Hi Folks.

Here's the long-awaited follow-up email I promised a couple of weeks ago about the new book I have coming out in a few days. I wanted to do this earlier but the storm issues have occupied most of my waking moments and have actually pushed back our deadlines as I keep getting knocked offline due to continuing storm related issues (the latest being the crackhead tree service that destroyed my internet connection right at the pole).

But enough of that. Let me talk a little bit about the book.

The backstory is probably longer than the book itself if I were to write it all out, so let me give you the shortest version I can.

Tom Z. and I spent a lot of time discussing Prop Firm Challenges about 18 months ago, and they looked interesting enough to me I began writing up a sort of White Paper on how to approach them.

Then a bunch of Prop Firms went under, and word leaked out via court proceedings that a lot of these firms existed solely to collect challenge fees and went out of their way to disqualify anyone who might have the skills to actually pass a challenge.

This is not to say all prop firms are scammers. Just a lot of them. There are a few that have been in the business for years and built up good reputations. But most of the newer ones just took everybody's money then disappeared.

So after watching that disaster unfold for a while, I stopped working on the White Paper.

Fast forward to earlier this summer, a kid named Devin got in touch with me to ask if I could help guide him through a challenge he had tried and failed to pass multiple times.

My first reaction was to advise him to give it up. Scams and all that.

But since he was working with one of the better prop firms I decided to walk him through the process of going from a sort of ground zero position to reaching a point where he could actually start spotting good entries with a high probability of seeing the trade move into profit.

After working with him for about 6 weeks (and sending him at least an email a day, and sometimes two) it dawned on me I had most of the working parts needed to put together a book.

And while some of the parts are or should be well known to anyone who had read anything I've written in the past (patience, discipline, money management) there were several other topics I've rarely mentioned outside of an email response to a specific question from a single trader (analytical and critical thinking, maximizing gains on minimal price moves, aka aggressive Renko box sizing, and a trade plan designed to help traders double their account in as little as 5 days, if they have the inclination to do so).

Between those emails and my dormant Prop Challenge White Paper, I had the makings of what I think is a pretty good book.

But what I came up with in the process was more than just the book. It's an all-encompassing package of information and tools designed to let even the greenest of new traders hit the ground running and start building out their own account or pass a prop firm challenge on their first try.

One of the sticking points Devin had was the method he was using previously looked much closer to a bowl of spaghetti than a tradeable chart. There was simply too much going on with his trading method and all the lines and dots and arrows and balls were simply too confusing.

I set him up with the PV2 system and even that was a bit too much for him to follow.

So I set him up with a single indicator called the Renko-Marsi and a Renko chart where getting ahead one Renko box was enough he could call it a day, and two Renko boxes a day for 5 days and he could double his account.

Renko-Marsi is a stunningly accurate tool for finding entries that move at least a single box into profit roughly 8 out of 10 times when used on charts like Gold and Oil (and the indices as well, although you need some fairly large lot sizes, such as 5 or 10 full lots, in order to make significant gains off one Renko box on an Index chart).

Included in the book is the trade plan we worked out (and which Devin followed, to his credit) that got him successfully through his next prop firm challenge and got him his first funded account.

And lastly is the checklist we put together that he learned to go through every day, just like airplane pilots do before they take off, to make sure everything is in its proper place before he takes his first trade. According to Devin, this one tool completely changed his approach to trading and forced him to learn how to wait for the "best of the best" entries. That in turn led him to start taking trades that consistently ended up in

the Win Column.

So there is The Book (entitled The Unconventional Day Trader), the software (including the Renko-Marsi indicator, along with the Renko EA and the Chart Buttons for MT4 and MT5 traders), the Trading Plan AND the Checklist, which make up the entire package.

The book will be available on its own through Amazon for $49, and I am putting the remainder of the items for sale as a package that will retail for $149.

But for the first 50 traders who buy the Book from me directly, the price for the entire package (book + software + trading plan + checklist) will be just $49. As a part of my deal the publisher is sending me 50 copies of the book. So these I will personally autograph (which I'm certain will drive down the value of the book on the secondary market) and send them as soon as I have them in hand.

And in the meantime I will email buyers a PDF copy of the book along with a link where you can immediately download the software and trading plan and checklist, so you don't have to wait for the delivery services to do their job before you can read and start using some of the ideas you'll see in the book.

There is nothing to do right now. My editor just emailed me her list of suggestions and I will be going over those tonight and tomorrow morning, and once any changes are made I'll send back the final version for printing, and at that point I'll send everyone a link to a page where you can snag a copy of the book and the rest of the package for about 75% Off retail.

But this is only good for the first 50, which is all the copies I'll have personally to sign and send out. And the last time I checked, around 800 of you regularly open my emails. So once you get the email saying the cart is open you'll want to head over immediately, because once the 50th copy is gone this offer is gone for good and I expect that will happen rather quickly.

And right now (Thursday afternoon, October 24th) it looks like the cart will be open on Saturday, the 26th of October, at some point, hopefully in the morning. But I will send out another email before then to give you a specific time and page link so you can be ready.

Jeff