Author: Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

What would happen if you could just pay attention to what the market is doing right now? You’d be totally in the present with no preconceived ideas or biases to influence you. If you did that, your trading would probably...

As I mentioned previously, one of my hobbies is playing poker and I can do it for free online. When I visit a casino and play poker, I usually make money. However, I used to have trouble making money when I’m playing with...

This applies to so many things in life and it also applies to anything you might do in trading or investing. Keep things simple.Your mind only has a conscious capacity of about seven chunks of information. You cannot hold...

In any endeavor in life, you have up and down periods. Dealing with the market has many such up and down periods. In order to profit from the up periods, you have to tolerate or even “enjoy” the down periods. In...

Quite often I get asked the question, “what are the qualities that most top traders/investors have?” Furthermore, I’m also asked, “Can those traits be developed?” While there are many, many traits...

What’s a peak performance trader? He or she is someone who is totally committed to being the best, to doing whatever it takes to be the best, that feels totally responsible for whatever happens to them, and thus can learn...

Some of you may have seen this exercise before, but our experiences change over time so exercises like this are worth repeating.Think about some problem you have with your trading.It could be almost any problem.Perhaps you have...

I used to do an exercise in the Peak Performance 101 workshop entitled “Getting What You Want”.The exercise starts out with a question:If you could have anything in the universe, what would it be?Perhaps your answer...

One of the most critical exercises in my Peak Performance Home Study Course is the value elicitation exercise in the third volume.Tony Robbins does a very expensive workshop in Fiji on this process, but the complete instructions...

In my work with traders and investors I believe the most significant work that anyone can do to increase market returns is self work. Really understanding yourself and how you think can give you an edge that others in the market...