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How to transform your trading results by transforming yourself In the unique arena of professional trading coaches and consultants, Van K. Tharp is an internationally recognized expert at helping others become the best traders they can be. In Trading Beyond the Matrix: The Red Pill for Traders and Investors, Tharp leads readers to dramatically improve their trading results and financial life by looking within. He takes the reader by the hand through the steps of self-transformation, from incorporating "Tharp Think"--ideas drawn from his modeling work with great traders--making changes in…mehr
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How to transform your trading results by transforming yourself In the unique arena of professional trading coaches and consultants, Van K. Tharp is an internationally recognized expert at helping others become the best traders they can be. In Trading Beyond the Matrix: The Red Pill for Traders and Investors, Tharp leads readers to dramatically improve their trading results and financial life by looking within. He takes the reader by the hand through the steps of self-transformation, from incorporating "Tharp Think"--ideas drawn from his modeling work with great traders--making changes in yourself so that you can adopt the beliefs and attitudes necessary to win when you stop making mistakes and avoid methods that don't work. You'll change your level of consciousness so that you can avoiding trading out of fear and greed and move toward higher levels such as acceptance or joy. * A leading trader offers unique learning strategies for turning yourself into a great trader * Goes beyond trading systems to help readers develop more effective trading psychology * Trains the reader to overcome self-sabotage that obstructs trading success * Presented through real transformations made by other traders Advocating an unconventional approach to evaluating trading systems and beliefs, trading expert Van K. Tharp has produced a powerful manual every trader can use to make the best trades and optimize their success.
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781118542118
- Artikelnr.: 37757211
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781118542118
- Artikelnr.: 37757211
VAN K. THARP, PHD, is President of the Van Tharp Institute, where he uses a combination of skills and education to fine-tune his strategies to coach, consult, and teach traders and investors. Dr. Tharp is the author of five acclaimed books: Super Trader, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, the New York Times bestseller Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, The Definitive Guide to Position Sizing(TM) Strategies, and Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in 1975. He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Master Time Line Therapist, a Modeler of NLP, and an Assistant Trainer of NLP. He has used his expertise in NLP to create a number of trading and investing models for generating consistent profitability. Tharp has been featured in Forbes, Barron's, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, Investor's Business Daily, Futures and Options World, and Trader's Journal. He has given talks and workshops in over 25 different countries. His website is www.vantharp.com.
Acknowledgments xvii Foreword xix Doug Bentley Preface: Understanding
Transformation xxiii Van K. Tharp, PhD Level I: Transformation of the
Trading Game xxv Level II: Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming
Yourself xxviii Level III: Trading Beyond the Matrix xxx Your Personal
Application of This Material xxxi SECTION I: TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRADING
GAME: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS 1 Van K. Tharp, PhD Two Sets of Rules 1
Chapter 1: I Just Made 130 Percent--and That Was Just the Beginning 7 David
Witkin Learning to Trade 9 "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" 10 Tharp Think
101 12 Not All Lessons Are Equal 16 Finally, Some Winning Marbles 20
Chapter 2: The Automation of Tharp Think 25 Laurens Bensdorp My Journey
into Doing the Trading Myself 27 Training Someone Else 32 Why This Is
Possible 33 Addendum 35 Chapter 3: From Commercial Loan Officer to
Financially Free Trader Investor 37 Rick Freeman My Initial Psychological
Changes 40 What I've Learned about the Trading Game 44 Understanding the
Trading Game 46 So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System? 50 Getting
a System That Works 51 Trading Psychology 52 How My Life Has Changed 54
Chapter 4: From Army Major to Systems Expert 59 Kenneth Long, DM What I
Have Learned and How I Have Changed 61 The Power of Beliefs 61
Statistics-Based Trading 64 Trading Extremes 67 Reward-to-Risk Assessments
68 R-Multiples 69 Position-Sizing StrategiesTM and Bullets 70 SQN
Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets 71 Market
Classification Strategies 72 Transformations 73 Improved Systematic
Performance 73 Specifi c Systems for Specifi c Market Conditions 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades 74 Evidence-Based Management
74 Reduced Stress 75 Performance 75 Long-Term System with Monthly
Rebalancing 76 Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data 78 Live Trading Workshops Results
79 Chapter 5: Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time
Trader 83 Martin Horsey My New Venture 84 Going to North Carolina 85
Restarting Trading 87 Where I Am Now 90 Chapter 6: Adapting Tharp Think to
Your Trading 93 Van K. Tharp, PhD Area One: Thoroughly Understand the
Principles of Successful Trading 95 Part 1: Learning to Trade Is Hard Work,
But It Can Be Taught 97 Part 2: Knowing Yourself 98 Part 3: Mistakes 100
Part 4: Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies 101 Part 5: Probability
and Reward-to-Risk Assessment 103 Part 6: Systems and Market Type 107 Steps
to Learning Tharp Think 109 SECTION II: PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS TO
HELP YOU FUNCTION AT A SUPERIOR LEVEL WITHIN THE MATRIX 111 Van K. Tharp,
PhD Chapter 7: Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix 117 Van K. Tharp, PhD
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life 118 How I Create
My Experience 124 You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You
129 Belief Hierarchy 130 Changing Your Beliefs 134 Everything Has the
Meaning You Give It 139 Chapter 8: A Journey through the Stunning World of
Feelings and Trapped Emotions 143 Anonymous The Turning Point 144
Self-Sabotage Models 147 Accepting My Feelings 148 Where I Am Now 152 Note
from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening 156 Chapter 9: You
Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside 157 Van K. Tharp, PhD Exercise:
Have a Parts Party 160 Parts Negotiation Exercise 160 Interview with a CBOE
Floor Trader 163 Working with Dr. Van Tharp 165 Dealing with Confl icting
Parts 166 What's Changed Since Then 168 Where I Am Now (Several Years
Later) 169 Chapter 10: My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles
171 Van K. Tharp, PhD My Personal Journey 172 Conversations with God 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing 178 My Relationship with Mitzi 179 My
Current Inner Guidance 181 Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor
183 My Relationship with Durga Grows 186 Oneness with God 187 Bond with the
Divine 188 The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical 191 What Does this
Mean for You and for Your Trading? 193 Some Recent Updates 197 Update 1:
Mother Meera's Second Blessing 197 Update 2: I Clear My Fear-Based
Spiritual Beliefs 198 Chapter 11: My Experiences Using Transformational
Meditation 201 Peter Wechter "I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the
Word "God" 206 Five Transformations 207 Some More "Little i's" That Didn't
Get the Message 210 Discussion 220 Dealing with Mistakes 221 Discussion 224
Closing Reflections 225 An Addendum 226 Chapter 12: Creating Your Own World
233 Van K. Tharp, PhD Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself 236 Step 1: Learn
That You Are a Crowd Inside 236 Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs
from Each Part 237 Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your
Beliefs 239 Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self 240 Step 5:
Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises 240 Step 6: Do a Life
Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up 242 Step 7: Make a List of Your
Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings) 242 Step 8: Get in
Touch with Your Internal Guidance 243 Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or
to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You 245 SECTION III: MOVING
BEYOND THE MATRIX BY TRANSFORMING YOUR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 247 Van K.
Tharp, PhD Our Most Powerful Tool 249 Super Trader Journeys through
Transformation 250 Chapter 13: How I Turbocharged My Transformational
Journey 253 Kim Andersson Discovering the Linchpin 258 Transformations
Turbocharged! 262 Transformational Pillar #1: Getting Rid of Fear 262
Transformational Pillar #2: Tapping into a Higher Power 264
Transformational Pillar #3: My Purpose in Life 266 Transformational Pillar
#4: Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control 266 Taming My Unconscious
Fear of Becoming a Millionaire 268 A Snapshot of Before and After 269 The
Turbocharged Transformational Model 270 Conclusion 272 Chapter 14: From
Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey 273 Anonymous Timeline 1:
Downhill Accelerating 274 Timeline 2: Crawling out of the Pit 278 A Message
from Somewhere 279 Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as
Soon as I Retire 280 Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in
the Closet? 282 Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What
They're Having 283 Transformation 1: Dropping the Pain of Past Projections
284 Original Situation 284 Actions to Achieve Transformation 285
Transformed State 287 Interlude: There's Money for Everyone 288
Transformation 2: Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe 289 Original
Situation 289 Actions to Achieve Transformation 290 Transformed State 292
Transformation 3: Realizing My Purpose 292 Original Situation 292 Actions
to Achieve Transformation 293 Transformed State 295 Transformation 4:
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me 296 Original Situation 296 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 297 Transformed State 298 Transformation 5: Become
an Active Manager of Emotional States 300 Original Situation 300 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 301 Transformed State 303 Bottom Line: Net Winner in
Life 305 Chapter 15: A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix 307
Curtis Wee My Early Trading Experiences 310 Stumbling on the Van Tharp
Institute 312 Key Lesson 1: Taking Personal Responsibility 314 Key Lesson
2: Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions 315 Key Lesson 3:
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine 317 Key Lesson 4: Trusting My Inner
Guidance 318 Key Lesson 5: Understanding That the World Is Perfect 318 Key
Lesson 6: Knowing My Purpose 320 Key Lesson 7: Reinventing Myself 322 So
Where Am I Now? 322 Chapter 16: My Journey to Trading in the Now 325 Thahn
Nguyen My Transformation Journey 327 Area 1: My Anxiety or Worry 328 Area
2: My Impatience 330 Area 3: My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong 330 Area 4:
Being Overwhelmed 330 Area 5: Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Right 331
Area 6: Trading with No Plan or System 331 How It Happened 333 Where Am I
Now? 334 Editor's Note 336 Chapter 17: Thoughts on Raising Your Level of
Consciousness 337 Van K. Tharp, PhD Some Exercises for Trading in the Now
338 Trading in the Now 340 Level IV Transformation 342 Questions on Raising
Your Level of Consciousness 344 Chapter 18: Continuing the Journey 349 Van
K. Tharp, PhD Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for
Trading/Investing 349 Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation for Trading 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes 360 Appendix: Recommended
Readings 363 Appendix: Key Words Defi ned 367 Appendix: Reference Notes 373
About the Author 381 A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp 383 Index
385
Transformation xxiii Van K. Tharp, PhD Level I: Transformation of the
Trading Game xxv Level II: Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming
Yourself xxviii Level III: Trading Beyond the Matrix xxx Your Personal
Application of This Material xxxi SECTION I: TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRADING
GAME: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS 1 Van K. Tharp, PhD Two Sets of Rules 1
Chapter 1: I Just Made 130 Percent--and That Was Just the Beginning 7 David
Witkin Learning to Trade 9 "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" 10 Tharp Think
101 12 Not All Lessons Are Equal 16 Finally, Some Winning Marbles 20
Chapter 2: The Automation of Tharp Think 25 Laurens Bensdorp My Journey
into Doing the Trading Myself 27 Training Someone Else 32 Why This Is
Possible 33 Addendum 35 Chapter 3: From Commercial Loan Officer to
Financially Free Trader Investor 37 Rick Freeman My Initial Psychological
Changes 40 What I've Learned about the Trading Game 44 Understanding the
Trading Game 46 So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System? 50 Getting
a System That Works 51 Trading Psychology 52 How My Life Has Changed 54
Chapter 4: From Army Major to Systems Expert 59 Kenneth Long, DM What I
Have Learned and How I Have Changed 61 The Power of Beliefs 61
Statistics-Based Trading 64 Trading Extremes 67 Reward-to-Risk Assessments
68 R-Multiples 69 Position-Sizing StrategiesTM and Bullets 70 SQN
Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets 71 Market
Classification Strategies 72 Transformations 73 Improved Systematic
Performance 73 Specifi c Systems for Specifi c Market Conditions 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades 74 Evidence-Based Management
74 Reduced Stress 75 Performance 75 Long-Term System with Monthly
Rebalancing 76 Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data 78 Live Trading Workshops Results
79 Chapter 5: Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time
Trader 83 Martin Horsey My New Venture 84 Going to North Carolina 85
Restarting Trading 87 Where I Am Now 90 Chapter 6: Adapting Tharp Think to
Your Trading 93 Van K. Tharp, PhD Area One: Thoroughly Understand the
Principles of Successful Trading 95 Part 1: Learning to Trade Is Hard Work,
But It Can Be Taught 97 Part 2: Knowing Yourself 98 Part 3: Mistakes 100
Part 4: Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies 101 Part 5: Probability
and Reward-to-Risk Assessment 103 Part 6: Systems and Market Type 107 Steps
to Learning Tharp Think 109 SECTION II: PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS TO
HELP YOU FUNCTION AT A SUPERIOR LEVEL WITHIN THE MATRIX 111 Van K. Tharp,
PhD Chapter 7: Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix 117 Van K. Tharp, PhD
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life 118 How I Create
My Experience 124 You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You
129 Belief Hierarchy 130 Changing Your Beliefs 134 Everything Has the
Meaning You Give It 139 Chapter 8: A Journey through the Stunning World of
Feelings and Trapped Emotions 143 Anonymous The Turning Point 144
Self-Sabotage Models 147 Accepting My Feelings 148 Where I Am Now 152 Note
from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening 156 Chapter 9: You
Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside 157 Van K. Tharp, PhD Exercise:
Have a Parts Party 160 Parts Negotiation Exercise 160 Interview with a CBOE
Floor Trader 163 Working with Dr. Van Tharp 165 Dealing with Confl icting
Parts 166 What's Changed Since Then 168 Where I Am Now (Several Years
Later) 169 Chapter 10: My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles
171 Van K. Tharp, PhD My Personal Journey 172 Conversations with God 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing 178 My Relationship with Mitzi 179 My
Current Inner Guidance 181 Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor
183 My Relationship with Durga Grows 186 Oneness with God 187 Bond with the
Divine 188 The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical 191 What Does this
Mean for You and for Your Trading? 193 Some Recent Updates 197 Update 1:
Mother Meera's Second Blessing 197 Update 2: I Clear My Fear-Based
Spiritual Beliefs 198 Chapter 11: My Experiences Using Transformational
Meditation 201 Peter Wechter "I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the
Word "God" 206 Five Transformations 207 Some More "Little i's" That Didn't
Get the Message 210 Discussion 220 Dealing with Mistakes 221 Discussion 224
Closing Reflections 225 An Addendum 226 Chapter 12: Creating Your Own World
233 Van K. Tharp, PhD Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself 236 Step 1: Learn
That You Are a Crowd Inside 236 Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs
from Each Part 237 Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your
Beliefs 239 Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self 240 Step 5:
Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises 240 Step 6: Do a Life
Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up 242 Step 7: Make a List of Your
Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings) 242 Step 8: Get in
Touch with Your Internal Guidance 243 Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or
to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You 245 SECTION III: MOVING
BEYOND THE MATRIX BY TRANSFORMING YOUR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 247 Van K.
Tharp, PhD Our Most Powerful Tool 249 Super Trader Journeys through
Transformation 250 Chapter 13: How I Turbocharged My Transformational
Journey 253 Kim Andersson Discovering the Linchpin 258 Transformations
Turbocharged! 262 Transformational Pillar #1: Getting Rid of Fear 262
Transformational Pillar #2: Tapping into a Higher Power 264
Transformational Pillar #3: My Purpose in Life 266 Transformational Pillar
#4: Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control 266 Taming My Unconscious
Fear of Becoming a Millionaire 268 A Snapshot of Before and After 269 The
Turbocharged Transformational Model 270 Conclusion 272 Chapter 14: From
Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey 273 Anonymous Timeline 1:
Downhill Accelerating 274 Timeline 2: Crawling out of the Pit 278 A Message
from Somewhere 279 Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as
Soon as I Retire 280 Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in
the Closet? 282 Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What
They're Having 283 Transformation 1: Dropping the Pain of Past Projections
284 Original Situation 284 Actions to Achieve Transformation 285
Transformed State 287 Interlude: There's Money for Everyone 288
Transformation 2: Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe 289 Original
Situation 289 Actions to Achieve Transformation 290 Transformed State 292
Transformation 3: Realizing My Purpose 292 Original Situation 292 Actions
to Achieve Transformation 293 Transformed State 295 Transformation 4:
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me 296 Original Situation 296 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 297 Transformed State 298 Transformation 5: Become
an Active Manager of Emotional States 300 Original Situation 300 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 301 Transformed State 303 Bottom Line: Net Winner in
Life 305 Chapter 15: A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix 307
Curtis Wee My Early Trading Experiences 310 Stumbling on the Van Tharp
Institute 312 Key Lesson 1: Taking Personal Responsibility 314 Key Lesson
2: Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions 315 Key Lesson 3:
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine 317 Key Lesson 4: Trusting My Inner
Guidance 318 Key Lesson 5: Understanding That the World Is Perfect 318 Key
Lesson 6: Knowing My Purpose 320 Key Lesson 7: Reinventing Myself 322 So
Where Am I Now? 322 Chapter 16: My Journey to Trading in the Now 325 Thahn
Nguyen My Transformation Journey 327 Area 1: My Anxiety or Worry 328 Area
2: My Impatience 330 Area 3: My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong 330 Area 4:
Being Overwhelmed 330 Area 5: Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Right 331
Area 6: Trading with No Plan or System 331 How It Happened 333 Where Am I
Now? 334 Editor's Note 336 Chapter 17: Thoughts on Raising Your Level of
Consciousness 337 Van K. Tharp, PhD Some Exercises for Trading in the Now
338 Trading in the Now 340 Level IV Transformation 342 Questions on Raising
Your Level of Consciousness 344 Chapter 18: Continuing the Journey 349 Van
K. Tharp, PhD Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for
Trading/Investing 349 Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation for Trading 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes 360 Appendix: Recommended
Readings 363 Appendix: Key Words Defi ned 367 Appendix: Reference Notes 373
About the Author 381 A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp 383 Index
385
Acknowledgments xvii Foreword xix Doug Bentley Preface: Understanding
Transformation xxiii Van K. Tharp, PhD Level I: Transformation of the
Trading Game xxv Level II: Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming
Yourself xxviii Level III: Trading Beyond the Matrix xxx Your Personal
Application of This Material xxxi SECTION I: TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRADING
GAME: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS 1 Van K. Tharp, PhD Two Sets of Rules 1
Chapter 1: I Just Made 130 Percent--and That Was Just the Beginning 7 David
Witkin Learning to Trade 9 "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" 10 Tharp Think
101 12 Not All Lessons Are Equal 16 Finally, Some Winning Marbles 20
Chapter 2: The Automation of Tharp Think 25 Laurens Bensdorp My Journey
into Doing the Trading Myself 27 Training Someone Else 32 Why This Is
Possible 33 Addendum 35 Chapter 3: From Commercial Loan Officer to
Financially Free Trader Investor 37 Rick Freeman My Initial Psychological
Changes 40 What I've Learned about the Trading Game 44 Understanding the
Trading Game 46 So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System? 50 Getting
a System That Works 51 Trading Psychology 52 How My Life Has Changed 54
Chapter 4: From Army Major to Systems Expert 59 Kenneth Long, DM What I
Have Learned and How I Have Changed 61 The Power of Beliefs 61
Statistics-Based Trading 64 Trading Extremes 67 Reward-to-Risk Assessments
68 R-Multiples 69 Position-Sizing StrategiesTM and Bullets 70 SQN
Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets 71 Market
Classification Strategies 72 Transformations 73 Improved Systematic
Performance 73 Specifi c Systems for Specifi c Market Conditions 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades 74 Evidence-Based Management
74 Reduced Stress 75 Performance 75 Long-Term System with Monthly
Rebalancing 76 Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data 78 Live Trading Workshops Results
79 Chapter 5: Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time
Trader 83 Martin Horsey My New Venture 84 Going to North Carolina 85
Restarting Trading 87 Where I Am Now 90 Chapter 6: Adapting Tharp Think to
Your Trading 93 Van K. Tharp, PhD Area One: Thoroughly Understand the
Principles of Successful Trading 95 Part 1: Learning to Trade Is Hard Work,
But It Can Be Taught 97 Part 2: Knowing Yourself 98 Part 3: Mistakes 100
Part 4: Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies 101 Part 5: Probability
and Reward-to-Risk Assessment 103 Part 6: Systems and Market Type 107 Steps
to Learning Tharp Think 109 SECTION II: PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS TO
HELP YOU FUNCTION AT A SUPERIOR LEVEL WITHIN THE MATRIX 111 Van K. Tharp,
PhD Chapter 7: Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix 117 Van K. Tharp, PhD
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life 118 How I Create
My Experience 124 You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You
129 Belief Hierarchy 130 Changing Your Beliefs 134 Everything Has the
Meaning You Give It 139 Chapter 8: A Journey through the Stunning World of
Feelings and Trapped Emotions 143 Anonymous The Turning Point 144
Self-Sabotage Models 147 Accepting My Feelings 148 Where I Am Now 152 Note
from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening 156 Chapter 9: You
Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside 157 Van K. Tharp, PhD Exercise:
Have a Parts Party 160 Parts Negotiation Exercise 160 Interview with a CBOE
Floor Trader 163 Working with Dr. Van Tharp 165 Dealing with Confl icting
Parts 166 What's Changed Since Then 168 Where I Am Now (Several Years
Later) 169 Chapter 10: My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles
171 Van K. Tharp, PhD My Personal Journey 172 Conversations with God 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing 178 My Relationship with Mitzi 179 My
Current Inner Guidance 181 Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor
183 My Relationship with Durga Grows 186 Oneness with God 187 Bond with the
Divine 188 The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical 191 What Does this
Mean for You and for Your Trading? 193 Some Recent Updates 197 Update 1:
Mother Meera's Second Blessing 197 Update 2: I Clear My Fear-Based
Spiritual Beliefs 198 Chapter 11: My Experiences Using Transformational
Meditation 201 Peter Wechter "I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the
Word "God" 206 Five Transformations 207 Some More "Little i's" That Didn't
Get the Message 210 Discussion 220 Dealing with Mistakes 221 Discussion 224
Closing Reflections 225 An Addendum 226 Chapter 12: Creating Your Own World
233 Van K. Tharp, PhD Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself 236 Step 1: Learn
That You Are a Crowd Inside 236 Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs
from Each Part 237 Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your
Beliefs 239 Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self 240 Step 5:
Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises 240 Step 6: Do a Life
Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up 242 Step 7: Make a List of Your
Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings) 242 Step 8: Get in
Touch with Your Internal Guidance 243 Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or
to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You 245 SECTION III: MOVING
BEYOND THE MATRIX BY TRANSFORMING YOUR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 247 Van K.
Tharp, PhD Our Most Powerful Tool 249 Super Trader Journeys through
Transformation 250 Chapter 13: How I Turbocharged My Transformational
Journey 253 Kim Andersson Discovering the Linchpin 258 Transformations
Turbocharged! 262 Transformational Pillar #1: Getting Rid of Fear 262
Transformational Pillar #2: Tapping into a Higher Power 264
Transformational Pillar #3: My Purpose in Life 266 Transformational Pillar
#4: Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control 266 Taming My Unconscious
Fear of Becoming a Millionaire 268 A Snapshot of Before and After 269 The
Turbocharged Transformational Model 270 Conclusion 272 Chapter 14: From
Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey 273 Anonymous Timeline 1:
Downhill Accelerating 274 Timeline 2: Crawling out of the Pit 278 A Message
from Somewhere 279 Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as
Soon as I Retire 280 Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in
the Closet? 282 Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What
They're Having 283 Transformation 1: Dropping the Pain of Past Projections
284 Original Situation 284 Actions to Achieve Transformation 285
Transformed State 287 Interlude: There's Money for Everyone 288
Transformation 2: Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe 289 Original
Situation 289 Actions to Achieve Transformation 290 Transformed State 292
Transformation 3: Realizing My Purpose 292 Original Situation 292 Actions
to Achieve Transformation 293 Transformed State 295 Transformation 4:
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me 296 Original Situation 296 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 297 Transformed State 298 Transformation 5: Become
an Active Manager of Emotional States 300 Original Situation 300 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 301 Transformed State 303 Bottom Line: Net Winner in
Life 305 Chapter 15: A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix 307
Curtis Wee My Early Trading Experiences 310 Stumbling on the Van Tharp
Institute 312 Key Lesson 1: Taking Personal Responsibility 314 Key Lesson
2: Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions 315 Key Lesson 3:
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine 317 Key Lesson 4: Trusting My Inner
Guidance 318 Key Lesson 5: Understanding That the World Is Perfect 318 Key
Lesson 6: Knowing My Purpose 320 Key Lesson 7: Reinventing Myself 322 So
Where Am I Now? 322 Chapter 16: My Journey to Trading in the Now 325 Thahn
Nguyen My Transformation Journey 327 Area 1: My Anxiety or Worry 328 Area
2: My Impatience 330 Area 3: My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong 330 Area 4:
Being Overwhelmed 330 Area 5: Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Right 331
Area 6: Trading with No Plan or System 331 How It Happened 333 Where Am I
Now? 334 Editor's Note 336 Chapter 17: Thoughts on Raising Your Level of
Consciousness 337 Van K. Tharp, PhD Some Exercises for Trading in the Now
338 Trading in the Now 340 Level IV Transformation 342 Questions on Raising
Your Level of Consciousness 344 Chapter 18: Continuing the Journey 349 Van
K. Tharp, PhD Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for
Trading/Investing 349 Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation for Trading 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes 360 Appendix: Recommended
Readings 363 Appendix: Key Words Defi ned 367 Appendix: Reference Notes 373
About the Author 381 A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp 383 Index
385
Transformation xxiii Van K. Tharp, PhD Level I: Transformation of the
Trading Game xxv Level II: Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming
Yourself xxviii Level III: Trading Beyond the Matrix xxx Your Personal
Application of This Material xxxi SECTION I: TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRADING
GAME: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS 1 Van K. Tharp, PhD Two Sets of Rules 1
Chapter 1: I Just Made 130 Percent--and That Was Just the Beginning 7 David
Witkin Learning to Trade 9 "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" 10 Tharp Think
101 12 Not All Lessons Are Equal 16 Finally, Some Winning Marbles 20
Chapter 2: The Automation of Tharp Think 25 Laurens Bensdorp My Journey
into Doing the Trading Myself 27 Training Someone Else 32 Why This Is
Possible 33 Addendum 35 Chapter 3: From Commercial Loan Officer to
Financially Free Trader Investor 37 Rick Freeman My Initial Psychological
Changes 40 What I've Learned about the Trading Game 44 Understanding the
Trading Game 46 So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System? 50 Getting
a System That Works 51 Trading Psychology 52 How My Life Has Changed 54
Chapter 4: From Army Major to Systems Expert 59 Kenneth Long, DM What I
Have Learned and How I Have Changed 61 The Power of Beliefs 61
Statistics-Based Trading 64 Trading Extremes 67 Reward-to-Risk Assessments
68 R-Multiples 69 Position-Sizing StrategiesTM and Bullets 70 SQN
Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets 71 Market
Classification Strategies 72 Transformations 73 Improved Systematic
Performance 73 Specifi c Systems for Specifi c Market Conditions 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades 74 Evidence-Based Management
74 Reduced Stress 75 Performance 75 Long-Term System with Monthly
Rebalancing 76 Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data 78 Live Trading Workshops Results
79 Chapter 5: Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time
Trader 83 Martin Horsey My New Venture 84 Going to North Carolina 85
Restarting Trading 87 Where I Am Now 90 Chapter 6: Adapting Tharp Think to
Your Trading 93 Van K. Tharp, PhD Area One: Thoroughly Understand the
Principles of Successful Trading 95 Part 1: Learning to Trade Is Hard Work,
But It Can Be Taught 97 Part 2: Knowing Yourself 98 Part 3: Mistakes 100
Part 4: Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies 101 Part 5: Probability
and Reward-to-Risk Assessment 103 Part 6: Systems and Market Type 107 Steps
to Learning Tharp Think 109 SECTION II: PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS TO
HELP YOU FUNCTION AT A SUPERIOR LEVEL WITHIN THE MATRIX 111 Van K. Tharp,
PhD Chapter 7: Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix 117 Van K. Tharp, PhD
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life 118 How I Create
My Experience 124 You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You
129 Belief Hierarchy 130 Changing Your Beliefs 134 Everything Has the
Meaning You Give It 139 Chapter 8: A Journey through the Stunning World of
Feelings and Trapped Emotions 143 Anonymous The Turning Point 144
Self-Sabotage Models 147 Accepting My Feelings 148 Where I Am Now 152 Note
from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening 156 Chapter 9: You
Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside 157 Van K. Tharp, PhD Exercise:
Have a Parts Party 160 Parts Negotiation Exercise 160 Interview with a CBOE
Floor Trader 163 Working with Dr. Van Tharp 165 Dealing with Confl icting
Parts 166 What's Changed Since Then 168 Where I Am Now (Several Years
Later) 169 Chapter 10: My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles
171 Van K. Tharp, PhD My Personal Journey 172 Conversations with God 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing 178 My Relationship with Mitzi 179 My
Current Inner Guidance 181 Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor
183 My Relationship with Durga Grows 186 Oneness with God 187 Bond with the
Divine 188 The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical 191 What Does this
Mean for You and for Your Trading? 193 Some Recent Updates 197 Update 1:
Mother Meera's Second Blessing 197 Update 2: I Clear My Fear-Based
Spiritual Beliefs 198 Chapter 11: My Experiences Using Transformational
Meditation 201 Peter Wechter "I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the
Word "God" 206 Five Transformations 207 Some More "Little i's" That Didn't
Get the Message 210 Discussion 220 Dealing with Mistakes 221 Discussion 224
Closing Reflections 225 An Addendum 226 Chapter 12: Creating Your Own World
233 Van K. Tharp, PhD Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself 236 Step 1: Learn
That You Are a Crowd Inside 236 Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs
from Each Part 237 Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your
Beliefs 239 Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self 240 Step 5:
Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises 240 Step 6: Do a Life
Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up 242 Step 7: Make a List of Your
Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings) 242 Step 8: Get in
Touch with Your Internal Guidance 243 Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or
to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You 245 SECTION III: MOVING
BEYOND THE MATRIX BY TRANSFORMING YOUR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 247 Van K.
Tharp, PhD Our Most Powerful Tool 249 Super Trader Journeys through
Transformation 250 Chapter 13: How I Turbocharged My Transformational
Journey 253 Kim Andersson Discovering the Linchpin 258 Transformations
Turbocharged! 262 Transformational Pillar #1: Getting Rid of Fear 262
Transformational Pillar #2: Tapping into a Higher Power 264
Transformational Pillar #3: My Purpose in Life 266 Transformational Pillar
#4: Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control 266 Taming My Unconscious
Fear of Becoming a Millionaire 268 A Snapshot of Before and After 269 The
Turbocharged Transformational Model 270 Conclusion 272 Chapter 14: From
Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey 273 Anonymous Timeline 1:
Downhill Accelerating 274 Timeline 2: Crawling out of the Pit 278 A Message
from Somewhere 279 Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as
Soon as I Retire 280 Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in
the Closet? 282 Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What
They're Having 283 Transformation 1: Dropping the Pain of Past Projections
284 Original Situation 284 Actions to Achieve Transformation 285
Transformed State 287 Interlude: There's Money for Everyone 288
Transformation 2: Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe 289 Original
Situation 289 Actions to Achieve Transformation 290 Transformed State 292
Transformation 3: Realizing My Purpose 292 Original Situation 292 Actions
to Achieve Transformation 293 Transformed State 295 Transformation 4:
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me 296 Original Situation 296 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 297 Transformed State 298 Transformation 5: Become
an Active Manager of Emotional States 300 Original Situation 300 Actions to
Achieve Transformation 301 Transformed State 303 Bottom Line: Net Winner in
Life 305 Chapter 15: A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix 307
Curtis Wee My Early Trading Experiences 310 Stumbling on the Van Tharp
Institute 312 Key Lesson 1: Taking Personal Responsibility 314 Key Lesson
2: Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions 315 Key Lesson 3:
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine 317 Key Lesson 4: Trusting My Inner
Guidance 318 Key Lesson 5: Understanding That the World Is Perfect 318 Key
Lesson 6: Knowing My Purpose 320 Key Lesson 7: Reinventing Myself 322 So
Where Am I Now? 322 Chapter 16: My Journey to Trading in the Now 325 Thahn
Nguyen My Transformation Journey 327 Area 1: My Anxiety or Worry 328 Area
2: My Impatience 330 Area 3: My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong 330 Area 4:
Being Overwhelmed 330 Area 5: Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Right 331
Area 6: Trading with No Plan or System 331 How It Happened 333 Where Am I
Now? 334 Editor's Note 336 Chapter 17: Thoughts on Raising Your Level of
Consciousness 337 Van K. Tharp, PhD Some Exercises for Trading in the Now
338 Trading in the Now 340 Level IV Transformation 342 Questions on Raising
Your Level of Consciousness 344 Chapter 18: Continuing the Journey 349 Van
K. Tharp, PhD Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for
Trading/Investing 349 Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation for Trading 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes 360 Appendix: Recommended
Readings 363 Appendix: Key Words Defi ned 367 Appendix: Reference Notes 373
About the Author 381 A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp 383 Index
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