Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

Van Tharp Teaches Position Sizing Strategies and Risk Management

Van Tharp dives deep into position sizing strategies. It’s a lesser-known topic, but aside from your own psychology, it’s the most important subject you could ever learn about trading. Position sizing strategies guide you on how much you should have on throughout the course of a trade. What many traders don’t realize is that achieving […]

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Master Trading Success with Dr. Van Tharp’s Peak Performance Course

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The Peak Performance Home Study Course is Dr. Tharp’s Masterpiece! It is designed for all levels of investors and traders—beginners to advanced. It is designed for both unsuccessful traders seeking to improve their performance and successful traders who want to continue to improve. Dr. Tharp was a consistent and systematic researcher of human behavior. He collected

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Trader Self-Evaluation

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By Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Posted on October 30, 2018 A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. I believe the most significant work that anyone can do to increase market returns is self- work. Really understanding

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The Loss Trap By, Van K. Tharp

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The Loss Trap By: Van K. Tharp Ph.D Posted on October 16, 2018 A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Do you remember playing with a toy called the Chinese Finger Trap when you were a

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How to Evaluate Money Managers

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By Van Tharp and Tom Basso October 16, 2018 A note to readers: This article is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Tom Basso once suggested some rules for investing. When I first saw them, I thought, “These are much too restrictive. They’d rule out some great traders.”

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A Healthy Psychological Profile is Needed for Successful Trading

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By Van K. Tharp, PhD October 23, 2018 Excerpted from Van Tharp’s Peak Performance Home Study Course Many mental health professionals define an “uncertain” condition as being stressful. Uncertainty occurs because of too much information or because of too little capacity. The very fact that we cannot deal with available information is stressful. Available trading

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Make and Honest Self-Appraisal

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Make and Honest Self-Appraisal By Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. October 23, 2018 A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Think about the last loss you had in your trading. What caused it? Who was responsible for

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What is Involved in Peak Performance Trading

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by Van K. Tharp October 17, 2018 There is so much involved in developing peak performance that I recommend that all traders have a business plan. We recommend that the business plan cover all of the following areas. If you have all of those things, then you have a chance of doing well. But this

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Feeling and Trading

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By Professional Trading Coach, Van K. Tharp, PhD November 01, 2018 A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Suddenly, there it was—that juicy signal that all traders experience only a few times each year and this

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Poker and Trading Fundamentals

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by Van K. Tharp October 18, 2018 A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. I love playing poker and one reason is that I think it’s very much like trading. When starting out in poker, you

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