I am finishing the week a bit early this week, have some review work scheduled. Anyway, it is NFP Friday, so stay safe. Here are some reading materials I have collected over the week, I thought might be valuable for traders’ development.

Never give up by Nick Vujicic: When you feel like giving up something, watch this clip — Never give up by Nick Vujicic – Tags: traders development – https://www.youtube.com/watch

Seven Things I Would Tell the Younger Me: Seven Things I Would Tell the Younger Me – by Jack Sparrow – Tags: traders development – http://www.mercenarytrader.com/2013/12/seven-things-i-would-tell-the-younger-me/

How To Be Right a Lot: “Jeff Bezos stopped by our office yesterday and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he spent about 45 minutes taking general Q&A from everyone at the office. “He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. – by Jack Sparrow – Tags: traders development – http://www.mercenarytrader.com/2012/10/how-to-be-right-a-lot/

Anxiety in Trading: Limiting Profitability by Micromanaging Trades: Old post, but a classic , worth reading again. One of the most common trading problems I see is what I call micromanaging trades: managing positions on a time frame that is shorter than the one utilized to conceptualize the trade. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/anxiety-in-trading-limiting.html

From Trading Goals to Trading Performance: What Makes Goals Work: One theme I’ve been stressing with traders early in this new year is that having goals isn’t enough to ensure success. It’s what you do with those goals that counts. Too often trading goals are like the resolutions at the start of the year: good intentions that never see concrete follow-through. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-trading-goals-to-trading.html

Getting Better at Getting Better: In the summer of 1976, Kermit Washington was in trouble. He was a power forward in the N.B.A., and had just finished his third season with the L.A. Lakers. – by Malcolm Gladwell, James Surowiecki – Tags: traders development – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time

9 Books That Malcolm Gladwell Thinks Everyone Should Read: Having sold more than 4.5 million books, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most popular authors alive today. – by STEVEN D. LEVITT, STEPHEN J. DUBNER – Tags: traders development – http://www.businessinsider.com.au/malcolm-gladwell-favorite-books-2014-11

How to Become a Peak Performance Trader: Thanks to Bella at SMB for pointing out this excellent article on getting better at getting better across multiple areas of performance. As the author of the article points out, “Today in sports, what you are is what you make yourself into. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/how-to-become-peak-performance-trader.html

The Business of Trading: This is an edited version of a special webinar that was held on Sunday, 2nd November, 2014. It was edited to remove references to others.Topics Covered include: – Why this is not your normal job.- Why having ‘perservance’ is not enough.- Why the law of attraction does not work.- Understanding how th – Tags: traders development – https://www.youtube.com/watch

Are Traders Dumber Than The Average Human Being?: When you listen to traders talking they throw around technical terms and sound really smart: VIX, implied volatility, DJIA Fractal match, XLV Call Ratio Spread, Adverse Excursion, intermarket analysis, Asset Swapped Convertible Option Transaction, Risk-Adjusted Return On Capital… – Tags: traders development – http://www.tradeciety.com/traders-lose-money/

: The webinar was on the topic of Tackling Discipline Issues and explored typical trading Mis-Behaviours, what is behind them, why will power alone is not enough for change, as well as what you should consider focusing on if you wishing to master yourself as a trader. – Tags: traders development – https://www.youtube.com/watch

Tony Robbins, The CEO Whisperer: “I own you!” Six thousand people—sales executives, marketing pros, software developers, me—are shouting those same three, potent words at a colleague or complete stranger standing next to them. Faces are contorted. Fingers are being jabbed. – by Brian O’Keefe – Tags: traders development – http://fortune.com/2014/10/30/tony-robbins-best-advice-executive-coach/

Successful People Vs. Unsuccessful People (The habits that differentiate them): We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle Your daily activities create your future. If you want a positive looking future, you have to plan to apply good habits in your every day life. – by Anthony Dejolde – Tags: traders development – http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/successful-people-unsuccessful-people-the-habits-that-differentiate-them.html

12 Trading Lessons From The Volatile Month Of October ZorTrades: The month of October was very volatile month that caught many or at least the people that I talk to by surprise. The SP500 closed the month up 2.3% after being down 7% by October 15, the COMPQ closed up 3.04%, it was down at one point 6.18%, the Russell 2000 went from being down 5. – by Frank Zorrilla – Tags: traders development – http://zortrades.com/12-trading-lessons-from-the-volatile-month-of-october/

12 Weekend Habits of Highly Successful People: I’ve read countless articles about what successful people do on their weekends. Do you want to know the secret? It’s the same thing that they do every other day. As Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – by Emma Rushton – Tags: traders development – http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/12-weekend-habits-highly-successful-people.html

How Experts Practice Better Than the Rest: My dad and I were standing in the front yard. Maybe that’s why I remember it. We typically practiced baseball in the backyard, but for some reason we were out front that day. I was around 9 years old and learning how to pitch. My dad was walking me through the basic mechanics. – by James Clear – Tags: traders development – http://jamesclear.com/deliberate-practice-strategy

10 Things From The Bible You Can Apply To Your Work: The Bible is one of the most important books in the world. It doesn’t matter if you’re religious or not; the impact it has had across the world makes it as much a historical document as a spiritual one. It even has some fringe benefits most people don’t know about. – by Matt OKeefe – Tags: traders development – http://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/10-things-from-the-bible-you-can-apply-your-work.html

Thinking out loud…I think.: Well, I’ve been extremely poor in updating my blog. There have been a number of reasons I could use for this, but the truth is procrastination is my middle name! After reading @red5trading blog http://lunchboxtrader.blogspot.co. – by curvededge – Tags: traders development – http://curvededge.wordpress.com/

Three Powerful Predictors of the Success of New Traders: I recently conducted my own mental survey: I identified the young traders I had seen grow into successful money managers with superior track records of risk-adjusted returns. I then asked myself how they achieved their success. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/three-powerful-predictors-of-success-of.html

How To Turn Evernote Into The Best Trading Plan Ever: How often have you found yourself flipping through timeframes of the same instruments time and time again without really knowing what you were looking for!? And how many times did you identify a potentially good setup but then forgot about it just to see that it played out exactly as you thought i – Tags: traders development – http://www.tradeciety.com/create-your-trading-plan-template/

Enjoy, and have a good weekend.

Keep Learning, Keep Trading.

Gav

I have a habit of saving good links into my getpocket apps, and read them over the weekend. I thought I would share those links here once or twice a week or so, for those who are looking for traders development materials.

This is the first post, so there might be some old links included, but these are the articles that I thought worth reading.

Have a good weekend.

Keep learning, Keep trading.

Success in Trading: Why Mindset Matters: Psychologist Carol Dweck makes an important distinction between fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. When we praise a child’s fixed qualities, we anchor their self-concepts to those qualities and, ironically, create a less resilient set of behaviors going forward . – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/success-in-trading-why-mindset-matters.html

The Pro’s Process – David Blair: The third in my series of posts asking Pro Traders about their psychological processes.  Delving a little into how it feels to them when trading.  The good and the bad.  How this has changed over time and what preparation they do mentally for performing as a trader. – Tags: traders development – http://embracethetrend.com/post/24879780796/prodavidblair

Cultivating Self-Control by Enhancing Working Memory: Traders are known to complain that they formulate sound and detailed trading plans and then fail to follow through on those plans once markets are moving. Typically, this problem is attributed to emotional interference and/or a lack of discipline. – by Enhancing Working Memory – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/cultivating-self-control-by-enhancing.html

8 Things To Learn From Japan’s Biggest Day Trader ZorTrades: Bloomberg did a small profile on a Japanese day trader who made 6 billion yen last year and pretty much started from scratch to build a small fortune, it sounds a lot like the Dan Zanger story. – by Frank Zorrilla – Tags: traders development – http://zortrades.com/8-things-to-learn-from-japans-biggest-day-trader/

6 Ways To Develop The Self-Discipline Necessary To Reach Your Goals: You hear people say things like, “I don’t have the willpower to do that,” as they watch their friend order the salad instead of the fried chicken. – Tags: traders development – http://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2014/10/03/6-ways-to-develop-the-self-discipline-necessary-to-reach-your-goals/

Ten Things Your Trading Track Record Says About You: Having spent a number of years in recruitment roles at trading firms, I’m accustomed to seeing trading track records. A track record is a bit like a college applicant’s SAT score: it doesn’t guarantee you admission, but it gets you in the door for a look. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/ten-things-your-trading-track-record.html

Creating a Training Program for Happiness: Ah, yes, too often traders put the key to happiness in the market’s pocket, ensuring that their mood will fluctuate with prices. That is a vulnerable state, and not one conducive to peak performance. When we refer to happiness, we’re not talking about living life with a perpetual grin. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/creating-training-program-for-happiness.html

How to Put an End to Inconsistent Trading: A core Trading Frustration in the SMBU Community is a lack of consistency with their trading. In this video below Steve Spencer and I offer some solutions to improve your trading consistency. The search for consistency is a differentiator between pro and developing trader. – by admin – Tags: traders development – http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/how-to-put-an-end-to-inconsistent-trading

Making Trading Serve Your Life and Not the Reverse: Josh Brown asks some pointed questions about the time we have left and how we want to use it. Building on Josh’s post, Abnormal Returns raises an important point: our trading and investment returns are meant to be funding the things important to our lives. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/making-trading-serve-your-life-and-not.html

Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Your Life: One of my favorite quotes is from Nietzsche: “Under peaceful conditions, a warlike man sets upon himself.” In other words, when life becomes comfortable, that’s when it’s time to think about pushing boundaries and taking on worthy challenges. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/three-things-you-can-do-right-now-to.html

Most entrepreneurs aren’t born that way – Quartz: Are entrepreneurs born or made? New research by Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Kathryn Shaw adds to the evidence on the “made’’ side of the column. The research, which examined records of 2. – by Elizabeth MacBride – Tags: traders development – http://qz.com/287818/most-entrepreneurs-arent-born-that-way/

8 Common Habits That Destroy Your Success: Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. We do things intentionally or subconsciously that impede rather than advance our success. The first step in eliminating these destructive behaviors is acknowledging them. Here are eight of the most egregious: – by William Arruda – Tags: traders development – http://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2014/10/26/8-common-habits-that-destroy-your-success

Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money: Tony Robbins is the world’s most famous performance coach. He’s advised everyone from Bill Clinton to Serena Williams, and from Leonardo DiCaprio to Oprah (who calls him “superhuman”). – by Tim Ferriss – Tags: traders development – http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/10/15/money-master-the-game/

Want to make it as a trader?: This musing on intraday trading may come off as a bit harsh and simplistic, but I think subconsciously maybe that is what I intended when I decided to pen this piece (initially as an email to a few traders friends). Here’s the premise for this piece:  trading is “blue collar” work. – by Bella – Tags: traders development – http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/want-to-make-it-as-a-trader

E-book: Principles – by Ray Dalio – Tags: book, traders development – http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf