Fatigue is the silent assassin of traders – it clouds your judgement, wrecks your focus, and makes your returns bleed.
Louise Bedford speaks with Simon Kearney, an expert in high-performance recovery, about how the same strategies used by elite athletes can elevate traders. We’ll show you how to crush energy drains, fight back against fatigue, and turn your well-being into an unfair edge in the markets.
From optimising sleep to maintaining focus, these techniques are essential for trading effectively under pressure.
Simon explains how to spot signs of physical and emotional fatigue, and why ignoring them can sabotage your success. As traders balance multiple markets and time frames, energy drains become overwhelming.
With actionable tips for sustainable energy and mental recovery, this episode equips you to stay sharp and resilient through deliberate practice and self-care routines.
This discussion dives deep into how well-being enhances performance. Learn to avoid burnout, develop resilience, and make clear-headed decisions even under pressure.
Key Topics Covered:
- Recognising Fatigue and Energy Drains: How physical and emotional fatigue can impair trading decisions and why early detection is crucial.
- Sustainable Energy Management: We look at practical strategies to maintain energy levels and prevent burnout. Especially when juggling multiple markets and time frames.
- The Role of Recovery in High Performance: Insights into how traders can use mental and physical recovery techniques to stay sharp and objective.
- Deliberate Practice vs. Instinct: Exploring when to rely on deliberate preparation and when to trust your instincts in trading.
- Self-Care as a Competitive Advantage: Why prioritising well-being can enhance long-term trading success and how small adjustments can yield big results.
- Visualisation and Mindset Techniques: How affirmations, visualisation, and focusing on ‘the now’ can improve resilience and performance.
- Modelling Successful Habits: Learning through imitation and adopting proven routines for sustained success.
About Simon Kearney
Elite athlete scientist, Simon Kearney from readiness.com.au is the co-founder of Readiness, a wellbeing technology company specialising in helping leading businesses (like Telstra and Jayco) unlock performance through technology and wellbeing.
Simon’s philosophy for over 20 years in elite, high-performance sports has been designing solutions at the intersection of psychology, wellbeing and performance.
Before Readiness, Simon led high-performance programs with elite sporting organisations, monitoring and improving all the key areas of well-being. He is ideally placed to provide us with specific strategies to increase our resilience as traders.
Contact Simon
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simon-kearney-86a819145
Website: readiness.com.au
About Louise Bedford
Louise Bedford has traded, taught, and written extensively about the financial markets for over 30 years, building a reputation as a highly accomplished and experienced trader, educator, and author.
She co-founded The Trading Game and has gained recognition for her unique approach to teaching trading psychology and market analysis.
Louise has authored several successful trading books. In particular, her titles include Trading Secrets, Charting Secrets, The Secret of Candlestick Charting, and Investing Psychology Secrets.
Louise runs her hugely popular, repeat-for-free Mentor Program Pro online course. Through this course, she shows you how to automate your trading so you can retire early and get on with your life.
To get in touch with Louise
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TradingGame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTradingGame
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/louise-bedford/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/tradinggame
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tradinggame.com.au
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tradinggame.com.au/
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