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Mark Douglas

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market With Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude Preloaded Digital Audio Player – Unabridged, February 1, 2012

by Mark Douglas (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Publisher : Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (February 1, 2012)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1464016887
ISBN-13 : 978-1464016882
Item Weight : 6 ounces

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A Waste of Time and Money

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018

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This is a poor piece of work. The author seems to know nothing of the psychology of decision making, and not that much about the markets. His writing is graceless and repetitious, with pointless asides. The essence of Douglas's message is this: Develop a "winning attitude." And be disciplined. Don't have a neurotic relationship to the market. This is obvious stuff, and the author communicates it poorly. Some of the content is seriously misguided. For example, Douglas asserts, on no authority except his own say so, that the "true attraction of trading" is . . . self-expression. (At p. 18.) This is wrong: the true attraction of trading is . . . making money. Another example: Douglas claims that traders who think that the best way to get better at trading is to learn more about the financial markets are falling into "a trap" because "the market simply offers too many often conflicting variables to consider." (At p. 13.) Douglas repeatedly, and egregiously, devalues knowledge of the markets. I am tempted to make an unkind remark, but will refrain, and just say caveat emptor!

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Cooper

just a Psychology book in general, but it will not make you a successful trader !

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2019

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A lot of traders read this book and yet the majority of them are those 90% who still fail to make profit. The book says things in general with lots of cool quotes. This is a good foundation for start trading, but your future has nothing to do with this book. This book will not make you successful in trading.

For me it's a waste of time and money. This book was written by a guy who FAILED and LOSS at TRADING. The author did not succeed in trading at all.

48 people found this helpful

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John Thompson

Its Not Just a Good Book.

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018

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**** Please read this one**** Well, after reading over 100 books..I think "THIS ONE IS NUMBER ONE"... Its Not Just a Good Book.. But the Way He Explains it... Is Special... I am a Retired Race Car Driver/Instructor.... and Being in The ZONE... is the Same for Anything... You Do Mentally... Pool, Chess, Boxing, Snow Skying, or DAY TRADING.. As am Example.. ( Today is Sunday).. but.. Last Friday... I Made a New Yearly Record.. I did Eight Trades.. Making Money ON ALL of Them.. and Ended up with a 10.7% Profit In ONE DAY... Yes.. alone 11% in One Day.... But I was.. Totally In the ZONE.... and I feel I owe Much of it to Reading This Book.... Good Luck.. and Have a GREAT DAY.... JohnofSJ...

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BASS!

Waste of Time

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020

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I wasted a whole afternoon slogging through this book, and there never was a payoff.

First, the book is FULL of a bunch of pseudoscience, magical thinking and other nonsense. The author speaks of topics of psychology, neuroscience and physics with clearly no real understanding of any of them. He seems to half-understand concepts from these fields, and then fills in the vast gaps in his understanding with pseudoscience and magical thinking. As just an example of this, at one point he mentions that tears contain negative ions (I don't know if this is true or not) and equates that with the body being rid of "negative emotions" and "negative energy". The book is filled with stuff like that.

There are no references whatsoever to all of the various "scientific" claims he makes. Luckily, I'm well-versed in modern psychology, neuroscience and physics myself to spot it for the almost complete nonsense it was.

Even that I could stomach if the book made some good points and had actionable things I could use as a trader. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. The book is filled with anecdotal stories (most of which have nothing to do with trading, and many of which are clearly made up by the author to make a point), metaphors, analogies, etc. By the time he finally gets around to making his points (about halfway into the book), they basically come down to:

-Realize anything can happen in the market
-Predefine (and know) your risk
-Cut losses short
-Let profits run

Even if you need to learn these things, there are far better books to teach these truly obvious and universally known basics without wasting your time with a bunch of non-relevant fictional stories. The book could've made it's points in a quarter of the pages.

So, if you believe in magic, psychic energy, positive and negative "energy", AND you've never read anything on trading before, you might get a small amount of value from this book. But if you know ANYthing about trading, there's nothing new here, and even if there were, it wouldn't be worth sifting through all the unsubstantiated nonsense to find it.

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Teddy

fire emoji 🔥

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019

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Freaking fire emojis all day 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 i saw some Bad reviews Before receiving the book so I was a little iffy about it. I’m finishing up chapter 3 now but right from chapter 1 it’s packed with information that blew my mind. Idk what the rest of the book is about but so far its taught me that I’ve been asking the wrong questions to myself either consciously or subconsciously I would ask myself things like how can I read the markets better, what new technical analysis can I use And implement etc. vs asking a deeper question which is..... how do I think like a consistent successful trader??? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 that question alone can help you breakthrough in your trading.

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Faisal Al Sawadi

it's far better his first book "The Disciplined Trader"

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2017

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This is a must read for traders, If you want to understand the fundamentals truths of trading, If you want to trade with a carefree state of mind, and more importantly, if you want to understand the trader's perspective and market's perspective, then you need to read this easy-to-read book.
Douglas made an outstanding contribution by writing this book, it's far better his first book "The Disciplined Trader". probably because he was more experienced and more educated when he wrote this one.

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De Smiley One

Trade with Confidence and Consistency

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018

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Trading psychology is just as important , if not more important, than understanding technical analysis. Learn from the late, great legend of trading psychology himself, Mark Douglas. The narration is pleasant and not a distraction like many audio versions of classic books. I would highly recommend this classic to anyone who wants to trade at a serious level. It doesn't take the place of fundamental or texhnical analysis. It simply makes FA and TA work on a more consistent level. And consistency is what trading is all about.

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Ramesh T

Every trader should own a copy!

Reviewed in India on June 27, 2018

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This is THE best book in trading psychology. I believe all the top traders and the consistently winning ones owns or has read a copy of this. This book has now reached the top slots in my collection of trading related books. If you need to know few other books which you could consider owning, they are Reminiscences of a stock trader, How I made $2 million in the stock market, Trading psychology 2.0, The disciplined trader, Market wizards.

The book is a hard bound one with excellent paper quality. I definitely received an original copy.

71 people found this helpful

Luca Vella Petroni

A must read for every trader...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2019

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This is a watershed text on investing and trading psychology. Too often we underestimate the importance of individual mindset, psychology and particularly emotion on the effectiveness of our investing or trading systems. If we can our understand traits, strengths and weaknesses, then we can personalise a system which will improve returns. Douglas articulates the common dangers of trading, such as failing to take responsibility, and then gives us principles and tools to overcome them. Thinking in terms of probabilities and not ‘right and wrong’ is perhaps the most important single understanding. When we shift our thinking in this regard, and then devise objective rules in an effective trading or investing system, then we can be more objective and consistent. This book is a must anyone’s library.

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Sanjay Modak

Must Read for a serious Trader in Stocks and Derivatives.

Reviewed in India on July 20, 2019

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I read this book completely with slow speed to grasp each and every chapter. I have had read other books also on trading psychology but this book appeared to me as the best among the same.
The author has in the beginning narrated typical journey of a trader and how most of the traders wipe out their entire capital within a year. The Book unfolds each and every characteristic of the nature of beliefs a typical trader holds which act as a hindrance in his trading journey. The comparison of trading with Casino operator is a perfect symmetry of the whole game. A novice trader first wins money, he becomes euphoric, then he looses money, he realizes need to learn various tools and a host of technical analysis. But, still he continues to loose money. The Author has analyzed why? There are hundreds of variables on which the markets react to. No trader, howsoever intelligent and knowledgeable can say for certain that a trade that he takes will win.
The Author has in subsequent chapters, given deep insight into molding the mental set of of a trader to be in tune with what market is offering. How an edge of a trader over others can work by just treating it as a higher probability and nothing else.
The magic of the solution lies in the last couple of chapters where the Author has asked the readers to pen down 5 Fundamental Truths about trading and 7 principles for creating consistency in winning.
I have taken down some important notes from the book for my own use. I go through these notes at least once in a week to stay my mindset aligned with the what the market is offering.

34 people found this helpful

Shepherd

Overhyped

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2019

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Overhyped. I never connected with the book though I purchased this in 2014 and never finished it.

9 people found this helpful

K.A

Psychology of trading at its best - a must if you intend to trade professionally

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2017

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Excellent book that will change the way you look at trading IF you have the mental discipline to do so. Can sometimes feel a little repetitive, this doesn't however affect the quality of the message, but I suspect Mark is fully aware that for most people, repetition is absolutely necessary for the message to actually register in the human brain. This book is about the psychology of trading, and about how reprogramming your psychology to think differently can positively impact your trading results.

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