Brett Steenbarger

Brett Steenbarger combined a career as a clinical psychology professor with performance coaching for professional traders at hedge funds. He has written extensively on how traders can apply psychological principles to improve consistency, manage emotions, and build systematic routines. His books include "The Psychology of Trading", "Enhancing Trader Performance", and "The Daily Trading Coach". Steenbarger coaches traders at major hedge funds and writes the TraderFeed blog, which has been influential among both retail and professional trading communities for over two decades. His application of cognitive-behavioral and positive psychology techniques — including deliberate practice, strength identification, and process-focused performance reviews — to trading has helped professional traders at multi-strategy funds develop the mental resilience and disciplined routines needed to maintain performance under pressure during periods of drawdown and market regime change.