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Friday, February 14, 2020

Knowing Your Limits as a Trader

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Here's a big shout out to Tom Canfield for his recent tweet on finding his limits in trading the volatile TSLA stock.  We get so man...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

*This* is What Winners Do

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I'll keep this relatively short and to the point. In the previous post, I mentioned the SMB traders who reviewed every day's ...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Counterfeit and Genuine Confidence in Trading

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Here's an observation I've made regarding developing traders I work with on a regular basis at SMB .  Because I've worked w...
Friday, February 07, 2020

Performance Anxiety: The Most Common Psychological Problem Traders Face

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Performance anxiety is common in all fields where performers care about the outcomes of their performance.  Before a big game, baseball, ...
Monday, February 03, 2020

The Toughest Questions Traders Can Ask Themselves

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The most recent post on trading trauma and trading addiction received the most hits from readers in quite a while.  Perhaps it's bec...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Trading Addiction and Trading Trauma: Two Trading Problems Rarely Discussed

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One takeaway from the recent Forbes article is that we become better as performers (and as people) as we become free.  That means freedo...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

What Motivates a Successful Trader

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The quest for self-esteem is the surest sign of its absence, as Ayn Rand once observed.  The motivation of unsuccessful traders is to bec...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

A Different Look at the Hindenburg Omen

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I notice that the excellent SentimenTrader site observes that the Hindenburg Omen market pattern was triggered yesterday in the U.S. st...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Trading a Market Panicked by the China Virus

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Panic is a strange emotion.  We can have extreme reactions to minor events if our minds blow those up into catastrophes.  We can also go ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Coming in 2020: A Video-Based Course in Trading Psychology

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All of us go through changes.  The role of psychology is to direct those changes, so that we are continually growing.  There has been an...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Right Way to Lose in Trading

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The recent Forbes article is one of the better ones I've written, describing how we can best deal with major setbacks in life.  Ther...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Is A Very Strong Market "Due For A Correction"?

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I've been hearing a lot from people who loudly assert that a strong stock market such as we've recently witnessed is "due fo...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

A Fourth Dimension of Trading

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The recent post tackled the topic of trading based on understanding what markets are doing, rather than trading based upon isolated patt...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Knowledge and Understanding in Trading

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I've been teaching myself new approaches to trading and have learned many valuable lessons in the process. One of the most signific...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Integrating Discretionary Trading Skills With Quantitative Strategies

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There is a number of very good research services and platforms that allow traders to identify occasions when there is a directional tradi...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

The Fatal Mistake Traders Make

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The fatal mistake traders make is that they define themselves narrowly, and this artificially constrains their opportunity set. For ins...
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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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