How many currency pairs should you follow at once?
A question that comes up again and again in training: how many currency pairs can you watch effectively? The answer: it depends on your personality, and on the…
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The mental side of trading, in plain language
Thoughts, experience and tools for traders: decision-making, discipline and self-awareness in the markets.
Motivational speakers and the crisis
I would not want to be a motivational speaker these days! We have an economic crisis, and a financial one, and a political one, and an emotional one,…
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The brave new algorithm
Who has not been banned from Facebook for something by now? A few years ago, whoever got a ban counted as special: they were confused, they were ashamed,…
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The secret of the fast but not hasty decision
Life sometimes forces us to decide quickly - quickly and well. What is the secret of good decisions made fast? The procedure.
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The repaired trader
Traders quickly realise that they have to change their habits if they want results. They give it a try, they fail - and the punishment arrives.
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The basis of a good decision
To understand how a trader can consistently make good decisions, we have to understand the mechanism of decision-making itself. The basis of a good decision is data.
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The only test of knowledge
David Dunning and Justin Kruger, researchers at Cornell University, first published their results in 1999, and they came as a serious shock to many. They summed up their…
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How do you outsmart the evil AI?
AI eats data and breathes data; humans do not. It follows that AI can control humans but humans cannot control AI. Apparently.
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Why does the same thing always happen to me?
It often happens that the same or a similar life situation forms, and in the end we always come out of it the same way. Let us use…
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How do you choose a strategy?
One of the first pieces of information a beginner trader meets is the winning strategy that will make all their dreams come true. That, of course, is only…
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Animal fables for traders - the lessons
Let us look at the lessons of the previous post, because there are plenty of them. What the stupid monkey, the mad pigeon and the cunning fish teach…
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Animal fables for traders
Is there a connection between human behaviour and "animal experiments"? A fable about the stupid monkey, the mad pigeon and the cunning fish.
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The Laundromat - through a trader’s eyes
The Laundromat is a 2019 American film available on Netflix. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas.
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Call of Duty and young traders
There is something Call of Duty teaches young people that serves them very well in trading. That something is tolerance for failure.
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The subconscious software
Have you noticed that for some reason people keep running the same laps over and over? Have you noticed that you do it too?
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Artificial intelligence: facts and myths
In the movies AI can do anything; in reality it can do far less. AI in the classical sense does not even exist yet.
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The trader coach
Observing ourselves is the hardest task there is. We are heavily biased about ourselves in one direction or another, which is why an expert outside observer can open…
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