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★★★★★ 5/5

Transform your psychology and trading performance

Over ten hours of live teaching, develop a winning mindset to trade with confidence, consistency and discipline.

"This course has transformed my trading in many aspects beyond my p & l. It has significantly improved my trading edge. More critically, it has helped me build the resilience to take losses early and has enabled me to focus on the next opportunity promptly. I cannot thank Steve enough for the hard work he has put into this course which I know will pay dividends for years to come."

"I was impressed with not only the sessions and course content but also the homework exercises and reflection. I took copious notes and re-watched each session to check if I had missed any insights. I found Steve to be very professional, helpful and approachable, both during class and afterwards. Steve is a master of his craft and is passionate about his work and improving his traders' performances."

"Steve is an experienced psychology coach and the training is put together well to break down each of the components involved in a traders psychology thought process. When you learn to breakdown this down it’s helps you identify and improve in small areas you couldn’t do before, as it was thought and seen as a whole concept. Now that whole psychology concept can be broken into different parts."

"This is a must do course for any trader who is serious about improving their performance. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned trader the value in this course is fantastic. Steve provides a logical framework for assessing trading performance and issues, and then provides practical and effective strategies for improvement. The support provided by Steve during the course was incredibly helpful."

"It is remarkable when you think about that in the field of trading there are so few well known and respected coaches on trading psychology and performance. Steve Ward is one of the few. The course is very well structured to unlock many subtle aspects of trading mindset with specific questions and exercises for follow up. The focus on the type of trader you want to be, and on clarifying your trading process was very helpful."

"I would advise all traders, new and old, to take Steve’s course. He provides great value and comfort for all. This course is all about you. It is tailored to get you involved in learning about yourself, about your thinking, and how to become a better trader. I found reflecting on my trading, learning how to achieve specific mental states, and how to deal with the discomfort of trading, which manifests often in trading, extremely helpful."

What separates the top 10% of traders from the rest? It’s simple: mindset.

Even if you have a winning methodology, what can often derail your success is your psychology. Just ask yourself whether any of these scenarios sound familiar.

"I exit winning trades too early"
"I fail to accept and cut my losses"
"I hesitate to pull the trigger on my setups"
"I can't help but overtrade"
"I trade too big (or too small)"
"I suffer from a fear of missing out (FOMO)"
"I struggle to cope with a run of losses"
"I get overconfident after a run of winners"

The good news is that you can improve the way you think. It just takes knowledge and practice. Over the last 15 years, I’ve helped some of the world’s top traders implement these steps to overcome their psychological hurdles.

I would like to help you too.

An in-depth course designed to improve your thinking, decisions and profitability.

Do you want to trade at your full potential? This course will teach you the skills to reach and maintain a high-level of performance. Here’s what’s included:

8 x 90-minute modules, with live Q&A
Recordings of all live sessions
A workbook (PDF) for each module
A weekly ‘Trade At Your Best’ journal (PDF)
Post-session reflection and action sheets (PDF)
Mental training exercises on mp3
Follow-up exercises to complete between sessions
Access to an exclusive quarterly discussion group
"Risk Type" personality assessment
Personalised email support from Steve

About Steve

Steve is a trader performance and psychology coach, who has spent over 16 years working with traders and fund managers at some of the world’s largest and highest performing investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodities trading houses, utility companies and proprietary trading groups across the globe.

Prior to starting his work with traders Steve provided sports psychology coaching to elite athletes and teams in over thirty different sports across the globe, with a particular interest in extreme, action and adventure sports; and he has also provided psychological coaching for professional poker players.

Steve is the author of ‘Bulletproof Trader’, ‘Tradermind’, ‘High Performance Trading’ and ‘Sports Betting To Win’, and has written many articles for leading trading publications. He co-managed a team of 45 proprietary traders in London, was the consultant trading performance coach to the BBC TV series ‘Million Dollar Traders’, and spent a number of years trading stock indicies and FX on his own account.

Module One:

How To Increase Your Chances Of Trading Success - Developing Commitment, Competence and Confidence

Understanding the challenges of trading; why so many traders lose money; and how to increase your chances of success.
Why developing expertise is the key to successful trading, developing a mastery mindset, and practical strategies for developing confidence, and accelerating your progress along the learning path from beginner to winner.
How to strengthen your commitment to take the consistent action you need to take, to move you towards your ideal trading self, and achieving your trading potential.

Module Two:

How To Make Good Trading Decisions, Trade Less Emotionally And Reduce Behavioural Bias

How to embrace uncertainty, think in probabilities, and focus on making good trading decisions.
The high-performance trading cycle, and 4 psychological strategies to enhance your trading process, decisions and discipline.
How to trade with poise – to be disciplined – to execute your strategy, even when difficult emotions and thoughts show up, to be able to pull the trigger, take losses and run your winners more consistently.

Module Three:

Mental Training For Strengthening Trading Discipline, Patience And Flexibility

Learn a specific mental training practice that will help you to train your self-awareness, self-regulation and self-discipline.
How to develop mental and behavioural flexibility so that you can be less attached to your trades, your results, and yourself, and trade the markets not your mood.
Training patience, reducing impulsiveness and reducing bias proneness.

Module Four:

How To Manage Your Mind And Develop A Winning Traders Mindset

Understand how your beliefs and thoughts about yourself, trading, the markets, risk, uncertainty, money, winning and losing, shape and impact your trading decisions and results.
‘Thinking Differently’ -how to develop your thinking, and shape a mindset that supports trading at your best.
Practical strategies for effectively managing the difficult thoughts that show up in your trading and get in the way of your trade execution, such as doubt, worry and self-criticism.

Module Five:

How To Manage Fear, Regret, Boredom And Other Difficult Trading Emotions

Trading, risk, stress and emotions – exploring the feelings and emotions that traders experience, and their impact on their trading behaviour.
Strategies for developing greater emotional awareness, enhancing intuition, and being less influenced by your emotions.
Apply the latest neuroscience and psychology findings and strategies to enable you to work with fear, regret and other trading emotions more effectively.

Module Six:

How To Reduce The Impact of Stress And Fatigue On Your Trading Decisions And Performance

Understanding the mind-body connection, the biology of trading, and the impact of stress and fatigue on risk taking and decision making.
Strategies for developing your mind-body connection, and recognising, measuring and monitoring your stress and fatigue levels.
How to manage your physical state, reduce fatigue, and train and develop your physiological stress resilience.

Module Seven:

How To Take Losses, Manage Drawdown And Avoid The Downsides Of Winning

Mental strategies and approaches to help you to take losses more easily.
Specific mental strategies to help you to manage a series of losses, drawdown, and to cope with changes to market conditions.
How to manage big wins and winning runs –how to deal with overconfidence, greed, overtrading and complacency.

Module Eight:

How To Trade At Your Best

Reviewing the course content, and how to apply the skills you have learned to common trading challenges.
Using the ‘Matrix’, a powerful coaching tool, to learn how to apply the skills you have learnt in the course to help you to overcome your own unique trading challenges.
Identifying the habits of high performing traders, the science of effective behaviour change and creating a self-development plan for going forward beyond the course.

Enrol onto the next course

My next course starts on Thursday 15th April, 2021. You can join me for eight weeks of in-depth learning for a one-time fee of £495. I hope to see you there.

FAQs

Who is this course for?

This course has been developed specifically for retail traders who have recognised the importance of training their trading psychology, and who are committed to working on developing their mindset and mental skills, and becoming their best trading self.

Is the course suitable for beginners?

This course is specifically focused on supporting traders who have progressed beyond being absolute beginners and who are new to the markets. I feel that you will get significantly more benefit from this course once you have a basic understanding of trading and the markets and have acquired sufficient live trading experience to appreciate, and need to work on, the psychological challenges of trading.

How I do enrol for the course?

You can enrol on the course on this page, at any point before the course starts. If you wish to join once the course is in progress, then please send me an email and I can review the options with you on an individual basis.

Who will be delivering the course?

The course will be delivered personally by myself, Steve Ward. I will also be hosting all of the live Q&A sessions. The aim of this course is to enable private traders to access the same type of training and support that I provide for my professional/institutional trading clients.

What is the course structure?

The course is comprised of eight online training webinars, delivered weekly. The webinar sessions will deliver the core content of the program, and you will then have the opportunity to conduct follow-up exercises and takes to consolidate your learning and to work on developing your mindset and mental skills.

Will the live webinar sessions be recorded?

Each of the webinar training sessions will be delivered live, and will also be recorded so that you can watch the sessions again in your own time. I will aim for the recordings to be available within 24 hours of the completion of the live session. The recordings will remain available for you to access for a period of 3-months beyond the final live session.

Will I get individual coaching/counselling during the course?

This program is educational in nature, and focuses on teaching specific mindset and mental skills in a group training setting so that you can trade at your best. This helps me share my insights, knowledge and practices with a larger audience. You will be able to communicate with me via the webinar Q&A sessions. The course is not intended to provide or be a replacement for individual coaching/counselling or psychological coaching/therapy.

How can I get the most value from the course?

I recognise that you have made a financial commitment to taking this course and I want you to get the most value from it possible. The course has been designed to provide a blend of taught content, Q&A sessions, follow-up exercises, and additional resources. The course covers a lot of material in a very condensed period of time. I advise that you complete (live or recorded) all of the sessions and complete as much of the suggested follow-up work that is appropriate for you, both during and beyond the course. Interacting via the Q&A sessions is an excellent way of getting personal guidance, and taking notes, completing the exercises in and out of session, filling in the journal, and fully utilising the resources suggested will all ensure that you maximise your course experience.

What is the Refund Policy?

I am fully committed to providing a course that meets your needs, and provides high quality content. If you are not satisfied with the course then please contact me with your feedback via email, before the start of session 4, and a full refund will be issued. No refunds will be issued, other than in exceptional circumstances, once three sessions have been completed.

What if I need to talk to someone?

If you are having any problems, technical, or other, during the course then please get in touch via email: steve@tradeatyourbest.com

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