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An insightful post from Dave Kelly asks the question, "Why is it so hard to be inactive?" in markets.  Many a trader I've ...

Imagination can be a powerful creative force.  It's through imagination that we can see markets differently from the consensus, envis...

An excellent blog post from Bella at SMB takes a look at basketball star Ray Allen's letter that he wrote to his younger self .  It...

The most impressive traders I know ask really good questions.  The least impressive traders I know don't ask questions. This mornin...

We would never choose to trade in a noisy and polluted physical environment, and yet many times we find ourselves trading in the psycholo...

It's been a good thing that I'm doing two webinars this week focusing on different aspects of best practices of the best traders ...

How do successful traders generate, express, and manage their best ideas?  What best practices can you take away from your own successful...

I love Porter's quote; it summarizes so much of what I've found in working with traders.  The really good ones deliberately choos...

When we trade with confidence and conviction, we run the risk of becoming a stiff tree in Bruce Lee's terms.  I find that successful ...

Greg Louganis' quote speaks a vital truth about peak performance.  Many of us seek mindfulness through meditation when we are still, ...

How many of the following apply to you?  Please answer true or false to each item: *  I've clearly and visually mapped out my tradi...

When my daughter Devon was quite young, we had a toy doctor's kit and one day decided to play "doctor" with one of her doll...

You have a cross-country trip to take, and it's a must-do trip.  You have to leave immediately and all that are available is a char...

One question active traders too often fail to ask is, "What would I be doing with my life if I weren't trading?" We'r...

Traders are often concerned that their ideas might fail simply because they have become "too consensus".  That is, if many othe...

I recently posted on the importance of identifying who is in the market as a way of gauging how the market is likely to move, tracking t...

TraderFeed will be taking a sabbatical during the month of October, with occasional postings on the market and on trading psychology.  Du...

Just thought I'd update this post on what it means for stocks when we see a high degree of institutional participation in the US equi...

Above we can see SPY (blue line) plotted against a six-variable trading model that I developed using ensemble modeling .  When we have a ...

There are risk-averse traders who never make significant money.  There are risk-seeking traders who blow up.  Then there are smart trader...