Successful trading calls for something more than a tested trading plan. It also requires a winner's mindset, focus, discipline, mastery over your emotions and an astute understanding of market psychology.

This book shows you how to think and act like a successful trader and provides both practical mental techniques and proven trading strategies to help you raise your trading performance to new levels of success:

• How to stack the odds in your favour by setting trading goals

• How to develop a high performance trading plan

• How to overcome hesitation and fear and pull the trigger at the right time

• Simple techniques to manage your emotions, cope with trading stress, manage losses, setbacks and errors

• How to achieve greater consistency and confidence in your trading

• How to track your trading performance

• How to develop trading practices and routines that lead to success

• How to avoid the common pitfalls of trading.

Steve Ward is a performance consultant, trader performance coach, director of High Performance Trading and has traded FX and stock indices. 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. Steve has extensive experience as an in-house performance coach and trainer for leading trading institutions, and in co-managing a large team of over 40 professional traders in London. He was a consultant to the BBC TV series Million Dollar Traders and is a regular trainer at 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.