The Daily Trading Coach

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. CHAPTER 1 Change: The Process and the Practice. Lesson 1: Draw on Emotion to Become a Change Agent. Lesson 2: Psychological Visibility and Your Relationship with Your Trading Coach. Lesson 3: Make Friends with Your Weakness. Lesson 4: Change Your Environment, Change Yourself. Lesson 5: Transform Emotion by Trace-Formation. Lesson 6: Find the Right Mirrors. Lesson 7: Change Our Focus. Lesson 8: Create Scripts for Life Change. Lesson 9: How to Build Your Self-Confidence. Lesson 10: Five Best Practices for Effecting and Sustaining Change. Resources. CHAPTER 2 Stress and Distress: Creative Coping for Traders. Lesson 11: Understanding Stress. Lesson 12: Antidotes for Toxic Trading Assumptions. Lesson 13: What Causes the Distress That Interferes with Trading Decisions? Lesson 14: Keep a Psychological Journal. Lesson 15: Pressing: When You Try Too Hard to Make Money. Lesson 16: When You're Ready to Hang It Up. Lesson 17: What to Do When Fear Takes Over. Lesson 18: Performance Anxiety: The Most Common Trading Problem. Lesson 19: Square Pegs and Round Holes. Lesson 20: Volatility of Markets and Volatility of Mood. Resources. CHAPTER 3 Psychological Well-Being: Enhancing Trading Experience. Lesson 21: The Importance of Feeling Good. Lesson 22: Build Your Happiness. Lesson 23: Get into the Zone. Lesson 24: Trade with Energy. Lesson 25: Intention and Greatness: Exercise the Brain through Play. Lesson 26: Cultivate the Quiet Mind. Lesson 27: Build Emotional Resilience. Lesson 28: Integrity and Doing the Right Thing. Lesson 29: Maximize Confidence and Stay with Your Trades. Lesson 30: Coping--Turn Stress into Well-Being. Resources. CHAPTER 4 Steps toward Self-Improvement: The Coaching Process. Lesson 31: Self-Monitor by Keeping a Trading Journal. Lesson 32: Recognize Your Patterns. Lesson 33: Establish Costs and Benefits to Patterns. Lesson 34: Set Effective Goals. Lesson 35: Build on Your Best: Maintain a Solution Focus. Lesson 36: Disrupt Old Problem Patterns. Lesson 37: Build Your Consistency by Becoming Rule-Governed. Lesson 38: Relapse and Repetition. Lesson 39: Create a Safe Environment for Change. Lesson 40: Use Imagery to Advance the Change Process. Resources. CHAPTER 5 Breaking Old Patterns: Psychodynamic Frameworks for Self-Coaching. Lesson 41: Psychodynamics: Escape the Gravity of Past Relationships. Lesson 42: Crystallize Our Repetitive Patterns. Lesson 43: Challenge Our Defenses. Lesson 44: Once Again, with Feeling: Get Distance from Your Problem Patterns. Lesson 45: Make the Most Out of Your Coaching Relationship. Lesson 46: Find Positive Trading Relationships. Lesson 47: Tolerate Discomfort. Lesson 48: Master Transference. Lesson 49: The Power of Discrepancy. Lesson 50: Working Through. Resources. CHAPTER 6 Remapping the Mind: Cognitive Approaches to Self-Coaching. Lesson 51: Schemas of the Mind. Lesson 52: Use Feeling to Understand Your Thinking. Lesson 53: Learn from Your Worst Trades. Lesson 54: Use a Journal to Restructure Our Thinking. Lesson 55: Disrupt Negative Thought Patterns. Lesson 56: Reframe Negative Thought Patterns. Lesson 57: Use Intensive Guided Imagery to Change Thought Patterns. Lesson 58: Challenge Negative Thought Patterns with the Cognitive Journal. Lesson 59: Conduct Cognitive Experiments to Create Change. Lesson 60: Build Positive Thinking. Resources. CHAPTER 7 Learning New Action Patterns: Behavioral Approaches to Self-Coaching. Lesson 61: Understand Your Contingencies. Lesson 62: Identify Subtle Contingencies. Lesson 63: Harness the Power of Social Learning. Lesson 64: Shape Your Trading Behaviors. Lesson 65: The Conditioning of Markets. Lesson 66: The Power of Incompatibility. Lesson 67: Build on Positive Associations. Lesson 68: Exposure: A Powerful and Flexible Behavioral Method. Lesson 69: Extend Exposure Work to Build Skills. Lesson 70: A Behavioral Framework for Dealing with Worry. Resources. CHAPTER 8 Coaching Your Trading Business. Lesson 71: The Importance of Startup Capital. Lesson 72: Plan Your Trading Business. Lesson 73: Diversify Your Trading Business. Lesson 74: Track Your Trading Results. Lesson 75: Advanced Scorekeeping for Your Trading Business. Lesson 76: Track the Correlations of Your Returns. Lesson 77: Calibrate Your Risk and Reward. Lesson 78: The Importance of Execution in Trading. Lesson 79: Think in Themes--Generating Good Trading Ideas. Lesson 80: Manage the Trade. Resources. CHAPTER 9 Lessons from Trading Professionals: Resources and Perspectives on Self-Coaching. Lesson 81: Leverage Core Competencies and Cultivate Creativity. Lesson 82: I Alone Am Responsible. Lesson 83: Cultivate Self-Awareness. Lesson 84: Mentor Yourself for Success. Lesson 85: Keep Detailed Records. Lesson 86: Learn to Be Fallible. Lesson 87: The Power of Research. Lesson 88: Attitudes and Goals, the Building Blocks of Success. Lesson 89: A View from the Trading Firms. Lesson 90: Use Data to Improve Trading Performance. Resources. CHAPTER 10 Looking for the Edge: Finding Historical Patterns in Markets. Lesson 91: Use Historical Patterns in Trading. Lesson 92: Frame Good Hypotheses with the Right Data. Lesson 93: Excel Basics. Lesson 94: Visualize Your Data. Lesson 95: Create Your Independent and Dependent Variables. Lesson 96: Conduct Your Historical Investigations. Lesson 97: Code the Data. Lesson 98: Examine Context. Lesson 99: Filter Data. Lesson 100: Make Use of Your Findings. Resources. CONCLUSION. Lesson 101: Find Your Path. For More on Self-Coaching. About the Author. Index.