The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist Book

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

CHAPTER 1 Change: The Process and the Practice.

Lesson 1: Draw on Emotion to Become a Change Agent.

Lesson 2: Psychological Visibility and Your Relationship with Your Trading Coach.

Lesson 3: Make Friends with Your Weakness.

Lesson 4: Change Your Environment, Change Yourself.

Lesson 5: Transform Emotion by Trace-Formation.

Lesson 6: Find the Right Mirrors.

Lesson 7: Change Our Focus.

Lesson 8: Create Scripts for Life Change.

Lesson 9: How to Build Your Self-Confidence.

Lesson 10: Five Best Practices for Effecting and Sustaining Change.

Resources.

CHAPTER 2 Stress and Distress: Creative Coping for Traders.

Lesson 11: Understanding Stress.

Lesson 12: Antidotes for Toxic Trading Assumptions.

Lesson 13: What Causes the Distress That Interferes with Trading Decisions?

Lesson 14: Keep a Psychological Journal.

Lesson 15: Pressing: When You Try Too Hard to Make Money.

Lesson 16: When You’re Ready to Hang It Up.

Lesson 17: What to Do When Fear Takes Over.

Lesson 18: Performance Anxiety: The Most Common Trading Problem.

Lesson 19: Square Pegs and Round Holes.

Lesson 20: Volatility of Markets and Volatility of Mood.

Resources.

CHAPTER 3 Psychological Well-Being: Enhancing Trading Experience.

Lesson 21: The Importance of Feeling Good.

Lesson 22: Build Your Happiness.

Lesson 23: Get into the Zone.

Lesson 24: Trade with Energy.

Lesson 25: Intention and Greatness: Exercise the Brain through Play.

Lesson 26: Cultivate the Quiet Mind.

Lesson 27: Build Emotional Resilience.

Lesson 28: Integrity and Doing the Right Thing.

Lesson 29: Maximize Confidence and Stay with Your Trades.

Lesson 30: Coping—Turn Stress into Well-Being.

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CHAPTER 4 Steps toward Self-Improvement: The Coaching Process.

Lesson 31: Self-Monitor by Keeping a Trading Journal.

Lesson 32: Recognize Your Patterns.

Lesson 33: Establish Costs and Benefits to Patterns.

Lesson 34: Set Effective Goals.

Lesson 35: Build on Your Best: Maintain a Solution Focus.

Lesson 36: Disrupt Old Problem Patterns.

Lesson 37: Build Your Consistency by Becoming Rule-Governed.

Lesson 38: Relapse and Repetition.

Lesson 39: Create a Safe Environment for Change.

Lesson 40: Use Imagery to Advance the Change Process.

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CHAPTER 5 Breaking Old Patterns: Psychodynamic Frameworks for Self-Coaching.

Lesson 41: Psychodynamics: Escape the Gravity of Past Relationships.

Lesson 42: Crystallize Our Repetitive Patterns.

Lesson 43: Challenge Our Defenses.

Lesson 44: Once Again, with Feeling: Get Distance from Your Problem Patterns.

Lesson 45: Make the Most Out of Your Coaching Relationship.

Lesson 46: Find Positive Trading Relationships.

Lesson 47: Tolerate Discomfort.

Lesson 48: Master Transference.

Lesson 49: The Power of Discrepancy.

Lesson 50: Working Through.

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CHAPTER 6 Remapping the Mind: Cognitive Approaches to Self-Coaching.

Lesson 51: Schemas of the Mind.

Lesson 52: Use Feeling to Understand Your Thinking.

Lesson 53: Learn from Your Worst Trades.

Lesson 54: Use a Journal to Restructure Our Thinking.

Lesson 55: Disrupt Negative Thought Patterns.

Lesson 56: Reframe Negative Thought Patterns.

Lesson 57: Use Intensive Guided Imagery to Change Thought Patterns.

Lesson 58: Challenge Negative Thought Patterns with the Cognitive Journal.

Lesson 59: Conduct Cognitive Experiments to Create Change.

Lesson 60: Build Positive Thinking.

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CHAPTER 7 Learning New Action Patterns: Behavioral Approaches to Self-Coaching.

Lesson 61: Understand Your Contingencies.

Lesson 62: Identify Subtle Contingencies.

Lesson 63: Harness the Power of Social Learning.

Lesson 64: Shape Your Trading Behaviors.

Lesson 65: The Conditioning of Markets.

Lesson 66: The Power of Incompatibility.

Lesson 67: Build on Positive Associations.

Lesson 68: Exposure: A Powerful and Flexible Behavioral Method.

Lesson 69: Extend Exposure Work to Build Skills.

Lesson 70: A Behavioral Framework for Dealing with Worry.

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CHAPTER 8 Coaching Your Trading Business.

Lesson 71: The Importance of Startup Capital.

Lesson 72: Plan Your Trading Business.

Lesson 73: Diversify Your Trading Business.

Lesson 74: Track Your Trading Results.

Lesson 75: Advanced Scorekeeping for Your Trading Business.

Lesson 76: Track the Correlations of Your Returns.

Lesson 77: Calibrate Your Risk and Reward.

Lesson 78: The Importance of Execution in Trading.

Lesson 79: Think in Themes—Generating Good Trading Ideas.

Lesson 80: Manage the Trade.

Resources.

CHAPTER 9 Lessons from Trading Professionals: Resources and Perspectives on Self-Coaching.

Lesson 81: Leverage Core Competencies and Cultivate Creativity.

Lesson 82: I Alone Am Responsible.

Lesson 83: Cultivate Self-Awareness.

Lesson 84: Mentor Yourself for Success.

Lesson 85: Keep Detailed Records.

Lesson 86: Learn to Be Fallible.

Lesson 87: The Power of Research.

Lesson 88: Attitudes and Goals, the Building Blocks of Success.

Lesson 89: A View from the Trading Firms.

Lesson 90: Use Data to Improve Trading Performance.

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CHAPTER 10 Looking for the Edge: Finding Historical Patterns in Markets.

Lesson 91: Use Historical Patterns in Trading.

Lesson 92: Frame Good Hypotheses with the Right Data.

Lesson 93: Excel Basics.

Lesson 94: Visualize Your Data.

Lesson 95: Create Your Independent and Dependent Variables.

Lesson 96: Conduct Your Historical Investigations.

Lesson 97: Code the Data.

Lesson 98: Examine Context.

Lesson 99: Filter Data.

Lesson 100: Make Use of Your Findings.

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CONCLUSION.

Lesson 101: Find Your Path.

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About the Author.

Index.