214: James King – The Principles that Drive Elite Performance

Chat With Traders

Tessa Dao

Education, Business, Investing

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It was 2017 when I first spoke with James King [Ep 133], around the same time he’d left a London-based commodity trading firm, where he worked as Performance Director. Since then, he’s continued advising to proprietary traders and fund managers, specialist military units and professional sports teams, as well as organisations. While also presenting case studies on elite performance at several ivy league universities. More recently, James has put the final touches on his first book Accelerating Excellence, in which he reveals four foundational principles that’ve been proven to drive elite performance (and serve as the focal point for our chat today…) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Chat with Traders is brought to you by the Chat with Traders community, a new membership
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0:11.0	journeys.
0:12.0	Hi, this is Tessa.
0:13.0	Do you feel stuck in moving forward in your own trading journey?
0:17.2	It's not just you.
0:19.0	Trading is one of the most difficult pursuits in life.
0:22.3	Even for the most seasoned and successful traders as we've listened to many of the guests
0:26.8	on the show tell of similar stories and similar struggles, they continually face the challenges
0:33.3	of staying at the top of their games.
0:35.8	Taking the long view approach to trading makes sense because it takes time to gain the
0:41.2	experience, the skills and knowledge to experience the wins, the losses and failures to learn
0:48.0	from them.
0:49.0	Pick yourselves back up when we fall, improve and refine our strategies, edge and processes.
0:55.3	But if we don't have self-discipline and don't consistently practice risk management, then
1:01.4	the game unfortunately would end too early for many of us because we would run out of
1:06.8	money, capital and self-confidence even before having the chance to learn and improve over
1:13.0	time.
1:14.2	That's where it goes wrong for most traders starting out and where most traders fail and end up
1:19.6	proving the trading failure statistics right.
1:24.0	Trading can be a lonely journey, but it doesn't have to be.
1:28.2	A trader can easily become discouraged, complacent, stray or even deep and unhealthy habits and
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