Jim Rohn's philosophy of personal responsibility, daily disciplines, and the seasons of life provides the foundational framework that all trading psychology builds on. His teaching that you are the average of the five traders you follow is the most practical environmental intervention available.
Every trader reviews his losses. It feels like the responsible thing to do, it feels like work, and it is very nearly useless. Brett Steenbarger, who came to trading from brief therapy rather than from the market, brought with him…
Before dawn on January 5, 1914, in a freezing Michigan winter, thousands of men gathered in the dark outside Ford’s plant in Highland Park. Some had arrived at three in the morning to hold their place. They had come because…
Every few months somebody declares the AI trade a bubble. A few weeks later somebody else declares that this time is genuinely different. Both camps reach for the year 2000 as their reference point, and both usually stop at the…
Your setup wins forty-one percent of the time. You know this, because you counted, once, a while ago. It does not feel like forty-one percent. It feels like a good setup. It feels, if you are honest, like it works…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 32 Allan Gray The Contrarian Who Built South Africa’s Greatest Fund ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music In 1973, a thirty-five-year-old South African asset manager left a…
Count the trading education you have consumed. Order flow, market structure, candlestick confirmation, indicator confluence, the setup, the trigger, the entry. Now count the hours spent on what you do after the fill. The ratio is somewhere near ten to…
UPDATE · 4 AUGUST 2026 Date one has resolved. SpaceX reported Q2 revenue of $7.81 billion against consensus near $6.9 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion against $2.0 billion expected, and a net loss of 9 cents a share. Every…
Minervini calls it a volatility contraction pattern. Carter calls it a squeeze. Bollinger describes it as bands narrowing, Keltner traders as channels overlapping. Four names, four books, one observation. The market goes quiet before it goes somewhere. That sentence is…
Trader’s Library · Book Review The Disciplined Trader by Mark Douglas Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → Before Trading in the Zone made Mark Douglas the most quoted name in trading psychology, he wrote a stranger, denser,…
When Nvidia became, in July 2025, the most valuable company in the history of the world, crossing four trillion dollars on the back of the artificial-intelligence boom, the achievement was rightly celebrated as Nvidia’s. But Nvidia does not make a…
Most beginners pick a trading style by accident, copying whoever they happened to watch on YouTube. Then they wonder why it feels like a constant fight. The style was never matched to them. Choosing the right trading style is one…
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