I’m a trader, and I’m very fortunate to be doing what I do for a living. Financial Markets are such an interesting playground. Whether the issues at hand are possible shifts in global monetary policies, geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, great depressions, great recoveries, gridlocks in Washington, there’s always something for traders to capitalize on. It’s a real

Below is an interview I had with Darren Pallatina from Decision of Power. Darren picked my brain on trading, markets, and trading psychology. I hope you find it insightful. TranscriptWhat was your life like before you started trading and psychology?I don’t have a glorious background pre-trading. Grew up very poor with a single mother. She had

One of the hardest things to teach about trading, I have found (anecdotally), is the idea that you can be wrong, that it’s perfectly okay to be wrong, and that a controlled trading loss is actually a good thing. But, why is that, why do people fear trading losses so much, why do they have trouble

In this short post, I’d like to offer a teaching that can be very helpful in not losing yourself in what’s happening in your own thoughts and emotions, and in really cultivating a sense of detachment as a trader. It is particularly useful for us to become more aware of our hard-wired tendency to identify with

In today’s post, I want to share a simple shift in perspective that you can make right now that can be very helpful as you try to stay objective and in control of yourself in the market. It starts with a simple teaching that says that in every moment in life, there are two things happening: There’s