Introduces a radical - and yet supremely rational - approach to risk. Rather than try to sideline emotions in decision making, the author lays out a practical and insightful way to harness emotions. She actually treats emotions as data; then uses that data to trade in a far more informed and insightful way.

The daily grind of the trader is always full of excitement, energy, adventure...and stress. In this groundbreaking book - written by a psychiatrist who specializes in stress management and performance enhancement - you'll learn techniques for coping with, and reducing, the specific unique stressors that particularly affect traders. The author presents case studies and personality profiles of real-life traders hampered and slowed by stress...and then describes practical techniques that can be used to handle destructive emotions and out-of-control feelings.

Presents a time-tested strategy for creating the conditions that allow you to reach levels of trading success you never thought possible. Providing expert insight into both trading practices and psychology, the author teaches you how to steadily cut losses short and meet your investment goals through position sizing.

Reveals techniques for identifying and exploiting the investment opportunities that arise when crowd-based groupthink causes markets to become overvalued or undervalued. See how to use technical indicators in combination with media headlines to measure crowd behavior and spot situations where it's time to take a position against the crowd.

Provides the tools to help you prioritorize both your trading goals and your life - and become your own trading psychologist. Includes 101 lessons, each of which first identifies a challenge traders face...then suggests an approach to meet that challenge...and finally provides a specific suggestion to implement that approach.

With rare insight based on his first-hand commodity trading experience, the author demonstrates why the beliefs learned to function effectively in society are often formidable psychological barriers in trading. After examining the causes for the development of losing attitudes, the book prepares the reader for a thorough "mental house cleaning" of deeply rooted concepts and traditional thought processes. It then shows the reader how to develop and apply attitudes and behaviors that transcend psychological obstacles and lead to success.

To succeed in trading, you must harmonize your trading systems with your emotions. This book examines your most common trading decisions from an emotional standpoint...and will help you act on what your analysis systems tell you.

Details a skill set of personal characteristics all traders must possess--or develop--in order to profit on a regular basis. Draws from the fields of psychology, spirituality and philosophy to demonstrate how adhering to a small number of core principles can vastly improve your chances of success. Learn to defeat fear, embrace change, develop intuition, control stress, and--finally--develop a game plan for trading success.

In this groundbreaking book, John Summa explains how to use popular gauges of crowd psychology--such as put/call ratios, short sales, option-implied volatility and advisory opinion--to trade against, or contrary to, prevailing market sentiment. Includes a unique new approach for quantifying news articles into a bullish vs. bearish intensity index...which is, in turn, built into profitable trading systems.

Simple human intuition can be an amazingly powerful tool when harnessed properly. "Original Turtle" Curtis Faith shows you how to sharpen, train and trust your instincts - and become a smarter and better trader. You'll also learn when NOT to trust your gut - and how to complement your instinct with systematic analysis. A ground-breaking and extremely practical trading guide.

This insightful book spells out the underlying reasons for a lack of consistently profitable trades, and--through simple exercises--teaches traders to think in terms of probabilities, while adopting the core beliefs necessary to assume a "winner's mindset." Offers specific solutions to the "human factor" problems of trading.