Trader Peak Performance and biofeedback programs

Brett Steen­barg­er, the renowned expert in Trad­er Per­for­mance and author of the blog Trader­Feed: Exploit­ing the edge from his­tor­i­cal mar­ket pat­terns, among many things, just post­ed a kind note on our Peak Performance/ emo­tion­al man­age­ment solu­tion for traders. He says: “This is the first biofeed­back appli­ca­tion that I’m aware of that is unique­ly mar­ket­ed to…

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Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading: Interview with Brett N. Steenbarger

Today we are going to talk about the appli­ca­tions of cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science to trad­ing and neu­ro­fi­nance. Brett N. Steen­barg­er , Ph.D. is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Behav­ioral Sci­ences at SUNY Upstate Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ty, active trad­er for over 30 years, for­mer Direc­tor of Trad­er Devel­op­ment for Kingstree Trad­ing, LLC, and author of The Psy­chol­o­gy of…

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MindFit, IntelliGym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer

Mind­Fit, Intel­li­Gym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer? Is this a puz­zle? As you may have noticed, we just start­ed to offer through the web­site some of the Brain Fit­ness pro­grams we have been talk­ing about. For over a year we have been search­ing for best pro­grams world­wide, and here you have some of the pro­grams we have found.…

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Cognitive Training for Basketball Game-Intelligence: Interview with Prof. Daniel Gopher

Pro­fes­sor Daniel Gopher is a fel­low of the U.S. Human Fac­tors and Ergonom­ics Soci­ety and the Inter­na­tion­al Ergonom­ics Asso­ci­a­tion, Pro­fes­sor of Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­o­gy and Human Fac­tors Engi­neer­ing at Tech­nion, Israel’s Insti­tute of Sci­ence, and one of world’s lead­ing fig­ures in the field of Cog­ni­tive Train­ing. Dur­ing his 40 year career, he has held a variety…

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Social Intelligence, Emotions and Brain Training

Prof. John Ratey is asso­ciate clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of psy­chi­a­try at Har­vard Med­ical School. He is co-author of Dri­ven to Dis­trac­tion, and A User’s Guide to the Brain: Per­cep­tion, Atten­tion, and the Four The­aters of the Brain ‑one of the best intro­duc­tions to user-friend­­ly brain research I have ever found. He is also the first scientist…

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Brain Coach Answers: How Can I Be More Creative? Is Creativity a Part of Brain Fitness?

Cre­ativ­i­ty is not just about the cre­ation of an art object, or a piece of music, or a film, or the cre­ation of a sci­en­tif­ic project, but also about the cre­ation of social rela­tions and of cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions,” says Anto­nio Dama­sio. “Peo­ple rarely asso­ciate these lat­ter areas with cre­ativ­i­ty, but any­time we pro­duce some­thing new,…

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