Market Mind Games
Market Mind Games explains the basics of neuroscience in a language you understand, which is the first tool you need to manage the emotional ups and downs of the trading. This book helps you improve your decision making by navigating the shifting relationships among reason, analysis, emotion, and intuition. It then provides you with a rock-solid trading system designed to take full advantage of your emotional assets.
Praise for Market Mind Games
“If you are trying to solve the unsolvable, stop. Read this first and you will learn that the surest path to success will be to start with yourself; solve that conundrum and challenges like understanding how you do and should react to markets will come to be solvable.”
— Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
“Denise Shull demonstrates how investment decision making is also determined by unconscious emotions and perceptions. Market Mind Games is a fascinating book that proposes a new and unexpected hypothesis about the factors that drive financial decision-making.”
— A.G. Malliaris, Professor of Economics and Finance, Loyola University Chicago
“Denise Shull’s gem of a book is long overdue. [Market Mind Games] has made the ability to analyze and overcome our unconscious biases and prejudices available to everyone.”
— Dr. Donald T. Wargo, Department of Economics, Temple University
“Market Mind Games is iconoclastic to say the very least! Pay attention to the last word in the subtitle: risk. This book will change your perspective on how to approach and think about the Markets and your life!”
— Michael J. Levas, Founder, Senior Managing Principal, and Director of Trading, Olympian Capital Management, LLC
“Denise changes the way you look at yourself and investing. Her insights and methods are necessary to succeed in the markets, period.”
— Jared Levy, Portfolio Manager and author of Your Options Handbook
“Market Mind Games offers a new school of trading psychology. Truly an important work that needs to be on the bookshelf of every serious Market participant.”
— Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade
“Masterful explanation of not only why emotionless trading is a myth, but how we can take advantage of our natural wiring to gain an edge.”
— Derek Hernquist, Chief Investment Officer, Integrative Capital, LLC
“Shull details ways to learn how you ‘feel’ before you ‘act’ so that your buy, sell, or hold decisions become more successful.”
— E. Bernstein, OPUS Trading
“A must-read for those who want to make their livelihood as a professional investor, trader, or algorithmic trading developer.”
— Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, Tabb Group
“Denise Shull enlightens the reader how to effectively unlock one’s psychological capital and translate that awareness into clear and concise investment decisions.”
— Grant Mashek, Managing Member, Palm Equity, LLC
“Shull’s book is not only a great read but lays out an entirely more effective approach to thinking about any decision that involves the unknown—market-related or not.”
— Leslie Shaw, Ph.D., Behavioral Economics, and trained psychoanalyst