This webinar will draw on one of the key mental skills used by professional athletes to enhance sports performance, and it will explain how to harness the power of your creative mind to help you reach your trading potential. We will discuss why imagery is so effective, how to create an imagery script tailored to … Read more
Over the long run, markets go up… but periodically they go down. They rally in the morning and dive in the afternoon… or vice versa. Breakouts fail. Moving averages do not function. The chop is dreadful and it becomes hard to determine direction. Traps are everywhere. If you buy, the market goes down; if you … Read more
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
In this webinar, Mike will address the effects of anxiety on the mind as it relates to trading. He will highlight the common trading problems associated with anxiety, how to manage anxiety, and ways to prevent anxiety from affecting your trading performance.
Understanding your trading “why” is the first step to mastering your trading psychology. As a trader, you are far more likely to make the changes needed for success if you truly understand the reason you trade. In this webinar, Mike will discuss how your ability to accept changes hinges less on how much you like … Read more
Most people are aware of the importance of setting SMART goals to achieve a target. But the art of effective goal setting actually goes much deeper than that. This webinar explores goal -setting through the paradigm of ‘process, performance, and outcome goals’. When you set effective goals, the need for willpower decreases. The process of … Read more
Most aspiring traders have a timeline for their trading journey, that is a tad unrealistic. Even with the best mentoring, traders cultivate competency via an ‘organic’ developmental process that can’t be rushed. In this webinar, Dr. Reid will present two developmental models that will help you identify what stage you are presently at, what your … Read more
Why do you keep losing emotional control and crashing your potential even when you try really hard? It seems so do-able – all you have to do is keep your act together and success is yours, right? But you can’t. The truth is that you are asking your brain to do something that is its … Read more
Join Andrew as he discusses he journey through trading psychology.
Pressure affects the nature and quality of your thinking in specific ways. From the dreaded “paralysis by analysis” to impulsive decision-making, pressure can make you deviate very far from your trading plan. This webinar explores how pressure impacts your thinking, and how you can use practical techniques to harness the power of your cognition and … Read more
JoiMy favorite indicator is the humble trendline, which I always draw slanting up or down at an angle. It is the most affordable no-lag indicator I know. I use it mostly for trend-following, but it can be used for timing reversals, too. In this webinar, I will show you a few trendline tricks and discuss … Read more
Join Mike as he discusses the psychological issues related to the fear of missing out (FOMO) on a trade. Topics covered will include the symptoms of FOMO, how to effectively deal with FOMO, and how to improve your emotions when you’re suddenly hit with a feeling of FOMO.
Join Susan and a couple of our BBT members as they review Annie Duke’s book, Thinking in Bets. They will discuss the main concepts of the book and explain how you can take those concepts and apply them to your trading.
Pop quiz time! To be successful in the stock market, all you need is a solid trading strategy with good risk management. Agree? Disagree? Regardless of your opinion, this is indeed a very common belief that most novice traders have until they spend time trading in the actual market. They then quickly realize that making … Read more
Trading requires a deft combination of Discipline and Adaptability. You need to possess both a defined TradeBook and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Why? Because you quite simply will never trade in the same market twice. Some traders are naturally very disciplined and trade based on rules, but have difficulty adapting to the … Read more
In the final webinar of this series, Mike will take a deep dive into trading in strategy sets and how that can assist you with thinking in probabilities. He will also discuss the interworking needed to put together a legitimate strategy set that can be utilized to improve your edge in the markets.
In this webinar, Mike will discuss how the pressure of trading can turn “normal” stress into distress. Mike will also offer some proven tips and stress management techniques to assist you in improving your ability to handle the pressure of trading.
In the second part of this series, Mike will discuss how you as trader can develop an edge in the market similar to the house edge that makes casinos profitable. He will discuss the differences between trading and gambling as well as how precisely you can go about determining what your own specific TradeBook edge … Read more
Mindset plays a very significant role in successful trading. 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 in the markets. This webinar will unearth some of the most common mind traps that result in losing trades as well … Read more
We can spend all day at our screens and not be aware of the passage of time. I suspect active traders move in and out of mild trance states multiple times per hour. In this webinar, we will look at the consequences of that alternation and what we can do to stay in our right … Read more