Hedge Fund Masters: How Top Hedge Fund Traders Set Goals, Overcome Barriers, and Achieve Peak Performance

Ari Kiev

John Wiley & Sons, Feb 17, 2011 - Business & Economics - 288 pages

Discover the psychological strategies that hedge fund traders use to maximize their success in Hedge Fund Masters. Author Ari Kiev interviewed over 80 hedge fund traders, including some of the most successful hedge fund operators in the world, to illustrate the principles of success. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, the book explores the pressures felt by professional hedge fund traders as they manage enormous sums of their clients' money and shows you how to maintain emotional balance, focus on targets and goals, overcome deep-seated psychological obstacles, and trade with consistency and discipline.

About the author

ARI KIEV, MD, is a psychiatrist who specializes in stress management and performance enhancement. He is President of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute, and in recent years, has worked with many traders on issues of stress management, goal setting, and performance enhancement. Dr. Kiev is the author of fifteen books, including Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets, Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline, and The Psychology of Risk: Mastering Market Uncertainty, all published by Wiley.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hedge Fund Masters: How Top Hedge Fund Traders Set Goals, Overcome Barriers, and Achieve Peak Performance; Volume 239 of Wiley Trading
• Author: Ari Kiev
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118046161, 9781118046166
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Accounting / General; Business & Economics / Finance / General; Business & Economics / General