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Friday, November 08, 2019

How FOMO Can Help Your Trading

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I recently posted an article about how we can use our greatest weaknesses to become valuable strengths.  Here is a dramatic example from...
Sunday, November 03, 2019

How to Use Our Emotions as Information

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Emotion is the output of the brain's fast processing system, a rapid pattern recognition system that quickly captures whether a perce...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

How to Trade - 4: Going From Analysis to Synthesis

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Before exploring the information above, it will be helpful to review the previous three posts in this series, as this post will integrate...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

How to Trade - 3: Using Breadth, Strength,and Momentum to Track Market Cycles

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The first post in this series focused on market understanding, building upon the foundation of price, volume, and time.  This led us to ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Learning to Trade - 2: Understanding Cycles and Context

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In the first post in this series regarding learning to trade, we explored a foundation that enables us to see three things:  1)  who is ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Learning to Trade - 1: Building Understanding

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This series of short posts will describe the process by which I am teaching myself a new form of trading.  The idea is to illustrate a le...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Hey, Noobs, Here's How We *Actually* Learn Trading!

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The most recent blog post on getting past trading illusions drew roughly four times the amount of traffic as my average post, and it als...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Getting Past Trading Illusions

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After having gone undercover lately and signed up for a number of trading services, I'm left shaking my head.  The great bulk of what...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

How To Make Meaningful Changes In Your Trading

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The above observation seemed to resonate with a number of attendees at the recent Traders4ACause conference.  It's not enough to wri...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Our Experience Is Who We Become

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Riding on the plane on the way to Las Vegas and the Traders4ACause gathering , I had an interesting thought that I quickly tweeted :  Wha...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Understanding the Psychology of the Market

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It's been a somewhat frustrating recent market for traders holding positions.  We've had good volatility, but not great direction...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Maximizing Your Trading Perception

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A common mistake I see traders making is looking at many screens, with little deep thinking with respect to any of them.  Very often, wha...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Changing Negative Trading Behaviors

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I'm looking forward to the upcoming Traders4ACause conference , where I'll be doing something new.  Instead of talking to the gro...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Building Our Emotional Fitness

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In the most recent Forbes posting , I outline two strategies that traders can employ to be more resilient in the face of market setbacks....
Thursday, September 26, 2019

A Simple Technique for Overcoming Reactive Trading

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In my recent podcast with Optimus Futures , I talk about the relevance of psychology to trading for both developing and experienced trade...
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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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