Trading Psychology for Perfectionists
3-Hour Intensive
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm EST
Saturday, September 30th, 2023
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm EST
For those who have excessively high and rigid standards for their trading performance ultimately costing you your profits. Perfectionism, or more accurately, unrelenting standards, often creates chronic stress and anxiety and reinforces inadequacy and chronic disappointment when you fall short of goals, creating a cycle of hyper-self-criticism and pushing harder only to get the same result.
This results in self-imposed pressure to perform at unsustainable levels, leading to burnout, emotional distress, impaired decision-making, and being overly critical of yourself, feeling that any trading mistake or loss is unacceptable. This can result in excessive self-blame, fear of failure, and a tendency to avoid taking risks, limiting your trading potential and leading to missed opportunities.
Digging Up Your Roots:
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Compensatory Perfectionism
- Entitled Perfectionism
Telling On Yourself:
- Your Unbalanced Beam
- Values and Accountability
- Interpersonal Trading
Getting Grey:
- Black and White Thinking
- Comfortable Discomfort
- Acceptance
Objectives:
Leave with tools to use every day to hone a more flexible mindset.
Use your values to make maintaining this behavior hurt too much to continue.
Create, implement and execute a daily Trade Psych Plan suited to perfectionism.
Implement tools to change your relationship with the underlying drivers of your perfectionistic behaviors.
Understand the genesis of perfectionism in your life and understand the true cost-benefit analysis vs. the culturally reinforced analysis.
This results in self-imposed pressure to perform at unsustainable levels, leading to burnout, emotional distress, impaired decision-making, and being overly critical of yourself, feeling that any trading mistake or loss is unacceptable. This can result in excessive self-blame, fear of failure, and a tendency to avoid taking risks, limiting your trading potential and leading to missed opportunities.
Digging Up Your Roots:
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Compensatory Perfectionism
- Entitled Perfectionism
Telling On Yourself:
- Your Unbalanced Beam
- Values and Accountability
- Interpersonal Trading
Getting Grey:
- Black and White Thinking
- Comfortable Discomfort
- Acceptance
Objectives:
Leave with tools to use every day to hone a more flexible mindset.
Use your values to make maintaining this behavior hurt too much to continue.
Create, implement and execute a daily Trade Psych Plan suited to perfectionism.
Implement tools to change your relationship with the underlying drivers of your perfectionistic behaviors.
Understand the genesis of perfectionism in your life and understand the true cost-benefit analysis vs. the culturally reinforced analysis.
Building Intraday Awareness:
- Psychological Fundamentals
- Conscience Trading
- Measuring Emotionality
Contextual Risk Management:
- Trading Values
- Emotional Skill-Building
- Killing Expectations
The Flexible Mindset:
- Befriending Your Brains Bullshit
- Stubborn MFer's Lose
- Only Believe Behaviors
Objectives:
Leave with tools to use every day to hone your flexible mindset.
Use your values to create a new, powerful approach to risk management.
Understand how your nervous system affects every trading decision.
Create, implement, and execute a daily Trade Psych Plan suited to your psychological profile.
Learn how to cultivate the patience, willingness, and acceptance needed for longevity in retail trading.
Use evidence-based behavioral skills to recognize and eliminate unprofessional trading behaviors such
as FOMO, chasing, revenge, hopium, overtrading, loss aversion, and more.
- Psychological Fundamentals
- Conscience Trading
- Measuring Emotionality
Contextual Risk Management:
- Trading Values
- Emotional Skill-Building
- Killing Expectations
The Flexible Mindset:
- Befriending Your Brains Bullshit
- Stubborn MFer's Lose
- Only Believe Behaviors
Objectives:
Leave with tools to use every day to hone your flexible mindset.
Use your values to create a new, powerful approach to risk management.
Understand how your nervous system affects every trading decision.
Create, implement, and execute a daily Trade Psych Plan suited to your psychological profile.
Learn how to cultivate the patience, willingness, and acceptance needed for longevity in retail trading.
Use evidence-based behavioral skills to recognize and eliminate unprofessional trading behaviors such
as FOMO, chasing, revenge, hopium, overtrading, loss aversion, and more.
Core Trading Psychology | Part 2: Leveraging Psychological Flexibility
3-Hour Intensive
Saturday, October 28th
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm EST
Deepening Self-Awareness:
- You vs. Behaviors vs Urges
- You vs. Urges vs Thoughts
- You vs. Thoughts vs Emotions
Avoiding Avoidance:
- The Cost of Awareness
- Willingness and Success
- Leveraging Emotional Pain
Practicing and Experiencing Together:
- Cultivating Patience Exercises
- Expectation Management Exercises
- Emotion Management Exercises
- Ego vs. You as Context: Experiential Exercise
Objectives:
***This is a follow-up to Part 1: The Flexible Mindset. It's not required to be completed first, but highly recommended.
Leave with tools to use every day to hone your flexible mindset.
Deepen your understanding of the many applications of mindfulness in trading and life.
Understand the role of avoidance in trading and how it costs you profits and confidence.
Practice applied mindfulness with the members to build the patience, willingness, and acceptance needed for longevity in retail trading.
- You vs. Behaviors vs Urges
- You vs. Urges vs Thoughts
- You vs. Thoughts vs Emotions
Avoiding Avoidance:
- The Cost of Awareness
- Willingness and Success
- Leveraging Emotional Pain
Practicing and Experiencing Together:
- Cultivating Patience Exercises
- Expectation Management Exercises
- Emotion Management Exercises
- Ego vs. You as Context: Experiential Exercise
Objectives:
***This is a follow-up to Part 1: The Flexible Mindset. It's not required to be completed first, but highly recommended.
Leave with tools to use every day to hone your flexible mindset.
Deepen your understanding of the many applications of mindfulness in trading and life.
Understand the role of avoidance in trading and how it costs you profits and confidence.
Practice applied mindfulness with the members to build the patience, willingness, and acceptance needed for longevity in retail trading.