Trading Psychology

If a person's fear of failure is greater than their desire to succeed,
then they will fail!

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Successful trading is both an art form & a science! 
The Applied Reality Trading ® Home-Study Course & ART® Trading Software approaches trading as an art and a science.

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form.  The greatest scientists are always artists as well"
....Albert Einstein

A trader's improperly managed psychology can manifest losing trades even with a proven trading system!

Successful trading requires you to be able to live in the present moment void of opinions so that you can listen to the vibratory market and act on it's truths.

Risk Control Is A State Of Mind!

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"You have to be able to control yourself. You can't let emotions get in the way of your mind."

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Stress - Worry - Fear - Greed Can Ruin Your Trading!

IT ALL STARTS WITH A THOUGHT!

Your Thoughts shape your beliefs!

And your beliefs In-Turn shape your thoughts!

Your beliefs shape your emotions such as fear and greed!

Emotions such as Fear & Greed Are Relative, based on your unique beliefs!

Fear & Greed Drive Markets and Life Itself!

Ultimately, you live your beliefs which create your reality!

Trading is nothing more than a vehicle you choose to create your reality by trading your beliefs!

So choose & protect your thoughts carefully!

The Power Of The Mind - Try These Exercises

Our Minds are capable of more than we realize! These visual examples illustrate how our minds can conceive and create illusions we may not even be aware of. Are you not seeing the market as it really is? Is your mind creating illusions you may not even be aware of? Are your emotions such as fear distorting what is real and how you interpret and act in the markets? How your mind sees and interprets the markets maybe affecting your trading - without you even being aware of it! Read this entire page to see how we can help you to try and unlock the most powerful computer in the world, your mind!

Shown here are a few drawings from his Roger N. Shepard's Mind Sights, subtitled Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies With a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art (W.H. Freeman and Co., 1990):

TERROR SUBTERRA

"The linear perspective of the subterranean tunnel (along with other depth cues, such as the relative heights of the projections of the two monsters on our retinas) supports the automatic perceptual inference that one of the two monsters is farther back in depth. The two monsters, nevertheless being exactly the same size in the drawing, subtend the same visual angle at the eye. The visual system therefore makes the additional inference that in order to subtend the same visual angle, the monster that is farther back in depth must also be larger."

"In addition to seeing them as different in size, do we also interpret their identical faces as expressing the different emotions -- such as rage on the part of the pursuer and fear on the part of the pursued?"

TURNING THE TABLES

"We remain oblivious to the anomalous character of many illusions until our visual experience is tested against some other, more objective evidence, such as that provided by measurement or tracing. There is nothing obviously amiss in Turning the Tables until one is told that the two seemingly differently shaped table tops are in fact identical in the picture plane. Clearly, this illusion arises because our visual system has once again given us depth interpretations of the two-dimensional drawing."

ARCH REMARK

"The actual three-dimensional structure of this arch might be strangely twisted, or simply tipped back -- so that the right-hand pedestal of the arch is suspended in the air (above the shadow indicated in the foreground). The apparently perfect alignment of this right-hand pedestal with the rectangular base in the background would then depend on the unlikely circumstance that we are viewing the scene from a very special vantage point."

L'EGS-ISTENTIAL QUANDARY

"The elephant ... belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background."

Gravitational Bending

"Of...psychological interest are illusions that are not already objectively present in the physical pattern of light reaching our eyes but that arise only in the psychological process of interpreting that pattern of light....[T]he two portions of the apparently elliptical (or even circular) orbit that overlap the lines radiating from the central sun are curved only in the eye of the beholder. Objectively, these two horizontal portions of the 'orbit' are perfectly straight, as can be verified by means of a ruler."

The researchers, led by Shaun Vecera, Ph.D., ran groups of five to 12 participants through a series of eight experiments that used two-color figure-ground displays to assess figure-ground preferences and investigate their source. For example:

The researchers found that lower-region preference was independent of whether the figure-ground display was placed in the upper or lower visual field; participants continued to defined "lower" relative to the horizon line.

Vecera and his colleagues suspect that the lower-region preference arose because in the real world, regions that fall below the horizon are physically closer. The perceptual system then uses this knowledge to interpret figure-ground displays. "The shared contour that separates upper and lower regions acts as a horizon," says Vecera, "and we perceive the lower region as the figure because it falls below the horizon line."

He adds, "Many perceptual phenomena are easily overlooked in everyday life because our visual systems are extraordinarily efficient. The lower-region preference provides a glimpse at one part of this behind-the-scenes work."

Trading Psychological Help

You will not develop The Trader's Mindset, which is The "Holy Grail" to trading unless you master your mind!

Emotions!

"As traders we want to take advantage of other trader's emotions such as fear and greed which have been present in the markets from their beginning. Recognizing and exploiting these emotions will always be a factor in successful trading. In order to be a successful trader, you must not fall prey to the very emotions you are trying to exploit"

"We at TradersCoach.com believe that most traders incorrectly view the markets from purely a "linear" mindset and instead should view the markets from a "nonlinear" mindset as the markets are "nonlinear" themselves. This is why rigid logical thinkers or "linear intellectuals" find trading the markets so frustrating. Since they operate from their logical "linear" "beta" mind state, and become frustrated when market behavior does not do what it "should."

Fear!

A Trader's Improperly managed Fear Can manifest losing trades regardless of the trading system or approach!

If you are too scared or fearful to take that trade, or you are scaring yourself out of profitable trades too soon, then you must ask yourself, what are you really scared of.

The importance of thoughts

Our thoughts shape our beliefs which create our reality. In trading this has profound implications. If we think or have a nagging thought that we may fail, then we create the seed that shapes our beliefs and manifests failure, all because we just think it!

High achievers maintain a philosophy that failure is not an option and to it pays to be a winner!

Leave an opening in your mind where fear can gain hold and guess what, your fear becomes reality! What you fear even so slightly has more chance of happening than the fear you confront to defeat. The reason for this is simple, because this "low-level" fear usually is the fear you are really scared of. Why? Because it is so frightening, you can't face it and instead it is easier to deny it then face it. Unfortunately, it remains forever at this denied "low-level" always in the "back of your mind." You become comfortable containing or "living with" this fear through your denial process but somehow you always feel something is holding you back or you just can't seem to break free. This "low-level" but always present fear you deny has a way of becoming so powerful and potent by this very act of denial. This type of fear remains in thought and therefore will have an impact on your beliefs and ultimately manifest itself as your reality. If you are a trader than it will sabotage you until your worst fear is realized, failure!

Traders that experience thoughts of failure should not take them lightly. Instead they must find out what are causing these thoughts and take action to nullify them. Traders that fear failure will ultimately fail. Traders that fear success will not succeed. If you have these thoughts, then don't trade until these thoughts are dealt with openly where they will be less powerful then if they where denied. You must confront them and remove their power so they don't occupy your thoughts.

Fear of failing, or fear of success, must be dealt with and removed from your thoughts before you will be successful at anything you try and do. So choose and protect your thoughts carefully! Outside influences can and do impact what you think, much like garbage in equals garbage out. Even something as harmless as watching the news regularly with all its violence and dramatic fearful stories can over time create a fear based belief system in the viewer. Compound this with violent movies and TV programming and it is no wonder most people walk around looking over their shoulder and focus on and energize fear based thoughts which then manifest themselves in reality. This is why I say to protect your thoughts from manipulative outside forces and instead focus your energy on wholesome, happy, and fun thoughts creating the life you want, not the life someone else wants for you!

What is really your deepest fear?

Total Loss? ~ Failure? ~ Success? ~ Winning? ~ Losing?

When you first hear the word fear, what comes into your mind? Don’t think, just feel, what did you feel? Was it panic, irrational thoughts or responses? Running? Hiding? Or no feeling at all?

Did you feel any emotional energy attached to your feeling or thought? The energy is very important. This energy is what drives markets! It will make you do things that are not always rational or in your best interest.

Fear and even greed are nothing without the energy that makes them something! Markets are made up of energy, the energy of traders. Since fear and greed cause traders to trade, then what causes traders to win or lose consistently? The answer, how traders respond to fear and greed!

As traders we want to take advantage of other trader's emotions such as fear and greed which have been present in the markets from their beginning. Recognizing and exploiting these emotions will always be a factor in successful trading. In order to be a successful trader, you must not fall prey to the very emotions you are trying to exploit.

So how can we do this? By being able to see fear and greed for what they are and not falling victim to the emotional energy attached to these powerful emotions! If you can spot times in the market where fear or greed are creating irrational trades, then the key is to spot which emotion, fear or greed is at work and then make it work for you! Using “stops” helps traders exit trades based on a plan of action and thus eliminates exiting trades on emotions! Correct “Trade-Size” is also important in helping to keep proper perspective in the market and eliminating destructive emotional responses to market behavior. As is trading with risk capital, money you can afford to trade with and put at risk. Do whatever you can to keep your trading rational!

Now the next question is, how can we tell what is fear in the market place? And how can we tell what is greed in the market place? Isn’t one person’s fear another person’s greed? In other words, when traders are panicking out of a position, isn’t the trader on the other side of the trade greedily trying to profit from this situation? The answer is yes, but the key is to take the trade on the opposite side of the stronger of the irrational energy. So if fear is creating more irrational fear then traders who are looking for opportunity, then you want to take trades opposite to the fear based trades.

Finding the energy between greed and fear represents opportunity! These are pressure points in the market. Markets respond in the direction of the highest energy responses of fear and greed.

When designing your trading system or approach try and incorporate the energy of fear and greed into your trading to take advantage and profit form this powerful occurrence. This is what we have done in designing our complete trading system and home study course we call "APPLIED REALITY TRADING ®" also known as "ART." Click Here To Learn More...

Scared money never wins!

Neo: "I know what you are trying to do!"

Morpheus: "I am trying to free your mind Neo. But I can only show you the door. You are the one that has to walk through it.

You have to let it all go Neo, fear, doubt and disbelief. Free your mind!"

Morpheus: "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

From the movie: "The Matrix"

Or Perhaps You Fear Success!

Nelson Mandela Writes This:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela

Time ~ Space ~ Reality ~ Oneness ~ Markets

What do the above all have in common? That’s right, “nonlinear” concepts!

It is interesting that one of the great minds of humanity, Albert Einstein spent his time on “nonlinear” concepts such as “time, space, reality, and oneness.” I find it more interesting that the interdependence of these “nonlinear” concepts is what makes a market tick as well.

As a trader, “timing” your trade within the “market” is based on “reality” in relation to the “oneness” of other traders and your outcome is determined by the “space” or movement of your position.

It is my opinion based on consulting with many traders that most traders incorrectly view the markets from purely a "linear" mindset and instead should view the markets from a "nonlinear" mindset as the markets are "nonlinear" themselves. This is why rigid logical thinkers or "linear intellectuals" find trading the markets so frustrating. Since they operate from their logical "linear" "beta" mind state, and become frustrated when market behavior does not do what it "should." This is also why I feel that successful trading has to be both “art” & “science.”

Think about how you approach the markets and to what degree you are a “linear” vs. a “nonlinear” mindset. Also try and remember a trade or trading day where it seemed effortless and you just “let-go” and flowed with the market. In days like these, I’ll bet logical thinking was secondary to enjoying yourself, and selecting trades based on both your trading “tools” and your “intuition” which represents trading the markets as an “art” & “science.” Compare that to days when you where frustrated because the market did not do what it was suppose to based solely on logical assumptions.

Usually fear and greed are by products of logical thinking. Fear and greed are emotions and “nonlinear” in concept, but created by “linear” thinking. Isn’t it interesting that fear and greed are present in the markets and are “nonlinear” as well. Or is it because fear and greed are “nonlinear” and that they are present in the markets?

Maybe the key to a good trading system should be based on how to measure or determine “nonlinear” market events such as fear and greed. Look at the markets from a “nonlinear” point of view so that you can perhaps “see” market relationships that where invisible to you before.

Think About This

Man looks into the abyss.

The question is what does he see?

The answer will be different for each one of us.

Therein lies our results and our realities!

And this has nothing to do with intellect!

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We have even developed a special journal for you to use in dealing with improving your thought process. This journal when used as instructed can potentially help you uncover your fears and other emotions that may be causing you trouble. The very act of uncovering these negative emotions usually helps make them less powerful. Our journal is called the "Sunrise Trading Journal" which includes the methods on how to use it. The results of using these methods can be staggering. One of its many benefits is that it is designed so that your subconscious thoughts can be revealed and then dealt with on a conscious level.

Another benefit of your using this journal is to write in your thoughts every day so that you can clear your mind and focus on trading. Combined with unique methods, this journal can help you get focused by un-cluttering your mind of tangled thoughts and feelings. We include this journal in our home study course.

Our complete home study course "Applied Reality Trading ®" gives you the potential "tools" to navigate the market while dealing with the dangers of the market that afflict so many traders and cause them to fail. We have also developed the "Trade Size Calculator" PC Software to deal with your fear created by the reality of "risk-of-ruin." Using the "Trade Size Calculator" PC Software in conjunction with our money management techniques, we teach you how to potentially lower your risk and help you build your self-trust leading to potentially better trading results. Using these trading "tools" acknowledges and confronts the some of the "real" risks associated with trading the financial markets. This allows you to trade confidently and fearlessly. It is important to realize that you must react and be aware of the risks of trading the financial markets. Many "positive thinkers" preach that if you think ONLY positive thoughts and say ONLY positive affirmations you will succeed. While this may be a good start, it falls very short of what is really needed. You must live in full awareness. Let your positive beliefs lead you to take the action necessary to succeed. For traders to blindly enter the financial markets and start trading simply because they are thinking positive is to ignore the full spectrum of what is possible while trading the markets. You must acknowledge both sides of the coin, the good and the bad. You must acknowledge and react with full-awareness. To react with only positive thoughts or only positive outcomes would cause you to neglect attention towards risk control and ultimately you will go broke. On the other hand, to live in the fear of only losing will cause you to react with fear, anxiety, negativity and aggression which is equally destructive. But to trade the markets with the reaction and pre-emption of full awareness without fear, anxiety, and despair allows a balance that manifests itself into a positive reality creating a feeling of abundance and good will. The Purpose of TradersCoach.com is to align your personal psychology with that of a sound trading system. And to mold your psychology into that of a winning trader.

As a trader:

Do you feel anxious and stressed when you trade ?

Are you working harder but still losing in the markets ?

Do you feel wound up at the end of a trading day ?

Does the market feel like a hostile place for you ?

Are you failing to execute your trading signals ?

Are you searching for a trading system ?

Are you consistently losing ?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, and you are trying to make money in the stock & commodities market but are losing more often than winning, help is on the way! The market can be a friendly place for you.

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