Mastering the Connection Between Trading, Financial Performance, and Gambling

Trader Psychology tip-toes around the powerful connection between the flaws in the mind that manage uncertainty and the instinctual gambling instinct that drives financial performance. BEFORE the sanitized version of trading flaws found in Trader Psychology is something much deeper in your evolutionary psychology – your gambling survival instincts that are killing your trading. And … Read more

How Faulty Thinking Leads to Messing Up Trades

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’re right.” Mindset plays a very significant role in successful trading. However, a negative mindset can actually take several forms. Indeed, there are many sneaky thinking styles that you may not even class as being negative until you understand how that thinking impacts your … Read more

Hitting the Reset Button

Markets change, and we need to change with them. Attitudes, expectations, techniques, targets, and stops may need to be adjusted. Stocks that used to trade well, now trade badly. Our favorite setups do not run to target. Breakouts fail. Rallies and reversals are more extreme… so is chop and it lasts longer. News events matter … Read more

How to Identify Your Deepest Fears in Trading

Do you know exactly what you need to do to make profitable trades, but find yourself repeatedly getting in your own way? Do you become overactive in the market, revenge trade, ignore limits, or hesitate to take on risk because you are afraid to make a mistake? These are all ways that your mind and … Read more

The Best Loser Wins

Tom Hougaard is a trader from Denmark who has written an irreverent book that contradicts many of the standard rules of the road. The subtitle of his book is: “Why normal thinking never wins the trading game.” Hougaard enjoys thinking outside the box and making fun of those still inside … but he has a … Read more

Keeping Emotional Control When the Money is Real

There is a disconnect between thinking (knowledge) and emotion (performance) that is the missing link in your striving to become the trader you know you can be. You push emotion to the background, thinking that is the way to trade. Then it fails, again. The truth is that emotion and knowledge have to be built … Read more

How to Identify What Money Means to You

The one value that affects your trading performance the most is how you value money. In this webinar, Mike will firstly discuss how to identify where you place the role of money in your life. He will then outline steps you can take to change your mindset around money so that you can achieve your … Read more

How to Find Your Mental Edge

Trading is a performance sport and mindset is a competitive advantage. To be a successful trader or athlete, technical skill is a requirement. But technical skill alone is not enough. In sports and trading, where split-second decisions and impulsive actions can make or break a career, mindset is what separates the good from the great. … Read more

Thinking in Bets

Join Dr. Reid for another informative presentation designed to help you break the fear and loss cycle. In this webinar, Dr. Reid will provide you with a method that can be trusted Annie Duke, a world-champion poker player, has devoted her life to the study of decision-making under pressure. Financial pressure. Fortunately, for us, she’s … Read more

Pathway to Become a Successful Trader

There are many pathways that a trader can take as they begin their journey in trading. As you may be aware, trading can offer great rewards in life, but not without some challenges along the way. In this webinar, Mike will discuss a pathway that many traders have taken and found success with.

Handling Pressure

Success in trading can be summed up in a simple formula: develop a technical edge and the psychological stability to consistently apply it while managing risk. Sounds simple, but the process isn’t easy. Specifically, the more performance pressure you feel, the more vulnerable you will become to emotion-driven ideas and behaviors. But pressure, per se, … Read more

The Invisible Threat to Your Trading Account

Have you suddenly hit a trading slump? Have you noticed you’re taking on more risk than usual or breaking your own rules? There’s one underlying issue that holds even the best traders back from making the returns they’re capable of making. What is it? It is the invisible pull to fill some underlying human need … Read more

Staying Disciplined When Taking Losses

How many times have you taken a rough loss because you were consumed by a fear of losing? 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 … Read more

How to Identify Negative Thinking

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.” Mindset plays a very significant role in successful trading. However, a “negative mindset” can actually take several forms. Indeed, there are many sneaky thinking styles that you may not even class as being negative until you understand how that thinking impacts your actions … Read more

Handling Pressure

Success in trading can be summed up in a simple formula: develop a technical edge and the psychological stability to consistently apply it while managing risk. Sounds simple, but the process isn’t easy. Specifically, the more performance pressure you feel, the more vulnerable you become to emotion-driven ideas and behaviors. But pressure, per se, isn’t … Read more