A worthwhile blog post written by Richard Friesen describes what happens to traders when their brains downshift into flight or fight responses. In the post, he suggests a breathing and visualization exercise to achieve control of both body and mind. ...

* Traders often don't succeed, because their processing of market information does not play to their strengths; * A good look at the dollar carry trade; * The correlation between equities and gold and other good reading; * Interview with Jim...

One of the most common questions I get from traders is how to deal with the stress of work. Here are some posts that might get you started; I'll follow up with a post on the topic this weekend: * Using Biofeedback to Help Trading Performance * A...

Here is the day's trade in the ES futures, with each bar representing 50,000 contracts traded. I find this to be a useful perspective on markets for several reasons: 1) The bars draw faster in busy market periods and slower in low volume periods. ...

Here's an update to this morning's chart. You can see that we've neither taken out the overnight lows nor sustained an upmove into yesterday's range. Rather, we're trading within the overnight range as trade slows down ahead of a holiday. A nice...