Articles on institutional positioning, options flow, price action, and the neuroscience of trading.
Today’s post is going to be a unique article on something rarely discussed in trading – sleep. As a trader, your success is overly dependent upon your brain being healthy. And one of the primary factors which determines your brain’s health is sleep quality. Recently Dr. Walker from the UC Berkeley Sleep & Neuroimaging lab…
Today I got a question from a student who’s only made a few posts in the course, so just getting started. They asked a question which points to a critical aspect of trading. Here is what they asked below: I think this is a fantastic question many developing traders struggle with. How do you ‘know’…
I got a forex trader psychology question from a new student of mine who’s been struggling for years. He’s experienced a common problem you yourself have likely faced. Here is what he emailed me below: “I know this varies greatly based on internal and external factors, but about how many trades do you take on a daily…
4 hours in, sweat on my forehead, a sore left knee and one feeling of exhilaration, I completed the 10,000th mantra. Yes, for over 240 minutes (minus the necessary 1 minute ‘loo break’) I chanted the same 9 Tibetan words 10,000 times in a row. Personally, I thought it would be a tad easier, but the…
Being the last in a line of 6 kids, my closest brother growing up (Mike) was 2.5yrs older. This translated into him being a lot bigger (and taller) than me. In my early years, my parents would often go to the movies and leave us home. Back then, cable TV was not like what it is today. After 2pm, there…
I’m going to tell you a brief story about your central nervous system. Why? Because as your brain evolved over the last few million years affects your success (or struggles) in trading today. Then I’m going to talk about EDN, or Experience Dependent Neuroplasticity and how this builds the foundation for creating trading success (or…
Changing tack a bit here, I’m going to be covering a losing trade forex management analysis here to give you an idea about price action, trade management and what I learned from this trade. In my weekly trade setups commentary, I covered the USDJPY which had just broken range resistance and the ‘big figure’ at…
About a fortnight ago I did a trading seminar in Toronto. I spoke about Neuroscience, the self-image, comfort zone and the trading mindset which had a strong impression on the attendees. One of them emailed me the following question shortly after: “Could you point me towards some resources on the trading mindset, buddhist meditation and…