Winning by Living in the Present Moment

Winning by Living in the Present Moment: Keeping the Brain's Survival Instincts from Hijacking your Trading Mind Hello Trader,                The Holidays are upon us. That means the year is closing. So is the financial year. Are you winning the battle of profitability? The dream of trading often does not make sense. You know how to trade – you can talk the game as if you knew what you are doing. But when you look at your potential profitability, are you walking the walk that you can talk about. If you are a regular human being, probably not. Why can’t you cross that invisible line and live in the land of trading profitability? Most likely because you do not understand what you walked into when you chose trading as a career. It is not what it seems. On the surface, it looks straightforward. They told you that all you have to do is build a trading system that gives you an edge and keep at it. No worries, probabilities will take care of the money. That’s the talk. The reality is not so apparent. You try to win by all the usual success strategies – working hard, learning the trade, positive thinking – and beyond. But the trading gods don’t seem to be listening. What’s the rub? The truth is that your notion of winning is going to have to change. Practically everything you learned about success does not work in the reality of trading. No matter how successful you have been in the past, trading turns everything upside down. Trading demands a different mindset for success than anything else you have ever done. Look at the dismal success rate in trading and you will see this born out. People keep trying to bring into trading the same old processes and outlooks that brought success to other areas of their life – and they find the same rules simply don’t apply. It is your ideas of success, winning, not losing, and failure that have to change in order for you to develop the mind that works calmly in the presence of Uncertainty and risk – especially when you do not have control over the outcome, no matter how hard you try or how much you will yourself to win. It’s a different ball game than you knew. And using the same rules is not going to work. The ancient part of your brain, called the Emotional Brain, operates outside the awareness of your Thinking Brain. It does not appear to be this way. But in trading, things are not the way they seem. Hardly ever. Yet you keep attempting to force trading to conform to the way you perceive the world. The problem is that most of the decisions that you make, especially under pressure, are not made by your Thinking Brain. No, 95% of the decisions you make under pressure are assigned to your Emotional Brain – of which you are not aware. And what’s important to the Emotional Brain is survival of the organism (that’s you) in the short term. Thinking does not even enter the equation in these cases. And these are the vast number of cases that you experience as a trader, making decisions about probability with money on the line. Do you see the problem? You (as a conscious self) are clueless about what is actually forcing the decision for you to act under pressure. You are clueless about what creates success and failure in the very endeavor within which you are attempting to conquer. This is a formula for financial disaster that you need to learn how to avoid. But how? Start by looking deeply into the work of Traders State of Mind. Look at our new [video]( about this very notion concerning winning and the Emotional Brain. It’s what has to be learned to build success in trading. Read the [article]( of the same name. Begin to grasp the challenges of creating a successful trading mind. Then come to our [free webinar]( to take it deeper. No one told you what was required for winning in trading. It is time you found out. Dig into this work.  p.s. Hey, we now have Traders State of Mind Facebook and LinkedIn pages. 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Rande [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in December, 2021 Title - Winning by Living in the Present Moment: Keeping Your Brain's Survival Instincts from Hijacking Your Trading Mind Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Dec. 9, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( Description:   You want to win, but your mind is divided – unbeknownst to you. Hung out to dry between the past, present, and future of what could happen. What do you think fear of loss (a future negative expectation) is rooted in? The same thing that the act of over trading is rooted in. Both take you out of the Now of the Present Moment. By staying in the Present Moment, you give yourself the greatest opportunity for victory. For an untrained mind, this is nearly impossible. For an emotional trained mind, this is a skill that gives you the psychological edge needed to drive your strategy edge. But how do you do that? Come and learn in this free webinar. Sign up and hear how you can learn to trade in the Present Moment – the past is gone and the future has not arrived. The time is NOW. 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 Standard Time. [New free Video - ]( Winning by Living in the Present Moment: Keeping Your Brain's Survival Instincts from Hijacking Your Trading Mind Winning at trading seems so logical in theory…until the money is real. Then you discover there is a labyrinth beneath your radar that sabotages your trading mind and wrecks your perfectly good trading plan. This is common with traders. Yet few think to learn how to solve this problem between your ancient reactive limbic brain (the seat of emotion) and your conscious self. Until your skills include learning how to reprogram your learned and inherited emotional patterns about engaging Uncertainty, you stay stuck in the same quagmire that chokes the life out of the vast majority of traders. Come and learn how to master your emotions and learn how to use your emotional brain to your advantage. Watch this video and learn. (Then [register for our December webinar]( Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Winter, 2022 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 January 13. 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]( 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 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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