Free Rande Howell webinar: Self-Mastery of Your Trading Psychology

Self-Mastery of Your Trading Psychology Hello Trader,                Self-Mastery of Your Trading Psychology In the beginning, success in trading looked pretty straightforward. You’re taught to find or develop a methodology that has an edge – and to keep applying it. You understand that as you gain competence in your trading system, success will follow. And following that, you hear that sizing up will open the door to personal freedom and financial independence. You convinced yourself – this is doable. And you jumped right in. How long did it take you to discover that something was wrong with your optimistic calculations? I typically start seeing struggling traders who are 3-5 years into their journey in trading. Some wake up before. Some take longer. They all have worked hard. They are dedicated. They have learned to love trading. BUT they keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. They keep hitting the same invisible brick wall until they are certain that the problem is not “out there” in the markets or their methodology. Rather, the problem is “in there” in their personal trading psychology. Usually, it has been a long, tough journey to reach this awakening. They have gone through teachers, gimmicks, different strategies, and quit trading for a while. They love trading, but they cannot use it to achieve consistent profitability. Some have made surface attempts at trading psychology. Yet, they have not had their breakthrough moment when they realize that they need to really focus on trading psychology. Many are so thin-skinned that they cannot bear to think that they are the problem. This group eventually finds themselves out of trading.  Why? Because after a certain point, trading is about self-mastery. You truly have to master the Self that you bring to trading. You have to have the internal courage to face down your own demons. The answer is not in killing those demons (like you would see in a Hollywood movie), but in mastering them and learning the lessons they present to you. The Trading Mind The mind you brought to trading is not going to be the one that brings success in trading. It’s nothing personal and it’s not your fault. But it is your responsibility to retrain what was given to you by evolution into a new mind – one that is very different than the mind you stepped into the arena with. It starts with recognizing that your perception of reality is first and foremost from your emotional (or Caveman) brain, which does not think. It reacts emotionally by activating learned patterns focused on short-term survival. And, therein, lies the problem. Where your Thinking Brain sees probable opportunities to use to your advantage, your Caveman Brain sees terrifying vulnerability. And while your Thinking Brain sees small losses as the pathway to probable success, your Caveman Brain sees immediate biological threat. This is why it hates to lose – losing (to the Caveman Brain) is to become someone else’s meal. Winning, making the kill that feeds your group for now, is worth jumping on (despite the danger) because the rewards are so great. It is the experience of Power to the Caveman Brain. And Power (to your Caveman Brain) means controlling outcome, safety, and status. This is what your Caveman Brain knows. It doesn’t understand money. Rather, it understands money as a symbolic representation of power. It if wins, it feels good and wants more (hence, over-trading). If it loses, its life is being threatened. Fundamentally, trading represents the worst nightmare possible to your Caveman Brain. And this is the primitive brain (that you do not know about) that you bring to trading.   Your emotional Caveman Brain has a very different agenda than your Thinking Brain. And it is this gap (that you do not even know about) that has to be bridged before the promise of trading can open for you. It is available, but only to those who have the courage to step out of the false confidence of the Thinking Brain and actually reprogram your ancient, instinctive Emotional Brain. This is the fork in the road in the journey of the trader. First, you have to recognize it is there – all the time – looking for trouble, ready to react and take over the Thinking Brain. Second, you must learn to manage it. And third, you move towards transforming it into a Brain that is comfortable with the vulnerability of not knowing.  Come and Learn. Watch my [video]( [register]( and attend our free webinar, go to our [website]( and enjoy all the learning materials there. Sign up for our [Courses](. Make a move in the right direction. Take action, now. [[Facebook] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com Free Rande Howell webinar in February 2023 Title - Self-Mastery of Your Trading Psychology Speaker: Rande Howell, MEd., LPC Date/Time: [Thursday, Feb. 9, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time! Description:   When the money is real and there is not a safety net, trading changes from a game to real life. You want to win to prove yourself, but you continue to lose. You hate losing, but continue to eat through capital. You make some money, but you give it back – and then some. What’s going on? What stands between you and the dreams you have of trading? It is at this gap – between talk and action – that the struggle for success in trading is found. Instead of talk, it requires self-mastery of the trading mind. It can be taught. Sign up for this free webinar and learn how. Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar. IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time. [New free Video - ]( Self-Mastery of Your Trading Psychology Why can’t you just control your emotions and trade what you see? It seems so obvious, just push your emotions aside. But that is not what happens. You hate to lose, but continue to lose. You make money, but give it back. You want to win, but blow up your capital. And you don’t know why. I do. You do not understand your emotional nature, so you continue to walk right in front of a Mack truck. Mastering your emotional nature is not conquering your emotions by force of will. It is understanding your emotions, mastering them, and learning how to use them to forge a trading mind that is comfortable with Uncertainty – and with losing. Come learn how. Watch this video. Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Spring, 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. All those who register now will be enrolled in the Spring 2023 Group Course, which has its 1st Group Meeting on March 30. 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. Also, reading my book - Mindful Trading - is advised.   [Website]( Book]( & Interviews]( Videos]( rande@mytradersstateofmind.com | [www.tradersstateofmind.com]( [By joining you get to keep connected to this powerful training process for the development of the potential you have as a trader. And if you decide differently, you can always un-subscribe. If you're a student of trading, this newsletter is a powerful tool for your development.]( Empowered Horizons | 1824 Prescott Ct., Iron Station, NC 28080 [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [Constant Contact Data Notice]( Sent by rande@mytradersstateofmind.com powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](