Trader Psyches thinks about thinking – particularly about risk decision making and market and trading psychology. Read about our Social Markets Hypothesis here in CME Group’s Spring/Summer Magazine.

Conventional wisdom says that statistics and a trading strategy are all that matter. Yet the social system of markets also demands qualitative data be factored into market judgments – particularly in times of volatility. When perceptions can’t automatically be trusted but simultaneously play a pivotal role in all risk decision making, what can you do?

ANSWER? Adopt the idea of Psychological Capital and learn the principles of advanced trading psychology.

Leading Edge Trading Psychology – BM

I am becoming more of a convert every day - BH

1. Get familiar by Subscribing to Psychological Capital Tricks & Tips.

2. Unravel the mysteries of confidence, fear and giving it back with our e-learning course Access your Psychological Capital.

“It is fascinating and intimidating at first pass but makes SO much sense once some of the layers of the onion begin to peel off.” BG

You keep on adding value to your program – which is nothing short of unbelievable. MW

3. Talk to us on the Psych Cap blog.

Denise Shull, CME trader and M.A. graduate of The University of Chicago along with Eugene Kalin, Ph.D., offer an impressive pedigree in trading, psychology and academics. Their scientific and theoretical bases of Neuroeconomics and Modern Psychoanalysis merge to uniquely position Trader Psyches as thought and practice leaders in market and trading psychology.

See Shull’s Hedgeworld Op-Ed Psychological Dynamics in a Madoff, Made-Up World. She has appeared on Cavuto, Fox’s Money for Breakfast, PBS’ Nightly Business Report, Marketwatch, ABC News Now and The Discovery Channel. She has commented for the WSJ, The Washington Post and The Chicago Sun-Times among others. See history and press for more.