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  A fascinating finding from research in psychology is that lasting changes in thought, feeling, and behavior require processing of our exp...

  I've found that if you look at enough market indicators, you'll always find reasons to be long or short, and you'll always fin...

  The person we long to be is not necessarily the person we're meant to be.  Many people pursue ideals that don't represent their tr...

  The recent post pointed to how recent research and practice in psychology can help us develop spiritually.  Our ability to detect pattern...

  I'd like to call attention to a most interesting and valuable recent book, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Seth Gillihan, Ph....

  We are all familiar with the Sharpe Ratio, which calculates the amount of risk that we incur (drawdown) for a given amount of profit.  A p...

  Few concepts in trading are as poorly understood as that of having an "edge".  In a literal sense, the idea of edge--in trading,...

Note:  The following is from an essay I wrote a couple of decades ago, recently discovered in a stash of old papers. A therapy for the menta...

  A savvy trader at SMB Capital reached out with a dilemma.  Each month he creates a new goal to work on, but to his dismay he has found th...

  We've seen stocks trade solidly higher for the past two trading sessions.  What has been notable about the move is not simply how stro...

  The first post in this series emphasized the importance of getting the right kind of help--mentoring vs. coaching--for your trading chall...

The greats in any field hear a different music than their peers.  That can make them seem a bit crazy.  One of my favorite examples occurs w...

  Many times traders fail to reach their potential because they seek the wrong kinds of help.  Early in a trading career, what is needed is ...

  To paraphrase Ms. Rand, the quest for self-esteem is the surest sign of its absence.  A common underlying theme of blog readers who reach ...

  When I began my career working as a performance coach for traders, the first poster I placed in my office was a signed photograph from a m...

  As I've emphasized in the Trading Psychology 2.0 book , creativity is essential to success in trading financial markets.  Finding oppo...

  The U.S. stock market is dramatically oversold, with very negative breadth.  One way of capturing that is to look at the percentage of sto...

  It is not at all uncommon for traders to feel as though they are falling short of their expectations.  Trading is all about risk and rewar...

  I recently came across a classic social psychology experiment.  The subjects were seminary students and they were told to prepare a talk o...

  If a movie was being made of your life, what would be the story line?  Would it be interesting?  Would you want to watch that movie? We do...