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- Product code: 17930
- ISBN: 0934380910,
ISBN13: 9780934380911,
155 pages, paperback
Published by Traders Press on 2003
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Description of Overcoming 7 Deadly Sins of Trading |
Veteran trader and trading coach Ruth Roosevelt shows you how to overcome 7 psychological and emotional barriers to trading success.
Readers of her earlier books know the deep insights that she provides for traders to develop a winning attitude and mindset.
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Contents of Overcoming 7 Deadly Sins of Trading |
• Preface
• Introduction: SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF TRADING
• One: THE SIN OF FEAR
The Most Ubiquitous of Trading Emotions. A Future Based Emotion. The Choice: Fear or Excitement. The Importance of a Sense of Control. Fear vs. Intuition. Fear as Protection. The Responses to Fear: Flight, Fight, and Freeze-up. Desire Replacing Fear. Accepting Your Emotions and Acting Anyway. Courage Overcoming Fear. Creating and Uncreating Fear. Minimizing Fear to Caution. Mental Clarity as Antidote to Fear. Don’t Fear What You Can Do Nothing About. Confidence not Fear. Allowing in the Love of Trading. An Exercise: Circle of Power. Taking a Fear Inventory and Adjusting. Supportive Beliefs.
• Two: THE SIN OF GREED
The Conundrum Between Risk and Opportunity. Some Examples of Greedy Behavior. Positive Aspects of Greed. How Greed Blinds Us. Some Costs of Greed. The Notion of Scarcity. The Notion of Grandiosity. A Look at a Greedy Trader. Dueling Consequences. How Greed Distorts Perception. The Issue of the Random Event. An Antidote to Greed. Assessing Your Place in the Universe. Taking Inventory and Adjusting. Supportive Beliefs.
• Three: THE SIN OF RECKLESSNESS
The Difference Between Risk Taking and Recklessness. The Dangers of Nothing More to Lose. Excitement Seeking. The Relationship Between Excitement and Anxiety. Protective Frames: Confidence, Safety-Zone, Detachment. Gambling as Recklessness. A Look at a Reckless Trader. The Many Forms of Recklessness. Some Considerations of Your Own Recklessness. Supportive Beliefs.
• Four: THE SIN OF PERFECTIONISM
Trading is Not a Game of Perfect. Some Examples of How Trying to be Perfect Backfires. An Impossible Task. Approximations Not Exactitude. The Origins of Perfectionism. Internal Critic. Anger. The Fear. The Disrupting Need to be Right. The Best You Can Do. Self-Acceptance. Self-Appreciation Engenders Self Esteem. Giving Up the Need to Control the Future. The Importance of Curiosity. The Big Picture and the Significant Detail. Recognizing the Goodness Within. Assessing Your Relationship with Perfectionism. Supportive Beliefs.
• Five: THE SIN OF PRIDE
Attaching your Ego to the Event or Situation Instead of Just Doing your Best. Two Faces of Pride: Hubris and the Effort to Mask Self-Doubt. A Look at an Arrogant Trader. Pride as Ego Pretension. Optimistic Confidence, Not Pride, is What You Want. The Significance of Positive Self-Expectancy. The Importance of a Healthy Self Image. Pride Interferes with Clarity. Pride Obscures Intuition. Loss Aversion. The Endowment Effect. Overconfidence. Under Confidence. An Open Mind. Appraising your Trading Relationship to Pride. Supportive Beliefs.
• Six: THE SIN OF ANGER
A Destructive Emotion Ubiquitous to Trading. Useful Purposes of Anger. Taking Effective and Reasonable Action. Becoming Aware of your Anger. Shifting Anger to Curiosity. Taking Timely Action. Looking at the Big Picture. Emotions: the Body’s Response to Thoughts. The Physiological Consequences of Anger. Losing Control in an Attempt to Gain Control. A Look at an Angry Trader. Moving from Blame to Responsibility. The Money Manager and the Analyst. It’s Not Personal. Fighting the Market. Forgiveness as Antidote to Anger. Anger into Learning. Some Steps to Calm Anger. Evaluating Your Tendency to Anger. Supportive Beliefs.
• Seven: THE SIN OF IMPATIENCE
A Common Trader Trait. A Look at an Impatient Trader. Jumping on the Tiger’s Back. Myriad Motivations. Learning to Wait. The Notion of Scarcity behind Impatience. Rushing to Disaster. Seven C’s for Timeliness: Clarity, Calm, Consistency, Courage, Caution, Commitment, and Confidence. Assessing Your Level of Impatience. Supportive Beliefs.
• Eight: IDENTIFYING YOUR OWN MAJOR TRADING SINS
A List of Negative Trading Behaviors. Your Personal Seven Deadly Behaviors. Destructive Attitudes and Emotions Underlie Negative Behavior. Possible Harmful Dispositions of Mind and Feeling. Your Personal Seven Deadly Sins. Preferred Trading Behaviors. Supportive Positive Emotions. Supportive Positive Beliefs. Creating a Vision of Your Trading Future.
• Nine: THE BALANCING ACT
Superb Trading Is a Moderating and Balancing of Many Attributes. A Look at the Many Qualities of a Model Trader and How He/She Balances Them. Supportive Beliefs.
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