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1. Dr. Ken Celiano says:

   November 20, 2006 at 7:48

   Alvaro,

   Great job inter­view­ing Dr. Steen­barger, he’s an inno­v­a­tive thinker, researcher and trad­ing coach whom I have learned many insight­ful tips from over the years. The cut­ting edge per­for­mance man­age­ment tool Freeze Framer and vari­a­tions will likely gain inter­est among seri­ous traders ded­i­cated to prac­tic­ing & improv­ing their dis­ci­pline. My col­league and I look for­ward to begin­ning our course in Feb’07 via North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity & The Chicago Board of Trade teach­ing traders psy­cho­log­i­cal tac­tics rooted in the self-regulation research of Steen­barger and oth­ers. The Freeze Framer will be a key learn­ing tool or “prac­tice field” where traders will exper­i­ment with locat­ing the zone of high per­for­mance to improve con­fi­dence with trade exe­cu­tion, man­age stress and hope­fully lead to larger prof­its. I’ll keep you posted on our results; you keep up the insight­ful dia­logues with great minds! — Ken
2. Alvaro says:

   November 20, 2006 at 11:29

   Ken, great to see you here, thanks for your com­ments. Please keep us posted-literally, feel free to share your insights through our blog, we can coor­di­nate a guest entry if you’d like. Talk to you
3. Albert says:

   November 21, 2006 at 7:14

   The biofeed­back machine and soft­ware sounds inter­est­ing. How long have this prod­uct been out? Any future updates coming?

   I would like to hear some reviews by sat­is­fied users who expe­ri­enced improve­ment in their trad­ing before mak­ing a purchase.
4. Alvaro says:

   November 21, 2006 at 12:42

   Albert, will con­tact you directly. Thanks for your interest
5. SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution » Blog Archive » Emotional self-regulation and biofeedback: FreezeFramer says:

   November 21, 2006 at 5:04

   […] In the post Trader Peak Per­for­mance and biofeed­back pro­grams we showed the Heart Rate Vari­abil­ity pat­terns cor­re­lated with lev­els of a) anx­i­ety or b) Peak Per­for­mance, “The Zone”. Biofeed­back sup­ports our emo­tional self-regulation: we can visu­ally track what is going on inside us and train our­selves to man­age our emo­tional state. On the left you have an exam­ple of my own per­for­mance dur­ing a 5-minute exper­i­ment 4 months ago. At the top, you see my name; at the bot­tom, the dura­tion of the ses­sion. Right axis, for top half, is Heart Rate. (This is only the half left of the screen in the program-the right half would give you more infor­ma­tion.) I have high­lighted sev­eral phases: […]
6. Emotional self-regulation and biofeedback: FreezeFramer « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution says:

   November 21, 2006 at 5:35

   […] In the post Trader Peak Per­for­mance and biofeed­back pro­grams we showed the Heart Rate Vari­abil­ity pat­terns cor­re­lated with lev­els of a) anx­i­ety or b) Peak Per­for­mance, “The Zone”. Biofeed­back sup­ports our emo­tional self-regulation: we can visu­ally track what is going on inside us and train our­selves to man­age our emo­tional state. On the left you have an exam­ple of my own per­for­mance dur­ing a 5-minute exper­i­ment 4 months ago. At the top, you see my name; at the bot­tom, the dura­tion of the ses­sion. Right axis, for top half, is Heart Rate. (This is only the half left of the screen in the program-the right half would give you more infor­ma­tion.) I have high­lighted sev­eral phases: […]
7. Business, Technology and Knowledge: Edition 3. | Uncommon Knowledge. says:

   January 3, 2007 at 11:54

   […] Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Trader Peak Per­for­mance and Biofeed­back Pro­grams posted at Sharp­Brains: Your Win­dow into the Brain Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion, say­ing, “This post describes a sys­tem for learn­ing to man­age your emo­tions in order to improve your abil­ity to make fast, log­i­cal deci­sions under pres­sure and per­form at your peak.” […]