Free Rande Howell webinar: Setting Trading Psychology Goals that Really Work

Setting Trading Psychology Goals  that Really Work   Hello Trader,                  A new year is upon you. Are you ready? If you’re a serious trader, you have spent some concentrated time over the Holidays tweaking your trading system, preparing for a better year. You’ve set goals and ways to measure your progress in 2024. You are going to hold yourself accountable. These are skills that come out of the standard practices of business. And they are very useful for achieving greater success. Then, considering your success using these planning skills, you apply them to your trading mindset. You set goals for becoming a disciplined trader. You write out the goals and begin to train your subconscious (“I’m a disciplined trader”) with affirmations. You visualize being disciplined. And in your mind, you can see yourself in emotional control. And it seems that you actually come to believe that you have emotional control because YOU are a disciplined trader.  It is by your force of will that you are going to make your goals become reality. Just like you used your Thinking Brain planning for your trading system, by sheer determination and perseverance, you are going to achieve your goal of becoming successful in trading. This is the way that many people believe that the brain is best worked with to achieve success. And it has probably worked in endeavors before trading. But then, along came trading. The problem is that the highly logical brain circuits that you use to plan may seem like they are in control, but as the famous boxer Mike Tyson once remarked, “Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face.” When there is no danger on the horizon, it’s easy for us to lapse into the belief that we are in control – we make winning happen by our own actions. That’s what all that planning is all about. Man Plans. God Laughs In the vacuum of believing that we are rational beings, it is easy to plan and feel empowered by the vision of that success. But the truth is (at least from an Emotional Intelligence perspective) that we are rationalizing creatures. We create stories, fabrications, and alibis that support whatever our Emotional Brain has already decided. And we will believe with all our heart and mind that this is not a rationalization that our brain just made up – but that it is the logical truth.  Unfortunately, this system’s glitch does not work well with all our well-crafted plans. And this is where the logical planning function we borrowed from business becomes a stumbling block for trading success.  Acknowledging the Power of the Emotional Brain You do not re-program the unconscious. Though a popular concept, it’s a dangerous concept. The Thinking Brain seems to be in control – until it isn’t. Then all hell breaks out. The way you come unglued when trades go against you or you take a loss is not logical. It is instinctual. It is a force to be reckoned with. And you are going to have to turn toward this legacy from our Caveman days and master the way you take losses and take wins. Your Emotional Brain does not know about money. It does not see that when you take a loss, it is simply just losing money.  It sees it as a threat to your very biological existence. No wonder (when under pressure and the Thinking Brain has been hijacked), instincts take over and you are fighting for your life as far as the Emotional Brain is concerned. No planning alone is going to rewire this survival adaptation. It needs to be accounted for. And, until the Emotional Brain’s power is acknowledged, it will continue to plow though well-conceived logical plans until you plan to change the very core of the way you react to uncertainty when the money is real.  You can plan to master this problem (it’s not going away). Or you can continue to plan to find a way around this very real problem…for as long as you can afford it. The New Brain’s planning function and the regulation of the Emotional Brain need to, together, become part of the planning process. See the video. [Register for the webinar](. [Facebook](  [Linkedin](   Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com   Free Rande Howell webinar in January 2024 Title - Setting Trading Psychology Goals that Really Work Speaker: Rande Howell Date/Time:[Thursday, Jan. 11, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time! Description:   Traders do a lot of planning during the Holidays, getting prepared for the new year. They set goals. And they really examine what went right and wrong over the past year and make corrections to their trading system so that they can achieve their goals to win in trading. Then they apply the same kind of planning to their trading psychology.  The problem is that trading psychology does not work by the same rules. It is not about thinking through systems. It is about changing deeply held beliefs about your ability to manage uncertainty - different game. Come learn how to work with your mindset to change the way you engage uncertainty. Become the disciplined and confident trader you can be. Register now. Please [click here]( to register for this free webinar. IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time. This Month's Free Video Setting Trading Psychology Goals that Really Work Right now, everyone is coming out of the Holidays revved up, ready to engage the markets with their new improved plan of action – including their trading psychology. And all that preparation for the New Year is important. You need a plan of action.   The problem is that your trading psychology does not respond to the wonderful goals you have set. It is of a different order. All those goals you have set are rooted in your Thinking Brain, while success in your psychology is grounded in your instinctual Emotional Brain. This is the gap that has to be bridged. How do you build a successful trading psychology? Watch this video and learn how to bridge this gap.  Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Winter, 2024 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 Winter 2024 Group Course, which has its 1st Group Meeting on Jan. 18. Give yourself 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 [click 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!](