Category Archives: Trading Psychology

Trading psychology is ‘something’ that a trader creates from existing personality traits that are not initially related to trading, but surface from trading without method understanding.

Using INVERSION to improve Trading ?

By | December 24, 2017 2:07 pm

The ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus regularly conducted an exercise known as a premeditatio malorum, which translates to a “premeditation of evils.” The goal of this exercise was to envision the negative things that could happen in life. For example, the Stoics would imagine what it would be like to lose their job… Read More »

Approaching Trading With an Empty Mind

By | December 20, 2017 4:41 pm

One of the Best Article of Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. Cognitive psychologists emphasize that we see what we want to see: we are all prisoners of the mental maps we create. Once a trader forms an opinion, he or she is more likely to overweight information consistent with this view than information that is contradictory.… Read More »

How 2 Stock Market Amateurs Became Millionaires in a Year

By | December 16, 2017 6:05 pm

Source: Shared by Blog Reader Quiet Motivating One peculiar aspect of the stock market is that anybody can participate. There are no (or very low) barriers to entry.  All you need is an easily available online brokerage account and the money to fund it, usually a minimum of two-thousand dollars. Once you’ve done that, anybody… Read More »