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Book Synopsis
Financial Risk Taking offers readers a context within which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. * Explains an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full--time day trader.

Table of Contents
List of Figures.

Foreword.

Contrarian Investment Strategies.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction: Between Scylla and Charybdis.

2. Understanding Trading Competence.

3. A Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence.

Part A: The Tactical Model of Trading Competence.

Part B: The Strategic Model of Trading Competence.

4. Taming Stress to Become a Better Trader.

5. The Psychology of Perceptual Bias.

6. Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, and the Trader.

7. Martial Arts and Budo Zen – Controlling Fear and Self-Sabotage.

8. Standards and Criteria for Trading Competence.

Appendix 1: Reading List.

Appendix 2: Websites of Interest.

Appendix 3: Courses and Seminars.

Bibliography.

Index.

Financial Risk Taking

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 15 June 2004
      ISBN-13 9780470850268
      978-0470850268
      ISBN-10 0470850264
      Also in:
      Finance and accounting Behaviourism, Behavioural theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Financial Risk Taking offers readers a context within which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. * Explains an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full--time day trader.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures.

      Foreword.

      Contrarian Investment Strategies.

      Acknowledgements.

      1. Introduction: Between Scylla and Charybdis.

      2. Understanding Trading Competence.

      3. A Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence.

      Part A: The Tactical Model of Trading Competence.

      Part B: The Strategic Model of Trading Competence.

      4. Taming Stress to Become a Better Trader.

      5. The Psychology of Perceptual Bias.

      6. Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, and the Trader.

      7. Martial Arts and Budo Zen – Controlling Fear and Self-Sabotage.

      8. Standards and Criteria for Trading Competence.

      Appendix 1: Reading List.

      Appendix 2: Websites of Interest.

      Appendix 3: Courses and Seminars.

      Bibliography.

      Index.

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