Publications

Enhancing Trader Performance

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2007
Updated
2008
Full Name
Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology

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 skills through a structured process of expertise development and reveals how this approach can help you achieve market mastery.

Straightforward and accessible, this comprehensive guide:

  • Discusses the importance of finding an optimal fit between your trading talents and interests; the markets you trade, and the ways you trade those markets
  • Explores how you can enter into a learning process that will cultivate your trading competence and expertise
  • Introduces the concept of learning loops, which enable you to make progressive improvements in your trading methods
  • Breaks down performance into three components—mechanics, tactics, and strategy—and examines the role of each in generating trading success
  • Illustrates how you can coach yourself with practical cognitive and behavioral techniques that rapidly change problem patterns and build new, positive ways of thinking and behaving