High Performance Trading

Steve Ward has over twenty years of teaching, training and coaching experience having started out working in sports and performance psychology with elite athletes and teams in over 30 different sports and with high performers in the corporate sector. Since 2005 he has focussed on working with traders, and has worked across the globe with traders, trading desks and fund managers from top 10 investment banks, hedge funds, global energy companies, asset management funds, leading proprietary trading groups and with independent retail traders. Steve is the author of 'High Performance Trading : 35 Practical Strategies To Enhance Your Trading Psychology and Performance' was the consultant trading performance coach to BBC TV's 'Million Dollar Traders' series, co-managed a team of 45 professional proprietary traders in London and has written for many leading publications including Traders Magazine, FX Trader and Your Trading Edge. He has also traded stock indicies and FX on his own account and is a member of the Association for Coaching, Association of Contextual Behavioural Science, Society for Neuroeconomics and Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics. His website can be found at www.highperformanceglobal.com

There is more to trading than blindly following a set of rules. 'High Performance Trading' is a very important book as it recognises the similarities between top athletes and top traders and what to do to achieve winning trading strategies, especially from a mental perspective. I would wholly recommend this book in the library of any trader, both novice as well as advanced.

• About the AuthorAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One - Planning and Preparing for Trading SuccessSTRATEGY 1: Set Yourself Up for SuccessSTRATEGY 2: It's Down to YouSTRATEGY 3: Fuelling Success - Motivation and CommitmentSTRATEGY 4: Develop a Compelling Vision of Trading SuccessSTRATEGY 5: T.R.A.D.E. to Success - Goal Achievement StrategiesSTRATEGY 6: Know Who You Need to BecomeSTRATEGY 7: Find Your Magic - Developing Your Trading StrategySTRATEGY 8: Identify Your Critical Performance FactorsSTRATEGY 9: Be P.R.E.Pared!STRATEGY 10: Create a High-Performance EnvironmentPart Two - Decision-Making, Discipline and Flawless ExecutionSTRATEGY 11: Discipline and Your Ideal Trading StateSTRATEGY 12: Deal With Distraction: Refocussing StrategiesSTRATEGY 13: Stay Calm When the Pressure is OnSTRATEGY 14: Get Energised - Manage Your Energy LevelsSTRATEGY 15: Run Your Profits, Cut Your LossesSTRATEGY 16: Handle Losses Like a WinnerSTRATEGY 17: Parking Errors - Dealing Effectively With MistakesSTRATEGY 18: Be Wary of OverconfidenceSTRATEGY 19: Deal With Negative Emotions PositivelySTRATEGY 20: Embrace Risk and UncertaintySTRATEGY 21: Pull the Trigger - Overcome Hesitation and FearSTRATEGY 22: Understand That More is Not Always MoreSTRATEGY 23: Transform Adversity Into ChallengeSTRATEGY 24: When Times Are Great, Keep Them GreatPart Three - Evaluation, Analysis and Improving and Sustaining PerformanceSTRATEGY 25: Learn More - Keep Getting BetterSTRATEGY 26: Know Your Score - Measuring Trading PerformanceSTRATEGY 27: Develop Winning Routines and RitualsSTRATEGY 28: Build ResilienceSTRATEGY 29: Manage StressSTRATEGY 30: Achieve BalanceSTRATEGY 31: Plan Your GrowthSTRATEGY 32: Generate New Trading BehavioursSTRATEGY 33: Utilise Your Strengths and SuccessesSTRATEGY 34: Mind Your LanguageSTRATEGY 35: Be Persistent!