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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Call To Bloggers and More on Learning Markets

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* Call to Bloggers - Thanks to the Twitter feature , which provides a blog within this blog, I'm able to link to blog posts that offer ...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

NYSE TICK, New Highs/Lows, and Testing Market Lows

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Although we seemed to be headed toward a test of recent lows this past week, the cumulative adjusted NYSE TICK line has continued to show re...

Sector Update for November 8th

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Last week's sector update found a neutral short-term trending mode among the eight S&P 500 sectors that I follow via a basket of 40...
Friday, November 07, 2008

The Relative Appeal of Gold

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Gold is unusual in that it is both a commodity and a surrogate currency. While gold's value has fallen along with other commodities, no...

Learning to Win at Trading by Learning to Lose

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One of the fascinating conclusions of the research I posted yesterday is that traders learn by trading; that it is the number of trades pla...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Research With Practical Relevance: Learning by Trading

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I recently posted on the topic of learning how to trade . Thanks to an alert and very helpful reader for passing along this link to a recen...

Cross-Talk: Stabilizing Debt Markets as a Priority for the New Obama Administration

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A recent New York Times analysis includes economic stimulus, aid to the auto industry, and economic assistance to homeowners at the top of ...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Coaching Yourself: When Should A Trader Cut Size/Risk?

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A reader and excellent developing trader recently brought a dilemma to my attention: "I had on a few different positions today. None w...

ProShares Ultra ETF Volume: A Look at Stock Market Emotionality

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A while back, I noted that volume among the ProShares Ultra S&P 500 ETFs tended to jump during market selloffs. I updated this view to...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

New Highs and New Lows: Stock Market Continues to Show Strength

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Above we see the S&P 500 Index (SPY) plotted against the total number of new 20-day highs minus new 20-day lows for all NYSE, NASDAQ, an...

Learning How to Trade

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A key idea behind my last book is that trading is a performance field like athletics and the performing arts. This suggests that trading s...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Musings Regarding the Explosion of Treasury Debt and the Implications for Corporate Bonds

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A recent article notes that the flood of issuance in the next year is likely to lead to higher yields for Treasury investors. With swellin...

Indicator Update for November 3rd

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Last week's indicator update noted that "While I'm making note of the divergences with respect to the number of new lows from ...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

Neuroeconomics: How Brains Affect Our Gains

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* How Neuroscience Interfaces With Economics - Excellent overview of the field of neuroeconomics. * Wired for Irrationality? - This Busi...

Evaluating Market Strength, A Rant on a Rave, and More

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* Is the Market Strong or Weak? Is it Getting Stronger or Weaker? - Two questions I ask in my own short term trading are whether the stoc...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Sector Update for November 1st

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With the market's sharp bounce this past week, I thought I'd take a fresh look at the major S&P 500 sectors and their trending b...

Global Reversal Patterns at the End of October

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In a recent post , I noted that the most beaten up stock market sectors were rallying the most at the end of October. We also have seen a r...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Further Signs of Stock Market Strength

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Money flow for the Dow 30 industrial stocks recently turned positive, adding to the evidence of buying support for the current market. Acr...

Two Perspectives on Recent Stock Market Activity

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I recently posted on the topic of record volatility in the stock market. Volume and volatility tend to be highly correlated; it takes the ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Historic Stock Market Volatility and the Concentration of Ownership in Stocks

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Here's an update from an early October post ; it helps illustrate how the recent stock market's volatility has been qualitatively an...
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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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