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Trading is based upon the notion of recurring patterns in markets.  These could be patterns of price behavior, patterns of response to wo...

Here's an important principle:  Your attention operates like a magnifying glass.  We program ourselves with our attention.  What we f...

A while ago, I wrote in an article that, "Perhaps the greatest mistake in managing our lives is to treat energy and willpower as fi...

I work with many diligent traders who review their performance regularly, see what they need to improve, set goals for the next time peri...

Colin Wilson's insight is that we approach life as a spectator, not realizing that we are the ones in the control room.  We experienc...

The previous post highlighted distraction as a major source of trading problems.  We have limited capacity for high-quality, focused con...

What if traders miss good trades and impulsively take bad ones, not because they are emotional, stressed, frustrated, or lacking in disci...

I recently went through the tweets under the #tradingpsychology hashtag on Twitter.  It was interesting.  The great majority of postings ...

I've read hundreds if not thousands of journal entries during my years of working with traders.  One pattern shows up among the trade...

Here's a trading psychology lesson from my own trading today.  Twice today I had positions that went my way, only to reverse:  one fo...

Think of working out in the gym.  There is time when you work the muscles, and there is time when you rest them.  The cycle of workout an...

The most unappreciated element in success in any area of life--trading or otherwise--is the capacity to sustain effort.  We can think of ...

If you are wrong on the next trade, will it impair your ability to take the next legitimate trade?  If so, you know you are too big. If...

As we saw in the last post , the starting point for addressing psychological problems in trading is making sure that the methods you are ...

In a remarkable interview , Professors Marcos Lopez de Prado and David H. Bailey explain that much of what we think we know about financi...

So here's a great question: What one change in your daily routine will make the greatest difference:  a) in your trading and b) in ...

Too many traders focus on going fast--taking more trades, making more big trades--rather than build the consistency that can nourish a ca...

There's a great post from Merritt Black in which a video plays an ambiguous sound.  If you think the sound is going to say "Bra...

If I had to mention one factor that accounts for the success of traders, it would be the intensity and consistency of their learning proc...

In the first post in this series , we took a look at the cognitive behavioral self-help techniques described in the new book by Dr. Seth ...