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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Creativity in Analyzing Market Information

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  In a recent video shared by SMB Capital , I discuss why creativity is necessary for trading success.  Quite simply, in order to achieve u...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

The Key to a Successful Trading Psychology

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  In recent posts, I have shared my framework for thinking about trading and trading psychology .  I've also explained a few core concep...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

The Most Important Piece of Information for Active Traders

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  Just about everyone looks at volume, but do they actually *see* volume? Volume tells us who is in the market.  Who is in the market deter...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Three Causes of Trading Stress--And What to Do About Them

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  Indeed, being stressed is no treat!  Stress typically occurs when we perceive threat.  That places our bodies in the classic flight-or-fig...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Finding Success By Diversifying Your Trading

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  A lot of trading wisdom repeated by traders is surprisingly unintelligent.  A good example is the mantra that it is important to "hav...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

A Framework for Trading and Trading Psychology

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  If you were to listen into the conversation of a basketball coach with a player, you would hear quite a bit about how to play the game.  T...
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 ...
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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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