“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 […]
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 […]
This is one of the major roadblocks in the evolution of a trader. And most will not get past it. A good day, week, or month can be ruined by your survival instincts kicking in and manhandling you in order to save a losing trade. Find out what happens when your rational self is hijacked […]
The one value that affects your performance the most is how you value money. In this webinar, Mike will discuss the relationship between values, attitudes, and behaviors, and the effects they have on your trading performance.
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 […]
Join Dr. Reid for another 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 to instill the courage you need to take only those “A” trades, despite any doubts and fears you might experience as you sit at […]
The performance problems you have in trading are not caused by anything “out there” in the markets. Depending on what emotionally-based mindset you are in at a particular moment, you will “see” your charts differently. Most step into the batter’s box already primed by fear, excitement, or aggression – so they perceive their charts based […]
In this webinar, Mike will review techniques for analyzing your psychology journal to determine which aspects of your psychological makeup are affecting you the most and thus should be immediately addressed in order to improve your trading.
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. […]
In this follow up webinar, Dr. Reid will address some additional factors that can throw traders into a state of mind where they do unnecessary damage to their accounts. What happens to traders mentally and emotionally when they get fooled? When the market is annoyingly random for hours at a time? Dr. Reid will unpack […]
In this webinar you will learn what you have not been able to see. There is an underground world inside your trading mind that you have to master. The mind that you brought to trading is simply not up to the task of trading. But you can learn how to build a mind that stays […]
In this webinar, Mike will address the effects of fear on the mind as it relates to trading. He will highlight the common trading problems associated with fear, how to assess fear, the symptoms of fear, and ways to prevent fear from affecting your trading performance.
The first step in addressing trading psychology issues is to identify which challenges are affecting you the most, so that you can apply the appropriate tools to improve in that area. In this webinar, Mike will highlight how to create a psychology journal that can be incorporated into your trading journal, in order to assist […]
After six content-packed webinars, we have covered a whole lot of mental training techniques, all designed to help you cultivate the mental edge. However, are you feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of potential strategies? In this webinar, CrĂ©de will revisit all the key techniques outlined in the series and discuss how you can synthesize […]
It’s a truism in trading that we need Rules, which provide behavioral guard rails while we grow toward Mastery. Without Rules, we get in trouble by following our instincts, our intuition and our emotions. Along the way, however, our relationship with our Rule Set can become problematic. In this webinar we will discuss an alternative […]
There are times when you can summon powerful strengths to engage the challenges of living. But in trading, somehow those very strengths that you need to show up big time hide from your access – and it seems without fail just when you need them the most. In this webinar, you will learn what stops […]
Just as you must develop a solid trading plan to achieve your trading goals, it is equally important to develop a training plan centered on strengthening your trading psychology. In this webinar, Mike will discuss how to put together an effective psychology training plan to assist you with achieving your trading goals.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]