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Workshop Syllabus
for
Traders & Investors
. How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You
. Peak Performance 101
. Peak Performance 202
. The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader
. Swing Trading Tactics
. Day Trading Tactics
. How to Trade Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds
. You and Your Money
3-Day Workshops
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Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
Van K. Tharp is the most
consistent, astute, and
systematic researcher of
human behavior that youll
probably ever meet. He has
personally interviewed top
traders to determine what
makes them excel in their
profession and collected
psychological proles from
over 5,000 traders and
investors.
He is a leader in the
profession of coaching
traders. There are other
trading coaches, but when Dr.
Tharp conceptualized this process over 23 years ago, he was one
of the rst people ever to do so. Attending his courses means that
you are learning from the best.
He carefully crafted all of the information from his studies into a
model that people like you can adopt to improve your own skills.
In fact, when Jack Schwager, interviewed 16 of the worlds best
traders in his original Market Wizards book, he also elected to
interview Dr. Tharp as a Peak Performance Trading Coach.
Now, you can join the thousands of fortunate traders and
investors over the years who have already learned the secrets of
Dr. Tharps carefully researched model for successful trading.
Through his courses, you will learn for yourself the incredible
difference that adopting this model can makeboth in terms of
trading prots and in improving your life. Thats the amazing
thing about Dr. Tharps model, not only will you improve your
prots, but youre also likely to become more successful in all
aspects of your life.
Dr. Tharp is the founder and President of the Van Tharp Institute,
which is dedicated to the improvement of traders and investors
through both psychological and mechanical means. He is the
author of the Peak Performance Home Study Course. And
has written such McGraw Hill classics as Trade Your Way to
Financial Freedom, Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day
Trading, Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, and many other
courses and programs.
Melita Hunt: Melita Hunts energy and enthusiasm is the
cornerstone of her writing and speaking success. She has
been associated with the Van Tharp Institute since 1999 and is
currently the acting CEO of the company. Her diverse career has
led her from an accounting background, to marketing and sales,
real estate investing and coaching. She has traveled the world
visiting over 30 countries and has worked throughout Australia,
in London and now in the USA.
An avid reader and seminar attendee, Melita has a special interest
in sharing her knowledge and inspiring people to be the best they
can be. She has written a series of childrens bedtime stories and
is author of a soon to be released adult parable titled The Wizard
Within.
Speaker Proles
Chuck LeBeau (Systems Development Workshop): Chuck
LeBeau has dedicated his professional career to the art and
science of system development. If theres an angle on a better
trading system, Chucks either investigated it, invented it, or
tested it. Chuck is the coauthor of Computer Analysis of the
Futures Market, a perennial favorite among system developers.
Chuck is also a frequent guest lecturer at the University of
Southern California where he teaches fundamental and technical
analysis of futures in their MBA program. Chuck is the former
coeditor of Technical Traders Bulletin and has over 40 years of
experience in the markets. Hes widely known for his specialized
knowledge of technical analysis.
D.R. Barton (Swing Trading and Day Trading Workshops):
D.R. Barton is the Chief Operating Ofcer and Risk Manager for
the Directional Research and Trading hedge fund group. D.R.
has been actively involved in trading, researching and teaching
in the markets since 1986. D.R. has created extensive and
innovative new training products and taught extensively in many
investment areas including intra-day trading, swing trading, and
cutting edge risk management techniques.
His writing credits include co-authoring Safe Strategies for
Financial Freedom and contributing author on Financial
Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading. He is also editor of a
stock screening newsletter called Ten Minute Trader, has feature
articles in Market Mastery, and is the founder and editor of
Traders-U. D.R. is a regular contributor to Tharps Thoughts.
Carol Adams, PhD., D.D. (Peak Performance 202): Carol
Adams, author of Voices of Selves, is the Executive Director
of the Academy of Self-Knowledge, where Transformational
Education is the focus. She is a highly skilled presenter and
educator.
Carol is a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic
Programming) and specializes in Transformational Meditation,
a process she has developed that reprograms the erroneous
thought patterns of the subconscious mind. It has been used
successfully for the past fteen years with countless students all
over the world.
Ken Long (Exchange Traded Funds Workshop): Ken Long,
a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army with a Masters
Degree in System Development, is a professor of tactics and
logistics at the Armys Command and General Staff College. He
has developed the Tortoise Method of mutual fund switching, a
trading system that takes about ve minutes each week with a
goal of outperforming the S&P 500 Index.
He has applied the core beliefs and operating principles of
the Tortoise System to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and
developed a comprehensive set of strategies that are effective in
generating low-risk trading ideas in multiple time periods across
the world equity markets. His case study method of training
develops the skills, habits and condence in students to apply
these Tortoise methods in their own style of trading.
Ken is a trader, and writes a daily and weekly market assessment
for mutual funds and exchange traded funds. He is a proud
husband, dad, and a ju jitsu practitioner.
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Peak Performance 101
Learn techniques for developing rock solid discipline and how to overcome fear. Learn to pull the trigger and center yourself, so
that your mind is focused and sharp. To overcome self-sabotageyou will go through exercises that will make a real difference in
your trading and your personal life. This is Van Tharps signature course for traders and investors.
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Peak Performance 202
Experience a dramatic personal reinvention. Youll learn how to make a declaration for a trading vision that might seem impossible
now. Uncover the beliefs that shape your success and nd out what you can really accomplish. Learn about the games we playthe
most important psychological breakthrough of the new millennium.
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How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You
There are three critical secrets you can adopt to develop a superb wealth-building formula. If you concentrate on thesewhich 95% of
all traders and investors totally ignorethen you can vault yourself into a class that only a few have been able to achieve.
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The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader *NEW*
Through his modeling work with top traders Dr. Tharp has discovered 17 key steps that will ensure consistent success as a trader.
In this new workshop, youll work through this step-by-step plan, doing such things as assessing your beliefs, your skills, your
resourceseverything you need to create a business plan for trading, and much, much more.
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Swing Trading Tactics
The course we have planned for you is designed to offer the best of both worlds of trading. Swing trading methodology offers you the
convenience of planning your trades and making your preparations at a time that ts your own busy lifestyle, while at the same time
offering enough trading opportunities to allow for protable returns. Our focus during this course will be to teach you how to win with
swing trading strategies and teach you the edges that many professional traders use.
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Day Trading Tactics
You will learn key principles that are essential to the success of every short-term trader who makes it in the long run. In this course,
youll learn how to apply the real business concepts for traders that Dr. Tharps helped pioneer, as well as how to apply the key
principles of R-multiples, expectancy, position sizing, and discipline to achieve your dreams through day trading. These are concepts
that most traders have never heard of or applied to their trading.
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How to Trade Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds
Learn to spot the ow of big money quickly! Most people are doing the exact opposite of what the big funds are doing and they pay a
big price for doing so. For example: you put money into a stock after hearing that a fund manager really likes it. However, by the time
you hear about it, the fund manager is getting ready to sell. But what if you could see what the big mutual funds are doing with their
money well before they complete a transaction and jump in ahead of them?
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You and Your Money
Why is it that not all traders become wealthy? The process of making money and accumulating signicant wealth are very easy. They
could be taught to every child in school by the third grade. Unfortunately, these principles are not taught in most schools or even in
our universities. Instead, most school systems teach us biases that prevent us from making money and even hinders us from having a
successful, happy life.
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Satisfaction Guarantee and About Our Courses .........................................................................................................Page 28
Creating your own trading system not only
helps to develop the critical element of con-
dence, but also allows for customizing the
system to suit your personal preferences. For
best results, each system has to be designed
to t the temperament and preferences of the
trader who must implement it. The trader who
designs his or her own trading methods will
have an intimate familiarity with the tempo of
the trading, as well as with the nature of the
risks inherent in the procedures that must be fol-
lowed. excerpt from Technical Traders Guide
to Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, by
Charles LeBeau and David Lucas
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Dear Colleague,
Through my years of modeling top market performers, Ive isolated a few key factors in trading success. One of these is that top
performers have developed trading systems that t their own trading personalities. This is what I recommend for each of you.
While this may seem like a large task, I encourage you to be open to this idea. THE BEST SYSTEMS IVE SEEN ARE SIMPLE
SYSTEMS. So, this endeavor is not about complicated measures. However, people all too often make it complicated. But this is
where my course How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You can be of great value. It gives you all the key areas to focus
on, and helps guide you away from the common mistakes that people make and towards meaningful steps to develop a system that not
only ts you and your trading style, but also one that you really understand and that you can adapt when market conditions change.
What worked for the bull wont work for the bear. Systems that cant be adapted to changing conditions are adept to leave the trader
with an empty account, wondering what went wrong.
In this three-day course, I will teach you the critical elements of position sizing and how to implement this essential component into
your systems. As a matter of fact, you will learn ten key components to a system.
I encourage you to learn more about this course by reading the rest of this material. Then register early for your best savings on this
course. I cant stress enough the importance of a reliable system and a system that works for you, which are essential to market
success. I hope youll join us and youll see what I mean. Van K. Tharp
Do You Want Bigger and More Consistent Prots from the Market?
If you want consistency and you want to make protable returns from your trading, then you will want to consider attending this
course. Youll learn little known, closely guarded secrets that youre not
likely to nd unless you accidentally stumble upon them yourself.
Are you a low-risk investor who just wants to make small, consistent prots
each month with only an occasional loss? We can show you how to create
a system that will allow you to develop a unique methodology that will give
you that kind of consistency.
Are you a gutsy trader willing to take risks? We can show you a method that
you can do in such a way that the only money you are risking is the money
youve already made from the market. Thats real leverage!
Three critical secrets you can adopt to develop a superb
wealth-building formula.
1. You must concentrate on the most important task of system
development. If you do it properly, it will take at least half of your time
Systems Development Course
How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You
Presented by Van K. Tharp, Systems Expert, Chuck LeBeau, or D.R. Barton
Ive proven this formula in helping develop top traders and investors. Now, I
want to offer you the same incredible opportunity to make big money, and Ill
take all the initial risk. Van Tharp
There are three critical secrets you can adopt to develop a superb wealth-building formula.
If you concentrate on thesewhich 95% of all traders and investors totally ignorethen
you can vault yourself into a class that only a few have been able to achieve.
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during the development process. When you learn what it is, youll say,
Of course, its important. but youll still probably spend very little time
on it.
That critical task is developing sound objectives. Jack Schwager, after
writing two Market Wizard books, concluded that the most important
characteristic of the top traders and investors he interviewed was that they
had adopted a trading system to t them. But to develop a system that ts
you, you need to really think about what you want. Its not a trivial task.
There are at least 30 questions you need to address when developing a
system. The How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You
audio program, which you will receive in advance of the workshop, takes
you through a complete course to develop sound objectives.
2. A good trading system has ten key components. Most people ignore
six or seven of them when they do their research. In fact, youll never
see a book on systems development that covers more than six of them.
Thats the limitation the average trader has in doing research. You want
big prots with as little risk as possible, so you want every advantage
possible when you start to develop such a system.
You should be able to take advantage of eight of these components easily
after the course. And, with a little more effort, youll be able to use all
ten. If you use all ten with competence, youll be among the top one
tenth of one percent of all traders and investors in the world.
3. Most people concentrate on the least important element in trading
system designentry. They also ignore the most important element
position sizing. At the How to Develop a Winning Trading System That
Fits You course, youll learn at least three types of position sizing
systems that will help you lower your overall risk, while at the same
time helping you achieve more consistent performance.
If youre more adventurous, well show you how to go for really
big returns using the markets money. When you use these super
moneymaking techniques, you could make huge returns each year, risking
only the money that the market has given you.
Learn how one trader turned $10,000 into $1.1 million in less than a year.
In addition, well show you how a group of traders have taken over $100
million out of the market over a 10-year period. Learn the advantages
and disadvantages of both styles.
Seven more reasons why youll want to attend this
course:
1. Youll get specic ideas for making better market entry and exit
decisions. Youll also get specic money management principles from
experts in the industry.
This helped me to understand the proper steps to take in my system
developmentI thought it was a good balance between the technical
and the theory. A.C., FL
2. Youll be introduced to the psychological pitfalls that hold back so
many people. Just knowing about them will help you avoid them.
3. Youll learn new approaches to the markets and new techniques for
analyzing them. There are many concepts behind most systems. Most of
Questions and Answers
Q: I trade the stock market exclusively. Will this
course cover stock trading?
A: Its designed around systems not markets. We
estimate that at least half of the attendees are stock
market traders. However, our goal is to help you
design a system that ts you, no matter what market
you trade.
Q: I am a short-term day trader. My friend
recommended this course to me, but he would
be classied as a long-term investor. How can
one course meet the needs of our very different
trading styles?
A: We discuss the parts of a system in detail and
most of those parts remain the same no matter what
your style of trading may be. We then group you
with other like-minded traders to work on system
design. Thus, if you are a day trader, youll be with
other short-term traders. If you are a long-term
trader, youll be with other long-term traders. Over
the years, weve found that this method works very
well and everyone gets what they are looking for.
Q: I dont know much about systems and
research. Will I be lost?
A: Although the information we present is very
advanced, we will present it in such a way that anyone
can understand it. In addition, you can review the
audio program that youll receive before the course.
You can listen to these CDs over and over until you
feel condent about the material.
Reading Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
will also be extremely benecial. Chuck LeBeaus
book, Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, is
excellent, as well as Van Tharps Special Report on
Money Management.
Q: Can I talk to prior attendees before I make
my nal decision?
A: Yes. Theyll tell you our courses are of the
highest quality and packed with information. Our
attendees tell us our courses have transformed their
lives and increased their prots. Heres what past
attendees have said:
Words fail meperhaps second-to-noneA must
for any novice and master trader alike! B.M.,
S. Africa
It was an outstanding event and most educational.
My goal is to become a world-class trader and I
know with your guidance that reality is inevitable.
V.B., TX
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them, including some of the most popular, are meaningless. But youll
learn about the ones that work best.
Superb. Every section of the course was stuffed with information.
I couldnt take notes fast enough (so I opted to just listen). Lots of
creative ideas worthy of further research. R.W., CO
4. Youll get practical trading ideas, talk with fellow traders to compare
notes, exchange ideas, and make new friends who share your interests.
This kind of networking alone can be worth thousands of dollars.
5. Youll learn the ten elements of a good trading system. In addition,
youll go through trading games that will teach you the relative
importance of the various components and how to apply them to your
situation. These market games really drive home the important points
about system development. In addition, theyre fun!
Very useful to see rst hand the real risks of ruin, over-trading, etc.
The course was very helpful to me in laying out the specic tasks I
must complete. B.C., Ontario, Canada
6. Learn from Chuck LeBeau, Van Tharp, and D.R. Barton who have
over 75 years of combined experience in the markets.
7. Depending upon your objectives, which youll be asked to submit
prior to the course, youll be assigned to a group to successfully develop
a trading system for the type of trading you want to do.
Overall I found the course to be on the cutting edge of trading
psychology and system development. L.M., LA
Sincerely,
Van K. Tharp
P.S. Free on-line seminar! Van Tharp, Chuck LeBeau, and D.R. Barton
cover system development topics, such as how much capital is enough, and
exit strategies. Plus, learn where to find an archive of over 50 articles on
system development. To download this free mp3 teleconference visit
www.vanthap.com, and click on our Systems Development Workshop.
Bonus:
Youll get two courses in one!
Van. Thar p has been
presenting his How to
Develop a Winning Trading
System That Fits You
program for many years
with highly successful
results. This course is
available on an audio
home study course,
which sells for $995.
When you sign up for
the three-day course,
we will send you this audio program
prior to the course as part of your tuition. We ask that
you take the time to go through this program to prepare
for the advanced course. This home study program is a
recording of the course packaged into a set of 12 audio
CDs and a manual/workbook.
If you already purchased the System Development
home study program from us, please contact us, you
may also qualify for a discount off the price of your
tuition based on your past purchase price.
Response from a prior course...
I have to tell you how thrilled and excited I am about the advanced systems course I was recently certied in. I believe that
the course was designed especially for me, I got so much out of it. You did a great job presenting the course material. You were
fabulous, amazing, energetic and your enthusiasm was contagious! I also appreciate your personal availability between the
scheduled meetings. It was an extra bonus to have some one-on-one conversations specically about my trading system, testing
methodology and personal coaching on how to overcome our problems with actually trading a system...
Of course, I must give some credit to my fellow attendees. They were great, and played all out, further enhancing the value of
the course. But without your expert facilitation to encourage more participation, it would not have occurred in the way that it did.
Since I left North Carolina, I have had an opportunity to spend a week with my client to re-create what I learned in the course.
We got down and listed our core beliefs, our objectives, and looked long and hard at our biases. From this information we
designed an entry, exit and simple position sizing strategy that t our objectives. Actually, we have a working system and it turns
out that just a little modication to that existing system is what we really want to meet our objectives. Now Im all excited. I can
hardly sleep. Chuck handed me the tools and methodology I needed to effectively verify and back test this new system. I just
need to type faster to keep up with my enthusiasm. B. C., UT
The course exceeded all my expectations...have
already seen the positive effects and the home
preparation work in my trading system performance
as well as its wider application to my personal
life. The caliber of the people who attended was
extremely high. This may be the most important
part of the course itself. I absolutely recommend this
course to anyone interested in further developing the
effectiveness of their personal trading systems.
K.L., KS
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Dear Colleague,
Dr. Van K. Tharp is an author, modeler of peak performance results, and most importantly, a peak performance trading coach willing
to help you make more money and lead a more effective life. Hes collected psychological proles from over 5,000 traders and
investors. Hes personally interviewed hundreds of top people in the eld to determine what makes them excel and how they make
immense prots.
When Jack Schwager interviewed 16 of the worlds best traders and investors for his best-selling nancial book, Market Wizards, Dr.
Tharp was also interviewed as a peak performance coach in that book.
Dr. Tharp has been studying top traders and investors for over 18 years. In his research, hes learned how the best traders and
investors achieve peak performance. All of these traders and investors developed a sound methodology.
Heres Whats Waiting for You!
Day 1 The three key ingredients of success. Youll learn techniques for developing rock solid discipline, and how to overcome fear. Be
able to pull the trigger and center yourself (kind of like skiing), so that your mind is focused and sharp.
Day 2 How the best traders tradeDr. Tharps proven model for Peak Performance Trading. Learn about position sizing based trading
systems and low-risk ideas.
Day 3 Overcoming self-sabotageyou will go through exercises that will make a real difference in your trading and your personal
life.
Whats in it for me? What can I expect to learn?
There are seven money-making benets awaiting you. Theyll help you make more consistent prots, keep your losses smaller and
help you be more relaxed about your trading.
1. Learn the three ingredients of success. You must know this information, at least unconsciously, if you are to prosper. These three
mental ingredients are a must in any task you do in order to perform like a Market Wizard. Most people dont even know about
Youll leave this investment Boot Camp knowing, for the rst time in your life, why some people
consistently make prots over and over again, while other investors and traders are erratic and
unsuccessful. More importantly, youll be able to overcome self-sabotage and develop rock-solid
discipline in your performance in the markets. Youll learn why this course was featured in Forbes
magazine and why the magazine was quoted as saying, Tharps disciples swear by the results.
Peak Performance 101
Presented by Van K. Tharp
Spend Three Prot-Provoking Days Sharing the Unhedged, Uncensored
Secrets of the Man Who Has Helped Produce More Great Traders and
Investors Than Anyone Else You Are Ever Likely To Meet.
If you have a fairly successful system for trading or investing, then I can show you how to
obtain more consistent performance with less risk out of that system. In short, Ill show you
what peak performance trading is all about! Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
Overcoming Self-Sabotage
The Peak Performance 101 workshop not only helps you
install Dr. Tharps model, it also helps you overcome self-
sabotage. Youll be able to free yourself from internal
conicts that keep you from performing at a peak level.
1. Do you have a performance ceiling where you fall
apart or stop doing well? Do you earn $100,000 and
then just seem to stop trading? Or, do you reach the
million-dollar plateau and then start losing heavily?
Those are common patterns.
2. Do you get so anxious about the market that you have
trouble pulling the trigger?
3. Do you get so excited about the market you get
distracted and fail to follow your system?
4. Are you a perfectionist? Does that perfectionism get in
your way as a trader? Are you always trying to improve
your trading system? Do you nd that the current trade
never quite ts all of the criteria you want, so you have
trouble taking it?
5. Is your life and your trading ruled by emotions such
as fear, anger, greed, or anything else?
6. Are you constantly losing money because you dont
have a plan to guide your trading?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Peak
Performance 101 can help you immensely. If youre really
committed to trading success and willing to do whatever
it takes, youll nd that you become a different person
after this ground-breaking course.
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them, which is why success is so difcult to duplicate. But after
Peak Performance 101, youll thoroughly understand how these
three key ingredients can control your life. Most of all, youll
know how you can control them.
The day after leaving the Peak Performance course I proted
$2,400 in trading prots. What impressed me was the level of
calm I was able to achieve using the techniques learned at the
course. No serious trader should consider trading for a living
without the benet of your course. I have a whole new outlook
on my future, both trading and personal. H.W., NY
I just wanted you to know how much I took your million dollar
ideas from the Peak Performance course to heart. Today marked
one month since the course, and I have realized a 37.5% return
on my entire portfolio in that month (true return, not annualized)
and most of that in the past two days. I am red up. Now I have
to deal with those capital gains taxes. Oh well. P.S., FL
2. Understand the components of a low-risk idea. The trick to
compounding your personal wealth is to trade low-risk ideas.
Low-risk ideas are found everywherenot just in conservative
investments. In fact, a great deal of wealth is made from
following low-risk ideas in highly speculative arenas such as
options and futures. But you must understand what makes up a
low-risk idea. Its not what you think.
3. Understand why position sizing is so critical to your bottom
line results! Few people understand this critical concept. Yet
it means the difference between consistent top performance and
average mediocre performance for most people. Well teach you
how to do position sizing based trading, so you will have the
same risk and exposure in the market day after day. Think how
calm you could be knowing that your risk is always the same.
The discussions about money management were unexpected
and worth the price of admission by themselves. M.S., CA
4. Learn 15 ways to develop rock-solid discipline in your
trading. Discipline really means controlling your mental state. Unfortunately, most people allow their mental state to
control them. In contrast, real winners maintain discipline that allows them to charge ahead of others in the eld. If you play
in a zero-sum trading game, like futures, you need to know every trick. These are the real secrets that separate successful
traders and investors from the average person.
5. Learn Dr. Tharps ten-task model for successful trading and investing. Here is a partial list of the ten tasks in the model
that we will help you master: developing low-risk ideas, stalking, mental rehearsal, self-analysis, action, aborting, and,
best of all, taking prots. At Peak Performance 101, Dr. Tharp will help you install his model so you can trade like other
successful traders. Youll have tools at your disposal that the average investor or trader never even thought about.
6. Learn how to act quickly with sureness and condence. One trait all the best traders and investors have in common
is extreme condence in what theyre doing. Condence is the one quality you must develop to attain your peak level
of performance. At Peak Performance 101, youll learn how to develop the kind of condence only the best traders and
investors have.
Questions and Answers
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Q: How is the course different from the home study
program?
A: Most people have trouble doing self-awareness exercises
on their own. As a result, this course is designed to help
you through those exercises. We consider it a mid-point
between the home study program and private consulting.
In fact, many traders take this course over and over again
because you can never learn enough about yourself.
Q: Do I need to take the home study program before I
take the course?
A: We are 50-50 on this one. You certainly will get more
out of the course if you do the home study course rst.
However, many people do the workshop rst and nd that
it greatly helps them with the home study course.
Q: I am already a protable trader, why should I
consider attending this course?
A: A coach finds talented players, teaches them the
fundamentals of the craft, and then makes sure that they
follow the fundamentals. As a protable trader, you know
that any extra edge you can get will make you that much
more protable. One of the most successful traders in the
world pays over a million dollars each year for personal
coaching. He does that because he wants every possible
edge. If you are protable, you probably should be thinking
along the same lines.
Q: I am new to trading. I understand that this course
helps me develop myself as a trader but, as a beginner,
wouldnt I be better off trying to learn more about
trading techniques rst?
A: As a beginner you need this information rst. Most
people make the mistake of looking for trading techniques
rst. When you do that without doing any work on yourself,
you end up making thousands of mistakes. We typically nd
that people who tend to take courses that focus on techniques
need to repeat those courses after theyve taken the peak
performance course. Why? Because, after this course, they
are more open and know more about what they really need
to be successful. If this is the rst trading course you ever
take, it will be the best thing you can do for yourself.
Q: The markets are uncertain these days. Why should
I spend this much on a course when I could use that
money as capital?
A: Capital used when you are not functioning at your peak
is often capital wasted. The best investment you can make is
in yourself, and attendance at this course is an investment in
you. We had comments from a number of people saying, If
only I had done this before I did that investment or before I
started investing at all. Do yourself a favor. Come to this
course so you can make the most of the capital you have.
7. Learn how to develop a plan for trading that will set you
way above the crowd. You see, there are certain disciplines
certain techniques used within a specic structurethat give
the professional trader and investor the edge over amateur
investors. Dr. Tharp understands these disciplines, and he is an
expert at coaching others to use them.
After spending three days with Van, I came away with one
belief that saved my career. Only low-risk trades will keep you
in the game! H.W., NY
Theres More!
Networking. This is networking in a non-competitive, safe,
supportive atmosphere that produces the special qualities
necessary to transform your trading. People who attend Peak
Performance 101 develop life-long friendships.
It felt good to meet fellow traders...to be around people whom I
could admire. Independent thinkers are at a premium. To have so
many in one room was a very pleasant experience. E.M., MI
Improving the quality of your life. When Dr. Tharp selects
traders to model, he selects traders who have high-quality
lifestyles. As a result, when you attend Peak Performance 101
and install Dr. Tharps model, you will not only improve your
trading dramatically, but you will also improve the quality of your
entire life.
Being with everyone showed me that I was like everyone else in
the room with a lot of stored emotions wanting to get attention.
After the course, I had a clear purpose and direction, as if I had
seen and understood what the assembled puzzle should look like.
G.G., France
[It] really elevated my trading onto a higher plane. I was
already a very good trader, but now Im even better, which is very
exciting. My whole life is better because Im a better husband and
a better father as a result of the experience. K.T., England
Read traders incredible results below:
You said at the beginning of the course that some people would
be profoundly affected by the material in both their trading and
their lives. I was one of those people. W.B., MA
Self-sabotage has always been my major personal issue. Having
the skills to cope I know will make all the difference. A global
experience. Throughout the course I appreciated the emphasis on
the whole person not just the trader personality. J.M., KS
The course was one of the major events of my life. Among other
things, it ended a 23-year emotional nightmare relationship I
had with the market. Prior to the course, my reaction time upon
receipt of a buy signal was half-an-hour to never. I would think
of all possible things that could go wrong and nd reasons not to
follow my system. Tuesday, following the course, my reaction time
to a buy signal was seven seconds. D.N., NY
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In essence, I made over 80% return on 6% of my capital in less
than one monthand thats just on closed trades. My trading
system hasnt changed one iota; I have changed. R.G., CA
After attending your course, I suspended trading until June 24th
to regroup. I have just completed my rst four weeks of trading
with starting capital of $66,782. I have $7,711 in closed out prots
with open trade equity of $5,448 as of yesterdays close. Now I am
trading very relaxed and feeling very peaceful about my business
with a sense of calm and control. S.G., CO
For a new not-yet-trader, carefully studying Dr. Tharps work,
I could not even begin to think of what life would be like without
taking the rst step here. S.L., DC
Excellent! This should be the rst course for all new people. I
enjoyed this one the most. T.C., WA
The synergy of this experience can be a powerful impetus to
individual growth, transforming trading obstacles into trading
prots. Enjoy the opportunity to grow in association with other
professional traders. Learn the techniques that can help you
perceive the market in more creative ways, stalk it, and then take
action, making more prots more consistently.
Can I Really Make Money with These Principles
Developed from Modeling Market Masters?
Absolutely! First, youll learn what all the best traders and
investors have in common. Youll learn their real secrets. When
you apply them to your own trading, itll make a big difference in
your bottom linejust think what performing at a peak level can
mean to your bottom line.
Secondly, youll get to learn about the most important inuence in
your trading: you. Most people just act like robots throughout most
of their lives. They are in automatic mode. They react to certain
things automatically with fear. They react angrily to other things
because they want to be right. They react with greed to other things
because they want more control. Learn to go beyond what the
average trader does! Be in control of yourself. When you do, your
trading will improve immensely.
Q: I want to become the best trader I can be. Does
this course show me how to trade?
A: This course is unlike most courses available to traders
and investors. It does not teach trading techniques. It
teaches you techniques on how to develop yourself as a
trader. The concept is similar to the old saying, Give a
man a sh and he eats for a day; show a man how to sh
and he eats for a lifetime.
There are possibly more trading techniques available than
can be counted. One technique may earn one trader a fortune
but cause another to go bankrupt. The difference in the results
lies within the trader: how the person processes information,
or inner conicts that can cause confusion, or the lack of
discipline to follow their trading plan. Showing traders and
investors how to develop skills and awareness on the issues
from within are at the core of this highly effective course.
Q: What are your objectives for teaching the course?
A: Our mission at The Van Tharp Institute is to help people
transform themselves. The Peak Performance courses are
the key courses we do in the area of transformation. If
you learn how you control your own results in trading,
then weve accomplished something that will help you
immensely. But if you make a major change that affects
the rest of your lifethats when we really know that weve
accomplished something important. Wed like to help
everyone in attendance make such a major transformation.
This course is a prerequisite for the Peak Performance 202
course and I strongly encourage you to take that next step
for total transformation.

In addition, the effect of eliminating self-sabotaging behaviors could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to you over your
lifetimefor some of you it could be worth millions. Think about the biggest mistake you made last year. How much did that cost
you? What if you could just save that amount every year? How much would that be worth? In addition, add the compounding effect
of more consistent performance and you can begin to understand the real value of this course.
Sincerely,
Cathy Hasty
The Van Tharp Institute
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Peak Performance 202
Presented by Van K. Tharp and Transformational Coach Carol Adams Ph.D.
Your Chance to Totally Reinvent Yourself as a Trader and Achieve Levels of
Success and Wealth That You May Have Thought Were Beyond Your Capabilities
Explore your beliefs and who you are. Learn how to expand way beyond your current limitations.
Games: Become aware of your gamesDomain, Roles, Level of Awareness, the Trading/Wealth/Games we play.
Dr. Tharp believes that understanding games is one of the real keys to psychological breakthroughs in trading and
wealth.
Learn your winning strategy. This strategy has been the basis for all of your past success, but it will limit you as a
trader/investor. In fact, the more powerful it is (i.e., the more success youve achieved with it), the more it limits you.
Learn how to take steps to overcome those limitations.
Experience a dramatic personal reinvention. Youll learn how to make a declaration for a trading vision that might
seem impossible now. Yet, once youve gone through the workshop, youll learn how it is possible and how you can
take the rst steps toward a new you and success thats beyond your current scope. This workshop is that powerful.
Dear Trader,
Peak Performance 202, our most signicant breakthrough course, is your chance to totally reinvent yourself as a trader/investor.
Immense success is possible for most traders and investors. But the secret to that success has little to do with some magical trading
system devised by someone else. Instead, it has everything to do with you. You are the secret ingredient to your success. And when
you transform yourself, you transform everything. Peak Performance 202 is a major leap forward for those of you who are brave
enough to take the plunge.
Peak Performance 202 Will Be Divided into Three Key Sections
Day One: Youll learn how you are programmed to follow the path that others want you to follow. Its one that will
help them win, while you lose. You are totally unaware of most of this, but when you start to wake up, youll be amazed
at your new freedom. And, imagine what will happen when you start to program yourself instead of following the
programming of others.
Day Two: Youll learn about the many games you play, mostly unconscious games. When you play a game uncon-
sciously, you have no chance of winning. Instead, the winners will be those who made up the rules in the rst place.
The whole area of games is a major breakthrough in the psychology of personal success. Youll be amazed at what
youll discover and what you can do with that knowledge.
Day Three: Youll learn all about personal reinvention. Learn what your strategy has been for winning in all aspects
of life and how its held you back. And, when youve accomplished that, youll have the opportunity to come from
another place as a trader. Youll form a team with the other participants and declare a vision that is currently way
beyond the scope of your imagination. Only by day three, youll realize that you can reach that dream! Youll end the
workshop taking the rst steps toward your declaration with a whole team of people behind you. The past participants
all agreed that this was one of the most signicant courses they had ever attended, having left with a new sense of
purpose, a new direction and a support team behind them.
Opened my eyes about my own limitations so that I can nally begin trading without self-sabotage. The presentation gave me
enormous motivation. D.J.H., CA
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Uncover the Beliefs That Really Shape Your Success and What You Can Accomplish
Imagine that you are asleep, but you dont know you are asleep. Instead, you are dreaming and the dream appears quite real. In it
you nd yourself in an existence in which you are continually frustrated. Your goal seems right in front of you, but something holds
you in place. Or, your goal seems right in front of you and suddenly it disappears. Most of us have such dreams, but when you think
about it, our lives are very much the same way. Life can seem very frustrating and sometimes hopeless. Do you know how to quickly
make your dreams a reality? You must undo your unconscious programming because you are programmed to create frustration in your
life. You have beliefs that you are not even aware of, which hold you in the dream of life and keep you frustrated. And to undo the
programming you must become aware that it is there. The rst part of this new, exciting course is designed to help you wake up. Youll
learn how youve been programmed to fail through a process called domestication. Youll learn how domestication works and how
many of the agreements that youve made with yourself (and others) keep you asleep. In Peak Performance 101 we only devote a few
hours to the topic of how you are programmed by your beliefs and attitudes. In Peak Performance 202, youll get an incredible day of
uncovering just what keeps you stuck in the dream. Youll learn how to begin to really charge forward.
The workshop succeeded in really pushing my limits and opening my eyes to how the world really operates. I will never see the
world the same way again. F.L., CA
Learn About the Games We Play: The Most Important Psychological Breakthrough of the New
Millennium
The second part of this exciting course is games we play. Everything we do is basically a game to prove ourselves to others. We
want to prove that we are better, smarter, and more likely to win. However, those very games are what hold us back.
Heres one example: the money game. Youve been programmed with lots of beliefs about money. These might include Money is
power and freedom. The love of money is the root of all evil. People who have money are not very nice. The more money you have
the more you are likely to win the game of life. Its important to be right. Its important to get a good job to be successful. Do some
of those ideas sound familiar? They should because they are some of the rules that most people follow when they play the money
game unconsciously. In fact, the money game is one of hundreds of games that most of us play unconsciously. We play these games
without knowing it in our relationships, in our nances, with our health, with our trading, and with our lives.
Youll learn how to recognize the games you play and how to wake up to them. Doing so will change your life forever. In fact, the
key to winning any game is to start to make up your own rules. But you wont be able to make up your own rules, until you learn the
rules youve adopted unconsciously. And thats one of the major benets of Peak Performance 202. Youre probably saying, Wait a
minute, that might be illegal and I dont want to do anything illegal. But thats not what Im suggesting. Not at all. Instead, there are
lots of ways that you can invent your own rules and still play the game legally. You could accumulate enough passive income so that
you never have to work again because money is working for you. Is that illegal? Of course, not! But it does involve changing the rules
to the game. Most people believe that to win the money game you must have the most toys. Those who play that way either end up
with a lot of toys and probably not feeling like it is enough, or they end up totally broke because if you make one or two big mistakes,
you are as a loser of the game. In this incredible workshop, youll learn about the common games that most of us play unconsciously.
After youve nished, youll have a tremendous edge. Youll get to make up your own rules because youll understand how youve
been programmed in the past.
Youll learn about the American game that provides boundaries for other games. Lets look at a couple of those gamesthe trading
game, and the universal human game. Each is very signicant to reinventing your new future.
The Trading Game Reinvented
We have identied a minimum of eleven levels at which the trading game is played. Each level has its own set of rules and tends
to superimpose those rules (at least for those who are unaware) on the levels below it. Most people reading this letter are probably
playing at one of the bottom three levels. As a result, there are many rules superimposed upon you that you just unconsciously obey.
But you dont have to do thatespecially once you are aware of the game and how it is played. Furthermore, we identied 23 rules
and presuppositions that you are expected to follow as a trader in the bottom three levels. If you want to know what these rules are,
just watch Wall Street Week or CNBC, or read the most common business magazines, periodicals and books. All of those sources
assume that certain rules are important. Just a few examples of these include You must pick the right stocks to be successful. Hold
for the long term. You need the right information to win. Your broker is an expert and your best advisor with respect to the market.
We could go on and on with this, but you probably get the picture. The bottom line is that these rules are not the rules of most inners.
And if you want to win the trading game, you must know the rules that winners followor better yet, invent your own rules.
This is the best nancial/trading course I have taken. It has given me the foundation to understanding my current nan-
cial/trading strategies and what I need to do to grow my skills. B.J., KY
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The Universal Human Game
Most of us elect to play this game unconsciously. However, if you elect
not to play, youll have a chance to be truly happy and truly successful.
Lastly, youll learn about the game that everyone unconsciously plays,
the universal human game. It is the basis for all other games, and it limits
us to very restricted lives and existences. The game has the following
premises: There is a way things should or should not be. If things are not
the way they should be, then something is wrong with me, with them, or
with something else in the universe.
As a result of these premises, youve developed a strategy (largely
unconscious) to help you win the game of life. However, your strategy
for winning has severely limited you. The more successful you are at
playing the game, the more your strategy will limit you without you
knowing it. It will especially limit your trading success.
Well spend time exploring the universal human game. Youll learn the
benets that come from not playing the game or at least taking steps in
that direction. And that will be the foundation for reinventing yourself to
go way beyond your current limitations.
Determining Your Winning Strategy and How It Limits Your Trading
On day three, well begin by helping everyone determine their personal
winning strategy and how it limits them. Dr. Tharp will make sure
that everyone understands their strategy before going onto the trader
reinvention paradigm. And thats why were strictly limiting the
attendance at this course. Here is an example of a winning strategy just so
you can notice its limitations:
I look for possible areas of conict and dissent, so I can smooth feathers
and assume total control of the situation. This allows me to be in charge
and avoid being hurt.
What does that strategy tell you about this person? Several key things
stand out immediately. This person is constantly looking for conict and
thus will nd it. This strategy will typically miss understanding what
is working well. The person has a big ego. All of these patterns have
contributed to great success in the past, but notice how they limit ones perception in the present. And how effective do you think this
strategy is for trading success? Thats why winning strategies are typically a big limitation. And in Peak Performance 202, youll
learn how youve limited yourself by your beliefs and how to charge forward into the future.
I discovered and learned so much about myself from this. A.D., Ireland
The New Paradigm
The third part of this course helps you adopt a new paradigm to reinvent yourself. Youll learn how to determine your real purpose,
what you really are all about on this planet. Leaders who learn this paradigm typically accomplish what theyd previously thought
to be impossible. Were excited to begin teaching traders this same paradigm for reinventing themselves. Its how youll accomplish
the impossible. Here is just a small glimpse into what youll be doing: First, you and the other participants will use advanced
thinking concepts to declare a new, previously thought impossible vision, that youll all strongly adopt. Its an incredible process that
produces incredible results. Second, youll take the rst action steps toward making your vision a reality. These steps are not taken
lightly because they are made as promises to the group. Third, youll have group support to help you in your vision. We have seen
an incredible sense of unity and purpose for the vision at past courses. Each person had a job and each person had the support of
everyone else to help them accomplish the vision. Fourth, everyone gets a set of procedures to continue the vision into the future and
to help deal with each event that could occur in the future. A signicant breakthrough for everyone.
Great new tool. Illuminates a spiritually-based approach to life alternatives. T.P.G.
Peak Performance 202 involves intensive group interaction and it also involves fairly intense (and often one-on-one) work with
the instructor. That format produces dramatic results and change, so we must strictly limit the enrollment in this course to 15
people. We urge you to make a reservation now.
Questions and Answers
Q: Do I need to take the Peak Performance 101 as
a Prerequisite?
A: Yes, because of the nature of this course, we require
Peak Performance 101 as a prerequisite.
Q: Will the workshop be specic to trading?
A: Most of the games we play in life affect all aspects of
our lives, including trading. Although there are specics
about the trading game that we will cover, you could
take this course and apply the material to all aspects of
your life. It has to do with you and changing yourself.
However, you will leave with a new vision about trading,
a procedure to help you go forward, and a strong group
to support you.
Q: Is this course really worth my time?
A: Absolutely. Many people waste their entire lives.
This course is about really living your life and making
a difference. It could have a dramatic effect upon your
trading bottom line and we expect that it will change
your entire approach to life. You cant say that about
many courses.
Q: Is this course really worth the price?
A: Dr. Tharp charges $1,500 per hour for his consulting
time, and he will be conducting most of the course.
Sessions may run well into the evening, and, if necessary,
Dr. Tharp will do one on one work with you. Past
students have said that their experience as this workshop
was priceless and life-changing.
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The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader
Presented by Van K, Tharp, Ph.D.
Did you know that there are critical steps that you need to take
to become a successful trader?
Through his modeling work with top traders Dr. Tharp has discovered 17 key steps that will ensure consistent success as a trader.
And now hes prepared to take you through them, step-by-step, in his new, hands-on workshop.
So lets take a look at these steps one-by-one:
First, you need to assess your beliefs about trading and about yourself. Although its difcult to grasp, did you know that nobody
actually trades the market? Instead, you always trade your beliefs about the market. So isnt it time you learned exactly what you are
trading?
In this new workshop, youll get worksheets to assess your beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your skills, your resourceseverything
you need to begin this critical part of your business plan for trading.
Second, youll need to determine your objectives for trading. System experts know that understanding your objectives thoroughly
is half the battle in developing a system but most people have never taken the time to even consider what their objectives might be. Thus,
in this workshop youll get to work through questions to help you determine exactly what you want out of your trading system.
Weve found that most traders and investors are missing one key ingredient in their objectivesand
thats the ingredient that will make them nancially free.
For example, at a recent workshop Dr. Tharp was told of a trader who made 1000% return in 2005thats right 1000%. But that trader
was missing this critical ingredient. And its probably the difference between whether or not all of that prot will be put to good use or
lost in future trading. At this new workshop, well show you exactly what that is and how to include it as part of your objectives.
Third, youll need to understand the big picture. Whats the market doing overall and how can I measure it for myself? Youll
learn Dr. Tharps interpretation of the big picture and youll also learn how to determine the big picture for yourself and how to measure
it. This is a very important skill, and if you really take the time to do it, it is probably worth the price of the workshop all by itself.
Fourth, your business plan will need to include three strategies that are compatible with the big picture. Although there are
thousands of systems out there, there are not many types of strategies. Learn the essence of ten key strategies that you could use, the
general picture of how they work and how you can adapt them for yourself.
Fifth, learn what your personal edges might be and how they set you off from the crowd. Having an edge in the markets isnt
just a slight advantage; it could be the pivotal difference in your success. So its very important to list your edges in your business plan
and be able to capitalize on them. Learn the key edges that almost any investor should have over market makers or institutional investors.
Or if you are a CTA, hedge fund, or portfolio manager, learn what your key edges might be.
Sixth, youll discover the key systems that almost every business must understand and start to think about developing struc-
tures for those systems. From marketing to cash ow, to back ofce and clients, trading is a business and should be regarded as such.
More importantly, developing the right structures and systems is crucial for business success. For example, even if you are a private
trader, you must deal with clientseven if those clients are you and your family.
Seventh, develop a worst-case contingency plan. Most people dont even consider this crucial component until its too late, but the
key to a successful business plan is to be able to overcome disaster.
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In this workshop, Dr Tharp will share mistakes that other traders have faced, so that you can nd out how to generate an extensive
worst-case contingency plan. Youll learn strategies of how to deal with each disaster so that they minimize the effect on your trading
business. Learn the key areas around which your worst-case contingency plan should revolve and get a good start on creating them at
this workshop.
Guess what? Weve only covered the rst day of this fabulous new workshop!
Your head will be spinning with information by the time the day is through, but youll be just warm-
ing up and ready to dive into Day Two.
Day Two is designed to deal with the general formula for developing strategies and trading systems for your business plan.
Picking up from yesterday, the eighth step is to select your trading market based upon two key factors. Ill work with you on
these two factors so that you can determine the following: Are you going to trade stocks? Are you going to trade futures? Are you going
to trade mini-forex or real forex through big banks? Are you going to do options on any of these? And more...
Whatever you select must take into account the big picture and what is likely to happen in the next ve to ten years. And you must also
select your trading market.
Ninth, youll learn about strategy preparation. There are several key sub-steps that you should take before you think about trading.
Well show you exactly what you should do to get ready and give you specic follow up suggestions for when you get home.
Tenth, youll learn the key steps in strategy development and how to test for each. Youll learn about testing exit signals, how to
determine what your initial risk will be, and how to select and test your prot taking exits. This is not a substitute for our specic System
Development or ETF/Mutual Fund workshops; instead, well be discussing the key steps that you must take and how to test them.
The eleventh step is to properly evaluate your system. Well show you a formula that will allow you to compare your system with
any other system in the world and rank that system. Thus, youll know whether you have a weak, average, good, excellent, or superb
system. This is new information that weve just introduced into our curriculum and youll learn it here.
The twelfth step is a simple way to really get to know your system well without a lot of cost. Using this method youll be able to
understand if your back testing was accurate. Youll also begin to understand what the worst-case scenarios will be for your system and
how to deal with them . And through this testing, youll be able to develop a simple position sizing model to t your objectives.
At the end of the second day, youll be at the lucky thirteenth step where youll be of working on your objectives to actually
develop position sizing models. This step is one of the keys to developing a system that ts you.
At this point we will have nished day two. Youll now have worksheets that will aide you in writ-
ing your business plan, and a structure through which you can develop three systems to t the big
picture. Its a lot of information, but think how youll feel when you understand it, and have all of
this key information at your ngertips!
Learned enough yet?
Well it doesnt stop there
Day Three will be your chance to work on the most important factor in your trading: You. Most people would prefer to make light
of this point, but those who are smart enough to realize that you are the center of your trading know that this is the key to top trading
performance.
On Day Three, youll learn how to do a complete self-assessment, how to work on yourself on a regular basis so that you continue to
grow and improve as a trader, and how to develop a top-down approach to discipline.
So lets look at step fourteenhow to do a complete self-assessment. Were going to spend the rst half of the morning of the
third day on this vital step. Here are just a few of the exercises well be covering in this critical portion of the workshop.
Learn your personality type and how it impacts trading.
Learn about the most important attitude that you must have as a trader and assess yourself on it.
Learn about your beliefs and values and how to assess yourself.
Go through worksheets to begin to assess your key issues so that you know what could happen that might really interfere
with your trading.
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Step fteen is the step that will really separate you from other traders and launch you toward top trader status. Well be go-
ing on a step-by-step basis through a list of six to eight things that you can do on a regular basis to really improve yourself. And if you
take home at least three of these with the commitment to really doing them, youll be unstoppable.
This step will take the rest of the morning, but you will leave with such powerful tools at your disposal that youll wonder why you never
thought of doing these things before.
Well begin the afternoon of the third day with step sixteen: How to develop a top down approach to discipline. Youll get
worksheets to begin this process and exercises to complete so that you can apply it as soon as you return home. Few traders have the
kind of discipline well be teaching, but youll leave the workshop with all the tools you need to apply and use this strategy. And if you
combine top down discipline with regular self-work, youll be amazed at the difference in your trading.
The seventeenth step is to put all of what youve learned into action. Learning and studying are very important factors in any
endeavor, however the only true way to be successful as a trader is to TAKE ACTION. If you are truly dedicated to being a successful
trader, then after this workshop you will have all the tools that you need to set yourself up to win!
Well nish your three day workshop with a review of all of the prior steps and youll get a chance to start developing your plan to put
everything into action when you return home.
When you leave this workshop youll have:
Filled-in worksheets so that you can develop your own trading business plan. And when you leave, trading wont just be a hobby
for you. Youll have the core of your new plan to turn it into a professional business. We nd that less than 5% of all traders and
investors have a business plan to guide their trading. But when you leave this workshop, youll have everything you need to join
them. Imagine what a boost that will be to your trading.
Youll also have the logic worked out for how to develop at least one new trading system designed for your personality. Youll also
have worksheets completed on the major steps involved in developing a great trading system. When you get home, all youll need to
do is put the steps into practice. Most people ll their heads with all the details of various trading systems and never even begin to
develop a sound system of their own. However, when you nish day two, youll have a broad overview of exactly what youll need
to do. Perhaps for the rst time, youll be able to see the whole forest, instead of just the trees. Youll have the structure of what you
need to do. How do you think youll feel when you have that in place?
And lastly, youll have a daily procedure worked out to improve the most important factor in your trading: you. Youll have three daily
routines in three distinct areas that you can begin to really make you a better, happier, and more effective trader. In addition, well
help you develop the structure for a top down approach to discipline, which I believe is the key to your success. What youll have in
place is critical advantages that few other traders have. And this will not only improve your trading, it will improve your entire life.
And isnt that what you really want?
A Message from Dr Van Tharp:
Some people take years to discover just a portion of what you are going to learn in this new three-day workshop. But youll do
a lot more than just learn it.
I have worked closely with traders and the markets for over 20 years. Ive seen the good and the bad, which has given me experi-
ence and insights into what works and what doesnt work in the trading game.
The same questions, fears and lessons continue to rear their heads year in and year out, and I have therefore designed this course
to let you know that you dont have to go it alone. Many traders have come before you and this is your opportunity to learn their
successes and mistakes and what it really takes to be a great trader.
My commitment is to give you a thorough overview of what it takes to be a successful and consistent trader, and a 17 step action
plan to be the great trader that you truly want to be.
So sign up now and join me for an exceptional three days on your trading journey.
Your Trading and Investing Coach,
Van K. Tharp
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Swing Trading Tactics
A Course in Intermediate Term Trading
Presented by Brad Martin and D.R. Barton
Dear Traders and Investors,
Swing trading lls the gap between these time frames and enjoys the benets of both of the styles described above. Swing trading is
loosely dened as trading to take advantage of the intermediate trend, typically 210 days.
Swing trading has the benet of high trade frequency, which can help to smooth equity curves. Many types of swing trading capture
a higher percentage of winners than the typical position trading strategy, while keeping the benet of requiring little to no intra-trade
baby sitting. With swing trading, we get the increased frequency with monitoring that can typically be done outside of trading hours.
And while there are few traders who combine position trading and day trading, I know many day traders who also swing trade and
nd the styles very complimentary. I also know long-term position traders who add a swing trading component to their portfolio so
they can smooth out their equity curve, especially in choppy or directionless markets.
If you want to make bigger trading prots on your own time, you will denitely want to attend the next Swing Trading course. Swing
trading methodology offers you the convenience of planning your trades and making your preparations at a time that ts your own
busy lifestyle, while at the same time offering enough trading opportunities to allow for protable returns. Our focus at this course
will be to teach you how to win with swing trading strategies and teach you the edges that many professional traders use.
This workshop is your chance to learn all the proven insider-trading secrets that work in any market condition directly from an
experienced professional trader, Brad Martin.
Brad is one of the most successful and consistently protable traders that I know. Hes been making his living as a trader for over 20
years. Hes turned his oor trading expertise into extraordinary trading prots. His 13 years as a oor trader on the CBOT and the
CME, combined with the last seven years hes been swing trading, give Brad a unique perspective on how the short-term markets
work, and how to be a truly successful trader. The fact is, Brad also knows what it takes to be successful in any kind of market.
Brad Martin has really had an impressive resume as a trader. Lets look at some of the things that Brad does that any trader can
model. You can call these shortcuts to learning the key points of trading craft:
Brad follows a plan. Every morning Brad charts out his plan for the day. He develops an expectation for market direction and puts
together a list of stocks that he would like to trade if the market moves according to his expectation.
Brad is not married to his market view. Brad is already married to his wonderful wife, Karen. Yet I digress. If the market moves
contrary to Brads expectation, his daily plan includes a list of stocks that he will turn to. This makes him very exible and he is rarely
caught off-guard by the market.
Learn Pro Traders Secrets for Capturing Huge Prots in Bull or Bear Markets.
Become Skilled at Swing Trading: the Trading Style That Fits YOUR Schedule
Have You Lost a Bundle Holding Stocks During This Huge Market Decline?
Find Out the Master Traders Alternative to Buy & Hold.
Discover the Detailed Trading Strategies That Win in Todays Markets.
Long-term position trading and intra-day trading each have their own advantages. Many
people gravitate to one camp or the other and very few people trade in both. But the in-
termediate time frame, what most folks call swing trading, may just be the best of both
worlds.
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Brad keeps his stops with a ruthless determination. Every workshop we do together, Brad does a session on keeping stops. His stories
and well directed rants have turned more than a few people into faithful stop-keepers.
Brad has a disciplined work ethic. Despite the fact that Brad has been in this business over 20 years, he still spends time every morn-
ing and every evening reviewing individual charts. This is the work that most people want to avoid. Dont do it! This is where op-
portunities show up with great regularityif well only put on the overalls and roll up our sleeves.
Not only is Brad a great trader, hes an excellent teacher. He loves to share his trading knowledge with traders of any level, whether
youre an experienced trader, or youre just getting started.
My name is D.R. Barton. And Ive created this workshop along with Brad to show traders the secrets that really work in swing trading.
I believe the valuable information youll learn here will help make you a far more successful trader.
In the Swing Trading workshop I discovered many ner distinctions and insights into things I already thought I knew about. I
came away from the workshop with lots of great ideas that I know will have a positive effect on my trading! C.D., AZ
Ill show you the best ways I know to create a technically sound trading system to maximize your prots, how to use the most
important secret of swing trading, and key psychological factors that affect traders (just one of these secrets alone could be the
missing link in your own trading). This is the information that will help you take maximum advantage of the great strategies and
thought process that Brad will teach.
What Brad and I will show you at this course could well be the most valuable swing trading secrets and strategies you will ever learn.
Whether youre an experienced trader who wants to ne-tune your system, or youve wanted to try swing trading but havent yet, Brad
and I host these courses with one goal in mind:
To show you how you can make your swing trading much more successful...and far more protable.
Youll come away from this fun and enjoyable seminar with detailed trading strategies from both Brad and Istrategies we use that
can help make you bigger gainsno matter what the market is doing.
Youll Discover 15 Simple Secrets of Swing Trading SuccessSecrets That Can Help You
Maximize Your Prots
What Technical Indicators to Watch and What to Throw Away
How the Right Mindset Can Make Your Swing Trading More Successful
How to Make the Case for Your Trade: Lessons from a Floor Trader
The Crucial Components of the Best and Most Successful Trading Systems
The Golden Rules of Swing Trading
Transforming Knowledge into Prots: Business Planning
How to Use the News to Read the Markets: What It Tells You and What It Doesnt
What Works in Pattern Systems and What Patterns You Should Always Avoid
Power Tools of the Professional Trader: Expectancy, R Multiples & Position Sizing
Trading Intermediate Trends: Proven Strategies for the Biggest Possible Prots
Short Term Swing Trading: Overnight Pops to Juice Your Prots
Mechanical Systems for the Logical Trader: Using Indicator-Based Swing Systems
Making Changes That Will Super-Charge Your Trading Performance: Successful Trading Psychology
The Key to Consistent Trading Prots: Your End-to-End Trading Plan
Your Trading Day: How to Prepare, Execute and Debrief
And most importantly: systems, systems and more systems. Trading systems that work.
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With These Secrets, You Can Prot When Everyone Else Is Tanking
Most swing traders have never heard of these simpleand very successfulstrategies.
In this fun and easy-to-understand course, youll learn how to apply the real business concepts of successful traders that Ive helped to
pioneer, as well as how to use the power tools of tradingR-multiples, Expectancy, Position Sizing, and Disciplineto achieve your
dreams through swing trading.
Swing trading is one of the hottest areas of trading. I did a search on the phrase swing trading on Amazon and it turned up 58 books.
Thats a bunch for an area that was once considered to be a specialty.
Swing trading has several advantages:
Swing trading strategies can t into almost anyones schedule. Screening can be done and orders can be placed or moved before or
after market hours.
Swing time frames can present many more opportunities than longer term trading while,
Transaction costs in swing trading are less signicant than in day trading
There are swing trading styles for almost any type of trader: trend followers, counter trend players, channel tradersthe variety is
almost endless.
Dr. Van Tharp, well-known trading coach and my personal mentor, has been a leader and innovator in position sizing for years.
So well play his famous simulation gamethe marble gamewhere youll learn the real-world value of position sizing, and the
difference it can make in your swing trading prots.
In addition to this low tech simulation, well use dozen of computer captured simulations to drive home the application of each
trading system. You wont just read and hear about good trading systems, youll actually apply them during our three days together.
Imagine how helpful it will be to analyze a trade day-by-day with a proven pro watching over your shoulder for guidance!
The simulated trading exercises are an invaluable learning tool which greatly facilitates a traders development. These
simulations made us think, were challenging and fun! The personal insights from D.R. and Brad are gems of trading wisdom that
are greatly appreciated. D.G., IL
Of the six trading seminars Ive been to in the past 18 months, this has covered the actual trading mechanics the best of all of
them. B.B.
Swing trading can be very rewarding. It ts in everyones schedule and offers opportunities to catch lots of moves that longer-term
players miss. With all the secrets, techniques, and strategies youll learn at this seminar, your swing trading should be far more
successful, more protable, and quite frankly a lot more fun.
Sincerely,
D.R. Barton, Jr.
The legal stuff we have to add: Obviously you are responsible for your own trading results and individual results vary. There is a very high degree of risk involved in
stock trading. Posted past results are hypothetical trades. Results do not reect slippage, commissions and other market risk factors inherent in actual trades in the stock
market. Past results are not indicative of future performance. The Van Tharp Institute and all individuals afliated with this course assume no responsibilities for your
trading results. The strategies, lessons and all other features are for educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or trading advice. You must
assess the risk of any trade with your broker or nancial professional and make your own independent decisions regarding any trades.
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Dear Trader,
The eulogy for day trading has been written many times in the past several years. Feeling the heat from the Wall Street vanguard (who
were having their prots margins cut by hoards of stay-at-home traders), regulators made it tougher for the small player to qualify.
Day traders have been belittled in the press as gunslingers. And the list goes on
So why does day trading continue to thrive? Statistics show that a smaller cadre of day traders are now trading more share volume in
absolute numbers than the vast hoards who had taken to computer screens at the turn of the millennium. Day trading has some inherent
advantages that suit the temperament of a large number of traders. Lets take a look at these advantages and see if this style of trading
may have a place in your trading plan.
Advantage #1: No overnight risk. For a trader who is trying to stay in the game for the long haul, this is one of the biggest natural
advantages in the trading world. While we can understand this advantage intuitively (sleep better at night, etc.), lets see if the concept
bears any fruit quantitatively.
Heres the methodology: Test two similar hypothetical trade distributions. Each distribution has the same expectancy and is tested
across the same number of trades. The only difference is that the rst distribution simulates intra-day trading and has its biggest loss as
1.5R, while the second distribution used represents the effect of taking on overnight risk by including a 5.0R loss in the distribution.
This simulates having a one-dollar stop and when a company pre-announces reduced earnings and opens down ve dollars. Here is our
starting data:
Percent wins: 55% for both systems
Expectancy: 0.12 for both systems
No. of trades: 500 per year for both systems
Biggest loss: -1.5R for day trading system, -5.0R for overnight risk system
What were our results? As you can imagine, the volatility of our equity curve increased greatly when we added the possibility of a big
loss. Our average drawdown doubled, while our average gain stayed the same. This alone is signicant. But the increased volatility
had a much more telling effect; the optimum risk size (dened as the amount of equity that we could risk per trade to achieve the best
reward-to-risk ratio) was 2.5 times smaller for the distribution that included overnight risk.
Advantage #2: Frequency of trade. We can make a good comparison of any numbers of systems if we know the expectancy and the
frequency of trade of the each system. For those of you not familiar with expectancy, it is a measure of how much a system makes per
dollar risked. In the example above, you make 0.12 dollars, on average, for every dollar risked. (For more information on expectancy
and frequency of trade please refer to Chapter 13 in Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom.)
Those of you who are familiar with expectancy calculations may have looked at the numbers in the previous section and thought, an
expectancy of 0.12 is very low. But remember that expectancy must be coupled with frequency in order to provide a meaningful com-
parison. Recall that we assumed 500 trades per year using this system. At that frequency this could be very protable system, returning
60 percent per year if one risked one percent per trade.
Remember that high trade frequency is a double-edged sword. It makes systems with even small expectancies very protable. But it
also turns systems with negative expectancies into money pits. Having systems that work is important in any style of trading, but in day
trading, using a strategy that doesnt work can cause rapid disaster.
Advantage #3: Immediate feedback. This advantage tends to separate the day traders from the swing and position traders. For many
folks, immediate feedback is a very reassuring characteristic. Lessons are learned more quickly. Positive actions are re-enforced more
quickly. For action-oriented personalities, day trading is a perfect t.
Day Trading Tactics
Discover How to Make Huge Prots in Todays Tough Markets
Presented by Brad Martin and D.R. Barton
Learn How Brad Makes His Living Trading and How You Can Do It, Too! Including
LIVE Trading. Well Do Real Trading With Real Money During This Course!
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Day trading is not a style that suits everyone. But for those that thrive
on immediate feedback and can make quick decisions, the benets are
many.
Brad Martin and I have designed a workshop that
gives you detailed written systems that can jump-start
your trading.
For those of you who are interested in day trading, this three-day course
will be extraordinary. We will emphasize the protable use of the tools
available to a day trader in a unique way that youve probably never
experienced before.
Brad Martin traded on the oors of the CBOT and the CME for 13 years
before becoming an extremely successful day trader. He knows what it
takes to be successful in difcult markets; his extraordinary trading prots
show that. And youll be as intrigued as I was to learn how the secrets of
a oor trader can make your current day trading more protable. Brad is
a master at sharing his trading knowledge and will help you take that next
step to consistent trading prots.
Brad Martin left the exchanges four years ago. He has learned how to turn his oor trading expertise into day trading prots. Brads
protable trading strategies are presented in detail in this dynamic course! Brad will bring the perspective of a oor trader who found
great success as a short-term trader after leaving the oor. His trading strategies are a great complement to the trading process that Dr.
Tharp has pioneered and the systems that I have developed.
The technology we use at this course is also incredible. Youll learn the winning strategies we teach, and youll actually trade them in our
unique simulated trading sessions using real-time data! Youll be taking home detailed strategies from us that work in todays markets.
You cant afford to miss this course!
My name is D.R. Barton. And Ive created this workshop along with Brad to show traders the secrets that really work in day trading. I
believe the valuable information youll learn here will help make you a far more successful trader.
Here are just some of the topics that will be presented to transform your day trading:
Electronic Tools: How the Pros Use Level II, Time & Sales, and Charts for Swing & Day Trading
Trader Psychology Part I: The Problems Short-Term Traders Have and the Solutions.
Lessons from a Floor Trader
Trading Systems: What Makes a Good System?
Gap Trading Part I: New Twists to a Proven Strategy
Business Planning: Transforming Knowledge into Prots.
News Analysis: Use the News to Read the Market
Gap Trading Part II: New Ways to Read the Gap and Trade in the Right Direction
Expectancy, R-Multiples & Position Sizing: Power Tools of the Professional Trader
Trading Inter-day Trends: Powerful Strategies for Monster Prots. What Were Trading TODAY!
Gap Trading Parts III & IV: Complete Your Trading System Arsenal for This Powerful Tool
The Most Powerful Strategy for Consistent Prots That Weve Found: Morning Pops!
Trading Psychology Part II: Making Changes That Will Super-Charge Your Trading Performance
Trading Plans: The Key to Consistent Trading Prots
The Trading Day: How to Prepare, Execute and Debrief
Heres Whats Waiting for You!
Spend Three Days with Master Trader Brad Mar-
tinLearn His Trading Beliefs and the INTIMATE
DETAILS of His Trading Systems
Top system designer D. R. Barton will reveal the
powerful yet simple system that provided a 100%
return on equity in the difcult markets of 2002
(How many systems do you know that did that?)
Get insight on the special psychological tools that
supercharge the performance of short-term traders.
Dig into the ne points of winning day trading strate-
gies.
Become skilled with these strategies using our
unique real-time trading simulations that allow you
to trade what you learn.
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In this course, not only will I reveal some edges Ive discovered, but more importantly, with the use of Dr. Tharps techniques, we will
show you how to develop your own edge.
This knowledge alone is invaluable.
Learn How to Prot When Everyone Else Is Losing
Your experience could be more rewarding if you pay attention to certain key principles that are essential to the success of every short-
term trader who makes it in the long run. In this course, youll learn how to apply the real business concepts for traders that Ive helped
pioneer, as well as how to apply the key principles of R-multiples, expectancy, position sizing, and discipline to achieve your dreams
through day trading. These are concepts that most traders have never heard of or applied to their trading.
Here Are Eight Specic Prot-Making Reasons Why Youll Want to Attend This Course
1. Youll learn specic strategies, each of which could make you over $100K/year. For instance, Ill show you how to make very safe,
fast and dependable prots from trading two or three times a week for only an hour or two a day. This proven strategy alone is worth the
price of the whole course. Well review this strategys trade-by-trade record from 2002 and show you exactly how to trade it.
2. Youll learn the keys that allowed Brad to move successfully from the oor to the terminal. Traders who have never even seen the
trading oor will benet from these concise tips on how to read the markets.
3. Live trading!! Brad and I will trade live and show you some of the strategies that have been taught. This is real trading with real
money. Many have found this to be the most informative part of the past courses that Brad and I have taught.
4. Youll learn some of the critical issues for effectively setting and keeping your stops in fast paced markets. This is the type of inside
day trading information that is not found in trading books!
5. Youll learn how to track a basket of stocks like a pro. Learn Brads edge that he gains from reviewing his basket of stocks on a rou-
tine basis. This is the type of information that turns trading from a hot one day, cold the next endeavor into a consistently protable
experience.
6. Brad will teach you the ner points of day trading that make him a successful professional trader. These are proven strategies and
tactics that Brad uses every day. And well use our real-time trading technology to make sure that you know how to apply them before
you leave the course!
7. Youll discover some psychological tools that will help you achieve repeatable success, some key areas that impact short-term trad-
ers even more than the average long-term position trader. Because your mental and psychology activity is so important to your trading
performance, this may be the session that takes you to the next level!
8. Last and perhaps most importantly, youll learn the true power tool of professional tradersposition sizing. Top traders know that they
have to increase their trading size when things are going well and cut back when trading is not so productive. Well step you through a
simple process that will allow you to get the most out your trading and supercharge your results.
Position sizing is an area where Dr. Tharp has been a cutting-edge leader for years. Well play a version of his famous simulation game
where you can learn the true value of position sizing and the difference it can make in your trading.
You may be skeptical about why we offer such great trading strategies at a course. To help you with your decision making process so that
you can come and learn to master the markets, we offer a cant miss guarantee. If youre a success-driven person who is willing to
apply the techniques youll learn, then we are willing to guarantee that you will be totally satised with the course. In fact, were willing
to offer the best guarantee that anyone has ever offered to you in a day trading course. (See our guarantee on page 28).
Sincerely,
D. R. Barton, Jr.
The legal stuff we have to add: Obviously you are responsible for your own trading results and individual results vary. There is a very high degree of risk involved in
stock trading. Posted past results are hypothetical trades. Results do not reect slippage, commissions and other market risk factors inherent in actual trades in the stock
market. Past results are not indicative of future performance. The Van Tharp Institute and all individuals afliated with this course assume no responsibilities for your trad-
ing results. The strategies, lessons and all other features are for educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or trading advice. You must assess
the risk of any trade with your broker or nancial professional and make your own independent decisions regarding any trades.
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Dear Traders and Investors,
Most people are doing the exact opposite of what the big funds are doing and they pay a big price for doing so. For example, you put
money into a stock after hearing that a fund manager really likes it. However, by the time you hear about it, the fund manager is getting
ready to sell.
But what if you could see what the big mutual funds are doing with their money well before they complete a transaction and jump in
ahead of them?
Wouldnt it be a huge advantage?
If mutual fund managers are buying retail stocks, youd be able to get into those stocks well before they get in and prot greatly as their
activity drives prices up. Imagine what an advantage youd have over other investors. And were going to show you exactly how to do
that.
Very helpful information that gave me a good foundation for putting ETFs into perspective compared to stocks and mutual funds.
M.L.
Suppose that you are managing a mutual fund and you need to move a billion dollars out of retail stocks into Internet stocks. You dont
just tell your broker to sell a billion dollars worth of stock. Instead, you must give an order to a large brokerage rms that basically says,
You have three days to get rid of this stock. Wed like to get at least $998 million for the stock. If you can get more than that, you may
keep the extra cash as your extra commission. The market then slowly sees a movement out of retail stocks. And as one fund moves
out, another may see the big picture and start to move out as well, thus making the underlying movement even stronger.
Furthermore, as the movement out of retail stocks gets underway, the same fund manager may give instructions to buy a billion dollars
worth of Internet stocks, and the broker may have a week to ll that order. Gradually, youd see retail stocks moving down and Internet
stocks moving up as one or more big funds shifts positions.
And the net result is that the internal conditions of the stock market shift even though the major averages may not move that much. Whats
interesting for you is that you can learn to see the overall shifts in cash ow as the funds start to move money around. In fact, you can
spot it quite quickly. And you could have a huge advantage because big money tends to move slowly, but you can move quickly. In
fact, when you get good at observing the ows of funds, you can start making thousands of dollars each day at your convenience. Its
not that hard. Ken Long, a LTC (retired) in the U.S. Army, does it quite regularly.
And well show you just how Ken does it in this new, exciting workshop that teaches you how to jump in front of the big guys in their
trades.
Acquired practical trading strategies that I can employ tomorrow with condence. R.U.
How to Trade Mutual Funds and
Exchange Traded Funds
Presented by Ken Long
Learn to Spot the Flow of Big Money Quickly!
So That You Can Earn Extra $1,000s Each Day
In Your Free Time!
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Introducing Ken Long, Your Instructor
When Ken Long rst attended my Systems Development workshop in
the mid 1990s and submitted his objectives to me, I thought to myself,
Someone from the Army is going to apply this material? Little did I
know that Ken Long would not only apply it, but hed become a genius
at applying it!
LTC (retired) Ken Long is one of the few people I know of who has a
graduate major in systems design. Because of his training, Ken can spot
ideas that most people never think of. For example, when Ken attended
our systems workshop and learned about the complex training game we
were playing, he developed a procedure for strategizing about the game
that I now teach in that workshop. Hes that good!
Extremely comprehensive top down approach to trading ETFs. Su-
perbly presented by Ken Long in a very understandable format. I give
this course a 10 out of 10. Good job! Ken is clearly a man of great
integrity and because of this, he had my trust in the material he was
presenting immediately. T.R.
Kens business plan is one that I use as a template for teaching business
planning to traders. Again, his work is exemplary.
You may have heard of Ken simply because of his Tortoise system for
switching between mutual funds. That system made over 100% trading
real money in an IRA in 1999. And its generally made pretty good money
even during the bear market.
But whats even better than mutual funds are the ETFs because their costs
are minimal and they represent a sector of the trading arena that you might
want to participate in. Fortunately for us, Ken has developed methods to
master this form of trading as well. And youll learn how to use this form
of trading to master getting ahead of what big money is doing.
And what Ken does is not that hard. He says that if he can do it, anyone
can do it!
Its been exhilarating! I found Ken to be extremely clear and structured
in his explanation and presentation of his systems, beliefs and techniques. Awesome information for traders of any level of expertise.
J.L.S.
You dont have to watch a lot of stocks to determine what the big funds are doing. Instead, you just have to know what a few select funds
are doing to determine whats going on. For example, today the overall market was down 0.4%, but the semiconductors were down 1.5%.
And if youd been watching them, youd have known about it in advance because the semiconductor sector has been moving down for
ve straight days. While most people lost money today, you could have made a lot of money in a short position in the semiconductors.
Okay, but lets dene some terms rst. What were talking about here is watching the movement of big money via Exchange Traded
Funds (ETFs). What are Exchange Traded Funds? They are funds that reect the big sectors of the market. For example, you can buy
a fund that represents the Internet sector of the market and short another that represents the retail sector of the market. And you can do
this in seconds, as soon as you spot what the big money is doing. So while big money might take a week to move money around, you
can jump in ahead of them and take advantage of money owing into the sector youve just bought. Again, the advantage is huge.
Heres Whats Waiting For You!
Day 1: Building Your Toolbox
On Day 1, youll focus on assembling the toolbox you need to design and operate your ETF trading strategy. Youll learn about the many
different types of ETFs available, how they are constructed, and how they trade. Youll also learn about the parts of a trading system and
how your beliefs and objectives form the basis of effective system design. Youll learn how to use ETFs to determine what big money
is doing, which is a core part of most of the strategies youll learn. You learn about the advantages and disadvantages of different types
of ETFs based on the type of system and time frame you favor. Youll also learn essential skills to enhance your system operation, with
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.
Q: Can you really make lots of money with these
principles?
A: Absolutely! Just think of the advantage youll have
being able to jump in front of large mutual funds be-
cause youll have learned the skills to anticipate what
they are doing.
Q: I am already a protable trader, why should I
consider attending this course?
A: What if you learn one new technique that could
save you several thousand dollars each month or some
new way of looking at the market that will help you
earn thousands of new dollars. Dont you think that
would be worth your time?
Q: I am new to trading. Will this course help me?
A: Absolutely, you dont have to be an experienced
trader to learn how to spot what big money is doing.
Furthermore, Ken will teach you exactly how to prot
from it.
Q: I want to become the best trader I can be, does
this course show me how to trade?
A: While our purpose is not to give you a basic educa-
tion in the how to of trading, well be covering the
basics that are required as they apply to ETFs. As a
result, youll learn key material that will take you to
the next level of trading.
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concepts like position sizing and portfolio heat. And lastly, youll study useful indicators that measure strength of trend and volatility
and learn to identify common reversal signals. And all of that is just on Day One!
Day 2: Learning to Use Your ETF Tools
On Day 2, we look at different time frames for trading and learn in detail how ETFs can be applied as a stand-alone system for trading or
as a supplement to a portfolio. We examine the specic rules for entry, position sizing and exit management of various trading systems
in various time frames. We use case studies and examples to learn the ne points of each strategy, and learn how to base our decisions
off of simple yet robust indicators. Learn the power of position sizing as a risk management tool. Develop your personal ETF strategy
using the tools and techniques that t your objectives and beliefs by working in a small group of like-minded traders.
Day 3: Putting Your ETF Tools into Practice
On Day 3, we put it all together and practice applying ETF trading strategies to case studies. Youll learn to pick the right strategy and
apply it effectively in real world situations through the use of case studies and group work. Youll learn where to nd research on ETFs
and mutual funds to make your trading decisions much easier and save a lot of time. In addition, youll receive group insights on the
specics of your personal ETF strategy.
Very impressed. Ken over delivered on the course objectives and with a lot of his own real-world experiences, all with a good delivery
and sense of humor. I leave feeling I can grow my account better than a market benchmark using a disciplined approach without a
lot of weekly time and make a little extra using multiple strategies on ETFs. D.H.
What Can You Expect to Learn?
There are six money making benets awaiting you. Theyll help you make more consistent prots, keep your losses smaller, and help
you be more relaxed about your trading.
Learn how to take advantage of current year losses to minimize taxes while maintaining exposure to specic market sectors. For example,
suppose you want long-term exposure to gold stocks, but you have a loss on them for the year. Ken will show you how to get your tax
loss and still own the gold stocks.
One Word: Excellent....I learned how to t ETFs into my current strategy. The world model created by Ken helped me identify
macro trends much easier. F.L.
Secondly, youll learn to improve your interest income on short-term cash positions. If you have a large account, this strategy alone
could be worth many times the price of the workshop.
Thirdly, you learn how to hedge your portfolios in the short-term to protect large gains or to protect against losses. These are huge ad-
vantages for you when you learn to do them properly.
Fourth, youll learn how to prot from currency imbalances without becoming a currency trader. For example, the Forex market requires
a specialized type of trading that often takes months to learn to do properly. But Ken will show you how to do this easily with ETFs. For
example, during a workshop four years ago, lots of Australians were complaining about the lack of purchasing power of their Australian
dollar. These complaints usually get loudest at market bottoms. And when Ken heard about this, he was able to buy the equivalent of a
basket of Australian stocks simple by buying the Australian ETF.
Fifth, you learn simple tools to lower your portfolio risk and manage your trade positions in minutes a day.
Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, you learn how Ken adds discipline and consistency to his trading through the use of checklists,
rehearsals, contingency planning and debriengs. Well give you the same worksheets that Ken uses, so youll leave the workshop with
the same advantages. And as always, youll be networking and meeting like-minded traders and investors!
Sincerely,
Van K. Tharp
Your Trading and Investing Coach
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Very few people say they could stop working for the rest of their lifebut those who can are innitely rich. They can maintain their
current standard of living without doing another days work.
What would that mean to you to be innitely rich? Do you sometimes feel like you are on a treadmill going nowhere? Now think what
it would be like to never have to work again. Anyone can do itno matter what your income is or how old you are. In fact, we know of
minimum wage workers whove become innitely rich, while never earning an income above minimum wage.
All it takes to achieve this status is to make a new choice about how youll lead your life and to have the discipline to carry out this
choice.
In mid-1997, I decided to start modeling the wealth process. What did it take to really become wealthy? What was true wealth? Ironi-
cally, I would ask traders if they were wealthy and just about everyone said No.regardless of how much money they had. And when
I asked them what it would take to become wealthy, can you guess what the answer was? It was always having about 10 times more
money than they already hadno matter how much they had at the time. If they were worth $10,000 then $100,000 would make them
feel wealthy. But if someone were worth a million, then theyd need $10 million to feel wealthy. Ironically, if you put ten times your
current wealth to work at a reasonable rate of interest, youd be earning your current net worth every year. Dont you think that would
make you feel wealthy? Well, that really got me thinking about the concept of wealth.
We Will Help You Change the Way You Think About Money.
The formula of the Innite Wealth Strategy:
Lets adopt the denition of rich from R. Buckminster Fuller, a great thinker and inventor of the twentieth century. He said that if
you stopped working today, you could determine how wealthy you were by how many months you could survive without changing your
lifestyle and without working again. For example, if you had monthly expenses of $3,000 per month and you had $10,500 in assets, you
could last three and a half months. As a result, you would be 3.5 months rich. Its that simple.
The formula to being innitely richnot having to work ever againis to have assets and passive income (income you get without
working) that are equal to or greater than your expenses. In the example given above, if you had assets that gave you $3,000 per month
in passive income, you could last forever. You would, therefore, be innitely rich.
Some Doctors Are Never Healthy and Some Traders Are Never Wealthy!
Most people have psychological blocks keeping them from success. Unless you are already wealthy, you probably have some of these
blocks as well. In fact, the average person wont even respond to this letter because their blocks to wealth prevent them from picking up
the phone. Learning about nancial intelligence is about breaking free of the patterns of thinking like the poor. Thats why this course
is so important, because well not only teach you how to become innitely wealthy, well also help you develop a personal plan to push
through whatever roadblocks you have standing in your way.
Psychologists have documented hundreds of natural biases people have that cause nancial failures. These natural inclinations to fail
will continue to support the social security statistics showing that the average person at retirement will only be worth $2,300. Thats the
fate of most Americans unless they take steps to overcome those biases now.
One researcher surveyed the winners of the Irish Sweepstakes over a twenty-ve year period. The winners were people who had won
substantial amounts of money. Yet, at the time of the survey, 19 out of the 25 were worse off nancially than they were before theyd
won the money. Why? They hadnt learned the principles of wealth-building and were thus unable to keep the money theyd received.
You and Your Money
Presented by Van K. Tharp
If you stopped working today and kept your current standard of living,
how many months could you survive?
Three Months? 18 Months? 10 Years?
Or, could you last the rest of your life?
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Is your net worth right now greater than what you earn in a single year?
Most people will probably answer No. Is that what you want for yourself? Of course not! As a result, you really need this part of the
courseunderstanding your personal roadblocks to accumulating wealth.
Nine Benets Youll Receive from this course
1. Youll learn about the ve-step method to becoming innitely rich in much more detail. Moreover, youll develop a personalized
plan for you.
This was the best business course I have been to in 17 years. I see myself more clearly and am leaving with effective tools for be-
coming more effective in my life. L.M., GA
2. Youll learn strategy on how to outperform the NASDAQ and S&P 500 indices with your funds and only spend about ve minutes
per week doing it.
3. Youll learn how to get started today. This course is about techniques that you can easily apply. Youll develop a personal plan and
learn how to overcome your personal roadblocks so that you can get started immediately.
This was my fourth IITM course and in terms of revelation of new information, this was the most eye-opening of the courses I have
attended. I am excited by the possibilities. J.M, TN
4. You dont have any assets right now? Well also show you eight steps to increase your income by 1000% within the next ve years.
And, you need very little to get started.
5. Youll learn nancial intelligence. Youll learn to think like the rich instead of like the poor or the middle class. Even if you have
money, its important to think like the rich or you could lose it all.
It was excellent. I have never attended a course as mind-blowing as this one. Ive gained so much and Im very grateful to you.
T. R., S. Africa
6. After all of these years, youll nally understand the one simple decision you need to make to start moving toward the fast track and
out of the rat race.
7. Youll learn to overcome years of conditioning by the school systems, by your banker and by your accountant.
8. Youll learn to rethink your nances. Some of you could be innitely rich within a year.
9. Learn the difference between working for money and money working for you. If youre self-employed, youre still working for money.
This system is so tight that it actually explains many of the problems that most traders havetheyre self-employed and they are thinking
with the mentality of the self-employed. Learn to think like a business owner.
Great! Exceeded expectation. I brought my wife and friend so they could learn and I thought it would just be review for meHA!
I was inundated with new info! C.P., MA (at his second attendance of this course)
Anyone Can Learn These Principles, Yet Without This Course Most People Will Fail.
The processes of making money and accumulating signicant wealth, including millionaire status, are very easy. They could be taught
to every child in school by the third grade. Unfortunately, these principles are not taught in most schoolsor even our universities. In-
stead, most school systems teach us biases that prevent people from making money and even hinder us from having a successful, happy
life. You probably have some of these biases yourself. In fact, only two percent of the population in the United States will be nancially
secure and able to rely on themselves when they reach retirement. Other parts of the world are even worse off.
But, if youre reading this, youre not the average person. In fact, youre probably well above average. But are you innitely rich?
Could you stop working now if you wanted to? Or are you still in the rat race, despite having worked hard for many years? Perhaps
youll always work, simply because you love what you do. But think about the freedom and joy youll feel if you could right now say
that you never had to work again a day in your life.
And Making the Decision to Attend This Course Is Your First Step in Making That Happen!
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I also want to take this opportunity to thank you for the
life changing training experience I had ve years ago at your
seminar in North Carolina. My trading has resulted in over
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your program ve years ago, I would have to say I had never
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2006 Workshop Schedule
January 27-29, 2006 The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader Phoenix, AZ
March 11-13, 2006 Peak Performance 101 Florida
April 1-3, 2006 How to Develop a Winning Trading System Raleigh, NC
April 5-7, 2006
How to Trade Mutual Funds and Exchange
Traded Funds
Raleigh, NC
May 5-7, 2006 The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader Raleigh, NC
May 19-21, 2006 Swing Trading Tactics Phoenix, AZ
June 3-5, 2006 Peak Performance 101 Raleigh, NC
June 7-9, 2006 Peak Performance 202 Raleigh, NC
July 14-16, 2006 You and Your Money Raleigh, NC
August 25-27, 2006 How to Develop a Winning Trading System Raleigh, NC
Sept. 16-18, 2006 Day Trading Tactics Raleigh, NC
October 7-9, 2006
How to Trade Mutual Funds and Exchange
Traded Funds
Raleigh, NC
October 11-13, 2006 The 17 Steps to Becoming a Great Trader Raleigh, NC
November 3-5, 2006 Peak Performance 101 Raleigh, NC
November 7-9, 2006 Peak Performance 202 Raleigh, NC
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