Mastering Trading Stress: Strategies for Maximizing Performance

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John Wiley & Sons, Dec 14, 2007 - Business & Economics - 224 pages
In Mastering Trading Stress, author Ari Kiev—a psychiatrist who specializes in stress management and works extensively with traders—offers examples, transcripts of conversations, and personality profiles of real-life traders to illustrate how stress affects their ability to perform at their best. Drawing on his vast experience, Kiev describes a variety of practical techniques that can be used to handle destructive emotions and out-of-control feelings, including his “Most Basic” stress busters, and tells what to do if a breakdown should occur.
 

Contents

What Is Stress
1
Personality Factors
7
What Negative
13
Guilt
21
Euphoria
27
Avoiding the Stress
34
CONTENTS
44
Being Indecisive
51
Personalities and Stress
87
OptimistPessimistRealist
94
Ego and Obstinacy
101
Contents ix
111
The Problem
124
The Importance of SelfAnalysis
137
Too Much or Not Enough? Gathering the Information 151
151
Steps of a Good Short Seller
164

Relinquishing the Need to Be Perfect
57
The Consequences of Negative Emotions
63
The Difference between Confidence and Arrogance
70
Why Not to Avoid Negative Feelings
78
CONTENTS
171
Exercises and Practical Applications
185
Index
199
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ARI KIEV is a psychiatrist who specializes in organizational psychology, stress management, and performance enhancement. He is President of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute and is recognized worldwide for his pioneering work in transcultural psychiatry, suicidology, and psychopharmacology. Kiev is the author of four trading books: Trading to Win, Trading in the Zone, The Psychology of Risk, and Hedge Fund Masters. In recent years, he has developed The Trading To Win training programs for dealing with trading stress, portfolio management, risk control, and leadership as they relate to peak performance in the trading arena.

For more information, visit www.arikiev.com

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