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What are the factors that drive short-term returns in the stock market?   It's an important question for short-term traders obvious...

Recent posts have focused on improved versions of standard market indicators, including sentiment , Bollinger Bands , VWAP , and ticks . ...

Does day trading skill really exist?  The recent post took a research-based look and found evidence both for the existence of day tradin...

I strongly recommend reading the research study of speculator skill from Barber, Lee, Liu, and Odean.  They studied the returns of daytr...

The recent post on the relative equity put/call ratio highlighted the importance of sentiment in near-term stock market returns.  In thi...

Trading journals are used for many purposes, from tracking markets and trade ideas to working on performance.  The recent post on the lea...

The recent post suggested that there is a meaningful overlap between the cognitive talents required by chess and trading.  Where traders...

One of the psychological curiosities of the stock market is that we tend to see euphoria when shares are their most overvalued and despon...

Many a trading firm looks for a history of athletic participation in the search for trading talent.  While athletics, as performance doma...

A little while back, I wrote about my work with traders in Madrid and the idea of moving forward by giving back .  The idea of furthering...

How much happiness--how much sheer joy--do you derive from your involvement in financial markets? One measure of that is reflected in y...

Some of the best traders I've known, like the best fighters in the Bruce Lee quote, employ a variety of skills to adapt to markets.  ...

This series of posts began with a look at The Reformed Broker , a financial blog that offers insight for investors and money managers, no...

If you want to read something good--really good--about the mindset needed for success, read the commencement speech given by Admiral Will...

One of the most common questions I field concerns whether developing traders should pursue (for a fee) trading education and/or trading c...

Recent posts have focused on ways of gauging broad market strength and weakness by tracking the wide range of individual stocks, rather t...

The volume-weighted average price for a stock or index (VWAP) is a useful statistic for market makers and intraday traders, as it provide...

Hat tip to the Index Indicators site , which is the source for the above chart of the Standard and Poor's 600 small cap index and the...

This useful graphic from FinViz illustrates the variability of performance among U.S. stock market sectors thus far this year.  If you o...

Hats off to the excellent someecards site for many useful psychological perspectives! So, in the spirit of being both anxious and well...