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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Five Day High...Then Five Day Low

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Yesterday we closed at a five-day high in SPY; today we closed at a five-day low. That's quite a reversal. I decided to consult the hist...
Monday, February 27, 2006

A New Look at Weak Energy Stocks and the S&P 500

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For those who have requested the link, here is the article on first hour patterns in trading . The relationship between the energy sector an...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Sequence Analysis and Lean Processes in Trading

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On the Trader Performance blog , I recently posted an entry that looks at the process of defining and managing trade ideas from the perspect...
Saturday, February 25, 2006

More On Speculative Stocks - A Promising Predictor

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What I'm finding in the very large baskets of Speculative and Non-Speculative issues that I am tracking is that they are more predictive...
Friday, February 24, 2006

Semiconductors and QQQQ: An Example of Complexity

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I've received quite a few emails regarding the last few entries dealing with lead-lag relationships between sectors/markets and the majo...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Brokerage Stocks and the S&P: Another Leading Relationship

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Here's another look at a market sector that has been exerting a lead relationship vis a vis the S&P 500 (SPY). It's the Broker-D...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

A Note on Trading Psychology

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I just finished an email to someone at a trading firm in which I tried to summarize the essence of trading psychology in a single post. Here...

SOX and Stocks - Real Time

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It's about 9 AM Chicago time as I'm writing this. The QQQQ opened higher this AM, but SMH was down on the open and some size was hit...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

SOX and Stocks: An Update

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Much of my recent research posted here and on the Trading Markets site has dealt with lead-lag relationships in the market: identifying sect...
Monday, February 20, 2006

Spec Stocks and the S&P: A Weekly View

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This past week we saw the S&P 500 rise about 1.7% in a five day period. The performance of the Spec stocks was very similar. I decided t...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Speculative Stocks and the S&P 500

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Continuing the investigations of the past couple of days, I redefined my Speculative and Non-Speculative stock universe to focus on larger c...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

Speculative and Non-Speculative Stocks: Surprise Findings

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To follow up on the Speculative and Non-Speculative stock research from my last posting, I decided to look at up days in the S&P 500 (SP...
Friday, February 17, 2006

Potentially Explosive Research: Spec vs. Non Spec Stocks

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The best market indicators, I've found, are the ones that are the least picked over. I can pretty much assure you that if an indicator c...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Looking At Sector Leaders: Banks

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Check out the Trading Markets site Friday AM; I should have a detailed article on this topic posted then. Over the past three sessions, we a...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Strong Stocks, Weak Oil: What Next?

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In the past two days, the S&P 500 (SPY) has risen by over 1.4%, while the oil and gas stocks ($XOI) have dropped by over 1.26%. My thoug...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Strong Upward Momentum: What Follows

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Readers of the Trading Psychology Weblog are familiar with the Demand/Supply measure, which is a proprietary indicator of momentum that I po...
Monday, February 13, 2006

Small and Midcap Stocks - Relative Performance

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This is the first of my attempts to carefully separate out the small and mid cap universes by comparing the S&P 400 small caps ($SML) to...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Small Price Change, High Volatility

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Friday's market closed only modestly higher after first dropping, then rising, and finally falling back toward its opening price. That h...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

A Longer-Term Look at the Market

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Here you can see weekly new highs minus weekly new lows for the NYSE, 2003 - present. The pattern is quite clear: we're seeing fewer st...
Friday, February 10, 2006

Thinking About Historical Analyses

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I'll take a break today from the historical analyses to highlight several issues when using historical data to define possible trading e...
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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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