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+ "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 will many times ...

+ 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. You can follow ...

+ 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 with a ...

+ 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 much ...

+ Self-Sabotage Revealed + In my peak performance training with traders, I give a strong psychological slant to the concept of self-sabotage. Self-sabotage [...] in one's own 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 being aware of [...] better part 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 important factor ...

+ 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 would contact ...

+ 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 the markets if ...

+ 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 tend to resist ...

+ 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 common solution is ...

+ 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, many fields ...

+ 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 the future they [...] While 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 finding those ...

+ 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 process. This is not ...

+ 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 importance of this ...

+ 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, say Howard [...] profitable, consistent, 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 short or unload ...

+ 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 single-best path one [...] and profitability. 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 developed systems ...