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Monday, September 29, 2025

Trading For A Living Without Living For Trading

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  10/3/2025 - Perhaps the most powerful way of ensuring that trading for a living does not become living for trading is maximizing the quali...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Why Do I Sabotage My Own Trading?

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  9/28/2025 - An important change method in positive psychology is the solution-focused approach .  From a solution perspective, asking the...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The Power of Asking New Questions

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  9/24/2025  - On my cat site, I just described a learning lesson from our most recent family addition, Nomi Lyn.  What I suggested is that...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Why Successful Traders Fail

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  9/19/25 - Successful traders fail more because of stagnation than because they blow up.  They focus so much on "plan your trade and t...
Friday, September 12, 2025

The Key Role of Emotions in Trading

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  9/16/2025  - Think about the mind state of the Olympic athlete or the Broadway actress or the neurosurgeon.  Above all, they are focused o...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

(Re)Building Your Trading Career

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  . 9/11/2025 -  A great framework for building or rebuilding your trading career is the SWOT analysis:  Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunitie...
Friday, September 05, 2025

How We Live Life Is How We Approach Trading

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  9/8/2025 - I really didn't feel like going to the gym this morning.  I was tired, but I knew that I had to keep up with my workouts.  ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Living Your Ideals

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  9/4/2025  - Here's a valuable trading psychology exercise:  Identify your three greatest strengths in life:  What you do best and find...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Best Practices For Maximizing Your Psychology

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  8/29/2025 - I recently spoke with a hedge fund manager who had maximized his overall psychology by maximizing his *cognitive* strengths.  ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Finding Solutions To Your Trading Challenges

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  8/24/2025  - The challenge for the individual, independent trader is to create their own "team":  to connect with serious trader...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

How to Transform Ourselves: As People, As Traders

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  8/20/2025  - One of the most powerful paths to transformation is relationships.  A great deal of our development early in life is the inte...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

How You Know You're Trading Well

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  8/15/2025 - Eight questions to assess whether you are trading well: 1)  Does your trading give you energy, challenge, and excite you or do...
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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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