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Many thanks to a savvy portfolio manager who passed along this dramatic account of what professional football players go through to reco...

Here's a great exercise: Review your trading journal and/or your written goals and plans over the past several months. How many i...

The above chart of sector performance over the past three months from FinViz really is quite remarkable.  There have been big moves duri...

Character is more than personality.  Character reflects our deepest values and priorities and our most fundamental commitments.  When som...

A rule that has held up well is that successful traders tend to look at unique data and look at common data in unique ways.  It's pre...

Here's one you can take to the bank:   The most successful traders can talk in detail about the patterns that they perceive in mark...

Here's an update of the multivariate trading model I keep for SPY .  A number of variables go into the ensemble model, including buyi...

The recent post emphasized pattern recognition as a core trading skill.  That same skill is key to trading psychology. One of Freud...

A concept central to trading is that of pattern and pattern recognition.  Different approaches to trading frame patterns differently, but...

Imagine a child diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD).  Unable to sustain concentration, ADD impairs school performance, but al...

The flow state is one in which we become highly absorbed in our activities, losing a sense of time and experiencing deep pleasure.  A gre...

Thanks to an unusually creative and savvy trader for recommending the movie " A Drummer's Dream ".  The movie, available v...

Too often, traders take in one piece of information after another, reading emails, scanning charts, reviewing research pieces, tracking n...

We often think of a strong market as one in which many stocks are making new highs.  Interestingly, a better indication of market strengt...

Who is in control of the day session for stocks:  buyers or sellers?  A straightforward way to assess this is to track the NYSE TICK ($TI...

*  Every serious trader is a leader, running a trading business.  Would you want to work for the business you're creating?  Would you...

One of the unique ways we can look at market sentiment is to track the number of shares outstanding in market ETFs.  When there is demand...

After a number of days in moderately bullish territory, the ensemble trading model has fallen back to a reading of -1.  This is very mode...

A little while ago, a trader who has been quite successful this year sent me a draft of his trading plan for the new year.  Shortly after...

Character reflects who we are as people:  our deepest values, priorities, and strengths.  Talent and skill leads people to do things righ...