Enhancing Trader Performance Book Review

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Title Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology
Author(s) Brett N. Steenbarger
Publish Date Nov-2006
Amazon Rank 177,120
ISBN 0470038667

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High quality tool for serious full time traders.
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Great tool for traders that are either struggling to achieve consistent profitability or who have reached a plateau in their trading progression. Anyone that wants to put in the hard work necessary to improve their trading performance needs to invest time in this book.

Highly structured logical approach carefully designed to facilitate the progression of a trader to achieve individual peak performance. Guides you through each level of trading from beginner to the highest level of professional trader.

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Trading is a performance discipline, and like Olympic athletes, elite military troops, and performing artists, traders can structure their development to achieve competence and expertise. Through his own trading experiences and those of individuals he has mentored, Dr. Brett Steenbarger is familiar with the challenges thattraders face and the performance and psychological strategies that can meet those challenges.
In his first book, The Psychology of Trading, Dr. Steenbarger provided a framework for understanding and overcoming the mental obstacles to successful trading. Now, in Enhancing Trader Performance, he goes a step further and shows you how to transform talent into trading skill through a structured process of expertise development.
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 marketsExplores how you can enter into a learning process that will cultivate your tradingcompetence and expertiseIntroduces the concept of learning loops, which enable you to make progressive improvements in your trading methodsBreaks down performance into three components-mechanics, tactics, and strategy-and examines the role of each in generating trading successIllustrates 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
When you enhance your performance as a trader, you replace a small piece of randomness with intention. This enables you to make more informed trading decisions as you make your way through today's dynamic markets. Filled with in-depth insights, practical advice, solid research, and detailed examples, Enhancing Trader Performance offers an innovative approach to market mastery.