Reader question: what do I do when I miss the move?
Dimitar sent a question, and I bet he’s not the only trader who struggles with this: Hi Adam, I am part time private Trader. I read regularly your blog articles…
Finding flow in trading and in life
Have you ever been so completely engrossed in an activity that you become lost in it? Maybe you had no sense of time and hours seemed like minutes—you forgot what…
Maintaining motivation
It’s that time of the year again: resolutions are made, gym memberships bought, diet plans laid out, major projects are started—the whole time, everyone knowing that all these plans are…
You are what you read: try an information diet
A developing trader said something to me a few weeks ago that has stuck in my mind: he said that he has to be careful what websites he reads because…
Five steps to being fully present in the moment
What you think you see is not what you see. What you think is happening is not what is happening. Everything we experience is filtered through our inner dialog and…
Writing prompts: Trading psychology and risk management
Continuing from my last post, here are the rest of the questions my friend asked me to expound upon. What is Risk Management and should it be lumped together under…
Wins live in the land of loss
I'm sitting here at my desk looking out the window. On my desk is a (perfectly normal and fair) coin that I had been flipping a while. Question: can you…
Five steps to creativity
Our culture has an interesting relationship with creativity. On one hand, we hold creative artists in high regard, but many people secretly laugh at the arts as a career choice.…
Are beliefs all that matter? Thoughts on trading psychology
Here's an interesting question on a controversial topic--trading psychology. Reader Rob sent me a note asking: Hi. I hope you can help me with a question. I am a developing…
Reader question: Who moves the market?
As markets languish in the summer doldrums, Glenn comes back with a good philosophical question: The edge in technical analysis is to find an imbalance of buying and selling pressure..…
Where does market intuition come from?
I saw this interesting article from Bloomberg last week, with the almost-clickbait title of "Train your brain for trading (No, Really!)" I just happened to click on it, and found…
Patience… patience
An interesting debate emerged in the comments to one of my posts. In the post, I had suggested the discipline was the most important thing; a reader countered that patience…
Your many hats
I wrote a few posts last week about how to never miss the move. Today, I want to dig into that idea a little bit deeper, and think about why,…
So you missed the move?
This post might make you mad. You might think I'm blind to risks or that I don't understand the world. You might end up telling me how wrong and stupid…
The one thing–the only thing–that matters
One of the problems with successful trading is that everything matters. In the scope of: when to get in, when to get out, how much to buy or sell, how…
Doing the right thing: Bias, opinion, and action points
One of the great things about writing a daily research piece is that it serves as a good record of my thought process and perspective on markets on each and…