Extreme Events: Preparing Your Brain for Black Swans
This post was updated on January 5, 2021. “Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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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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Is Every Tick A Referendum On Your Worth?
Roger’s physiology made a dramatic shift. I watched my trader coaching client as he leaned forward with his fists clenched. He had just shorted 20 ES contracts and the market had just broke through
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Trading Strategies That Suck
If you can’t consistently execute your strategy, maybe it’s not your mindset. Did Richard Friesen, mindset trading coach, really just say that?Yes, I did. You see, one of the biggest reasons why
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Why “Will Power” Will Drain Your Brain Power
Carl Richards makes it simple. Carl Richards has an uncanny way of taking complex financial issues and putting them in simple compelling sketches. You can see samples of his work at: https://behaviorgap.com. This
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I Don’t Have Confidence in My Trading Strategy
Of course you don’t. Nor should you. Independent traders are missing strategy confidence. As a trading coach, I get a bird’s eye view of all the issues that traders face. I have reviewed over 2000
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You Should Feel Guilty Making Money as a Trader
“You should feel guilty making money as a trader.” Many traders who come to me as clients or students have a voice inside their head that says something similar to this sentence. It can come from their
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They Are Sabotaging My Success
“My wife doesn’t support me. After every trading session she looks at me with critical eyes.” “My parents want me to get a real job. They believe trading is just like gambling and I’m addicted.” “All
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Combat Trading: How combat training teaches trading psychology
A lesson in Combat TradingHow does a boot camp that teaches small arms combat, help traders develop a master trader’s mindset?I just spent four days in the Nevada desert in an intense small arms combat
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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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Are You Smaller Than Your Money?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson First,
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Do you have a Trading Addiction?
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
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The Trader’s State of Mind – Does it Matter?
Does the Trader’s State of Mind really matter? I have heard this argued both ways. It is been argued that the trader’s state of mind, or more formally, the psychology of a trader, is less critical
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