Master your mindset and boost your investing success
Investing Psychology Secrets is your golden key to developing an unshakable mental toughness when it comes to investing in and trading shares. If you want to truly excel as an investor, you need to develop your psychological fitness first — so you can confidently handle whatever the sharemarket might throw at you. Investing Psychology Secrets reveals practical, evidence-backed methods to build your money mindset and improve your psychological strengths as an investor.
To grow your wealth consistently, you need to be able to triumph throughout the struggles and stress, the wins and breakthroughs, in ever-challenging financial markets. In this book, Louise Bedford, a leading expert in behavioural finance and the bestselling author of Trading Secrets and Charting Secrets, unveils her strategies for confident investing. She shows you how to build your resilience, maintain focus, and thrive in the face of market shake-ups.
With Investing Psychology Secrets, you’ll discover:
How to create habits for success, with winning routines that lead to exceptional investing and trading Why positive thinking can shoot you in the foot and sheer willpower isn’t enough How to master your emotions and rewrite the money scripts that can boost your profits The paradigm-shattering truth about how meditation and mindfulness can reshape your results (it’s not what you think!) The unexpected connection between tarantulas, self-worth, and investing success — and what the neighbourhood cat can teach you about effective trading
Get ready to take control of your trading destiny, with the help of one of Australia's best-selling personal finance authors. With Louise Bedford’s Investing Psychology Secrets, you’ll build real, tangible investing skills — and unlock the secrets for lasting financial success.
By:
Louise Bedford
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9781394264001
ISBN 10: 1394264003
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 07 June 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue: Let’s kick off ix Key 1: Success habits 1 Build winning routines for exceptional investing and trading 1 Why is psychological fitness essential? 5 2 Start, damn it start 17 3 Autopilot investing 31 4 Three rookie habits hurting your results 43 Key 2: Emotional mastery 51 Keep your cool and flourish 5 The hidden forces behind self-sabotage 55 6 Regaining focus in a distracted world 63 7 Purpose trumps passion 73 8 Isn’t it all just luck? 85 9 How to develop objectivity 93 Key 3: Money mindset 101 Know yourself to boost your profits 10 Your money scripts could devastate you 103 11 The investment gender gap — fact or fiction? 117 12 Raising money-wise kids to shape the financial confidence of the next generation 127 13 How to stop money ripping apart friendships 131 Key 4: Recharge and renew 141 Stay energised for optimal performance 14 Avoid trader burnout 145 15 Recover from the market knocks — fast! 155 16 How to handle a big loss 171 17 As close as you’ll get to a quick fix 183 18 Debunking the myth of willpower 189 Key 5: Motivation 199 Use inspiration to drive your results forward 19 Game on — exploring the winning mindsets of athletes and investors 203 20 Feel the pain and do it anyway 211 21 Approach your goal setting the right way 215 Key 6: Prime your mind for success 225 Stories and exercises to reprogram your subconscious 22 Don’t delay 227 23 Should you compare yourself to others? 229 24 Silver boxes 233 25 Your number one enemy 237 26 Stumbling blocks 239 27 What’s your currency? 241 28 Can money buy you happiness? 243 29 Is this all there is? 245 30 The self-startler 247 31 Your investing identity 251 32 Eight things I wish people had told me about being a trader 253 33 The forgotten struggle 257 34 The brutal reality of investing: why honesty is the key 259 35 No mud, no lotus 261 36 Cane toad narcotics 263 37 Investing lessons from Cleo the cat 265 38 Love affair with money 267 39 How an exotic dancer changed the way I viewed investing forever 269 40 Are you a dandelion or an orchid trader? 273 41 Permission to be rich 275 42 Yes, they saw my undies 277 43 Are you ready to become a full-time trader? 279 Epilogue: It’s just the beginning 283 Sources 289 Further reading 303 Acknowledgements 305
LOUISE BEDFORD is a behavioural finance expert and bestselling author. She has over thirty years’ experience as a successful trader, hosts the Talking Trading podcast, and is one of Australia’s most compelling voices speaking on the financial markets today.
