Mental Self Mastery in Trading

Mastering the Urgency to Over-Trade Hello Trader,                There comes a moment when you recognize that the weakest link in your trading system is you. The health of your trading account will not let you live in your personal rendition of la-la land for long. It is you who can’t follow your plan. And it will stay that way until you wake up to the reality of trading. It is not like the rest of the world in which you live. It is truly a world where, try as you might, you cannot control outcome. No matter how success-oriented your mind is, you still cannot make winning happen by will or attitude – nor can you stop losing, no matter how much you hate to lose. And lastly, no matter how much you want to believe that you can predict movements in the market reliably – you can’t. Your admirable qualities built around hard work conquering all and the will to win (no matter how successful you have been before trading) becomes an albatross around your neck in trading. This is what every aspiring trader has to awaken to. And even more, you have to rebuild the mind that brought you to trading, because it is not capable of successful trading long-term. A new mind, very different from the old, has to be built. And it has to be built before you run out of capital. That is exactly what drives failure in trading. People refuse to change and adapt. They want the old, comfortable, familiar ways. And they continue to deceive themselves until they run out of money and/or time. The point is that you are going to have to train your brain and your mind for the world of trading. What works in your regular world simply does not work in the world of trading. And until you are willing to reorganize the way you emotionally respond to Uncertainty and risk, success in trading will remain a mirage that stays slightly out of reach. Your survival instincts (that keep wrecking your trading performances) are not going to change just because you have trading knowledge. You need to develop the skill. That is why I am asking you to seriously consider joining our upcoming Developing Traders State of Mind (DTSM) Group Course. It actually teaches the knowledge and skills that you need in order to change the way your survival instincts react to Uncertainty. I am encouraging you to check it out. Here is the link to see what you are going to learn in the DTSM Group Course. This month’s article (Staying Disciplined While Losing) comes out of a trader’s story who overcame his fear of losing as a result of participating in the Group Course. And this month’s free webinar takes the fear of losing to a much greater depth. I recommend you register for it. [Here’s the link to register](. Friends, it is time to get serious about building a career in trading from the ground up. Instead of just knowledge, you will need to rework the way Nature shaped your brain to interact with Uncertainty. It’s a different mind - one that can be learned. It will take a lot more than knowledge. You will have to use that knowledge under stress, without your survival instincts sweeping you away. Come learn these skills in the Group Course. It’s not your fault that you didn’t come equipped with the right brain and mind for the job. That’s rare, really rare. But it is your responsibility to wake up and see the reality you are engaging while trading. It is simply not like the regular reality you live and breathe in. Prepare yourself to seize this new day. Come join us for the Group Course. p.s. Hey, we now have Traders State of Mind Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Please click on [Facebook Traders State of Mind]( see that page and [LinkedIn Traders State of Mind]( see our LinkedIn page. We would love for you to Like our Facebook page and Follow Us on LinkedIn. To do so, please click on the icons below...and thanks! Rande [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in September, 2021 Title - Staying Disciplined While Taking Losses Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Sept. 9, 4:30-5:30pm EDT]( Description:   How many times have you taken a rough loss because you were consumed by a fear of losing? Intellectually you know better, but when you are being stopped out, primitive instinctual survival skills take over and sweep your mind away. Suddenly, you hate losing and will do almost anything to not lose. Yet, losing is a skill that must be developed if you are to become a winning trader. Learn about the origins of your dislike of losing so that you can interrupt its destructive cost to your trading. And learn about coming to a new understanding about both winning and losing that can set your trading free – so that your fear of losing no longer sabotages your trading potential. Come find out how. Register for this free webinar and start the journey of learning to lose like a professional trader.  Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar. And [click here]( to read my article regarding this month's webinar topic. IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. [New free Video - ]( Staying Disciplined While Taking Losses It’s a paradox. You hate losing and will do almost anything to not lose. Yet, losing is a skill that must be developed if you are to become a winning trader. Learn about the origins of your dislike of losing so that you can interrupt its destructive cost to your trading. And learn about coming to a new understanding about both winning and losing that can set your trading free – so that your fear of losing no longer sabotages your trading potential. Taking a disciplined loss (freely and without baggage about needing to win) is one of the greatest skills that has to be achieved for you to become a successful trader. Come find out how. Watch this video and learn about how to stay disciplined while taking losses. (Then [register for our September webinar]( Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Fall, 2021 The emotional brain is built to seek safety in a dangerous world. The world that it was created for has long since disappeared. It developed a hair-trigger to the fight/flight response because that is what was needed for survival. Now, it has been taken out of the jungle (where risk meant danger) and is being asked to act civilized in a world of probability - where risk is not lethal. Without re-training and re-programming the emotional limbic system, this is not going to happen. It is built to react to danger quickly. It was never built to ponder your rules when it is experiencing vulnerability, discomfort, and fear. It was programmed to act from your survival instinct.  Until this is done, your emotional brain will continue to hijack your thinking brain when you feel the discomfort of uncertainty and risk. This is your silent partner. The question is: Are you going to try to continue to pretend it's not part of your trading mind? Or, are you ready to re-program it for the modern world of trading and probability. Fortunately, this can be done. The Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course Teaches You How to Master Reactive Emotions The Group Course has been called a wake-up call by many traders. Most simply have no idea how the brain and mind work to produce performance in the clutch with risk on. You learn here. It's more than a wake-up call - it a door that opens you to a whole new world. You learn how the emotional brain (so focused on survival) needs to be handled to become an effective working partner with the thinking brain. This course is eye-opening. I had no idea how to fix the problems I had with my trading until this course. Learning how to manage emotions is only the start. You learn how to create a mind built to manage uncertainty. Bottom line is that I know longer sabotage myself and have become profitable. I wish I had taken the group course a long time ago. It's a difference maker. SD From the start you learn how to calm survival emotions down before they become big and hijack your trading mind. That's just the first step. The major benefit is that you learn how to create a mind built for trading, rather than survival in the past. This is what has to happen for success in trading. You have been using a brain/mind created for circumstances that no longer exist. What is needed is a brain/mind built for probability management. Where you learn to become comfortable with the discomfort of uncertainty rather than triggering to your survival instinct. This is what every trader, to be successful, has to learn. Time to register! The first review session for the Group Course is September 16. By this date you need to have studied the Class 101 materials in depth. So, give yourself lots of time to study, and get started now! The survival Instinct is not going to just go away. It is your partner. Do you want to learn to work with it so that it helps you to become the trader you can be? [Please Click here to register ]( the Group Course. [Please Click here to view a video about the Group Course or for more information.]( The DTSM Group Course teaches the same basic skills that are taught in my individual course, but is only $1195. This is spread out as five payments of $239/each over a 10-week time period. It's a whole lot of training for a reasonable cost. SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING PAYMENT - PayPal CANNOT be used as a payment method for this Group Course since PayPal does not allow for rebilling. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact Delores at delores@mytradersstateofmind.com Mindful Trading: Mastering Your Emotions and the Inner Game Author: J. Rande Howell, MEd., LPC If you know how to trade when not in the pressure of trading, but you have not been able to trade live from a calm, detached, and disciplined state of mind, this book will open your eyes. Mindful Trading actually shows you HOW to develop a peak performance state of mind specifically for trading. This book gets in the head of a trader. You will meet a number of real life traders who have overcome self doubt, fear, and impulsiveness. You will see how they overcame self-limiting beliefs and began trading from an empowered state of mind. You will discover your core beliefs that actually trade your system and methodology. And without change at this fundamental level, old self-limiting patterns of thought and belief re-assert themselves shortly after your brain pushes off any "tricks and tips" you learned from self-help seminars. It is this change at the organization of meaning and biology that makes this book so different. A number of disciplines are folded into a unified process that really gets at long term change. Those disciplines include neuro-biology, emotional intelligence, ontological reconstruction of the self, attachment theory and the meaning of the self, and Jungian archetypes. In Mindful Trading, imbedded in self-limiting beliefs, you are carried through a change process that transforms traders mired in mediocrity to a re-organization of the mind for peak performance trading. Mindful Trading is available both as an [Audio book]( and a [downloadable e-book](. [Read an excerpt from Mindful Trading]( free and you get to look inside a trader's mind) And consider the companion study tool: the  [Mindful Trading Companion]( [ e-Workbook!]( Explore a Trader's State of Mind Coaching Relationship with Rande Howell This is a personalized course for the trader who is ready to move beyond being stuck in self limiting beliefs. If you have recognized that it is you that stands in the way of your becoming a more successful trader, then this challenge can become an opportunity for re-invention of yourself as a trader, rather than something to avoid. It's like a door opening to an entirely new world. Great athletes recognize that the mental aspect of their game requires a performance coach for them to reach their potential. Trading is the same. Self-limiting beliefs have to be rooted out and changed - and a peak performance mindset has to be developed. It's all part of the training. Having a methodology that gives you an edge is not enough. You have to develop your mind so that it gives you the psychological edge to use your methodology and platform so that the uncertainty found in trading favors you. This is trading beyond fear. It is trading from a disciplined, impartial, patient, and courageous state of mind. Without emotional regulation training, this can take years (if ever) to achieve on your own. Teasing apart uncertainty from fear is simply something that the brain will not do on its own. The psychology to this has to be developed...or you stay stuck in the same old self-fulfilling prophesies of mediocrity. Do you want to move beyond fear and trade from a calm, detached, and disciplined state of mind?  If you are seriously considering registering for the Individual Course, then c[lick here to check out a free, no obligation consult with Rande Howell]( get to see how this powerful technology of the mind can move your trading to the next level. To make this free consult productive for you, I recommend that you first attend one of my free webinars. This will lay down a lot of groundwork so that when you speak with me -- you'll be hitting on all cylinders. 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