Category Archives for Cognitive Biases
Circle of Confidence
“An awareness of the Confidence Cycle in and of itself makes the journey faster and easier.” -Richard Friesen I started my career in the financial market as a futures broker at Merrill Lynch. I had
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Levels of Change and Persistent Trading Mistakes
You know what to do and in the heat of the moment, something happens. Not a little something, but a big something. Not a one time something but a repeated something. Not a controllable something, but an
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What are they really asking?
Strange but true. Over the last couple of years, I have had fun answering some of the weirdest
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Does Your “Control” Illusion Create Trading Losses?
The mind trap we’re going to look at today is “Control Illusion.” This means that if your subconscious mind believes that it is in control, as a trader, you ascribe more value than is actually there. This
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Our Trading Brain and Trading Loss
A slow motion, step by step playbook.Why is trading loss the biggest pain point for traders? In a survey of over 1000 traders, the issue of handling trading losses is always at the top of the list. See
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Shred Your Stories
“The mind has a job. And that’s to give us all the stories that prove that what it thinks is true.” Byron Katie The world comes at us with a seemingly infinite amount of data every day.
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Amazing Super Secret Trading Computer Only You Can Access
If you type “secret trading strategy” into the Google search engine, you will receive over 10 million returns.So, why is it that marketers use the word secret when in fact they are flogging it to everyone
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2018: The Year of Intention
What will you do for yourself in 2018? What new behaviors will serve you better? What current beliefs do you hold that aren’t working for you? How do you see yourself in a way that you have outgrown? Behaviors,
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