Dave BarnhartFounder, Moby Tick Trading · Founder at Moby Tick Trading

Stop Trading Psychology: Beat Bias & Find Your Edge! #shorts

16 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker critiques how traders let predictions, news, and social‑media sentiment turn into emotional commitments that sabotage trade management. He argues that the market’s contradictory signals—earnings beats followed by drops, bearish news followed by rallies—are merely noise that fuels bias. The webinar promises to teach how to neutralize that bias through disciplined trade planning, following institutional money, and defining a personal edge that focuses on profitability rather than being right. He outlines a quick‑setup method: identify institutional price levels on the SPY, then take a bullish or bearish position based on whether price is above or below those levels, with pre‑planned targets. Three concrete trade opportunities are promised, each contingent on meeting specific criteria, illustrating a bias‑free, edge‑driven approach.

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What was I missing? You had great earnings, the stock drops. Bearish news, the stock rallies. The sky's falling, the market rallies. Analysts usually wrong, the talking heads. Now the pump and dump— Jim Cramer, CNBC, did that. There's actually videos circulating around YouTube. It's been around for years. He actually flat out said that he pumps and dumps stocks. Buy this, buy this, and all of a sudden it tanks, right? We're the scapegoats on that. I don't want anything to do with that. So all of this conflicting information is just noise in your head, but all of these are predictions. So what do we do in this webinar? What we're going to do, we're going to learn about why predictions are psychological and emotional commitments that negatively affect our trading, how they wreck trade management, and how news, social media sentiment Slip bias into our decisions, but on the flip side, we're going to deal with it very quickly. We're going to talk about eliminating that bias and the emotional trading. It's definitely a work in progress, but we're going to talk about trade planning and following institutional money. We need our edge. It doesn't matter if you know about institutional trading or not. If you're a trader, you have some sort of edge where you're more profitable than not, so that you're. Profit and loss, your equity curve goes up. That's actually the whole point of trading. It's not about being right or being wrong, it's about being profitable over time. So, uh, finding trade setups in a couple of minutes, we're going to look at that. And I've got 3 trade opportunities to leave with, and the idea here is if specific criteria is met, you can take the trade with planned out targets, uh, on the upside or the downside, because I don't have a bias. If, you know, if the SPY is sitting at a specific price and you see the institutional levels, if we're above it, I'll be bullish. If we're below it, I'll be bearish. There is— I, I don't actually care what it does.