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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Lasting Change: It's About the Hardware

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Following the wisdom of Napoleon, research provides the bayonets for revolutionary ideas in science.  Those ideas begin as heresies and o...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Energy, Well-Being, and Success: Four Steps to Energize Our Trading

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An important concept is that our success depends just as much on managing our energy as managing our time and our tasks .  Indeed, if we ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Trading Notes: Week of November 23rd

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Friday, November 27th *  Not much changed from yesterday with respect to U.S. stocks, as we continue to hold important support in the low...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

How To Fail Successfully

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If you're going to be a skillful sailor, you have to weather some storms.  We build and expand skills by testing them, and that means...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

What We Can Learn From An Amazing Cat

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Flower (aka Flora) is an amazing cat.  What makes her amazing is that she's not only a survivor, but a cat that has managed to thrive...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Trading Notes: Week of November 16th

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Friday, November 20th *  We moved higher during the morning trade on Thursday, staying above the overnight lows, but then something inter...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

What Is Your Coping Style?

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The most recent post took a look at how current problems are often a function of past coping.  Now let's take a look at how we cope ...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Every Problem Is An Outdated Solution

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One of the first lessons I learned as a psychologist is that our problems generally represent coping efforts that have long since lost th...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Trading Notes: Week of November 9th

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Friday, No vember 13th *  We started Thursday weak but not yet at levels corresponding to intermediate-term oversold.  The resulting stra...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Three Best Practices For Dealing With Trading Drawdowns

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Perhaps the one most important takeaway from my recent book is to intensively study your successful trading, build a list of best practi...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Trading Your Best Decision Making

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Why is it that I have valuable intuitive hunches about markets and not about fracking hydraulics or fly fishing?  Not a hard question:  I...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Trading Notes: Week of November 2nd

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Friday, November 6th *  Today's early trade promises to be dominated by the payrolls data.  Trade overnight slowed down ahead of the ...
Sunday, November 01, 2015

Two Great Predictors of Trading Success

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For many years I've been involved in interview and selection processes to hire traders at prop firms and hedge funds.  Those years of...
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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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