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Understand behavioral science and psychology to boost your consistency and results!

Trading Psychology

Understand behavioral science and psychology to boost your consistency and results!

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Spencer Li

Overconfidence Bias in Trading – How Can I Ever Be Wrong?

Trading Psychology
The overconfidence bias - behavioural finance

Overconfidence bias is unwarranted faith in your own judgment, the gap between how good you think your calls are and how good they are. Here is the fix.

29 Apr 2021Read the guide ›

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The Cheetah and the Trader: How to Go for the Easy Trades and Skip the Hard Ones

Trading Psychology
Trade like a cheetah - trading psychology

A cheetah fails about 3 hunts in 4, even when it picks its prey. What wild cheetah data teaches a trader about waiting for the easy setups.

25 Sep 2012Read the guide ›

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Maslow’s Hierarchy and Self-Actualization in Trading: Why Getting Better Means Doing Less

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Maslow's pyramid for traders - trading psychology

Self-actualization is the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. What Maslow really wrote, what the pyramid gets wrong, and why a trader grows by cutting.

3 Aug 2012Read the guide ›

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Spencer Li

Trading Self-Reflection: The Art of Losing

Trading Psychology
The art of losing well - trading psychology

Losing trades are part of trading because outcomes are probabilistic. Why a day that ended in a small loss still counted as a win for this trader.

31 Jul 2012Read the guide ›

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Regret Aversion Bias – Would You Rather Be Right, or Avoid Being Wrong?

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Regret aversion bias - behavioural finance

Regret aversion bias is the urge to avoid a decision that may look wrong in hindsight, so you do nothing. How it shows up in trading and how to beat…

28 May 2012Read the guide ›

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