It's been a great year, and I want to wish all readers a very happy and prosperous 2007. Below are links to TraderFeed posts from the first half of 2006 that capture a few of my New Year's thoughts--and resolutions! Tomorrow I'll post links to favorite psychology posts from the second half of the year.
* How I use volume flow information in trading to capture the market's psychology;
* Why I find historical analyses of the markets to be useful;
* Reflections on life and the markets;
* Why having odds in your favor doesn't assure success;
* How the S&P 500 Index behaves on a very short time frame;
* Some defining features of market pros I've worked with;
* VIX as a measure of daytrading opportunity;
* A psychology checklist for traders;
* Lessons that traders have taught me;
* Why scalping the stock indices has become so difficult;
* The opening range and market opportunity;
* A solution-focused framework for working on one's trading;
* How the markets confound human nature.
* The most common trading problem of all.
* Why traders lose their discipline.
* Diagnosing trading problems.
* Playing it safe avoids reward as well as risk. Even for investors.
* Living the heroic life: Part one, two, three, four, five
* What a bodybuilder teaches us about life success.
* Smooth vs. choppy moves and what they mean: Part one, two;
* What it means when there are lots of bears out there;
* What every short-term trader should know; one of my best posts, IMO;
* Why attacking your trading problems can be a mistake;
* Markets and people are wired differently;
* NYSE TICK and stock market momentum;
* Identifying breakout trades;
* Mean reversion as a trading strategy;
* The need for dynamic thinking in trading;
* What a market's opening minutes tell us;
* A framework for looking at markets, short-term;
* Why it's easy to lose money when trading;
* Trading opening gaps, Part One, Two;
* Life lessons from trading;
* What contributes to trader success?
* Shifts in the NYSE TICK and their significance;
* A very simple psychological test;
* What a lack of discipline can teach us;
* The multiple personality of the stock market;
* Learning how to lose at trading;
* Becoming your own trading coach;
* How people make changes;
* Identifying market reversals;
* Lessons from sport psychology;
* An important psychological skill for traders: Part One, Two;
* Figuring out how much opportunity is in the market;
* Finding your niche as a trader: one of the important ideas from my recent book.
* Four facets of market psychology.
* Participation in a market move affects the likelihood of continuation vs. reversal.
* What happens in the brain affects how we trade.
* My advice for new traders.
* How personality traits affect trading discipline.
* More observations on life and markets.
* Market patterns are different from our own thinking patterns.
* Tracking how large traders are behaving in real time and why big traders matter.
* The safest times to trade are the most risky.
* Good example of the value of looking at historical trading patterns.
* The importance of trading the right things, not just the right ways--even for daytraders.
* Do gaps tend to fill?
* Why short-term trading has been so different from investing in recent times: the market is really two different markets.
* Becoming your own trading coach: Part one, two, three.
* More on the solution focus in trading.
* Unappreciated problem: addictive trading. Here's a self assessment.
* What you trade should match how you trade.
* Myths in trading psychology.
* Style cube: one way of thinking about *what* you trade.
* Some trading wisdom.
* What we see on charts is not necessarily what we get in the future: perceptual distortions.
* Success takes a lot more than taming emotions.
* A different way to measure market sentiment with relative data.
* Learning how to lose: a key to winning.
* We can learn a lot from the opening minutes of trade.
* Steps we can take to develop ourselves as traders.
* Devon's post: an important principle.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Best of Dr. Brett for 2006
