Stage 5: Routines

Look around you. Anywhere you see the pursuit of excellence happening, you discover the same set of recurring universal truths. Great athletes make greatness look effortless. Great traders make trading seem natural. The fact is that those who’ve achieved mastery make greatness look easy.

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Tensile Trading: Stage #5 The Stairway to Reproducing Profits - Routines Look around you. Anywhere you see the pursuit of excellence happening, you discover the same set of recurring...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: The First 3 Hours I’ve known a lot of great traders. Yes, they are out there. Some eventually became money managers, and...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader - Redux Some people meticulously prepare and perfectly execute a mountain ascent, catching the significance of both the...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: Part III 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (NYC Time) I actually wear my office during the trading hours. “All work is social,” claims Larry Prusak, director of...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: The Midday Pause Inevitably, there comes a time during the trading day or the trading week that I ask myself, “why am I doing...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader 1:00 - 2:30 PM (NYC Time) Some battles you stay and fight. Others you best walk away from. This is the part of my day when I...

A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: The Last 90 Minutes The last trading hour in the markets is like “The Hour of Power” television show. It matters! The last...

Investing Routines: A Pillar of Any Successful Program Ever drive a bumper car at an amusement park? Remember how the bumper car headed off in one direction until it...

How Two Investors Warm-up Before Executing Any Trade Recently, I had a very personal conversation with my fellow trader, Harvey Baraban. I asked him what he did to...

Personal Productivity & Routines Have you heard the famous cliché about discipline? “You’ve got to do what you have to do before you can do...

A Trader's Discipline: How I Stay the Course Investors don’t always have the discipline to act like a Nike ‘Just do it’ advertisement.

The Secret Of Success Is... When I was a graduate student in business school, I had the privilege and good fortune of watching John Elway play...

Your Money Tree: The Tree of Color Most people call it Technical Analysis, but I prefer to think of it as “Visual Analysis”. Picture it as a tree with...

Powerful Parallels Yield Insights into Top Traders & Top Salespersons Knowing how top salespeople convert suspects into prospects into clients yields powerful insights as to how top...

How to be a Successful Investor Over All 12 Months Mark Twain once commented on the celebration of New Year’s and said something to this effect: Last week...

Staying Atop the Market The stock market is always one step ahead of you. The sooner you accept this fact, the better for your trading...

Compare Your Traders Journal to Mine I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours! What were you thinking? We are talking journals here...

Unique Insights From Dinner With An $8 Billion Investor I had the pleasure of having dinner with a mutual fund portfolio manager who manages over $8 Billion and who has the...

How Not to Lose Sight of the Forest (the Market) by Focusing on the Trees (Individual Equities) Have any of you ever found yourselves so overly focused on your individual positions that you are missing the...

You Said It Fred: A Leading VC On The Value Of Routines, Plus An Overview Of My Weekly Checklist Anytime I hear a successful, well-respected figure mention the importance of routines, my ears perk up. ...