A visual guide to disciplined trading
The Practical Trader™ is a forthcoming, beginner-friendly guide that combines plain-language instruction with approximately 160 original charts and graphics.
A Complete Learning Path
Follow an eight-part progression from market foundations and mindset through evidence, risk management, buying, position management, and exits.
Risk Management
Learn how position sizing, scaling, inventory management, and disciplined execution can help readers manage market risk.
Evidence-Based Decisions
Meet the Four Witnesses—Trend, Volatility, Momentum, and Strength—and learn why one indicator rarely tells the entire story.
The Practical Trader™
The Practical Trader™ is a forthcoming visual trading guide by Steven Uhl. Through approximately 160 original charts and graphics, it introduces a disciplined process for understanding market behavior, organizing a watchlist, managing risk, buying and holding inventory, and deciding when to reduce or sell.
Inside The Practical Trader™
The manuscript follows a complete eight-part progression. Plain-language explanations, visual checkpoints, and repeatable routines help readers replace impulsive reactions with deliberate decisions.
Parts I–II: Foundations & Mindset
Understand markets, ownership, accounts, orders, price mechanics, discipline, emotional reactions, and daily routines.
Parts III–V: Numbers, Evidence & Risk
Use percentages, compounding, technical evidence, position sizing, and disciplined execution to manage decisions.
Part VI: Your Trading Universe
Build a focused watchlist using dividend quality, financial strength, diversification, and institutional ownership.
Parts VII–VIII: Inventory & Exits
Learn a structured approach to buying, adding, holding, selecting tax lots, reducing, and selling.
What readers will discover
The goal is not to predict every market move. It is to help readers observe evidence, manage risk, and make decisions that fit their lives.
Foundations
Build a working understanding of markets, ownership, accounts, orders, and price behavior.
Trader’s Mindset
Develop routines and checkpoints that separate deliberate execution from emotional reaction.
Risk Management
Explore deliberate position sizing, evidence-based scaling, and disciplined inventory management.
Written for beginner and developing traders
The Practical Trader™ is a forthcoming educational manuscript by Steven Uhl. Publication details will be announced as they become available. The book is educational, does not recommend particular securities, and does not promise profits or eliminate market risk.