Nailing Better Trade Exits
Accepting that a whole host of feelings occur in the prospect of exiting a trade helps your ability to act on the intuitive or integral feelings that give you market information.
A “Philosophy” of Making Trading Rules
A coaching client in Hong Kong recently wrote this in response to a homework assignment. It is so good, in my opinion, that I want to make it available. Let us know what you think? FROM: AN You asked me what would be the smallest number of rules I would…
Unnoticed Contexts & Trading Performance
Earlier this week, one of my clients with the title "Head of Equity Trading" wrote exactly this sentence copied and pasted from his email: "i had another one of those traading days where i let my loss just go to its fullest, and had a really bad day." SO... how…
How Traders can Leverage the New 4 “Basic” Emotions
Did you know that no one knows for sure how many "basic" (irreducible) emotions there are? Many scientists have long believed in six, a new study indicates four and a growing body of work by the teams emerging from Lisa Feldman Barrett's labs makes a very credible case for only…
Do I want to be Right or Do I want to make Money?
As I prepare for The Galtere Institute's Behavioral Finance symposium, I am doing what I always do before I speak - catching up on the latest studies on emotion and risk decision making. For example, did you know that there is actually still much disagreement in science about what emotion…
The Very First (and I what I thought would be the last) Words I Wrote on Trading Psychology
Shull's first article "What Would Freud Say? Stroll Down Freud's Mental Path to Profits", December 2004. When I wrote this I had NO idea whatsoever that I would ever publicly write or say ANOTHER word on the psychology of trading. It was just an idea I had based on re-writing…