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Saturday, March 25, 2017

Coaching Yourself for a Better Trading Psychology

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Thanks once again to the good folks at Futures.io , who hosted the recent webinar on techniques for changing your trading psychology.  Th...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Seven Training Resources For Developing Traders

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If you look at successful programs of training, you'll see three elements: 1)  Hearing - Having information taught to you; 2)  Se...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Building Your Trading By Building Your Consistency

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Bella makes an excellent point in his recent post :  We improve our trading not only by making improvements during trading hours, but als...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Trading With a Higher Consciousness

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A higher dimension of consciousness occurs when we are self-aware:  when we not only act, but observe ourselves in the process of action....
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology

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I look forward to the Futures.io webinar a week from today, when I'll describe three research-backed methods for working on the most...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Using Cycles to Trade Market Trends

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Even in trending markets, we see cyclical behavior.  In a distinct uptrend, we will make cycle lows at successively higher price levels. ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Lessons From A Successful Independent Trader

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Here's a great post from Bella regarding a small independent trader, J. Park , who has grown his account to $100,000--and what that ...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Growing Your Trading By Integrating Quantitative and Discretionary Processes

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A developing trader makes progress by mimicking a mentor, an experienced and successful trader.  That developing trader becomes an experi...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Three Tools to Improve Our Trading Performance

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If we internalize everything that we do such that all that we do acts as training , then it makes sense for us to train as intelligently ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Two Big Ideas That Shape Our Development As Traders

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Suppose we start our thinking about performance with two big ideas: 1)  Everything we do is training - We are always reinforcing somet...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Exercising Our Brains for Trading Success

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I'm increasingly convinced that cognitive factors, and not just personality ones, differentiate the best traders from the rest.  It...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Trading With Peace of Mind

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Looking backward at what we did right or wrong and looking forward at what could go right or wrong: both are distractions that keep us fr...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

The Challenge of Changing Market Regimes

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In the post on when technical analysis works and when it doesn't , I proposed that markets move in and out of periods of stability.  ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Three Dimensions of Focus That Power Trading Success

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I recently offered a cognitive perspective on trading performance that emphasizes perception and skills in processing information as ke...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Readings to Expand Our Trading Horizons

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That's the beauty of gathering informed perspectives from across the financial world:  we gain perspective by standing apart from our...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

Is Your Trading Truly Your Path?

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Sometimes the best answers come from the toughest questions. Is trading truly your gift?  Does the pursuit of trading truly provide you...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

The Real Way to Develop Trading Expertise

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When developing traders want to improve their learning of markets, one of the first strategies they turn to is keeping a journal.  They w...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Using Trading Metrics to Get to the Next Level of Performance

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The hallmark of performance improvement is keeping score with relevant metrics.  If a baseball pitcher is working on performance, the met...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Reading the Market's Psychology

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One of the first things I look at in a market chart is whether the large candlestick bars are dominantly green or red.  That is, when we ...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Finding Star Trades When the Market Seems Dark

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Thanks to Bella at SMB for the posts on key takeaways and inspirations from my recent seminar at Traders Expo.  I think Bella has gotte...
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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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