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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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Doubling Down in Desperation

Here is a list of reactions to a losing position.Before you read them, I want you to do a quick check of your physiology, emotions, and thoughts. And as you read these, notice any changes as you recognize

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Don’t Ask WHY

An email I received from David H., one of our Bootcamp members, and thought it was worth sharing: “I just wanted to drop you an email regarding our bootcamp meeting yesterday. There was an interaction

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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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Caged context

Do you have the courage to create a new context?

What kind of world has my coaching student created? When a trader first comes for coaching, I watch for the “meta-structures” he or she has in place. What do I mean? I ask myself:* What “factual”

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Can a novice trader taken a tiny account and turned it into a sustainable and consistently profitable trading career?

The Toxic Trading Tragedy

Can an underfunded novice trader expect to be succesful? How the commitment and capital gap can crush your trading success “I have been trading for five years and struggling” “I repeat

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The Trading and Investing Craze

Online trading by new and younger traders and investors has exploded! This could not be predicted nor expected.Last week my most wonderful brother called me about investing in silver.He heard it was going

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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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Pandemic, panic and peace. How to make the most of an unavoidable event

Pandemic, Panic and Peace

Panic…our brains were created to look for threats on the savannas of Africa. Our brains evolved before the internet when threats to our lives were very immediate and real. However, our evolution

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Pandemic Panic Prevention

Your environment is designed to put you in a state of panic. The entire world is gearing up to stimulate your fears. Newspapers, TV news, politicians, magazines, online blogs and social media all gain

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Using your creative mindset to survive this Economic and Social Earthquake

How to Survive an Economic and Cultural Earthquake

This post was updated on January 5, 2021. It was so obvious. How many times have we said that after the fact? How many times in retrospect was it obvious that all the information that we needed was right

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Extreme Events: Preparing Your Brain for Black Swans

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”Nassim Nicholas Taleb from “Antifragile” bookNassim Taleb in

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He had everything but success

He Had Everything But Success

He was upset. A former Mind Muscles Academy student called me out of the blue. I hadn’t heard from him for about six months. He was frustrated and angry.He had strategy clarity. With support of our Strategy

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Using price action o enter high probability trades

Trading Strategy Insights 8 – Using price action to enter a high probability trade

Trade of the Week: S&P 500 Futures Trade on February 10, 2020 (52 Ticks Gain)The topic of the week for our Trading Strategy Insights is how to use price action to enter a high probability trade. I

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Trading Strategy Insights 7: how to use market structure data

Using market structure data to plan a high probability tradeCrude Oil Futures Trade on February 4, 2020 (47 Ticks)Hello! I hope this week is going well for you. Rogerio here, trading strategy and execution

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Trading Strategy Insights 6: Spotting a reversal in a volatile market

How to spot a reversal in a volatile marketE-mini S&P 500 Futures Trade on January 29, 2020 (41 Ticks)Hello! Hope your trading is going well this week. Rogerio here, strategy and performance coach

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The Golden Thread Across the Canyon

You know what you need to do to execute your trading strategy. However, circumstances seem to dictate different responses in the moment. With hindsight you know that had you been more “disciplined”

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Trading Behaviors: How to Outwit a Lazy Brain

Why is it so hard to break old trading habits that no longer serve us? Why do we as traders wake up the next morning and regret making trading mistakes that are so persistent, that we repeat them over

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Trading Strategy Insights 5: Order Flow Analysis Part 2

Using order flow analysis to spot a market change in real time Gold Futures Order Flow Trade on September 13, 2019 Hello! Hope your trading went really well this week. Rogerio Amado here, strategy and

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Trading Strategy Insights 4: Order Flow Analysis

Using order flow analysis to gain an extra edge trading futuresGold Futures Order Flow Trade on September 13, 2019Hello! Hope your trading went really well this week. Rogerio Amado here, strategy and performance

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