Mastering The Mental Game Of Trading by Steven Goldstein - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781804090077. Publisher: Harriman House. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Mastering the Mental Game of Trading is a candid, experience-led guide to the psychology behind trading success, written by renowned performance coach Steven Goldstein. Drawing on decades spent inside investment banks and years coaching professional traders, Goldstein shows how attitudes, biases and unconscious habits quietly undermine performance. This brand new paperback is built for traders who already understand strategy and charts but want to master the one variable that decides whether good ideas actually get executed under pressure: the mind.. About the Book. Trading looks like a battle of numbers, but Goldstein argues it is really a battle of self-awareness. Through relatable stories drawn from real traders he has coached, the book uncovers the subtle misconceptions and emotional traps that sabotage even experienced market operators — chasing losses, hesitating on winners, overconfidence after a good run, and paralysis after a bad one. Rather than offering generic motivational advice, Goldstein introduces a structured way of thinking about performance, helping readers notice their own patterns of reaction to uncertainty and interrupt the ones that cost money. The book moves between theory and lived experience, using Goldstein's own trading floor background to ground every concept in something practical rather than abstract psychology. Readers are guided to build routines around pre-trade preparation and post-trade review, so that lessons from each session compound rather than repeat. It is written specifically for people already active in markets — retail traders serious about improving, professional traders inside institutions, and the coaches who work with them — rather than as a general self-help title. The tone is direct and unsentimental, reflecting Goldstein's background as a market-maker rather than an academic psychologist, and the