Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology

by Brett N. Steenbarger

Overview

Through his own trading experiences and those of individuals he has mentored, Dr. Brett Steenbarger is familiar with the challenges that traders face and the performance and psychological strategies that can meet those challenges. In Enhancing Trader Performance, Steenbarger shows you how to transform talent into trading skill through a structured process of expertise development and reveals how this approach can help you achieve market mastery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118428641
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Series:	Wiley Trading , #276
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

BRETT N. STEENBARGER, PHD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, and an active trader of the equity index markets. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics related to brief therapy, and is the author of The Psychology of Trading, also published by Wiley. As Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC, in Chicago, Dr. Steenbarger has mentored numerous professional traders and coordinated the training of new traders.

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Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Author’s Note xix

Chapter 1 Where Expertise Begins 1

Chapter 2 Finding Your Performance Niche as a Trader 20

Chapter 3 Building Competence 49

Chapter 4 Strategies for Cultivating Competence 78

Chapter 5 From Competence to Expertise 108

Chapter 6 Mechanics, Tactics, Strategies 135

Chapter 7 Performance Dynamics 164

Chapter 8 Cognitive Techniques for Enhancing Performance 192

Chapter 9 Behavioral Techniques for Enhancing Performance 213

Afterword The Making and Remaking of an Expert Trader 235

Conclusion 249

Appendix Resources for Performance 257

Bibliography 265

About the Author 273

Index 275