From Front Cover:

"'Aerodynamic Trading' reveals the secrets that propel professional traders and world class athletes to the top of their field. The author has excelled equally in both the intense, high-stakes arenas of international athletics and professional trading.

Competitors striving to excel at The Olympic Games, The Masters, Wimbledon, or in a professional trading room share common pressures and risks. Fast paced stories, observations and insights from Tokyo to New York explore the remarkable similar qualities needed to win in these competitive fields driven by huge financial rewards.

Once technique and execution are mastered, what factors really make the difference between winning and losing? It boils down to who is mentally tougher. Who is most mentally aerodynamic? Who has the least cerebral drag? It is the inner baggage we carry in our heads that undermines our skills and saps our energy.

'Aerodynamic Trading' brings you the actual exercises taught by professional and Olympic coaches to world class competitors to defuse the ticking time bomb of self-sabotage found within us. The reader will actually practice and participate in techniques used to overcome stress, decision paralysis, failure, performance slumps, self-sabotage, and the most destructive - for athlete and trader - burnout.

I've had this book for a long time and recently brought it out to read it again to see if I could extract any value from it as I found it difficult to do so on the first read. I read the review for her other book where some reviewers said her writing style was difficult to understand. I agree with those insights with respect to that volume. My main difficulty with this one, was, how can I practically use this information? ... and I'm still stretched to do that.

Having read other works in the area, I was already aware of the main components of the athelete's type mindset - goal setting, visualisation, breathing, being present, NLP, that kind of thing, and that's not a great deal of interest to me as that's not how I'd want to work on myself psychologically. I dont find those insights ground breaking, it's just applying concepts that have been around for many years to trading. Brown describes another model, The Three Selves (High Self, Conscious Self and Basic Self) that is much more comprehensively described in a book by John Roger of the MSIA (you'll have to look online to find his works).

I think there are a few good points in the book though and if you're into NLP, goal setting, visualisation, that kind of thing, you might find the book useful.

In summary though, I wouldn't pay full price for this book as I found the content to be difficult to extract its value.

My starting point and preference for trading psychology would be the excellent works of Mark Douglas, van Tharp.

I've had this book for a long time and recently brought it out to read it again to see if I could extract any value from it as I found it difficult to do so on the first read. I read the review for her other book where some reviewers said her writing style was difficult to understand. I agree with those insights with respect to that volume. My main difficulty with this one, was, how can I practically use this information? ... and I'm still stretched to do that.

Having read other works in the area, I was already aware of the main components of the athelete's type mindset - goal setting, visualisation, breathing, being present, NLP, that kind of thing, and that's not a great deal of interest to me as that's not how I'd want to work on myself psychologically. I dont find those insights ground breaking, it's just applying concepts that have been around for many years to trading.

I think there are a few good points in the book though and if you're into NLP, goal setting, visualisation, that kind of thing, you might find the book useful.

In summary though, I wouldn't pay full price for this book as I found the content to be difficult to extract its value.

My starting point and preference for trading psychology would be the excellent works of Mark Douglas, van Tharp.

I once wrote a negative review of this book and the review was eventually removed. I don't remember the specific criticisms of that review, but you should be aware that there is something fishy with respect to reviews on this book.

Update to this review: I looked back over this book while I was creating a pile of books to give to my library. The ideas in this book are plain silly. The author extensively quotes Yoda from Star Wars for advice and "psychological insight". The so-called technical schemes are the usual bogus math and pattern recognition. Nothing new. There is also a lot of self-aggrandizement. This is one of the many books that came out when the trading craze was at a high point.

Buy it. Add it to your library. It is an excellent book on the psychology of trading, which the experts say is really what makes or breaks a trader in the end, not being a technical indicator expert, but being psychologically prepared.

Buy it. Add it to your library. It is an excellent book on the psychology of trading, which the experts say is really what makes or breaks a trader in the end, not being a technical indicator expert, but being psychologically prepared.

Ms. Brown really knows what is going on here. If you stray away from the moment and allow your mind to be overcome by the distractions of the world, you are going to lose. This applies to not only trading, but to life as well. It's all about your mind. To quote the great Ed Seykota, "Everybody gets what they want."

So how do you get what you want? Well, although I am still trying to figure that out, but Ms. Brown gives some great insight into how you can begin to find out, while becoming even more true to yourself in the process. Excellent book.

This is an outstanding book by an author who has been there and done it all. The psychological aspects of trading are extremely complex, and really can not and have not been adequately covered by the psychological trade writers who are not traders. Ms. Brown has the most complete summary of the positive and negative sides of trading that I have ever seen, and her writing is carefully constructed with the understanding of the reader in mind. She helped bring me back from the depths of that dreaded trader disease, burnout. Her work in this book becomes even more impressive when you read her latest book, Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional, one of the most innovative efforts that I have seen by any author. Ms. Brown is very clearly not a one book flameout!!