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In case you might have missed them, here are several articles relevant to making money in the current market environment: Three Keys to ...

This post is my attempt to make sense of the interesting observation that many smart and experienced traders lapse into periods of tradin...

There's a line in one of my favorite J-Pop songs that, roughly translated, says that the ill-naturedness of a love based on appearan...

A while back I worked with a trader who was the most calm, balanced trader I had ever met.  He went through losses and drawdowns and I ne...

If there's any more challenging than making yourself a successful trader and starting from scratch, it's remaking yourself into a...

A recent Wall St. Journal article made the point that quantitative approaches to markets are sowing the seeds of their own demise, as th...

A savvy trader sent me his trading review for the week.  It wasn't a journal entry or collection of journal entries.  It also wasn...

Here's a useful measure of strength and weakness of the US stock market for the intraday trader (raw data from e-Signal ).  Imagine t...

Here's an interesting informal experiment I recently conducted: Select an entry point on a chart and a direction for the trade.  Ba...

I found an excellent way to assess experienced traders.  Simply ask them to show you what, specifically, they are now working on in their...

Many thanks to the great site of Despair for this perspective on limitations.  We see lots of motivational posters on how failure is a s...

There are two components to good decision making in markets:  our ideas and our trades.  Good things happen when these line up. When I ...

Bella recently wrote a blog post in which he described five things that top traders at SMB were doing to facilitate their success.  It w...

The recent post highlighted the challenge of short-term trading returns over the past year and, indeed, since 2009.  In this post, I wil...

Thanks to a savvy trader for this graphic of the Soc Gen Short Term Trading Index, which is the composite results of the largest diversif...

The most recent post took a look at the real reason traders lose money.  Though we often justify our style of trading by asserting that ...

So I've figured out the real reason traders lose money.  It's only taken me how many years as a psychologist to figure this out,...

Resilience is the ability to encounter a setback and quickly resume forward movement.  The resilient trader doesn't allow losses in t...