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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Friday, June 25, 2021

FIGS: Focused, Intensive Goal Setting

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  Many traders that I work with involve me in their performance reviews.  Sometimes they create weekly reviews, sometimes monthly or quarter...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Finding Better Edges In Your Trading

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  I thought I would do something different with this blog and actually chronicle the development of new edges in my trading.  I'll post ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

How To Innovate In Your Trading

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  Very little has been written in trading psychology about innovation.  And yet, wherever I've encountered traders and portfolio manager...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

How We Sabotage Our Trading

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  Above you can see the floor of my office, where well over 30 books are in various stages of being read--simultaneously!  My technique for ...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Three Steps To Avoid Trading On Tilt

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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 ...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Short-Term Trading With The NYSE TICK - Part Three

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  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...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Short-Term Trading With The NYSE TICK - Part Two

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  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...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Short-Term Trading With The NYSE TICK - Part One

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  So much of intraday trading boils down to pattern recognition.  When you view market activity day after day, year after year, you internal...
Monday, May 10, 2021

How To Network Successfully

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  I want to thank the traders who participated in the first Traders' Virtual Happy Hour session on Sunday evening.  Over time, these eff...
Friday, May 07, 2021

Six Relevant Pieces of Trading Wisdom

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  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...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

Your Invitation to the First Virtual Happy Hour for Traders

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  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...
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...
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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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