Recent content by 25grand

Yes, I recently revisited this site after being gone for a few years so I remember him. I am still interested in hearing from traders who have used NLP to improve their P&L and found it to work over any valuable length of time. Feel free to send me PM if that works better for anyone.

Figure out what you are really feeling - write it down - and then see what feeling comes up next. Write it down. Keep that up until you get to a feeling that you felt before - in high school or grade school. Embrace that feeling - not as reality - but as an old feeling you have left over...

He presumed I was asking for myself for one. I was asking because in addition to my own scalping in the mind-dow and trading FX, I use my background in neuropsychology and psychoanalysis to work with traders on their psychology. I know that there are lots of coaches out there who use NLP...

Knutson and Peterson at Stanford ... Games and Economic Theory August 2005 SFO Dec 2004. Davidson is a neuroscientist at Univ WI. Lots of neuroscience now is about how our emotions impact us - consciously or unconsciously. The trick for traders is to make their unconscious...

SFO mag published an article called "Freud's paths to profits" in Dec 2005. It was about applying the ideas of the unconscious to trading.

oh yes ...Damasio is also good. Although he is talking about neuroeconomics but I am not sure how much research he as done. He is a neuroscientist at the Univ of Iowa - try "The Feeling of What Happens" ... you can buy it on Amazon. Once I find the Stanford guys full names I will post...

Andrew Lo, Richards at Stanford, Brett Steenbarger... to name a few.

Amazing... I have posted three posts and you assume to know me and what I am doing and why I ask. Let's just say that your assumptions are incorrect.

Analyzing their trading with a journal, knowing in advance when the fear is going to pop up and expecting it. ... Gives you the ability to feel it when it happens and when you feel it, you can take action over it. It is unrecognized feelings - and their energy - that take control of our...

...but hey, if applying some version of NLP has increased your bottom line.... more power to you.

Can NLP techniques truly lead anyone to fundamental change in the way they behave? By this I mean, can it cure people of taking impulsive trades? I would consider the answer to be yes if someone were - through NLP - able to follow better than 90% of their trading rules for more than 90 days...

I can see the ideas working in the short term - and maybe that is why someone said they are good for trading but not much else. I just have a hard time believing that these types of techniques really change anyone - or anyone's behavior - over the long term. Tell me if I am wrong.