Keeping Emotional Control when the Money is Real

Keeping Emotional Control when the Money is Real Hello Trader,                Many years ago, I fell into the allure of multi-level marketing. It was easy to get intoxicated by the short, fast and furious route to wealth that MLM promised. All those smiling, positive faces encouraging me to take the plunge and reap the benefits of “the sky is the limit” attitude turned into reality – it was too much for me, at that time, to resist. I took the bait.  I found out quickly that the promise and the reality of MLM is very different. Soon, I learned that I was not cut out to find success in MLM. Do some people make it in MLM? Sure. Did I want to become the person who could succeed in MLM? No. This is very similar to the promise and reality of success in trading. Most people become traders because they are seduced by the upside financial and personal success that trading can deliver. While they are being mesmerized by the promise of trading, though, they have no comprehension of what it is going to take for them to create that success.  They are going to have to rebuild an ancient brain, focused on survival in the moment, to an intentional mind that is comfortable with ambiguity and losing. And, further, a mind that is comfortable with losing on a regular basis. In the promise of trading, you know intellectually that you are going to lose as part of the game. In the reality of trading, you are demanding that your brain live in a reoccurring nightmare. Your brain is built to fear Uncertainty and losing in order to survive. And you subject it to this on a daily basis while trading. When the interests of the Emotional Brain (survival) and the Thinking Brain (probability) compete with one another – the Emotional Brain wins nearly every time. That’s the force of evolution. The question is whether you love the game of trading more that you desire to make money. If your sole object is to make money (as it was in my venture into MLM), your Emotional Brain will rebel against you and keep hijacking thinking when confronted by the potential of loss. That’s your flesh for you. However, if you have come to truly love the endeavor of trading, then are you willing to rebuild the mind so that you can effectively reach competence at playing this appealing game? This is required. The brain you brought to trading is not going to produce the mind that creates success in trading. Don’t take my word for it – look at your trading account for confirmation.  Are you willing to teach your brain how to respond to Uncertainty differently? Are you willing to re-think your notions of winning and losing? Are you willing to re-align your perception of money to the reality of trading? If you are, dive into the material in this month’s newsletter. Your love of trading will lead you into the creation of a new mind, suitable for the world that trading offers you. You will need to change though. Are you ready for that? If so, read on.    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 February, 2022 Title - Keeping Emotional Control when the Money is Real Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Feb. 17, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( Description:   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 into a new partnership for you to become the trader you can be. The hidden strengths are there. Come learn how to awaken them. And grow them into the skills needed for consistent success in trading. Register now for this month’s webinar. 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 - ]( Keeping Emotional Control when the Money is Real Trying harder and building better knowledge, alone, is not making you a more effective trader. The missing link is Emotional Intelligence. By understanding how the brain operates when confronted by Uncertainty and risk, you can build hidden emotional strengths into the skills needed for mastering the mind for trading. A new partnership between thinking and your emotional nature paves the way for growth. Watch this video. (Then [register for our February webinar]( Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Spring, 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 March 24. 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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