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  You are the entrepreneur of your life. From the moment you wake up, from the start of each week, you are in startup mode. What is your mis...

  During my recent workouts at my gym, I've noticed how much more I get out of the weight machines if I take my time going through the r...

A key to understanding trading psychology is the recognition that trading is a performance activity.  Like sports or performing arts, we pra...

  The most recent post pointed out that our trading psychology challenges evolve as we move from being rookie traders to consistently profi...

  It's not well appreciated, but trading psychology is a developmental psychology.  The issues we face as noobs are not the issues we fa...

  Here's a checklist to guide your evaluation of yourself as a trader: 1)  What did I learn from today, and how--specifically--will I br...

  Let's start with the conclusion:  The only path to a successful life is to live a success-full life . I've been reading a number o...

  The first post in this three-part series on positive trading psychology emphasized the emotional and physical side of optimal performance...

On Friday, we saw something unusual.  After the day's steep drop, we finished the day with fewer than 10% of SPX stocks closing above th...

  The first post  in this series on positive trading psychology took a look at flourishing and what we need to do in order to maximize our p...

  In the next several posts, I will outline an approach to trading psychology based upon recent research in the field of "positive psyc...

  There is a very important difference between acting on desire and acting on commitment, as anyone in a successful long-term romantic relat...

  It was great getting back to SMB Capital and being part of their first ever annual trading event.  I was especially impressed with the ex...

  *  Setting just one goal for change and working on it consistently for at least a month:  it doesn't lead to revolutionary change, but...

  We internalize what we do consistently. If we consistently avoid effort, we will internalize lack of initiative.  If we consistently reach...

  *  Every trade plan is an opportunity to work on our psychology , training us to act on opportunity and not react to fear;  *  Lance Breit...

  It's one of the great paradoxes of psychology that when we run from something we fear, we are most likely to encounter it.  The import...

  The right mindset won't substitute for a rigorously developed edge in the markets, but the wrong one can certainly undo all our traini...

  Working on mastering the psychology of trading is different for beginning/developing traders and for experienced traders.  I have worked w...

  Resilience is not the absence of stress, but rather the ability to channel stress toward greater performance.  Here are some worthwhile pe...