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Every year you start with a zero P/L balance.  At any time, a rogue event could turn your portfolio and your account upside down.  If you...

When you take a look at a trader's journal, what do you typically see?  Many traders use journals to document the mistakes they make,...

*  Here is a great listing of academic research that can lead to superior financial returns; *  How mental and physical exercise can b...

When psychologists listen to people in counseling, they not only process what is being said, but also the connections among the var...

We put thought into what we need to get done, but often don't reflect upon the ordering and organization of what we do.  Relatively s...

You know, sometimes I hear things and shake my head.  Then I hear them again and roll my eyes.  Finally, I keep hearing them and make a v...

Abnormal Returns recently posted a number of thought-provoking links regarding startups and entrepreneurship.  One of the articles poste...

There's been a bit of back and forth tweeting about the value of divergences among market indicators.  Jason Goepfert of the ex...

If markets were perfectly ordered and static, we could discover a trading edge and exploit it for all time by doing the same thing.  Beca...

So let's take stock of the markets after the first month of the new year, making use of several worthwhile visualizations from ...

Here's a worthwhile exercise I recently discussed with a trader. Select a measure of market trending, such as a X-period Sharpe rat...

Interesting research from Daniel Goleman and others suggests that emotional intelligence and social intelligence are important to busines...

Two kinds of traders fail to find success:  those who cannot change and adapt and those who cannot focus and exploit their edges in marke...

There are several classes of indicators I routinely follow to track market strength and weakness.  These include measures of sentim...

I recently took a look at changes in the number of shares outstanding of the SPY ETF as a sentiment measure.  When traders are bullish, ...

Suppose we think of technical indicators as measures of strength and weakness, with each giving buy and sell signals based upon dif...

One of the greatest psychological challenges of trading is a cognitive, not an emotional, one.  It is the challenge of bandwidth:  our li...

The body's flight or fight response that we know as stress is often a reaction to perceived threat.  When we care about an outcome th...

In past posts I've mentioned that I track a basket of institutional favorite stocks and monitor upticking and downticking ac...

Think of the successes of great sports teams or businesses.  In so many cases, consistency in execution is a common feature.  The great f...