Interview  |  BON 2016

Focus On The Positive With Brett Steenbarger

Brett N. Steenbarger, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He works as a performance coach for traders and portfolio managers at hedge funds and other financial institutions and is an active trader of stock index futures. He writes at the blog TraderFeed, is active in social media (@steenbab), and is the author of four trading books. His most recent book, Trading Psychology 2.0 (Wiley, 2015), draws on recent research in positive psychology to show how traders can adapt to changing markets, build on their cognitive and personality strengths, cultivate creativity, and develop best practices and processes

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan