Name Your Greatest Trading Issue
Traders often cite external issues as their greatest impediments. Unfortunately they are looking in the wrong direction.
6 Steps to Stay Sane in an Insane World
The world is crazy, but then again, it always has been. Perhaps we feel it more acutely in our current era because we are so connected to everyone and everything, and because so many of the “digital town squares” that promised to bring us together and uplift us have sunken to the lowest common denominator…
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Do Groups Make Good Decisions?
I recently came across a statement made by Warren Buffett in a 1965 letter to his Partnership where he mentioned group decision making: “My perhaps jaundiced view is that it is close to impossible for outstanding management to come from a group of any size with all parties really participating in decisions.” This made me…
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Finding Resilience in the Thick of Disorder
Over the last few weeks, the situation in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, and the Western part of the state more broadly, has been hard to describe. On Friday, September 27, Hurricane Helene made landfall and wreaked havoc across the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nearly three weeks later, and justtoday my family got running water…
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Traders Are Just Passengers
A key to survival in markets is to surrender any notion of control that you might have. All too often traders think that they are by dent of their participation in a trade somehow in control of the trade. They also sadly think that the more indicators they put onto a chart the more control…
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Traders Biggest Issue
Tired of letting your emotions sabotage your trades? At Mind Over Markets, we delve deep into the psychology of trading with leading expert Louise Bedford, a 5x best-selling author. In this episode, we’ll explore the pitfalls of a fixed mindset, marked by avoidance of challenges, quick surrender to obstacles, and a tendency to make tasks…
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The Noise Factory
What will the Fed do next? How will conflict in the Middle East impact oil? What does a bout of stimulus mean for the Chinese Equity market? Is the US economy heading into a recession or reflation? Investors are trapped in a vortex of noise. More here – Behavioural Investment
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Investing Psychology Secrets with Louise Bedford
Luck in Trading Isn’t Just Luck—It’s All About Detail Detection! 💡 In my Conversations with Leaders series, with Josh Gilbert I dive into the psychology of successful investing and uncover why what we often term“luck” isn’t luck at all. It’s about having the mental agility to spot tiny nuances others miss. When you sharpen your…
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Whats Your Bias?
Our view of the world and all of our interactions with it are shaped by our perceptual filters. These filters are a function of our internal biases. Humans are a bias engine and the study of the nature of our biases has been a fertile field of study for psychologists. It has even been posited…
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