The Mental Edge in Trading : Adapt Your Personality Traits and Control Your Emotions to Make Smarter Investments

by Williams, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780071799409
• ISBN10: 0071799400
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-27
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

How to fully leverage the most overlooked asset in trading-personality The Mental Edge in Tradingexplains the critical link between successful trading and personality traits and gives you the tools for usuing this information to become make smarter trades. You'll learn how to assess and measure your innate personality traits and align them with your trading style for more profitable trading on a more consistent basis. Larry Williamshas been a trader and market researcher since the mid-1960s. He is the author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Tradingand The Right Stock at the Right Time.

Author Biography

Dr. Williams tested proven winning traders who were managing billions of dollars to see what the great winning traders had in common, what personality traits made them so successful. The results are in this groundbreaking book that will help you become like these winning traders.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Human Mind: A Primer	p. 1
How Does the Brain Generate the Mind?	p. 3
Anatomy of the Brain 101	p. 5
The Four Perspectives of Mental Life	p. 17
Introduction to Personality Traits	p. 23
Where Does Personality Come From?	p. 32
Personality Inventories	p. 35
Introduction to the NEO PI-R	p. 39
The Five-Factor Model in Detail	p. 44
The 30 Personality Facets	p. 51
General Interpretation of NEO-AC Scores	p. 53
Personality Styles	p. 55
Personality Disorders	p. 57
Neuroticism and Trading	p. 59
CBT for Traders	p. 77
Risk Aversion and Trading	p. 88
Conscientiousness and Trading	p. 100
Optimism and Trading	p. 111
Excitement-Seeking and Trading	p. 117
The Secret to Happiness	p. 119
The Overly Dependent Trader	p. 125
A Case Study: Larry Williams	p. 129
Personality Case Study: Dan Zanger	p. 143
Personality Case Study: KD Angle	p. 148
Personality Case Study: Linda Raschke	p. 152
Personality Case Study: Andrea Unger	p. 157
Personality Case Study: Ralph Vince	p. 165
Personality Case Study: Scott Ramsey	p. 172
Case Study: "The Perfect Trader"	p. 178
The Addictive Personality	p. 183
Conclusions	p. 186
The Personality Facets in Detail	p. 189
The Styles of Personality	p. 201
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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