Our guest speaker this week will be Dr. Phil.. No not that Dr. Phil from the Oprah spinoff.. better than that. Phil is a great guy and trader as well as a doctor of psychology. He will talk about the psychology of trading and give us some practical ways of breaking some of those bad habits.. (like not taking stops!) .. that we do over and over and over again. The head banging ones..
So come join us in the room, it will be open to anyone who wants to join in for a little advice and some Q&A.
To access the room point your browser to:
http://ttthedge.acrobat.com/traders
at noon EST, Wednesday August 17th.
Bio:
Phil Pearlman is the Director of Community at StockTwits. Phil Pearlman was a co-founder of Lumina Fund Management, a long/short equity hedge fund which focuses on behavioral and sentiment analysis to exploit under and overreactions in options markets. He is an expert in the area of market participant behavior and emotion and consults with professional investors employing strategies adapted from empirically validated psychological treatments to improve trading performance. Phil has developed a proprietary prescriptive model of investor experience which integrates empirically validated clinical models and behavioral finance. He is a contributor to Real Money, a paid service owned by TheStreet.com. He currently trades a private account in New York. Phil is an investor in and community director at StockTwits. He also makes angel investments in other social media based start ups and focuses on the relational and community aspects of online social networks. Phil earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from Argosy University in Washington DC.
See you in the room!
Tom, Marlin, Cathy
