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MY
ARTICLES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Articles on Trading Psychology
A Lesson
in Trading Psychology
A Personality Questionnaire for Traders
- Parts 1-3
A Trader's
Self-Evaluation Checklist
Accepting the Obvious
Addictive
Trading
Approaching
Trading With an Empty Mind
Assessing Your Personal Strengths
-New
Attribution and Bias Among Traders
- New
Becoming
the Person You Can Be
Becoming
Your Own Trading Coach
Behavioral
Patterns that Sabotage Traders - Part One
Behavioral
Patterns that Sabotage Traders - Part Two
Brief Therapy For Traders (Parts 1-4)
Changing How We Cope
Changing
Your Self-Talk By Talking to Yourself
Controlling Emotions is Not the Goal of Trading Psychology
Coping With Risk and
Uncertainty
Dead But Dreaming
Destructive Patterns in
Trading
Disgust Yourself: A Framework for Rapid Behavior Change -New
Evaluating
Your Money Manager
Explaining Market Success
Experts, Novices, and Trading Performance
Expose Yourself
Finding the Zone: New Perspectives on the Mental Game of Trading
Finding Solutions: How Traders Can Become Their Own Therapists
Five Guiding Principles of Trading Psychology - New
Half
of What You See in the Market Isn't Real
Hot Risks, Frozen Trader
How
Expert Traders Make Decisions - Part One
How
Expert Traders Make Decisions - Part Two
How
to Manage the Psychological Risks of Trading
How to Regain Your Trading Consistency
- New
How to Take a Loss
Improving
Your Trading Performance
Information Processing
and Trading
Last Exit for the Lost
Learning to Trade
Letting Profits Run: Becoming Your Own Trading Coach
Making
Friends With Market Emotions
Marc Greenspoon: A Visit With
a World Class Trader - New
Market Psychology
Personality Questionnaire
Microspsychology of the
Markets
Overcoming Market Panic
Performance Coaching:
When It Works, When It Doesn't - New
Personality and Trend
Following
Picking Bottoms
Planning Your Losses
Priming for Profits
Quantifying
Mind: The Neuropsychology of Trading
Reasoning
and Trading
Remapping
the Mind: Cognitive Therapy for Traders
Responding
to Adversity -
Reversals
in Minds and Markets
Risk and Success
Seeking
the Path of Least Comfort
Techniques for Overcoming Performance Anxiety in Trading
- New
The
Greatest Emotional Problem Facing Traders
That
Which Cannot Be Said
The Devon Principle
The Dream
The
Habit of Mindfulness
The
Morality of Trading
The Most Common Problem Traders Face
The Most Important Question to Ask When You're in a Slump
The Personality of the Trader: How It Affects Performance
The Rarest of Trading Virtues
- New
The Role of Somatic Markers in Trading Decisions
The Spouse of a Trader: What Makes Marriage Work
- New
The
Three Vices of Trading
There
Are Two Kinds of Traders
Three
Dimensions of Trading Questionnaire
Three Market Idiots
Three Pervasive Myths of Trading Psychology
Three
Pillars of Expertise
Three Relentless Steps Toward Becoming a Better Trader
Three Thoughts on Freud and Markets
Trader
Development
Trader
Performance and Epistemology
Trading
and Information Processing: Why Traders Sabotage Themselves
Trading
as Mental Warfare
Trading
as a Performance Sport
Trading
by Rules: A Psychological Perspective
Trading
the Ranger Way
Trading
to Win vs. Trading to Not Lose
Training
for Expertise - Chat Session for LBR's Traders
Training
for Trading Success
Training
New Traders: What Makes for Success
Trusting
the Rally
Turning
Your Trading Around - Part One
Turning
Your Trading Around - Part Two
Turning
Your Trading Around - Part Three
What
to Look for in a Trading Firm
What
Trading Teaches Us About Life
What We Can Learn From Trading and Poker
When The Coaching of Traders Doesn't Work
When to Play
When
to Stop Trading - Part One
When
to Stop Trading - Part Two
When
to Stop Trading - Part Three
Why Do We Trade?
Why
Traders Lose Their Discipline
Why
Traders Plan Trades But Don't Trade Their Plans
Will
Your Portfolio Become a Prisoner of War?
Winning
the Race for Trading Profits
Article
and Book Excerpts on Trading
Psychology
Anticipating
Market Turns
Autobiography
Changing Your Mind
Perspectives From Dr.
Brett
Preparation in
Trading
Repetition and
Greatness
Shifts in the Market
Tacit
Knowledge and Trading
The
Challenge of Changing Yourself
The
Mindset of the Successful Trader
The Heroic Dimensions of Trading
- New
The Most Important Step in Becoming Your Own Trading Coach
- New
The
Trader as Psychologist
What
It Takes to Win in the Markets
Psychology
Articles
Introduction
to Brief Therapy
Recommended
Readings in Psychology
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Doing
What Works
Articles on Trading
Techniques
A Favorite Trading Pattern
- New
A
Texbook Pattern: Catching Market Turns
Anatomy
of a Trade
Assessing
Intraday Trends
Assessing Trader Personality: The Role of Trader Psychometrics
- New
Bursting
Bubble or Rising Rocket?
Characteristics of Professional Traders
Composite
Trend Index
Do Opening Gaps Tend to Fill?
Developing
Your Trading Ideas With Web 2.0 Tools
Euro Trading with Weblog
Indicators
Filtering
Market Signal From Noise
Finding
a Framework for Trading
Finding
Opportunities in New Markets
Five Guiding Principles of Short-Term Trading
- New
Four
Keys to Successful Trading
Fundamentals of
Short-Term Trading - Part One
Fundamentals of
Short-Term Trading - Part Two
Glossary of Indicators Followed
on the Trading Psychology Weblog
Google
and Gold as Market Bellwethers
Gurdjieff, Turtles, and Trading
How Can I Learn Trading? - New
How I Trade: Handicapping the Odds of Hitting Pivot Points
How
I Trade With the Trading Psychology Weblog
How Large an Edge Do You Need for
Daytrading? - New
How
to Prepare for the Day's Trading
How You Can Track the Stock Market's Large Traders
Hybrid Trading: How Discretionary Traders Can Become More Systematic - New
Identifying
Breakout Moves
Institutional
Sentiment Measure - download chart
Market
Psychology - An Intraday Analysis
Market
Volatility and Prospective Price Change
Measuring
Trends and Trendiness
Measuring
Trends and Trendiness - II
Micropsychology
Modeler - Part One
Micropsychology
Modeler - Part Two
Micropsychology
Modeler - Part Three
Money Flows in the Stock Market - New
My
Short-Term Trading System - A Brief Summary
My
Swing Trading System
Natural
Profits From Synthetic Indices
On
Becoming a Swing Trader
Option Volume: Profiting From the Volatility Trade
Overview of the Relative Dollar Volume Flow Indicator - New
Pattern
Recognition
Playing
Defense in the Markets
Profiting
From the Lead Fish
Programmed
for Selling
Protracted Buying in the NYSE TICK: What Comes Next?
- New
Psychoanalyzing
the Market
Relative Range
Resources
for Trading
Searching
for the Edge
So
You Want to Write a Market Blog
SOX
to Stocks Ratio
Stages of Change in the Coaching of Traders
Stationarity:
One of the Most Important Trading Concepts
Statistical
Analysis for Intuitive Traders
Stock Market Psychology: What You See is Not What You Get
Taking
What the Market Gives You
The
Changing Face of Market Information
The
Cost of Common Market Wisdom
The
Cumulative DSI - download chart here
The
Importance of Stock Selection
The
Trend is Your End -
The Value of
Market Blogs
Thinking
Like a Peak Performance Trader
Three
Creative Approaches to Market Analysis
Three Pieces of Trading Wisdom
Three
Ways to Develop Your Trading
Time as a
Market Indicator
Tracking
Sector Performance
Trading by Regimes
- New
Trading
by the Traffic Lights
Trading
Journals that Work
Trade Like a Scientist - Three-Part Series
- New
Two
Perspectives on a Market Breakout
Using
the Trading Psychology Weblog
What
a Difference Four Months Make
What
Can We Expect From Low Volatility Markets?
What
Happened to NASDAQ Trading?
What Short-Term Traders Need to Know
What You Can Learn From the Opening Minutes of Trading
When
Does the Market Offer Opportunity?
When Stocks Make
Highs, Should You Buy?
Who
is in the Market?
Why
It Has Been So Hard to Make Money in This Market
Why It Is
Valuable to Track the Market Herd
Why
the Market Seems to Go Nowhere
Why
This Market is So Difficult to Trade: The Long-Term Picture
Will
We Ever Break Out of This Range?
Book
and Music Reviews
Review
of Stock Trader's Almanac and The Almanac Investor - by Jeffrey Hirsch et
al.
Preface
to The Essentials of Trading by John Forman
Review
of The Essentials of Trading by John Forman
Review
of Practical Speculation by Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner
Review
of Swing Trading by Jon D. Markman
Review
of Intermarket Analysis by John J. Murphy
Review
of Trade Like a Hedge Fund by James Altucher
Review
of Trading Risk by Kenneth Grant
Review
of King of an Empire to the Shoes of a Misfit by Myke Hideous
Review
of Say Your Prayers by Empire Hideous
Recent
Articles
Also see my archive of blog entries at TraderFeed
and my archived
articles at Seeking Alpha.
Favorite
TraderFeed Posts From 2006: Volume
One; Volume
Two; Volume
Three
TraderFeed
Best
Practices
TraderFeed
Articles
on Trading Techniques
TraderFeed
Articles
on Coaching Traders
July
7, 2007 - How to Regain Your Trading Consistency
July
7, 2007 - Assessing Your Personal Strengths
June 30, 2007 - How Can I Learn Trading?
June
30, 2007 - Trading by Regimes
June
30, 2007 - The Rarest of Trading Virtues
June 23, 2007 - The Spouse of a Trader: What Makes Marriage Work
June
23, 2007 - Trade Like a Scientist - Three-Part Series
June
16, 2007 - Protracted Buying in the NYSE TICK: What Comes Next?
June
9, 2007 - Attribution and Bias Among Traders
June
2, 2007 - The Heroic Dimensions of Trading
June
2, 2007 - The Most Important Step in Becoming Your Own Trading Coach
May
26, 2007 - Assessing Trader Personality: The Role of Trader Psychometrics
May
26, 2007 - Hybrid Trading: How Discretionary Traders Can Become More Systematic
May
19, 2007 - Stages of Change in the Coaching of Traders
May
19, 2007 - When The Coaching of Traders Doesn't Work
May
19, 2007 - A Favorite Trading Pattern
May
12, 2007 - Characteristics of Professional Traders
May
12, 2007 - Three Thoughts on Freud and Markets
May
5, 2007 - Overview of the Relative Dollar Volume Flow Indicator
May
5, 2007 - Techniques for Overcoming Performance Anxiety in Trading
April
28, 2007 - The Most Important Question to Ask When You're in a Slump
April
28, 2007 - The Most Common Problem Traders Face
April
21, 2007 - Money Flows in the Stock Market
April
21, 2007 - Changing
Your Self-Talk By Talking to Yourself
April 14, 2007
- What We Can Learn From Trading and Poker
April 14, 2007
- Performance Coaching: When It Works, When
It Doesn't
April 7, 2007
- Marc Greenspoon: A Visit With a World Class
Trader
March 31, 2007 - Why
Traders Plan Trades But Don't Trade Their Plans
March 31, 2007 - Trading
and Information Processing: Why Traders Sabotage Themselves
March 24, 2007 -
Disgust Yourself: A Framework for Rapid Behavior Change
March 17, 2007 -
Five Guiding Principles of Short-Term Trading
March 17, 2007 -
Five Guiding Principles of Trading Psychology
March 10, 2007 -
The Role of Somatic Markers in Trading Decisions
March 3, 2007 -
How You Can Track the Stock Market's Large Traders
February 24, 2007
- Six Keys to Trading Success: Lessons from a Successful Trader
February 17, 2007
- How Large an Edge Do You Need for
Daytrading?
February 10, 2007
- A Personality Questionnaire for Traders
- Parts 1-3
February 3, 2007 -
The Personality of the Trader: How It Affects Performance
January 27, 2007 -
How I Trade: Handicapping the Odds of Hitting Pivot Points
January 20, 2007 -
Brief Therapy For Traders (Parts 1-4)
January 13, 2007 -
Letting Profits Run: Becoming Your Own Trading Coach
January
6, 2007 - Three Pervasive Myths of Trading Psychology
December
31, 2006 - Three Pieces of Trading Wisdom
December
30, 2006 - Stock Market Psychology: What You See is Not What You Get
December
24, 2006 - Controlling Emotions is Not the Goal of Trading Psychology
December
23, 2006 - Gurdjieff, Turtles, and Trading
December
16, 2006 - What You Can Learn From the Opening Minutes of Trading
December
10, 2006 - Three Relentless Steps Toward Becoming a Better Trader
December
9, 2006 - The Devon Principle
December
2, 2006 - Three Market Idiots
November
25, 2006 - Do Opening Gaps Tend to Fill?
November
18, 2006 - Developing
Your Trading Ideas With Web 2.0 Tools
November
11, 2006 - What
to Look for in a Trading Firm
November
4, 2006 - Addictive Trading
October
29, 2006 - Three Ways
to Develop Your Trading
October
29, 2006 - What
Can We Expect From Low Volatility Markets?
October
22, 2006 - When Stocks Make Highs,
Should You Buy?
October
15, 2006 - Evaluating Your Money Manager
October
15, 2006 - Filtering
Market Signal From Noise
October 8, 2006 - Half
of What You See in the Market Isn't Real
October 8, 2006 - The
Cost of Common Market Wisdom
October 1, 2006 - Becoming
Your Own Trading Coach
September 17, 2006 - The
Value of Market Blogs
September
10, 2006 - What a
Difference Four Months Make
September 3, 2006 - Three
Creative Approaches to Market Analysis
August 26, 2006 - The
Changing Face of Market Information
August 26, 2006 - Finding
a Framework for Trading
August
19, 2006 - The
Trend is Your End
August 19, 2006 - What
Trading Teaches Us About Life
August
12, 2006 - Approaching
Trading With an Empty Mind
August
5, 2006 - What Short-Term Traders Need to Know
July
29, 2006 - A Lesson in
Trading Psychology
July
22, 2006 - There Are Two
Kinds of Traders
July
22, 2006 - Making
Friends With Market Emotions
July
15, 2006 - How to Prepare for
the Day's Trading
July
8, 2006 - Time as a Market
Indicator
July
4, 2006 - So You
Want to Write a Market Blog
June 30, 2006 - Why
Traders Lose Their Discipline
June 30, 2006 - Why
It Is Valuable to Track the Market Herd
June
23, 2006 - A Textbook Pattern: Catching
Market Turns
June 22, 2006 - The
Importance of Stock Selection
June 16, 2006 - Three
Pillars of Expertise
June 15, 2006 - Four
Keys to Successful Trading
June 8, 2006 - Finding
Opportunities in New Markets
May
28, 2006 - The
Greatest Emotional Problem Facing Traders
May
20, 2006 - Relative Range
May
6, 2006 - Psychoanalyzing the
Market
May
6, 2006 - Anatomy of a Trade
May
6, 2006 - Option Volume: Profiting From the Volatility Trade
April
23, 2006 - Review of The
Essentials of Trading by John Forman
April 23, 2006 - Trading
to Win vs. Trading to Not Lose
April 23, 2006 - How
to Manage the Psychological Risks of Trading
April
9, 2006 - When
Does the Market Offer Opportunity?
March
26, 2006 - Priming for Profits
March
25, 2006 - Why
This Market is So Difficult to Trade: The Long-Term Picture
March
25, 2006 - Why
It Has Been So Hard to Make Money in This Market
March
11, 2006 - Why the
Market Seems to Go Nowhere
February
26, 2006 - Winning the Race for Trading Profits
February
10, 2006 - Statistical
Analysis for Intuitive Traders
February
3, 2006 - That Which Cannot Be
Said
January
29, 2006 - Google and Gold
as Market Bellwethers
January
21, 2006 - Master the
Language of the Market! (Humor)
January
9, 2006 - Turning Your Trading
Around - Part Two
January 8, 2006 - Turning
Your Trading Around - Part One
January
2, 2006 - Will
We Ever Break Out of This Range?
December 10, 2005 - What
Happened to NASDAQ Trading?
December 3, 2005 - Improving
Your Trading Performance
November 25, 2005 - Natural
Profits From Synthetic Indices
November 25, 2005 - Profiting
From the Lead Fish
November 23, 2005 - Bursting
Bubble or Rising Rocket?
November 20, 2005 - Thinking
Like a Peak Performance Trader
November 19, 2005 - Taking
What the Market Gives You
November 12, 2005 - Experts,
Novices, and Trading Performance
November 11, 2005 - Trader
Development
November 4, 2005 - Trader
Performance and Epistemology
October 30, 2005 - Pattern
Recognition
October 23, 2005 - Coping
With Risk and Uncertainty
October 23, 2005 - Changing
How We Cope
October 16, 2005 - Preface
to The Essentials of Trading
October 15, 2005 - The
Habit of Mindfulness
October 11, 2005 - Picking
Bottoms
October 10, 2005 - Hot
Risks, Frozen Trader
October 9, 2005 - Training
for Trading Success
October 8, 2005 - Becoming
the Person You Can Be
October 1, 2005 - Programmed
for Selling
September 24, 2005 - My
Interview With Trading Markets
September 18, 2005 - Trading
by the Traffic Lights
September 11, 2005 - Who
Is In the Market?
September 10, 2005 - Two
Perspectives on a Market Breakout
September 4, 2005 - Overcoming
Market Panic
September 3, 2005 - When
to Stop Trading - Part Three
August 27, 2005 - When
to Stop Trading - Part Two
August 20, 2005 - When
to Stop Trading - Part One
August 13, 2005 - Micropsychology
Modeler - Part Three
August 8, 2005 - Micropsychology
Modeler - Part Two
July 31, 2005 - Micropsychology
Modeler - Part One
July 30, 2005 - Trading
Journals That Work
July 17, 2005 - The
Morality of Trading
July 3, 2005 - Tracking
Sector Performance
June 19, 2005 - Dead
But Dreaming
June 12, 2005 - Micropsychology
of the Markets
June 11, 2005 - Market
Psychology - An Intraday Analysis
June 5, 2005 - What
is Missing in Trading Psychology
April 24, 2005 - The Dream
April
17, 2005 - Composite Trend Index
April 10, 2005 - Last
Exit for the Lost
March 27, 2005 - Responding
to Adversity
March 20, 2005 - Recommended
Readings in Psychology
March 11, 2005 - I
Went Back to Ohio
February 27, 2005 - Accepting
the Obvious
February 12, 2005 - Identifying
Breakout Moves
February 6, 2005 - Information
Processing and Trading
January 29, 2005 - Assessing
Intraday Trends
January 22, 2005 - Training
New Traders: What Makes for Success
January 9, 2005 - Reasoning
and Trading
January 2, 2005 - On
Time and Trading
December 19, 2004 - Measuring
Trends and Trendiness - II
December 12, 2004 - Measuring
Trends and Trendiness
November 27, 2004 - Mind
Over Markets: An Insight
November 20, 2004 - Destructive
Patterns in Trading
November 13, 2004 - Cumulative
Lines for NYSE TICK and Institutional Composite
October
30, 2004 - Using the Weblog Indicators
October
23, 2004 - Searching for the Edge
October
16, 2004 - Explaining Market Success
September 18, 2004 - Trading the
Euro With a Synthetic Dollar Index
September 11, 2004 - How
to Take a Loss
September 4, 2004 - Euro Trading
with Weblog Indicators
August 21, 2004 - Why Do We
Trade?
August 15, 2004 - A
Trader's Self-Evaluation Checklist
July 31, 2004 - Anatomy of a
Swing Market Bottom
July 25, 2004 - Revisiting
Intermarket Relationships
July 18, 2004 - Indicator
Interrelationships
July 4, 2004 - Intermarket
Relationships
June
27, 2004 - Seeking the
Path of Least Comfort
June 20, 2004 - Anomalies in New
Highs and New Lows
June 13, 2004 - The
Three Vices of Trading
June 6, 2004 - Behavioral
Convergence
May 30, 2004 - Market
Balance: A Molecular Look at the Markets
May 23, 2004 - Cross-Sectional
Market Returns
May 16, 2004 - Cumulative
High/Low Index
May 9, 2004 - Pictures
of Market Weakness
May 2, 2004 - Intermediate-Term
Timing Measures
April 25, 2004 - Short-Term
Timing Measures
April 18, 2004 - A
Short-Term Version of the Institutional Composite
April 11, 2004 - The
Institutional Composite and Its Components
April 4, 2004 - Volume
Intensity Index
March 28, 2004 - Market
Turbulence and Relative Performance
March 21, 2004 - A
New Measure of Intermediate-Term Trending
March 14, 2004 - NYSE
Cumulative TICK Oscillator
March 6, 2004 - Short-Term
Volatility
February 27, 2004 - SOX
and Stocks Revisited
February 20, 2004 - Putting
the Measures Together
February 14, 2004 - Sentiment
and Efficiency
February 7, 2004 - Efficiency
and Trend Change
January 31, 2004 - The
Cumulative Trend Index- II
January 24, 2004 - The
Cumulative Trend Index
January 18, 2004 - Intraday
Highs and Lows