*****One blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading is David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader. Below is his latest post for the SMB Trading Community. We hope you enjoy!***** — Editor’s Note Do traders manage risk or uncertainty? Is there a distinction between the two? Does it matter? When we … Read More
Confirmation Bias and Trading
******One blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading is David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader. Below is his latest post for the SMB Trading Community. We hope you enjoy!****** — Editor’s note — When it comes to trading, enhancing our performance inside the charts requires an awareness of various “outside the … Read More
Confirmation bias and the trading this week in SLV
From Ian Leslie in his blog why is reasoning really all about winning: It’s been shown again and again in studies that we have a very strong ‘confirmation bias’; once we have an idea about the world we like (Obama is un-American, my girlfriend is cheating on me, the world is or isn’t getting warmer) we pick up on evidence … Read More
Day Traders Switch It Up Like A Pro
Changing your biases in day trading is a hard necessity. Switching sides in a trade is a skill that every day trader must build. There are two distinct levels of this skill, novice and advanced. An up and coming young day trader Jerry, @TheArmoTrader, penned a nice blog post on switching sides: http://jerrykhachoyan.com/. Jerry did a great job switching sides … Read More