Description

Dr Van K. Tharp’s
Peak Performance Course for Traders and Investors

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

It contains five books by Dr. Tharp, and four CDs. These 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.

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. Furthermore, Dr. Tharp only studied people whose professional and personal lives were balanced. As a result, when you apply his model, it typically helps you lead a much happier and more satisfying life in all respects—not only in your trading.

Table of Contents:

The Peak Performance Course for Investors and Traders consists of 5 volumes of books including more than 1,000 pages of exercises and insights about investing and trading.

The course also includes four compact discs covering such topics as how you think when you make profits or lose money, stress reduction, programming yourself not to repeat mistakes, and trading unemotionally.  

Volume  1 – How to Use Risk to Become a More Successful Investor

Volume 1 is packed with exercises and hints to help you succeed. You’ll learn about the LOSS TRAP — a dangerous snare many investors fall into simply doing what comes naturally. Volume 1 provides you with specific suggestions about how to get out of the trap or avoid it altogether. According to the former editor of CTCR, Volume 1 “…is worth ten trading systems in terms of providing information important to becoming a successful trader.”

Volume 1 – Table of Contents:

   1 – Commitment
   2 – How to Use This Course
   3 – How to Duplicate Success
   4 – The Tasks of Top Trading
   5 – Understanding and Using Risk
   6 – Psychological Elements of Risking
   7 – Techniques to objectively Measure Risk
   8 – Techniques to Control Risk and Safely Manage Money
   A1 – Prediction Test Answers
   A2 – Standard Deviation Formula
   A3 – The Use of Chi Square

Volume 2 – How to Control Stress to Become a More Successful Investor

Do you worry excessively? – Are you overly stressed? – Are you troubled by your health? – Do you sometimes feel out of control?

Volume 2 will help you perform more effectively as an investor while improving your outlook on life. You will learn how the biological and psychological components of stress affect trading performance.

Volume 2 is packed with exercises and techniques for managing stress. The exercises are designed to help you become a happier, more relaxed person and overcome stress-induced trading and investing losses.

Volume 2 – Table of Contents:

   1 – Trading Stress
   2 – Self-Assessment
   3 – Stress: Biological & Psychological Perspectives
   4 – An Information Processing Analysis of Trading
   5 – How Stress Produces Trading Losses
   6 – Get Out of the Fire
   7 – Wear Asbestos When You’re in the Fire
   8 – Other Forms of Asbestos for When You’re in the Fire
   9 – Mental Control of the Fire
   A1 – Appendix

Volume 3 – How to Control Losing Attitudes to Become a More Successful Investor

Do you lack the patience to wait until you get a signal from your trading system? Do consecutive losses cause you to abandon a winning system & lose your objectivity? Do you often invest or trade when you know that the odds are against you? Do you fail to follow your system to ensure sound investments or trades?

Volume 3 explores how your internal perceptions and attitudes determine your investment results. It includes exercises to assist you in understanding how to control your profits and losses.

This volume is loaded with techniques to help you increase profits and minimize losses. It discusses the structure of excellence — The characteristics that typify the best investors — and shows you how to make effective changes to improve your performance.

Volume 3 will help put you in touch with your values. Learn to eliminate conflicts and overcome weaknesses to achieve your goals and perform more effectively. You will learn to take quick action and avoid fighting the market.

Volume 3 – Table of Contents:

   1 – Losing Attitudes
   2 – Understanding Losses
   3 – Self-Assessment
   4 – How to Use Your Brain
   5 – The Structure of Excellence
   6 – Logical Levels of Belief
   7 – A Ten-Step Plan for Investment Excellence
   8 – Conflicting Values
   9 – Conflicting Internal Parts
   10 – Conflict: An Interview with a Floor Trader
   11 – Control Your Losing Attitudes
   A1 – Predicates
   A2 – Submodalities Checklist

Volume 4 – How to Develop Discipline to Become a More Successful Investor

Volume 4 teaches you how the best investors in the world remain unemotional when they trade. This volume gives you specific suggestions for controlling your mental state so that you can:

  * avoid fearful responses.
  * remain calm and detached while you are trading.
  * wait patiently for the best opportunities.
  * avoid impatience and, thus, avoid over-trading.

What’s more, some of the techniques in Volume 4 can be put to use within minutes for an immediate impact on your investing or trading.

Volume 4 – Table of Contents:

   1 – Introduction
   2 – What is a “State?”
   3 – How to Observe and Select Your Mental State
   4 – How to Get the State of Mind You Want
   5 – How to Build a Mental State from Parts
   6 – How to Regulate Your State
   7 – How to Control your State of Mind
   8 – An Analysis of Some Common States
   9 – Feelings as a Basis for Self-Sabotage
   10 – How to Deal with Compulsiveness
   11 – Steps to Discipline
   A1 – Submodalities Checklist
   A2 – General State Characteristics

Volume 5 – How to Make Sound Decisions to Become a More Successful Investor

Volume 5 contains the mental decision-making strategies of some of the great traders who are part of Dr. Tharp’s Successful Attitude Model (TM). Learn how they think. Learn how to implement strategies in the manner in which successful traders have made millions of dollars. This volume also contains a section on developing a winning game plan that alone is worth the price of the course.

Volume 5 – Table of Contents:

   Mental Strategies versus Trading Systems
   1 – The Building Blocks
   2 – What is a Strategy?
   3 – Decision Elicitation
   4 – Other Useful Strategies
   5 – Problems with Decision Strategies
   6 – Developing the Strategy You Want
   7 – Human Limitations and Probability Judgments
   8 – Common Decision Biases
   9 – Hindsight Bias
   10 – Two Contrasting Supertraders
   11 – On Intuition
   12 – Design a Winning Game Plan
   Postscript to the Course: What to do Next
   A1 – Bayes’ Theorem and Rules of Probability
   A2 – Common Biases
   A3 – Key Elements of Low Risk Ideas and Useful Beliefs that You Might Hold About Them
   A4 – Recommended Readings

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