About Jeff Cooper

There are no gurus. Only cycles.

37 years in markets: from the famous Drexel Burnham office in Beverly Hills, to his father Jack's hedge fund, to creating the Hit and Run methodology and two books in the late 1990s.

37 YrsIn Markets
1996Founded
2Trading Books
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Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper
Founder · Hit and Run Trading
EST. 1996
1980s → Today

The path

Career, charted like a trend
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MENTOR
LAUNCH
PUBLISHED
METHOD
▲ Today
1980s
Drexel Burnham, Beverly Hills

Career begins researching the price fluctuations of financial assets at the famous office.

Then
Jack Cooper's hedge fund

"Stocks don't move, they are moved." Learning the game beside his father.

1996
Hit and Run newsletter

Daily market timing plus the structure of primary, secondary and short-term trends.

1990s
Two books

Hit and Run Trading I & II define the methodology for short-term traders.

2005
New Swing Chart Method

DVD course mapping the SPX from 1941: phases of trend and Time/Price square-outs.

Philosophy

Time is more important than price

"The difference between success and failure in trading is the difference between one man knowing and following fixed rules and the other man guessing."
JEFF COOPER

Macro has too many parameters for anyone to get it consistently right on every time frame. The charts are the only real edge in a world of algomatics gone wild.

On Wall Street the bromides are that "price is truth" and "only price pays." Yes, but price is a function of time. The news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Our analysis integrates Time & Price with the Square of 9 Time & Price Calculator, 3 Day and 3 Week Charts, and an arsenal of proven patterns. Whether we like it or not, as traders we are all in the pattern recognition business.

Speculation is observation: pure and experiential. Thinking isn't necessary and often just gets us in trouble.

Major Calls · S&P 500, 2000 → 2022

Try doing this without a tool that integrates Time & Price.

▼Top Called ▲Low Called
Read The Reports→
▼MAR 2000
▼AUG 2000
▲OCT 2002
▼OCT 2007
▲MAR 6, 2009
▲DEC 2018
▼JAN 2020
▼OCT 2021
200020042008201220162020
01 ▼MAR 2000 The top, within one day. ±1 DAY
02 ▼AUG 2000 The late-August secondary top. SECONDARY
03 ▲OCT 2002 The week of the bear market low. TO THE WEEK
04 ▼OCT 2007 The week of the bull market top. TO THE WEEK
05 ▲MAR 6, 2009 The bear market low, to the day. TO THE DAY
06 ▲DEC 2018 The Christmas Crash low. THE LOW
07 ▼JAN 2020 Forecast that markets were on the cusp of a crash. FORECAST
08 ▼OCT 2021 "The market will get hit hard in January to kick off a bear market." FORECAST

Books & courses

cover
BOOK
Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders’ Bible
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cover
BOOK
Hit and Run Trading II: Capturing Explosive Short-Term Moves in Stocks
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cover
DVD COURSE
Unlocking Profits with the New Swing Chart Method
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