Free Rande Howell webinar: Mastering the Mind Your Bring into the Uncertainly of the Moment

Mastering the Mind You Bring into the Uncertainty of the Moment   Hello Trader,                    You don’t see them, The moment you put your hard-earned capital at risk (particularly if you have already taken a loss) – the game of trading changes. Before this moment, trading is all hypothetical theory.  It’s a mental exercise about probability. No money is on the line – yet.  But after order fill when the money is real, a door to an unseen world opens. And it happens so fast (nanoseconds – faster than the blink of your eye) that your Thinking Brain (the one you want to trade with) doesn’t even sense it.  Suddenly, your ancient, instinctive, Emotional Brain (often called the Caveman Brain) wakes up. And it has a completely different agenda than that of your Thinking Brain. The problem is that the Thinking Brain doesn’t sense the presence of the Emotional Brain. Your Thinking Brain wants to make some money and has probability on its side with your trusty methodology. Sounds good so far. But, your Emotional Brain doesn’t have any idea what money or capital is. So, it doesn’t interpret the circumstances the same way as your Thinking Brain does. Your Emotional Brain (aka Caveman Brain) sees placing capital at risk for future gain as either a threat to its existence (fear of loss) or as an opportunity to feed its clan if acting quickly (impulsive trading). Because your Caveman Brain is clueless about the modern concept of capital; it sees this entry of yours as the gaining or losing of personal power. Loss of that capital (to the Emotional Brain) is a threat of death. It is either going to take emergency action to avoid the threat, fight for its life (the trade going against you), or as an opportunity to solidify its power and safety in the group. You experience this as an emotional hijacking or “going tilt”.  This is how the game changes when you put capital at risk by entering the trade. It might only take a quarter of a second for all of this to happen. Emotions are that fast! At entry, if the trade goes against you, you are fighting for your life. The saber-toothed tiger is breaking down your door ready to consume you and your capital. If the trade happens to go in your favor, you experience the euphoria of feeling good. To your inner Caveman, you are about to eat well today and you are excited.  You and your Thinking Brain are irrationally exuberant without noticing it.  And you are mindless to what is about to happen. It is at this moment that traders get swallowed alive by the powerful and primal survival instincts that act outside of thinking.  Because you have not learned how to become aware of your emotional nature, thinking is cut off and fight/flight instinct takes over. Usually, the trader has no explanation regarding what happened. Your Thinking Brain (the brain you identify with) is hijacked and the Emotional Brain takes over (your evil twin). And you do not come back to your senses until after the fact. This is what an emotional hijacking looks like. This is why the brain that you brought to trading is not going to be the brain that produces success in trading. This relationship between money, power (and safety), and your beliefs about money and power has to be examined. Money is not just money. Money is a symbolic representation of your beliefs about your capacity to manage the uncertainties of life. It represents your personal power to survive and prosper that is held in your Emotional or Caveman Brain. To become consistently profitable, these beliefs you hold about money as a symbol of your power to survive and prosper must be addressed. When your capital is threatened, your physical life is being threatened, according to your Emotional Brain. Getting Your Beliefs about Money in Line with the Reality of Trading You trade your beliefs about money. Money (winning) and mattering become intertwined. Money and self-worth become intertwined. Money and adequacy become intertwined, every time you risk capital to an uncertain future. You want to become a Winner to prove that you matter, have worth, and are adequate. And as long as this connection binds you, consistent profitability will elude you. To become successful in trading you must separate your sense of mattering as a human being from your performances in trading. Your Being is separate from your performances. Performances are about your competency as a trader. Your sense of Being is beyond whether you win or lose. Linking the two, Being and performance, is the fatal flaw that drives the emotional hijackings so common in trading. A very successful trader I know told me how he learned this vital session. He had lost $750,000 by being very foolish as a trader. It was all the money that he and his wife had. He felt shame. He felt like a loser. He hated that. He had tried to prove that he could be a successful provider for them, and he had failed – clearly, in his mind, he was a Loser. He might as well accept it. He had failed as a man. He went to his wife and confessed, expecting her to leave him. He felt he was not the man he promoted himself to be – and he had been busted by the trading gods. He apologized and humbly asked for her forgiveness. He waited for the fury to come, after all, he deserved it. To his surprise, his wife embraced him. They held each other and cried for a while. Her love for him (his Being) was not about the loss of money; it was about him. Was she happy about it – no she was not. Could they (as a couple) get past this catastrophic event – yes, they could and would.  From this point on, he knew in his bones that he, as a human being, was lovable. And that his family loved him as a person. His performances simply did not define him anymore. He knew that he was okay now (accepted and loved for who he was), whether he won or lost. The quest for the power of money did not define him anymore. That is when his trading took off. He was freed from the tyranny of linking his worth as a human being to his performances of winning and losing. He didn’t feel threatened by loss anymore. Nor was he wowed by winning anymore. His value as conscious creation became real to him. For this trader, conscious creation came out of the Big Bang Theory of creation and the evolution of consciousness into a living and breathing form. For others, this distinction could be more spiritual. The point is that your performances (winning and losing) do not define your value as a human being. They simply grade your current competency as a trader – with room for improvement. Trading as a Vehicle to Self-Mastery As you ponder this month’s offerings - new video and new webinar - start thinking about trading as a journey into self-mastery. You are going to have to evolve to become a consistently profitable trader. And to evolve as a trader, you are going to have to evolve as a human being as well. Who would have thought that trading would be a pathway into self-mastery? You thought trading was about making money. Now, I hope, your understanding now includes the need to develop the Self into a higher expression of who you can be as a human being. Tell me the gods aren’t laughing.   Rande [Facebook](  [Linkedin](   Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com   Free Rande Howell webinar in May 2024 Title - Mastering the Mind You Bring into the Uncertainty of the Moment Speaker: Rande Howell Date/Time: [Thursday, May 16, 4:30-5:30pm EDT]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Saving Time! Description:   In the midst of trading, there are critical moments when your illusion of control comes tumbling down. And it is in these moments, while risking capital, that you find out how competent a trader you really are. Often it is at entry when you face the demon of the fear of losing. Or it could be the moment that the trade turns against you and you experience primal fear and anger activated by your fear of loss. Where your best laid plans get blown off course – along with the loss of your capital. Or it could be the irrational exuberance of winning big that sets you up for failure. What we don’t realize is that your survival instincts are activated in moments like these. Can you control the primal survival instincts that drive your plunge into the critical moments of trading? If you are to become a successful elite trader, you are going to have to learn how to master your caveman brain in these moments of uncertainty. Fortunately, by developing your Emotional Intelligence, you can fill in these pitfalls inherited from evolution and your family of origin. Come learn how. Watch this free webinar from Rande Howell and learn what it is going to take to become the elite trader you want to become. Watch now. Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar. IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. This Month's Free Video  Mastering the Mind You Bring into the Uncertainty of the Moment When the trade becomes real, what happens in your brain in that moment that compromises your trading mind? The moment you are truly risking capital to an uncertain future. It could be at entry where fear of losing raises its ugly head. Or it could be when the trade goes against you. Suddenly, your rational mind disappears down the rabbit hole, and you are acting from primal fear or anger. You will have your special situation. What is it? The point is that your illusion of control evaporates, and, in its place, is a primal emotional hijacking that robs you of your potential. This is the problem that you must solve if you are to become a successful trader.  Why is it so hard, when it looks so doable? Come watch this video from Rande Howell and find out. Your instinctual neurobiology of survival is tripping you up. Come learn how to master your emotional nature under stress, and become the trader you know you can be. Watch this video now. Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Summer, 2024 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. All those who register now will be enrolled in the Summer 2024 Group Course, which has its 1st Group Meeting on June 6. Give yourself 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 can be 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]( a [paper 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 [click 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. Also, reading my book - Mindful Trading - is advised.     [Website]( Book]( & Interviews]( Videos]( rande@mytradersstateofmind.com | [www.tradersstateofmind.com]( [By joining you get to keep connected to this powerful training process for the development of the potential you have as a trader. And if you decide differently, you can always un-subscribe. If you're a student of trading, this newsletter is a powerful tool for your development.]( Empowered Horizons | 1824 Prescott Ct., Iron Station, NC 28080 [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [Constant Contact Data Notice]( Sent by rande@empoweredhorizons.ccsend.com powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](