Dates and Locations

28 & 29 June 2012	London, UK	Apex City of London Hotel >>
8 & 9 November 2012	London, UK	Apex City of London Hotel >>

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Course Outline: Trading Psychology Workshop

This practical and interactive two-day workshop is designed for traders who want to improve their trading performance, develop their decision making skills, strengthen their discipline, and learn practical performance enhancement techniques for taking their trading to the next level.

It is an intensive two-day programme of applied trading psychology with the content being largely drawn from the areas of performance psychology, neuroscience, behavioural finance and cognitive behavioural coaching, combined with vast experience of working with traders of all abilities and experience across the globe and across asset classes.

Each delegate will be asked to complete a high performance psychometric test which will be evaluated as a part of the programme, and will also receive a workshop manual and copy of the book 'High Performance Trading'.

Over the two days the course gives particular attention to the following topics in a blend of presentations, discussions, audio/visual input, demonstrations and practical exercises:

Traders behaving badly - Understanding trading performance, decision making and discipline
+ What is trading performance?
+ A framework for understanding trader decision making and the factors affecting it
+ The 5 deadly sins of trading

Awareness advantage - How to gain greater control of your urges and unconscious behaviours
+ The 3 key areas of awareness
+ Practical approaches for developing greater awareness and impulse control
+ Behavioural risk management

Think or blink - Insights from behavioural finance and neuroeconomics into your trading brain
+ Exploring cognitive biases and their impact on trader decision making
+ Learning about the trading brain from a neuroeconomic perspective
+ Techniques and strategies for reducing the impact of biases and hardwired brain functions

Thinking differently - Creating a mental map for trading success
+ Understanding how thoughts, beliefs, perceptions and assumptions impact on performance
+ Strategies for identifying your thinking tendencies and changing them where appropriate
+ Creating 'mental maps' for successful trading

Keeping the chimp in the cage - How to manage fear & stress, creating confidence & resilience
+ Understanding the impact of emotions on trading performance
+ Practical techniques for creating peak states such as confidence and resilience
+ Strategies for overcoming limiting states such as fear, anxiety, stress and anger including a biofeedback demonstration and training

Personality, Pavlov and performance - Understanding your trading behavioural tendencies
+ Developing awareness of your own behavioural tendencies and how they may play out in your trading (supported by insights from the psychometric test)
+ Learnt behaviours and habits and how to create them/overcome them
+ Behaviour and trading strategies - finding the sweetspot

Raising the bar - Improving performance
+ The change factor
+ The spiral of high performance
+ Performance enhancement techniques and strategies

Consolidation and breakout - Review, plan, do
+ Review and consolidation of learning
+ Question and answer session
+ Development of a personal performance improvement plan