Free Rande Howell webinar: Why Does Everything Change When the Money is Real?

Why Does Everything Change When the Money is Real? News Alert! Traders World Magazine just announced that I was awarded the FinQuest award for Best Trading Psychology Educator. [Click here]( read about it (pages 164-165)! Now for this month’s message... **************************************************************** Hello Trader,                Why does everything change when the money is real? Confidence starts surging when trading paper and you can begin to imagine the promise of financial freedom. The problem is that trading paper does not trigger your instinctual emotional responses to the threat posed by having real money at risk. This is the undoing of many traders. We humans deny our connection to our primitive mammalian nature.  At the core of our survival lives a social mammalian brain that we share with a great number of other animals. That brain does not think and reason as our Thinking Brain does. It reacts based on established emotional pattern. And by denying its presence, traders never learn how to work with it. For trading success, this is essential. Every time you put capital at risk, there is a lot more going on behind the scenes in your emotional brain than meets the eye. Instinct takes over when the organism you are faces uncertainty where there is palpable risk (loss of life) involved. To your ancient Caveman Brain (so calm when there is no real risk), the loss of capital becomes a threat to its’ existence and you react instinctually. Unfortunately for you, the trader, your Caveman Brain does not know about money. (He didn’t get the memo. And even if he did get the memo, he would not have been able to read it. This is an ancient part of the brain that is concerned with survival in the moment, controlling the outcome, avoiding death (losing), and gaining status. Money is not perceived as legal tender, but is seen the personification of power, safety, and status. And when the money is real, everything is threatened.  This is exactly why everything changes when the money is real. Suddenly, your primitive survival brain perceives a threat to its’ biological existence and grabs the reins of the mind from the Thinking Brain. It seeks to escape threat RIGHT NOW. And it will do this by triggering the Fight/Flight response, if left to its own devices. And until you learn to master this dramatic motivational difference between the Emotional Brain (survival in the moment) and the Thinking Brain (perceiving in probabilities), you will remain stuck with a psychology of performance that does not match up with the needs of success in trading. You will need to change your psychology of performance from survival to probability. (Just ask your P&L statement for clarification.) How do you go about changing your psychology of performance? First, watch our [new video]( this month – titled Why does everything change when the money is real? Then proceed directly to our [webinar]( by the same name. We will look at this problem at much greater depth there. [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in November 2022 Title - Why Does Everything Change When the Money is Real? Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Nov. 10, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time! HEADS UP! The U.S. moved to Standard Time on Nov. 6! Description:   ITrading success looks so simple that it appears that a Caveman could do it. So, you just follow your plan (that brought you success in paper trading) and the odds are in your favor – at least in your imagination. The moment the money is real – your Caveman Brain awakens and blows all your discipline and your trade plan out of the water. You are now operating on instinct rather than reason. It is this Caveman Brain of yours that has to be mastered in order for you to fulfill the potential you see in trading. Come learn how. Sign up for this free webinar and find out what you must do to consistently make money in the markets.   Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar. HEADS UP! The U.S. moved to Standard Time on Nov. 6. Please adjust the webinar starting time for your time zone accordingly.  IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time. [New free Video - ]( Why Does Everything Change When the Money is Real? Many a trader believes they know how to trade. They talk the talk. And when trading paper – they make money. Then, they switch to real money, and it’s a different game. They fall apart. And they lose money. Why does this happen? They know how to trade. Yet, at crunch time they can’t handle the pressure. This is the gap between success and failure as a trader. Come learn what happens to you when the money is real. It is the start of really knowing how to trade. Watch now.   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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