Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders – Van Tharp

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What will you get:

• Successful Attitude Model by Van K. Tharp
• Trading Psychology by Van K. Tharp
• Website
• 1 – How to Use Risk to Become a More Successful Investor by Dr. Van Tharp.pdf
• 2 – How to Control Stress to Become a More Successful Investor by Dr. Van Tharp.pdf
• 3 – How To Control Attitude to Become a More Successful Investor by Dr. Van Tharp.pdf
• 4 – How To Develop Discipline to Become a More Successful Investor by Dr. Van Tharp.pdf
• 5 – How To Make Sound Decisions to Become a More Successful Investor by Dr. Van Tharp.pdf

The Psychology Profile is a great add-on for this item.

This home study course is Dr. Tharp’s masterpiece. It is designed for all levels of investors and traders—beginners, advanced, unsuccessful traders seeking to better their performance and successful traders who want to continue to improve.

The course contains five workbooks and four audio MP3 (also available via CD). Dr. Tharp carefully crafted the information from his studies into a model that people like you can use to improve your skills and increase profits.

Ask yourself the following questions:

• Do you have trouble pulling the trigger and frequently miss big trades or investments that you are sure would be winners?
• Do you seem to have a ceiling in your investing/trading? For example, do you make a specific amount of money only to find that you give it all back?
• Do you invest for excitement?
• Do you see that you take high-risk trades and can’t help yourself?
• Did you have a significant loss at some point in your investing/trading history and then find that the loss still affects what you do in the market today?

If you answered “”yes”” to any of these questions, then you need to work on yourself to overcome self-sabotage. Dr. Tharp’s Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders is the perfect solution for you to overcome these problems.

Do You Make Money in the Market or Do You Plan To?

Are you interested in learning how to make an extra $10,000, $50,000, $250,000 or even a million dollars in excess cash profits from the market over the next year or two? If the answer is “”yes,“” then keep reading!

With this home study course, you are going to learn to do exactly that with your trading or investing—regardless of any limits you may have put on your time—by discovering the simple “”edge”” you need for super success in today’s markets.

Once you master key trading principles often overlooked by even the most experienced investors and traders, you will finally understand and possess the same money-making and cash-flow secrets that have catapulted certain astute traders to superstar wealth and success status. You will know why they continue to make money while everyone else is losing their shirts.

It has nothing to do with following conventional market wisdom; nor is it any ego-driven nonsense that passes for investment strategy. Instead, it has to do with understanding the principles contained in a unique system of mental technology pioneered by peak performance coach and investment psychologist, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

“”I discovered your course and enrolled. I spent four months reading and studying the material until I felt confident with everything I learned. At this time, I began trading again, and I could not believe the difference in how I felt when trading. The anxiety level was gone, sleepless nights disappeared.””

— Terrance R. Caffey

Dr. Tharp is a consistent and systematic researcher of human behavior. The opportunity to learn from someone of his caliber does not come along every day. He has collected psychological profiles from over 5,000 investors and traders and has personally interviewed hundreds of top people in the field to determine what makes them excel and how they make immense profits.

Once he obtained all of the information from the top investors and traders, Dr. Tharp carefully crafted it into a model that people like you can use to improve your skills. The model he developed works to enhance profits. In fact, when Jack Schwager interviewed 16 of the world’s best investors and traders in his book Market Wizards, he also elected to interview Dr. Tharp as a Peak Performance Trading Coach.

Here’s what another professional in the field says about Dr. Tharp’s work:

“”I have a Master’s degree in a multi-disciplinary area that involved a considerable amount of psychology, and I continually read in the field—from the academic literature to Tony Robbins. Your work is, in my opinion, simply the best. I want to thank you for the efforts you have made on behalf of people like me. I have followed your work since inception and commend you on the wealth of knowledge you have added to the field.””

— Brian Casselman, Portfolio Manager

Moreover, there’s an extra benefit: Dr. Tharp only studied those investors and traders whose lives seem to work. As a result, when you apply this model, it typically helps you lead a much happier and more satisfying life.

What Kind of Profits Can You Expect?

How much you make depends upon the amount of work you put into applying the principles of the course to your investing and trading. It will also depend upon how much money you have in your account and the amount of risk you are willing to take. However, if you are a losing trader with sufficient equity, you still could efficiently use Dr. Tharp’s course to become a full-time professional.

Here is what one long-term trader said about how Dr. Tharp’s Peak Performance Course helped him to become profitable:

“”For the first ten years of my trading career, I was on balance, a losing trader … Finally, I ordered the home study course. I got into it the first night. I was excited about this business and the future, so I knew I had to change me to get on track. So, without hesitation, I rolled up my sleeves and started the training.”

“”How well did it work? …. I had to pay taxes on my trading profits. While April 15th is typically not a fun time, I was delighted to have to pay taxes on gains … not get a deduction for losses. In fact, I was very close to making up all of my losses for the previous ten years! My return for the year on my personal capital was a gain of 253.8%.

“”After seven months I am again in a situation where I have created a taxable event and, I have made up for any loss that I have ever taken! And as of the end of July the following year, my personal gain is 226.5% (this is on top of the 250% mentioned above). Also, I have begun trading personal IRA money in the futures market following the conservative mode of my system. Year-to-date I am currently up over 100% following the conservative model!

“”So confident am I in my abilities that I have registered as a CTA and have begun managing money for other people. My composite return for clients was a gain of 74.7%. (I trade my client’s money in a far more conservative fashion) and at the end of the first seven months, the composite performance shows a gain of 54.7%.

“”But the results cannot only be measured in dollars. Dr. Tharp’s training helped me to become a better person. Improved trading was just a beneficial side effect. I am happier than I have been in years, I now focus on what is important to me, and am in better physical and spiritual condition than I have been in years.””

— George Moldenhauer, CTA

Another investor who ordered Dr. Tharp’s course wrote the following six months later:

“”First, let me say that I now devote the majority of my investing time and energy in myself, instead of spending countless hours studying market theories, newsletters, and statistics. I made more money during the first four months after completing the course than I had made during the previous three years.””

— George Hull

Here’s what a broker said about his performance with his client’s accounts after studying and applying the principles of the course:

“”I took your course so that I could better understand my customers. I have tripled my business, while significantly helping my account’s performance.””

— Russell Herman, Prudential Bache Securities

We have numerous success stories like these in our files—all from people like you. And if they can do it, you can, too!

You only have to learn and apply the course materials. It is that simple.

Is the Course for Everyone?

The Peak Performance Course includes over 1,000 pages of exercises and insights about investing and trading. It will take time, effort and the willingness to dig down deep inside to complete. We estimate it takes approximately 2-3 hours per day for about 2 to 3 months to complete the program. In fact, the best results usually come from going through the course thoroughly multiple times.

As a result, the course is most appropriate for success-driven men and women who genuinely want to excel in the market and who are willing to devote the time and energy that it takes to master the key principles. It is also for brokers and institutional investors and traders who want to improve their company profits.

We expect you to be logical, ethical, practical, open-minded and willing to persevere tenaciously. You must also be willing to invest the effort to better yourself and your trading business. You must be willing to work to change yourself and your approach to the markets. If that description fits you, then the course will help you immensely.

The course is also for those of you who have considered casting off the handcuffs that tie you down to consistent tax write-offs every year for investment losses. Deep down you know there is a better way for you to direct your energy that will make you consistent profits.

“”The Peak Performance Home Study Course is the most comprehensive guide ever written about achieving peak performance trading and a peak performance life! It is one of the most challenging things I have ever done, but also one of the most rewarding. The comprehensive planning and discipline acquired through the course have improved my life on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. The improvement in my trading by reducing mistakes and maintaining the discipline to follow my trading rules has been invaluable. I have learned so much about myself and look forward to continuing to apply what I have learned to my trading and continuing to review the course at least once a year. No matter how new or experienced you are, if you commit to doing the work in this course, you will be amazed by the results in many areas of your life, not just your trading.””

— Ashay

New in the Second Edition:

Everything has been modernized and updated in this new edition. Market examples and real-world references are from the 2000s rather than the early 1990s. There are numerous new ideas, theories, and practical exercises to help you become a more successful trader. Moreover, an estimated 20% of the existing content of the five volumes has been revised.

Of all the additions and revisions, Dr. Tharp thinks these are the most noteworthy improvements:

Four entirely new chapters

Significant changes to other chapters amounting to about 16K words of additional, new material.

Two new daily tasks of trading.

“”I believe that increasing the scope of the 10 task of trading to 12 has made a profound difference in my trading and life. Focusing on these new tasks, and the belief that we all create our universe are the keys to your life mission, whatever that may be. This program can help make that possible.””

— Thomas

The Four New Chapters:

Personal Responsibility.

“I can explain today what I was unable to articulate fully in the original course. Teaching this topic over and over again for the last 15 years has enabled me to now extensively describe the all-empowering idea of total personal responsibility. You create the results you want in trading. When you hold sources other than yourself responsible for your mistakes, you tend to repeat those mistakes over and over again. This chapter will open your eyes to recognizing and correcting mistakes that you once thought outside of your control and allow you to take charge of your trading.” — Van Tharp

“”I would recommend the new Peak Performance Course to anyone who wants to excel in their trading, and in fact, I would recommend that no one actively trade until you have gone through this material several times and understood it completely. The new version is excellent, and I found the new chapters on personal responsibility and changing your beliefs to be the most valuable. This course forces you to do the self-work that is critical to successful trading and improving all aspects of your life!“”

— Peter

Trader Preparation Self-Assessment:

Are ready to trade now? Find out by answering questions regarding your psychology, your business plan, your systems and other significant factors of trading success. If you find that you are not ready to trade, then that just means that you are taking the right action by working on this course rather than trading. People have been asking for a way to assess their preparedness as a trader, and now it is a new chapter in the course.

“”The course was wonderful – well written, enlightening and full of great information and teachings. The quality and clarity were exceptional. I did work hard to complete everything and made sure not to skip any exercises. At the end of my work, I created a spreadsheet that has two columns. One is a list of things that I need to go back and review, work more on, and just think. The second column is a list of all the things in the five volumes that I need to incorporate into my Trading Plan/Business Plan and Daily Routine. I will be working off this spreadsheet for probably the entire time. My next steps are to use the Designing a Winning Game Plan chapter as my Guide going forward along with the above spreadsheet. The most unexpected part of the course was all the “awareness” work I am now completely engrossed with, including ACIM, The Secret, Eckhart Tolle and the list goes on. This evolution is the most amazing part of the course.””

— Kathy Rauzi

The Four Models of Self-Sabotage:

Sometimes you try to stop a behavior, but it continues and just seems impossible to change. Your mental states are so overwhelming that you cannot alter them. Alternatively, you find a belief that you know is not useful, but you cannot change it. For example, suppose you believe that you are not worthwhile and that you do not deserve profits. When you think about that belief, you know it is not useful, but somehow you just cannot shake it. Those are the examples of self-sabotage that we will be dealing with in this new chapter, as well as a specific instance of a classic case of self-sabotage. Dr. Tharp has explored this topic in depth in the last ten years. This new chapter also includes the oneness model of self-sabotage, Dr. Tharp’s most recent understanding of self-sabotage.

Changing Your Beliefs.

This section is one of the most important new topics in the course as Dr. Tharp believes that beliefs shape your world. When you realize that your beliefs control your reality, you can change how you experience the world by merely changing your beliefs. The straightforward, step-by-step procedure found in this chapter will take you through how to monitor, look at, and most importantly, alter your beliefs. Most beliefs can be replaced with these procedures except those that have a powerful emotional charge on them. When you have an emotional charge on your beliefs, that charge seems to anchor into your body until you release it, so there is a section in this new chapter dedicated to helping you release that charge.

“”For me, the Peak Performance Course is a valuable working tool/frame for inner development, discovery, and growth. It helped me to a large extent not only in my trading but my personal life (including relationships), as well. I became more balanced (in both trading and life) and achieved a higher level of peace and joy in my daily activities, making life and trading easier and more enjoyable. Although it is not always easy to find the time and courage to work on owning your issues, it surely has the potential to transform lives in many aspects.””

— Gabriel

Section Revisions:

Dr. Tharp has updated almost 20% of the course, including these changes:

Significant new insights into the psychology of risk.

This section has a new prediction test that amazes the traders that have taken it thus far. People are seldom as accurate as they think; furthermore, the more confident they are in their predictions, the worse their predictions can be. Find out for yourself.

Six new beliefs of top traders and a synopsis of how to control losing attitudes!

As mentioned before, there are now two new tasks of trading. A new morning task and evening task will add important dimensions to your trading day, and your life!

“”The two new tasks, along with key beliefs, mental state, and mental strategies for each trading task, are very beneficial. Compared to the previous version of Peak Performance, it has a lot of detailed steps and procedures. I found the new enhanced prediction exercise provides many insights into some of my beliefs about the market. The new value elicitation test was helpful for understanding my move toward value as well as my move away from value. This content brings a new point of view to understanding myself and my behaviors.””

— Ryan

I have included an updated discussion of trader types and how understanding yours can help you leverage your strengths and manage your challenges.

I have expanded the value elicitation test significantly. Now you also identify your “move away from” values, those that are likely to conflict with your core values. You resist your move away from values but what you resist tends to persist. That is, the negative values that you defend against, the hardest tend to stick around. The expanded exercise helps you identify these values clearly and then explains how you can clear them from your life.

I have expanded my 10-step plan for investment excellence to include a new eleventh step that leads you towards a place of gratitude in your trading and your life.

A new discussion of the four methods of doing a feeling release. There is also an explanation for alexithymia and how to get rid of it (hint: it does not involve an ointment). Additional insights into compulsiveness and what you can do to prevent it from interfering with your trading. How to conceptualize mistakes as a measure of your self-sabotage and use them to minimize your subconscious self-sabotage efforts quickly. How to design a winning game plan. The significant changes in this section came out of developments and experiences personally teaching so many traders in the Blueprint for Trading Success Workshop.

Fresh insights into diet and health to help you reduce stress and reach optimal performance. There were so many new insights in these sections that I had to split it up into two chapters. The first part focuses solely on nutrition. This chapter includes an in-depth look at common food addictions and a list of 24 things you can do right now to move toward peak performance health. The second part centers around exercise and gives you space to write out a plan on how to physically improve your body for peak fitness.

Peak Performance Gives You 24 Money-Making Secrets You Can Use Now!

1. Imagine having a model of how the best investors and traders do it! It is what they do in common that is the real secret behind their greatness. Dr. Tharp has spent 27 years determining what those common elements are and he teaches them to you in his home study course. His top-task model for investing and trading success will help you dramatically increase your profits.

2. Dr. Tharp’s course consists of five volumes and four audio CDs. You will get a complete volume on each of the following topics: risk control, stress control, turning around losing attitudes and beliefs, developing discipline, and making market decisions. And the four audio CDs will help you put what you learn into practice. The CDs help guide you through exercises in the course on such topics as how you think when you make profits and lose money; stress reduction; programming yourself not to repeat your mistakes; and trading unemotionally.

3. Learn 15 ways to control your mental state. When you master these techniques, you will bring much more discipline to the task of making more money. Once more, these methods will not only help you make higher profits; they will help you in every aspect of your life.

“”Since taking your course, I find it easier to stand back and observe my own mental and emotional state while trading and, if necessary, alter the emotional state rather than let it alter my trading strategies.”” — Frederick W. Landru

4. Learn self-confidence— the one trait that is essential if you are to follow your game plan for making money. Dr. Tharp’s course will teach you techniques to overcome fear and nervousness and bring out the big winner in you.

5. Make a habit of keeping an investment/trading diary that will put you in control and help you gain insight into getting more profits out of your trades. You will learn a new perspective on what you have been doing and why. Put yourself in charge of your future.

6. People do not trade the markets. They trade their beliefs about the markets. Learn about the six levels of belief and how those beliefs influence your investing and trading. Learn how to evaluate your beliefs, change those beliefs that are not serving you, and be able to adopt beliefs that will help you to become more efficient. And most importantly, learn the beliefs that only the best investors and traders have and utilize them for yourself.

7. Learn how to avoid the school of hard knocks. Save $1,000’s of dollars that you might have lost in the markets by doing it right, to begin with instead of making lots of costly mistakes.

“”I have learned many techniques on keeping track of how and why I make a trade plus guidelines to follow before making the trade.”” — Gary Edlin

8. Be able to deal with investing and trading mistakes immediately so that you do not have to repeat them. Dr. Tharp’s third audio CD in the course provides you with an exercise that will help you avoid similar mistakes in the future. This CD alone is worth $1,000’s of dollars to you in preventing losses.

These secrets are just the start! Other tips are interspersed below.

Keep reading to learn more…

What If You’re a Beginner? What If You’re Already Successful?

Dr. Tharp’s Peak Performance Course is for all levels of investors and traders—beginners, advanced, losing investors/traders who want to improve, and successful investors/traders who want to do better. Many of the best investors and traders in the world have Dr. Tharp’s course and use it regularly. Can you afford to be without it in the zero-sum game of trading?

“”Thank you for teaching a beginner and saving me $1,000’s of dollars and anxiety-ridden hours.”” — Leopold Hauser IV

In contrast, Mr. Larry Satell managed over $40,000,000 trading gold funds. Larry has done both the home study course and private consulting with Dr. Tharp.

Here’s what he says about the course:

“”I considered myself to be a top successful trader before taking this course and even more successful after completing “”Peak Performance.”” I highly recommend it as a requirement in the basic training category to anyone interested in trading. That goes for beginners, average traders, as well as successful traders.”” — Larry Satell, President, Satell Investment Management, Inc.

Perhaps you have heard of Jack Schwager’s book, Market Wizards, in which he interviews some of the world’s top traders. One of these “”Market Wizards”” used to have a training program for traders. They kept five copies of Dr. Tharp’s home study course on file in their library for their training program— it is that good! Also, at least six other market wizards have Dr. Tharp’s course as part of their personal libraries.

Another major trading firm, Infinium Capital Management in the last ten years has grown its firm from a startup company to on occupying 60,000 square feet of space and employing 100s of traders all of whom train using Dr. Tharp’s principles. They have met or exceeded their trading goals every year since they have been in business by applying the material in the Peak Performance Course. The President of the course was so impressed that he wrote the forward to the second edition of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom.

9. Learn how to prevent disasters. Think about how this will change your life knowing that your trades and investment are in safe hands you can trust—yours. You will develop two or three options to respond to everything that could happen to you. The results will be a consistently profitable performance.

10. The course will teach you a self-improvement process that will apply to all areas of your life and can be used throughout your life. The benefits of going through the course just once can last a lifetime, but the benefits of going through the course four or five times are absolutely incredible!

“”While sitting under a spruce tree in a lush Alaskan forest, success stories flowed from my mind to the pencil, onto the paper for nearly two hours. My personal life feels balanced. I have made some money. And I have accomplished many great things as part of an outstanding team. … However, the success I most celebrate is the improvement process you helped instill.””

— Anonymous

11. You will learn how to turn complexity into simplicity. And, interestingly enough, simplicity will make you the most money. People reported improvement of at least 100% when they had gone entirely through the Peak Performance Course several times. Think about what an improvement of 100% would do for your trading or investing. For example, if you make a 20% return on your money, you could quickly start making a 40% return.

All you need to do is plan some time to devote to yourself.

Aren’t you worth the time it takes to study Dr. Tharp’s course?

How much are increased returns and an improved lifestyle worth to you?