Tharp Think Essentials Workshop: On-Demand Video Course

Learn how you are programmed by “the Matrix” and, more importantly, how to clear your old programming to create more useful beliefs that support your trading and a well-balanced life.

Tharp Think Essentials Workshop Overview

Van refers to his successful trading principles collectively as “Tharp Think.” He has been teaching his Tharp Think workshop for many years and it was updated recently to include all the important additional information that his research has revealed. Van takes the mystery out of trading successfully by helping you understand critical questions that most traders don’t even consider.

• Who you are as a trader,
• How your personal psychology can work for you instead of against you,
• How to think about and manage risk, and
• How to develop winning trading systems.

In this course, you’ll learn ways to recognize your old programming and start the reprogramming process including:

• Recognizing your key beliefs that limit you
• Learning how to reprogram them
• Understanding how to use feeling release to unlock stuck beliefs that you know hold you back
• Learning some of your mental strategies, such as how you convince yourself that something works, whether it actually does or not

This new Tharp Think Essentials Workshop is different from Dr. Tharp’s original Tharp Think webinar. This expanded version totals more than 7 hours of recorded lectures! Note: This course is included for free with the Swing Trading Systems Course.

High-Level Concepts Covered in Tharp Think Essentials:

Learn how you are programmed by “the Matrix” and how to clear your old programming. What if you could start to reprogram yourself to function at a near-super-human level? Moreover, all it takes to do so is to recognize your old program (beliefs and strategies), get rid of what’s useless and adopt what works. It is not that hard if you are willing to do the work and look at yourself.

For example, a programmer knows that correct programming will enable a computer to do what it is supposed to do. Moreover, you cannot allow the system to be harmed by viruses and other malware if you want it to run effectively. So don’t you think it is important to do that for yourself?

Have you asked yourself these questions:

• Is your “programming” working well?
• What do you need to reprogram?
• What’s holding you back from performing at a peak level?

Do you have any viruses that continually sabotage what you are trying to accomplish?

In this course, you will learn ways to recognize your old programming and start the reprogramming process including:

• Recognizing your key beliefs that limit you
• Learning how to reprogram them
• Understanding how to use feeling release to unlock stuck beliefs that you know hold you back
• Learning some of your mental strategies, such as how you convince yourself that something works, whether it does or not

Beyond your psychology, a real key to trading success (one that even most professional traders do not understand) is that you achieve your objectives through position sizing strategies. Your trading objectives involve the returns and the drawdowns on your equity. We will discuss various objectives and how to use position sizing to achieve them. Based on what we have seen from great traders over the years, having great position sizing strategies is more important than having great trading systems.

Finally, you will learn from mistakes … the bane of all traders. By Dr. Tharp’s definition, a mistake occurs when you do not follow your rules. You will learn that the average trader is only about 70-80% efficient — meaning they make 2-3 mistakes in every ten trades. That is enough to turn a great system into a losing system and possibly enough to make you abandon something that is perfectly good without even understanding why it does not seem to “work” for you.

You will learn:

1. How to recognize the most common mistakes that people make and what they can cost you.
2. How to measure your efficiency.
3. Moreover, most importantly, three simple tasks that you can perform every day to eliminate mistakes and prevent you from repeating them. (Repeating mistakes is very common for many people.)

Any trader who learns how to prevent mistakes, understand their psychology, transform themselves and develop effective position sizing strategies could immediately see a huge increase in the level of their profitability. These topics are critical to understanding – in addition to having great systems.

Remember, you get the entire Tharp Think Essentials Workshop – a total of more than 7 hours of recorded lectures – Included for free with Part I of the Swing Trading Systems Elearning Course.

Tharp Think Live Workshop vs. Online Recording

With the live version of this workshop in the past, attendees had to consider the time and effort needed to travel to North Carolina and were limited to experiencing it only once. This online video course offers the flexibility to review the workshop as many times as you like and ensure a full understanding of Van’s core concepts.

Additionally, we have reduced the price of the on-demand video course compared to the live workshop. You will get the same content without the inconvenience of travel. During your one-year subscription period, you can watch the video as often as you’d like. You can also pause and resume where you left off if you prefer not to finish all the videos in one sitting.

Is This Course Right for You?

Determining if the Tharp Think Essentials Workshop is right for you depends on several factors related to your personal goals, trading experience, and willingness to engage deeply with the material. Here are key aspects to consider:

Personal Psychology in Trading:

• Understanding how your personal psychology can work for you instead of against you.
• Identifying and reprogramming key limiting beliefs.
• Using feeling release techniques to unlock stuck beliefs.

Risk Management and Trading Systems:

• Learning to think about and manage risk effectively.
• Developing winning trading systems.
• Understanding and implementing position sizing strategies.

Avoiding Common Mistakes:

• Recognizing common trading mistakes and their costs.
• Measuring your trading efficiency.
• Implementing daily practices to eliminate and prevent mistakes.

If you resonate with the areas of focus outlined above and are committed to engaging with the course material, the Tharp Think Essentials Workshop could be a valuable investment in your trading and personal growth journey. The flexibility of the online format also makes it a convenient option for continuous learning and refinement.

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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