:: the other side ::

:: The Other Side of Trading
I'm excited to make the first entry in this journal, which I am calling The Other Side, a reprise of the series I wrote on the role emotions play in trading. The other side of trading, the non-technical, will be the focus here.

One quirk of blogs is that entries show up in reverse order. If you missed reading the series before, here it is, in order, moved from the market comments page to The Other Side.

Waves: Ride the Market or Ride your Emotions, You Decide Traders with extremely intense emotions had the worst overall trading performance, researchers found.

Traders are From Mars How do you recognize emotion? What is an emotion anyway?

Emotions, Can't Live without Them, Can't Trade with Them Emotions add zest to life, but when they overpower our intentions, emotions can leave a destructive path we usually chalk up to "life's tuition".

Emotional Stop and Reverse Sensing an emotion rising, you stop not the emotion, but your reaction to the emotion, and in the process reverse the destructive pattern.

Emotional Freedom Managing your emotions won't make you a better trader. But it will help clear the fog so that you can evaluate your methods and performance as a trader from a position of clarity.

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