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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Social Cognition and Trading: Part Two

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The first post in this two-part series made the case that much of thinking is a social process; isolated from the back-and-forth testing an...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Twitter and Decision Support for Traders

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A while back I posted my ideas regarding Twitter as a kind of daytrading analyst : a tool of decision support for traders. This fits with ...

Social Cognition and Trading: Part One

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Social cognition has been a prominent topic of study within psychology for many years, as psychologists have attempted to understand how we...

Excellent Reading to Start the Weekend

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* "Some of your greatest successes are going to be the children of failure." - Paul Tudor Jones * Many thanks to Denis Popov for...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Gauging Market Strength and Weakness With a Basket of Stocks

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As I'm writing, there are 369 more stocks advancing on the day than declining, off from a difference of over 1700 in the morning. If yo...

Pre-Opening Briefing: Accepting Value Higher

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After yesterday's session in the S&P 500 e-mini (ES) index (bottom chart) held above the prior day's low, we saw strong buying o...

Tracking a Summer Trade

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Above we see the five-day average volume (top chart) for the S&P 500 Index (SPY) and the five-day average trading range (bottom chart). ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Latest Videos From Dr. Brett

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Thanks to MoneyShow for posting the following videos from my Expo visit to Los Angeles: Emotions and Trading Be Your Own Coach When to Chan...

Pre-Opening Briefing: Continuing the Trend

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Here's how we look (bottom chart) in the S&P 500 e-mini (ES) contract going into the 7:30 AM CT jobless claim numbers. Note the res...

A Quick Look at Taxable and Tax-Free Yields

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Ten-year Treasury yields ($TNX, above) have pulled back at the same time that stocks have corrected, as concerns about economic weakness res...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mid-Week Resources for Traders

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* The Wall St. Cheat Sheet site offers an interesting inside look at trader and entrepreneur Howard Lindzon. Howard is the guiding force...

The Bleeding Edge of the Market Downturn

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Two of the sectors that failed to make highs along with the major indexes in June are now trading below their May highs: banks ($BKX, top c...

Pre-Opening Briefing: Shift to a Downtrend

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Here we see the S&P 500 e-mini (ES) futures prior to the 7:30 AM CT release of consumer inflation numbers (bottom chart). What you can ...

Two Days Down, Ten Day Low: What Next?

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Tuesday made it two days down in a row, as the S&P 500 Index (SPY) registered yet another 10-day low. Since 1989, there have been 478 oc...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sentiment Holding Up Well: A Look at Cumulative TICK

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Interestingly, though we've moved back into May's trading range in the S&P e-mini (ES) contract (pink line above), the Cumulativ...

From Range Trade to Breakout: Making the Identification

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One of the topics I'd like to cover in the summer seminar in Chicago is recognizing range vs. breakout trading conditions. The Market D...

Pre-Opening Briefing: How Do We Trade After Good News?

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Here's a look at my Market Delta screen shortly after release of the PPI and housing numbers (bottom chart), both of which were better ...

Ten Day High Followed By Ten Day Low

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We had a 10-day closing high on Friday in the S&P 500 Index (SPY) followed by a 10-day closing low on Monday. It turns out that this is...

Indicator Update for June 16th

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Last week's indicator review concluded that "Friday's price highs in the major indexes were not confirmed by fresh highs in the...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Summer Trading Seminar in Chicago: Quick Update

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Thanks to readers who have expressed interest in a summer trading seminar in Chicago. Trevor at Market Delta has kindly offered to use his...
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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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