Product Description

Who would have guessed that studying about adult human behavior would lead to a successful and stressfree investment strategy?!

Jason Starzec, owner of the investment strategies company YIC Incorporated, and seasoned Wall Street trader Mark Crisp team up to reveal just how important and delightfully simple it is to become a stressfree trader.

What is a stressfree trader and how do you become one? Surprisingly, those questions are not as difficult to answer as you may think. Learn the patterns, mindsets, tactics, and ideals of the most successful traders. But most importantly, learn how to develop your own trading plan and stick to it NO MATTER WHAT!

In section one of the book, you'll follow Mr. Starzec's classroom stories and learn the connections between being an adult learner and being an adult investor. Then in section two, you'll be able to apply that newfound knowledge to one of the exciting and refreshingly straightforward investment strategies developed by Mark Crisp.

You'll relate to the stories. You'll marvel at the connections. You'll be relieved about how easy it is to become a stressfree trader. And then you'll laugh all the way to the bank!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #298604 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 166 pages

About the Author
After studying about human behaviors in National-Louis University's Applied Behavioral Science program, Jason Starzec realized the connections between learning to become a successful person and learning to become a successful trader.

Since veteran and well-respected UK trader Mark Crisp was already distributing his unique and straightforward trading techniques and programs through Mr. Starzec's US company (YIC, Inc.), he was more than happy to lend his trading ideals to the study.

And because Mr. Crisp firmly believes that trading education is the key to all trading success, he has also lent two of his most popular and successful trading techniques/programs for inclusion in the book.

Mr. Starzec currently maintains his Investment Education website at yourinvestmentclub.com while Mr. Crisp maintains his Trading Programs website at stressfreetrading.com.

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Chapter One: Good Karma

I was amazed to find out exactly what can be learned in a college Adult Behavior and Applied Behavioral Science class. At first it certainly sounded as though I would learn a great deal about how to talk to others in an adult and professional manner. Perhaps I would learn some of the differences between adults and children. Whatever it was that I stood to learn, the one sad truth is that that was the first time I really realized that I was an adult (the only child in an adult learning class just didn't seem as feasible as it may have a few years ago)!

It all started innocently enough. All the students sat down in the chairs that were arranged in a circle...so that everybody could face and see everybody else. For a while we just looked at each other. The teacher hadn't arrived yet and we weren't quite sure what we were supposed to do or what we were to expect. Eventually, several of the adults began to talk to each other. Do you have any kids? How long did it take you to drive here? Why are you going to school at age 55? The simple kind of talk that adults seem to crave and employers seem to cringe at.

After about thirty minutes we all started to get a little uneasy. We started to openly question whether or not we were in the right classroom. Had the teacher sent us all an email that we just missed? Did the class really start the next week? How long should we wait until we go home?

Then Maria (who we all found out had no children and drove 45 minutes to get to class) decided to stand up. At first I thought for sure she was going to be the first person to leave the classroom. She was going to say, "I've had it with this class today...if the teacher wants to be an hour late that's fine but I have better things to do with my time than sit here and wait for a teacher to show up for class!"

To all of our shock (and none of yours if you read the introduction!), she announced that she was the instructor for this Applied Behavioral Science class. It was an old trick. She simply wanted to show us how easy it is for humans to communicate. It is in our nature to get together with each other and talk about things that either are important (like children and money) as well as things that aren't so important (like what kind of car we would like to drive if our spouses would let us). Adult communication is an innate characteristic of humans. We like to talk! That is one of our universal behaviors.

She went on to explain that she was going to run this class a little differently than we may have expected. By this point that was inevitable! She didn't exactly tell us how she was going to instruct the class but she wanted to make sure that we were prepared to have an open mind. She also wanted to make sure that we understood that Applied Behavioral Science is a rather broad subject. The goal of the class and the entire college program was to integrate the knowledge gained in the educational sources into our own lives. We were to analyze and ultimately improve our life systems!

For instance, if Maria were to tell us that she wanted us all to get in a group and talk about the items that would be most important if we were stranded in a desert, then we should truly believe that we were stranded in a desert. We should totally remove ourselves from ourselves if only for a moment in order to maximize the learning potential. Total displacement.

She then told us why she doesn't drink caffeine anymore because of the dangers caffeine poses to our body and mind. At that point we were all given a fond farewell and were allowed to go home early. So I drank the rest of my coffee, packed up my books that had gone completely unused during that first session, and ran to my car...quite eager to get home in time to catch the rest of Monday Night Football!