Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Your Trading Mind

UnIocking the Hidden Potential of Your Trading Mind Hello Trader,                You bring a historical set of rules for winning and making money that you believe in to the trading arena. These rules have proven the test of time – before trading. They feel right and you are certain that they will win the day. Then they are tested in the laboratory of trading – and they lead to your losing money. But you believe in them; you know they will work. (They always have, right?) So you keep trying because you are not going to give up. But what you experience in trading is that all that winning mindset stuff keeps losing money for you.  It’s like there is something missing. The potential you see in your trading stays locked up in non-performing beliefs. How long do you hold on to beliefs and practices that are no longer effective? For many traders, they hold on until they no longer have the capital with which to trade. They stick to the beliefs and practices that brought them success in other fields, and they hold on to them in the face of overwhelming evidence that they do not work in trading.  This is when the trader has to recognize that the mind that he/she brought to trading is not going to be the mind that brings success in trading. They are built for two entirely different things. The historical one you brought to trading is built for winning, not losing, and for controlling outcome. The one needed for trading must be built to have performance as the goal, not winning.  Your performance as a trader is what you can control. If you perform well and have a real edge in your trading system, then (over time), you will extract more capital from the markets than you give back. You do not control outcome (winning and not losing), but you do control the mind that you bring into the moment of engaging the uncertainty of the markets.   The goal is performance, not winning. Yet, talk to any trader. What does he or she want to do? They want to win – to make money. They set goals for how much money they are looking to win. And how much capital they are willing to lose on a given day. Sounds smart, doesn’t it? Here’s the rub though. The trader has no control over winning or losing. So, right there, from the get-go the trader sets him or herself up for continued failure. Trying to control what he or she cannot control.  That’s the definition of traumatizing yourself – which traders do a lot. The brain responds by kicking into fight/fight when you don’t win. And particularly when you lose. The brain falls into repetitive survival patterns because the trader keeps trying to force the brain to do something that it cannot do.  At the start of this new year, I ask you to do something differently. Instead of mindlessly trying to force the brain to do something it cannot do, train it to performance as its goal. It takes training, but the brain (with guidance) can learn new tricks. Recognize that, if you plan to be a successful trader, you are going to have to retrain the brain so that it can engage Uncertainty very differently than how it has evolved.  Start with this month’s [video]( [article]( and [webinar]( to unlock your hidden potential. It’s there waiting to be discovered and developed. Then explore the Group Course that starts soon. Here you actually learn the skills needed to build the brain and mind for engaging Uncertainty…something that your inner caveman will never grasp. That’s a start in the right direction. In this New Year, commit to your evolution as a trader, focusing on Performance.    p.s. Hey, we now have Traders State of Mind Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Please click on [Facebook Traders State of Mind]( see that page and [LinkedIn Traders State of Mind]( see our LinkedIn page. We would love for you to Like our Facebook page and Follow Us on LinkedIn. To do so, please click on the icons below...and thanks! Rande [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in January, 2022 Title - Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Your Trading Mind Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Tuesday, Jan. 11, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( Description:   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. In this webinar, you will learn what stops you from being the trader you know you can be. And, also you will learn how to develop the Traders State of Mind required for success in trading. 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 patient and disciplined when facing the uncertainties of trading. Come solve the mystery of your trading mind. And become the trader you know you can be. 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 - ]( Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Your Trading Mind You see the potential right there in your charts. All you have to do is “do it”. But a hidden force keeps springing up and thwarting your efforts. So close, yet so far. You can almost touch it – it’s so elusive. What do you have to do to master the raging emotions that hold you back? You can start by watching this new video from Rande Howell. You’ll learn what stops you from achieving your potential – and what you can do about it. It’s not magic. But it requires that you come to a new understanding of what drives your reactions to Uncertainty. It is what all traders must learn if they are to achieve their dreams of trading. Click the link below to watch the video now. (Then [register for our January 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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