For you pure day-traders and even swing traders, I know you check the upcoming economic calendar and key earnings releases daily, but be aware that this upcoming (shortened) week, we have a lot of potentially major market moving data hitting us all at once which calls for extra caution.
Check out the article “Wall Street to […]

In case you’re wondering why we endure the sometimes stressful daily grind that is trading,  Dr. Steenbarger recently published four encouraging quotes from his recent texts in his post The Heroic Dimensions of Trading.
Read them over and meditate over them if they speak to you.  It helps to envision your trading as something greater than […]

I am really getting a lot out of Dr. Bruce Hong’s new site on Trader Psychology.  Here are three detailed posts (containing a six-step process) to help you break your bad habits:
How do Addicts Break Habits?
Bad Habit Breaking Part I
Habit Breaking Part II
Dr. Hong is addressing specific topics using academic biological/behavioral psychology as a foundation […]