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The Phenomenon of Self-Sabotage in High-Performance Endeavours: A Focus on Trading

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate April 12, 2025

Self-sabotage is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals unconsciously hinder their own success. This behaviour is surprisingly prevalent in high-performance domains—athletics, entrepreneurship, the arts, and particularly trading. Despite possessing the necessary skills, knowledge, and resources, high performers often find themselves making decisions that are counterproductive, irrational, or destructive. In trading, where mental clarity, discipline, and…

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Risk with Room to Breathe: How an Abundance Mindset Transforms Risk-Taking

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate April 11, 2025

Risk-taking is the lifeblood of trading. Every entry is a calculated exposure to uncertainty, and every decision is an assertion of probability over certainty. However, how traders approach risk — whether with confidence, fear, or hesitation — is deeply influenced by their underlying mindset. This is where the abundance mindset becomes not just relevant but…

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Why Social Media Might Be Making You Slower

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate April 7, 2025

As headlines go, “Social Media is Bad” doesn’t raise many eyebrows these days. TikTok and its ilk are said to be harming mental health, stifling creativity, eroding privacy, fueling disinformation, undermining national security, and so on. These are all big issues worthy of careful debate. But there’s a narrower and more tangible risk that Sweat…

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Good Vibes Are Contagious

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 21, 2025

One of my favorite threads of research shows just how interconnected we humans are. Studies reveal that if you bear witness to someone else experiencing pain—whether it’s a someone close stubbing their toe, a person experiencing homelessness on a damp street corner, or a somber face in the waiting room of a hospital—you’re likely to…

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 20, 2025 1 Comment

Decades as an investor and trader on Wall Street have taught me that market panics come and go. Geopolitics, inflation and dire warnings, among other variables, can make a mess of things — and the ensuing volatility often fuels our urge to make a decision, any decision. Especially the bad kind. More here – Bloomberg

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The Narrative Battle

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate February 17, 2025 1 Comment

I have been working through Steve Magness’s book Win the Inside Game. Generally, these sorts of self-help books don’t do much for me since they all revolve around basic concepts that any adult who wants to move forward should already have on board. My somewhat harsh interpretation is if you have to get it from…

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Investing is Hard

Trading Psychology, Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 11, 2025

Imagine it’s ten years ago and you are assessing the relative merits of market cap weighted exposure to US equities and an equally weighted allocation. Across a range of valuation metrics you can see that the equal weighted index is moderately cheaper. As luck would have it you also have a crystal ball that tells…

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Make the Overwhelming Feel Routine

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate February 11, 2025

“It’s 10 pm, I’m going to bed,” is what I told the group of friends, teammates, and strangers who were gathered in our house for a get-together during college. It was a Friday night and I had a long run the next morning. For much of my time, I was a bit obsessive. I wanted…

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Ten Minutes With Tate That Sucked a Little Less

Charting, Commodities, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate January 18, 2025 1 Comment

It is that time of year when traders evaluate their performance in the previous year. In this video, I follow up on a video I posted in early 2024 that cast an eye over the less than stellar performance of one of my shorter-term systems. I look at what worked, what didn’t, and more importantly,…

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