I received a good question this week from a reader, Vladan: Adam, can you please talk in one of your podcasts about mental strength when it comes to discretionary trading and how to improve it.  I know it ultimately comes from conviction,

This episode takes a look at market intuition–a subject that is a bit difficult to talk about. In response to a number of reader questions, I share some concrete ideas for developing and expanding your own intuition.

Much of my work is focused on active trading and management, but this podcast takes a look at some important ideas and principles behind long-term investing–the secret of long-term investing, if you will. That secret is to usually do nothing,

This week’s podcast picks up where we left off last week, and looks at how to apply the lessons and ideas to your own development as a trader. These two podcasts are targeted at developing traders, or perhaps longer-term investors who want to learn to ...

For the beginning trader, here are some thoughts and ideas for the first steps of your journey. For a developing trader, or for the successful trader, here is an invitation to take a few steps back and look at everything with beginner's eyes.

Markets have been a bit volatile over the past few weeks, and the future is uncertain. For many investors, these moves can be troubling because it’s been many years since we’ve had a substantial decline–whether we do or do not from the current point (a...

Today, a few thoughts on how your memory works and how it is structured. I spend some time talking about a system called Anki in this episode. I know many of you will think it sounds impractical, hard to learn, or like a waste of time,

This episode picks up where we left off last week, and I share a technique for learning remembering anything you want to learn with nearly perfect recall. One thing is important: I go through an exercise in this episode in which I work through a list o...

Over the course of the next two or three podcasts, I want to share some tools and techniques I've been using to supercharge my learning. In my case, I've focused these tools on learning a spoken language (French), but these are powerful,

This podcast episode looks at trading around market extremes, Acts of God, and very large market moves. From market history, some examples might be 9/11, 1987, Fukushima, Katrina, etc. Today, Greece has the potential to lead to these types of moves and...