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Investing Psychology Secrets: Sure-Fire, Data-Driven Strategies to Supercharge Your Trading Results. Edition No. 1

  • Book

  • 336 Pages
  • June 2024
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5941507

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.

Table of Contents

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

Authors

Louise Bedford