Psychology Online

There is an interesting piece of human psychology which sports lovers will be very familiar with: this is that ‘expectations influence perception’. The most obvious example of this is when a penalty is given in the dying minutes of a soccer game, which up to then was a barren draw. It is virtually impossible in such cases to find anyone in the team which thus stands to lose the game, who feels    .. more …

How does one become the human lie detector? In recent history, the lie detector was a machine that reads electronic readings (heartbeats, variances in electric impulses from the brain, emotional nuances) and crunches the numbers and tells if someone is lying or not. This article will discuss on how you can become the human lie detector, on what to read and what to know about when    .. more …

It seems that we do not have to ask anymore if nature is a complex adaptive system (CAS) as we can see it at work every day. The faithful in some form of Intelligent Design will attribute creative emergence to their Deity of choice but that we can respectfully position that as willful ignorance. ‘No sir, it is too stressful to consider that I may have been wrong so I    .. more …

Old masters did not leave notes telling us what they really saw in the world, but the drawings that preceded their paintings say it all, notably in the case of the artist Bronzino.    .. more …

Stock trading in the United States Stock Market can be both exhilarating and scary. The dynamic fluctuations of this system are governed primarily by the human psychology or emotion pertaining to the potential loss of money (fear) or gain of money (greed). At the core, trading in the stock market is a gambling exercise that forces you to evaluate your life goals, psyche, risk tolerance,    .. more …

Knowing what makes people buy.This is probably the least understood principle in marketing. The fact is, people have been sold to by the same techniques for centuries.Why?Because human emotions haven’t changed over time and they never will.People buy for the same reasons now as they did 100 years ago, even 10,000 years ago. And will continue to do so for the next 10,000 years.Understand what it    .. more …

Day traders are looking to profit from short term moves and to do this means that they have to be able to gauge short term shifts in human psychology.

Humans determine prices and if you can gauge the short term psychology you can enjoy day trading success.

Let’s look at taking advantage of the above.

The market

The FOREX market is huge and turns over    .. more …