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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Making the Transition From Discipline to Commitment

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  How we think, feel, and act at one stage of development in our lives is different from how we approach situations later in life.  As a chi...
Friday, June 16, 2023

How to Advance Your Development as a Trader: Key Ideas

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  I recently participated with Mike Bellafiore of SMB Capital in an excellent conference organized by TraderLion .  The topic of our prese...
Sunday, June 04, 2023

The Greatest Challenges of Trading Psychology - III: Mindset

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  In the first post of this series , we took a look at how one of the greatest challenges to our trading psychology comes from approaching t...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

The Greatest Challenges of Trading Psychology - II: Ever-Changing Markets

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  The first post in this series took a look at how one of the greatest challenges to our trading psychology comes from failing to navigate ...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

The Greatest Challenges of Trading Psychology - I: Trauma

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  There is a common assumption among traders that if they are falling short of their performance expectations, it must be because of their m...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Greatness as a Mission-Driven Life

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  A heroic life is one driven by a noble purpose, an all-absorbing sense of mission.  Past posts have asked the question, " What is the...
Sunday, May 07, 2023

Revisiting the Momentum Curve: Anticipating Market Turns

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  Back in 2014, I wrote about the Momentum Curve and how it is useful in visualizing market breadth and strength/weakness across different ...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The Art of Asking the Right Questions

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Note the premise of the Cooperrider quote above:  our questions create our world .  If you want to know--truly know--someone, find out the q...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Three Best Practices for Making Lasting Life Changes

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  When my colleagues and I reviewed the research literature on psychological change processes , an interesting finding came to light:  It...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

How to Assess the Personality of the Stock Market

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  Unsuccessful traders look for markets to trade in a style that fits *their* personality.  They look for momentum or trend or reversals of ...
Sunday, April 09, 2023

What Makes for Success: Five Perspectives From Trading Psychology

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  Here are a few observations from my recent research and work with traders: 1)  The success of a trader is directly related to the speed by...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

Breadth Thrusts in the Stock Market: What Comes Next?

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  The previous post noted a late week bounce in stocks that had a defensive quality, with consumer staples and utility shares outpacing stoc...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Understanding Market Themes From Sector Breadth

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  For years, I have kept breadth data on the overall stock market, tracking shares making fresh highs and lows over various periods and the ...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Making Passion Your Purpose

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  This post begins with a music video, old concert footage of Neil Young and company doing "Like a Hurricane ".  It's a great ...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Broad Stock Market Selloff: What Comes Next?

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  If everyone agreed on the value of an asset, there would be no price movement.  When price movement becomes volatile, we know that there i...
Sunday, March 05, 2023

The Most Important Factor in Successful Relationships

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  As I emphasized in the Trading Psychology 2.0 book , research in psychology is clear that we are most productive, creative, and successful...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

The Most Common Weakness I Observe Among Traders

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  There is a myth among developing traders that all you need to do for success is find a style of trading that fits your personality and the...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Reaching Your Goals Through Gentle Power

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  In her remarkable book Gentle Power , Emilia Elisabet Lahti describes how true leadership requires an integration of strength and power on...
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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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