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

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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.
 

Contents

Title Page
ONE
CHAPTER
PART TWO How Do You Get There?
CHAPTER FOURLearningto Center UNDERSTANDING THE RELAXATION RESPONSE
USING VISUALIZATION GAINING FOCUS RELAXING TO GAIN FOCUS
CHAPTER SIX The Source of All Fears
CHAPTER EIGHT
RATIONALIZATION
COMPULSIVITY
MASTERING
CHAPTER TEN Becoming a Master
I MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG
Index
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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.

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