Awakening the Empowered Trader Within You

Awakening the Empowered Trader Within You Hello Trader,                You know it’s there. You have felt and experienced these unforgettable moments. Just about everyone has had the experience of being in the zone, where everything just seems to flow. It is in these moments that you realize that, in fact, you can trade well. And that talent, to trade well, is in you. It feels like you have finally turned the corner and found the secret sauce. All those dreams of what trading can help you achieve seem to be within your reach. Then, in a day, a week, a month – it’s gone. You’re back to repeating the same old self-defeating patterns. It’s like you stumbled on this unique gift and then it got away. You keep trying to get back to the zone, but you cannot seem to make it permanent. This is the bane of nearly every trader I have worked with. What is missing here? Traders work hard, are persistent, and have a solid knowledge base. And they have reached, at least once, that rarefied zone where everything comes together. What stands in their (and your) way? First, notice this – you have the talent to reach and stay in the empowered trading mind. You’ve already proven that. That it is elusive is another story. Just notice that the talent is there. The problem is that it is not a skill. In trading, far too little time is devoted to developing an effective mindset for one of the most difficult endeavors a human being could ever take on – Trading.   If you study top performers who engage Uncertainty as part of their sport, you discover that they invest heavily in developing the mind for peak performance under the trying conditions of their game. They do not take a one-and-done approach. Instead, they develop their psychology so that when they arrive at a critical moment, their mind gives them an edge over the other competitors who want the same thing as them – to win. This is done by examining themselves under pressure, so they learn what makes them tick when the chips are all piled on the table. It is the beliefs that they bring into the moment of performance that determine the psychological edge they bring to the game. And, so it is with traders also.  These are usually not the beliefs that you acknowledge to others (and often not even to yourself). Yet, you are projecting your beliefs about your capacity to manage uncertainty and risk every time you risk capital to an uncertain outcome. These beliefs and their attendant emotional responses to uncertainty create the mind you bring to probability management in trading. These beliefs are not centered around winning – they are rooted in performance…how you perform in the clutch. Learning how to shape the specific beliefs you bring to the moment of performance is the critical ingredient in developing your capacity to get into the zone and stay in the zone. When you’re in the zone, it is about performance. That is what is in front of the trading mind. Winning (or losing) are only potential outcomes over which you do not have immediate control. What you do control, however, is the mind that engages Uncertainty. That is the empowered mind.   You have brushed up beside success in trading before. You have fallen into it before – so you know it’s there. Now it is time for you to take that talent and hone it into a skill. Start with this month’s video, Awakening the Empowered Mind in You. Then sign up for this month’s webinar, where this topic is explored even more deeply. I admire your grit. But grit is not going to make you a consistently profitable trader by itself. You are going to have to build the empowered trading mind from its potential as a talent – to its contribution to your success as a skill. It’s there, develop it. [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in September 2022 Title - Awakening the Empowered Trader Within You  Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Tuesday, Sept. 6, 4:30-5:30pm EDT]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time! Description:   Many traders have fallen into a mindset called “Being in the Zone”. The problem is that you stumbled onto it, rather than it being a reproducible skill. That is the gap that has to be bridged to become a consistently profitable trader. You can learn how to take that talent and hone it into a skill. And that is a gamechanger. Come learn how.   Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar.  IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. [New free Video - ]( Awakening the Empowered Trader Within You Every trader has experienced moments where everything gelled, and you were in the zone. Trading became effortless and your dreams seemed reachable. And then it was gone. What happened? Why can’t you access it? So, you know the Empowered Trading Mind is there inside you. But it’s hit or miss. This is because it is a talent that has not been honed into a skill. Come learn what it takes to move from the empowered trading mind being an on-and-off talent to a reproducible skill. (Then [register for our September webinar]( Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Fall, 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 Sept. 8. 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 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 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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