The Trading Athlete

Winning the Mental Game of Online Trading

By: Shane Murphy

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Product code: 16912
ISBN: 0471418706
320 pages
Format: Hb
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

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Description of The Trading Athlete

Traders, just like athletes, face tremendous pressure, stress, and expectations that would crush the ordinary, unprepared individual. The Trading Athlete utilizes sport psychology strategies to provide you with the knowledge, confidence, and discipline needed to succeed and profit in the sink-or-swim world of online trading.

Using real-world examples of athletes and online traders, this book will help you reach the peak of your online trading performance with in-depth analysis of:

- Building confidence in good times and bad
- Handling losses by examining your methods
- Focusing and maintaining concentration
- Playing the game one trade at a time

Through sport psychology strategies exemplified by John Elway, Arthur Ashe, and other athletes, you will finally begin to trade and survive in the big leagues.

The Trading Athlete - Chapter headings

Introduction and Overview

The Mental Keys to Becoming a Masterful Online Trading Athlete

Setting and Achieving Your Goals

Confidence - The Foundation of Success

How Winners Handle Losing

How to Energize, Not Catastrophize, in Pressure Situations

Trading for Revenge: A Recipe for Disaster

Recovery from Trading Injuries: Overcoming Fear

Concentration: Tuning In to Success

Enjoying the Moment: Playing the Game One Trade at a Time

Post Game Wrap-Up

Extra Innings

Appendix

Authobiography of Shane Murphy

Shane Murphy, PhD (Trumbull, CT), is a prominent sports psychologist and a leading high-performance consultant to leading financial firms, including PaineWebber, Dreyfus, and J. W. Seligman Brokers. Doug Hirschhorn, MS (Morgantown, WV), is a performance consultant, professional stock and commodities trader, and cofounder of the popular website, FocusedTrader.com.