Why Yelling at Your Trades Won’t Work: Lessons from Competitive Farming”
“Okay, so think about it like this, what if you were a competitive farmer?” It was an early Saturday and I was working with a trader (let’s call him Sam) in…
Return to Day Trading—A New Series of Blog Posts
I’ve been doing some exciting and challenging work recently, and want to share some of it with you. A quick biographical sketch, for those of you who don’t know me:…
Life hacks and learning to trade
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…
Are you asking the right questions?
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?”…
It’s Hard to Learn from the Market
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…
Why you think you’re getting worse
Do you ever work really hard and feel like you got nothing out of it? Or, even more to the point, ever work a long time on developing a skill,…
Learning, deeply and well
Let’s face it—we need a lot of skills to get through life. Even the basic day to day requirements can be daunting, and most people have specialized skills in certain…
MarketLife Ep 35 – The beginner’s mind (a new mini-series)
This episode kicks off a mini-series in which I work with a beginning trader to learn the very fundamentals of the business. We will cover method, psychology, risk, learning techniques,…
Coming Soon: a New Trading Course
An outline of the upcoming trading course.