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Friday, April 23, 2021

Know Your Cognitive Strengths

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  How do you best process information? Have you ever taken the time to understand what your cognitive strengths are? How consistently do you...
Friday, April 16, 2021

When Doing Less Is More

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  A wise portfolio manager recently forwarded this article to me.  The gist of its message is that we often look to improve our lives--and ...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Thinking Through A Traders' Happy Hour

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  Prior to the pandemic, I hosted occasional craft beer happy hour sessions with traders from various backgrounds and firms.  I have always ...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

What Is Market Breadth Telling Us?

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  A few weeks back, I posted re: market sentiment and noted that sellers were notably unable to push the market lower.  That situation led ...
Friday, April 02, 2021

How To Trade With Focus

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  Here is a link to the recent webinar I conducted with FuturesTrader71 and Futures.io .  One of the topics that came up was dealing with ...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Ask The Trading And Trading Psychology Questions Top On Your Mind

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  It's been a busy few weeks, and I've largely taken a break from social media and educational programs in order to focus on my own ...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Tracking Sentiment And Market Impact

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If you click on the chart above, you can see one thing I was tracking in the afternoon of Friday, March 12th.  (Data and chart from Sierra C...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Should High Achieving Traders Try To Live A Balanced Life?

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  A developing trader with a real passion for markets recently asked me about the psychological benefits of a "balanced life".  I...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Three Ways To Improve Your Trading--And Your Trading Psychology

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  Here are three things you can evaluate right here, right now to help your trading and improve your trading psychology: 1)  Look at how muc...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

How We Tranceform The Mindscape

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  In The Psychology of Trading , I wrote about "Tranceforming the Mindscape", which was my way of describing how we can cultivate ...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Learning How To Lose

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  On the surface, it seems like a strange idea:  We become winners when we learn how to lose.  It's when we can't accept losing that...
Friday, February 05, 2021

The Best Way To Develop Trading Expertise

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  Yesterday I participated in a team meeting at SMB where the members reviewed their performance for January.  It was striking how many of ...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Lessons From The Recent Trading Craze

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  Aristotle had a good point:  Without a touch of madness, we would all be secure in our consensus thinking and that's not helpful for i...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Self-Esteem: Our Relationships Shape Our Relationship With Ourselves

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    Self-esteem is our relationship with ourselves:  how we view ourselves, how we treat ourselves, how we talk with ourselves, what we exp...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Can Intensive Practice Produce Trading Expertise?

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  One practice I have noted among successful discretionary traders is their review of price action in markets.  Some have used replay functi...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Why Your Trading Psychology Exercises Don't Work

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  In the most recent Forbes article , I make the case for mastering our trading psychology by literally engaging in brain training. When I r...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

What You Trade Is As Important As How You Trade

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  Happy 2021 to colleagues and readers! In this new year, I'll be doing something different with my blog posts and making efforts to lin...
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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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