Directory of Trading Coaches and Psychologists
North America
  • Richard Peterson M.D. San Francisco. Managing partner of Market Psychology Consulting, experienced trader, private coach, and psychiatrist. Integrates modern psychology with behavioral finance to enhance investor well-being and performance. Profile here.
  • Doug Hirschhorn PhD. New York City. On staff at Balyasny Asset Management. Blends elements of sports psychology and cognitive-behavioral therapy to improve trader performance. Co-author of The Trading Athlete: Winning the Mental Game of Online Trading.
  • Alden Cass PhD. New York City. President of Catalyst Strategies Group. Psychologist with practical, down-to-earth approach to mental health issues among financial practitioners. Authored studies on brokers with depression and substance abuse issues.
  • Flavia Cymbalista, PhD. Pioneer of MarketFocusing. Performs individual and organizational consulting on decision-making under uncertainty. She is a Brazil native, has a PhD in Economics from Germany, and did psychology post-doctoral research in California.
  • Brett Steenbarger PhD. Chicago. Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC and professor of psychiatry at SUNY in Syracuse, NY. A licensed psychologist and active trader for the past 20 years. Authored The Psychology of Trading.
  • Richard Friesen. San Francisco. Director of Friesen Consulting. A psychologist, businessman, and long-time trader. He has developed innovative trading software and once owned a seat on the Pacific Exchange. He devotes time to writing, consulting, and generating educational and psychological training products for traders.
  • Ari Kiev M.D. New York City. A psychiatrist, trading coach, and management consultant to several trading firms in New York. He is the author of numerous books, including the highly acclaimed Trading to Win.
  • Dmitry Repin PhD. Boston and Moscow. Psychologist and researcher in the MIT lab of Dr. Andrew Lo. Director of RiskPsychology.Net project. Co-author of several seminal studies including The Psychophysiology of Real-time Financial Risk Processing.
  • Adrienne Toghraie MNLP, MCH. North Carolina. Director of Trading on Target. A trading coach and a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for the financial and business communities. Co-author of The Winning Edg.
  • Innerworth. Los Angeles. Innerworth is an online portal for trader psychological support. Innerworth offers the services of a panel of trading coaches, including some listed above.
Richard Geist PhD (no link available). Boston. A psychologist on staff of Harvard Medical School. Co-Founder of the Harvard Conference on Psychology and Investing. Co-author of The Psychology of Investing and author of Investor Therapy.

John Schott M.D. (no link available). Boston. A psychiatrist and money manager, recently retired from the staff of Harvard Medical School. Co-Founder of the Harvard Conference on Psychology and Investing. Author of the book Mind Over Money and has performed research on investor psychology.

Outside North America
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The consultants at Market Psychology Consulting, LLC perform coaching and implement training programs for investors and traders, portfolio managers, brokers, and financial analysts. We work to reduce the damaging effects of decision biases and to improve profitability. We also offer seminars on the development of psychology-based investment and trading strategies.

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