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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Monday, June 26, 2017

Becoming an Evidence-Based Trader

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The recent article I wrote for Forbes is perhaps the most important one I've written.  It is about a trend that is sweeping the trad...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Who Is Your Trading Coach?

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It's difficult to find a performance field, whether it's Olympic sports or performing arts, where people don't grow through c...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Trading Psychology Diagnosis: Identifying the Root of Trading Problems

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Every trained physician knows that diagnosis precedes treatment.  We have to understand what is going wrong before we attempt any kind of...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Online Encyclopedia of Trading Psychology

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In the coming days and weeks, I will be transforming TraderFeed into an online encyclopedia of trading psychology.  Since 2006, there ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

When Discipline Works--And When It Doesn't

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Trader A has a preferred trading style.  It might be a momentum style; it might be a directional style.  It's a style that fits Trade...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Four Ways to Read the Psychology of the Markets

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In the recent webinar ( here is a link to the recording of the event ), I touched upon two themes that will be part of my program at the ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Turning Emotional Trading Into Informed Trading

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Apparently there were some sound quality issues during the latter portion of my webinar presentation yesterday.  For those who missed som...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Tracking the Psychology of the Market with Event Flow

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When we think of trading psychology, we typically think of the psychology of the trader and the factors that either contribute to or dist...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Great Readings to Prepare for the Market Week

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Here are a few unusually good readings to kick off the market week: *  Advice from top bloggers on how to simplify our lives and our fi...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

Three Day Workshop on Reading the Psychology of the Markets

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Understanding our own psychology and how it affects our trading is only part of the trading challenge.  Another part is understanding the...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

What Do We Truly Know About Markets?

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Let's do a little exercise. Here's a question.  Please write down your answer to the question before reading on: WHAT DO YOU...
Sunday, June 04, 2017

How Do You Warm Up For Trading?

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Notice how in most performance activities, top performers engage in warm up exercises.  Singers, musicians, athletes--all have their warm...
Saturday, June 03, 2017

A Technique to Supercharge Your Trading Business

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Let's say you're a venture capitalist.  Your job is to fund promising startup businesses.  An enthusiastic entrepreneur that you ...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Improving Your Trading In A Challenging Environment

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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 ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

The Market Is Not Broken

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This post is my attempt to make sense of the interesting observation that many smart and experienced traders lapse into periods of tradin...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Taking the Drama Out of Your Trading

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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...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

How Expectations Poison Our Trading

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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...
Friday, May 12, 2017

(Re)Making It As A Trader

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