Trading can be intensely rewarding. But it is also one of the most mentally and emotionally challenging activities anyone can pursue. As in other high-performance domains, those who are serious about mastering their craft and staying in the game spend serious time working on their game, including training their mind and body.
Steve Ward has spent the last 15 years working as a performance coach with financial traders and investors at some of the biggest and most successful investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodities trading houses and proprietary trading groups across the globe, helping them to perform at their best, to navigate the highs and lows of trading and investing in the markets, and to sustain high performance for the long run.
As one hedge fund client put it to him, "It's about becoming bulletproof".
Becoming a bulletproof trader is forged over time through experience, and by applying the latest insights from biological and psychological sciences, the best that practical philosophy can teach us, and a healthy dose of pragmatism – doing what actually works in the real world of trading the markets.
This book brings together all of Steve's latest insights into how to deal with stresses and setbacks and sustain high performance in a comprehensive, accessible and unmissable book, so that you too can become a bulletproof trader.
Don't trade without it. Steve Ward specialises in helping people working in trading, investing and banking to enhance their risk-taking, improve their decision-making and to achieve and sustain high performance by utilising the latest science, research and practice from performance psychology, decision science, neuroscience, behavioural science, physiology and philosophy.Since 2005 he has provided specialised coaching, training and consultancy services to traders and fund managers at some of the largest and highest-performing investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodities trading houses, utility companies and proprietary trading groups across the globe.Prior to starting his work with the financial sector, Steve provided sports psychology coaching to elite athletes and teams in over 30 different sports across the globe, with a particular interest in extreme, action and adventure sports. He has also provided psychological coaching for professional poker players.Steve is the author of High-Performance Trading: 35 Practical Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Your Trading Psychology and Performance, Sports Betting to Win: The 10 Keys to Disciplined and Profitable Betting and TraderMind: Get a Mindful Edge in the Markets, and has written many articles for leading trading publications. He co-managed a team of 45 proprietary traders in London, was the consultant trading performance coach to the BBC TV series Million Dollar Traders, and spent a number of years trading stock indices and FX in his own account.www.performanceedgeconsulting.co.uk
