Free Rande Howell webinar: The Impact of Prior Losses on Your Trading Performance Now

The Impact of Prior Traumatic Losses on Your Trading Performance Now Hello Trader,                Have you ever been shaken to the bone by some big losses and then began having entry or trade management problems? Many traders find themselves frozen from acting at entry because they fear losing again. Then, after missing a series of promising set-ups, they over-trade. Other traders, when the trade goes against them (particularly if they have already been primed by a previous loss), get angry and revenge-trade because they fear reliving the traumatic event where they experienced powerlessness.   This is traumatic memory in action. It is real. And, until mastered, it will rob you of your potential. And it is rooted in a sense of powerlessness. When dealing with a traumatic event (taking a series of big losses), your instinctual emotional brain creates a reactive emotional pattern in response to that experienced powerlessness. And when a stressor shows up that has similar potential to the traumatic event (trade going against you or anticipating an entry where you are putting capital at risk), the emotional circuitry instinctively and automatically fires without consulting your Thinking Brain. This is an emotional hijacking. But it is more than a typical emotional hijacking.  The Emotional Brain perceives the memory of the traumatic event as a threat to its biological existence. It is not just a typical loss. In trauma, the brain is not able to integrate the experience into working memory. It is overwhelmed and tries to build a brick wall around the memory so that it will not intrude and cloud your thinking. As long as that brick wall is there, the brain cannot integrate the experience and digest it. Instead, the prospect of experiencing a similar stressor AGAIN triggers the trauma response that happened initially. And the Emotional Brain will continue triggering this learned emotional circuit again and again until the experience is integrated back into a memory that can be integrated. What I want you to recognize is that traumatic memory is biological in its origins, but it overwhelms your trading psychology. In PTSD, this integration never happens by itself. It stays as an acute stress response to a reaction to Uncertainty. Being tough, using willpower, or ignoring the memory simply does not help. It solidifies the circuit, making it easier to fire and disrupt the kind of thinking that accepts taking losses as part of the mind needed for trading. So many traders do actually have sub-clinical levels of PTSD called “acute stress response to Uncertainty”. To learn more about this, go to the video I offer this month. But that reactive nature does not have to come from negative experiences from trading. The adaptation to acute stress response can come from your past and then enter the trading mind as you approach a moment in which you do not have control. And trading has many of these. So, you are a sitting duck for these triggerings to occur. This is why it is so important to learn how to deal with them effectively rather than just trying to push them aside. Many people who trade have experienced acute stress conditions in their family of origins, in the workplace, or in their culture that has traumatized them to the point where their brain has blocked the integration of experience into working memory. Right now, with hurricane Ian devastating Florida, there are plenty of people experiencing the kind of stress that will lead to an acute stress response to an overwhelming situation. And what is developed is a reactive emotional pattern, once triggered (potential loss and feeling of powerlessness), which again overwhelms the thinking mind. Think of when you felt powerless in a trading situation and then an emotional hijacking occurred and you started doing something that you regretted later. This is traumatic memory in action disrupting your trading mind. And it is much more common than you would think.  I encourage you to take a look at [this month’s video]( to deepen your understanding. And then [register for October’s free webinar]( where I will focus on this aspect of the trading mind under stress.   [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in October 2022 Title - How a Past Traumatic Loss Impacts Trading Decisions in the Moment  Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Oct. 13, 4:30-5:30pm EDT]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time! Description:   If you have ever lost your rational mind when a trade goes against you, you probably have experienced the memory of a traumatic loss. It’s common and fixable. After a compelling loss, the brain sets up an emergency automatic response (called an acute stress response) as part of its instinctual need for survival. Then when you face a similar situation (taking a loss), it triggers and takes over the trading mind leading to disastrous results. If you are to prosper as a trader, you are going to need to master this aspect of your trading. Come to this free webinar and learn what you can do to master the mind that trades. Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar.  IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. [New free Video - ]( How a Past Traumatic Loss Impacts Trading Decisions in the Moment When you suddenly lose control of your senses and strongly, and regrettably, overreact to a trade going against you – you are probably experiencing a primitive emotional reaction rooted in traumatic memory. I define traumatic memory as the brain’s failure to be able to integrate an experience into working memory due to a feeling of powerlessness. This can happen when you have a memory of taking a big, devastating loss. The brain, and hence your trading mind, is overwhelmed by the sense of powerlessness and creates an acute stress response to any future potential loss. This scenario plays itself out again and again in a trader’s engagement with Uncertainty and the vulnerability that comes with this situation. Come learn more about this hidden obstacle to your trading success. Watch this month's video. Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Winter, 2023 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 Jan. 19. 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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