Inner Voice of Trading, The

Michael Martin has been a successful trader for over 20 years. He’s been teaching for the last 13 of those years through UCLA Extension and the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), a member society of the CFA Institute. During that time, he also served as Associate Editor at Trader Monthly. He was born and raised in New York and now lives in Los Angeles.  He contributes to The Huffington Post, The Business Insider, and his blog MartinKronicle.com. He has also been published in Barron’s.  His interest in trading commodities began as a student, both in the classroom and at work. It was during a random work-study program that he got introduced to creating seasonal models for Heating Oil and Natural Gas for a large hedger using Lotus 123.  That led to working on Wall Street and trading commodity accounts. The commissions were gigantic, but he figured he could earn several times more by earning an incentive fee. After only 3 years at a brokerage firm, he started his own company.  After moving to Los Angeles from Manhattan, he started his own CTA and also began teaching. Around that time he joined the Incline Village Trading Tribe and flew from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe for meetings. He also formed the Trading Tribe in Los Angeles, for which he was Chief. Coincidence or not, he was ranked #1 by AutumnGold around that time.  His trading courses are available online and can be found at MartinKronicle.com.

• Chapter 1: Introduction     1Chapter 2: Surrender     17Chapter 3: My Tuition     35Chapter 4: Two Traders’ Paths     53Chapter 5: Conventional Wisdom/Market Timing     71Chapter 6: Emotional Blind Spots     91Chapter 7: You Are the Black Box     105Chapter 8: Relative Value Trades     119Chapter 9: The Abundance of Losses     133Chapter 10: Becoming an Emotional Specialist     143Chapter 11: Listen to Your Inner Voice     155Endnotes     167Index      175