It's not enough to simply know how to think or what to think. It's important to do it. This book outlines proven techniques for making the necessary mind shifts that will enable a trader to create a mental winning edge. Written by an active trader with a thriving business in coaching fellow traders to reach their peak performance.

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.

Two books, originally published in the 19th Century, are combined here into one. Each gives extraordinary insight into the madness, manias and mistakes of crowd psychology. The relevant sections of each market classic join up here in this abridged edition.

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.

This authoritative yet jargon-free mental toughness training manual offers a complete psychology regimen that interweaves psychoanalysis, learning theory, social psychology, creative visualization, and hard-earned trading savvy. A potent plan is presented detailing how to: lose less on bad trades and make more on profitable ones . . . learn and improve from setbacks . . . avoid being a slave to the market . . . master the market by mastering yourself . . . and find trading systems best suited to 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.

This highly anticipated second edition of his runaway bestseller delivers Tharp's 14-step model for developing a profitable system as well as his latest methods and techniques for winning in any market. Cuts right to the essence of professional trading: how to develop winning attitudes and approaches...how to trade for "expectancy"...how to master position sizing, and much more.

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.

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.