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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Friday, May 30, 2025

Trading Psychology Principles and Best Practices

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  * Principle #5:  Trading is a team sport .  I recently described a number of ways in which teamwork magnifies our learning and spurs our ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

How Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

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  5/28/2025  - What I see happening in the best training of trader talent at hedge funds is a marriage of top-down and bottom-up analyses.  ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Truth About Trading Success

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  Well, my latest trading companion is doing quite well, as can be seen from her picture at her 6-week birthday.  It's amazing how perso...
Monday, April 28, 2025

TraderFeed Takes a Vacation

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  Well, we'll be bringing a new friend into the home, beautiful Siamese girl, who is currently with her Mom (see below).  As we learned ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Training the Brain by Building Intentionality

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  4/27/2025 - Suppose you were to place yourself in a state of intensified focus/concentration as outlined below vis a vis alpha state brain...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Making More By Trading Less

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  4/22/2025  - Is your primary interest trading, or is your primary interest making money in financial markets?  What if you're wired as...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Ideas That Can Reshape Your Trading Psychology

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  4/15/2025  - A bit later this week, I'll be returning to the Syracuse medical school where I teach and introducing psychiatry resident...
Monday, April 07, 2025

The Purpose of Vacation

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  4/9/2025  - So much of trading success is knowing when to switch off and when it's time for all hands on deck.  I encourage those inte...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Keys To Sustaining A Positive Trading Psychology

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4/4/2025  - A great trading psychology is a constructive mindset.  We can be constructive whether we have been making or losing money; wheth...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Psychology of Playing a Big Market Opportunity

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  3/30/25 - The tariff announcement on April 2nd carries a high degree of uncertainty and the selloff in US stocks to end the week was on...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Keys to Great Trading

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  * 3/28/25  - The best trades occur when markets are trading thematically, with the themes representing the actions of the largest investor...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Answering Traders' Questions

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  3/21/2025  - In the previous post, we looked at a psychological perspective about why traders might give back profits after a period of su...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

What Kind of Trader Are You?

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  3/16/2025  -  Thanks to a very smart market strategist for this quote: "Following your passion is a very “me”-centered view of the wo...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Identifying Themes in the Stock Market

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  3/9/2025  - The most effective way to work on your trading is to identify themes in your P/L.  Suppose you break down your P/L by market c...
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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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