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* Great Performance Idea - Research tells us that goal setting and review are very helpful to performance enhancement across fields as div...

Many thanks to readers for the comments and emails on the post collections from 2007. Here's more of the "Best of TraderFeed"...

* Highs/Lows - As you can see from the top chart, we moved lower last week, but new 20-day lows remain well off their levels of last month...

Here we see weekly new highs minus lows as a percentage of issues traded on the NYSE going back to 1981. What we can see is that a large n...

* More Trading Wisdom - Here's quite a bit from Charlie Munger passed along by an astute reader that complements my earlier link ; it ...

As the bottom panel of this excellent chart from Decision Point indicates, the January lows brought a potentially important shift in market...

An interesting study suggests that leadership (or a lack of leadership) has an effect on workplace performance, but the effect is indirect ...

* Big Themes - One thing I'm finding as I work with traders in various settings is that even the ones who are trading short-term are a...

* When Selling Sentiment Can't Push the Market Lower - Above we can see the S&P emini futures and the NYSE TICK. Note the selling...

Dave Mabe, who has developed the excellent StockTickr service, asks the question on his blog : Which trading mistake is worse? a) Taking ba...

In my recent post , I cited research that suggests that very high levels of happiness may not be conducive to achievement. The flip side of ...

An interesting report of research passed along by a reader suggests that people who are happy enjoy many benefits over those who are unhapp...

Here are more "best of 2007" posts from the second quarter. Happy reading! * A visit with a world-class trader , who was also fea...

In an excellent post , John Forman, author of The Essentials of Trading , notes the pitfalls of the trader whose primary motivation is to ma...

I went back to the 2007 TraderFeed posts on psychology and trading and pulled out some of the "best of the year". Here are some o...

* Persistent Strength - We can see from the 20-day new highs minus lows for the stocks traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE that we have bo...

* Buying Sentiment - Has been consistently strong of late. My Adjusted NYSE TICK has been in solid positive territory for 7 of the last 9...

The above chart shows how spikes in the 20-day equity put/call ratio have corresponded to intermediate-term market bottoms. When equity op...

Regular readers are familiar with my measures of Demand and Supply . To briefly recapitulate, imagine a stock and its short and intermediat...

I created this chart in Bloomberg to illustrate a couple of things about China's equity market. Here we see the past year of trading ...