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Fix Your Psychology

For traders who know their system and keep breaking it. Douglas twice, Steenbarger twice, and Shull for the angle the others miss.

1

The Disciplined Trader

Mark Douglas · 1990 · Level: intermediate

Douglas's earlier book on the mental side: how beliefs formed outside trading quietly run your decisions at the screen.

For prop traders: Read it when you know the rules but keep breaking them after a drawdown.

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2

Trading in the Zone

Mark Douglas · 2000 · Level: all levels

The book on trading psychology: thinking in probabilities, accepting risk on every trade, and removing the emotional charge from losses.

For prop traders: Evaluation accounts are lost to revenge trading and rule-breaking far more often than to bad strategy. This is the standard fix.

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3

The Daily Trading Coach

Brett Steenbarger · 2009 · Level: all levels

101 short lessons you work through like a coach-led program: journaling, self-talk, pattern change, and building on strengths.

For prop traders: The closest thing to a prop desk coach in book form. Built for daily review habits, which is what evaluations quietly test.

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4

Market Mind Games

Denise Shull · 2011 · Level: intermediate

A performance coach's argument that emotions are information, not noise: read what a feeling is telling you instead of suppressing it.

For prop traders: A good counterweight to Douglas for traders who find pure discipline talk does not stick.

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5

Trading Psychology 2.0

Brett Steenbarger · 2015 · Level: intermediate

A practical update on trader psychology: adapting as markets change, and treating your trading as a performance practice, not a mood.

For prop traders: Useful once you are funded and the problem shifts from passing to staying funded.

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