How This Dancer Made $2,000,000 Trading Stocks Part-Time | The Story of Nicolas Darvas

This video is a sneak preview of the ongoing Historical Analysis Masterclass with Market Historian John Boik. In the 10 Webinar class we are covering Legendary Traders, their common traits, The Best Stocks of All time, how to catch the next ones, and all the market cycles going back to the 1900s.

10 Comprehensive Live Webinars covering Legendary Traders, Monster Stocks, and Market Cycles
230+ Page Textbook which culminates 20+ years of Research
460+ Slides compiling the material
Special Guests: Hedge Fund Managers, United States Investing Champions
2 Bonus eBooks for every student ( How To Make Money In Stocks by O'Neil and Monster Stock Lessons by John)

Do you want to learn how to trade profitably in the stock market? In this video, we dive into Nicolas Darvas's life and legendary trading strategies. Darvas was a professional dancer who turned $36,000 into over $2 million in the 1950s using his unique "Box Theory" trading system.

Here's what we'll cover:

• Darvas' incredible journey to stock market riches.
• The failures that led him to develop his successful strategy.
• The core principles of his Box Theory and how to apply them.
• Secrets of strict loss control and pyramiding winners.
• How to identify high-potential stocks breaking through resistance.

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Timestamps
0:00 The Story of Nicolas Darvas
4:55 Darvas's Failures
8:00 Successes and making 2,000,000
17:37 Darvas's Best Stocks
18:18 Darvas's Strategy and Box Method
21:32 Best Quotes
22:55 Excerpts
28:00 Universal Controls Trade - Darvas Box Method

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👇 What you get in the full course!

10 Comprehensive Live Webinars covering Legendary Traders, Monster Stocks, and Market Cycles
230+ Page Textbook which culminates 20+ years of Research
460+ Slides compiling the material
Special Guests: Hedge Fund Managers, United States Investing Champions
2 Bonus eBooks for every student ( How To Make Money In Stocks by O'Neil and Monster Stock Lessons by John)

[Flinsenberger]

Darvas' first book is absolutely phenomenal. It is even funny! When he starts to invest and makes every mistake in the book and always proclaims that he knows what he is doing and great riches are just around the corner.

[TenTonNuke]

It's fascinating how EVERY trader starts off with that one lucky trade picked randomly. Seeing how "easy it is" to quadruple your money is like the dopamine hit of a brand new drug. Then the drug wears off as you fail to repeat, but you keep chasing that high. Until finally it's not even about the high anymore. You just learn to appreciate the craft for what it is.

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Timestamps
0:00 The Story of Nicolas Darvas
4:55 Darvas's Failures
8:00 Successes and making 2, 000, 000
17:37 Darvas's Best Stocks
18:18 Darvas's Strategy and Box Method
21:32 Best Quotes
22:55 Excerpts
28:00 Universal Controls Trade - Darvas Box Method

[gf]

I absolutly love Jon Boik. Got all his books. Fantastic content 👌

[sp-yeht]

Just Awesome..very lucid explanation & beautiful slides.. Thank you both, & yes of course to Darvas for his knowledge..

[TheAnnieApplePie]

Great video! Thank you Richard and John!

[ESM]

One of the most helpful books on trading that I have ever read. I go back to it when I feel like I am not doing well in the market.

[rocketmangenesis]

Darvas used higher highs and higher lows with volume. That is the box. That is all. One tool that every capable technical analyst knows today.

[mateymate]

Great story telling, entertaining and insightful, looking forward to the next episode! 👍🏼

[NickDrendel]

Every trader should be required to read Darvas’ book. Great thumbnail too 🔥

[KT-zxjr]

Good work n thanks. What I really enjoy is seeing the common pattern all good traders share. Thanks.

[albertofernandez-sanguino]

Darvas' book - always re-read it EVERY summer on vavaction along with Edwin Lefèvre book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
BTW, just out of curiosirty, how come John Boik doesn't mention any trades from 1962 to 1973? That's an 11 year gap.... Did Darvas stop trading??

[mrdanforth]

There are 2 important lessons in Darvas' book. One is his description of the mental and emotional journey he took in learning to trade. Every trader goes thru a similar learning experience, this book is a helpful guide or at least reassurance. The second lesson is his trading method, do not be dismissive, it seems simple but it works. If you are a technical trader at heart it will make sense to you, if you are a fundamentalist it won't, in that case it may be better to go elsewhere for lessons.

[bbwidth]

Every event & news gets reflected in price action.

[BODGE]

Where can I find John's top 15 book list?

[smeshnoymatvey]

A dancer buys few stocks that are at all time high, holds them as long as they are going up, uses a trailing stop and makes lots of money.

Totally opposite of a day-trader scalping options on 5 minute chart.

[roshakchinapalli]

is the universal controls chart wrong? 2-1 split, because wont it hit the stop loss?

[freedominfaith]

Please what’s the title of the book he recommended in the start of the video ?

[yuliantow]

For Universal control, it rises 400% in a year. What stock/asset that can do like that in the past 10 years? maybe just crypto