Enhancing Trader Performance

Through his own trading experiences and those of individuals he has mentored, Dr. Brett Steenbarger is familiar with the challenges that traders face and the performance and psychological strategies that can meet those challenges. In Enhancing Trader Performance, Steenbarger shows you how to transform talent into trading skill through a structured process of expertise development and reveals how this approach can help you achieve market mastery.

Introduction xi Acknowledgments xvii Author’s Note xix Chapter 1 Where Expertise Begins 1 Chapter 2 Finding Your Performance Niche as a Trader 20 Chapter 3 Building Competence 49 Chapter 4 Strategies for Cultivating Competence 78 Chapter 5 From Competence to Expertise 108 Chapter 6 Mechanics, Tactics, Strategies 135 Chapter 7 Performance Dynamics 164 Chapter 8 Cognitive Techniques for Enhancing Performance 192 Chapter 9 Behavioral Techniques for Enhancing Performance 213 Afterword The Making and Remaking of an Expert Trader 235 Conclusion 249 Appendix Resources for Performance 257 Bibliography 265 About the Author 273 Index 275