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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Creativity and Innovation: The Achilles Heel of Trading and Trading Psychology

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I've spent a chunk of time this morning reading what's out there in social media regarding trading, trading psychology, and tradi...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Why Time is Key to Trading Psychology

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The recent Brexit trade and its volatility has given us an opportunity to explore an important and neglected topic in trading psychology:...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

What Makes You Unique As A Trader?

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So we're walking in the old section of Bergen, Norway (Bryggen) and come across a Mexican restaurant advertising its food in a unique...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

There Is No Such Thing As Trading Psychology

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I'd like to advance a principle:  The values and emotional/behavioral patterns that we enact in our trading inevitably reflect those ...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Becoming a Peak Performing Trader

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Trading is a performance field, no less than athletics or the performing arts.  What you see in any performance field is a dedication to ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Succeeding As Your Own Trading Coach

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Landry's quote is a great one.  What it really says is that reaching our potential means that we have to face uncomfortable truths.  ...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

The Mia Principle: Why Our Energy Levels Should Be Our Greatest Priority

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Mia Bella is the gray cat we rescued from a high kill shelter in Kentucky in 2014.  She has become a very special part of our home.  Unf...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

How Language Defines Our Limits--And Our Opportunities

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Many trading challenges are embedded in the language we use to describe markets. Among the most common things I hear from traders is th...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Why Institutional Participation Matters in the Stock Market

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Above we can see a chart of SPY (blue line) from 2014 to the present.  The red line represents what I refer to as Institutional Participa...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Meeting the Challenge of Secondary Frustration

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One of the most common emotional challenges faced by traders is frustration.  Frustration can cause us to lose our focus.  It can lead us...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

The Surprising Reason We're Not In The Zone When We Trade

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If you click on the graphical display above, you'll see the results of a very simple demonstration using heart rate variability biof...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Leaving Your Comfort Zone and Entering the Performance Zone

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We've all heard about performing "in the zone", that state of being in which we are so absorbed in our activity that we los...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Seeing Beneath The Market Surface

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Markets move higher, markets move lower.  The question worth continually posing is, "Is the market getting stronger or weaker?"...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

The Deepest Motivation Fueling Trading Success

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Consider the above quote. Note that it is *not* saying that the future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.  Rather, the futur...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

How To Separate Frustration From Your Trading

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A successful developing trader recently wrote to me about a psychological obstacle in his trading.  I'll quote him, so that you can a...
Saturday, May 07, 2016

Why The Path Is As Important As The Move

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Let's think about the views that traders express.  Traders look for price movement: a change from one level to another level.  Th...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Trading Notes for the Week of May 2, 2016

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Thursday, May 5th *  I will be taking a sabbatical during May and June to work on my next book project, which is the third volume of a te...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

The Most Powerful Principle In Trading Psychology

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Is there a change you would like to make in your trading?  In your trading psychology?  In your personal life? If you're looking to...
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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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