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The Only Question You Should Ask Yourself Before Taking A Trade

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Successful discretionary trading is supposed to be black and white…but it isn’t.  That is half the challenge (and the fun).  There is a constant battle between the “Spring Break/Girls Gone Wild” part of your brain that wants to risk half your account on one trade while drinking a Tequila shot and the other part that [...]

Trading Psychology Video With Denise Shull

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In this video, Denise Shull shares her thoughts on they psychology of successful trading through her experiences as a Trader and Trading Coach. She believes that much of the conventional advice on trading psychology is flawed and she gives her input on a variety of topics related to performing well in trading. [...]

5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Immediately After a Loss to Minimize Its Psychological Impact

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One of the biggest (if not THE biggest) issues that I have had to face in my trading is getting over a loss.  Even if I did everything correctly, losses still affected me more than any win.  To a certain extent, it is still something that I am working on.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m [...]

Beware of Skewed Perceptions

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As I have been backtesting and recording the results, there is one thing that has been very apparent.  The losers affect me much more than the winners.  So much more so that many times I think that I am having a really bad month when I am actually doing well.

I have been trying to [...]

Give up your dream, find your destiny

Here is another episode from Tony Robbins series, Breakthrough. It is about Rick and Melissa Lawson. Melissa’s dream has been to be a country music singer and she even won a contest to get a recording contract.

Her ambitions put a strain on her family however and her long periods on the road led [...]

How to Stay in a Trade When Others Bail

On a recent trade, I was able to stay in the trade because I focused on price action.

However, my ability to stay in a trade and see it to fruition is not as nearly as reliable as I would like it to be.   As I continue to work on this, I thought that I [...]

Climb a Mountain

Here is another episode in Tony Robbins series on creating breakthroughs. I really liked the series and some may consider it sappy, but I think the process that he puts these people through can give us clues about how to create breakthroughs in our own lives.

This episode features John Rodriguez and tells the story [...]

Juaquin's Breakthrough

Here is another episode in Tony Robbins series on creating breakthroughs.  I really liked the series and some may consider it sappy, but I think the process that he puts these people through can give us clues about how to create breakthroughs in our own lives.

This episode features Juaquin Hawkins, former professional basketball player.  [...]

Audio Review: Slump Busting Techniques

Linda Raschke has been a professional trader for over 20 years and can definitely tell us a thing or two about how to get out of a trading slump.   Her primary claim to fame was being featured in Jack Schwager’s book The New Market Wizards.  In 1995, she co-authored the best selling book “Street Smarts [...]

My Daily Pre-Trading Routine

If there was one thing that I learned from playing sports, it was that pregame routines are important.  I used to wonder why we did the same thing over and over.  Can’t we mix it up a little?  Keep things interesting?

Well there was a reason for doing the same thing before every game.  It [...]