Do you want to improve your bottom line? Do you need to make split second decisions based on sound investment logic instead of emotional impulses? How do you deal with frustration when a trade or chosen path doesn’t go the way you anticipate?

A biofeedback-based peak performance/stress management program may be the right tool for you. Sometimes, as a trader or executive, you need to narrow your focus in order to complete demanding tasks, while at other times, you need to keep an open mind so you don’t miss new patterns in the market. Stress and anxiety impede our mental flexibility and ability to focus on the reality in front of us, thereby preventing adaptation to, and success in, new circumstances.

Problem		Solution
Stress, anxiety, emotional reactions, frustration, focus		Peak Performance Training enables you to achieve physiological balance, mental clarity, focus, and calmness. This in turn, reduces stress and anxiety, which significantly improves your decision-making capabilities and performance.

Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University; active trader for over 30 years; former Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC; author of The Psychology of Trading, Enhancing Trader Performance, and the blog TraderFeed: Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns; says:

“SharpBrains’ is the first biofeedback application that I’m aware of that is uniquely marketed to traders. I’ve used biofeedback to monitor my body’s level of arousal during trading and have found it to be quite useful.”

Biofeedback systems give you immediate real-time visual feedback on your “internal performance” to help you reduce the emotional arousal that can disrupt your executive functions: judgment, planning, analyzing, and reasoning. The graphs above show the difference in your body rhythms between frustration and the smooth target pattern of “The Zone” in your optimal learning process and peak performance.

Further Reading

• Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading: Interview with Brett N. Steenbarger
• An example of emotional self-regulation through biofeedback
• On attention, trading psychology and “open” minds
• Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology
• The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques for Minding the Markets