Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques for Minding the Markets (Wiley Trading Series) Book

Chapter One: The Woman Who Could Not Love

Manufacturing Cars and Success

Sue, the Survivor

Finding Solutions amidst Problems

Accelerating Change by Doing What Comes Unnaturally

Going against the Flow with Sue

Finding Solutions

The Fearless Trading Inventory

An Inventory of Solutions

Enacting the Solutions

Conclusion

Chapter Two: The Student WhoWouldn't Study Ken, the Failure

Diversification in Life and Markets

The Psychology of Paralysis

Decisions and Uncertainty

Altering the Risk-Reward Equation

Shifting Risks and Rewards in Tradng

Music, Moods, and Pivot Chords

Tom's Pivot Chord

Breaking Routines

Breaking the Routines of Trading

Conclusion

Chapter Three: The Woolworth Man

The Interview from Hell

Observing Patterns

Invoking the Internal Observer

Rule-Governed Trading

Taking Your Emotional Temperature

Inoculating Yourself against Stress

Effort and Emotional Change

The Trader as Addict: Breaking Stops

Becoming More Rule-Governed in Trading

Using Emotion to Make the Contrary Move

Conclusion

Chapter Four: Traders Out of Their Minds

The World's Most Powerful Glasses

Phil, the Addicted Trader

Exploring the Dual Mind

The Mind of the Trader

Solution-Focused Money Management

A Trade from the Couch

Shifting Selves in Trading

Stationarity and the Moods of the Markets

Conclusion

Chapter Five: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Getting inside Mary's Journal

Afflicting the Comfort Zone

Repeating Patterns

Changing Repetitive Patterns

Doing What Comes Unnaturally

Resisting What Is Best for You

Creating Powerful Emotional Experiences in Trading

Conclusion

Chapter Six: The Evil Spiders

Communication and Metacommunication

Metacommunications in Trading

The Communications of Traders' Bodies

The Mind beneath the Human Mind

Knowing More than You Know: Implicit Learning

Minding the Complexity of the Markets

Conclusion

Chapter Seven: The Big Man beneath the Bed

Big, Silent Walt

Creating Powerful New Experiences

Regression: The Mind's Time Travel

Entering the Time Portal

When Your Gears Remain Locked

Novelty: The Key to Change

Novelty in Therapy: Making Translations

The Role of Consolidation in Change

Walt's Consolidation

Conclusion

Chapter Eight: Buried Alive!

The Art of Timing in Therapy and Trading

Markers and the Markets

Markers with the NYSE TICK

The Power of Dreams

Dreams as Emotional Communications

Repetitive Dreams: The Themes of Life

Hypnosis: Accessing Other Minds

The Waking Trance: Daydreams

Conclusion

Chapter Nine: Trance-Forming the Mindscape

The Radio Dial of Consciousness

Changing Behavior by Changing Contexts

Trauma and the Radio Dial

Dr. Brett Receives Strange Communications

Mind Experiments

Mapping the Mindscape

Experiments with Trading

Conclusion

Chapter Ten: The Coat in the Closet

Stopping the Morning Frenzy

Stopping on the Way to New York

Knowing More than We Know We Know

Joan and Her Inner Voices

Repairing Multiplicity

Triggers

Joan's Lullaby Therapy

When Efforts at Change Fail

Conclusion

Chapter Eleven: Pinball Wizardry

Creating Models of the World

Modeling Yourself as a Trader

Playing Market Pinball

Contrary Trading: Fading the Maps of Traders

Internal Maps and Inkblots

Maps and the Language Traders Use

Conclusion

Chapter Twelve: A Session at Gunpoint

Jack, Man in Crisis

Facing Life's Challenge

When the Game Is on the Line

The Edge in Crisis Counseling

Dr. Brett's Trading Crisis

Creating Change by Creating New Roles

Leaps and Tempos

Conclusion

Chapter Thirteen: A Dose of Profanity

Understanding Your Relationship with Yourself

Dave, the Narcissist

Regression and Multiplicity

Narcissism and Regression

The States of Daily Experience

Effort and Partial Consciousness

Achieving a Novel Mind Frame

Changing the Posture of Mind

Conclusion

Chapter Fourteen: Trading from the Couch

Propositions for Trading Psychology

Changing Your Mind: Applying the Principles

Matching Your Trading to Your Personality

The Great Frontier: Developing Trading Expertise

Implications of the Implicit Learning Research

Greatness and the Acquisition of Expertise

Etching the Brain

The Quest for Market Mastery

Bibliography

Index