Trading Psychology Trading, Money & Mental Health Money. The very word is dripping in emotions, hopes, dreams and mental projections of "success". In a society that values money, even at the cost of values and morals in Josh Deats 8 Apr 2021 • 5 min read
Trading for a Living Trading on Shaky Foundations Before taking a trade, both new and experienced traders should take a long hard look at the foundations on which they trade. Josh Deats 12 Mar 2021 • 6 min read
Performance Psychology Regaining Control of Your Trading Focusing on what you can control as opposed to a state of fear is the only way to trade for the long run. Josh Deats 2 Mar 2021 • 6 min read
Personal Philosophy Books on Philosophy that Helped me Become a Better Trader I truly wish I stopped reading books about "Trading systems" and began reading Philosophy earlier. I think these are some great starting points. Josh Deats 1 Jan 2021 • 6 min read
Trading Psychology Dealing with Missed Trading Opportunities Just Because It's Simple, Doesn't Mean It's Easy"The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money Josh Deats 15 Dec 2020 • 10 min read
Performance Psychology 5 Ways to Simplify Your Trading, Reduce Stress and Increase Profit This Isn't the OfficeUnlike the outside world, trading itself should be a very simple, and repeatable task once "tuned in". This year I have really focused on separating the signal Josh Deats 14 Oct 2020 • 8 min read
Personal Philosophy Are You Trading the Wrong System for Your Personality? Square Peg Round HoleI am in the middle of a book by Brett Steenbarger, someone I originally wrote off as his book "The Psychology of Trading" seemed very theoretical and Josh Deats 22 Sep 2020 • 9 min read
Trading Resources Minervini Private Access: Is it Really Worth it? By Popular DemandI have to be honest, I was getting a little disheartened starting this blog and the only question people would ask would be about Mark Minervini, his Private Josh Deats 13 Jul 2020 • 9 min read
Performance Psychology Responding to a Stock Market Pullback Everything is Clear in HindsightDo you ever buy a 'sure fire' stock that you were certain is going to rocket but somehow pulls back the second you buy it? That Josh Deats 7 Jul 2020 • 10 min read
Trading Resources How a Trading Journal Changed my Trading and Life A Tale of Two TradersOf all the incoming questions I get through our blog, I seldom get inquiries about the actual process of trading. It's always about how much money Josh Deats 28 Jun 2020 • 10 min read
Getting Started Trading Pitfalls to Avoid (Part 1 of 2) Everything is Clear in HindsightI've been asked by a few of our friends to write-up about the perils and pitfalls of my early days in stock trading. Funnily enough, there Josh Deats 11 Jun 2020 • 8 min read
Getting Started Trading Pitfalls to Avoid (Part 2 of 2) Be Your Own CoachMoving on to part 2 of 3 in the series of "Trading Mistakes to Avoid" I soon realized that this could be an encyclopedia of mistakes that Josh Deats 3 Jun 2020 • 9 min read
Trading Psychology Mass Media and Trading Psychology A Sweeping StatementI always find it funny when someone goes onto social media .... to knock social media. And yet here we are. I don't have any major issues with the Josh Deats 8 May 2020 • 11 min read
Trading Psychology The Importance of Self-Reflection In Trading Psychology How Can we Know What we Don't KnowI was in the middle of writing an article on 'Simple Trading Patterns' and had to stop dead in my tracks. I am Josh Deats 1 May 2020 • 11 min read
Getting Started The Perils of Trading 'Gurus' and Signal Services If Everyone Knew so Much, Why Share?Over the last 10 years I have had my fair share of ups and downs in the markets. I've read hundreds of books Josh Deats 19 Jan 2020 • 9 min read
Trading Psychology The Ego - The Larger The Ego, the Lower the Profit The Ego - Your Worst EnemyWriting about the ego is tricky. Most notably because there is a real dichotomy between the advice I give, and how I act in actuality Josh Deats 17 Jan 2020 • 8 min read
Trading Resources Mark Minervini's Master Trader Program: An Honest Review Take it From a SkepticBefore I start this review of Mark Minvervini's Trading Course (Master Trader Program) I need to be perfectly clear: I struggle to spend money... education is Josh Deats 17 Oct 2019 • 9 min read
Trading Psychology True Trading Knowledge is Experiential The Illusion of Knowledge "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Unlike most endeavors we take on, trading is a little different. In Josh Deats 9 Jun 2019 • 11 min read
