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Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Difference Between Trading and Investing--And Why It Matters

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  Trading and investing are fundamentally different activities (pun intended).  Many trading psychology challenges occur when market partici...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Intrinsic and Transactional Relationships: Why They Are Important to Trading

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  In these posts, I attempt to provide perspectives in trading psychology that go beyond the usual platitudes and generalities.  Today's...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Listening as a Core Trading Skill

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  Last week, we took a look at the challenge of trading markets that are ever-changing.  What that means in practice is that good trading b...
Monday, May 09, 2022

The Challenge of Adapting to Changing Markets

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  A stationary time series is a set of data derived from a single underlying process.  A simple example of a stationary time series would be...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Common Mistakes Traders Make - 3: Reacting Rather Than Acting

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  It's a common misconception that acting rationally means eradicating emotion from our thought processes.  Indeed, the opposite is the ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Common Mistakes Traders Make - 2: Acting Before Understanding

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  In the first post in this series , we took a look at how traders often lose their ideas when their stop levels are hit.  In this post, we...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

Common Mistakes Traders Make - 1: Losing Ideas When We Stop Out Of Trades

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  Yes, it's true that problems with our mindset can interfere with good trading.  It's equally true that bad trading can interfere w...
Monday, January 31, 2022

How to Change Your Life

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  An important key to psychological change is turning desired patterns of thought, feeling, and action into positive habit patterns.  We don...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Why Am I Losing Money In The Market?

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  I have had a record number of people reach out to me asking for coaching help.  Why?  The majority have developed their trading in a bull ...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Making a Fresh Start: Lessons From Molly Ruth

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  Well, it's been about a three-month break from blogging and social media, and I have to say it's been rejuvenating.  In any life a...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Taking A Break From Blogging And Social Media

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  Thanks for all the interest in TraderFeed, my books , and the Three Minute Trading Coach videos .  There's quite a library of material...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Stages In A Trader's Development

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  A beginning trader starts with eagerness and passion and focuses on winning.  The beginner's great fear is to miss opportunity and so ...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Trading With Clarity

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  It has become clear to me that clarity underlies my best trading. If I sit and sit and watch and watch and process and process what the ma...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Two Great Questions To Ask During A Trade

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  What we think about before we put on a trade helps determine our mindset during the life of the trade .  When I am trading well, my thinki...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

A Different Way Of Viewing Your Trading Problems

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  Think about the important relationships in your life. What are the greatest challenges and problems you experience in your relationships? ...
Monday, September 06, 2021

How We Can Improve Our Access To Intuition

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  The heart of discretionary trading is pattern recognition.  Some traders track patterns in fundamental data; some follow price and volume ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Two Hallmarks Of Quality Trading

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  I recently wrote an important article on the topic of how the ways in which we trade impact our psychology .  We commonly assume that work...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Awareness and Acceptance in Trading

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  I had two interesting experiences recently.  The first occurred on Friday morning.  The stock market was short-term oversold and displayin...
Sunday, August 08, 2021

The Importance of Rejuvenation

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  This is one of the great challenges of performance in trading:  We need routine ("process") to follow rules and best practices a...
Sunday, August 01, 2021

Playing The Right Game

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  A number of traders that contact me are working very hard at improving the "setups" that they trade each day.  Often, they'r...
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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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