Free Rande Howell webinar: Dealing With Your Trading Demons

Dealing With Your Trading Demons   Hello Trader,                    In the beginning, trading success seemed just around the corner. Hope sprang eternal. You were motivated – nothing was going to stop you. All you had to do was develop a system that gave you an edge – and then apply it in a disciplined manner. You even knew that it was going to take some time. But with the right proven system and training, you were going to learn to be a successful trader. You were going to put your hours in, do the work, and start making money.  And as for trading psychology, your mindset was solid as a rock. After all, you were positive and had a winning attitude.  As proof, in paper trading, you were already making money. Now it was time to go live and make some real money. All you had to do is keep your wits about you, and your edge was going to do the rest. Losing Real Money Activates a Dark Side of Your Nature    Things changed when you started risking your real hard-earned capital to the uncertainties of trading – and taking real losses. A dark side of your nature suddenly appeared out of nowhere. You were doing things while trading that just didn’t make sense. It’s like an evil twin had taken over your trading mind and was doing some crazy things that you wouldn’t do if you were in your right mind. But you were doing them anyway and your trading account showed you clearly that these hijackings were costing you a lot. So, why did you keep doing the very things you said you wouldn’t do? The voices of hesitation (you need more confirmation), self-doubt (are you sure?), fear of loss (I hate losing), over confidence (I’m gonna win!), anger (I’ll get that money back!), greed (I’m gonna get rich!), and lust (I want money NOW) started creeping into your mind (first as a trickle, then as a flood). And they derailed the method edge in your trading system that you created. These are the demons of trading.     The next step (if you plan on creating success in trading) is learning how to deal with your trading demons. They are not going to go away. They are part of you. Most likely they are parts of your nature that you don’t acknowledge. But trading forces you to see things about yourself that you’d rather not see.  That strategy may have worked in other areas of your life, but it does not work in trading. That’s why trading is a powerful self-mastery journey.     Instead of ignoring them, denying them, trying to push them away – you are going to have to turn toward your demons and master them. And by doing so, you master yourself. Unlike in the rest of your life where you can avoid acknowledging them, in trading you can’t. They show up every time you risk capital to an uncertain future. Every time. No exceptions. And even when you don’t know they are there, they lurk in the shadows waiting for an inopportune time to divert your trading mind. This is why, in Jungian psychology, this destructiveness is called your Shadow.     Trading has forced your hand. As much as you avoided these challenges before you started exploring trading as a career, you now have to deal with them. They are unavoidable. Most people try their best to not acknowledge them, even when they are creating problems with their P/L. And as long as you have capital to squander, you can continue this path. Many do, until the pain reaches a level that they either have to do something about it or get out of trading. How Do You Deal with Your Trading Demons?    The very first thing to acknowledge is that you (and everybody else) has their Shadow Side where your demons hide from you, just waiting for an opportune time to discombobulate your trading mind. Just because you deny them doesn’t mean they are not active at critical moments in the trading process. The best plan is to be prepared for them.     The second thing that must happen to master your trading demons is to recognize that they are rooted in a self-limiting belief about your capacity to manage uncertainty. It is that belief that you have to acknowledge if you are to master it. Fortunately, there is not much rocket science here to learn. But there is psychology to master. Those beliefs are: 1) Powerlessness – you experience this self-limiting belief as you are swept away by a powerful emotion. 2) Mattering – you have to have money, power, and/or status to matter. 3) Worth – you don’t deserve easy money (you have to work for it) 4) Adequacy – you won’t make it because you are not good enough or smart enough. 5) Lovable – if you made a lot of money people will like you.    It is these core beliefs that the trading demons attack. They have a nose in finding your weakness in trading. And they are going to find it and create problems for you. But, in self-awareness, you can transform these self-limiting beliefs about your capacity to engage uncertainty. I teach a process that equips you with the tools to reshape your implicit or Limbic beliefs that are exposed when risking capital to an uncertain future. [Watch this video]( to go deeper into learning about how to work with your human nature so you can build your mind for trading. Then come to the free webinar and learn how to master your trading demons. [Sign up here.]( is a journey into self-mastery. When you master yourself, you master trading. Come and grow.  The journey is the destination, Rande [Facebook](  [Linkedin](   Rande Howell Traders State of Mind www.tradersstateofmind.com   Free Rande Howell webinar in March 2024 Title - Dealing With Your Trading Demons Speaker: Rande Howell Date/Time: [Thursday, March 7, 4:30-5:30pm EST]( IMPORTANT! The time shown is in U.S. Eastern Standard Time! Description:   It’s not just you. That voice inside your head that criticizes, tempts, and sets you up for failure has a name. It is called the Inner Critic. And it’s not going away. Trading has a way of exposing all your secrets that you try to hide from others…and yourself. In trading, these secrets get in your face, because they are unavoidable. And if you are committed to becoming a consistently profitable trader, you are going to have to deal with the Inner Critic’s presence very differently than you have in the rest of your life. And I’d like to share with you how you can master the mind that you bring to the performance of trading so that it is disciplined, patient, and impartial. Learn how to deal with your own personal demons that block your growth as a trader. Come to this free webinar and learn how to master your trading mind.   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  Dealing With Your Trading Demons What is a trading demon? It is that impulse or voice in your mind that takes over and deviates you from your trading plan at a critical moment. It’s why you can’t stick to your rules when you know it is the right thing to do.  It is also what I call the Inner Critic. It is what casts the seeds of self-doubt into your mind at the wrong time or seduces you to over-trade. It is what stops you from becoming the trader you know you could be. And it must be mastered for you to claim the gift that trading can be. Come learn more about how to produce personal self-master - so you can stand your ground when challenged by the fear and anger that can take over your trading mind when real money is being risked to an unknown future. Watch now. Please [click here]( (and scroll down a bit) to view the video. Developing Traders State of Mind Group Course - Spring, 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 Spring 2024 Group Course, which has its 1st Group Meeting on March 28. 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@empoweredhorizons.ccsend.com powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](