Trading is a stressful occupation, with mental and emotional traps on every side. Our instincts drive us to self-destruction: holding plummeting stocks in the hope of a sudden recovery, or obsessing over the minute-to-minute movements of our holdings. What if there were a trader who knew how to avoid these traps and could teach us to trade from a place of inner calm and peace of mind? Peter Castle has been a successful trader in financial markets for almost 30 years. He also happens to be a Zen monk. Peter’s unique perspective gives him unrivalled insight into how the wisdom of Zen can empower us to master our minds and achieve success in the markets. Many guides to using Zen avoid clear prescriptions and rely instead on cryptic quotes. In THE ZEN TRADER, Peter demystifies both trading and Zen, using decades of experience, sharing dozens of real-life examples, and explaining clearly the systems that enable mastery of both disciplines. He teaches us how to limit distraction, focus attention, detach from problematic emotions, be true to ourselves, and embrace the unlimited opportunities that exist in our professional and personal lives. Following Peter’s wisdom, you too can become a ZEN TRADER.

In investment world, many traders lose, especially retail forextrader, usually retail trader don't know how to trade, they lose their capital, they inject money to the broker again, lose again, and keep repeating the bad-cycle. Many of traders are so stressed, they think that trading should be easy, but in fact they are still losing their money.Zen trading is a book that tells about zen wisdom and guide the trader to have a mindful mindset in trading by using zen wisdom. Zen trading book will offer mindset and proven techniques to help traders understand themselves better before taking the trade. With zen wisdom that can be implemented to the trading, it made the zentrading concept . The book teach traders how to use only simple technical indicators and make it profitable, by using a simple strategy. This simple book teach traders to simplify the way traders trade, By using the concept in this book, traders can trade forex with mindful mind and profit in their account.

Like the lessons of Zen, the lessons in this book are brief, simple & profound. They are intended as much for the person who glances at the financial pages in the evening to see how his or her investments are faring as for the full-time trader or professional money manager. Their underlying message is that you are in a contest with yourself & not the market. Just as the lack of sense of self makes the samurai warrior a powerful & formidable opponent, it can make you successful in your stock trading. You will lose less. You will make greater profits. It is simple. "Captures the secret of successful trading."

Trading is a stressful occupation, with mental and emotional traps on every side. Our instincts drive us to self-destruction: holding plummeting stocks in the hope of a sudden recovery, or obsessing over the minute-to-minute movements of our holdings. What if there were a trader who knew how to avoid these traps, and could teach us to trade from a place of inner calm and peace of mind? Peter Castle has been a successful trader in financial markets for almost 30 years. He also happens to be a Zen monk. Peter’s unique perspective gives him unrivalled insight into how the wisdom of Zen can empower us to master our minds, and so achieve success in the markets. Many guides to using Zen avoid clear prescriptions and rely instead on cryptic quotes. In The Zen Trader, Peter demystifies both trading and Zen, using decades of experience, sharing dozens of real-life examples, and explaining clearly the systems that enable mastery of both disciplines. He teaches us how to limit distraction, focus attention, detach from problematic emotions, be true to ourselves, and embrace the unlimited opportunities that exist in our professional and personal lives. Following Peter’s wisdom, you too can become a Zen Trader.

Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS "Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I've ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you'll find that reading this book is time well spent." -Richard Dennis, President, The Dennis Trading Group, Inc. "Jack Schwager's deep knowledge of the markets and his extensive network of personal contacts throughout the industry have set him apart as the definitive market chronicler of our age." -Ed Seykota "Very interesting indeed!" -John Train, author of The Money Masters "Successful trading demands longtime experience because it requires firsthand knowledge. If there is a shortcut to this requirement, however, it is in reading about the experiences of others. Jack Schwager's book provides that shortcut. If you find yourself sweating upon occasion as you read, then you're as close to the trading experience as you can get without actually doing it yourself." -Robert R. Prechter, Jr., editor, The Elliott Wave Theorist THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS Some traders distinguish themselves from the herd. These supertraders make millions of dollars-sometimes in hours-and consistently outperform their peers. As he did in his acclaimed national bestseller, Market Wizards, Jack Schwager interviews a host of these supertraders, spectacular winners whose success occurs across a spectrum of financial markets. These traders use different methods, but they all share an edge. How do they do it? What separates them from the others? What can they teach the average trader or investor? In The New Market Wizards, these wildly successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success, as well as the embarrassing losses that have proven them all too human. Meet the Wizards of Wall Street: * Stan Druckenmiller, who, as manager of the Soros Quantum Fund, realized an average annual return of more than 38 percent on assets ranging between $2.0 and $3.5 billion * William Eckhardt, a mathematician who, in collaboration with trader Richard Dennis, selected and trained the now-legendary circle known as the Turtles * Bill Lipschutz, a former architect who, for eight years, was Salomon Brothers' largest and most successful currency trader * Blair Hull, a one-time blackjack player who began an options trading company with Asking the questions that readers with an interest in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, and filled with candid appraisals, The New Market Wizards takes its place as a classic.

One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns to create "tiles" or small square drawings. This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises. Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks, teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.

Update: This book reached #1 on Amazon's "Business and Investing" best-seller list for the kindle version. If you are like most people, you probably worry about having enough money for retirement and, perhaps, sending your children to college. After the Great Recession, and all the stories of Wall Street hedge funds "hacking" the markets with algorithms, it's understandable to think that successful investing is only for the upper "1%." This isn't true, however. The fact is that anyone can trade stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. There is a simple, easy to use trading system that can handle today's volatile markets. Praveen Puri, who wrote the best-selling book "Stock Trading Riches: The Simple, but Powerful Formula that Transforms Your Stock Picks into Money Pumps," suggests that investors would do well to shift their focus from Wall Street to the Great Wall. Puri is one of the growing numbers of financial and trading veterans who started to embrace Eastern principles for success. In the '90's, he was a day trader glued to screens, phones, and CNBC. Puri found himself running faster just to stay in the game. He felt pressured to leverage his portfolio with futures and options. He worked hard, suffered stress, and failed to meet his performance goals. Then, in 2000, he studied and applied the lessons of Taoism, Zen, and Hinduism: The market is reality. Traders must accept and adapt to whatever it does. Focus on the present moment. It is the only thing you have control over. Concentrate on your duty (trade your system), not on the fruits of your labor (short term results). Puri developed a minimalist, Zen-like investment system that uses no news reports, fancy technical indicators or charts to distract from the present moment. He relies on a single formula to calculate when to buy low and sell high. He obeys his formula, and does not let minor fluctuations trigger fear and greed. He now "surfs" in flow with the market, trades longer term, and is no longer glued to the screen. He only trades common stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. He is no longer stressed, and his performance exceeds his expectations. Puri feels that any investor or trader can benefit from an Eastern KISS (Keep It Short and Simple) approach: Accept the fact that no investment system is perfect. The market goes where it wants to, not where investors would like it to. Less is more. Adding complex rules, indicators, and exotic products tends to raise trading costs, and makes your portfolio less flexible and robust. Focus on executing your plan, and not dwelling on short-term performance. "A Zen Trading System" is a re-issue of "Stock Trading Riches," and includes the latter title's 2009 updates, which include: More information on portfolio design Advice about stock picking A link to a downloadable spreadsheet A bonus system for investing in IPOs