About Course
Overcome self-sabotage and develop rock-solid discipline in your market performance. As one of our core workshops, it’s a powerful investment in your market success. It can quickly pay for itself by helping you avoid costly losses. Uncover profitable new ideas while gaining skills and insights that benefit you for a lifetime.
It is designed to complement the Peak Performance Home Study Course by providing the experiential exercises and guided processes that cannot be learned through reading alone. Together, they form a complete foundation for peak performance.
Now available as a video-on-demand course, this workshop offers nearly 15 hours of total video content—all accessible on your schedule. The segmented format allows you to move through the material at your own pace. This gives you time to reflect and implement what you learn. Stop donating money to the markets. Start accelerating your progress toward a life of confidence, wealth, and freedom.
This video-on-demand course includes the full recording of the original 5-day workshop, complete with PDF slides, in-depth Q&A sessions with students, and all available study materials. By enrolling, you get full access to the complete workshop experience—all on your schedule and at your convenience.
Peak Performance 101 Workshop Overview
The amazing thing about Dr. Van Tharp’s model (that we have consistently heard from people after attending Peak Performance 101) is that not only will it teach you how to enhance your earnings, but it will likely help you to become more successful in all aspects of your life, as well.
Dr. Van Tharp was an innovator when he began studying traders and the trading process, and his spirit of innovation lives on through this class.
“If you have a fairly successful system for trading or investing, then I can show you how to obtain more consistent performance from that system with less risk. In short, I will show you what peak performance trading is all about!”
— Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
Now, you can benefit from Van Tharp’s Decades of Experience Coaching Top Traders:
- Dr. Van Tharp was the most consistent, astute, and systematic researcher of human behavior you could ever hope to meet. He personally interviewed thousands of top traders to determine what factors helped them excel in their profession and collected extensive psychological profiles from over 5,000 traders and investors.
- Dr. Van Tharp pioneered the trading coach field, and while others coach traders today, he conceptualized a thorough trading success model and supporting processes 30 years ago. He carefully crafted the model so that people like you can understand it, adopt it, and dramatically improve your skills. In fact, when Jack Schwager interviewed 16 of the world’s best traders in his original Market Wizards book, he interviewed only one trading coach – Dr. Van Tharp.
Dr. Van Tharp’s Top 10 Objectives for the Peak Performance 101 Workshop
Hear Van’s Top 10 Objectives for his Peak Performance 101 students, plus much more, in this video!
Can You Really Make More Money with These Principles?
Absolutely! You’ll discover what the best traders and investors have in common—their real, proven secrets. When you apply these principles to your own trading, you’ll see the difference immediately. Imagine what performing at your peak could do for your bottom line!
Even more powerful is the impact of eliminating self-sabotaging behaviors. Over a lifetime, this could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars—or even millions for some traders. Think about your biggest trading mistake last year. How much did it cost you? Now imagine avoiding that mistake every year. When you add in the compounding effect of consistent, high-level performance, you begin to see the true value of this course.
Ready to Enroll in The Peak Performance 101 Workshop? Join the thousands of traders and investors who have already unlocked the secrets of Dr. Van Tharp’s carefully researched model for successful trading. Experience the powerful improvements this approach can bring—not just to your trading profits, but to your life as a whole.
What You Will Learn in this Workshop
Discover how our workshop can transform your trading experience and help you achieve peak performance.
Seven money-making benefits are waiting for you at Peak Performance 101. They will help you keep your losses smaller, make more consistent profits, and be more relaxed about your trading!
1. The three ingredients of success.
You must know these ingredients, at least at an unconscious level, if you are to prosper. These three mental ingredients are a must in any task you do to perform like a ”Market Wizard.” Most people have no idea they exist, which is why success can be so difficult to duplicate. After the Peak Performance 101 workshop, however, you will thoroughly understand how these ingredients can help you fulfill your life. Most of all, you will know how you can manage them.
“The day after leaving the Peak Performance Course, I made $2,400 in trading profits. What impressed me was the level of calm I was able to achieve using the techniques learned in the course. No serious trader should consider trading for a living without the benefit of your seminar. I have a whole new outlook on my future, both trading and personal.”
— H.W., NY
“I just wanted you to know how much I took your ‘million dollar’ ideas from the Peak Performance 101 seminar to heart. Today marked one month since the seminar, and I have realized a 37.5% return on my entire portfolio (true return, not annualized), most of that in the past two days. I am fired up. Now I have to deal with those capital gains taxes. Oh well.“
— P.S., FL
2. The components of a low-risk idea.
The trick to compounding your personal wealth is to trade low-risk ideas. Low-risk ideas are found everywhere—not just in conservative investments. In fact, a great deal of wealth is made from following low-risk ideas in what most people typically think of as high-risk instruments like options and futures. Understanding how to find low-risk ideas and execute them is probably not what you think.
3. Why Position Sizing™ strategies are so critical to your bottom line results!
Have you heard of position sizing strategies? Do you know what that means? Very few people understand this critical concept, even though it means the difference between consistent top financial performance and mediocre financial performance for most people. Understanding position sizing strategies enables you to better reach your returns objectives while avoiding drawdowns. We will teach you how to do position-sizing-based trading so that if you want, you will have the same risk and exposure in the market day after day. Think about how calm you could be, knowing that your risk is always manageable every day.
“The discussions about money management were unexpected and worth the price of admission by itself.”
— M.S., CA
4. 15+ ways to develop rock-solid discipline in your trading.
Discipline means controlling your mental state. Unfortunately, most people allow their psychological state to control them. In contrast, real winners maintain regulation that will enable them to charge ahead when others on the field are getting scared or angry, or greedy. If you play in a zero-sum trading game like futures, you need to know every technique that will help you succeed. These are the real secrets that separate the successful traders and investors from the average person in the markets.
“Fabulous course. It will have a major, positive impact on my trading success and will also require that I change some of the ways I do things. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their understanding of how their psychology affects their success.”
— F.L., Sharpsburg, GA
5. Dr. Tharp’s Top Tasks of Trading.
What if you knew exactly what 12 steps you had to take on a daily and recurring basis for successful trading and investing? You’ll get these tasks at this workshop – and how to execute each one. Here is a partial list of the ten tasks we will help you master:
- Develop your low-risk ideas,
- Stalking,
- Mental rehearsal,
- Self-analysis,
- Aborting,
- and, best of all —taking profits.
During Peak Performance 101, you will install this Top Tasks model so you can know how to trade like the most successful traders in the world. You will have tools at your disposal that the average investor or trader never even thinks about.
6. How to act quickly with sureness and confidence.
The best traders and investors have one trait in common—extreme confidence in what they are doing. Confidence is the one quality you must develop to attain your peak level of performance. At the Peak Performance 101 Workshop, you will learn how to create the kind of confidence only the best traders and investors have.
7. How to develop a plan for trading that will set you way above the crowd.
Particular disciplines—specific techniques used within a specific structure—give professional traders and investors the edge over amateur investors. Dr. Tharp understands these disciplines. He is an expert at coaching others to use them.
“After spending three days with Van, I came away with one belief that saved my career: only low-risk trades will keep you in the game!”
— H.W., NY
“An absolute must for anyone wanting to become a consistently successful trader.”
— Alex Rudolph
“For me, this was a revisit of the course. As a trader, you can never go wrong by repeating this course. Every trader should do it. The fact that they do not give me an edge in the market!”
— Kevin Thomas
“I liked identifying my beliefs and finding out the conflicts between beliefs and reality.”
— L. Farrier
Peak Performance 101 Workshop Objectives
Students will learn and begin to understand each of these objectives after attending the Peak Performance 101 workshop:
- How great traders approach their craft and determine a daily procedure that resembles what they do.
- How you create your own experience in the market, and how you are responsible for the results that you get.
- Become more aware of some of your psychological issues that affect your performance as a trader or investor.
- Learn about expectancy, position sizing strategies, and the power of big R-multiples through a simulation game. This game is also designed to help you observe your emotions in a setting in which only a small amount is at stake compared with what you will face in the market.
- Learn some of the variables that affect your emotions and how you can gain control over them.
- Learn to overcome self-sabotage through exercises done in class.
- Students will get guidance on how to develop an ongoing program to work on themselves using the Super Trader Program as a model.
- Students will leave with a plan to make maximum use of the workshop.
RJ Hixson Carries the Legacy Forward
The material in this workshop remains exactly as Dr. Van Tharp designed it, now offered in a convenient video-on-demand format with RJ Hixson as your instructor. RJ trained side-by-side with Van and has been teaching this workshop for over a decade. In addition, he has served as lead instructor for the advanced Peak Performance 203 workshop and co-instructed Peak Performance 202 with Libby Adams. We are confident that your experience in this workshop will be just as enlightening and full of “A-ha” moments as ever—something RJ’s students have consistently shared over the years.
Is This the Workshop for You?
Peak Performance 101 helps you install Dr. Van Tharp’s model, and it also enables you to overcome self-sabotage. You will be able to free yourself from internal conflicts that keep you from performing at a peak level. For example, do you have any of these questions:
- Are you always looking for a new trading system? Alternatively, are you still trying to improve the one you have, rather than trade it strictly according to its rules?
- Do you find your trade setups never quite fit all of your criteria, so you have trouble entering trades?
- Do you get anxious about the market overall, or about risking your money, so that you have trouble pulling the trigger?
- Do you get excited about the market, or do you get distracted and fail to follow your system’s rules?
- Does a losing trade take your energy away for the next trade, or conversely, does a winning trade make you feel more confident about the upcoming trade?
- Is your trading (or your life?) ruled by the ”negative” emotions such as fear, anger, or greed?
- Are you consistently losing money because you do not have a healthy plan to guide your trading? Or do you have a good plan, but you just don’t follow it?
- Do you have a performance ceiling at a point where you seem to always fall apart or stop doing well? Do you earn $100,000 and then just seem to stop trading well? Alternatively, do you reach the million-dollar plateau and then start losing heavily?
- Do you make mistakes on a regular basis? Dr. Tharp defines a mistake as when you don’t follow your rules. Making the same mistake over and over again is a form of self-sabotage – yet most people are totally unconscious of their mistakes. We will show you the common mistakes most people make and show you how to overcome the self-sabotage of repeating the same mistake over and over again.
Overcome Self-Sabotage:
If you answered ”yes” to any of those questions, then you are experiencing self-sabotage. This workshop will help you identify and resolve the conflicts causing these behaviors. You will also learn how to use several highly effective tools to deal with self-sabotage if it comes up for you in the future.
If you are committed to your trading success, if you are willing to do whatever it takes, then you will find that this ground-breaking workshop will help you become a different person.
Improve the Quality of Your Life:
When Dr. Tharp selected top traders to model, he looked for those who had high-quality lifestyles. When you attend the Peak Performance 101 Workshop and implement Dr. Tharp’s model, you will not only improve your trading dramatically; you will also improve the quality of your life.
“Being with everyone showed me that I was like everyone else in the class, with a lot of stored emotions wanting to get attention. After the seminar, I had a clear purpose and direction, as if I had seen and understood what the assembled puzzle should look like.”
— G. G., France
“[It] … elevated my trading onto a higher plane. I was already a really good trader, but now I am even better, which is very exciting. My whole life is better because I am a better husband and a better father as a result of the experience.”
— K.T., England
“As a result of the course, I expect positive improvement in my business as a hedge fund manager and as a father, husband, and human.”
— K.S., Redmond, WA
The Workshop Experience
- Modeling Success and Discovering Success Beliefs that will make you a winner. You will learn how your beliefs create your reality, how the meanings of your beliefs are unique to you, how the hierarchy of your beliefs impacts you, a model for self-assessment of your beliefs (the Belief Examination Paradigm), and how to install useful beliefs that will really accelerate your success.
- Rock-Solid Discipline. You will learn techniques for developing rock-solid discipline and overcoming fear. You will learn how to ”pull the trigger” and center yourself so that your mind is focused and sharp. You will also learn how the best traders trade through Dr. Tharp’s Top Tasks of Trading.
- Overcoming Self-Sabotage. We will begin the self-sabotage session with a major exercise to help you get rid of negative feelings that lock non-useful beliefs in place. We expect you to release at least five negative emotions during this period. You’ll be joined to groups of four Peak 101 students so you will be guaranteed to have someone to help you, and you can help others. Some of you, if needed, might get the chance to do one-on-one work with your instructor.
- Self-Sabotage Part 2. We have a second self-sabotage section to help you become more emotionally congruent. When you have split yourself into too many parts, conflicts arise, and then achieving your dreams becomes very difficult. Once you become congruent, however, moving toward your dreams becomes easy. The second self-sabotage exercise will help you do this.
- How the Best Traders Trade. Understand Dr. Tharp’s model for installing this material in his Super Traders candidates. You’ll hear how the program works, be able to qualify for the program if interested (which can be done anywhere in the world), and learn about the many benefits for Super Traders. At least one of them will talk about the many transformations that they made in the program.
During some of these sessions, you will play a simulated trading game that will teach you how to benefit from risk management techniques through the concepts of R and R-multiples, how to use position sizing strategies to increase your profits, and how to identify what sorts of self-sabotage you have.
Who Will Benefit From This Workshop?
The Peak Performance 101 workshop is ideal for:
- Anyone serious about personal transformation, not just improving their trading results
- Traders who feel stuck or inconsistent, despite knowing strategies and setups
- Traders and investors who want lasting results, not just another trading system
- Self-directed traders who recognize that mindset, discipline, and beliefs drive performance
- Experienced traders looking to eliminate recurring mistakes and emotional decision-making
- Newer traders who want to build a strong psychological foundation before bad habits form
- Traders struggling with discipline, overtrading, hesitation, or self-sabotage
- Investors who want clarity and confidence in their decision-making process
- High-achievers in other fields who want to apply peak performance principles to trading
If you believe the key to better trading lies within you, not the market, this workshop was designed for you.
About Your Instructors
Meet Your Instructor: RJ Hixson
RJ Hixson is a highly respected trading educator, mindset specialist, and program architect with more than 15 years of experience helping traders and investors master the internal factors that drive consistent performance. His work sits at the intersection of trading psychology, personal transformation, and practical decision-making—where real, sustainable results are created.
As a long-time collaborator with Dr. Van K. Tharp, RJ played a central role in shaping and refining many of the Van Tharp Institute’s most transformational programs. During his tenure as Vice President of Research and Development, he was deeply involved in curriculum design, instructional strategy, and the evolution of workshops that focus on beliefs, mental states, and trader development—not just systems or techniques.
RJ is a graduate of the renowned Super Trader Program and holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, giving him a rare ability to bridge analytical rigor with deep inner work. His approach helps traders uncover hidden belief structures, resolve internal conflicts, and build the self-awareness and discipline required for long-term success.
He has co-led flagship programs such as Peak Performance and Infinite Wealth, working with thousands of students worldwide. Known for his calm, grounded, and highly relatable teaching style, RJ excels at making complex psychological concepts practical, actionable, and immediately relevant to real-world trading decisions.
Today, as Co-Founder of TenHundred Marketing, RJ continues to apply and teach these principles beyond trading—helping entrepreneurs and professionals align mindset, strategy, and execution. Whether you are new to trading or an experienced market participant seeking deeper consistency, RJ brings clarity, depth, and transformational insight to every workshop he teaches. Learn more about RJ Hixson.
Meet Your Instructor: Gabriel Grammatidis
Gabriel Grammatidis is a seasoned trader, coach, and mentor with over 35 years of experience across Forex, Futures, Cryptos, Stocks, and Options. Since 2008, he has been a dedicated instructor at the Van Tharp Institute, helping traders transform their approach to the markets and achieve consistent results.
Before becoming an independent trader and coach, Gabriel built a highly successful corporate career with global leaders such as PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI). Following his passion for trading and personal growth, he transitioned to full-time trading, coaching, and system development—guiding students toward measurable success in less than a year.
Gabriel’s expertise lies in rule-based discretionary trading, the exact style Dr. Van Tharp identified as most consistent among top traders. His systems emphasize visual pattern recognition and disciplined trade execution, teaching students to train their eyes, mind, and decision-making process for real-time market opportunities.
Gabriel is known for his patient, structured, and highly effective teaching style, making complex trading concepts approachable and actionable, helping students build both confidence and competence in the markets.
Testimonials: Peak Performance 101 Workshop
“Peak Performance is not just a course, it’s an attitude and a lifestyle. I took the course 20 years ago and now I’m blessed to have annual profits (and a 50x growth in net worth) that provide for a very nice lifestyle for my wife and me. The workshop and Van’s books provide you a strong foundation to keep you from the bust that many amateurs experience in their trading journeys. Make the investment in yourself. You will be the magic behind the trading system(s) that will make you profitable. Don’t put this off. Your future awaits.”
— Phil S., Tampa, FL
”You said at the beginning of the seminar that some people would be profoundly affected by the material in both their trading and their lives. I was one of those people.”
— W.B., MA
“My personal performance improved in every area of my life [following the Peak Performance 101 course]. My relationships improved, my organizational skills improved, my rock climbing improved (dramatically), my golf game—well, actually, my golf game did not improve, but I noticed that I am having a lot more fun playing golf than I’d ever had before. My self-confidence is soaring off the meter! My trading performance has improved. I learned to create a sense of serenity (as a mental state) around myself, whether I am winning or losing. I am much calmer watching the markets’ whipsaw. This mental-state control has improved my overall technical edge. I can focus better on the programming tasks.”
— B.C., Salt Lake City, UT
”Self-sabotage has always been my major personal issue. Having the skills to cope will make all the difference. A global experience. Throughout the seminar, I appreciated the emphasis on the ‘whole’ person, not just the ‘trader’ personality.”
— J.M., Oak Park, KS
”The weekend was life-altering. The changes I have begun to make have already reaped benefits. I truly feel that I will date my life before and after the weekend—not because my life before was anything to complain about, but because I now realize how great my life can be. Thank you!”
— G.J. RI
”The course was one of the major events of my life. Among other things, it ended a 23-year emotional nightmare relationship I had had with the market… Before the seminar, my reaction time upon receipt of a buy signal was half-an-hour to never. I would think of all possible things that could go wrong and find reasons not to follow my system. The Tuesday following the course, my reaction time to a buy signal was seven seconds.”
— D.N., NY
”Fulfilled my expectations by helping me identify issues that blocked my growth and provided appropriate and efficient tools to deal with these issues.”
— M.P., LA
”In essence, I made over 80% return on 6% of my capital in less than one month—and that is just on closed trades… My trading system has not changed one iota; I have changed.”
— R.G., CA
”After attending your course, I suspended trading until June 24th to regroup. I have just completed my first four weeks of trading with a starting capital of $66,782. I have $7,711 in closed-out profits with open trade equity of $5,448 as of yesterday’s close… Now I am trading very relaxed and feeling very peaceful about my business, with a sense of calm and control.”
— S.G., CO
”For a new not-yet-trader, carefully studying Dr. Tharp’s work, I could not even begin to think of what life would be like working without taking the first step here.”
— S.L., DC
“The Peak 101 workshop puts the teachings of the home study course in context in a dynamic group experience. This provided me with great insight…the course is life-changing. Thank you.”
— S. Yusuf, MI
”Van is without a doubt a master at understanding and explaining the trading process with all its complex parts. The experiential component was jarring, enlightening and positive. I recommend the course for professional and novice traders.”
— Michael Berman, Sydney, AU
”The parts negotiation exercises yielded better results than I have been able to manage at home after completing the home study course twice. I feel that the next time I work through the books, I will get even more out of the exercises.”
— Natalie Murray, Australia
”In 20 years of trading, I have never spent any attention on the psychological aspects of trading and myself. Being a very rational person, I was skeptical concerning whether this would have any effect on me. What a positive surprise! I discovered things I did not even know had existed and have taken a big step forward. Thank you.”
— Frank Bormann, Hong Kong
”I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine how anyone could even contemplate successful trading without the foundation of the Peak Performance 101 workshop. The secrets of trading are not always where we expect to find them. PP101 was the key that allowed me to open my door to a world of unlimited trading potential.”
— Steven Redgrave, Australia
”The best workshop I have attended, trading or otherwise. Would encourage anyone who wants to get in touch with who they are and why they act the way they do to attend this course.”
— Jonathan Gould, Australia
”Words can not describe how I feel about the Peak Performance seminar, but I will try my best. I came to your course with very high expectations. Your program came highly recommended by a friend. However, I never thought that I would come away with such powerful tools to use both in trading and, more importantly, in life. Nothing could have been better than making my largest winning trade the very next day [after the workshop]. I was able to let my winning trade run instead of cutting it short the way I usually do, and ended up turning a $500 winner into a $2,100 winner. If I keep this up, who knows what’s possible?”
— M.S.
“I was most surprised by the amount of growth I have experienced since the last course (a lot), yet realized there is much more to go.”
— Duncan Stacey, Maleny, Australia
“This course was mind-blowing. It is amazing to see all the changes taking place in everyone.”
— Dave Walton, Folsom, CA
“There is no other trading course I know of that has this focus.”
— Cathie Stewart, Toronto, Canada
Attendees were asked to list the top five benefits of attending this workshop. Here are some examples:
- Learn from a group of traders who have similar objectives in life.
- Learning exercises to control emotions.
- Identifying issues that hurt trading.
- Learning the ten tasks of trading, their mental states, and strategies.
- Discovering beliefs attendees never knew they had & experiential learning through the exercises and the game.
We can not stress how important this workshop can be for successful trading. It could easily pay for itself by helping you avoid a single costly loss or by uncovering a profitable new idea. Even more importantly, the skills and insights you gain will benefit you for a lifetime.
Discounted Video-On-Demand Workshop: Over 33% Off
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop is normally $2,995, but we’re now offering this video-on-demand format at over 33% off! Learn at your own pace, on your schedule, and revisit the material anytime—unlike the limited-time streaming we offered in the past.
We’re confident you’ll be delighted with this workshop. You’ll experience the same “Aha” moments that have inspired countless traders, and now, with the new format, you can study and review the content as often as you like.
Our guarantee is simple: if you’re ready to work on yourself, there’s no risk. We know you’ll be thrilled with the results.
Supplemental Resources:
- A message from Van Tharp about how this course can help you.
- A Healthy Psychological Profile is Needed for Trading Success
- Stop Worrying Yourself Out of Profits
- Make an Honest Self-Appraisal
- I Want to Be The Best Trader Possible. Where Do I Start?
- Your Beliefs About Trading
Frequently Ask Questions
How is the Peak Performance 101 Workshop different from the Peak Performance Home Study Course?
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop and the Peak Performance Home Study Course are closely related, but they are designed to deliver results in different and complementary ways.
There is some overlap in concepts, but Dr. Van Tharp intentionally structured them to serve distinct purposes. The Peak Performance 101 Workshop focuses on active, experiential learning. It guides you through processes you can see, feel, and experience directly—methods that simply can’t be taught through reading alone. This includes guided exercises and experiential techniques that create powerful “Aha” moments and deep personal insights.
In contrast, the Peak Performance Home Study Course is more introspective and self-directed. It involves reading key material, reflecting on questions, and exploring your beliefs and internal processes on your own. Some concepts—such as the Intense Feeling Release—are introduced in the home study course, but they are fully taught and experienced in the workshop environment.
Now that the Peak Performance 101 Workshop is available as a video-on-demand course, you gain an even greater advantage. You can move through the workshop at your own pace and combine it seamlessly with the Home Study Course.
Together, they allow you to peel back layers of understanding around your beliefs, behaviors, and internal decision-making—while also creating deep, eye-opening experiences that are difficult to achieve through study alone.
For best results, we strongly recommend using both programs together, as they are designed to work hand in hand to support lasting peak performance.
What Are the Next Steps After the Peak Performance 101 Workshop?
Your next step depends on your goals, experience level, and where you want to focus your growth. The Peak Performance programs are built around an excellence model—often described as a wheel—allowing you to develop in multiple directions while still following a clear progression path.
For most participants, the natural next step after Peak Performance 101 is the Peak Performance 202 Workshop, followed by the advanced Peak Performance 203 and 204 Workshops. These workshops build progressively on the principles introduced in Peak Performance 101 and are designed for those who want to move toward a more advanced, professional level of performance.
If you have not yet completed the Peak Performance Home Study Course, that is also an excellent next step. It serves as the foundational program and is designed for traders and investors at all levels—beginners, experienced traders seeking improvement, those struggling with consistency, and even successful traders who want to continue refining their performance.
Developed from the work of Dr. Van Tharp, these programs are intentionally designed to work together. Whether you choose to continue with the next workshop in the series or strengthen your foundation with the Home Study Course, each path supports long-term growth and peak performance.
Do I Need to Complete the Peak Performance Home Study Course Before Taking the Peak Performance 101 Workshop?
No, the Peak Performance Home Study Course is not required before enrolling in the Peak Performance 101 Workshop, but it can be helpful.
Many participants find that completing the Home Study Course first allows them to get even more value from the workshop, as they’re already familiar with the key concepts and language. That said, just as many traders choose to start with the Peak Performance 101 Workshop and discover that the experiential learning significantly enhances their understanding when they later move through the Home Study Course.
Both approaches work well. The programs are designed to complement each other, and you can take them in either order depending on your learning style and preferences. Ultimately, the best choice is the one that fits your goals and where you are in your trading journey.
Developed from the work of Dr. Van Tharp, these programs are intentionally structured to work together and support meaningful, lasting improvement in trading performance.
I’m Already a Profitable Trader. Why Should I Consider This Workshop?
Even highly profitable traders look for ways to gain an additional edge. At advanced levels of performance, small improvements in discipline, decision-making, and consistency can lead to significant gains over time.
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop focuses on strengthening the mental and behavioral foundations that support long-term success, helping you refine your execution, reduce self-sabotaging behaviors, and perform more consistently under pressure. These are areas where even successful traders can uncover blind spots and unlock new levels of performance.
While this video-on-demand workshop does not include live coaching, it delivers the same proven material developed by Dr. Van Tharp, now in a flexible format you can revisit as often as needed. Many top performers invest heavily in ongoing personal development because they understand that mastering the inner game is what separates good results from exceptional ones.
If you’re already profitable, this workshop is not about fixing problems—it’s about sharpening your edge and maximizing your long-term potential.
I’m New to Trading. Shouldn’t I Learn Trading Techniques First?
Actually, starting with Peak Performance principles can give you a major advantage as a beginner.
Many new traders rush to learn strategies and techniques before working on mindset, discipline, and decision-making. This often leads to repeated mistakes, emotional trading, and inconsistent results. The Peak Performance 101 Workshop helps you build the mental and behavioral foundation needed to apply any trading method effectively.
We frequently see traders who focus only on techniques needing to revisit those same courses later, after they’ve developed the self-awareness and discipline taught in Peak Performance. Once you understand how you think, react, and make decisions under pressure, technical strategies become far more effective.
Developed from the work of Dr. Van Tharp, the Peak Performance 101 workshop is designed to help you start trading the right way from the beginning. If this is your first trading-related course, it may be one of the best investments you can make in your long-term success.
The Markets Are Uncertain. Why Invest in a Workshop Instead of Using That Money as Trading Capital?
Using capital when you’re not performing at your peak often leads to unnecessary losses. In that sense, capital deployed without the right mindset, discipline, and self-awareness can quickly become capital wasted.
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop is an investment in you—your decision-making, consistency, and ability to perform under uncertainty. Many participants have told us they wished they had taken this workshop before committing significant capital to the markets, or even before they started trading at all.
Developed from the work of Dr. Van Tharp, this workshop helps you build the internal foundation needed to protect and grow your capital over the long term. When markets are uncertain, investing in your own performance can be one of the smartest decisions you make.
I Want to Become the Best Trader I Can Be. Does This Workshop Teach Me How to Trade?
This workshop is different from most trading courses. Rather than teaching specific trading strategies or techniques, the Peak Performance 101 Workshop focuses on helping you develop yourself as a trader.
The concept is similar to the old saying, ”give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; show a man how to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.”
There are countless trading methods available, and a strategy that works exceptionally well for one trader may fail for another. The difference isn’t the method, it’s the trader. How you process information, manage internal conflicts, handle emotions, and maintain discipline all play a critical role in your results.
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop helps you build self-awareness, discipline, and consistency, the internal skills that determine how effectively you apply any trading approach. In that sense, it follows the timeless principle of teaching you how to trade successfully over the long term, rather than handing you a single technique to follow.
Developed from the work of Dr. Van Tharp, this workshop is designed to help you strengthen the inner foundations that support lasting success in the markets.
What Are the Objectives of the Peak Performance 101 Workshop?
The mission of Van Tharp Institute is to help people create meaningful, lasting transformation, and the Peak Performance 101 Workshop is the cornerstone of that mission.
The primary objective of this workshop is to help you understand how you influence your trading results. When you recognize how your beliefs, emotions, and decision-making patterns affect performance, you gain a level of control that can dramatically improve your consistency and outcomes.
More importantly, the workshop aims to create changes that go beyond trading. When you make meaningful internal shifts such as increasing self-awareness, discipline, and clarity, those changes often positively impact many areas of your life. Our goal is to help every participant experience this deeper level of transformation, both in the markets and beyond.
Are There Any Prerequisites for This Workshop?
There are no formal prerequisites for the Peak Performance 101 Workshop. It is designed for traders and investors at all experience levels, from complete beginners to highly experienced professionals.
That said, many participants choose to pair this workshop with the Peak Performance Home Study Course for deeper understanding. The two programs are complementary and can be taken in either order, depending on your learning style and goals.
How Long Does It Take to Complete the Course?
The Peak Performance 101 Workshop includes nearly 15 hours of video content. Because it is offered as a video-on-demand course, there is no fixed timeline for completion.
You can move through the material at your own pace, whether that means completing it over a few weeks or spreading it out over a longer period to allow time for reflection and implementation. Many participants find that taking time between sessions enhances the depth and impact of the learning.
Can I Access the Course Materials at Any Time?
Yes, once enrolled, you can access the course materials at any time, on your own schedule. The video-on-demand format allows you to pause, rewind, and revisit key lessons as often as needed—making it easy to review important concepts and reinforce learning over time.
This flexible access is one of the major advantages of the current format, allowing you to fully absorb and apply the material at a pace that works best for you.
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