You Can’t Stop Your Brain from Predicting.
Human brains predict. In fact, we constantly anticipate in order to perceive anything.
Leaning into Desire
Ignore those who say you shouldn’t have desire. You should, you can, and you can use desire to achieve what you want. Take the desire and ask yourself “What would I need to do IF I were going to actually achieve this?”
THE Y#PS: Superimposing the Past Over the Present
Issues like these happen when something from the past gets superimposed over the present.
Only 9 Home Runs: Breaking Through Self-Imposed Ceilings to Realize Our Full Potential
Sometimes, we limit our own potential. So how do we overcome these self-imposed ceilings? First, we need to create awareness around self-limiting beliefs.
Owning Your Negative Emotions
Fears, frustrations and regrets can illuminate things we need to know. Itemizing feelings actually dissipates their unpleasant energy and in turn opens up pathways otherwise hidden. Admitting to shades of these "negative feelings" REDUCES the chance that the feeling gets in your way.
The Offense and Defense of Trading
Trading is hard. This far-flung, never-ending electronic poker game serves up a mental challenge unlike any other. Anything can happen at any time. It looks like a numbers game but it's really a people game. The data are numbers but the information is in the relationships between, and the implications…
Recover from a Trading Mistake through Writing
A few weeks ago, I attended the annual meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) - a seemingly unlikely place to figure out how to resolve a trading mistake! Those who follow me know I am not only a closet academic but that many of the advanced trading psychology…
Gain Market Intuition with NinjaTrader’s Market Replay
Back in the ‘90s in Chicago when I just beginning to trade my mentor would say: “I’ve seen this movie before.” Mistaking the market for a math problem, I really didn’t get what he meant – until indeed I too felt a click of recognition as I watched price action…
Uncertainty – Reprinted from Psych Capital Tips and Tricks
Trading psychology advice permeates the world of traders. Yet, the majority of traders still experience a challenge that goes like this: "Why did I do that?" They have a plan, they swear they will not make that mistake again and BAM! they do precisely the thing they did not want…