Brett Steenbarger
One of the joys of blogging about trading is the opportunity to discover interesting people doing worthwhile research...
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Brett Steenbarger
Not all movement is opportunity, but you can't have opportunity without movement.
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Brett Steenbarger
This stock pretty much tripled in price, retraced, and now is knocking at the door of all-time highs.
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Brett Steenbarger
Blogging has become an important source of publishing, owing to its timeliness and ready availability.
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Brett Steenbarger
There is a tremendous latent interest in the trading world to learn more about how professional traders assess supply and demand in real time.
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Brett Steenbarger
Doing what comes naturally is not what makes you money as a trader.
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Brett Steenbarger
Trading has taught me much more than patterns of supply and demand.
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Brett Steenbarger
One of the things I try to emphasize to traders is that many minutes and hours of preparation can go into a single good trade idea.
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Brett Steenbarger
Once a trader forms an opinion, he or she is more likely to overweight information consistent with this view than information that is contradictory.
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Brett Steenbarger
Here's a favorite technique of mine that helps me track the short-term trending (or non-trending) of the ES market.
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Brett Steenbarger
In the early portion of the recent bull market, there was net buying during the last hour of trading. Since 2005, we have seen net selling in the final hour.
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Brett Steenbarger
If your setups are valid, there are only two kinds of trades...
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Brett Steenbarger
Science, properly executed, is a blending of the creative and the rigorous.
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Brett Steenbarger
Average traders change when they need to. Great traders, like great companies, seek improvement before things have gone wrong.
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Brett Steenbarger
I have personally worked with a number of traders who have made one million dollars or more in a year for multiple years.
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Brett Steenbarger
If we know what to expect in a market day, it provides us with a yardstick by which to measure the trading session.
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Brett Steenbarger
Semiconductor stocks (SOX) have been weak of late...
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Brett Steenbarger
Most market indicators identify the presence of a particular market condition...
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Brett Steenbarger
Blogging has grown wildly in popularity over the past several years, with over 50 million blogs registered.
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Brett Steenbarger
When traders lose money, they often attribute the problem to a lapse of discipline.
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Brett Steenbarger
I've found it worthwhile to track herd-like behavior in the S&P 500 Index...
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Brett and Devon Steenbarger
It isn't everyday that the market gives you a textbook pattern...
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Brett Steenbarger
How important is stock selection to overall investment performance?
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Brett Steenbarger
The number of traders who seek expert results is great; the number who are actually pursuing a developmental path toward expertise is relatively small.
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Brett Steenbarger
Ability to take heat. Risk management. Patience and selectivity in trading.
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Brett Steenbarger
Here's a nice trade that set up on Wednesday morning.
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Brett Steenbarger
The explosion of ETFs has offered traders--quite literally--a world of trading markets.
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Brett Steenbarger
What market theme is most important going forward?
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Brett Steenbarger
When sectors are moving in unison, near-term results are bullish.
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Brett Steenbarger
Do traders behave differently from gamblers? Research suggests not.
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Brett Steenbarger
The recent market volatility has taken some traders by surprise.
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Brett Steenbarger
Rather than use the raw values for indicators to gauge the market, it makes more sense to compare the current values to a recent norm.
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Brett Steenbarger
A 2.5% drop in a high volatility market may be a much more routine event--and elicit a far more moderate response--than a 2.5% drop in a low volatility market.
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Brett Steenbarger
Let's take a look at the market action leading up to Thursday's drop...
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Brett Steenbarger
Here's a historical look at what happens to the Dow after it has risen for five straight weeks.
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Brett Steenbarger
The Dow has made bull market highs this week, so I thought it might be worth looking at the big picture to see where we stand.
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Brett Steenbarger
Traders are accustomed to viewing option volume through the lens of put/call ratios.
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Brett Steenbarger
Thanks to last Friday's gain of over 5% on 1.8 times average 20-day volume, Google was on my watch list.
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Brett Steenbarger
Markets possess themes, and deciphering them can prove quite profitable...
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Brett Steenbarger
The overlap between trading and psychology is complex.
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Brett Steenbarger
What a difference a denominator makes.
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Brett Steenbarger and Adam Mann
The best psychological treatment aligns psychological risk--the risk we perceive--with actual market risk.
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Brett Steenbarger and Adam Mann
Once we have a profit in a trade, we have something to lose...
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Brett Steenbarger
Current volume and volatility are correlated with future movement.
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Brett Steenbarger
One of my favorite ways of informally testing the value of an indicator is to check its predictive performance...
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Brett Steenbarger
Here are a dozen new observations...
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Brett Steenbarger
Since 2003, we have seen such counter trending after periods ranging from five hours to five weeks.
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Brett Steenbarger
Short-term moves in the S&P tended to reverse direction rather than continue...
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Brett Steenbarger
Many market relationships are interactions and not main effects...
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Brett Steenbarger
Are you better off trading FX or the S&P 500? Here's what my latest research suggests...
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Brett Steenbarger
Every market has its personality, and that personality is defined by two traits...
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Brett Steenbarger
September, 2001 was a historic occasion for the stock market, but not for the obvious reason.
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Brett Steenbarger
Judging from my email inbox and the traders I know personally, 2006 has not been a kind year so far.
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Brett Steenbarger
Is the stock market is responding less favorably to rising rates than during the days we were worried about deflation.
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Brett Steenbarger
I wanted to see the odds of the market making its daily high or low during the first and last hour of trade.
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Brett Steenbarger
What makes highly successful traders different from others?
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Brett Steenbarger
Might there be lead-lag relationships between U.S. indexes and those of other nations?
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Brett Steenbarger
3 things that matter to trader performance: Strategy, Tactics and Mechanics.
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Brett Steenbarger
...it is clear that the bull market has been becoming a more selective affair over time.
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Brett Steenbarger
I have begun investigating the equity put/call ratio...
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Brett Steenbarger
One of the joys of market research is the opportunity to discover new and interesting relationships...
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Brett Steenbarger
I've been examining the role of breadth and momentum in the continuation and reversal of market rises and declines...
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Brett Steenbarger
The role of a good psychologist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable...
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Brett Steenbarger
Do big upward moves in the Russell lead to bullish short-term returns in the S&P?
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Brett Steenbarger
Few stocks of late have commanded as much attention as Google...
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Brett Steenbarger
I spent time over the weekend investigating historical precedents for the action we've been seeing...
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Brett Steenbarger
For short term traders, volatility is one measure of potential opportunity.
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Brett Steenbarger
I began taking a close look at the relationship between the performance of the S&P500 and corporate bonds...
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Brett Steenbarger
Monday's market was notable for the fact that we registered 1432 new 65-day highs...
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Brett Steenbarger
Several elements of brief therapies are helpful to traders seeking change...
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Brett Steenbarger
In the first article in this series, we took a look at how the loss of perceived control underlies most emotional problems.
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Brett Steenbarger
The last couple of end-of-year periods I've noticed something interesting...
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Brett Steenbarger
Brett Steenbarger
Is it worth trading the final week between the Christmas and New Year's holidays?
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Brett Steenbarger
Perhaps it would surprise you to learn that we are tightly range bound to a recently unprecedented degree.
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Brett Steenbarger
Readers of my columns and website know that the NYSE TICK is one of my favorite market measures.
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Brett Steenbarger
On a day-to-day basis, the small caps seem to influence large cap performance...
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Brett Steenbarger
December's Fed meeting could still hold the promise of surprise if there is a change in wording or policy...
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Brett Steenbarger
My research suggests that what you trade may be every bit as important to profitability as how you trade.
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Brett Steenbarger
On the surface of it, NASDAQ trading--and trading the tech stocks specifically--is the best it's been in years...
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Brett Steenbarger
It sounds very impressive if the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 80 points with advancers leading decliners by a 2:1 margin...
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Brett Steenbarger
A lot has been out of place in the recent market...
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Brett Steenbarger
Should we be trend followers going forward, or is the market overbought and ripe for decline?
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Brett Steenbarger
The majority of trading advice in articles and books emphasize how traders should trade. Rarely do we see serious consideration to what traders should trade.
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Brett Steenbarger
Good research provides useful answers, but the best research asks promising questions.
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Brett Steenbarger
So is the news too good to be true? Is this March, 2000 or are we still prepared to party like it's 1999?
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Brett Steenbarger
Seeing the market in terms of meaningful patterns makes it easier to generate trade ideas...
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Brett Steenbarger
Opening volume provides a meaningful clue as to volatility.
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Brett Steenbarger
On Thursday we saw the S&P 500 make a four-day low early in the trading session and then rally sharply to make (and close at) a multi-day high.
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Brett Steenbarger
A large body of research examines skilled performance in various fields by comparing experts with novices...
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Brett Steenbarger
Like poker players who know their opponents and their odds, great traders have a feel for the market—and a head for the facts.
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Brett Steenbarger
My research suggests that breakout moves are more likely to continue their breakout direction if the broad market participates...
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Brett Steenbarger
One of the themes I touched upon in the session was the importance of pattern recognition to trading success...
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Brett Steenbarger
The NYSE TICK was displaying net buying interest and price extremes tend to occur early and late in the day...
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Brett Steenbarger
Many traders are aware of behavior patterns that consistently lose them money and can't understand why they repeat these patterns despite their awareness.
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Brett Steenbarger
How do you cope with the risk and uncertainty that are built into markets, and are you coping effectively?
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Brett Steenbarger
When I am trading poorly, I stop observing the market...
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Brett Steenbarger
Over the past four weeks, the cumulative number of declining stocks has exceeded advancers by over 3000 issues.
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Brett Steenbarger
When I came on board at a professional trading firm, I made sure the new traders had a realistic platform for simulated trading...
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Brett Steenbarger
This is one of my shortest articles, and it may be one of my most important.
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Brett Steenbarger
I recently conducted some research on mean reversion, examining market data in SPY...
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Brett Steenbarger
I looked for signs of vigorous buying among Dow Industrial issues during the first few minutes of the trade. There were none.
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Brett Steenbarger
What happens when intermediate-term new lows greatly exceed new highs?
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Brett Steenbarger
There is no better sentiment measure in the short run than the willingness of market participants to hit bids or lift offers.
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Brett Steenbarger
You don't need to be a genius to figure out that a market that cannot trade above its average price and is not attracting net buying participation is not ready for its green light.
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Brett Steenbarger & Henry Carstens
After Tuesday's down market, Henry now has a green light for the S&P 500 that extends from Tuesday's close through the second profitable close or Wednesday afternoon
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Brett Steenbarger
In my research, the correlation between intraday volume and volatility is well over .70. That means that slow volume generally denotes a narrow trading day.
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Brett Steenbarger
As a trading psychologist, I am vitally concerned with the ways in which we process information...
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Brett Steenbarger
A reader recently asked my opinion regarding the most valuable market indicator. Without hesitation I responded, "Whether volume is occurring at the market's bid or offer price."
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Brett Steenbarger
We're looking to open higher this AM on the heels of strength in the Euro markets. I looked at upward gap opens in SPY from 11/02 - present (N = 698)...
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Brett Steenbarger
The goal of statistical analysis is to prepare the mind for moves that have tended to occur in the past. Such analyses function as a heads-up for traders...
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Brett Steenbarger
As a discretionary trader who nonetheless utilizes statistical work to gain an edge, I will be looking for sell setups intraday, all else being equal...
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Brett Steenbarger
The key to understanding intermarket analysis...
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Brett Steenbarger
Most short-term traders monitor price and volume, but a surprising number aren't aware of who is in the marketplace at a given time...
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Brett Steenbarger
I have found the greatest benefit of sound and light technology in two trading psychology applications...
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Brett Steenbarger
Buying multi-year strength has made investors money only during secular bull times, but buying multi-year weakness has consistently rewarded investors willing to take risks.
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Brett Steenbarger
Most traders have experienced that sense of being "in the zone" where they feel as though they are at one with the markets...
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Brett Steenbarger
Find Out About The Market's Multiple Personality Disorder
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Brett Steenbarger
Most independent traders have to make do with self-help and networking with peers. However, I am willing to be a kind of consulting psychologist for TradingMarkets.com readers...
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Brett Steenbarger
In Part II of his
When To Stop Trading series, Brett Steenberger teaches you a lesson that every trader can learn from successful poker players.
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Brett Steenbarger
The correlation between stocks and bonds is worth keeping in mind as the market deciphers the intentions of the Fed.
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Brett Steenbarger
The key ingredient in reaching your goals is having a target and keeping it in focus at all times. The trading journal, in serving as a daily business plan, provides just such a target.
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Brett Steenbarger
It makes no sense to be seeking 2-3 tick profits when the market is unlikely to move 2-3 ticks during his time frame
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Brett Steenbarger
We are, indeed, in a period of historically low volatility.
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