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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Change: The Process and the Practice | |
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| Draw on Emotion to Become a Change Agent | |
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| Psychological Visibility and Your Relationship with Your Trading Coach | |
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| Make Friends with Your Weakness | |
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| Change Your Environment, Change Yourself | |
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| Transform Emotion by Trace-Formation | |
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| Find the Right Mirrors | |
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| Change Our Focus | |
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| Create Scripts for Life Change | |
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| How to Build Your Self-Confidence | |
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| Five Best Practices for Effecting and Sustaining Change | |
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| Resources | |
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| Stress and Distress: Creative Coping for Traders | |
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| Understanding Stress | |
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| Antidotes for Toxic Trading Assumptions | |
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| What Causes the Distress That Interferes with Trading Decisions? | |
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| Keep a Psychological Journal | |
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| Pressing: When You Try Too Hard to Make Money | |
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| When You're Ready to Hang It Up | |
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| What to Do When Fear Takes Over | |
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| Performance Anxiety: The Most Common Trading Problem | |
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| Square Pegs and Round Holes | |
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| Volatility of Markets and Volatility of Mood | |
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| Resources | |
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| Psychological Well-Being: Enhancing Trading Experience | |
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| The Importance of Feeling Good | |
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| Build Your Happiness | |
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| Get into the Zone | |
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| Trade with Energy | |
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| Intention and Greatness: Exercise the Brain through Play | |
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| Cultivate the Quiet Mind | |
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| Build Emotional Resilience | |
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| Integrity and Doing the Right Thing | |
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| Maximize Confidence and Stay with Your Trades | |
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| Coping-Turn Stress into Well-Being | |
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| Resources | |
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| Steps toward Self-Improvement: The Coaching Process | |
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| Self-Monitor by Keeping a Trading Journal | |
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| Recognize Your Patterns | |
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| Establish Costs and Benefits to Patterns | |
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| Set Effective Goals | |
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| Build on Your Best: Maintain a Solution Focus | |
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| Disrupt Old Problem Patterns | |
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| Build Your Consistency by Becoming Rule-Governed | |
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| Relapse and Repetition | |
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| Create a Safe Environment for Change | |
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| Use Imagery to Advance the Change Process | |
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| Resources | |
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| Breaking Old Patterns: Psychodynamic Frameworks for Self-Coaching | |
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| Psychodynamics: Escape the Gravity of Past Relationships | |
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| Crystallize Our Repetitive Patterns | |
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| Challenge Our Defenses | |
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| Once Again, with Feeling: Get Distance from Your Problem Patterns | |
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| Make the Most Out of Your Coaching Relationship | |
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| Find Positive Trading Relationships | |
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| Tolerate Discomfort | |
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| Master Transference | |
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| The Power of Discrepancy | |
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| Working Through | |
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| Resources | |
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| Remapping the Mind: Cognitive Approaches to Self-Coaching | |
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| Schemas of the Mind | |
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| Use Feeling to Understand Your Thinking | |
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| Learn from Your Worst Trades | |
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| Use a Journal to Restructure Our Thinking | |
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| Disrupt Negative Thought Patterns | |
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| Reframe Negative Thought Patterns | |
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| Use Intensive Guided Imagery to Change Thought Patterns | |
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| Challenge Negative Thought Patterns with the Cognitive Journal | |
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| Conduct Cognitive Experiments to Create Change | |
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| Build Positive Thinking | |
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| Resources | |
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| Learning New Action Patterns: Behavioral Approaches to Self-Coaching | |
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| Understand Your Contingencies | |
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| Identify Subtle Contingencies | |
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| Harness the Power of Social Learning | |
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| Shape Your Trading Behaviors | |
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| The Conditioning of Markets | |
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| The Power of Incompatibility | |
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| Build on Positive Associations | |
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| Exposure: A Powerful and Flexible Behavioral Method | |
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| Extend Exposure Work to Build Skills | |
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| A Behavioral Framework for Dealing with Worry | |
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| Resources | |
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| Coaching Your Trading Business | |
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| The Importance of Startup Capital | |
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| Plan Your Trading Business | |
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| Diversify Your Trading Business | |
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| Track Your Trading Results | |
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| Advanced Scorekeeping for Your Trading Business | |
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| Track the Correlations of Your Returns | |
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| Calibrate Your Risk and Reward | |
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| The Importance of Execution in Trading | |
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| Think in Themes-Generating Good Trading Ideas | |
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| Manage the Trade | |
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| Resources | |
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| Lessons from Trading Professionals: Resources and Perspectives on Self-Coaching | |
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| Leverage Core Competencies and Cultivate Creativity | |
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| I Alone Am Responsible | |
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| Cultivate Self-Awareness | |
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| Mentor Yourself for Success | |
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| Keep Detailed Records | |
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| Learn to Be Fallible | |
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| The Power of Research | |
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| Attitudes and Goals, the Building Blocks of Success | |
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| A View from the Trading Firms | |
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| Use Data to Improve Trading Performance | |
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| Resources | |
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| Looking for the Edge: Finding Historical Patterns in Markets | |
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| Use Historical Patterns in Trading | |
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| Frame Good Hypotheses with the Right Data | |
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| Excel Basics | |
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| Visualize Your Data | |
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| Create Your Independent and Dependent Variables | |
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| Conduct Your Historical Investigations | |
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| Code the Data | |
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| Examine Context | |
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| Filter Data | |
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| Make Use of Your Findings | |
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| Resources | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Find Your Path | |
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| For More on Self-Coaching | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |