The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence by DC Gonzalez

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Regular trading psychology books written by doctors and trainers focus too much on trading and ignored the fact that the ability to master our emotion requires practice and training. This book covers the topic with practical advices and techniques that the readers can use to train their minds properly. It is also a book with motivational stories to make you think and reflect upon your life experience.


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The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence
Written by DC Gonzalez

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Anatomy of $SPY on First Trading Day of the Month by Kora Reddy

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Empirical traders who like Lawrence Chan’s quantitative analysis of trading systems at his daytradingbias.com will like this book enough to keep it handy. Kora Reddy has done us daytraders a great service by showing what makes trading systems tick. Success comes not in blindly following systems but in understanding how and why those systems work. Such knowledge comes through hard work. All in all, this is one of the best trading books of the last decade and, despite its peccadilloes, one of the best all-time daytrading books period. Active SPY traders who buy it and then let it collect dust will be doing so at their own risk!


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Anatomy of $SPY on First Trading Day of the Month
Written by Kora Reddy
self-published book, 2013

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How I Trade for a Living by Gary Smith

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Gary Smith’s How I Trade for a Living is one of the best in Wiley’s “Online Trading for a Living” series. Although some of the material is dated, his autobiography is inspiring, and his approaches to trading uniquely individualistic. Those who enjoy reading about maverick traders and how they make their money trading should enjoy this book.


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How I Trade for a Living
Written by Gary Smith
John Wiley and Sons, 2000

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