Trading in a Zone

How to Think Like a Professional Trader

In the old, industry-based economy, financial managers concerned themselves with little more than minimizing capital costs and maximizing returns. Today’s CFO, however, not only must act as a financial ambassador between the company, its board of directors, and the investment community, but also must confront radically new takes on bedrock concepts like profitability, working capital, and risk management. With his twelve simple lessons, insider James Sagner turns traditional financial thought on its head and cracks the code to the new economy in The Real World of Finance: 12 Lessons for the 21st Century.

Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.