Van Tharp – Tharp Think

Learn how you are programmed by “the Matrix” and, more importantly, how to clear your old programming to create more useful beliefs that support your trading and a well-balanced life.

In this course, you’ll learn ways to recognize your old programming and start the reprogramming process including:

• Recognizing your key beliefs that limit you

• Learning how to reprogram them

• Understanding how to use feeling release to unlock stuck beliefs that you know hold you back

• Learning some of your mental strategies, such as how you convince yourself that something works, whether it actually does or not

High-Level Concepts Covered in Tharp Think Essentials:

Learn how you are programmed by “the Matrix” and how to clear your old programming. What if you could start to reprogram yourself to function at a near-super-human level? Moreover, all it takes to do so is to recognize your old program (beliefs and strategies), get rid of what’s useless and adopt what works. It is not that hard if you are willing to do the work and look at yourself.

For example, a programmer knows that correct programming will enable a computer to do what it is supposed to do. Moreover, you cannot allow the system to be harmed by viruses and other malware if you want it to run effectively. So don’t you think it is important to do that for yourself?

In this course, you will learn ways to recognize your old programming and start the reprogramming process including:

• Recognizing your key beliefs that limit you

• Learning how to reprogram them

• Understanding how to use feeling release to unlock stuck beliefs that you know hold you back

• Learning some of your mental strategies, such as how you convince yourself that something works, whether it does or not

Beyond your psychology, a real key to trading success (one that even most professional traders do not understand) is that you achieve your objectives through position sizing strategies. Your trading objectives involve the returns and the drawdowns on your equity. We will discuss various objectives and how to use position sizing to achieve them. Based on what we have seen from great traders over the years, having great position sizing strategies is more important than having great trading systems.