The Trading Athlete: Winning the Mental Game of Online Trading

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"The best traders in the world know that being mentally prepared is absolutely essential to compete in today's markets. Without a firm understanding of the psychology of trading, even the best stock picker will fail. The Trading Athlete gives specific instruction on how new and seasoned traders can keep themselves at the top of their mental game."-Tim Bourquin, Cofounder, TraderInterivews.com and The Online Trading Expo

"This book is a great training camp for online traders. Doug and Shane will provide the knowledge and motivation to help you become a successful trader."-Jonathan Markowitz, Partner, SMW Trading Co., Inc.

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.

Customer Reviews:

nice read but not sufficiently hands on.......2006-02-21

At first, i was enthoused by the uplifting style in which the book is written. That is an asset in itselft as it contributes to giving you a positive attitude. But once you have finished the book and try to elaborate some plan to implement some long term goals, you reckon that there is no specific help on how to define short term goals which is in essence the most important message of the book. It is apparent that the autors have extensive experience sport psychology and i think the book is actually more helpful if you are into weight lifting than into trading as it is somewhat more difficult to formulate goals that relate to emotional issues than easily measurable results in sports (power, speed etc.) and fixing short term monetary goals is counterproductive as the book states itself as the most important thing in trading is consistency. So there is no information on how to put the ideas into practise which considerabely decreases the practical value of the book.

Light reading.......2004-01-01

Buy Elder's trading for a living. This book is so light that I read it in one night and listed it on Amazon to sell the next day.

The concept is okay. The book is not........2003-09-07

I did have great expectation on this book. I had been quite disappointed. Instead of elaborating on the similarities for playing pro sports and trading, it's more like a business management book emphasizing on setting achievable, strategic, measurable, controllable, flexible and positive goals of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly time span. I am not kidding. The authors did put tables of the above goals for you to fill in te blank. Though the authors also had chapters on motivation, concentration, pressure handling, routine setting, loss handling stuff but the coverage of them, in my opinion as a veteran trader and frequent trading book lover, were far from sufficient and sophisticated to help traders to turn themselves into a pro athlete and win this highly competitive game. The analogy is brilliant, but is only limited to the title. The content is not. It's just like reading one of those common psychology or life management books.

get your psyche straight!.......2003-02-14

this book gives you a step by step approach to getting, and maintaining the proper mind set needed to trade successfuly.
easy reading, and recommended.

Trader, Know Thyself.......2002-04-16

For both new and experienced traders, The Trading Athlete is a welcome addition to the subject of understanding the importance of trading psychology. Trading is a very difficult profession if you are not mentally prepared. By using sports analogies and comparing the athlete to the trader, the authors provide an easy-to-understand approach to the subject matter. Having traded equities and futures for the past eight years, I've concluded that conquering trading psychology is 90% of the battle to becoming a consistent and profitable trader. Trading psychology is such a critical aspect of trading that I included two chapters on the subject in my book Day Trading on the Edge: A Look Before You Leap Guide to Extreme Investing.

The authors, a sports psychologist and online trader (with prior trading experience at the CME and CBOT, and currently a trading coach) have produced a clearly written, easy-to-read book that supplements books by Dr. Alexander Elder, Ari Kiev, and Mark Douglas among the best books on trading psychology.

The major subjects covered in this book include:
- Mental keys
-Confidence building and dealing with failure
-How to handle losses
-Replacing negative thinking with productivity
-Handling pressure
-Why trading for revenge is a disaster
-How to overcome fear and prevent panic
-How to concentrate
-Enjoying your success

Each chapter is sprinkled with appropriate quotes that bring home the key points.

The Trading Athlete provides a self-evaluation form covering: goal setting, confidence, positive trading attitude, energizing, anger management, pressure, concentration, and flow. It also provides actual relaxation strategies to reduce stress

Also included in an appendix is a summary of the key points (4-10 or more) of each chapter. There are also very useful worksheets that can be used to record your own mission statement including your strengths, weaknesses, and goals. Additional worksheets are provided for recording your trading rules, goals for the week, month and year with checklists to determine if you are meeting them. Another worksheet covers a weekly performance log for recording each trade, its outcome and your comments about it.

Book Description

This new edition provides students with a solid foundation in the concepts of sport and exercise psychology and their application in exercise and sport settings. New texts now come packaged with PowerWeb: Health & Human Performance!

Mental Toughness: A Champion's State of Mind

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A Home Run
Clint Myers ASU Head Softball Coach

Mental Toughness: A Champion's State of Mind
Karl Kuehl
Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance

ASIN: 1566636175

Book Description

Working from a vast combined experience in professional baseball, the authors have broken down the elements of mental toughness into an easily understood package. Not only baseball players but other athletes as well as managers, coaches, and parents can learn how elements like attitude, confidence, and the ability to focus and make adjustments are built and how they can help players reach their maximum performance. With a Foreword by Tony La Russa. A must-read for future athletes and non-athletes alike. --Mark McGwire

Customer Reviews:

A Home Run.......2006-05-23

You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy MENTAL TOUGHNESS. The premises, examples and advice are universal for anyone seeking to improve the game of life. It is a book that can be read many times and each time the reader will gain insights to help reach their potential be it as an athlete, or a professional or amateur in any field. It is a must read for anyone trying to improve their game. The examples of real baseball experiences bring home the importance of the mental aspect of any challenge.

Clint Myers ASU Head Softball Coach.......2006-05-06

The mental part of the athlete's game will determine their personal success and development. This book teaches individuals how to learn control over the dynamics of life. There is great insight into areas of character, values, focus, concentration and confidence. This book is required reading for the ASU Softball team and has helped all of us make positive adjustments in our lives both on and off the field.

Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest Athletes

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Bunch of succes stories, but no real advice
absolutely worth reading
Outstanding book - enhanced my sales career
Still a winning formula
The One to Have

Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest Athletes
Charles A. Garfield , and Hal Zina Bennett
Manufacturer: Warner Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0446391158

Customer Reviews:

Bunch of succes stories, but no real advice.......2007-01-16

The author provides many stories about people who operate in a zone with peaks of performance but provides little advice on how to enter this zone.

absolutely worth reading.......2005-01-16

as a college student athlete, i was assigned to read this book for a sport psychology class. I found it very interesting and followed the phases of each section. After reading this book, i have found myself applying many of its lessons in my athletic performances as well as everyday tasks. This book was borrowed from my professor and even as a broke college student I can't wait to get my own copy in the mail. I highly reccomend this book.

Outstanding book - enhanced my sales career.......2004-07-06

Although this book appears to be only for sports and the athletic minded, Dr. Garfield also provides examples on how to use these techniques in business as well.

I used Dr. Garfield's techniques in the late 1980's and it made a significant difference in my sales career. I blew past previous limits and won sales contest after sales contest. The techniques work.

I noticed a previous reviewer mentioning NLP techniques. I know of many NLP practioners who wholly endorse Dr. Garfield and in the techniques are similiar. Both involve visualization. Dr. Garfield offers techniques that are not quite as complicated and deliver the same or similiar, or in some cases, better results.

Highly recommended if you can still get a copy. I also have a set of tapes by Dr. Garfield that he did for Nightingale-Conant back in the 80's.

Still a winning formula.......2004-07-03

How unfortunate that this great book with it's fantastic principles has been left behind in the wake of newer technologies like NLP.

I first became aware of Dr. Garfield back in 1984 when I was preparing for an athletic competition. I bought Peak Performance, began doing the exercises starting with volition using clusters and the other visualization exercises and it made a huge difference.

When going through a box of old books, I came across this book and started doing the exercises again. Still a winning formula, in my opinion as effective as NLP and a definite under-rated and nearly forgotten but excellent book.

The One to Have.......2002-06-07

This book really is one the definitive discussions of mental training from the first chapter where Charles Garfield describes an actual experience with, and the remarkable results of, Soviet-style mental training. The exercises are generally excellent (although I found some of the exercises for planning to be a little bit difficult to follow). I believe that if you're serious about this subject, you have to read this book.

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Mental Athlete is the most beneficial book I've ever read!

The Mental Athlete
Kay Porter
Manufacturer: Human Kinetics
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Binding: Paperback

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What Makes Winners Win: Over 100 Athletes, Coaches, and Managers Tell You the Secrets of Success

ASIN: 0736046542

Book Description

The Mental Athlete is the applied sport psychology handbook for competitors and coaches. It contains exercises, tests, and worksheets that will guide you through the steps of mental achievement for improved performance.

This conditioning manual for the mind helps you

-enhance mental strengths and address weaknesses through effective self-assessments,
-increase confidence in personal abilities and overcome the fear of failure,
-heighten awareness of inner-thought processes and learn ways to improve them, and
-initiate action and respond intuitively and positively to challenges.

Maximize your physical skills by fully developing your mental skills. Perform your best with The Mental Athlete!

Customer Reviews:

Mental Athlete is the most beneficial book I've ever read!.......2006-02-24

This is the best mental training book that I have ever found. In 1985 I was on the National Team for my sport, but I was not up to par for the other aspects of my sport. I found "The Mental Athlete" and it totally changed my athletic life. The book teaches you how to visualize, do relaxation exercise, run mental training programs, etc. Even though it is not specific to my sport, you can incorporate the techniques into any sport. It is an amazing book. It is not a boring, hard to understand technical book, it is written very well. This book took me from a good athlete to a National Champion (many times over). This book is worth it's weight in gold.

Mental Training for Peak Performance: Top Athletes Reveal the Mind Exercises They Use to Excel

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Paying it forward.
it's a good book, but...
Mental Training for Peak Performance
ugh!
Great Book

Mental Training for Peak Performance: Top Athletes Reveal the Mind Exercises They Use to Excel
Steven Ungerleider
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0875962823

Book Description

Mental Training for Peak Performance teaches you that sweat isn't enough."To play well, you have to learn to channel the emotions, both the highs and the very lows."--Pete Sampras, number-one ranked tennis player in 1994"If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face."--Margaret Groos, 1988 Olympic marathoner"If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone."--Benji Durden, 1980- Olympic Marathon TeamBefore you can win on the track, court, links or slopes, you have to win in your head. Now, a top sports psychologist reveals the mental strategies champion athletes use to excel in a variety of sports, from cycling to downhill skiing, marathon running to mountain biking, golf to tennis.Includes strategies used by:Mark Plaatjes, 1993 world marathon champRebecca Twigg, winner of the 1993 World Cycling ChampionshipPicabo Street, 1994 Olympic silver-medal skierChuck Hoga, professional golfer and coach to Peter Jacobson, Johnny Miller, Ray Floyd, Mike Reid and Duffy WaldorfJanet Evans, four-time gold-medal Olympic swimmerMike Pigg, number two-ranked triathlete in the world

Customer Reviews:

Paying it forward........2007-06-30

I read this book several years ago, and I think I received it as an incentive for continuing my subscription with Runner's World magazine. Although I've tried, I'm not sure the information in this book has helped my amateur performances. While the information in Mental Training is helpful, I think it lends itself more to the demands of professional athletic success. And though I continue to experiment with viusalization techniques (in all aspects of life), my practical expectations are now a bit more realistic.

it's a good book, but..........2006-02-12

I have read this book and others with the similar perspective. It's a quite applied volumen, but I prefer other with a theoretical+practical perspective... I have used it with my students, but I have needed other books...

Mental Training for Peak Performance.......2005-08-30

A well researched and written book with some very sound advice. It covers relaxation, imaging and visualisation with practical examples of how to go about the processes. It also explains the relevance and the benefits an athlete can derive from using these techniques.

ugh!.......2004-05-28

I don't want a book of charts and stuff, I want a book that talks straight forward and tells of things to help, not showing me lines and dots.

Great Book.......2004-03-30

This book is a gold mine of information about the awesome power of visualization.

It's filled with practical information and theories, with lots of PROOFS to scientifically validate the theories contained within. Highly Recommended.

Zev Saftlas, Author of Motivation That Works: How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated

Case Studies in Sport Psychology (The Jones and Bartlett Series in Health and Physical Education)
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Case Studies in Sport Psychology (The Jones and Bartlett Series in Health and Physical Education)
Bob Rotella
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ASIN: 0763703559

Book Description

The use of case studies is a well-established and effective learning method in business, law, and medical school, but its use is new to the field of sport psychology. As the practice of sport psychology requires analysis of problems and decision making on a daily basis, the cases presented afford students the opportunity to think critically about practical situations and generate solutions to issues and problems. Rotella's new text offers realistic situations to encourage the process of contemplation issues, posing and answering relevant questions, discussing alternatives, and applying strategies. The cases are easily incorporated into class discussion and encourage relating theory to practice. Questions at the end of each case can be used to spur and provide direction to discussion.

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Disordered Eating Among Athletes
Katherine A. Beals
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Book Description

Disordered Eating Among Athletes: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals will increase your understanding of eating disorders among athletes and give you the practical information to manage athletes in need. The book synthesizes, integrates, and evaluates the latest research on disordered eating as it pertains to both male and female athletes.

Disordered Eating Among Athletes: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals provides a wealth of both scientific research and practical application that will enable personal trainers, athletic trainers, and other health and fitness professionals to work with and counsel athletes with eating disorders. It presents an in-depth discussion of the etiology, identification, prevention, and management of eating disorders among athletes. The book gives athletic trainers, athletic administrators, and other professionals practical examples they can use to create their own successful eating disorder screening and prevention programs.

The book contains many features designed to help you learn about and treat eating disorders: · An entire chapter devoted to profiling successful eating disorder treatment programs · Numerous appendixes including case studies, educational resources about eating disorders, nutritional guidelines, and screening surveys · Chapter objectives and chapter summaries

The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of disordered eating among athletes, including the psychopathology and etiology. The second part illustrates the effects of disordered eating on the health and performance of the athlete. The third part covers identification, prevention, treatment, and management of disordered eating in athletes.

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Revitalize your current practice!

Dr. Lesyk has drawn masterfully from the helping professions and the exercise sciences to present a detailed map of the intersections of psychotherapy, exercise, mental skills, and athletic performance. Above all, this is a ?useful' book.
--Mark B. Andersen, coordinator, Post Graduate Research Studies, Centre for Rehabilitation, Exercise, & Sport Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Apply the winning techniques of sport psychology to your current practice?and in so doing, attract a new population of clients, including both serious and recreational athletes, women, seniors, and kids at all levels of skill and experience. The author, a successful clinical and sport psychologist, gives detailed advice on the best way to include sport psychology in an existing practice. He also demonstrates how to apply cognitive-behavioral and social learning theories within a sport psychology context.

Filled with illustrative examples, this book provides suggestions for using sport psychology techniques when working with common nonsport-related issues, such as depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Also covered are clinical techniques for sport-specific issues, including training, competition, injury, failure, and success.

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MACH 4 WILL ENHANCE YOUR PERFORMANCE AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE The MACH 4 Mental Training SystemTM is unique because it teaches how to develop empowering relationships between parents, coaches, and athletes: how to produce an independent, strong, and confident athlete; and how to create a powerful partnership between the mind and the body. Incorporating this easy, fast, fun System into your practice sessions will give you the mental edge to win. Imagine being able to train the mind while training technique. MACH 4 is most powerful when things are not going your way. It keeps you strong and confident in the face of adversity. MACH 4 helps you learn how to eliminate the emotions that cause you to lose. Train with MACH 4, and you will never give away "free points" again. Is there any better way to prepare for athletic competition? If you agree with me, then Mach 4 is the training System for you!

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