Download or read book The Forex Mindset: The Skills and Winning Attitude You Need for More Profitable Forex Trading written by Jared Martinez and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jared Martinez traded the forex market for a decade through the 1980s and ’90s before he discovered that successful trading requires 10 percent skill and 90 percent emotional intelligence. He founded the Market Traders Institute on that underlying principle, and now MTI is the most established leader in forex education worldwide. Jared is known as “FXCHIEF” in the industry, and now, in The Forex Mindset, he shares his secrets with you. Leadership experts and corporate executives are just waking up to what the FXCHIEF has known for more than 15 years—emotional intelligence matters. With The Forex Mindset, you get up close and personal with greed and fear, the two leading forces in the market. Everyone gets in for greed, but without a healthy understanding of fear, you may be in for one of the worst journeys of your life. This performance-oriented guidebook features a potent synthesis of psychology and strategy that will exponentially increase your ability to acquire wealth as a trader. Even veteran traders with bulletproof trading strategies are doomed to fail if they don’t know themselves. The Forex Mindset prepares you to be a successful trader by helping you identify your unique psychological strengths and weaknesses and how you naturally behave in times of financial crisis. With a newfound understanding of yourself, you can use this book to map out your own path to wealth by: Delving into human nature and market behavior Learning how to improve your emotional intelligence Doing what top traders do to control their emotions in trades and in times of crisis Implementing authoritative strategies for effective thinking in a state of fear If you want to make a living from trading forex, apply the lessons in The Forex Mindset and you’re already 90 percent there!