Once anxiety extends its tendrils into the sportsman or woman's mind, the results can be disastrous. But what causes this choking under pressure? Now Daniel Gucciardi and James Dimmock have put forward ideas.

A year end review from WallStrip.

John Mauldin authors this white paper (PDF) about 'thinking outside the box.' James Montier is ...

Michael J. Mauboussin authors this white paper (PDF) on 'investment comparisons.'

The facts are these: (a) value is determined by the comparison of one thing with another; (b) there is more than one kind of ...

Download Brett Steenbarger's Overcoming Market Panic (PDF).

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An interesting excerpt to ponder:

Perfectionism can be a great help to people in many professions, but can be fatal to a trader. Perfectionists, always trying to find the Holy Grail of trading go from one service to another, from one system to another, looking for a way that they ...

A headline today from the Associated Press:

Oil prices zoomed higher Wednesday, touching a new high of $65 a barrel, with buyers focused on refinery snags, shrinking U.S. inventories of gasoline and motorists' growing thirst for fuel despite record-high costs.

I wonder ...

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your ...

The New York Times caught our attention today with a "feeling blue about the market" article (PDF).

The above article offers:

I'm shocked at the level of apathy - perhaps even pessimism - about the market, given the ...

Tom Peters' insights apply to trading too:

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