Mastering Trading Stress: Strategies for Maximizing PerformanceIn Mastering Trading Stress, author Ari Kiev—a psychiatrist who specializes in stress management and works extensively with traders—offers examples, transcripts of conversations, and personality profiles of real-life traders to illustrate how stress affects their ability to perform at their best. Drawing on his vast experience, Kiev describes a variety of practical techniques that can be used to handle destructive emotions and out-of-control feelings, including his “Most Basic” stress busters, and tells what to do if a breakdown should occur. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The Emotions of Stress | 13 |
Chapter 3 The Dangers of Trading under Stress | 29 |
Chapter 4 How Fear Inhibits Mastery | 53 |
Chapter 5 The Consequences of Negative Emotions | 63 |
Chapter 6 Personalities and Stress | 87 |
Chapter 7 Ego and Obstinacy | 101 |
Chapter 8 Fear and Failure | 111 |
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