— BOOKS BY LOUW VAN RIET —

The LibraryMind · Method · Money

Two books. One framework. The first teaches you how markets work. The second shows you what happens when they don’t.

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The Complete Trader's Edge book cover by Louw van Riet

VOL · I

The Complete Trader’s Edge

The framework, taught from the ground up.

Seventy chapters across three pillars — Mind, Method, and Money — built over fifteen years of staring at charts, blowing up accounts, and reluctantly figuring out what actually works.

This is the book I needed when I started, written for the trader who’s tired of guru tweets and ready for a real system.

70Chapters
499Pages
3Pillars
15YOf Edge

Market Mayhem book cover by Louw van Riet

VOL · II
★ NEW · NOW ON KINDLE

Market Mayhem

Four hundred years of bubbles, crashes, and the pattern that keeps repeating.

From the tulip fields of 1637 to the crypto collapse of 2022, the worst financial disasters in history all followed the same blueprint. Read this book and you stop seeing isolated incidents — you start seeing the pattern.

The framework, applied backwards through four centuries of mayhem.

22Chapters
400Years
18Disasters
1Pattern
— THE COMPANION —

The Trading Journal

The book teaches the framework. The journal is how you live it day to day.

The Complete Trader's Edge Journal — companion to the book

The Complete Trader’s Edge Journal

200 pages · 8.5×11 · 90-day system

A structured journal built around the Mind · Method · Money framework. Pre-session checklists, trade logs, weekly review prompts, and 90 days of reflection space. The discipline tool the book asks of you, made easy.

— THE SHARED FRAMEWORK —

One lens. Every book.

Both books — and every podcast, every article, every chart — sit on the same three pillars. Master them once, see them everywhere.

I

Mind

Greed, fear, the herd, the comforting story. Every trading problem is a psychology problem first.
II

Method

The system. Setups, entries, exits, the mechanical rules that turn a guess into an edge.
III

Money

Position sizing, drawdown, ruin. When the unwind comes, only money rules survive.
— ON THE HORIZON —

More volumes in the works.

Each book serves the same framework. Each one approaches it from a different angle.

2026

The Complete Trader’s Edge · Youth Edition

The framework rewritten for teenagers — same M·M·M, with characters, Boss Fights, and stories that meet them where they are.

2026 / 2027

Market Mayhem · The Companion

The deep-dive workbook for the bubbles. Field notes, pattern checklists, and a guide to spotting the next one before it forms.

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Start with either book.
End up reading both.

The framework teaches the system. The history shows you why the system matters.

— Mind · Method · Money —
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