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  I hear many traders early in their development wrestling with issues of emotional, reactive trading.  Here are three practical steps that ...

  The first post in this series and the second post took a look at the NYSE TICK and its relationship to price action as a way of identify...

  In the first post in this series , we took a look at the NYSE TICK and how it measures the moment to moment sentiment in the overall marke...

  So much of intraday trading boils down to pattern recognition.  When you view market activity day after day, year after year, you internal...

  I want to thank the traders who participated in the first Traders' Virtual Happy Hour session on Sunday evening.  Over time, these eff...

  Here are six pieces of trading wisdom that I might touch upon in Sunday evening's happy hour session : 1)  Ego is our self-talk.  Our...

  How would you like an entirely new way of preparing for the trading week?  I know I would like that, so I'm creating a new approach to...

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

  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 ...

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

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

  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 ...

  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 ...

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...

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

  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...

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

  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...

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

  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...