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In this recent post , I offered a short personality assessment to help traders better understand their strengths.  The scoring of the ass...

The last post offered a brief assessment of personality strengths that are relevant for the success of our trading.  If you haven't ...

Below are 18 adjectives.  Please select the six that best describe you, where number one is the adjective most like you, number 2 is ne...

Our strengths reflect what we do well:  they are the essence of us at our best. Engaging our strengths is naturally enjoyable and fulfi...

When I wrote the book on developing trader performance , one group that I studied intensively was military snipers.  (See this post fo...

Here are a few thoughts and links for the weekend: *  The thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that we repeat in our day-to-day lives are...

Trading psychology is a strange field.  We find people offering coaching who show no evidence whatsoever of playing the game or even k...

I recently posted one of my favorite trading patterns in the broad market that reveals the psychology of market participants.  Here is a...

In a recent post , I described the process of making frequent reviews and small, steady improvements as a way of building the consistency...

When I wrote my book Trading Psychology 2.0 , I chose the subtitle:  From Best Practices To Best Processes. As traders, we want to disc...

Above you can see a recent reading from my glucose meter.  As a person with Type II diabetes, controlling my blood sugar is important to ...

If you click on the above, you'll see a screenshot from my trading platform ( Sierra Chart ).  There are five measures arrayed from t...

Our losses, our mistakes are part of who we are.  We cannot eliminate all emotion around our setbacks, nor do we want to.  Self esteem me...

Well, at present we have four rescue cats and that makes for a full house.  Every morning they wake me up (around 4 AM), and I start ever...

There are many techniques in psychology that can help us overcome negative emotions and thought patterns, and also ones that help us buil...

I've worked over a period of years with two proprietary trading firms:  Kingstree in Chicago and SMB Capital/Kershner Trading in New...

Self-talk is our ongoing processing of life events.  Most often, this processing reflects whether events are good or bad for us, what we ...

This past Monday, we had roughly 92% of all stocks in the Standard and Poors 500 Index trading above their ten-day moving averages.  That...

I recently received the above note from a young, enterprising trader.  It's the opportunity to have positive impacts on people's ...

And that which consumes our minds, controls our trading! Trader J recently wrote to me to explain something that has greatly helped his...