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Monday, June 29, 2015

Money Flows and Other Views for the Market Week

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*  Above we see the SPY ETF (blue line) plotted against the money flows into the SPY ETF.  Note that we've seen prolonged outflows fr...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Solving Your Trading Problems by Finding Your Trading Solutions

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In a recent blog for Forbes , I described the essence of a solution-focused approach to trading:  studying your own successes.  As da Vin...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Role Modeling: The Power of the Mirror Principle

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Think of parenting.  Think of apprenticeships in the trades.  Think of training to be a professional in medicine.  All are developmental ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Appreciative Inquiry and More Views to Kick Off the Market Week

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*  Above we see the number of stocks listed on the NYSE that are giving buy signals minus sell signals for the ADX indicator (raw data fr...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Momentum, Value, and Short-Term Movement in the Stock Market

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Above is a plot of an interesting measure that tracks the difference between short term and intermediate term new highs minus new lows fo...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

A Quick Look at Sentiment in the Stock Market

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I find it interesting--and surprising--that the five-day equity put/call ratio is hovering at its lowest level since the start of 2014.  ...
Monday, June 15, 2015

New Perspectives for a Fresh Market Week

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*  As shown above, since late April my cumulative measure of buying vs. selling pressure--a version of the cumulative NYSE TICK--has been...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Changing Your Trading, Changing Your Brain

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An excellent article from Alvaro Fernandez takes a look at how cognitive neuroscience and technology are creating an explosion of apps f...
Friday, June 12, 2015

A Different Way to Use Traditional Technical Indicators

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The above chart depicts a running cumulative total of buy signals minus sell signals for all NYSE stocks for the Wilder Parabolic SAR ind...

Strategies for Improving Your Trading

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What can you do here and now to improve your trading?  Here are a few worthwhile perspectives: *  From Brett:  Stop prioritizing the wo...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Being a Good Trader and a Good Asset Manager

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It is very important to understand the difference between trading and asset management.  Trading takes advantage of short-term dislocat...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Are We Significantly Oversold In The Stock Market?

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Above is a useful short-term measure of whether we are trading in an "overbought" versus "oversold" mode in the U.S. ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Trading Performance and Experimentation

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*  How far can you go in trading performance by cultivating better information and better tools for decision-making? *  How far can you...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Markets, Trading, and Investment: New Views for the New Week

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*  We've seen sectors responding very differently to the recent rise in interest rates.  Banking stocks are at highs ($BKX), while...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

Succeeding At Trading By Listening To Smart People

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Here are a few random observations about markets, trading, and life inspired by a cool Jackson, WY morning: 1)  At the recent craft bee...
Saturday, June 06, 2015

Becoming Better By Building Routines...And By Shattering Them

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If you're looking to make changes in your life, you can't live a static life.  Routine is the friend of efficiency and the ene...
Friday, June 05, 2015

Making Noise In Markets By Finding Silence Within

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The quieter we become, the more we can hear.  It is difficult listening to markets when we are generating an internal racket.  A recent p...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Trading Emotionally With Intelligence

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An excellent recent article outlines some of the qualities shared by people who demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence.  Em...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Changing Our Minds By Training Our Brains

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Very important data suggest that we are able to change our thoughts, feelings, and behavior by directly working on making brain changes ....
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Surprising Reason For Many Trading Failures

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Our cognitive, social, and personality strengths are gateways to our emotional well-being and life satisfaction.  When we exercise our st...
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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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