High Performance Trading

High Performance Trading provides proven practical techniques and strategies to help traders of all abilities, experience levels and styles to enhance their trading performance and psychology.

Based on practical coaching and training interventions, personal experiences, the latest research and feedback, and advice from leading traders, trading coaches and trading psychologists, this book offers something for everyone who wants to become a better trader.

- Discover how to avoid the common pitfalls of trading and how to take the practical steps that can set you up for trading success

- Strengthen your trading discipline as you discover the art of flawless execution

- Develop and hone your mental edge through learning to think like a successful trader

- Programme yourself for trading success with powerful mental conditioning techniques

- Develop unshakeable focus and concentration and learn how to get into the trading zone

- Understand how to achieve and sustain a core of trading confidence

- Learn how to utilize simple techniques to manage your emotional states

- Build resilience to cope with trading stresses and pressures and manage losses, setbacks and errors

- Move towards greater consistency and success in your trading performance

Steve Ward is a trader performance coach and FX trader. He provides specialised trader performance and psychology coaching and training programmes for traders in the retail, proprietary and institutional sectors and provides consultancy to trading and financial institutions across the globe working in the areas of trader recruitment, selection, assessment, training and development. He also co-manages a large team of professional traders in London and is a regular training provider for the London Stock Exchange.

Steve has a history of working with elite level performers including athletes and sports teams at world championship and Olympic level. His work utilises techniques and strategies from sports and performance psychology, cognitive behavioural and performance coaching, and behavioural finance, to help traders to develop the success skills and winning mindset required to achieve their trading goals.