Hesitation before placing a trade or being too afraid to place one.
Entering a position you KNOW you shouldn’t take.
Chasing the market because you missed your entry.
Moving your stop whilst in a trade – only to take a bigger loss than you planned for.
“Bending” the rules of a proven trading strategy after a series of consecutive losers.
Becoming despondent and a feeling that the market is out to get you.
This list could go on but it is precisely these types of perilous behaviours and emotions which can wreck a potentially promising trading career.The simple fact is this: your mindset is the single most important factor which will determine whether you will succeed and become a profitable trader.
Are you psychologically prepared to trade the markets?
It has been said that trading is 90% psychological, 10% methodological.Traders who accept this greatly increase the likelihood of becoming consistently profitable. Without a sound understanding of trading psychology and peak performance, there is virtually no way to overcome the fear, confusion, and despair that can be inherent in trading.
For these reasons, many successful traders regard trading psychology as more critical than the trading method itself.
Allow Steve to help you develop your mental resilience and fine-tune your
performance in front of the trading screen.
A leading authority in the field of trader peak performance, Steve Ward will present a structured programme written for traders of all levels.The course consists of one webinar session per week for seven weeks, each covering key topics in trader performance and psychology.
Trading is a challenging and performance-orientated activity which places huge demands on it’s participants. Find out what the path to becoming a successful trader looks like and discover how you can accelerate your performance along the learning and profitability curve.
Week 2: Create Powerful Motivations and Achieve Compelling Trading Goals
Ed Seykota famously said ‘Everyone gets what they want from the markets’. What do YOU want? Knowing your core motivations for trading and setting compelling goals are fundamental to achieving trading success.Find out what is really driving your trading and how to move from being a goal setter to a goal achiever.
Week 3: How To Develop A Winning Trader’s Mindset
Like it or not, your beliefs, attitudes and perceptions impact on how you think, act and feel.In any high-pressure, high-performance activity, deep-seated limiting beliefs must be recognised and appropriately dealt with for successful progression and development to occur.Find out the key beliefs, attitudes and perceptions that top traders hold and how you can start thinking and acting like a winning trader.
Week 4: Trading In The Zone – Emotional State Mastery
Your trading performance is underpinned by your emotions. Being able to access positive emotional states such as confidence, focus and composure is key to being able to trade to your potential. Learn practical strategies for developing and sustaining peak mental states, in good times and bad.
Week 5: Trader Toughness – Dealing With Losses, Setbacks and Errors
The best traders demonstrate high levels of resilience. They are able to bounce back quickly from losing trades and get through tough periods in the market by utilising specific psychological strategies. Find out how to become more resilient as a trader and learn the secret techniques professional traders use to deal with losses, setbacks and errors.
Week 6: Visual Power – Using Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal to Programme and Condition You For Success
Visualisation techniques are extremely powerful and are used by many professional traders to enhance their trading performance. Learn why such methods are so effective in high-performance fields and how to use visualisation to condition your unconscious mind for successful trading behaviours.
Week 7: Overcoming The Obstacles To Trading Success
Many people who start trading are not successful. Trading is uniquely challenging and presents many obstacles to success. This final session will identify the common pitfalls that traders face and will provide practical approaches to overcome them.
Draw from Steve’s vast wealth of knowledge and discover the mental tricks, tools and techniques that professional traders use to stay sharp, focused and profitable.
BONUS: automatic subscription to Steve’s weekly newsletter for all attendees
With over fifteen years of teaching, training and coaching experience, Steve now acts as a trading peak performance consultant to some of the biggest financialtraders in Europe.He works with independent trading houses in London as well as with traders in global investment banks and other financial institutions, includingthe London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Bank and regularly contributes articles to Traders Magazine.