recent swing points, active price area and enough history for the AI assistant to evaluate whether price is extended, balanced or structurally unclear. The prompt must ask for visible evidence, invalidation, risk and a reason to stand aside.

Crypto futuresThree-screenshot methodMulti-timeframe analysisMarket structureLiquidity and FVGs

2 BOOKS

Trading Risk, Execution & Professional Practice

Risk, funded accounts, institutional-vs-retail realities, process design, execution discipline and professional trading practice.

Book cover of Prop Firm / Funded Account Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
Trading Risk, Execution & Professional Practice

Prop Firm / Funded Account Trading

The Funded Trader Playbook — How to Pass Evaluations, Control Drawdown, Protect Funded Capital, and Build a Sustainable Payout Process

The Funded Trader Playbook reframes prop-firm trading as rule-constrained risk management rather than a race to hit a profit target. It begins with the economics and rule set of an evaluation, then treats the drawdown allowance as the trader's true operating account size. Daily loss, trailing drawdown, profit targets, trading targets and the failure boundary are translated into practical sizing and survival decisions.

Prop firmsFunded accountsEvaluation rulesDaily loss limitsTrailing drawdown
Book cover of YOU ARE NOT A HEDGE FUND by Faramarz Kowsari
Trading Risk, Execution & Professional Practice

YOU ARE NOT A HEDGE FUND

Institutional Trading vs. Retail Trading: Why Institutional Trading Logic Can Destroy a Retail Account

YOU ARE NOT A HEDGE FUND challenges one of retail trading's most seductive assumptions: that an institutional technique is automatically superior and therefore should be copied by a small personal account. The book argues that a trading practice cannot be separated from the balance sheet, liquidity, hedge capacity, infrastructure, mandate, governance, time horizon and failure tolerance that make it viable. A pension fund, dealer, hedge fund, bank execution desk and market maker can buy the same instrument for completely different economic reasons; copying the visible position without the surrounding risk architecture can import the exposure while leaving the protection behind.

Institutional trading versus retail tradingCapital mismatchBalance-sheet differencesTrading infrastructureInstitutional constraints

HOW TO USE THE COLLECTION

Choose by the problem you are trying to solve.

If charts feel noisy

Start with market structure, support and resistance, candlesticks, multi-timeframe analysis, trend tools, and price-action books that teach you how to reduce visual complexity before adding more indicators.

If entries look good but execution fails

Explore order flow, Level 2, DOM, footprint, volume profile, VWAP, futures mechanics, slippage, liquidity and execution-focused books.

If you trade liquidity and SMC concepts

Use the Smart Money and liquidity section for Fair Value Gaps, order blocks, liquidity sweeps, CHoCH/BOS, inducement, premium/discount zones, ICT concepts and related intraday structure.

If you want testable rules

Look for systematic, algorithmic, AI-assisted, backtesting and strategy-research titles that convert trading narratives into rules that can be checked, challenged and improved.

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About this trading-books showcase

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What trading subjects are covered?

The collection spans technical analysis, price action, market structure, Smart Money Concepts, order flow, futures, options, volatility, scalping, day trading, swing trading, gold, forex, crypto, risk management, execution, backtesting and algorithmic or AI-assisted trading.

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