"The mind that you bring to trading is NOT the mind that will produce success in Trading. That has to be built."
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"I knew how to trade. I knew what my mind should be like to trade. That's easy. You can read books and sit in on a ton of webinars. Out of that you can "talk the talk", but my trading account was telling me that I wasn't "walking the walk". Moving from WHAT the mind is supposed to look like to trade to learning HOW to change - that is what was missing. I knew I had to change; I just didn't know how to do it. The problem was, before Rande's work, I didn't know how to work with my mind and develop the internal decipline for successful trading. Now that's happening." MC
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Can you relate to this trader's comments? As much as traders want to believe that their knowledge (IQ) is the Holy Grail, the truth is that their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the difference between success and failure in trading. The mind and emotions are the last frontier that a trader has to master to achieve their potential in trading. It is also the part of you that you will most resist changing - finding every excuse imaginable not to summon the courage to act. You will produce all sorts of excuses to delay actually changing, but..... Your trading account will give you unbiased feedback on how effective your emotions, mind, and beliefs are in helping you to achieve success in trading. Increasing you Trading EQ is the difference maker - an aspiring trader has to get past the resistance to personal change to go to the next level.
Mastering the mind you bring to uncertainty is essential. It is just as important as any other element in trading that has to be mastered. It is either the weakest link, or the strongest link, in your plan to trade. This video opens the door to understanding the relationship between uncertainty and fear - and your performance as a trader. The real question for aspiring traders is whether they are ready to commit to the emotional lifting required to re-build the mind for trading. As long as you remained seduced by the brain's "easy way out" mentality, you will remain stuck in the self limiting beliefs that keep you from achieving your potential as a trader. You really have to be committed to pushing through this barrier to move from "talking the talk" to walking the walk".
Your mind is the one tool that traders most often neglect developing. Yet, this failure keeps painfully showing you that this aspect of your trading needs attention. Do you really want to become a successful trader? Then accept that building the mind you bring to trading is the foundation of your future success.
Have you discovered that your potential as a trader is still being sabotaged by an undisciplined mind and emotions? That is where the vast majority of traders stay stuck. You know you have the skills to trade effectively, but something is going on in your head that blocks you from peak performance trading. Trading success is a marriage between platform, methodology, and a trader's psychology. Most traders invest enormous emotional and financial capital into their platform and methodology, while neglecting their psychological and emotional development as traders -- They literally deny that their personal psychological and emotional organization are the single biggest problems that block their success. Rarely does a trader come to trading with a mind suitable for trading. The mind and psychology of a trader has to be developed.
Unless you are enormously fortunate, the psychology of the trader has to be developed (much like in golf and chess) to use the tools of platform and methodology. Traders State of Mind is dedicated to educating traders in the psychology of their performance who finally realize that the Holy Grail has never been "out there". It is within you. But you have to commit to developing your peak performance mindset. And you cut through your resistance to change.
If you are serious about getting to the next level, please explore this website. To get started, I recommend the free stuff -- cutting edge trader psychology articles, questionnaire, and interviews. They will give you good head knowledge to understand the problems in the psychology of trading.
To take it a step further, I also encourage you to read my book, Mindful Trading: Mastering Your Emotions and the Inner Game. (FYI - this book is now in its 2nd printing and is available as an e-book or a paper book.) It focuses on how you get past the roadblocks stopping you from experiencing success and develop your psychological potential for trading. After that, review the offering listed below this letter and elsewhere on this website.
Rande will be speaking at the Dallas Traders Expo in June. Here's an invitation to that show!
You’re invited to attend The Traders Expo Dallas on June 6-8, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion so traders, like you, can get years of trading knowledge from trading experts in only three days! The Traders Expo will provide the best opportunity to meet face-to-face with, learn from, and ask specific questions of today’s top traders. So make the first step to becoming a better, more profitable trader and REGISTER FREE today!
To read more about Rande's presentation at the show, click here.
Free Trader Psychology Webinars
Click here for live webinar dates and registration forms. Click here for a recorded webinar that was performed in conjunction with our MetaStock affiliate. Are you ready to find out what really blocks you from peak performance in trading -- and what you can really do about it? With the Traders State of Mind Questionnaire, you discover a lot about how your emotions block you from developing your potential. The Eight Roadblocks Webinar examines these barriers and opens your eyes to see what really hijacks your ability to trade. The 5 Essential Skills Webinar shows you the skills and tools you need to develop to change old self limiting beliefs and habits that limit your potential into a peak performance mindset that gives you the psychological edge to trade your methodology with precision.
"Rande's course was very helpful to me because it helped me understand why I was doing those things that caused me to make poor trading decisions and correct them . It also helped me bring out the parts of my personality that enabled me to think clearly and calmly and actually execute my trading plan fearlessly and with confidence. The course is not difficult, but it requires a commitment by you, and a willingness to look at yourself honestly."
At thes webinars you will learn how to get control of the emotions and thinking that keep blowing up your trading performances.. You'll see how your biology and your mind influence your trading ... and how they can be managed to produce a Peak Performance Mindset perfect for trading. Remember, the Traders State of Mind is what separates people who develop trading as a successful way of creating wealth from those stuck in their self-fulfilling prophesy that keeps them from developing their potential.
Trader Psychology Training Courses for Mastering Emotions and Building the Mind that Trades
After a while in the journey to become a successful trader, he or she realizes that they are really going to have to commit to professional development of themselves as a trader. They have learned methodology and know how to trade. They have developed a platform that works for them. Consistent success still eludes them. It is then that the emerging trader discovers that they really have to learn about themselves and what makes them tick and blow up - and what can make them successful. They realize that the problem with their trading is THEM - not their methodology or platform. And, that to become a professional trader, they are going to have to develop emotional and mental skills for trading.
They have read all the books and tried all the shortcuts to success, but they have not been able to sustain success. They become ready and commit themselves to personal development and training. The two courses listed below are for those traders. The ones that are serious about becoming the trader they could be and realize (after painful experience) that they are not going to do it without help and investment in themselves.
Developing Trader's State of Mind*
Video-Based Self Study Course That Equips You to Get to the Next Level
How many times have your emotions sabotaged your trading edge? If you had the skills to calm down your emotions -- and calmly trade your plan, what would that mean to you? Come to this internet webinar course and get the psychological edge you're missing. This workshop will teach you the fundamental tools of emotional regulation and peak performance state of mind development.
This is a basic course that teaches all the skills that are used in the individual course. It is ideal for "do it yourselfers" who are economizing. For self learners, it is ideal.
"This course delivered the skills needed for change. I was tired of listening to psychological platitudes telling me what my mind needed to look like - but could not be internalized. I was tired of pretending that affirmations and positive thinking were going to change the problems I was having in my trading. Been there, done that. I wanted something taught me how to develop my psychology so I could move to the next level. In this course you find the self limiting beliefs that hold you back. You also learn how to disrupt them and rebuild them into mindset that can trade with discipline and patience so that I can now manage the uncertainty found in trading. I now am no longer a prisoner to the fear that drove my management of uncertainty. The video-based classroom takes this course to another level. You can study when you want and so much as you want. It made the difference for me." GT
* This course is also offered as a group course with a participating methodology teacher. If you are interested in this possibility, get your trading trainer in touch with us.
The Ignite Program -- An Individual Trader Psychology Course that Incorporates Individual Coaching for Optimum Learning
Are you ready to move beyond fear and self doubt in your trading and into the Traders State of Mind? Would you like to be able to observe the uncertainty of the market, but remain in a calm, observant, and impartial state of mind? This course is comprehensive in that it provides a coach who mentors you through the process of change needed for developing an effective state of mind for trading. That coach is Rande Howell, MEd LPC. That means that your guide through this process is a trained and licensed as a professional counselor who has worked with emotional regulation of fear and anger for years. And when you working with self limiting beliefs that limit potential, this is a difference maker.
"The last thing I wanted to acknowledge was that I needed help with my personal psychology to become a successful trader. For years, I put it off deceiving myself that I could do it myself. Well, my trading told me a different story. I finally realized that my resistance was really getting in the way of creating a successful trading career. I hung around Rande's free webinars enough to know that change really required creating an interior discipline that clearly I was not demonstrating in my trading. And what was stopping me from developing this interior discipline was my pride. It hurt to realize that I was shooting myself in the foot. Learning the skills of emotional regulation gave me the tools to keep my fears from blowing up my trades. The Mindfulness Training opened the door to a completely new understanding of myself and a freedom I had never known before. And the development of my inner resources (that's all the Jungian Archetype stuff he teaches) for interior discipline, patience, courage, and impartiality has made the difference in my trading. I know the interior discipline that lives within me and I can act from it. I have no idea why it took me so long to buy into the need of a trader psychologist for performance improvement. Rande's coaching and the skills you'll learn can change your trading. I am now equipped to create and manage the mindset I bring to trading. It has made all the difference in the world." SC
This Ignite Program for trading is for traders who realize that personal coaching is the most efficient way of changing old self limiting patterns into productive new beliefs about self and your ability to bring a calm impartial and disciplined mindset to manage the uncertainty and risk found in trading.
