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    Read more about the article Cycles, cycles everywhere

    Cycles, cycles everywhere

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:10/20/2022
    • Post category:Breakout/Psychology/Volatility

    I want to share a few of the things I have been thinking about and focusing on in the market. This market environment is not that different than "business as…

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    Read more about the article On shorting stocks

    On shorting stocks

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:10/10/2022
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development

    A few thoughts on shorting stock markets, which may prove to be especially relevant here, as we head into the end of 2022. Long-term stock bias One of the most…

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    Read more about the article Being right being wrong

    Being right being wrong

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:10/07/2022
    • Post category:Psychology

    There are about ten thousand ways a trade idea can go wrong. You don’t have to trade very long to seemingly encounter most of them in your first handful of…

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    Read more about the article The worst thing that a daytrader can do

    The worst thing that a daytrader can do

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:04/22/2022
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology/Trader Development

    Yesterday, a trader I have worked with a bit over the years (let’s call him M) pinged me with this real-money equity curve: (For the record, that's a pretty good…

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    Read more about the article Being right and wrong at the same time

    Being right and wrong at the same time

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:12/05/2021
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development

    I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about uncertainty lately—and about making decisions with incomplete information. Over the past two years, we've all had to make decisions in an uncertain…

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    Read more about the article Life hacks and learning to trade

    Life hacks and learning to trade

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/23/2021
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology/Trader Development

    One of the interesting developments of the past ten years is the gradual death of the “life hack” approach. This is a good thing. The reason this movement has died…

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    Read more about the article Are you asking the right questions?

    Are you asking the right questions?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:07/30/2021
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology/Trader Development

    I took part in an interesting exchange in a Facebook group last night, in which a trader was asking “should I buy puts or calls for the spy or qqq?”…

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    Read more about the article It’s Hard to Learn from the Market

    It’s Hard to Learn from the Market

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:03/27/2021
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology/Trader Development

    How do we learn? For most things, a pretty simple plan works: do something and evaluate the results. Make some changes to what you do, and see how the results…

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    Read more about the article Different markets are… different

    Different markets are… different

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:07/27/2020
    • Post category:Psychology/Quantitative analysis/Technical Patterns

    What is different and what stays the same? This is one of the key questions traders who trade on different timeframes or in different markets face. We often hear the…

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    Read more about the article Here’s why you can’t win that argument on Facebook

    Here’s why you can’t win that argument on Facebook

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:06/01/2020
    • Post category:Psychology

    Continuing from my last post, I want to explore how emotion influences our thinking and bias. Humans are not (purely) rational In my trading and investment work, one of the…

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    Read more about the article Thinking about thinking: lessons from the coronavirus

    Thinking about thinking: lessons from the coronavirus

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:05/26/2020
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology

    It’s been a rough few months for all of us—everyone, all over the whole world. I want to share a few thoughts on the coronavirus epidemic, politics, and what this…

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    Read more about the article What really moves markets?

    What really moves markets?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:03/11/2020
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development

    In the face of recent historic moves in stocks, crude oil, bonds, and many currencies, it is a good idea to step back and think about a fundamental question: what…

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    Read more about the article Hello, regret, my old friend…

    Hello, regret, my old friend…

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:03/04/2020
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development

    Trading can be emotional. The market often has volatile moves and it seems new highs or the end of the world are just around the corner. In this environment, it’s…

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    Markets stress… trader stress

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:05/13/2019
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology

    Here’s a bit of a stream of consciousness post in response to today’s (5/13) market movements. First, these types of moves are often called ‘risk off’ moves because we see…

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    How to be more creative

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:03/05/2019
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development

    Creativity is, for me, right at the heart of our growth as humans. In this post, I’ll share some ideas for connecting with your own creativity and bringing the power…

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    The law of small numbers: a mistake you’re probably making

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:02/27/2019
    • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Psychology/Trader Development

    One of the very positive advances over the past decade is the amount of attention focused on cognitive biases. We are, through the work of some gifted authors and speakers,…

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