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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Renewing Our Trading And Regaining Our Passion

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One of the most striking differences among traders I have encountered is their grounding in a problem-based mindset versus an opportunity...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Why We Overtrade and Why We Miss Opportunities

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So many psychological problems of trading boil down to underaction, failing to act when it is appropriate to do so, and overaction, takin...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Evaluating Yourself as a Trader

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Very quickly, evaluate yourself on the following criteria: 1)  Innovation - Researching new sources of edge in your trading, drawing u...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

Reaching the Next Level of Trading Performance

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Einstein observed that we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.  In other words, problems exist in...
Saturday, July 08, 2017

Beyond Coping: The Inspiration Mindset

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Let's consider a key distinction:  Being in a coping mindset versus being in an inspiration mindset. The coping mindset is problem ...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

Self Awareness and State Awareness in Trading

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One of the topics I'll be addressing in depth at the upcoming Chicago workshop (July 24-26) is understanding your physical, emotiona...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

What Is Making Money Now In Financial Markets

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I recently wrote on the topic of how trading has sharply moved in an evidence-based direction .  That has enormous implications for tradi...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

Behavioral Techniques for Mastering Your Trading Psychology: Relaxation

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A recent blog post outlined the process of diagnosing the problems that may be leading to drawdowns and poor performance.  This post wi...
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...
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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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