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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

Title Information

ISBN:

9780934380744

Pages:

120 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

14468

Publisher:

Traders Press

Published:

01/01/1970

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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