I've rarely seen bestsellers that are this badly written. The fundamental message is solid - think in terms of probabilities, always define your risk before entering a trade, remember to take profits etc. However, the author is extremely verbose in communicating these ideas and it often feels like he is digressing from the topic. For example, all that attempt at explaining the psychology of a trader often goes nowhere. I wish the author had co-authored the book with someone who knew how to write crisply, or else hired a good editor to fix his writing.

I suggest that the reader make the effort to read this book once and write the gist of each chapter somewhere. Each chapter is so verbose that the gist can really be written in a few sentences. The reader will then never have to go through the pain to consult this book again.

This is very bad. Another treatise on psychology in self-help you-can-do-it style. You probably want this book because you have no trading system and hence no confidence. In this case spend your time developing one. Either you have a system and psychology is irrelevant, or you don't in which case you shouldn't be trading.

THis book is unique in that it does not address trading techniques or charts, etc. The writer addresses the mind set of winning traders, which is may be the most difficult thing for traders to master...

It discusses common trader fears that hurt performance and how to overcome them...

In my opinion a top 5 Trading Book...charts are useless if you think like a losing trader and trade in fear.