A clinical psychologist and active trader, writer, and researcher for the past 20 years, Brett is the author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley; 2003) and numerous articles on trading psychology for print and online financial publications. 

His book chapters on brief psychotherapy can be found in such reference works as The Psychologist's Desk Reference (Oxford University Press, 1998) and the Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Academic Press, 2002).  His newest, coedited book, The Art and Science of the Brief Psychotherapies (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004), has been selected as a core training text for psychiatry residency programs, and he will be a contributor to the 2006 Textbook of Psychiatry.

In July, 2004, Dr. Steenbarger stepped down from his medical school faculty position and began intensive work with professional traders at Kingstree Trading, where he also coordinated their training program for new traders.  A year later, he moved his work with traders to a part-time basis in order to pursue modeling research, his own trading, and the writing of a new book on trader performance.  Drawing upon an intensive research program that began in 1998, he has created a number of unique measures of market trend, momentum, and institutional activity designed to aid short-term traders.  These measures--and the trading strategies derived from them--have been chronicled daily since June, 2002 in the Trading Psychology Weblog and on this site.