Monday, September 07, 2026

BRETT STEENBARGER'S TRADING PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCE CENTER


Below are resources to help traders become their own trading coaches, improve their trading processes, and develop a positive work-life balance.  All the TraderFeed posts also contain links to valuable resources and perspectives.  


 RADICAL RENEWAL - Free blog book on trading, psychology, spirituality, and leading a fulfilling life

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The Three Minute Trading Coach Videos

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 Forbes Articles:


 My coaching work applies evidence-based psychological techniques (see my background and my book on the topic) to the improvement of productivity, quality of life, teamwork, leadership, hiring best practices, and creativity/idea generation.  An important part of the "solution-focused" approach that I write about is that we can often best grow by focusing on what we do well and how we do it--and then doing more of what works for us.  The key is to know our cognitive, interpersonal, and personality strengths and leverage those in the pursuit of performance. 
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I wish you the best of luck in your development as a trader and in your personal evolution.  In the end, those are one and the same:  paths to becoming who we already are when we are at our best.

 Brett
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Peak Performance Priorities

 
9/7/2026 - In his book One Good Trade, Mike Bellafiore identifies seven "fundamentals" that go into making "one good trade":

*  Proper preparation
*  Hard work
*  Patience
*  A detailed plan before every trade
*  Discipline
*  Communication
*  Replaying important trades

The overarching idea is that a good trade is defined by the process that produced it, not by its P/L.  In this series of posts, I'll take a look at peak performance fundamentals and explain how they are essential to successful trading. 

Mike's text The Playbook brings together these seven fundamentals.  The idea is that the successful trader studies stocks and their movement and eventually identifies promising patterns for buying or selling.  By collecting multiple examples of these patterns, documenting them, and coming up with rules for buying/selling/holding/stopping out, the trader internalizes opportunities and becomes able to recognize them in real time.  Eventually, like a great football or basketball team, the trader has deeply learned so many patterns that they can adapt to almost any market condition.

Peak performance doesn't occur on the basketball court or on the football field unless it has been laid out in advance and rehearsed, rehearsed, rehearsed.  Staying fully focused on markets requires the ability to sustain effort hour after hour after hour.  Our preparation is our workout routine.  We will never sustain more focus and effort in our trading than we achieve in our preparation.

 
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