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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Self Respect: The Missing Ingredient in Our Efforts to Grow

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A friendship or romantic relationship can get through many ups and downs.  At times, during our hurt, it can feel as though our affection ha...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

How To Transcend Trauma

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Recently, I've been privileged to speak via Zoom with a number of those directly impacted by the Middle Eastern conflict.  It's been...
Sunday, October 08, 2023

How to Achieve the Goals You Set

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  One of the most widely read TraderFeed posts in the last few years dealt with the topic of FIGS:  Focused, Intensive Goal Setting .  Too o...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Two Questions to Ask in a Weak Stock Market

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  I'm looking forward this week to speaking with developing traders at SMB Capital , where I will share many of the lessons I've lea...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Why Traders Are Losing Money In Recent Markets

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  We detect strength in the stock market and we buy.  We detect weakness and we sell.  Both occasions lose money.  What is going on?  In thi...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

How to Lead a Visionary Life

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  The great risk in life is to live reactively, bouncing from activity to activity without plan or purpose.  When we live purposeful lives, ...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

The Secret to Overcoming Adversity

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  Margie and I recently toured Eastern Europe and finished the trip with a tour of  the concentration camp at Terezin .  During the 3-1/2 ye...
Monday, August 28, 2023

The Wellness Grid: A Framework For Optimizing Your Trading Psychology

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  Note:  Written aboard a ship on the Danube River, traveling to Prague, Czech Republic: Imagine a 3x3 Wellness Grid: On the X axis, we have...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Weak Market: What Comes Next?

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  We've seen a stock market that has been rather weak over the last couple of weeks.  Higher interest rates at the long end have particu...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Your Flaw Is Your Strength

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  While writing my next book, I came across a thought-provoking essay from a well-known Jewish Rabbi, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.  His topic w...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Why Do I Get Chopped Up In My Trading?

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  The most recent post took a look at why we can perform well in markets, only to suddenly make poor decisions and blow up.  Now we'll ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Why Do I Blow Up My Trading?

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  The recent blog post presented ways in which we can listen to our intuitive inner voice as traders.  Sometimes, we not only fail to liste...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Finding and Following Your Inner Voice

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  The recent post took a look at developing uniqueness as a trader, focusing on developing new sources of data and fresh ways of viewing ma...
Sunday, July 09, 2023

Developing Your Uniqueness as a Trader

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  We commonly hear that a key to trading success is being disciplined and remaining grounded in a robust process.  That is true, but it is o...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Is Your Trading Truly Meaningful?

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  A while back, I wrote a post about research that shows how living a purposeful life is a key to happiness and life satisfaction.  That ap...
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 ...
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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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