Lesson 1: S.E.T and The Golden Keys

Problem: When many traders are at the beginning of their journey to success, they focus on everything but their own internal mindset. Their own decision process is buried in the search for new indicators, strategies, gurus, and more. However, their own internal processes continue to thwart them with each external change, creating frustration and disappointment with no clear path to make the changes that matter.

Solution: This section gives you a set of clear exercises and frameworks to move to real time awareness of your internal trader mindset and processes. It re-frames how you incorporate your physical sensations, your emotions and the quality of your thoughts into real-time awareness of your internal state as you are trading

Lesson 2: Lousy and Lucrative Trading

Problem: Neuroscience tells us our brains deliver twice as much pain for a given loss in comparison to the amount of pleasure we receive from a gain of the same size. The pain of loss becomes its own pattern, creating fear of execution, premature exits and increasing risk to put off dealing with the painful losses. 

Solution: We can't control the market activity and the resulting profits or losses, but we can control all the trading behaviors that create consistent trading execution with an edge. We learn to re-frame our thinking about loss, and to create satisfaction with our trading behavior and process, interrupting the brain cycle of loss and pain and replacing it with pride and confidence.

Lesson 3: Building Your Routine

Problem: Both the trader's internal processes and the markets behaviors are complex adaptive systems. Traders bring their internal variables to a marketplace that is uncertain and also has its own variables. All these variables are so complex that the trader tends to create simplification where there is none, out of sheer exhaustion.

Solution: We can reduce the variables by bringing a stable consistent mental platform to the game. By creating routines that support our highest trading self, we can then handle the variables of the market place from a stable mindset.

Lesson 4: Nemes to Dreams

Problem: From infancy to adulthood we have been handed hard-wired brain processes that may have been the best survival choices we had when growing up, but don't serve our trading success. Our name for these processes, both innate and created, are NEMES, or Neuro Meta Structures. Since trading is a statistical game, these survival processes defeat our intention of developing consistent trading behaviors that lead to consistent and growing profits.

Solution: Our desired outcome is to bring to awareness the underlying factors such as beliefs and behaviors that don't serve our trading success. Once we can understand these systems we can then accept them, because they were created for us with a positive intent. Once we understand the positive intent, then we can work from that platform of understanding to improve our trading behaviors and clarify our goals.

Lesson 5: Measuring What Matters

Problem: Most traders don’t know how to focus on what really matters and measure their efforts towards success. Measuring allows you to see visually your progress towards trading mastery -  you can identify critical areas that need more attention, so that you can focus your creativity on the changes that will support consistent results.

Solution: To enable you to easily ascertain the areas of change that are likely to produce the most effective behavioral and trading results.

How do we effectively track every facet of our trading behavior? That brings us to our Mind Metrics app below:

Mind Metrics: Measuring what Matters