Finding Flow in Your Market Participation
Flow: An optimal state of engagement in which a person perceives challenges to action as neither underutilizing nor overwhelming his or her existing skills and has clear, attainable goals and…
Flow: An optimal state of engagement in which a person perceives challenges to action as neither underutilizing nor overwhelming his or her existing skills and has clear, attainable goals and…
The old saying “the trend is your friend” is easily one of the most widely used and accepted aphorisms of the markets. Looking back at what the market has done…
Personality can be defined as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. One…
Some have said that trading is 90% mental and 10% technical and that successful traders learn to remove emotions (or at least control them) from their trading decisions. The TESTED…
One common mistake I've seen over the years in working with traders, especially new ones, is an attempt to trade everything and anything. A common thread that I found was…
I’ve always been a market technician and have used levels of support/resistance from day one. I use charting to form my main thesis of what I see as the potential…
In Adlerian psychology there are what's known as safeguarding behaviors and they have a place in trading as well. Basically, we as humans want to protect ourselves from three threats…
As a former therapist, one of the areas I would focus on with clients is the way in which they would perceive their situations. Using a technique called re-framing; I…
The image to the left should be recognizable by most of us as the American alphabet. It is from these 26 letters that billions of people are able to communicate…
While pursuing my doctorate in '99 I had the opportunity to see Dr. Albert Ellis give a lecture in Pittsburgh and will always be grateful for that. He was the…