“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” –Gautama Buddha “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” –Henri Nouwen In 1994, I made my first visit to […]
Ever since COVID-19 started spreading across the globe, there has been another pandemic spreading right along with it. It gets few headlines. It’s invisible to the naked eye. But it’s everywhere . . . and it’s very dangerous for you and your family. The Other Pandemic I’m talking about the pandemic of misinformation,
Coronavirus Myth Busting and How to Make Money With Good Info by, D.R.Barton, Jr. Read More »
For almost a decade now I’ve been co-teaching workshops alongside Van. I’ve witnessed many traders who came into a workshop with a belief or strategy that had been holding them back. Most of the time, they had little if any awareness of it until a workshop exercise caused an eye-opening revelation or paradigm shift.
What would happen if you could just pay attention to what the market is doing right now? You’d be totally in the present with no preconceived ideas or biases to influence you. If you did that, your trading probably would accelerate to a new level. You can trade that way if you practice “mindfulness.”
Trade Through “Mindfulness” By Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »
Market Summary On Feb 14th, the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index was at 525.32. A month later we had close to a 50% drop in the price of BTC and the GBCI was down to 241.61 after reaching a low of 17.75. And the total market cap of cryptos dropped by about $120 Billion. Today,
Update on Cryptoassets as of April 15th, 2020 By Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »
I’m really relieved to see the first signs of the slowing of the coronavirus in Europe. In the U.S., confirmed cases and deaths from the virus are growing more slowly. Many science and medical experts say that the social distancing and other mitigation measures are starting to work. I believe, however, that the coronavirus
Post-COVID – Investing In the Return to Normal by, D.R. Barton, Jr. Read More »
There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in
March 2020 System Quality Number® Report The SQN® Report by, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Editor’s Note: G (who requested anonymity) is a client with an engineering background who has been working on developing trading systems for the last several years. Over the past few weeks, we have featured his articles which take a deeper look into Van’s concepts including trading genius, abundance and belief systems. This is article
Editor’s Note: G (who requested anonymity) is a client with an engineering background who has been working on developing trading systems for the last several years. Over the next coming weeks, we will feature his articles which take a deeper look into Van’s concepts including trading genius, abundance and belief systems. This is article 2
PART 1 Think about what Sir John Templeton did in 1999 at the heart of the dot.com stock bubble. He took his entire personal fortune and shorted various dot.com stocks. At the time, that behavior might have sounded insane. After all, those stocks could move 10% each day in that period … and usually the
What is Genius? Is There a Genius Trading State?, by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Read More »
