Van Tharp’s Introduction to Position Sizing Strategies Course

Dr. Van Tharp Didn’t Invent Risk Control…He Just Perfected It!

How do you decide how much you should risk on your next trade?

• Risk too much, and you could blow up your account.
• Risk too little, and a big winner won’t even pay for your dinner.

This area of trading has been commonly referred to as money management and is now known as Position Sizing Strategies.

Introduction to Position Sizing Strategies Course Overview

This course is perfect for busy professionals who need a practical way to understand risk and understand how to keep losses to a minimum.

What This Course Will Do for You:

Hard-working, avid learners like you want top-quality information presented in an efficient and orderly way.

Students who complete this course tell us that they love the straightforward and methodical presentation which includes easy-to-follow audio, video, and interactive features. You even get to play one of Dr. Tharp’s famous marble games.

In this series, visionary trading coach, Van K. Tharp breaks down a complex topic into easy-to-understand lessons that you can repeat as often as you like during your subscription. We estimate it takes about two hours to complete the course. However, your access allows time for you to review again and again!

The information contained in this course will open your eyes to the importance of position sizing strategies and how they can reduce your losses and increase your profits. The profits gained by applying the information contained in this course could easily pay for the course over and over again.

Do you have a way to quantify your risk clearly and define your position sizing strategy?

Don’t worry if you don’t. Most individual traders and many professional fund managers would have a hard time explaining how they decide how much they risk on each trade.

• Would you like to gain a trading edge in this critical area? 
• Would you like to understand position sizing strategies enough to be able to trade more confidently and with less emotion?

Dr. Tharp’s material explains that—aside from your personal psychology—your position sizing strategies are the most important factor in your trading success.

“Analyzing your trades in terms of their reward-to-risk characteristics allows you to focus on the most important aspect of trading— how much,’ also known as position sizing [strategies].” — Van Tharp, Active Trader Magazine

The Introduction to Position Sizing Strategies Course includes audio-visual and interactive learning activities that explain this complicated subject in clear, easy-to-understand terms. You will learn the basics of position sizing strategies and the dramatic difference they can make in your results. These are the secrets that top traders apply every day.

In addition to the lecture material contained in this course, you will play Dr. Tharp’s world-renowned Marble Trading Game.

This game is designed to test your position sizing skills and teach you the importance of choosing your position sizing algorithm based on your objectives. You play this game with several virtual players who have different objectives, use different position sizing strategies, and finish with different equities. You will learn some extremely valuable lessons from the game regardless of whether or not you finish with the highest equity.

What You Will Learn in The Marble Game:

• How to meaningfully measure your trading results based on what you risk in each trade.
• A fast and simple position sizing technique. You don’t have to be an advanced or even intermediate trader to use this simple method like a pro. This strategy could easily help you avoid worrying about or realizing catastrophic losses.
• How to make trading easier by using proper position sizing strategies. Improper position sizing strategies make it harder for you to achieve your objectives, and they can also make trading a very emotionally charged activity.
• Whether your position sizing strategy is supporting your objectives or preventing you from reaching your trading goals, using optimal objective-based position sizing strategies can make a world of difference in your trading results.
• How to define equity. This course presents three ways to calculate equity. How you define equity can make a huge difference in how you choose and apply your position sizing strategies. 
• What to expect from your trading system in the future. Finding the risk-adjusted returns for your trading system allows you to create a position sizing strategy that gives you confidence in achieving your objectives.
• Position sizing strategies apply to FOREX, stocks, futures, and options. Just as trading these instruments is slightly different, applying position sizing strategies to each of these markets is slightly different although equally as critical. You can see this in position sizing examples for the various markets.
• An advanced position sizing strategy used by a number of top traders. This strategy allows you to minimize your risk and protect your equity while multiplying your earnings at an accelerated rate.

“I now realize all along that the main flaw in my lack of success in trading has been the lack of position sizing. This course has been an eye-opening experience for me.”— Joe Rogers

The value that you’ll receive from this course will cover the low price of $149 over and over again.

Understanding how to manage your risk is an expensive lesson when you learn from the school of hard knocks (big losses that drain your trading account).

Instant Gratification:

The Van Tharp Institute offers this course in an online streaming format.

This gives you the option of watching the course in a timeframe (one lesson per day or the entire course in one sitting) or location (at home or on the go) that’s convenient for you.

Plus, there’s no waiting for delivery nor are there shipping charges to pay! Once you purchase the online course, you can start Lesson One immediately.

What Others Say About This Position Sizing Strategies Course:

A number of clients have completed the course and sent us their feedback.

Among the benefits they found a few themes emerged:

• Learning how to calculate position sizing strategies consistently.
• The importance of making position sizing decisions BEFORE even considering what stock to trade.
• The course included helpful examples of position sizing strategies applied to multiple trading instruments—stocks, currencies, and options.
• The course made a complex topic understandable and revealing.

Introduction to Position Sizing Strategies Course Reviews

“Position sizing strategies could very well be the most important aspect of a trading system . . . Position sizing methods can be the key factor in whether or not you stay in the game or whether your gains are huge or minimal.”

— Trader Mike,www.tradermike.net

“One of the recipes of success, at least according to non-academic literature, is to control one’s risk and utilize proper ‘money management.’ The definition of money management is not perfectly clear, and according to trading coach Van K. Tharp, it is not ’risk control’ per se, ’diversification’ or ’how one makes trading decisions’ as sometimes stated (Tharp). Risk control and maximization of profits is rather a result of implementing money management strategies. Tharp emphasizes that money management or position-sizing answers the question: ‘How much?’ or ‘How many?’.”

— Johan Ginyard, Masters Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, Sweden

“Money management is like sex: Everyone does it, one way or another, but not many like to talk about it, and some do it better than others. But there’s a big difference: Sex sites on the Web proliferate, while sites devoted to the art and science of money management are somewhat difficult to find.”

— Gibbons Burke, www.turtletrader.com

“If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure… … I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I’ll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.”

— Monroe Trout

“Dr. Tharp has become the de facto major voice on just what ‘Money Management’ embodies. Many traders, particularly ‘beginners’ are focused on their technical system, simple entry rules, and quite likely stops, but neglect position is sizing entirely, thereby risking far more of their capital than is wise, particularly if trading is their intended livelihood.”

— Serious Trading Demands Money Management, “AMG” Review from Elitetrader.com

Course Content:

The Introduction to Position Sizing Strategies Course has 13 sections:

• Why Position Sizing Strategies Are Important
• Lesson One: Defining R and R-multiples
• Lesson Two: How Position Sizing Strategies Help You Meet Your Objective
• Lesson Three: Calculating Expectancy
• Lesson Four: The CPR Model
• Lesson Five: Equity Models
• Lesson Six: Using the Market’s Money
• Lesson Seven: Effects of Position Sizing Strategies
• Review for Final Exam (Includes study guide)
• Final Exam
• Summary
• Conclusion

The information contained in this course will open your eyes to the importance of position sizing strategies and how they can reduce your losses and increase your profits. The profits gained by applying the information contained in this course could easily pay for the course over and over again.

This course is a super value at $149.

You’ll get your return on your investment over and over for many years to come!

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.

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