High Performance Trading 35 Practical Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Your Trading Psychology and Performance
Steve WardVision Books : High Performance Trading : Steve Ward : Book (ISBN: 8170948061) Pages: 312 Price: Rs. 495 Format: pb
ISBN13/10: 9788170948063 / 8170948061 Availability: Yes Published in 2011
How
to Become a High Performance Trader by Mastering Your Mind
Successful
trading calls for something more than a tested trading plan. Italso requires a winner's mindset, focus, discipline, mastery over your
emotions and an astute understanding of market psychology.
This book shows you how to think and act like a
successful trader and provides both practical mental techniques and proven
trading strategies to help you raise your trading performance to new levels of
success:
How
to stack the odds in your favour by setting trading goals
How
to develop a high performance trading plan
How
to overcome hesitation and fear and pull the trigger at the right time
Simple
techniques to manage your emotions, cope with trading stress, manage
losses, setbacks and errors
How
to achieve
greater consistency and confidence in your trading
How
to track your trading performance
How
to develop trading practices and routines that lead to success
How
to avoid the common pitfalls of trading.
Based
on the author's real-life coaching expertise and experience, and packed with
latest research insights from leading traders, trading coaches and trading
psychologists, this book will help you become a high performance trader,
irrespective of your present abilities, experience and trading style.
Reviews
"A very important book . . . especially from a mental perspective. I wholly recommend this book to every trader, both novice as well as advanced." — Lex Van Dam, Hedge Fund Manager
Steve Ward
Steve
Ward is a performance consultant, trader performance coach, director of High
Performance Trading and has traded FX and stock indices. He provides specialised
trader performance and psychology coaching and training programmes for traders
in the retail, proprietary and institutional sectors, and provides consultancy
to trading and financial institutions across the globe working in the areas of
trader recruitment, selection, assessment, training and development. Steve has
extensive experience as an in-house performance coach and trainer for leading
trading institutions, and in co-managing a large team of over 40 professional
traders in London. He was a consultant to the BBC TV series Million Dollar
Traders and is a regular trainer at the
London
Stock Exchange.
Steve
has a history of working with elite level performers including athletes and
sports teams at world championship and Olympic level. His work utilises
techniques and strategies from sports and performance psychology, cognitive
behavioural and performance coaching, and behavioural finance, to help traders
to develop the success skills and winning mindset required to achieve their
trading goals.