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Friday, July 25, 2025

Powerful Predictors of Trading Success

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  7/30/2025 - Personally, my most powerful predictor of trading success is when the trade idea lines up on multiple dimensions.  Specifical...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Why Do I Go On Tilt?

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  7/24/2025 - A wild thought:  What if we're in different brain states when we recognize opportunity setting up in markets vs. when we a...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Psychology of Finding and Trading Edges in the Market

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  7/18/2025 - Essential to trading edges is our trade execution.  There are different execution rules and strategies for different kinds of ...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

Our Trading Psychology Is Shaped By The Questions We Ask

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  7/9/2025 - One vital question for those who are early in the process of learning how to trade: * Are you actually getting mentoring, or ar...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Best Trading Practice: Intensifying Trading Focus

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  7/3/2025 - Idea generation--finding the opportunities worth trading and the spots when you can trade them with excellent risk/reward--is a...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Best Trading Practice: Using Core Motivations to Change Your Life and Your Trading

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  6/29/2025 - Whatever your goals might be--in trading and in life--do a little piece of them each day, building on your progress one step a...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Best Trading Practice: Rule-Based Sizing of Positions

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  A great deal of the success of a trade comes from what happens after the position is put on.  The best traders I've worked with have r...
Friday, June 13, 2025

A Different Kind of Trading Psychology Workshop

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  6/19/25  - Many thanks to those who attended the workshop and especially those who contributed best practices.  Two topics that came up th...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Understanding Your Best Trading

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  6/12/2025  - In the research I've conducted re: the personality and life history predictors of trading success, several factors consis...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Trading Psychology Principles and Best Practices

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  * Principle #5:  Trading is a team sport .  I recently described a number of ways in which teamwork magnifies our learning and spurs our ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

How Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

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  5/28/2025  - What I see happening in the best training of trader talent at hedge funds is a marriage of top-down and bottom-up analyses.  ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Truth About Trading Success

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  Well, my latest trading companion is doing quite well, as can be seen from her picture at her 6-week birthday.  It's amazing how perso...
Monday, April 28, 2025

TraderFeed Takes a Vacation

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  Well, we'll be bringing a new friend into the home, beautiful Siamese girl, who is currently with her Mom (see below).  As we learned ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Training the Brain by Building Intentionality

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  4/27/2025 - Suppose you were to place yourself in a state of intensified focus/concentration as outlined below vis a vis alpha state brain...
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Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
Author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003), Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006), The Daily Trading Coach (Wiley, 2009), Trading Psychology 2.0 (Wiley, 2015), The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies (APPI, 2018) and Radical Renewal (2019) with an interest in using historical patterns in markets to find a trading edge. Currently writing a book on performance psychology and spirituality. As a performance coach for portfolio managers and traders at financial organizations, I am also interested in performance enhancement among traders, drawing upon research from expert performers in various fields. I took a leave from blogging starting May, 2010 due to my role at a global macro hedge fund. Blogging resumed in February, 2014.
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