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Last Update: Fri Feb 22 02:34:38 2008

- "Follow-Through" -- It's Significance for Your Market Position - Patience is a virtue in most endeavors in life, and it's certainly a valuable asset in futures and stock trading. You [...] important term, "follow-through," when I discuss significant market moves such as price breakouts or trend changes.

- How to Handle a Losing Streak - Don't overtrade. If you are trading several markets and not having any success, cut back to trading one or two markets. [...] closely and document your success or failures more easily. Plus, your trading account won't be drawn down so quickly.

- Getting What You Really Want - I used to do an exercise in the Peak Performance 101 workshop entitled "Getting What You Want". The exercise starts out [...] what would it be? Perhaps your answer might be $10 million dollars. However, the exercise doesn't end there....

- A Healthy Psychological Profile is Needed for Successful Trading - Many mental health professionals define an "uncertain" condition as being stressful. Uncertainty occurs because of too ...

- Self-Sabotage Revealed - In my peak performance training with traders, I give a strong psychological slant to the concept of self-sabotage. [...] best interest. For example, when you have dessert, knowing it's taboo because you are trying get healthy, you might...

- Hank Pruden on "Behavioral Finance" and Technical Analysis - Hank Pruden’s theory of "Behavioral Finance" proposes that human flaws are consistent, measurable and predictable, and [...] of 30 years, the discipline of finance has been under the thrall of the random walk/cum efficient market hypothesis....

- Make An Honest Self Appraisal - If you are willing to accept total responsibility for your investment results, you will realize that you are the most ...

- Behavioral Patterns That Sabotage Traders - Part I - Although I do not maintain a private practice of counseling/coaching for traders, it is perhaps inevitable that traders [...] book on The Psychology of Trading. Once in a while I take on a project of working with a group of traders because of...

- Enjoy Bumping Into Walls - If you're in the market, one of biggest obstacles you'll face is the wall of losses. It's fairly difficult dealing with [...] It's almost impossible. It's like wanting to be alive, but always wanting to breathe in and not willing to breathe...

- Van Tharp Back-To-Basics Series - People get exactly what they want out of the markets. Most people are afraid of success or failure. As a result, they ...

- Know When to Fold 'Em - One of the advantages we have as traders is that we do not have to trade. And it costs nothing to not trade. So the [...] a position in outstanding trades. And these are usually either trades that are moving strongly in your favor before...

- Do What You Love - So what does this have to do with trading and success? I've noticed that the people who are really successful in many, [...] of program of self improvement. I have mentioned many of those in past tips and the Artists Way is one of them. They...

- When To Quit Your Day Job - I have had many readers through the years--most of whom were less-experienced traders--tell me that at some point in [...] their optimism was certainly positive from the standpoint of eagerness to learn about a truly fascinating business,...

- Finding the Best Traders In The World - I was recently approached by a top hedge fund about profiling the best traders in the world. Profiling really refers to [...] predict success. And I believe that I'm one of the world's experts in that area since we have a huge database of...

- Using the "ADM" Method to Deal with Losing Trades - A main tenet of success in futures trading is the ability to accept losing trades as part of the overall trading [...] futures traders tend to be of a more competitive nature in the first place. Traders certainly don't have to enjoy...

- Peak Performance Trading Tips - The sixth key quality is that they all have a business plan to guide their trading. I've been talking about the [...] Most companies have a plan to raise money, but you need such a plan to help you treat your trading like a business....

- Abell, Koppel Discuss Their Profitable Short-term Trading Methods - No short-term trading system is perfect. However, having and using a system is critical for short-term trading success, [...] and personal--conforming to the unique psychological and methodological needs of the individual," they said.

- Everyone Can Profit - What most people don't realize is that at any given time 4-5 people might go long a position and another 4-5 might go [...] them can have different systems and different ideas, and all of them can make money. They might have different ideas...

- Better to be Profitable Than Right - The ultimate goal of a futures trader should be to have overall trading success by being profitable. There is no [...] However, there are a few general trading tenets to which all successful traders have subscribed. One such...

- Peak Performance Trading Tips - Jack Schwager's primary conclusion after writing the first two Market Wizard books is that great traders all have [...] tend to agree that that's one of the secrets to success. Chapter 4 of the new edition of my book, Trade Your Way to...

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