Workshop Syllabus for

Traders & Investors

• BlueprintforTradingSuccess

• PeakPerformance101

• HowtoDevelopaWinningTradingSystemThatFitsYou

• CoreTradingSystems

• DayTradingSystemsandLiveDayTrading

• SwingTrading

• ForexTrading

• AdvancedPeakPerformance202

• AdvancedPeakPerformance203

• OnenessAwakening

• SuperTraderProgram

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RJ Hixson (How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You, Blueprint for Trading Success):

RJ Hixson is theVice President of Research and Development at the Van Tharp Institute. In that role, he manages the development of new courses and products that help traders transform their trading and their lives. He is a former client of the Van Tharp Institute (he completed the Super Trader program in 2008). Previous to joining the Van’s staff, RJ worked for several companies that ranged from startups to some of the largest organizations around, notably the US Air Force and IBM. He is first and foremost a loving husband and devoted dad.

Ken Long (Core Trading Systems, Day Trading Systems, Live Day Trading, Swing Trading Systems ): 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 Army’s Command and General Staff College. He has developed the Tortoise Method of mutual fund switching, a trading system that takes about five 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 confidence 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.

Gabriel Grammatidis (Forex Trading): Gabriel Grammatidis, has enjoyed a successful evolution as a Forex trader over the last few years and now wants to share some of his experience with other traders. He has a varied and fascinating background.

After working for PIMCO and a top 5 global investment manager for over ten years, Gabriel decided to pursue his passion for trading and personal development by leaving his successful financial career and enrolling in Dr. Tharp’s Super Trader program. In the program, he had to unlearn most of what he’d been taught and adopt new ways of thinking that would allow him to start winning consistently in his trading. Gabriel graduated two years ago from the Super Trader program and has fully transitioned to full-time trading.

Born in Switzerland of Greek and German parents, Gabriel has always felt a natural attraction to the international nature of currency trading; though he lives in Germany, he’s worked and traveled extensively outside the Euro zone.

Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.: Van K. Tharp is the most consistent, astute, and systematic researcher of human behavior that you’ll probably ever meet. He has personally worked with and interviewed hundreds of traders to determine what makes them excel in their profession. He has also collected and analyzed psychological profiles 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 25 years ago, he

was one of the first people ever to do so. Attending his courses means that you are learning from the very best. He is known as being one of the elite in his field.

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 world’s 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. Tharp’s carefully researched model for successful trading. Through his courses, you will learn for yourself the incredible difference that adopting this model can make—both in terms of trading profits and in improving your life. That’s the amazing thing about Dr. Tharp’s model, not only will you improve your profits, but you’re 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, and Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, Super Trader: Make Consistent Profits in Good and Bad Markets, along with many other courses and programs. His new book, Trading Beyond the Matrix, was published in 20013.

Libby Adams, PhD., D.D. (Advanced Peak Performance 202): Libby 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.

Libby 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 fifteen years with countless students all over the world.

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Van Tharp Institute Workshops

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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. ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 8-11

Blueprint for Trading Success This is an intensive, hands-on workshop, in which you will learn the specific tasks to tackle (and in what sequence) that will enable you to transform your trading from loss-ridden and inconsistent to consistently profitable. ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 5-7

Advanced Peak Performance 202Experience a dramatic personal reinvention. You’ll learn how to make a declaration for a trading vision that might seem impossible now. Uncover the beliefs that shape your success and find out what you can really accomplish. Learn about the games we play—the most important psychological breakthrough of the new millennium............................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 24-26

How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits YouThere are three critical secrets that you can adopt to develop a superb wealth-building formula. If you concentrate on these—which 95% of all traders and investors totally ignore—then you can vault yourself into a class that only a few have been able to achieve............................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 12-14

Day Trading Systems and Live Day TradingTraders will finish this workshop having traded the frong system up to 100 times over a three-day period and have a thorough understanding of the RCLO through 100 case studies complied by Ken. The Live Day Trading Workshop is the complementary, in-the-field learning experience where students have the chance to apply the trading concepts in the real world............................................................................................................................................................................................Page 18-20

Core Trading Systems: Market Outperformance and Absolute ReturnsDuring this workshop, Ken presents low-maintenance ways to earn consistent trading profits using longer-term systems............................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 15-17

Swing TradingIn this workshop, Dr. Ken Long presents a framework that adapts with the changing market, and gives you a way to evaluate opportunities in a disciplined, consistent and efficient manner, and that highlights dominant worldwide trends in plenty of time to take advantage of moves with clear decision points for entries and exit............................................................................................................................................................................................Page 21

Super Trader Program InformationOur Super Trader Program is the ultimate program for serious traders. It requires a full two-year commitment and gives you the opportunity to do extensive work with Dr. Tharp during that period. ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 31

Advanced Peak Performance 203In your natural state, you have the ability to see the market just as it is. No thoughts come up to remind you of the past or attempt to predict the future. Instead, you see exactly what’s happening in the market. And from that flow state, Van has seen traders do amazing things. In the new Peak Performance 203 Workshop, Van teaches you about getting in touch with your higher guidance. ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Pages 27-29

Oneness AwakeningWith permanent awakening you start seeing things as they are. And you can start paying attention to everything around you without judgment, just as it is. Can you imagine trading the markets from this state?...........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 30

Forex TradingIn this three-day workshop, Super Trader graduate Gabriel Grammatidis will cover the basics of Forex, introduce three trading systems, and have you simulate trading the systems while you are still in the room............................................................................................................................................................................................Page 23

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Van K. Tharp has over 25 years of experience coaching traders, and in conjunction with his world class instructors, he has put together a trading curriculum that is unrivalled in the industry.

Whether you are starting out on the trading journey or have traded for many years, there are fundamental strengths that will help you to be the best trader you can be, and our goal is to give you the tools and materials to help you do just that.

Our workshops have a great reputation both for their content and for the quality of attendees that frequent our events. This incredibly high caliber of clientele keeps coming back, so first and foremost you will meet amazing people. Familiar faces continue to repeat or attend new workshops both for the educational experience and the networking opportunities—so we must be doing something right!

To help you make an informed decision, we’ve created the following outline on how our workshops fit together.

Where to Start...

I. Tharp Fundamentals: the Backbone of Great TradingAlthough these workshops are called Foundation Workshops, they are definitely not basic. They provide the core material that everyone who wants to become a great trader needs to master. We regard them as the starting point for your trading education regardless of your background or trading experience. These core workshops are just as valuable for the short term trader as they are for the long term trader because what you learn is not dependent on the market traded or the timeframe that you choose to trade.

• Blueprint for Trading Success (Great first workshop)• Peak Performance 101 (Also a great first choice)• How to Develop a Winning Trading System that Fits You

II. Specific Strategies and Proven Techniques in Various Trading StylesWe offer a number of relatively technical workshops on trading systems. Can you take these courses without learning the fundamental material? Yes you can, but doing so is like learning how to write a specific computer program without even knowing the basics of computer programming or understanding the potential mistakes that you could make.

Our second tier courses help you to either master trading in your chosen time frame, or give you the tools to decide what style of trading might fit you best. These workshops are packed with great strategies that work. T

• Core Trading Systems: Market Outperformance and Absolute Returns• Day Trading Systems and Live Day Trading• Swing Trading

III. Pre-requisite MaterialWe have two courses and one program that have pre-requisite courses, so we’ve put these at the last level.

• Advanced Peak Performance 202 and 203 (Peak 101 is a pre-requisite.)

• The Super Trader Program (Peak 101 and Dr. Tharp’s approval required.)

IV. Oneness• Oneness Awakening Course

“I first attended a Van Tharp/IITM workshop with the goal of improving my trading and investing. What I found, after that one workshop, was that Van could help me have a happier and more fulfilling life. The change in me, as a person, was something that my wife noticed immediately. I eventually joined the Super Trader Program, now with the goal of learning the skills to take myself to higher and higher levels of happiness and achievement. Trading is certainly a part of this, and the freedom that trading affords me to create the life that I want is tremendous. My training with IITM has made me a much better trader in terms of profitability, consistency, and the ability to continually improve my skills.

—Edward Pomicter, MD , Super Trader, PLC Owner, Count de Monet, LLC

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Blueprint for Trading SuccessPresented by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

Dear Trader,

This course is a complete structured program that will launch you to a more advanced skill level in your trading. You’ll learn strategic, focused steps that will serve you throughout your entire trading career. During these intensive, hands-on three days, you will learn 17 clear and concise tasks to master that will take your trading from ho-hum to visionary. You will leave with a thorough checklist of action steps to guide you to a higher level of performance.

“Overall it’s a course that offers an immense amount of information about what most would consider the unattractive part of trading, yet it is the most critical to successful trading.” —Chad Wagner

You’ll see how all of Van Tharp’s strategic trading concepts fit into one seamless design for more predictable trading results. Your trading will never be the same.

This course illustrates relationships among the steps so that the process is logical. Moreover, Van Tharp will show you how to take each step experientially, so you really get it. Dr. Tharp is an expert in asking questions to elicit each person’s most important issues.

“This is the best conference I have ever attended. This is the hardest conference I have ever attended. I had to ask myself some of the most difficult questions I’ve asked in a long time...” —S.W., Rancho Mirage, CA, Past Attendee

Let’s talk about a few of the key concepts that will be explored in depth at this workshop.

You need to assess your beliefs about trading and about yourself. Nobody actually trades the market. Instead, you only trade your beliefs about the market. At first this is a difficult concept to grasp. But if you begin to jot down some of your beliefs about trading using “I am,” “I feel,” “I experience myself as,” statements, you will see what I mean. Your beliefs about trading guide your trading results. It is easy to get to a certain point in this type of exercise and get stuck. In this workshop, Van Tharp will guide you through the exploration of your belief system about trading. You’ll be amazed at the results.

“An incredibly comprehensive plan to take anyone willing to apply the steps taught to the level of a master trader. In fact, so much material is covered it would have been overwhelming if not for the open approachableness of Van to answer any and all questions. I feel like I’ve just been placed in the fast lane to market success! This seminar is very much worth the investment.” — Peter Swanson, Lufkin, TX, Past Attendee

Objectives set the road map for the entire system development process.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 consider their objectives. Your objective is your goal, your target—what you want your system to accomplish.

How would one know how to get someplace if they didn’t know where they were going first? There are endless configurations of objectives. The point is you need to know specifically what it is that you are trying to attain; only then can you develop a successful, profit-driven plan of action. In this workshop you will work through questions to help you determine exactly what you want out of your trading system.

Here are some sample questions:

• What percent would you like to increase your account by each year?

• What percentage drawdown are you willing to tolerate?

• What kind of statistics will you collect on a regular basis to monitor your trading progress?

Van Tharp will give you 25 specific statistics to get you started!“This course clarified for me how to get my business plan done, and actually enjoy doing it.” — Paul, MD

Through his modeling work with top traders, Van Tharp has discovered the blueprint for trading success that will ensure you consistent prosperity as a trader.Now you can learn from the expert as he guides you through the precise steps that you should take.

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We’ve found that most traders and investors are missing one key ingredient in their objectives—and that’s the ingredient that will make them financially free.For example, at a recent workshop Dr. Tharp was told of a trader who made 1000% return in one year. But that trader was missing this critical ingredient. And it’s probably the difference between whether or not all of that profit will be put to good use or lost in future trading. At this workshop, we’ll tell you this key ingredient and teach you how to include it as part of your objectives.

“The course was very worthwhile for me. I find that the broad summary of the overall process of developing skills allowed me to put things in a better perspective. I have a much better idea of which areas I need to put the most emphasis and work on. I also found the interaction with the other participants invaluable.” — Craig Herdman, Phoenix, AZ, Past Attendee

What markets will perform well in the next 5 years?Successful traders know the big picture of the markets. As part of your blueprint, you’ll learn Dr. Tharp’s interpretation of the big picture and how to determine the big picture for yourself. This is probably worth the price of the workshop all by itself.

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 the key strategies that you could use, the general picture of how they work and how you can adapt them for yourself.

We hear from our students that they know business planning is important, but in some cases, they don’t even know what a trading business plan should look like. You’ll leave this workshop knowing what to strive for and with a template in hand to follow as you progress.

“Prior to coming to this workshop I had come to a realization in trading that I needed help structuring a business plan, knowing how to approach and measure strategy development and how to deal with personal traits that reoccur and are not beneficial to me and trading. These expectations were met and exceeded. I found two things particularly valuable: 1) How personal beliefs translate through market beliefs all the way to the specifics of each particular strategy. 2) The structure of materials and workbook is laid out to easily take home and continue with the work.” — Jim Sterk, Lynden, WA

Personal edges set you off from the crowd. Having an edge in the markets isn’t just a slight advantage; it could be the pivotal difference in your success. So it’s very important to list your edges in your business plan and to be able to capitalize on them. Learn the key edges that almost any investor has over market makers or institutional investors. Or if you are a CTA, hedge fund, or portfolio manager, learn your specific key edges.

Learn the 8 critical areas of contingency planning!Dr. Tharp will share mistakes that other traders have faced, so that you can find out how to generate an extensive worst-case contingency plan. You’ll 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.

This process could take you six months if you did it by yourself. However, one of my Super Traders did the hard work for you and is willing to share the essence of his worst-case contingency plan. In past workshops, the entire group has usually been able to double the number of things you need to plan for to prevent disaster. What’s it worth to you to save six months in planning time?

“I came to learn a valuable foundation for becoming the best trader I can be. I got that and more. Purpose for existence discussion was an enriching experience that I valued highly. Thank you.” — Paul Beattie, Canada, Past Attendee

We’ll show you a formula that will allow you to compare your system with any other system in the world and rank that system. Thus, you’ll know whether you have a weak, average, good, excellent, or superb system. This is new information that we’ve just introduced into our curriculum and you’ll learn it here.

Would you like to know a simple way to get to know your system well without a lot of cost? Using this method you’ll be able to understand if your back testing was accurate. We’ll cover this on day two of the course.

You’ll have worksheets that will help you create your business plan and a structure through which you can develop systems to fit the big picture. It’s a lot of information, but think how you’ll feel when you have all of this key information at your fingertips!

Who knows what you want better than you?Here are just a few of the exercises we’ll be covering in the critical self-assessment 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 evaluate yourself on it.

• Learn about your beliefs and values and how to assess yourself.

• Go through worksheets to determine your key issues so that you know what could happen that might interfere with your trading.

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One of the steps will separate you from other traders and launch you toward top trader status. This step alone will leave such powerful tools at your disposal that you’ll wonder why you never thought of doing these things before. Dr. Tharp will go through each of these suggestions to show you what you need to do at home. If you take home at least three of these suggestions with the commitment to really doing them, you’ll be unstoppable.

“A seminar that covers an enormous range of topics, but all were covered adequately. Very much appreciated Day 3—this was surprising to me as to just how critically important this is. The opportunity to learn this in a “laboratory” environment was terrific: I can’t imagine that my work on PPC [Peak Performance Course] would be the same without this seminar. I suspect that I will look back at this seminar as a pivotal career moment...” — Forrest Ciesol, La Jolla, CA

You’ll learn how to develop a top-down approach to discipline. Few traders have the kind of discipline we’ll be teaching, but you’ll 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, you’ll be amazed at the difference in your trading.

“My self-discipline had been slipping for trading and with it was going my drive. This course delivered the structure for getting back on track. Thank you.” — Richard Fotiades, Port Jefferson, NY

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. Get in there and learn from your experiences. 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!

We’ll end this workshop with a review of all of the steps, and you’ll start to develop a plan to put into action when you return home.

What you’ll have when you leave this workshop:

• Completed worksheets to help you develop your own trading business plan. When you leave, trading won’t just be a hobby for you. You’ll have the core of your new plan to turn it into a professional business. We find that less than 5% of all traders and investors have a business plan to guide their trading. When you leave this workshop, you’ll have everything you need to join them. Imagine what a boost that will be to your trading.

“The best part was the complete structured program...and the 52 exercises and worksheets that we are taking home. I really feel that I have what I need to continue this work at home in the upcoming months.” — Daniel Fylstra, Incline Village, NV

• You’ll also have the logic worked out for how to develop at least one new trading system designed for your personality. It comes from the intersection of three sets of beliefs that you have, and we’ll show you exactly what to do. You’ll have worksheets completed on the major steps involved in developing a great trading system. When you get home, all you’ll need to do is put the steps into practice. Most people fill their heads with the details of various trading systems and never even begin to develop a sound system. However, when you finish Day 2, you’ll have a broad overview of exactly what you’ll need to do. Perhaps for the first time, you’ll be able to see the whole forest, instead of just the trees.

• And lastly, you’ll have a daily procedure worked out to improve the most important factor in your trading—you. You’ll have three daily routines in three distinct areas that, if you put them into practice, will make you a happier and more effective trader. In addition, we’ll help you develop the structure for a top-down approach to discipline, which we believe is the key to your success, giving you critical advantages that few other traders have. This will not only improve your trading, but your entire life.

And isn’t that what you really want?“I especially liked the ordering of the material as it followed the sequential steps...The course content will provide an excellent resource, not only in finishing my business plan, but also in keeping me on track in the future...I actually feel like I’ve come away with a complete ‘blueprint’ I can use to make sure I’m doing all the necessary steps to become and maintain myself as a great trader. It will be very useful in finalizing my business plan.” — Rick Freeman, Dublin, CA

A Message from Dr. Van Tharp:

Some people take years to discover just a portion of what you are going to learn in this workshop. But you’ll do a lot more than just learn it. I have worked closely with traders and the markets for over 25 years. I’ve seen the good and the bad, which has given me experience and insights into what works and what doesn’t work in the trading game.

The same questions, fears and lessons continue to rear their heads year in and year out; therefore, I have designed this course to let you know that you don’t 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.

Join me for an exceptional three days on your trading journey. — Van K. Tharp

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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. He’s collected psychological profiles from over 5,000 traders and investors. He’s personally interviewed hundreds of top people in the field to determine what makes them excel and how they make immense profits.

When Jack Schwager interviewed 16 of the world’s best traders and investors for his best-selling financial book, Market Wizards, Dr. Tharp was also interviewed as a peak performance coach.

Dr. Tharp has been studying top traders and investors for over 25 years. In his research, he’s learned how the best traders and investors achieve peak performance: all of these traders and investors developed a sound methodology.

Here’s What’s Waiting for You!Day 1 The three key ingredients of success. You’ll 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’ trade—Dr. Tharp’s proven model for Peak Performance Trading. Learn about position-sizing based trading systems and low-risk ideas.

Day 3 Overcoming self-sabotage—you will go through exercises that will make a real difference in your trading and your personal life.

What’s in it for me? What can I expect to learn?There are seven money-making benefits awaiting you. They’ll help you make more consistent profits, keep your losses smaller and 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 don’t even know about them, which is why success is so difficult to duplicate. But after Peak Performance 101, you’ll thoroughly understand how these three key ingredients can control your life. Most of all, you’ll know how you can control them.

You’ll leave this investment “Boot Camp” knowing, for the first time in your life, why some people consistently make profits over and over again, while other investors and traders are erratic and unsuccessful. More importantly, you’ll be able to overcome self-sabotage and develop rock-solid discipline in your performance in the markets. You’ll learn why this course was featured in Forbes magazine and why the magazine was quoted as saying, “Tharp’s disciples swear by the results.”

Peak Performance 101Presented by Van K. Tharp

Spend Three Profit-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 high aspirations for your trading, let Van Tharp share his significant experience and expertise to show you what peak performance trading is all about!

Overcoming Self-SabotageThe Peak Performance 101 workshop not only helps you install Dr. Tharp’s model, it also helps you overcome self-sabotage. You’ll be able to free yourself from internal conflicts 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 find that the current trade never quite fits 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 don’t 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 you’re really committed to trading success and willing to do whatever it takes, you’ll find that you become a different person after this ground-breaking course.

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“The day after leaving the Peak Performance course I profited $2,400 in trading profits. 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 benefit 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 fired 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 everywhere—not 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. It’s 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. We’ll teach you 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 field. 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. Tharp’s model for successful trading and investing. Here is a partial list of the 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 profits. At Peak Performance 101, Dr. Tharp will help you install his model so you can trade like other successful traders. You’ll have tools at your disposal that the average investor or trader never even thought about.

6. Learn how to act quickly with sureness and confidence. One trait all the best traders and investors have in common is extreme confidence in what they’re doing. Confidence is the one quality you must develop to attain your peak level of performance. At Peak Performance 101, you’ll learn how to develop the kind of confidence only the best traders and investors 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 specific structure—that 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

Questions and Answers

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Q: How is the workshop 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 workshop over and over again because you can never learn enough about yourself.

“...had expected the workshop to be a walk-thru of the home study course. Very pleasantly surprised to find it quite different.” — Ian Thomson

Q: Do I need to work through the home study program before I take the workshop?

A: We are 50-50 on this one. You certainly will get more out of the workshop if you do the home study course first. However, many people do the workshop first and find that it greatly helps them with the home study course.

Q: I am already a profitable trader, why should I consider attending this workshop?

A: A coach finds talented players, teaches them the fundamentals of the craft, and then makes sure that they follow the fundamentals. As a profitable trader, you know that any extra edge will make you that much more profitable. One of the most successful traders in the world pays over a million dollars each year for personal coaching because he wants every possible edge. If you are profitable, you probably should be thinking along the same lines.

Q: I am new to trading. I understand that this workshop will help me develop myself as a trader but, as a beginner, wouldn’t I be better off trying to learn more about trading techniques first?

A: As a beginner you need this information first. Most people make the mistake of looking for trading techniques first. When you do that without doing any work on yourself, you end up making thousands of mistakes. We typically find that people who tend to take workshops that focus on techniques need to repeat them after they’ve taken Peak Performance 101. Why? Because, after this workshop, they are more open and know more about what they really need to be successful. If this is the first trading workshop 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 workshop 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 workshop 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 workshop so you can make the most of the capital you have.

There’s 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. Tharp’s 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 I’m even better, which is very exciting. My whole life is better because I’m a better husband and a better father as a result of the experience.” – K.T., England

Traders’ Incredible Results“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 find reasons not to follow my system. Tuesday, following the course, my reaction time to a buy signal was seven seconds.” – D.N., NY

“In essence, I made over 80% return on 6% of my capital in less than one month—and that’s just on closed trades. My trading system hasn’t 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 first four weeks of trading with a starting capital of $66,782. I have $7,711 in closed out profits with open trade equity of $5,448 as of yesterday’s 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. Tharp’s work, I could not even begin to think of what life would be like without taking the first step here.” – S.L., DC

Questions and Answers continued...

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The synergy of this experience can be a powerful impetus to individual growth, transforming trading obstacles into trading profits. 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 profits more consistently.

Can I Really Make Money with These Principles Developed from Modeling Market Masters?Absolutely! First, you’ll learn what all the best traders and investors have in common. You’ll learn their real secrets. When you apply them to your own trading, it’ll make a big difference in your bottom line.

Secondly, you’ll get to learn about the most important influence 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.

In addition, the effect of eliminating self-sabotaging behaviors could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to you over your lifetime—for 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.

Our mission at The Van Tharp Institute is to help people transform themselves. The Peak Performance workshop are the key courses we do in the area of transformation. If you learn how you control your own results in trading, then we’ve accomplished something that will help you immensely. But if you make a major change that affects the rest of your life—that’s when we really know that we’ve accomplished something important. We’d like to help everyone in attendance make such a major transformation. This workshop is a prerequisite for the Peak Performance 202 and 203 workshops. I strongly encourage you to take that next step for total transformation.

Sincerely,

RJ Hixson

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 fish and he eats for a day; show a man how to fish 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 a person processes information, or inner conflicts that can cause confusion, or the lack of discipline to follow a 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 workshop?

A: Here are just a few objectives:

• To teach you how great traders approach their craft and give you a daily procedure that resembles what they do.

• To teach you how to create your own experience in the market and how you are responsible for the results that you get.

• To make you aware of some of your own psychological issues that affect your performance as a trader/investor.

• To teach you about expectancy and position sizing and the power of big R-multiples through the simulation game that we play in the class. In addition, that game is designed to help you observe your emotions in a setting in which only a small amount is at stake compared with what you will face in the market.

• To teach you some of the variables that affect your emotions and how you can gain control over them.

• To help you overcome self-sabotage through exercises done in the class.

• To help you develop an ongoing program to work on yourself.

• To help you develop a plan to make the maximum use of this workshop.

• To allow you to meet and network with some really great people who have a lot in common with you.

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Dear Colleague,

Through my years of modeling top market performers, I’ve isolated a few key factors in trading success. One of these is that top performers have developed trading systems that fit 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 I’VE 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 workshop 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 fits 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 won’t work for the bear. Systems that can’t be adapted to changing conditions are adept to leave the trader with an empty account, wondering what went wrong.

In this three-day workshop, you will learn 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.

Do You Want Bigger and More Consistent Profits from the Market?If you want consistency and you want to make profitable returns from your trading, then you will want to consider attending this workshop. You’ll learn little known, closely guarded secrets that you’re not likely to find unless you accidentally stumble upon them yourself.

Are you a low-risk investor who just wants to make small, consistent profits 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 you’ve already made from the market. That’s real leverage!

Why develop my own system? Isn’t it easier to just go buy a system with proven results?There are hundreds, if not thousands, of trading systems that work. But most people, after purchasing a preexisting system, will not follow the system and trade it exactly as it was intended. Why not? Because the system doesn’t fit them or their style of trading. One of the biggest secrets of successful trading is finding a trading system that fits you.

When someone else develops a system for you, you don’t know what biases they might have. Developing your own system allows for compatibility with your own beliefs, objectives, personality and edges.

Furthermore, most of the system development software for sale really encourages some of the trading biases that I see as detrimental to overall trading success.

Systems Development WorkshopHow to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You

Presented by Van K. Tharp and RJ Hixson

There are three critical secrets that you can adopt to develop a superb wealth-building formula. If you concentrate on these—which 95% of all traders and investors totally ignore—then you can vault yourself into a class that only a few have been able to achieve.

“I’ve 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 I’ll take all the initial risk.” – Van Tharp

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For example, give a system developer enough leeway and that person will have a system that perfectly predicts the moves in the market and makes thousands of dollars on paper with certain historical markets. Most software allows people to optimize to their heart’s content. Eventually, they will end up with a meaningless system that makes a fortune on the data from which it was obtained, but performs miserably in real trading.

Most system development software is designed because people want to know the perfect answer to the markets. They want to be able to predict the markets perfectly. As a result, you can buy software now for a few hundred dollars that will allow you to overlay numerous studies over past market data. Within a few minutes, you can begin to think that the markets are perfectly predictable. And that belief will stay with you until you attempt to trade the real market instead of the historically optimized market. Many trading accounts have plummeted from this very thinking. One “sure-thing” trade placed without proper position sizing can wipe some traders completely out of the game.

Only about 5% of the world’s traders and 20% of the world’s investors consistently make big money. What these winners do is not complex. In fact, simplicity is one of the keys to making money. And you can do it too! I’ve modeled this process and can teach you how to develop your own trading system that fits your own style of trading.

Our job in this workshop is to teach you what you need to know to develop your own system. The material you will learn is not market or time-frame specific. So whether you trade stocks, futures, currencies or gold, or whether you place 50 trades per day or 50 trades per year, you will learn all of the components that work in any system.

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 during the development process. When you learn what it is, you’ll say, “Of course, it’s important.” but you’ll 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 fit them. To develop a system that fits you, you need to really think about what you want. It’s not a trivial task.

There are at least 30 questions you need to address when developing a system. You will receive a number of questions to answer concerning your objectives prior to the workshop. These questions will help you decide what you want and how you want to get there.

2. A good trading system has ten key components. Most people ignore six or seven of them when they do their research. In fact, you’ll never see a book on systems development that covers more than six components. That’s the limitation the average trader has in doing research. You want big profits 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 workshop. And, with a little more effort, you’ll be able to use all ten. If you use all ten with competence, you’ll be among the top one tenth of one percent of all traders and investors in the world.

Questions and Answers

Q: I trade the stock market exclusively. Will this workshop cover stock trading?

A: It’s 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 fits you, no matter what market you trade.

Q: I am a short-term day trader. My friend recommended this workshop to me, but he would be classified as a long-term investor. How can one workshop 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, you’ll be with other short-term traders. If you are a long-term trader, you’ll be with other long-term traders. Over the years, we’ve found that this method works very well and everyone gets what they are looking for.

Q: I don’t 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.

Reading Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom will also be extremely beneficial, as will Van Tharp’s Definitive Guide to Position Sizing.

Q: Can I talk to prior attendees before I make my final decision?A: Yes. They’ll tell you our workshops are of the highest quality and packed with information that has transformed their lives and increased their profits. Here’s what past attendees have said:

“Words fail me…perhaps second-to-none…A 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

“I believe it easily has the best (most valuable) content of any course I have done.” —Peter Deck, Australia

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3. Most people concentrate on the least important element in trading system design—entry. They also ignore the most important element—position sizing. At the How to Develop a Winning Trading System That Fits You workshop, you’ll 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 a more consistent performance.

If you’re more adventurous, we’ll show you how to go for really big returns using the market’s 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, we’ll 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.

More Reasons Why You’ll Want to Attend This Workshop1. You’ll get specific ideas for making better market entry and exit decisions. You’ll also get specific position sizing principles from experts in the industry.

“This helped me to understand the proper steps to take in my system development…I thought it was a good balance between the technical and the theory.” – A.C., FL

2. You’ll be introduced to the psychological pitfalls that hold back so many people. Just knowing about them will help you avoid them.

3. You’ll learn new approaches to the markets and new techniques for analyzing them. There are many concepts behind most systems. Most of them, including some of the most popular, are meaningless. But you’ll learn about the ones that work best.

“Superb. Every section of the course was stuffed with information. I couldn’t take notes fast enough (so I opted to just listen). Lots of creative ideas worthy of further research.” – R.W., CO

4. You’ll 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. You’ll learn the ten elements of a good trading system. In addition, you’ll 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, they’re fun!

“Very useful to see first hand the real risks of ruin, over-trading, etc. The course was very helpful to me in laying out the specific tasks I must complete.” – B.C., Ontario, Canada

6. Depending upon your objectives, which you’ll be asked to submit prior to the workshop, you’ll 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“The course exceeded a l l 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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Core Trading Systems: Market Outperformance and

Absolute ReturnsPresented by Ken Long

Dear Traders and Investors,

Most people tend to do the exact opposite of what big funds do, and they pay a price for it. Some people, for example, will buy a stock after hearing that a fund manager really likes it, but by the time the retail investors buy it, the fund manager is about ready to sell.

But what if you could detect what the big mutual funds are doing with their money well before they complete their big transactions and jump in ahead of them? If mutual fund managers are buying retail stocks, you’d be able to get into those stocks as they are getting in and profit greatly as their significant purchasing activity drives prices up

Wouldn’t that be a huge advantage over other investors? We’re going to show you exactly how to do that. How? First, by understanding how and where big money flows.

“Very helpful information that gave me a good foundation for putting ETFs into perspective compared to stocks and mutual funds.” – M.L.

Suppose you manage a fund, and you need to move a billion dollars out of retail stocks and into utility stocks. For billion dollar orders, you don’t just click a mouse button. Instead, you work with a large brokerage firm and instruct them with an order that basically says, “You have three days to get rid of this stock. We want at least $998 million for it. If you can get more than that, keep the extra cash as commission.” The market then sees a slow movement out of retail stocks. And as that one fund moves out of retail, others may see that action, which then might confirm their beliefs about retail sector weakness, causing them to move out as well. Subsequent flows make the underlying movement even stronger.

The same fund manager may give instructions to use the proceeds of the retail stocks sale to then buy a billion dollar basket of utility stocks over the next five days. As retail stocks were moving down, you might also see utility stocks moving up.

While the major averages may not move that much, big money moves its funds around and shifts the internals of the markets. Now expand your focus beyond domestic equities. Say the Latin American markets are zooming up, oil is building a base or the dollar is in a nice steady trend. There are now clear cut ways for the individual trader to see this happening and to take advantage of it.

You can learn to detect when and where the big money moves. In fact, spotting it quickly can be an important (and highly profitable!) edge for you. Big money tends to move slowly, but you can move quickly. In fact, when you get good at observing the flows of funds, you can start making thousands of dollars each day at your convenience. It’s not that hard. Ken Long, a retired US Army LTC, does it regularly.

And Ken will show you just how he does it in this revamped, exciting workshop that teaches you how to jump in front of the big money.

What Can You Expect To Learn? Ken’s New Course ModelHere’s one example of how Ken has taken my material and applied it (in this case) to help you trade better. In our Blueprint Workshop, we have a few areas of key focus for becoming a great trader: knowing yourself, understanding markets, and using systems. Ken used this Blueprint model to rebuild his previous ETF 101 material into this new workshop. These are the areas he has built the new course around:

Would you like to make money even when the market goes down?

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Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Q: Can you really make lots of money with these principles?

A: Absolutely! Just think of the advantage of being able to jump in front of large funds because you’ll have learned the skills to anticipate what they are doing. You’ll also have the advantage of being able to spot which markets around the globe are doing well and participate in their rallies.

Q: I am already a profitable trader, why should I consider attending this workshop?

A: For the same reasons that prompt a number of professional managers to revisit this course annually. Ken is always developing new market insights, coming up with new trading systems, and constantly evolving his current systems. He conceives profitable new trading ideas frequently and he shares those freely with his classes. Ken constantly challenges his students to develop their own new ways of thinking about the market and about trading. How many ideas worth thousands of dollars each would it take for attendance to make sense for you? Wouldn’t just a few of those be worth your time?

Q: I am fairly new to trading. Will this workshop help me?

A: Absolutely. You don’t have to have tons of experience to learn how to spot what big money is doing. Furthermore, Ken teaches profitable methods that newer traders can use immediately. It wasn’t that many years back that Ken was a new trader himself, and he takes pleasure in helping new traders get going.

Q: I don’t have a lot of time to trade. How much time does it take to trade these systems?

A: Ken developed these intermediate and longer term systems initially because he didn’t have a lot of time either. One of Ken’s systems only requires adjustments to its positions annually. That would take less than an hour a year. Ken presents systems that can be operated largely outside of market hours in as little as a few minutes per week. Of course with more time and effort you may reap more results, but you can trade profitably without spending your days in front of a trading screen. Ken has been doing it for years.

Self• Understand how to use your learning style profile to improve your trading.• Leverage your trading strengths and minimize your trading challenges.• Define realistic expectations and learning strategies to help you grow as a trader.• Learn how to find a Mastermind group and how to benefit from their power.• Build a business-like operations plan as a commitment to your trading results.• Develop discipline and consistency through the use of checklists, rehearsals,

and debriefings.

Systems• Design an annual passive asset allocation strategy for a hands-off approach

using part of your equity.

• Adapt the Elder Triple Screen for a highly reliable system.

• Learn how to place macro-economic trades in a systematic manner.

• Understand an effective weekly trend following strategy that rises faster than the market but gets safely in cash during periods of market risk or declines.

• Take advantage of opportunistic trades with a reliable, mechanical systems approach.

Markets• Learn a market classification model for all market types so you know when to

trade—and when to be out of the market.• Understand a world market model to evaluate the relative performance of

different markets because some market somewhere is always doing well.• Appreciate longer term technical indicators for their help in identifying market

trends outside of the noise.• Learn to spot and profit from currency imbalances—without the risks and

learning curve of becoming a currency trader.• Discover the broad choices available in ETF types and how to use them profitably

in trading systems.

Here’s What’s Waiting For You!Day 1: Building Your Toolbox

You’ll focus on gathering the information and identifying the tools you need to design and operate your ETF trading strategy. You’ll learn about ETFs, how they are constructed, and how they trade, and why they are so useful to traders. You’ll look at large cap stocks and find out how their similar behavior to ETFs offers you trading opportunities. You’ll also cover the parts of a trading system and how your beliefs and objectives form the basis of effective system design. You’ll identify ETF price actions that indicate where the big money is flowing. This is a core part of most of Ken’s strategies. You’ll also learn essential skills to enhance your trading with concepts like position sizing and portfolio heat. And lastly, you’ll 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 1!

Day 2: Strategies and Tools

On Day 2, Ken reviews a number of trading systems over various time frames. Learn

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in detail how an ETF system can be traded in a stand-alone mode or be traded as part of a broader portfolio. You’ll examine the specific rules for entry and how to base your decisions off of simple yet robust indicators. Ken goes in depth on the critical yet often overlooked topics of position sizing and exit management. Learn the power of position sizing as a risk management tool and how your profits come from your exits. Ken uses case studies to teach the fine points of each strategy. You get to develop your personal ETF strategy using the tools and techniques that fit your objectives and beliefs by working in a small group of like-minded traders.

Day 3: Putting Your Tools in to Practice

On Day 3, we put it all together and practice applying the trading strategies. You’ll learn to pick the right strategy and apply it effectively in real world situations through the use of case studies and group work. You’ll learn how to develop your trading and support systems to make your trading decisions much more efficient and save you a lot of time. In addition, you’ll receive group insights on the specifics 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 Else? In addition to the money making benefits listed above, there’s another valuable element to this course. You’ll be meeting and networking with like-minded traders and investors from around the world! After the workshop, Ken also provides the means for you to keep up with his ongoing systems development process.

Ken has developed some of the best trading systems for which I have personally seen trade results. He has developed himself into an outstanding trader and teacher—feedback forms from his workshops continuously have the highest marks. Attend this workshop and study with a true master.

Sincerely,

Van K. Tharp

Your Trading Coach

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Dear Traders,

Ken Long evolved from one of my best students in the 1990s to an outstanding long-term trading system instructor to one of the best intraday and swing traders that I know today. Now, he consistently makes single and double digit R-Multiple trades on a daily basis. The systems he teaches continue to have some of the highest SQNs that I have seen. Every time I sit through one of his workshops, I learn several new ideas. With the input of many students, he reengineered his ETF 202 workshop last year and developed this new three day format and teaches his best short-term systems. He also demonstrates trading these systems live during the workshop.

Day Trading SystemsThe Day Trading Workshop is our newest workshop. Traders will finish this workshop having traded the frog system via simulation multiple times and have a thorough understanding of the RCLO through dozens of studies complied by Ken.

Our premise is that repetition is the best form of learning and that coached trading will accelerate your learning process dramatically. Our intention is for you to know The Frog system and the RLCO (Regression Line Crossover) system well enough that you’ll be able to trade them effectively as soon as you get home.

System I - Frog Trading System

Ken has been an a long-time active trader and observer of the markets and over the last few years, he has shifted most of his active trading to intraday. He’s noticed the consistent habit of prices for particular issues to move a certain amount. Much like a frog jumps when it hears a loud noise, prices tend to move a certain amount before they pause or move again. Different frogs are able to jump different distances, but each one tends to jump about the same distance as it did last time. Would it be possible to know about how far a stock’s price would move on any given day?

The Frog system presents multiple intraday opportunities every day the market is open. Positions are closed by the end of the day, so there’s no overnight risk or worrying about positions while you lay in bed at night. There’s also no requirement to look at dozens of charts every night or every morning (trading homework time). Trades are usually initiated within the first hour after the opening bell and they last anywhere from half an hour to nearly the entire trading day. The system delivers a win rate of slightly better than 50%, but the winning trades are typically one and a half times the size of the losing trades.

Once in a while, the system will catch a higher R-multiple trade, but typically, it generates consistent, small-multiple trades. The rules take both long and short trades. Because the system is nearly 50/50 on winning and losing, drawdowns tend to be relatively short and relatively shallow. Ken has only traded this system intraday in the stock market but believes the concept could be applied to different time frames and used in different markets. (An Indian client has confirmed the system is working well with the Nifty 50 stocks.) With only a few rules, the system is easy to understand and execute. It does require discipline to follow the rules, but if you do, you have the potential to generate a consistent return.

Ken’s Secret Frog Number

Ken answered this question for himself some years back: it is possible to have some estimate of how much a stock price might move on any given day.

He’s a strong believer in the use of statistics to help him understand and describe price behavior in the markets. Average true range (ATR) is a widely used measure of price movement, or volatility. This well-known indicator, however, didn’t help Ken understand what he might expect from open to close on a given day. As he’s done in several similar situations, Ken invented his own measurement, or range statistic. He now uses that range statistic every day as a basis for judging the overall market movement and for his swing and day trading systems.

Day Trading Systems and Live Day Trading Presented by Ken Long

Learn to Trade These Highly Profitable Short Term Systems for Frequent and Profitable Trades!

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Ken then evolved that range statistic again with the application of some additional statistical analysis. This new intraday movement measurement is the secret number to the Frog trading system that helps Ken understand the likelihood of a price movement continuing to move or not (flatten or reverse). It helps him dismiss some moves as noise and others as meaningful and therefore likely to continue for a profitable R-multiple price move. In essence, he can determine how far a frog might hop for a whole trading day and how far within a trading day. Once he learned this, he was able to create a very simple trading system that works remarkably well. At the workshop, you’ll learn how he calculates this important number so you can understand the process, calculate it yourself, and apply it profitably.

System II – RLCO, Regression Line Crossover System

For years, Ken has been looking at regression lines to help him understand the broader trend in the market. Recently, he started applying linear regression methods to individual indexes and to individual stocks to see what he could find. Ken is constantly finding what works and then extending it. A regression line is the best linear description of a data set and its slope and the R2 statistic provide very helpful information. If you don’t understand basic statistics, don’t worry about the calculations. Just know that regression lines can be very useful when applied in an appropriate trading system. In simpler language - they work!

As have most traders, Ken has heard plenty about moving averages crossover based systems over the years. The idea has plenty of merit for finding shorter term opportunities within longer term trends. That is, when there are trends. A major problem for moving average crossover systems lies in the flat periods. Traders can get “chopped up” when the price moves up and down causing the averages to cross and then cross back again. Ken wondered if regression lines would work better.

They did – but not good enough to have a great trading system yet. After more thinking, a good amount of research, and testing various strategies, Ken found two additional inputs that added a lot of confidence for his entry and exit signals. Ken first paper traded the concept for a while and then started a prototype trading test with small positions of real money. As he traded and evolved the concepts, they gained more clarity and evolved into a framework for a kind of trading with several possible entries and several possible exits. Today, he trades RLCO daily with a “production level” position sizing strategy.

About The Trading Simulator

We’ve created a custom trading simulator for the Frog System. We have built it in-house from the ground up. The simulator is a stripped down trading platform that allows traders to focus solely on the elements of the trading system. Because the system is relatively simple, you don’t need additional indicators and heaps of supporting market data to trade them. Everything you can do on the simulator you’ll be able to reproduce on almost any trading platform you are likely to use. There are no proprietary indicators or funky new chart types required. You can go home, make minor adjustments to your charts in a few minutes and be ready to trade these systems on Monday morning in your own account with real money and make real R-multiple profits.

As for the price data—you’ll trade actual recorded market data. Your trading will be “simulated,” but the data is “real”.

At first we were going to use the trading simulator for RLCO as well, but after careful thought, here’s what Ken said about it. “In my opinion, we will be better off studying critical decision points in the RLCO system with a set of important case studies that illustrate key concepts, rather than trading a set of free form trades in the simulator. The Frog system relies on careful execution of a simple rule set, and therefore is well suited to be taught using a simulator; the RLCO system on the other hand provides a decision framework that should be examined in a more controlled manner, and in my opinion it would be premature to rush into trading many examples independently, before we have carefully examined the different kinds of opportunities it can offer.”

Live Day TradingIf the Day Trading Workshop is the classroom training course, then the Live Day Trading Workshop is the complementary, in-the-field learning experience where students have a master trading coach by their side and have the chance to apply the trading concepts in the real world. It is unlike any other workshop offered by the Van Tharp Institute. You craft your own daily trading plan based on Ken Long’s Frog, RLCO, or swing system signals and trade your own platform with your own money—all under the guidance of Ken, who will offer thorough direction and individualized feedback.

Ken originally developed this workshop because clients saw him day trading his swing systems and wanted to do the same. Currently, Ken focuses on trading intraday systems though he still takes some of the “turbo” or “day 1” trades that are based off of his swing system entry signals.

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Ken teaches by example and coaches students in three main areas:

• What traders need to do in preparation for the trading day

• Executing trading systems in the open market

• How to identify and benefit from the lessons for the day after the market closes.

The process is iterative and reinforces a host of great trading habits. Participants in the workshop are invited to prepare their daily trading plans with Ken’s guidance, call out their trades and observations during market hours, and share with the group their learning experiences at the end of the day. In effect, the workshop becomes a live version of Ken’s trading chat room where traders go through a similar process each day and collaborating and learning from one another.

Workshop Structure

Ken makes the following promises on helping the attendees accomplish the following tasks:

• Build a daily trading plan with “framed” trades based on the Frog setups, RLCO candidates, and the Tortoise daily report.

• Scan for intraday opportunities after the market opens.

• Employ Mastermind techniques to practice collaborative learning and trading.

• Utilize pivot point techniques to SPY as a guide for large cap and ETF positions.

• Use the “gapstat” and “rangestat” figures to calibrate targets and overnight risk.

• Explore position sizing™ strategies and trade management strategies to manage intraday risk.

• Adapt position sizing strategies to maintain constant risk levels for any positions held overnight.

• Frame various short-term Tortoise trading patterns.

• Break into smaller groups of like-minded traders to explore collaborative trading.

• Participate in the chat room to learn the different ways that the chat room aligns with individual learning styles.

• Explore the 4-bullet money management strategy.

When we first offered this workshop, a number of attendees who’d attended Ken Long’s workshops in the past registered before a workshop description was made available. Why? Because, through personal experience, they know that Ken is a remarkable trader and an outstanding teacher. They also know that through this workshop, Ken will help them trade more profitably—especially in the current market conditions. If you want to learn from a renowned master and improve your trading, enroll now.

What Students Had to Say about Ken’s Day Trading Systems and Live Day Trading Workshops“I now have a better understanding of my trading strengths and weaknesses.”—P.L., MD

“Great center, great class, invaluable information that I don’t think can be found anywhere else.”—P.W. New York, NY

“Every question I had was answered. Ken is sure to explain everything thoroughly. If you have a question, he will explain in a way you’ll understand.”—W.F., Lewistown, PA

Sincerely,

Van K. Tharp

Your Trading and Investing Coach

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Swing TradingPresented by Ken Long

Do you want to trade more frequently than monthly in your retirement plan but don’t have time to watch the markets all day?

Swing Trading might be a good fit for you.

A Functional Framework and Effective Systems

Most traders have access to a bewildering number of systems, signals and trading styles. How can you systematically make choices that will improve your chances in this challenging profession?

Start with a strong understanding in three areas –

Your own psychology (Self Knowledge), the market (Market Knowledge) and how trading systems work (System Knowledge).

Beyond understanding these areas independently, you also need to identify the sweet spot where all three intersect. Identifying that “sweet spot” is no small challenge in a complex adaptive system like financial markets. How do you consistently find and exploit that sweet spot while the markets keep changing? What processes can help you make consistent profits?

Well, here’s a start: develop (or find) a comprehensive framework that adapts with the changing market, that gives you a way to evaluate opportunities in a disciplined, consistent and efficient manner, and that highlights dominant worldwide trends in plenty of time to take advantage of moves with clear decision points for entries and exits. Also develop (or find) several advanced short-term strategies that function well within that framework will allow you to capture big money flows.

In this workshop, Dr. Ken Long presents just such a framework, five swing systems that function well within that framework, and a myriad of supporting subjects that will help students trade better.

In addition, Ken focuses students on several topics that support trading all of his systems:

• Market Classifications - These have to make sense for the time frame of your trades. Ken explains how he defines and uses his market classification system for employing trading systems.

• Reward : Risk analysis – Ken discusses how he applies this concept to his trade frames- his simple visual method for ensuring the appropriate potential for reward justifies the risk – for every trade.

• Technical analysis – Actually, you don’t have to know a lot. Ken will show how a few simple ideas are enough to help you frame trades better.

• Improving entries and exits – If you have the ability to check on the market intraday, you can improve the performance of your swing systems without day trading. Ken will clarify how you can use intraday techniques for swing systems.

• Analyzing results – Ken looks at the markets and trading through a statistical lens so naturally, he expresses and evaluates system results in some basic statistical terms that he’s able to teach even the non-mathematically inclined.

• Growing swing trades – Often times, Ken’s systems find good trades on the front end of a longer term trend moves. Ken will explain how to consider evolving swing trades into longer term positions – often with minimal or no risk after a successful swing trade.

Learn 5 Robust Swing Trading Systems in 3 Days

For each system, Ken will follow this basic format –

1. System overview and philosophy – where he found the original inspiration, why the system works, and how it has evolved over time.

2. Rule set – Ken will send these out prior to the workshop so that students can read them and bring relevant questions to the workshop rather than spending time in the workshop to read them.

3. Representative case studies – Ken will bring the rules to life with charts and videos that show the various decision points in the trade and how the system works for real rather than just on paper.

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4. Backtesting results – Ken has histograms of the R multiple distributions for the systems based on backtesting simulations.

5. Evidence from forward testing – These are the results that show system performance based on live trades which Ken values much more than backtest data.

6. Sample setups and trade framing – For any material Ken teaches, there are always situational tests for the students to challenge their understanding and accelerate their learning processes.

Seven Money Making Benefits

You will leave this workshop with seven money-making benefits that will help you generate more consistent profits, keep your losses smaller and be more relaxed about your trading.

1. Understand the World Market Model: Get into the details of the construction and application of the framework that provides the common point of evolution for all of Ken’s Tortoise swing and intraday strategies. This broad market analysis enables all of the ap-proaches that Ken uses and teaches.

2. Link Decision Points to Price Signals: Every trade is a hypothesis; it is an experiment to determine the validity of an idea in the market. We’ll look at how to express our ideas with precision so that we can act with certainty. Learn how to remove the emotion from your decision-making process in the heat of the moment.

3. Classify the Market: Everyone has an opinion about what kind of market we’re in. If that opinion isn’t related to your preferred time frame for holding positions, it has little value and worse, it can be downright harmful for your trading. Learn how to assess the market, screen out the trivia and noise so you have meaningful, actionable information.

4. Build a System of Systems: Regardless of market conditions, you should have one or more systems ready to take advantage of whatever comes your way. Incorporate multiple time frames with appropriate systems that coincide with your beliefs and style for consistent profits every week.

5. Excel at Preparation: Preparing a daily trading plan is the most profitable part of the day for every swing trader! It allows you to set up a game plan for likely scenarios, consider alternative outcomes and select from the richest opportunities—all without the stress of watching prices move on the trading screen. Ken follows this discipline every day and requires it of his Mastermind chat room partici-pants because it makes such a huge difference in their results! You will prepare one of these daily trading plans as part of your evening homework on Day 2 of the workshop.

6. Grow with a Mastermind: Ken started a Mastermind group of traders that has evolved into a valuable trading resource for all of the participants. Ken has been absolutely amazed at the acceleration in learning it has provided. Not only can participating make a dramatic improvement in your trading, you get to enjoy the company of other traders. He strongly encourages traders to find and join a group from whom they can share, learn and grow.

7. Frame Every Trade: When you enter a trade, do you know exactly how much you have at risk, how much you expect to gain and the likelihood of the outcome? When you learn how to calculate these trade components, you may find it hard to trade any other way ever again.

And, as always, you’ll be networking and meeting like-minded traders and investors from around the globe! Attendees consistently rank this as one of the most valuable aspects of Van Tharp Institute workshops.

“Brilliant work! Great courses. I really feel like Ken has filled in a lot of gaps for me on broad market analysis, statistical approaches to the markets and specific trade tactics.”—David Smith

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Forex TradingPresented by Gabriel Grammatidis

Learn the Basics of Forex Trading and Come Away with Three Already Proven Forex Systems

All You Need to Know About Forex

Gabriel will spend most of the workshop teaching his systems, but for much of the first morning, he’ll go over the basics of trading the Forex spot market and cover such topics as:

Why trade Forex? What are the advantages and drawbacks of trading Forex versus other instruments? What are the main market charac-teristics, and who are the Forex market participants? What methods work best in the Forex market? How are Forex chart characteristics different than stocks or futures? What do you look for in a Forex broker? What do you avoid? Why Forex may actually be the best market for new traders to learn trading.

The Method

Gabriel will discuss a number of Forex trading ideas at his workshop and teach three specific trading systems. All three are trend-based; you can see the price action patterns in the price charts. His systems can be traded in various timeframes and can be traded across a wide range of currency pairs. Gabriel’s preferred style is swing trading using primarily 15-minute, 60-minute and 240-minute candle charts. His trades usually tend to evolve over a timeframe of anywhere from several hours to a couple of days (or even weeks, in the case of strong trends).

Three Systems

All three systems are based on the concept of trend-following. Each system is based on similar “ingredients,” but each has a different recipe to capture a different part of the trend. Consequently, the systems are complementary to each other and together offer trading setups nearly every day of the year.

Trade Before You Leave the Workshop! Have you ever attended a trading workshop that taught a lot of methodology and a bunch of rules, only to find that you had trouble trading it when you got back home because you had so little experience with it? Gabriel had that experience and wants to better pre-pare the traders at his workshop. Students in his course come away with a solid understanding of the trading process because they practice the setups, entries and exits! Gabriel makes extensive use of a trading simulator, so you go home already having traded the systems. After a thorough review of each system, he slowly walks you through a number of trades on each system that has multiple time frame charts—basically the same screen setup that Gabriel uses to identify setups, entries and exits. All of these trades use recorded historical data run on a software system that reproduces the price charts from the date and time in the live market. You will be able to watch the setups happen as he explains how to get ready for and make the entry, and then how to get ready for and make the exit. After walking the class through several simulations, Gabriel allows students to talk through several additional examples with minimal guidance from him. You learn, not only by seeing and hearing, but by doing! When you get home, you’ll already have made a number of trades in each system—which means you’ll have a running start. And just to be sure, Gabriel provides everyone with pages of additional example trades to take home and study.

“Before the workshop, I thought Forex was too risky for trading, but now I can see myself trading Forex.” — P.W.

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Advanced Peak Performance 202(Peak Performance 101 is a prerequisite for attendance)

Presented by Van K. Tharp and Transformational Coach Libby Adams Ph.D.

Reinvent Yourself as a Trader and Achieve Levels of Success You Once Thought Impossible

Explore your beliefs and who you are. Learn how to expand way beyond your current limitations.

• Learn about the unconscious games you play—Domain, Roles, Level of Awareness, the Trading/Wealth games we play. Dr. Tharp believes that understanding games is paramount to psychological breakthroughs in trading and wealth. Once you understand games, you can create one that will be easy and fun to win.

• Overcome your winning strategy. This strategy has been the basis for all of your past success, but it limits you as a trader/investor. In fact, the more powerful it is (i.e., the more success you’ve achieved with it), the more it limits you. Learn how to take steps to overcome those limitations.

• Address the parts that hold you back. Have you ever had success within reach and then done something to ruin it? Do you find it difficult to set or achieve some worthy goal? Using personal parts paradigm, you can identify the parts that hold you back and clear the way towards more success and happiness.

• Reinvent your life. You’ll learn how to make a declaration for a trading vision that would seem impossible now. Yet, once you’ve gone through the workshop, you’ll learn how it is possible and how you can take the first steps toward a new you and success that’s beyond your current abilities. This workshop is that powerful.

Peak Performance 202, our most significant breakthrough workshop, is your chance to totally reinvent yourself as a trader/investor. Immense success is possible for most traders and investors. The secret to that success has little to do with a magical trading system devised by someone else. Instead, it has everything to do with you. You are the secret ingredient to your success. When you transform yourself, you transform everything. This workshop is a major leap forward for those brave enough to take the plunge.

Peak Performance 202 Key Sections

You’ll learn how you are programmed to follow the path that others want you to follow. It’s one that will help them win, while you lose. You are totally unaware of most of this, but when you start to wake up, you’ll be amazed at your new freedom. And, imagine what will happen when you start to program yourself instead of following the programming of others.

You’ll learn about the many games you play, mostly unconscious games. When you play a game unconsciously, you have no chance of winning. Instead, the winners will be those who made up the rules in the first place. The whole area of games is a major breakthrough in the psychology of personal success. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll discover and what you can do with that knowledge.

You’ll learn all about personal reinvention. Learn what your strategy has been for winning in all aspects of life and how it’s held you back. And, when you’ve accomplished that, you’ll have the opportunity to come from another place as a trader. You’ll form a team with the other participants and declare a vision that is currently way beyond the scope of your imagination. In this workshop, you’ll realize that you can reach that dream! You’ll end the workshop taking the first steps toward your declaration with a whole team of people behind you. The past participants all agreed that this was one of the most significant 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 finally 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 AccomplishImagine that you are asleep, but you don’t know it. You are dreaming, but the dream appears quite real. In it you find yourself in an existence in which you continually are 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 make your dreams a reality? You must undo your unconscious programming; 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. To undo the programming, you must become aware that it is there. The first part of this workshop is designed to wake you up. You’ll learn how you’ve been programmed to fail through a process called “domestication.” You’ll learn how domestication works and how many agreements that you’ve made with yourself (and others) keep you asleep. In Peak Performance 101 we devote only a few hours to the topic of how you are programmed by your beliefs and attitudes. In Peak Performance 202, you’ll get an incredible day of uncovering just what keeps you stuck in the dream.

“The workshop succeeded in pushing my limits and opening my eyes to how the world really operates.” – F.L., CA

Games We Play: The Most Important Psychological Breakthrough of the New MillenniumEverything 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.

One example is the money game. You’ve been programmed with lots of beliefs about money: “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.” “It’s important to be right.” “It’s important to get a good job to be successful.”

Do those ideas sound familiar? These are some of the rules that most people follow when they unconsciously play the money game. In fact, the money game is one of hundreds of games that most of us play unconsciously. We play these games in our relationships and our finances, and with our health, our trading, and our lives.

You’ll 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 make up your own rules. But you won’t be able to make up your own rules, until you learn the rules you’ve adopted unconsciously. And that’s one of the major benefits of Peak Performance 202. You’re probably saying, “Wait a minute, that might be illegal. I don’t want to do anything illegal.” But that’s not at all what I’m suggesting. There are lots of ways to invent your own rules and still play the game legally. You could accumulate enough passive income so you never have to work again because your 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 you win the money game by having the most toys. Those who play that way either end up with a lot of toys and probably do not feel like it is enough, or they end up totally broke because if you make one or two big mistakes, you are a loser of the game. In this incredible workshop, you’ll learn about the common games that most of us play unconsciously.

After you’ve finished, you’ll have a tremendous edge. You’ll get to make up your own rules because you’ll understand how you’ve been programmed in the past. Specifically, you’ll learn about the trading game, and the universal human game. Each is very significant to reinventing your new future.

The Trading Game Reinvented

We have identified a minimum of 11 levels at which the trading game is played. Each level has its own 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 don’t have to do that—especially once you are aware of the game and how it is played. Furthermore, we identified 23 rules and presuppositions that you are expected to follow as a trader in the bottom three levels. If you want to know these rules, 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, but you probably get the picture. The bottom line is that these rules are not the rules of winners. If you want to win the trading game, you must know the rules that winners follow—or better yet, invent your own rules.

“This is the best financial/trading course I have taken. It has given me the foundation to understanding my current financial/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 play this game unconsciously. However, if you elect not to play, you’ll have a chance at true happiness and success. The universal human game 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, you’ve 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.

As we explore the universal human game, you’ll learn the benefits that come from not playing the game or at least taking steps in that direction. This will be the foundation for reinventing yourself to go way beyond your current limitations.

Determining Your Winning Strategy and How It Limits Your Trading

Everyone will determine their personal winning strategy and how it limits them. Dr. Tharp will make sure that everyone understands their strategy before going on to the trader reinvention paradigm, which is why we strictly limit workshop attendance. Here is an example of a winning strategy just so you can notice its limitations:

“I look for possible areas of conflict 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? Several key things stand out. This person is looking for conflict and, thus, will find 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 one’s perception in the present. How effective do you think this strategy is for trading success? That’s why “winning strategies” are typically a big limitation. In this workshop, you’ll learn how you are limited by your beliefs and how to charge forward.

“I discovered and learned so much about myself from this.” –A.D., Ireland

The New ParadigmYou will adopt a new paradigm to reinvent yourself. You’ll learn how to determine your real purpose, what you really are all about on this planet. Leaders who learn this paradigm typically accomplish what they’d previously thought to be impossible. Here is just a small glimpse into what you’ll be doing: First, you and the other participants will use advanced thinking concepts to declare a new, previously thought impossible vision, which you’ll all strongly adopt. It’s an incredible process that produces incredible results. Second, you’ll take action steps, which are made as promises to the group, toward making your vision a reality. Third, you’ll have group support to help you in your vision. We have seen an incredible sense of unity and purpose for the vision at past workshops. 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 significant 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 fairly intense (and often one-on-one) work with the instructors. This format produces dramatic results and change, so we must strictly limit the enrollment in this workshop.

Questions and AnswersQ: Will the workshop be specific to trading?

A: Most of the games we play affect all aspects of our lives, including trading. Although there are specifics about the trading game that we will cover, you could apply the material to all aspects of your life. It has to do with you and changing yourself. 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 workshop really worth my time?

A: Absolutely. This workshop 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 can’t say that about many workshops.

Q: Is this workshop really worth the price?

A: Dr. Tharp charges $1,500 per hour for his consulting time, and he will be conducting most of the workshop. 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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Advanced Peak Performance 203(Peak Performance 101 is a prerequisite for attendance)

Presented by Van K. Tharp

You are not your beliefs about the market, but the awareness of those beliefs. Knowing this gives you a tremendous edge and that type of trading is possible for everyone.

Models for Self-SabotageThose of you who have finished the new edition of the Peak Performance Home Study Course know that I have several different models for self-sabotage.

• The Matrix Model says we are programmed to self-sabotage.• The Creative Model says that when we disown our creations we are committing self-sabotage.• And the most significant model, Oneness, operates at such a high level that most of what we do, which keeps us in an ‘ego’ state,

is self-sabotage.

However, I’ve now discovered how to help people through these self-sabotage issues at the deepest level. And the basic concept is simple: When you are not doing what brings you joy, you are committing self-sabotage. Imagine moving toward being happier and happier and at the same time becoming more and more successful as a trader. Well, that’s the core concept behind my new Peak Performance Workshop 203: Avoiding Self-Sabotage by Following Your Bliss.

Here are my objectives for you in the Peak Performance 203 workshop:1. To introduce you to an advanced model of self-sabotage based upon the idea that self-sabotage occurs when you are not feeling

totally joyful for no reason at all. Can you think of a better way to lead your life than to go for being happy for no reason whatsoever?2. To help you gain some understand of WHO YOU REALLY ARE!3. To introduce you to your happiness set-point. You actually have set a limit on your happiness. But once you recognize it, you can

start to raise the set point higher and higher. Is that something you’d like?4. To get you a program to help you increase the amount of joy/happiness in your life. 5. To help you understand the hidden parts of you that block your happiness and hold you back.6. To learn how to embrace and then release the thoughts/beliefs that do not serve you as a trader/person and that block your happiness7. To help you trade from a position of being in the flow/bliss in which you can respond to the market rather than the thoughts in

your head.8. To allow you to meet and network with some really great people who have a lot in common with you.9. And to give you a six week follow up program for you to begin to apply what you learn at the workshop.

One of the key principles of this work is that you really don’t understand much of what is blocking your happiness and success. It’s what might be called your shadow self—the disowned parts of you. You suppress those parts and project them onto others. And you start to hate the others…not for who they really are, but for what you’ve projected onto them. And when you react to your projections, you become them.

But the good news is that there is a method of seeing those projections for what they are. And when you take back ownership of those parts, you free yourself up to be happier. You free yourself to see things as they really are—such as the market. And you put yourself in a place where it’s possible to just trade the markets. You respond to the markets in a flow state from which immense profits are possible. Are you interested?

Here’s what some of my Super Traders said after the first Peak Performance 203 Workshop, in December 2009:

“If you want to experience glimpses for pure happiness, take this workshop. If you want to transform yourself, make these lessons part of your life.” —Peter Godfrey

“This workshop has the potential to transform you. Enlightening.”— Lars Jorgensen

“Every part of this workshop left a huge mask on me. It is not exaggerations to say that it transformed the way I look at myself.” —Neil Abrams

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“A day full of energy, joy and heightened awareness.” —Bruno Serfaty

“This course made more difference to me than any other.” —Jan Steensma

“This workshop has given me a lot of ideas for personal transformation and practical applications on the most important part of my life: being happy. Thank you!” —Curtis Wee

“This workshop is not just for traders but for anyone who wants to understand themselves.” —T. N.

“The information and experiences are certainly life changing if one is open to them.” —Beth Sime

“Best psychology class I’ve ever attended.”— Jim Ehrestman

“How to see yourself as a good trader and investor.”— John Lee

“Following your bliss—how easy it can be if we desire to choose it instead of living in fear.”— Ashay Brahmbhatt

“It amazed me to find happiness could be such an easy choice to make. I don’t have to have all the things I want. I could simply choose to be happy now. I have known that but now I know how.”— RJ Hixson

Where Are You Right Now on the Happiness Scale?Here is a test that you can take. There are 35 statements below; rank yourself on each statement according to the following scale:

1 = Not like me or my thoughts.

2 = Rarely like me or my thoughts.

3= Sometimes like me or my thoughts.

4= Often like me or my thoughts.

5= Always Like Me or my thoughts.

Now take the test and be honest because the only person you can possibly cheat is yourself and you might be doing that all the time.

Write your answer in the column with the line.

1. ___ I feel happy and satisfied for no reason.2. ___ There is someone in my life I cannot forgive.3. ___ I don’t blame others or complain.4. ___ I live in the moment.5. ___ My head is full of internal chatter.6. ___ I feel alive, vital, and energetic.7. ___ I worry a lot.8. ___ I experience a deep sense of peace & well-being.9. ___ I don’t let bad situation keep me down.10. ___ I feel inspired by a purpose in my life.11. ___ Sometimes I feel like a victim.12. ___ Life is a great adventure for me.13. ___ The universe is not a very friendly place.14. ___ I’m always looking for things to fix.15. ___ I’m enthusiastic about what I do.16. ___ I feel a lot of joy.17. ___ There is a gift or lessons in everything that happens.18. ___ People around me are not that supportive.19. ___ My life is quite burdensome.

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20. ___ I am able to let go and forgive. 21. ___ My negative thoughts don’t overshadow me. 22. ___ I tend to judge others a lot. 23. ___ I love myself. 24. ___ I feel at one with everything.25. ___ I am a God fearing person. 26. ___ I look for the good in every person I meet. 27. ___ I’m always trying to get the approval of others. 28. ___ I feel a general sense of gratitude. 29. ___ Inside I feel a little empty. 30. ___ I’m connected to something bigger than myself. 31. ___ I change what I can and accept what I cannot.32. ___ Everything in my life is perfect just as it is. 33. ___ I’m sensitive to criticism. 34. ___ I sometimes get angry, but for a good reason. 35. ___ Quite often bad things happen to good people.

Now it’s time to score the test. First, total your scores to the following 20 questions and get a total.

A. Total and score for questions 1,3,4,6 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32 (These are all the answer in the left column).

Okay, now record your score for the remaining questions and get a total for them.

B. Total score for questions 2,5,7,11,13,14,18,19,22,25,27,29,33,34,35. (These are all the answer in the far right column)

Now record your total for the A question _______ and then subtract your total for the B questions _______ and record the result here. ___________

Were you honest with yourself? Here is little test for that. What was your score for questions 1, 4, 24, 28, 32? __________. If the total of those five questions was more than 20, then you are either an incredibly advanced person or you were trying to get a good score and thus deluding yourself. It’s normal, but you won’t make any progress until you start being honest with yourself. As Walt Kelly’s cartoon character, Pogo, once said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

You could score as high as +85 on the test or as low as -55. An average score is between 20-25. Were you about average? If so, you have a lot of work to do and you have little idea of what it is like to be really happy. And you probably are not that successful either.

What would it be worth to you to raise your happiness quotient another 10 to 15 points? And what if you could do that in as little as six weeks? And what if you could raise it 25 points in about six months? Who would you be then? What would your life be like? What’s that worth to you? And what if your trading tended to improve as your raised your happiness quotient? Well that’s our goal in the new Peak Performance 203 workshop.

Like Peak 202, this workshop requires Peak Performance 101 as a pre-requisite. It’s an advanced course and your need to be ready for it. Also the initial course for the Super Traders was just two days plus a six week follow-up. But the full course will be three days plus the six-week follow-up.

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During this amazing two-day workshop, you will achieve the following:

• Learn about living in the Awakened State of Oneness withjoy, freedom from the mind, and release from a sense ofseparation.

• Learn ancient meditation practices to help open, balance andclear the chakras* (energy centers) and the nadis* (energychannels), and activate the Kundalini* energy, leading tohigher states of consciousness.

• Learn the formula for success and happiness in inner andouter life and how to create what you want in your lifeexperience.

• Experience samskara shuddhi, an ancient technique to• deepen your experience of Divine Grace by

releasing deep- seated emotional charges,• heal relationships with your parents, your

children, and your partner, and• remove negative patterns caused by childhood

experiences.• Experience Deeksha* (Oneness Blessing) to help you

establish an intimate, personal relationship with the Divine,accomplish your goals in life, and enter into an amazing stateof calm for trading.

• Receive the sacred Mukthi Deeksha and begin the process ofmoving you into a Permanent Awakened State of Oneness.

• Become initiated as a Oneness Blessing (Deeksha) Giver!·Begin to LIVE your life free from separation, conflict,resistance and the chatter of the mind.· Experience realityas it is, living with bliss and clarity and understanding that“what is” is perfect.

The awakened state initially does not mean the total absence of thought, chatter, and charge. When you first become awakened, charge may last as long as 30 minutes, but that is a vast improvement over charge that for many of you may last for months or years. Do you know someone you have charge towards? If they suddenly walked into your life, would the charge still be there? At the initial state of awakening it would disappear after 30 minutes or less and wouldn’t return upon seeing them again.

The mind is still there, it’s just that we are free from its constant chatter and domination over our lives. We may still experience an ongoing stream of thoughts, but you begin to realize that you are not those thoughts. You are the awareness of them. And you experience them without conflict or resistance. It’s when we resist them, fight them, or try to fix them that they persist and rule our lives. But with permanent awakening, the need to resist and fix is gone.

With permanent awakening you start seeing things as they are. And you can start paying attention to everything around you without judgment, just as it is. Can you imagine trading the markets from this state?

This workshop is about transformation. This is not a trading workshop.

Oneness Awakening WorkshopPresented by Van K. Tharp

Questions and AnswersBaktha Paradeema: This is one of the most important concepts I’ve ever run across, so I wanted to share Sri Bhagavan’s answer to the following question.

Q: God is one, so why does the response of God vary from person to person?

A: The amount of grace you receive or the form in which God manifests to you depends on the relationship you have with God. That is why it is important that you do not have an image of a punishing god or an indifferent god.

If you thought that God would be angry with you for your thoughts or your life and you were therefore afraid, God would certainly punish you. If God to you were a lazy father that would only answer after endless petitions; that would be your reality. You create your God.

You have made a mess of your lives, unaware of the power and freedom you hold in creating your God. One of the greatest curses you could lay on yourself is to create a wrong kind of God—a defective God who could sit over you in judgment and punish you.

Remember, when I say creating your God, I do not mean creating a non-existent God through your own imagination. God is your creator; how could you create God? Creating your own God means to awaken to the power you wield. God is powerful, but you too being a part of God, are quite powerful, hence the problem. You have the freedom to design the God you want.

It is like the potter, making use of the clay and creating master pieces. You are the potter and God the clay. Your God would then respond to you the way you want. That is why, we use the word “Elokthakari”—one who does as bidden.

Do not think it is presumptuous to design God. You have all along been creating your God unconsciously, only now you do it consciously and intelligently. God does not define himself or herself. Humanity defines God.

Create a God who is powerful enough to awaken you and also fulfill your desires. If you relate to God as playful, powerful and a compassionate friend who will respond to your needs instantaneously, that would be your God.

If on the other hand, if you define God as unapproachable, the doors of heaven shall not open because there would be a big board reading “No Entry.” If you say God is indefinable, that certainly would be your experience. You could choose to have a frowning God, a smiling God, a laughing God or you’re playing God.

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Van Tharp’s Highest Level Program: The Super Trader Program

The VTI mission is to help others transform, which we doprimarily through a trading metaphor. Most of our Super Traders

say that their psychological transformations were worth the price of the entire program and the trading/financial part was a bonus. We wouldn’t be happy with the program if they didn’t say that.

We designed the program around the core elements that Dr. Tharp’s research has proven must be mastered in order to trade at the highest levels: transforming self, treating your trading as a business, and developing trading systems that fit you.

Trading is 100% psychological: it is entirely about your beliefs, mental states, and mental strategies. Because trading is entirely psychological, any unresolved psychological issues will show up in aspects of your trading. This is why the psychological work phase typically takes the longest time to complete.

We have also seen that successful traders treat trading like a business. Treating trading as a business instead of a hobby (as most traders treat it) ensures a discipline, structure, and professional approach that fosters consistent and profitable trading. Anyone serious about starting a business can write a good business plan.

Finally, to trade well, traders have to use positive expectancy systems that fit them well. Doing so requires a thorough understanding of what kind of systems fit you, the parts of a trading system, and the systems development process.

The Five Steps

Dr. Tharp has taken the core elements for successful trading and developed a five-step process for the Super Trader Program spread out over Super Trader I and Super Trader II. Super Trader I covers the first two steps; Super Trader II covers the last three. To graduate the program, you must complete all five components to Dr. Tharp’s satisfaction.

Step 1 requires you to have a thorough understanding of Tharp Think. This includes the information contained in both Super Trader and Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom. You must also learn the Tharp Concepts and know all of the terms in our glossary—both of which can be found on our web site. In addition to these basic tenets, you must become proficient in the basics of position sizing™ strategies by playing the Position Sizing Game, taking the Position Sizing e-Learning Course and passing the self-test in the Definitive Guide to Position Sizing Strategies.

Step 2 focuses on your personal psychology. As you already have attended the Peak Performance 101 Workshop, you immediately go through the Peak Performance Home Study Course if you have not done so already. Dr. Tharp has written a set of sixteen Super Trader lessons that take you beyond the Peak Performance Home Study Course and help you explore your psychology more thoroughly. We also ask you to read several non-VTI books that focus on the spirit and self.

During this step of the program, you will attend our remaining psychological workshops: Advanced Peak Performance 202, Peak Performance 203 (The Happiness Workshop), and the Oneness Awakening Workshop. The next step is to complete Libby Adams’ 28-day course.

When you have completed the sixteen psychological lessons to Dr. Tharp’s approval and can document five major issues that have changed for you through the program, the psychological aspect of your trading transformation will be complete. Does this mean that you only have five transformations in your life? No, but once you’ve documented five, we feel you should be able to handle other things that come up during your trading.

In Super Trader II, you work on the third step of the program: creating a handbook for your trading business. The Blueprint for Trading Success Workshop provides a basic template for you to follow. While we used to require a traditional business plan, some Super Trader students started presenting their business plan materials in personal and creative ways. They actually enjoyed reading their plans because they were rich with their dreams and plans. This new business handbook format is now a requirement.

Step 4 is where you get a full understanding of the key factors in system design. The How to Develop a Winning Trading System that Fits You Home Study Course and the corresponding workshop, as well as our more advanced strategy workshops, help you create at least three systems that fit your beliefs, meet your criteria for trading them, fit different market types, and are non-correlated. Before you can begin to trade these systems with full position sizes, you need to know or estimate the SQN® score of each system in each market type before Dr. Tharp approves you trading each system.

In Step 5, you learn how to manage your trading mistakes. Once you determine the R-multiple value of each mistake you make over a one-year period of trading, you learn how not to repeat those mistakes so you can meet your one-year trading objectives. Once you have demonstrated proficiency at trading at a high efficiency level (at least 95% in three systems) for a sustained period (more than 100 trades), you can graduate from the program.

To be considered a Super Trader graduate, you must complete all five steps. This may take up to six years depending on your background, how much time you allocate to your work, and your commitment level.

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Sincerely,

Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. President, The Van Tharp Institute

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