This book impressed me. Ms. Shull delivers on the word "Radical" in the title. She has no problem serving up some of trading's sacred cows, medium rare. In particular, she shows from a neuroscientific perspective how the mantra of "Plan the trade, trade the plan" is problematic. How? By showing how it eats up emotional capital.
In its place she shows why the notion of emotional capital is important, and just as with regular capital, it is essential to preserve if you want to stay in the game.
A word of caution though. The real Rosetta Stone didn't magically make all of ancient Egyptian culture instantly accessible, but it did provide a framework for subsequent efforts which over time expanded our knowledge of history. Similarly, don't expect this book to transform you overnight into someone who Jack Schwager will be trying to get a hold of.
What it can do though is help those who respect the importance of personal psychology in trading (a minority IMHO) to better understand their makeup and develop internal strategies for success. (As opposed to the majority who think finding the perfect external strategy is the way to go. Such irony that it's the wetware on the inside driving those efforts in the first place!)
I think it is important to talk about the format of the book. If you are expecting a "Dummies Guide to my Trading Brain" with lots of neat bullet points, you will be sorely disappointed. Instead the format is somewhat meandering. I have heard participants in webinars say they didn't like the format as they were reading the book, but by the end they felt it made sense. I actually enjoyed reading the book, but regardless I believe the format is in part trying to illustrate the concept Ms. Shull puts forward called "Fractal Emotional Context."
Normally I cringe when I hear someone using the word fractal out of its proper mathematical context. I have a great respect for Benoit Mandelbrot, and can still recall as a pimply teenager in the early 80's holding a copy of "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" and just knowing I had something great in my hands. I still have the book, but since then it seems the term "fractal" has become one of the top 5 words used to peddle trading wares. Just Google up "fractal trading indicator" and you will get 479,000 results.
With all of that said, I think Ms. Shull's use of the term "Fractal Emotional Context" is both appropriate and very illustrative. When you sit down to trade, everything from what you said over breakfast to how you were treated as a child is there with you. Just as market action has activity on all time frames, so do you. And more of what is swirling around in there is unconscious than conscious.
But this is a good thing. Ms. Shull also reminds us that everyone else is in a similar boat, and suggests ways to use this paradigm to develop an edge.
I find a lot of investing/trading books problematic, where all too often a desire to "preach to the choir" (often a greedy choir not willing to do their homework) seems to win out. This book is a vivid exception to that notion.
It is clear Ms. Shull wrote this book because she believes in the concepts she presents and feels she can make a contribution to those who are serious about trading. I strongly agree with her ideas and feel lucky I came across her work.
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First off, they sent me a copy that was technically ‘not for sale’. (See pic) It is an advance readers copy riddled with grammatical errors.Second, I purchased this book months ago and have not finished because of the wordiness and unorganized thought. Meanwhile I’ve gotten “Trading in the Zone” and finished in a week because it’s truly a game changer for trading psychology. Really wish I purchased that book instead of this one so I could’ve saved some money.
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