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Part V-The Psychology of Trading
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Part V-The Psychology of Trading
150 Dr. Van K. Tharp-The Psychology of Trading Dr. Van K. Tharp is a research psychologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center, in 1975. He has spent his career studying how stress affects human performance. His strongest interest is in the psychology of winning—especially as winning applies to the markets. In 1982, Dr. Tharp developed his Investment Psychology Inventory, a test that measures winning and losing traits. Thousands of investors and speculators—myself included—have taken this test, which includes a written evaluation and a ten-minute phone consultation. Dr. Tharp has written five books on successful investing which provide the core of his investment course. He is a contributing editor for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities and has also written numerous articles for other financial publications. Dr. Tharp is a frequent guest on financial television and radio programs, and has spoken at many investment conferences. Dr. Tharp currently devotes himself full time to counseling traders from his office in Glendale, California, and continuing his research on trading success. A recent focus of this research has been interviewing and studying top traders so that he could create a model for success. His basic theory is that by teaching the winning traits of the top traders (not specific trading methodologies), he can dramatically improve the performance of less successful traders and investors. In his most recent project, he is attempting to turn his most successful clients into "supertraders" by extending his normal program of two two-day sessions into an ongoing semiannual process. After I interviewed Dr. Tharp, he asked whether he could do a video tape interview of me as part of his ongoing research. Since I thought such an interview might be helpful in improving my own trading performance, I eagerly agreed. The interview lasted for over four hours. Dr. Tharp has a particularly probing questioning style. After an initial response to a question, he would ask, "What else?" and repeat this process several times. When I could no longer think of any additional responses, he would have me shift the direction of my gaze (he later explained this in- struction was intended to facilitate accessing different parts of my brain), and sure enough I would think of another point I had somehow overlooked. I felt that this interview yielded some important personal insights. (One of these self-realizations is briefly discussed in the next chapter.) I would have liked to provide my personal impression of Dr. Tharp's basic course, which includes five books and four tapes. However, although I reviewed the material briefly as background for this chapter, the combination of simultaneously working at a full-time job and writing this book did not leave me with enough time (or energy) to give the course the serious attention it calls for—a personal project I plan for later. I can, however, attest to the fact that one of the traders interviewed in this book served as a subject in Dr. Tharp's project on modeling success and was duly impressed with his intellect and insight into successful trading. Download 5.03 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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