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Thanks to a sharp portfolio manager for pointing out this recent study on the role of reflection in learning .  The implications for the ...

The recent post on mentorship and coaching emphasized the importance of both role modeling and skill building in developing elite perfor...

How do people develop in high-performance fields? If you look at training programs, you'll generally find two components:  mentorsh...

In life, as in the gym, there is no such thing as comfortable change.  Change requires moving beyond one's comfort zone and challengi...

Having spent a week in Alaska amidst glaciers and all sorts of wildlife, I have a renewed appreciation for the mind-stretching value of n...

Here's an update of a 2009 post , showing how daily volatility in the S&P 500 Index varies as a function of daily volume.  Specif...

During the time I was in Alaska, I posted what I called Trader10P3:  Ten Principles of Peak Performance for Traders .  The principles wer...

What new directions in your trading have you pursued in the past year?  What activities do you engage in each week to produce new ideas,...

Willpower is a limited resource.  How do you focus and renew your energies?  How much result do you see from the effort you expend each ...

Who are the people in your daily life?  What are the activities that dominate your daily life?  What experience of yourself is reflected...

If performance is a team sport, who is on your team?  How do your teammates make you better, and how do you make them better?  How do y...

How much of your time is explicitly devoted to understanding and adapting to changing market conditions?  If market trends, volatility, ...

Do your trading results reveal a positively sloped learning curve?  What specific skills have you learned--and do you employ--over the p...

To what degree is your trading grounded in ideas that are observable and objectively verifiable?  How does your trading process keep you...

How much of your day--inside and outside markets--is spent in frustration and how much in the flow state?  To what degree is your work e...

What are your distinctive strengths and talents as a trader?  How, specifically, does your approach to trading make the most of them?  H...

How much time do you spend each week practicing trading-specific skills, obtaining feedback about your performance, and consciously wo...

I will be on vacation and away from markets and blogging for the next ten days.  During that time, TraderFeed will feature 10 Principles ...

For daytraders as well as swing traders, identifying a trend day early in its lifespan can be a profitable strategy.  Here are four thing...

I recently posted a few observations about how the underperformance of small cap stocks relative to the large caps.  Even more concernin...