trading psychology Archives - Mind Muscles for Traders https://staging.mindmusclesfortraders.com/Tags/trading-psychology/ Using Trading Psychology to Coach Traders to Up Their Mental Game for Maximum Success Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Extreme Events: SVB and the Blindness of the Human Brain https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/extreme-events-svb-and-the-blindness-of-the-human-brain/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:57:54 +0000 https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/?p=1017777 How the blind spots in the human brain paved the way for the SVB fail, and how to prepare for the next black swan you can’t predict.“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”-Nassim Nicholas Taleb from his “Antifragile” bookThe human brain repeats our fallible […]

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]]> Trading Games for Profit https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/podcast-trading-games-for-profit/ Tue, 02 May 2023 18:16:30 +0000 https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/?p=1018044 How to change hope and dreams into great trade execution In this podcast episode Faina, Louise and Rich explore Trading Games for Profit. This concept utilizes three games that can reveal hidden motivations in trading that sabotage our consistent profits. The first game is an awareness game that allows each trader to see a graphic display […]

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]]> Do you have a Trading Addiction? https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/do-you-have-a-trading-addiction/ https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/do-you-have-a-trading-addiction/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2019 22:22:40 +0000 https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/?p=13931 How do you know if you’re addicted to trading? Signs of a trading addiction Some of my clients are addicted to trading. Yes, addicted. Addicted in the same sense as alcohol, gambling, sex or nicotine addiction. Some of my traders have come to me after they have lost their spouse, their retirement and their work; […]

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]]> https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/do-you-have-a-trading-addiction/feed/ 3 What is a Trading Psychologist? https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/what-is-a-trading-psychologist/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:15:00 +0000 https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/?p=10613 Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that someone would call me up and ask “Are you the trading psychologist?” It has happened. But after two decades of trading on the floors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the options floor the Pacific Stock Exchange; along with a […]

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]]> Two Parts to Trading Psychology That Lead to Better Trading Decisions https://mindmusclesfortraders.com/two-parts-trading-psychology-lead-better-trading-decisions/ Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:37:00 +0000 http://mindmusclesfortraders.com/?p=4562 There are two parts to trading psychology that when understood lead to better trading decisions: the inside and the outside. First let’s look at the outside. The market itself is not an objective, rational Spock ­like machine. The markets are made up of the emotional decisions and inputs from an aggregation of millions of humans. Ultimately, reality rules. But… the […]

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