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  1/3/2025 - A wise friend once said to me, "Love never dies; it has to be killed".  We don't lose our love for markets and tr...

  12/26/24 - To change a behavior, anchor that behavior to a distinctive state of mind and body.  For example, let's say I want to work ...

  12/19/24 - Yesterday's massive drop in the stock market in the wake of the Fed news taught an important trading psychology lesson.  Ea...

  12/12/24 - All good work on improving ourselves increases our capacity to sustain work on ourselves.  Just as in a gym, our workouts build...

  12/6/24 - This video from SMB is one of the best I've watched in quite a while.  It highlights the psychology of winning:  how trader...

  11/24/24:  When I first learned trading, the single most effective learning strategy I found was printing out charts of the market I was t...

  Added Note:  11/18/24:  Quite a few of the senior traders/mentors at SMB Capital are contributing best practices to my upcoming book.  Wha...

  Added comment (11/7/24):   In a  video  just posted, Jeff Holden and I teach a class for the SMB Training Program and address how to avoid...

  Update:   My medical school colleagues and I wrote a chapter for a standard reference text in psychiatry that just came out.  It covers r...

  Update:   During Thursday's session, Jeff reviewed with the group the chart of emotions that described four quadrants at the intersect...

  Think of how many trading courses are out there.  Consider how many trading and trading psychology books have been written.  Trading video...

  In recent weeks, I've had a number of traders reach out to me, asking about joining proprietary (prop) trading firms or joining tradin...

  There are two very distinctive paths to trading success: The first path is to study market action in great detail and identify patterns as...

  A wealth of research finds that experiences of gratitude--feeling appreciative of what we have--are important to overall emotional and ph...

  The book that I'm currently writing, covering the positive psychology of trading, emphasizes that how we approach trading determines h...

  It's amazing how our trading psychology improves when we take the time to step back, review macro markets, and understand what is goin...

  It's been great spending my 70th birthday with wife Margie and daughter Devon , traveling around Colorado.  There's something abo...

  Coaching ourselves to trading success requires that we know our strengths and our vulnerabilities.  All of us have our triggers that are ...

  Suppose we are all like Clark Kent:  an ordinary person on the outside with hidden superpowers and also a vulnerability to Kryptonite.   S...

  In Part Two of this series , we took a look at the importance of focus and concentration in successful trading.  Indeed, if we are focused...