My son is 11 years old and has been in the “Why?” stage for about 10 years.  Even if you’re not a parent, I know you’ve experienced, or heard of, the “Why?” stage of development.  Children ask “Why?” at everything…when I say everything…I’m NOT speaking in hyperbole…I mean EVER-Y-THING. “Time for dinner, come eat!!” “Why?” [...]

As most of you know by now, I had some computer problems earlier this week and I was forced to recreate my charts and tools as a result. It was actually a fun reminder of all the neat gadgets and tools available to me in trading.  Oscillators I used to have fun testing, like the [...]

I love to read and I love to write.  Lately, I have been toying with a few different ideas for a novel and am bouncing between the protagonists in each in my head to decide which one I’d rather spend all that time with.  That idea got me thinking about life.  First my life…then my [...]

I came across this article a while back in Forbes, “The Power of Personal Passion.” It is a list of lessons for the Entrepreneur.  In short, 1)  Do Something You Love, 2)  Don’t be Afraid to Show it, 3)  Hire for Passion and Curiosity and 4)  The Power of Story (namely yours).  It’s a good [...]

I spend a lot of time talking to you about all the things you can do to plan a trade, execute the plan, record the experience and review your results.  I spend a lot of time writing about the fundamentals that matter to me and my view of the global marketplace.  I spend even more [...]

Last week I wrote a piece called “Judging Intuition’s Place” where I talked about how to identify when our intuition is really working for us or against us.  I also discussed how that intuition is formed over time and with experience. That little article sparked some good, healthy debate with some of you.  I’m so [...]

I got an email from a student this week asking about using intuition in trading.  He gave an example where using intuition worked in his favor (by keeping him out of trade that signaled then lost), but then wondered if that is really a good idea. One of the reasons I recommend SO much backtesting [...]

Last week I talked about the importance of really understanding what it is you want.   I wrote about the importance of nailing down what you want; not just out of your trading, but what you want out of your life. This week I want to make an important distinction that could have easily been missed [...]

I don’t know if it is an age and stage thing, or what, but I seem to have a lot of similar discussions with the people around me about evaluating where they are in life versus where they want to go.  My first question is always, “Well, what do you want?”  The response I usually [...]

I read an interesting piece by Sebastian Siegel recently that while it seems a bit contrived in its poetry and somewhat meandering in its structure did have a couple things to say about Consciousness and Intuition that I thought were intriguing.  He says, “Intuition is the pull of something beyond you, deeper than you, subtle [...]