The Psychology of Trading Audio Course

The Psychology of Trading Audio Course Overview

This eight-part audio series includes interviews conducted by Dr. Tharp on topics such as:

• Discipline
• Mental State Control
• Daily Debriefing
• Many other important discussions affect a trader’s personal psychology!

The documents provided include the worksheets and newsletters that are mentioned in the series.

The Psychology of Discipline:

Discipline is the key to trading well. Van interviews one of the most disciplined people he’s ever met—one of his Ultimate Traders. This trader’s methods have been an inspiration to the rest.

Belief Change and Mental State Control:

Beliefs, in essence, are strongly held models of reality. Mental states are your state of mind (e.g., confidence or fear). Most people consider their mental state to be beyond their control.  This is not the case, but to control these states, first, you must recognize them. Van works with selected traders through belief and mental state changes.

How to Fix Mistakes and Two Tasks of Trading:

Learn how to fix mistakes and develop important habits from an interview with a hedge fund manager who has done extremely well at times and extremely poorly at other times. The difference between the two, he says, involves following the top tasks of trading and other disciplines.

Games People Play:

All of us play games in life, and the rules of those games are usually made up of many others. Often we don’t realize what games we are playing. But to win at any game you have got to understand it, and you have got to make up your own rules, where applicable. In this section, Van discusses the trading and investing game with a special guest.

Self-Sabotage:

As human beings, we tend to “judge our feelings” so we avoid negative feelings. Negative feelings then become suppressed in the body as knots. These knots continually create the very emotions we are trying to avoid and lead to self-sabotage. Van discusses the topic of self-sabotage with one of his clients whose life has been altered as a result of taking both Peak Performance courses. Learn how the process works and how it changes lives.

Creating Your Future by Goal Setting and Manifesting:

Are you truly committed to being a winning trader? Van reiterates the importance of commitment and having a burning desire to achieve your dreams. He goes through the importance of knowing what it is that you really want, and how to set the goals and objectives to achieve it. He works with traders who have already done this, as well as answering questions for traders who are just starting the process.

Personality Type and Trading:

The Myers Briggs and Enneagram personality types and how the trader/investor fits those types.

About Your Instructor, Dr. Van Tharp

Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. is the founder of Van Tharp Institute. He is a professional coach for traders and investors. Dr. Tharp is the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager’s best-selling book, The Market Wizard’s: Interviews with Great Traders. Dr. Tharp has written eleven books, each one making profound advances in the understanding of what creates trading success.

His research and modeling work with outstanding traders over the past 30 years has made his training programs and workshops among the most well-respected in the world. His programs offer unique learning strategies, and effective techniques for producing Super Traders. Dr. Tharp has been featured in Forbes, Barron’s Market Week, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Investors Business Daily and Futures and Options World, and Trader’s Journal, just to name a few. Learn more about Dr. Van Tharp.

Testimonials for Van’s Books, Courses, and Workshops

“I read your two books and found them extremely interesting. I’m incorporating your strategies into my personal life and finances…I have read a great number of books and articles on these subjects. However, I found your strategies much more logical and original than any other ones.”

— L. Ginette, Quebec City, Canada

“I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the life-changing training experience I had five years ago at your seminar in North Carolina… My trading has resulted in over 2 million in profit this year… prior to my experience in your program five years ago, I would have to say I had never been a truly profitable trader. My sincerest thanks and appreciation for the study you have made of “modeling” other professional successful traders and imparting their correct psychological habits and techniques to those of us who desire to attain the status of trader for profit.”

— J.C.

“Just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for all your help and to give you some feedback on my progress… after completing your course and developing a game plan and journal, I started back to trading…To make a long story short, I have had 8 trades since the end of July when I started trading. I lost four and was profitable on four. The last two were also quite spectacular, netting a total of over $37,000 in two weeks…your course and inventory Profile helped me to get a hand on my more self-defeating tendencies.”

— E.W.

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