Trading Beyond the Matrix : The Red Pill for Traders and Investors

Name: Trading Beyond the Matrix : The Red Pill for Traders and Investors
Author: Van K. Tharp
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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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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

Publication DateFeb. 26th, 2013

Pages400

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Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Preface: Understanding Transformation	p. xxiii
Transformation of the Trading Game	p. xxv
Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming Yourself	p. xxviii
Trading Beyond the Matrix	p. xxx
Your Personal Application of This Material	p. xxxi
Transformation of the Trading Game: Understanding the Basics	p. 1
Two Sets of Rules	p. 1
I Just Made 130 Percent-and That Was Just the Beginning	p. 7
Learning to Trade	p. 9
"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"	p. 10
Tharp Think 101	p. 12
Not All Lessons Are Equal	p. 16
Finally, Some Winning Marbles	p. 20
The Automation of Tharp Think	p. 25
My Journey into Doing the Trading Myself	p. 27
Training Someone Else	p. 32
Why This Is Possible	p. 33
Addendum	p. 35
From Commercial Loan Officer to Financially Free Trader Investor	p. 37
My Initial Psychological Changes	p. 40
What I've Learned about the Trading Game	p. 44
Understanding the Trading Game	p. 46
So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System?	p. 50
Getting a System That Works	p. 51
Trading Psychology	p. 52
How My Life Has Changed	p. 54
From Army Major to Systems Expert	p. 59
What I Have Learned and How I Have Changed	p. 61
The Power of Beliefs	p. 61
Statistics-Based Trading	p. 64
Trading Extremes	p. 67
Reward-to-Risk Assessments	p. 68
R-Multiples	p. 69
Position-Sizing Strategies™ and Bullets	p. 70
SQN Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets	p. 71
Market Classification Strategies	p. 72
Transformations	p. 73
Improved Systematic Performance	p. 73
Specific Systems for Specific Market Conditions	p. 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades	p. 74
Evidence-Based Management	p. 74
Reduced Stress	p. 75
Performance	p. 75
Long-Term System with Monthly Rebalancing	p. 76
Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments	p. 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data	p. 78
Live Trading Workshops Results	p. 79
Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time Trader	p. 83
My New Venture	p. 84
Going to North Carolina	p. 85
Restarting Trading	p. 87
Where I Am Now	p. 90
Adapting Tharp Think to Your Trading	p. 93
Area One: Thoroughly Understand the Principles of Successful Trading	p. 95
Learning to Trade Is Hard Work, But It Can Be Taught	p. 97
Knowing Yourself	p. 98
Mistakes	p. 100
Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies	p. 101
Probability and Reward-to-Risk Assessment	p. 103
Systems and Market Type	p. 107
Steps to Learning Tharp Think	p. 109
Psychological Transformations to Help You Function at a Superior Level Within the Matrix	p. 111
Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix	p. 117
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life	p. 118
How I Create My Experience	p. 124
You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You	p. 129
Belief Hierarchy	p. 130
Changing Your Beliefs	p. 134
Everything Has the Meaning You Give It	p. 139
A Journey through the Stunning World of Feelings and Trapped Emotions	p. 143
The Turning Point	p. 144
Self-Sabotage Models	p. 147
Accepting My Feelings	p. 148
Where I Am Now	p. 152
Note from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening	p. 156
You Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside	p. 157
Exercise: Have a Parts Party	p. 160
Parts Negotiation Exercise	p. 160
Interview with a CBOE Floor Trader	p. 163
Working with Dr. Van Tharp	p. 165
Dealing with Conflicting Parts	p. 166
What's Changed Since Then	p. 168
Where I Am Now (Several Years Later)	p. 169
My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles	p. 171
My Personal Journey	p. 172
Conversations with God	p. 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing	p. 178
My Relationship with Mitzi	p. 179
My Current Inner Guidance	p. 181
Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor	p. 183
My Relationship with Durga Grows	p. 186
Oneness with God	p. 187
Bond with the Divine	p. 188
The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical	p. 191
What Does this Mean for You and for Your Trading?	p. 193
Some Recent Updates	p. 197
Mother Meera's Second Blessing	p. 197
I Clear My Fear-Based Spiritual Beliefs	p. 198
My Experiences Using Transformational Meditation	p. 201
"I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the Word "God"	p. 206
Five Transformations	p. 207
Some More "Little i's" That Didn't Get the Message	p. 210
Discussion	p. 220
Dealing with Mistakes	p. 221
Discussion	p. 224
Closing Reflections	p. 225
An Addendum	p. 226
Creating Your Own World	p. 233
Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself	p. 236
Step 1: Learn That You Are a Crowd Inside	p. 236
Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs from Each Part	p. 237
Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your Beliefs	p. 239
Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self	p. 240
Step 5: Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises	p. 240
Step 6: Do a Life Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up	p. 242
Step 7: Make a List of Your Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings)	p. 242
Step 8: Get in Touch with Your Internal Guidance	p. 243
Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You	p. 245
Moving Beyond the Matrix by Transforming Your Level of Consciousness	p. 247
Our Most Powerful Tool	p. 249
Super Trader Journeys through Transformation	p. 250
How I Turbocharged My Transformational Journey	p. 253
Discovering the Linchpin	p. 258
Transformations Turbocharged!	p. 262
Getting Rid of Fear	p. 262
Tapping into a Higher Power	p. 264
My Purpose in Life	p. 266
Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control	p. 266
Taming My Unconscious Fear of Becoming a Millionaire	p. 268
A Snapshot of Before and After	p. 269
The Turbocharged Transformational Model	p. 270
Conclusion	p. 272
From Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey	p. 273
Downhill Accelerating	p. 274
Crawling out of the Pit	p. 278
A Message from Somewhere	p. 279
Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as Soon as I Retire	p. 280
Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in the Closet?	p. 282
Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What They're Having	p. 283
Dropping the Pain of Past Projections	p. 284
Original Situation	p. 284
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 285
Transformed State	p. 287
Interlude: There's Money for Everyone	p. 288
Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe	p. 289
Original Situation	p. 289
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 290
Transformed State	p. 292
Realizing My Purpose	p. 292
Original Situation	p. 292
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 293
Transformed State	p. 295
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me	p. 296
Original Situation	p. 296
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 297
Transformed State	p. 298
Become an Active Manager of Emotional States	p. 300
Original Situation	p. 300
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 301
Transformed State	p. 303
Bottom Line: Net Winner in Life	p. 305
A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix	p. 307
My Early Trading Experiences	p. 310
Stumbling on the Van Tharp Institute	p. 312
Taking Personal Responsibility	p. 314
Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions	p. 315
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine	p. 317
Trusting My Inner Guidance	p. 318
Understanding That the World Is Perfect	p. 318
Knowing My Purpose	p. 320
Reinventing Myself	p. 322
So Where Am I Now?	p. 322
My Journey to Trading in the Now	p. 325
My Transformation Journey	p. 327
My Anxiety or Worry	p. 328
My Impatience	p. 330
My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong	p. 330
Being Overwhelmed	p. 330
Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Bight	p. 331
Trading with No Plan or System	p. 331
How It Happened	p. 333
Where Am I Now?	p. 334
Editor's Note	p. 336
Thoughts on Raising Your Level of Consciousness	p. 337
Some Exercises for Trading in the Now	p. 338
Trading in the Now	p. 340
Level IV Transformation	p. 342
Questions on Raising Your Level of Consciousness	p. 344
Continuing the Journey	p. 349
Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for Trading/Investing	p. 349
Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation or Trading	p. 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes	p. 360
Appendix: Recommended Readings	p. 363
Appendix: Key Words Defined	p. 367
Appendix: Reference Notes	p. 373
About the Author	p. 381
A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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FormatHardcover

LanguageEnglish

PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

Publication DateFeb. 26th, 2013

Pages400

Edition1st Edition

ISBN-139781118525661

Dimensions6.30 x 9.10 x 1.50 inches

ISBN-101118525663

Shipping Weight1.35 lbs

Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Preface: Understanding Transformation	p. xxiii
Transformation of the Trading Game	p. xxv
Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming Yourself	p. xxviii
Trading Beyond the Matrix	p. xxx
Your Personal Application of This Material	p. xxxi
Transformation of the Trading Game: Understanding the Basics	p. 1
Two Sets of Rules	p. 1
I Just Made 130 Percent-and That Was Just the Beginning	p. 7
Learning to Trade	p. 9
"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"	p. 10
Tharp Think 101	p. 12
Not All Lessons Are Equal	p. 16
Finally, Some Winning Marbles	p. 20
The Automation of Tharp Think	p. 25
My Journey into Doing the Trading Myself	p. 27
Training Someone Else	p. 32
Why This Is Possible	p. 33
Addendum	p. 35
From Commercial Loan Officer to Financially Free Trader Investor	p. 37
My Initial Psychological Changes	p. 40
What I've Learned about the Trading Game	p. 44
Understanding the Trading Game	p. 46
So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System?	p. 50
Getting a System That Works	p. 51
Trading Psychology	p. 52
How My Life Has Changed	p. 54
From Army Major to Systems Expert	p. 59
What I Have Learned and How I Have Changed	p. 61
The Power of Beliefs	p. 61
Statistics-Based Trading	p. 64
Trading Extremes	p. 67
Reward-to-Risk Assessments	p. 68
R-Multiples	p. 69
Position-Sizing Strategies™ and Bullets	p. 70
SQN Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets	p. 71
Market Classification Strategies	p. 72
Transformations	p. 73
Improved Systematic Performance	p. 73
Specific Systems for Specific Market Conditions	p. 74
Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades	p. 74
Evidence-Based Management	p. 74
Reduced Stress	p. 75
Performance	p. 75
Long-Term System with Monthly Rebalancing	p. 76
Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments	p. 77
Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data	p. 78
Live Trading Workshops Results	p. 79
Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time Trader	p. 83
My New Venture	p. 84
Going to North Carolina	p. 85
Restarting Trading	p. 87
Where I Am Now	p. 90
Adapting Tharp Think to Your Trading	p. 93
Area One: Thoroughly Understand the Principles of Successful Trading	p. 95
Learning to Trade Is Hard Work, But It Can Be Taught	p. 97
Knowing Yourself	p. 98
Mistakes	p. 100
Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies	p. 101
Probability and Reward-to-Risk Assessment	p. 103
Systems and Market Type	p. 107
Steps to Learning Tharp Think	p. 109
Psychological Transformations to Help You Function at a Superior Level Within the Matrix	p. 111
Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix	p. 117
Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life	p. 118
How I Create My Experience	p. 124
You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You	p. 129
Belief Hierarchy	p. 130
Changing Your Beliefs	p. 134
Everything Has the Meaning You Give It	p. 139
A Journey through the Stunning World of Feelings and Trapped Emotions	p. 143
The Turning Point	p. 144
Self-Sabotage Models	p. 147
Accepting My Feelings	p. 148
Where I Am Now	p. 152
Note from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening	p. 156
You Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside	p. 157
Exercise: Have a Parts Party	p. 160
Parts Negotiation Exercise	p. 160
Interview with a CBOE Floor Trader	p. 163
Working with Dr. Van Tharp	p. 165
Dealing with Conflicting Parts	p. 166
What's Changed Since Then	p. 168
Where I Am Now (Several Years Later)	p. 169
My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles	p. 171
My Personal Journey	p. 172
Conversations with God	p. 176
Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing	p. 178
My Relationship with Mitzi	p. 179
My Current Inner Guidance	p. 181
Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor	p. 183
My Relationship with Durga Grows	p. 186
Oneness with God	p. 187
Bond with the Divine	p. 188
The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical	p. 191
What Does this Mean for You and for Your Trading?	p. 193
Some Recent Updates	p. 197
Mother Meera's Second Blessing	p. 197
I Clear My Fear-Based Spiritual Beliefs	p. 198
My Experiences Using Transformational Meditation	p. 201
"I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the Word "God"	p. 206
Five Transformations	p. 207
Some More "Little i's" That Didn't Get the Message	p. 210
Discussion	p. 220
Dealing with Mistakes	p. 221
Discussion	p. 224
Closing Reflections	p. 225
An Addendum	p. 226
Creating Your Own World	p. 233
Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself	p. 236
Step 1: Learn That You Are a Crowd Inside	p. 236
Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs from Each Part	p. 237
Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your Beliefs	p. 239
Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self	p. 240
Step 5: Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises	p. 240
Step 6: Do a Life Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up	p. 242
Step 7: Make a List of Your Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings)	p. 242
Step 8: Get in Touch with Your Internal Guidance	p. 243
Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You	p. 245
Moving Beyond the Matrix by Transforming Your Level of Consciousness	p. 247
Our Most Powerful Tool	p. 249
Super Trader Journeys through Transformation	p. 250
How I Turbocharged My Transformational Journey	p. 253
Discovering the Linchpin	p. 258
Transformations Turbocharged!	p. 262
Getting Rid of Fear	p. 262
Tapping into a Higher Power	p. 264
My Purpose in Life	p. 266
Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control	p. 266
Taming My Unconscious Fear of Becoming a Millionaire	p. 268
A Snapshot of Before and After	p. 269
The Turbocharged Transformational Model	p. 270
Conclusion	p. 272
From Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey	p. 273
Downhill Accelerating	p. 274
Crawling out of the Pit	p. 278
A Message from Somewhere	p. 279
Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as Soon as I Retire	p. 280
Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in the Closet?	p. 282
Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What They're Having	p. 283
Dropping the Pain of Past Projections	p. 284
Original Situation	p. 284
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 285
Transformed State	p. 287
Interlude: There's Money for Everyone	p. 288
Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe	p. 289
Original Situation	p. 289
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 290
Transformed State	p. 292
Realizing My Purpose	p. 292
Original Situation	p. 292
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 293
Transformed State	p. 295
Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me	p. 296
Original Situation	p. 296
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 297
Transformed State	p. 298
Become an Active Manager of Emotional States	p. 300
Original Situation	p. 300
Actions to Achieve Transformation	p. 301
Transformed State	p. 303
Bottom Line: Net Winner in Life	p. 305
A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix	p. 307
My Early Trading Experiences	p. 310
Stumbling on the Van Tharp Institute	p. 312
Taking Personal Responsibility	p. 314
Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions	p. 315
Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine	p. 317
Trusting My Inner Guidance	p. 318
Understanding That the World Is Perfect	p. 318
Knowing My Purpose	p. 320
Reinventing Myself	p. 322
So Where Am I Now?	p. 322
My Journey to Trading in the Now	p. 325
My Transformation Journey	p. 327
My Anxiety or Worry	p. 328
My Impatience	p. 330
My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong	p. 330
Being Overwhelmed	p. 330
Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Bight	p. 331
Trading with No Plan or System	p. 331
How It Happened	p. 333
Where Am I Now?	p. 334
Editor's Note	p. 336
Thoughts on Raising Your Level of Consciousness	p. 337
Some Exercises for Trading in the Now	p. 338
Trading in the Now	p. 340
Level IV Transformation	p. 342
Questions on Raising Your Level of Consciousness	p. 344
Continuing the Journey	p. 349
Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for Trading/Investing	p. 349
Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation or Trading	p. 355
Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes	p. 360
Appendix: Recommended Readings	p. 363
Appendix: Key Words Defined	p. 367
Appendix: Reference Notes	p. 373
About the Author	p. 381
A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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