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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Flat Stock Market: Which Way Will We Break Out?

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Technical analysis wisdom tells us that the longer a market remains rangebound, the more significant the eventual breakout move. The proble...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Coming Changes in TraderFeed

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I recently mentioned changes to the Trading Psychology Weblog that will integrate the indicators, research, and links into a day-to-day tr...

Stock Market Psychology: What You See Is Not What You Get

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In my recent post , I showed how unaided perception of the market can be misleading. A market that looks as though it is rising over three ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Changes To The Trading Psychology Weblog

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For a few years now, the Trading Psychology Weblog has been the place where I track a number of market indicators and the short-term moveme...

Perceptual Distortions In The Stock Market

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One of the signs that a field of study has become a science is the recognition of the need for controlled observation with tools that transc...

How Do Federal Reserve Announcements Affect The Markets?

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Life is full of unpleasant surprises. Few events are as eagerly anticipated among traders as Federal Reserve announcements of monetary poli...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Controlling Emotions Is NOT The Goal Of Trading Psychology

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Pick up a book or magazine article about trading psychology and you're likely to find prescriptions for success based on controlling emo...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Finding the Zone With Hemoencephalography

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Slowly, a subfield of biofeedback, known as hemoencephalography , is gaining recognition as a method for developing the cognitive skills of ...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Musical Interlude

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Wild Is The Wind - David Bowie: This was the song that opened my wedding reception. More than twenty years later, it's still the song I...

Trading's Mid-Life Crisis: Getting Bigger Vs. Getting Broader

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Well, my trading mid-life crisis is nowhere near as dire as Santa's (thanks to the usually off-color Moohead for the cartoon link), but...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Assessing Market Psychology With Relative Options Indicators

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In my last post, I proposed a different way to construct put and call options ratios . Specifically, the equity put ratio looks at equity p...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

A Different Way To Measure Market Sentiment With Options Data

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I recently mentioned that I had begun a large research project to investigate historical patterns connecting options data to future movemen...

Gurdjieff, Turtles, and Trading

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"The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do." G. I. Gurdjieff Most posts about trading, mine included, are about doing:...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Early December Morning With The Doc

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10:10 AM CT - OK, I would have loved to have seen a more exciting day for our morning session, but as always we take what the market gives u...

What We Can Learn From The Equity Put/Call Ratio

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If you take a look at today's Weblog entry , you'll notice a chart of the equity put/call ratio for yesterday, December 5th, on a fi...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

What You Can Learn From The Opening Minutes Of Trading

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Is today likely to be a trending day or a range bound day? Are we likely to see volatile price action or slow meandering? Are we likely to...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Tuesday Blog Links and Market Stats

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Note: The Trading Psychology Weblog will resume daily posting Tuesday night. Wednesday AM will be another Morning With the Doc session, in ...

Three Relentless Steps You Can Take Now Toward Becoming A Better Trader

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One of the goals of my book Enhancing Trader Performance was to figure out what makes successful performers tick--in any field of endeavor....
Sunday, December 03, 2006

Blog Links and Market Stats for Monday AM

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Market Ideas: Trader Mike tracks the recent volatility in the indices . Declan Fallond finds weakness among internals . A Dash of Insight qu...

How Trading on the Screen Differs From the Floor

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Let's say that you wanted to sell your car at an auction. It's a several year old sedan with average miles in very good condition. ...
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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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