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12 Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
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    • Product code: 14468
    • ISBN: 0934380740, ISBN13: 9780934380744, 120 pages, paperback
      Published by Traders Press on 2001
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    Description of 12 Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders

    The mental aspect of trading contributes more to the success or failure of a trader than the system he uses, the trading rules he uses, or any other factor. This important new book discusses in detail twelve habitudes (habits and attitudes) that are vital to trading success and teaches you how to develop the mental and emotional skills essential to successful trading.

    These habits and attitudes are:

    - Preparedness
    - Detachment
    - Willingness to Accept Loss
    - Taking Controlled Risk
    - Thinking in Probabilities
    - Being Comfortable with Uncertainty
    - Consciousness of Abundance
    - Optimism
    - Open Mindedness and larity of Thought and Perception
    - Courage
    - Discipline

    Contents of 12 Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders

    Introduction

    The Habitudes
    An overview of the habitudes. Self-test on the twelve habitudes.

    1. The Habitude of Preparedness
    Psychological preparation
    Strategic Preparation
    Position sizing and money managment
    Data and information
    Commitment to trading
    Goal setting technique

    2. The Habitude of Detachment
    The issue of identity
    Focus on the process
    Creating Boundaries
    Perceptual positions, a new perspective
    Revuilding the ego
    An anxiety cure

    3. The Habitude of Willingness to Accept Loss
    Simple cost of doing usiness
    What is and is not your job
    Expecting to win
    The Impasse
    Growing losses
    A story of terrible trading
    The need to think differently
    Resistance to loss can create loss
    Overcoming resistance
    Loss as feedback

    4. The Habitude of Taking Controlled Risk
    The risktakers
    Playing the odds
    A lifestyle tendency
    Excitement or fear
    Control
    Flow
    Individual differences

    5. The Habitude of Thinking Probabilities
    The wildness lies in wait
    All we really have are probabilities
    Guide of life
    Scientific enhancements
    Probabilities overcome self-doubt an condemnation
    Keep you in a balanced frame of mind
    Probabilities remove the ego
    Probabilities as power

    6. The Habitude of Being Comfortable with Uncertainty
    An essential for trading
    Finding the rick opportunity in the unknowable
    Benefits of uncertainty
    The need to be right
    A story
    The open mind
    Asking the right questions
    The art and excitement of the unknowable

    7. The Habitude of Taking the Long Term View
    An adult perspective
    Balance and equanimity
    Don't sweat the small stuff
    Stop doing what doesn't work
    Viewing drawdowns as temporary
    Gaining clarity
    An elusive concept that serves you

    8. The Habitude of Abundance Consciousness
    Scarcity at the root of trading problems
    Limited pie or unlimited abundance
    Abundance and power to overcome setbacks
    How scarcity effects trading
    Breaking the profit ceiling
    Valuing wealth
    Affirming and focusing on abundance

    9. The Habitude of Optimism
    Optimistic about the future
    An explanatory style
    Optimistic traders
    Pessimistic traders
    Realistic in the present
    The importance of the meaning we give events
    EEC test
    The ability to change

    10. The Habitude of Open Mindedness and Clarity
    of Thought and Perception
    The problem of bias
    A matter of identity
    Dangers of bias in trading
    Some words as clues
    Indicators as lie detectors
    Value of feedback
    The truth shall make you free

    11. The Habitude of Courage
    Creating an increased capacity for courage
    Asking courageous questions
    Courage: not recklessness
    The importance of respect for all aspects of trading
    The Hero's Journey

    12. The Habitude of Discipline
    Education and control of the self
    Integrity of thought and action
    Setting goals and acting in support of them
    Doing, not trying
    Specific trading guidelines
    Trading as an art and adventure
    A balanced approach


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