Published in October 4th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: We Trade Our Beliefs
One of the most lessons I learned about trading came from a philosopher and not a trader, Ayn Rand. Nathaniel Branden in his NBI series of lectures on Objectivism once said something like this: There is an external reality but our reality is the ‘out there as seen by the […]
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Published in September 20th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: One Step At A Time
“I no longer use actual physical doors or gates to symbolize each transition in my life. When I reread years of diary entries while writing this book, a clear pattern emerged. Each door or gate enabled me to move on to the next level. My life was a series […]
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Published in September 7th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: Neurology and Success
I find the news coming from the research fascinating.
For example: when we speak about discipline and self-control, we tend to think it as a constant application across time and matters and as a matter of will.
But, the research shows that discipline and self-control varies across matters and time. This means that […]
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Published in June 17th, 2011
Cross ref:
Now is Now!
My sweet friend always keeps me in the loop whenever she has some goodies to share and this is one such bonus from Janice. Thank you, Janice, you are an angel.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, and find your eternity in each moment…Henry David Thoreau
How […]
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Published in June 6th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Winning Mindset
It’s been an interesting period for the market:
The S&P appears to be on the cusp of resolving its choppy price action that has been with us since Feb 2011. And because the markets I trade are either directly or inversely correlated with US Stocks, they too have been choppy to a […]
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Published in May 17th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: The Habit of Process (In Attaining Your Trading Dreams)
Last night, probably for the last time (at least for the next 3 or so months), I met with some members of the March 2011 class. I started the session with an observation that
‘Process’ is important in our quest to attain our trading dreams and
We […]
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Published in April 19th, 2011
As one of the HOS students will be going abroad for some time, the topic for this week has been brought forward so that he can go over this most important topic, one of the functions of the success equation on trading.
To recap:
Plan 10% x Money Management 30% x Winning Psychology 60% […]
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Published in February 14th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: Winning Psychology
This is a huge area. Dr Brett Steenbarger devoted his excellent blog to this subject for many years; Denise Shull and Nazy Massoud have excellent courses devoted to it. Clearly, I shall be unable to give D a comprehensive answer to his question.
And when I did a mindmap for this blog, the […]
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Published in February 2nd, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Game of Pretence
Let’s play a game of pretence: let’s pretend we went short the AUDUSD and on being stopped out, we wanted to go long but decided not to; and let’s pretend we also wanted to go short the S&P and decided not to.
Now yesterday, the AUDUSD had one of the largest […]
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Published in January 26th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: Tracking The Quality of Our Trades
In the comments section today, D asked how do I track the quality of my trades.
My answer…
I keep two types of journals:
a qualitative journal - my ‘psyche’ journal. This journal has 3 aims:
to identify patterns of success and failure in my qualitative environment. For example, if I have […]
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