Michael Covel speaks with Gary Dayton on today’s podcast. Dayton stands apart as a trading psychologist in his use of the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach to peak performance, a model of human behavior based on mindfulness. Dayton is a psychologist and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and a certificate in human performance/sport psychology from Rutgers University. He is President of Peak Psychology, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in developing “peak” performance in traders. Covel and Dayton discuss mindfulness, yoga, and a turnaround in a particularly depressed patient; defining mindfulness; how Dayton went from a clinical psychologist to integrating money, markets, trading, and investing into his work; the importance of a trading process; looking at the lessons and research of Daniel Kahneman; the endowment effect; price action as a heuristic; the importance of an exit strategy; why mindfulness is the most important skill  a trader can develop. Dayton’s book, Trade Mindfully, is available on Amazon. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to trendfollowing.com/win.