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High Performance Trading

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part One: Planning and Preparing for Trading Success

STRATEGY 1: Set Yourself Up for Success

Transforming into a Trader Time Precedes Success Getting to When it Clicks Experience Counts The J-Curve Short and Shallow – Trading Success Factors

STRATEGY 2: It’s Down to You – Taking Responsibility for Your Performance

Who is to Blame? The Personal Responsibility Formula How Have You Created Your Results?

STRATEGY 3: Fuelling Success – Motivation and Commitment

Motivation is a Key Ingredient in Success Discovering Your Core Motivations Identifying Your Motivational Style Checking Your Motivations Beyond Motivation – Drive

STRATEGY 4: Develop a Compelling Vision of Trading Success

Success Starts With a Dream or Vision Plan Your Vision From the Future Design Your Life

STRATEGY 5: T.R.A.D.E. to Success – Goal Achievement Strategies

Where Are You Heading? What Are Goals and Why Are They Important to Trading Performance? Key reasons to set goals Why Do People Not Set Goals? 5 reasons people don’t set goals Goal Setting vs. Goal Achievement TRADE to Success Key Time Horizons for Goal-Setting Example Process Goals

STRATEGY 6: Know Who You Need to Become

The Future Trader You

STRATEGY 7: Find Your Magic – Developing Your Trading Strategy

Why Strategy Matters The 2 keys to successful trading Developing a Trading Strategy Finding Your Magic! Treat Your Trading as a Business

STRATEGY 8: Identify Your Critical Performance Factors

Know What Matters Tune In Focus On What Makes a Difference

STRATEGY 9: Be P.R.E.Pared!

Are You Ready? The Benefits of Being Prepared

STRATEGY 10: Create a High-Performance Environment

Creating a Powerful Trading Team Creating Your Physical Trading Environment

Part Two: Decision-Making, Discipline and Flawless Execution

STRATEGY 11: Discipline and Your Ideal Trading State

The Big ‘D’ – Discipline Reasons Why Traders Lose Discipline 1. Strategy 2. Mental 3. Emotional/Psychological 4. Situational 5. Personality Ideal Trading State Identifying Your Ideal Trading State

STRATEGY 12: Deal With Distraction – Refocussing Strategies

Recovery is Key Dealing Effectively With Distractions

STRATEGY 13: Stay Calm When the Pressure is On

Dive, Survive or Thrive Don’t Choke! Slow Down: Relax! See Success Experience is a Great Teacher Are You a Critical Moment Performer?

STRATEGY 14: Get Energised – Manage Your Energy Levels

Energy is Critical to Peak Performance The Importance of Energy Managing Physical Energy Key factors in a strong energy base Brain smart nutrition Oscillation – Balancing Stress and Recovery Combat declining energy and concentration by taking REFS

STRATEGY 15: Run Your Profits, Cut Your Losses

The Golden Rule! You May Need to Learn to Think, Feel and Behave Differently

STRATEGY 16: Handle Losses Like a Winner

Losses Are a Part of Trading Learning to Take a Loss

STRATEGY 17: Parking Errors – Dealing Effectively With Mistakes

Fat Fingers Two Key Approaches Other fat fingers of note

STRATEGY 18: Be Wary of Overconfidence

Is Overconfidence Good or Bad? People tend towards overconfidence Overcoming Overconfidence

STRATEGY 19: Deal With Negative Emotions Positively

Recognising Performance Limiting Emotions How Negative States Affect Performance Dealing With Negative States Positively

STRATEGY 20: Embrace Risk and Uncertainty

A Challenging Cocktail Embracing Risk Embracing Uncertainty

STRATEGY 21: Pull the Trigger – Overcome Hesitation and Fear

Is Interference Blocking Your Performance? Identifying the Interference

STRATEGY 22: Understand That More is Not Always More – Avoid Overtrading

Overtrading is Not Cheap Why Do Traders Overtrade? Costs of Overtrading

STRATEGY 23: Transform Adversity Into Challenge

Failure and Adversity Enable Success Where Are You Focussed?

STRATEGY 24: When Times Are Great, Keep Them Great

What Can Be Done?

Part Three: Evaluation, Analysis and Improving and Sustaining Performance

STRATEGY 25: Learn More – Keep Getting Better

Commitment to Excellence Adopt a Growth Mindset What Are the Implications for Traders? Development, Learning and Performance Improvement Training Key aspects of a good quality training programme Mentoring What to look for in a mentor Coaching Keep Raising the Bar Here are a few pointers to focus on to keep you learning

STRATEGY 26: Know Your Score – Measuring Trading Performance

Developing Your Own Trading Evaluation Process What Should I Log? Conduct Periodic Trading Reviews

STRATEGY 27: Develop Winning Routines and Rituals

Routines and Rituals Goal of Rituals: Create Consistency Avoid Negative Rituals Establish Positive Rituals

STRATEGY 28: Build Resilience

What is Resilience? Why is it Important? The Three Components of Resilience Financial Resilience Physical Resilience Psychological Resilience 1. Beliefs, attitudes, perceptions and meaning 2. Perspective 3. Self-talk: explanatory style

STRATEGY 29: Manage Stress

Stress and Trading What is Stress? What is the Difference Between Stress and Pressure? Signs and Symptoms of Stress? 1. Psychological signs 2. Physical signs 3. Behavioural signs Stress, Pressure and Performance Build Your Stress Capacity Reducing Trading Stress

STRATEGY 30: Achieve Balance

Balance vs. Immersion The Importance of Rest and Recovery Take a Break! Downtime for a Longer Long-Term Life Outside of Trading

STRATEGY 31: Plan Your Growth

Competence, Then Size Increasing trading size

STRATEGY 32: Generate New Trading Behaviours

Performance Improvement is Behaviour Change The Change Process Will Power is Not Always Enough Doing Things Differently It’s all in the mind

STRATEGY 33: Utilise Your Strengths and Successes

Success and Failure Leave Clues Are You Utilising Your Strengths and Successes? Other Perspectives, and Strength to Strength

STRATEGY 34: Mind Your Language

Your Thoughts Are Powerful From Critic to Coach

STRATEGY 35: Be Persistent!

You Could be One Trade, One Day, One Week or One Month Away from Success How Long Do I Have to Wait Before I Make it?

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