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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Three Best Practices of Successful Traders

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  With this post, I'll be taking an extended sabbatical in order to complete my next book and related projects.  I thought a worthy fina...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

Can This Market Rally Continue?

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  The U.S. stock market has rallied sharply off its late October lows, bringing us to fresh highs in several large cap indexes.  On Thursday...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Establishing Targets For Our Trades

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  Recently, I've heard from a number of traders regarding the challenge of establishing effective targets for their trades.  What has be...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Where I See Opportunity: In The Market And In Ourselves

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Note:  This post is a summary of the webinar I held with traders this past Monday. I've been involved in trading the U.S. stock market s...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Building Yourself By Building Your Trading

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  The common view in trading psychology is that we can work on ourselves and that will help us better weather the ups and downs, risks and r...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Developing Spirituality Through Our Trading - Free Webinar

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  Radical Renewal is an online book written in blog format.  Each blog post is a chapter, covering a topic we rarely consider:  the spiritu...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Best Practices in Trading Psychology: Consistency, Innovation, and Balance

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  Traders I've observed over the years who have achieved consistent success display three important qualities: 1)  They trade with repea...
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...
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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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