Master the mental game — emotions, discipline, mindset and cognitive biases that determine trading success.
EP13 · The Trader’s Physical Edge The Trading Week Architecture Build a week that compounds. Not a week that grinds. Pillar 5 of 5 · ENVIRONMENT Most retail traders treat the trading week as a five-day grind with a weekend…
Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog principle, ABCDE prioritisation, and goal-setting framework transform chaotic trading into structured professional practice. Do the hard preparation first, eliminate low-impact activities, and let the discipline compound.
Every blown account has a belief underneath it, and it is usually this one: the idea that the market should give something back. Back the losses, back the time, back the effort. Traders rarely say it out loud. It shows…
Ray Dalio is quoted in more trading journals than almost any writer who has never published a trading book. Principles is not about entries, stops or setups. It is a 592-page operating manual for making decisions when you do not…
Trader’s Library · Head to Head Market Wizards vs Market Wizards: The Next Generation Jack Schwager, 1989 and 2026 · Thirty-seven years apart · Same question, different traders Market Wizards Jack D. Schwager · 1989 · 9.0/10 Get it on…
Trader’s Library · Head to Head Trading in the Zone vs The Disciplined Trader Both by Mark Douglas · Ten years apart · One of them is the wrong place to start Trading in the Zone Mark Douglas · 2000…
Trader’s Library · Book Review The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → Most money books try to make you smarter. Morgan Housel wrote one that tries to make you behave. The…
The first year of trading is not where you get rich. It is where you either build the habits that let you survive, or learn the expensive way why most people quit. The traps are predictable. That makes them avoidable.…
You had a very good month. The system clicked, the reads were clean, and something changed in how you see the market. Next month will be worse. Not because you will do anything wrong. Because the month you just had…
EP12 · The Trader’s Physical Edge The Social Environment You are the average of the traders around you. Audit the average. Pillar 5 of 5 · ENVIRONMENT A trader takes a six-figure loss on a Tuesday afternoon. The trade was…
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…
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