[Trader Training Video] How to protect yourself from getting scammed

January 21, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brian here with a reminder to protect yourself against getting scammed.

Here’s a short video with some tips on what to watch out for.

Click here to watch the video

Have a great weekend!

Cheers

Brian

P.S.  Oh yeah, one other thing to keep in mind:  in the game of trading, sometimes a great offense makes for a great defense.

By focusing on becoming a better, more skilled trader, you also arm yourself against the various temptations that the scammers lure people in with.

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Trader Training - Being Dependent On Others Sucks

January 17, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Filed under: trading as a business, trading education, trading psychology 

It really is liberating when you no longer feel the need to look at them any more.

When you can just go about your day without feeling torn about whether you should or not.

It only makes sense though.

I mean why were you looking in the first place?

I know that for me, I used to look all the time because I felt almost like I had to.

It was almost like I didn’t have a choice.

I suppose that in truth in some ways I didn’t.

I just HAD to look, because I was missing what they were offering.

I just HAD to open those emails and listen to the pitches for those hyped-up trading systems, because what I had wasn’t working and I didn’t know how to fix it or create a system of my own that would work.

Being dependent on others sucks.

That’s why it is SO liberating when you finally acquire the skill-set to take a system, ANY system and make it work.

When you have what you need, you don’t have to look any more.

You can even laugh about it when you do decide to take a peek, just out of curiosity.

When you can stand on your own two feet as a trader, that’s freedom.

You are truly independent when you have the know-how and skills to take care of yourself.

But you only get that freedom when you decide to make yourself self-sufficient, through the right skills and know-how.

Begin your liberation right now

Cheers

Brian

P.S.  Wouldn’t it be nice to feel that sort of liberation for yourself?

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Trading as a Business - An effective method to help you realize your goals

January 14, 2012 by admin · 4 Comments
Filed under: trader training, trading education, trading psychology 

Brian here with a few thoughts on how to support your efforts in 2012.

We all know the value of writing down goals and objectives, and that’s the first part of today’s exercise for you.

Step 1.  Clarify as best you can your top 3 goals for this year.

Step 2.  Write them down on a piece of paper.

Now we come to the second part of today’s action and this can be very powerful in helping you actually reach your goals.

Publicly declaring them.

Once you declare your intentions and put your goals out there for the world to see, you now have also given your subconscious the message that you will not accept anything less.

You are making it clear and you are not just keeping it ‘your little secret’ which can be easily dropped.

Now you have witnesses to your intention and that gives you mental leverage.

So your next action becomes easy.

Step 3.  Post your goals in a comment below.

Simple.  Powerful.  Now go do it.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers

Brian

P.S.  Now is the time to do everything you can to further energize whatever motivation you have regarding your goals.

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Psychology of Successful Trading - Tip #6 for A Great 2012

January 9, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brian here with Success Tip #6, and probably the most important one of all.

The last tip I sent you was about the 4 different groups of traders and how the first two groups never realize their goals, while the third group is on their way and the fourth group has arrived and enjoys all the benefits of successful trading.

The key is to be mindful of where you are now and do what you need to do, make the changes you need to make, if you do indeed want to make it to the 4th group.

The most critical and integral action that makes that happen is to PLAN.

You may have heard the life wisdom,

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

The reason WHY planning is such a high-ROI activity and such an incredible money-making tool is because it eliminates so many drains that often kill great ventures.

Now you may be thinking that trading is such a simple business that planning is not very necessary to become successful.

Sometimes I hear [not-yet-successful] people tell me that the planning is such a pain, that they’d rather just get busy doing.

And so I ask them a very direct and pertinent question:

“If you can’t build it on paper, how do you expect to do it in the real world?”

The plan is how you bridge the two, taking it from idea to tangible.

Plus when it comes to the psychology of trading, planning serves another extremely powerful function.

When you plan, you operate with confidence rather than courage.

What is the difference between courage and confidence?

Courage is when you hope to succeed, and act in spite of the fear of the challenges before you and the possibility that you will fail.

Confidence is when you know you will succeed, regardless of what challenges confront you.

When you plan, you foresee your obstacles and address them ahead of time.

When you plan, you make the path to your success direct, thus avoiding tremendously costly detours and delays.

When you plan, you make your success visible and tangible, which gives it staying power when challenges do come your way, and this keeps you going.

When you plan, you become efficient and effective.

With a plan, you gain control over your outcome.

A reasonable plan is the best assurance you can give yourself that you will indeed realize your goals and objectives, and in an acceptable time frame.

Subsequently you give yourself the best odds of receiving the rewards you desire.

Without a plan however, you deny yourself the opportunity to influence your outcome and are left only with hope.

Which is like flying without a flight plan or leaving port without a map.

You may make it to your destination, but you have to hope you don’t run out of resources before you finally get there.

The same is true in trading, but planning out a profitable trading operation is not easy without help and guidance.

Get help planning your trading success here

Brian

P.S.  You’ve invested your money and yourself in your trading business, so give yourself the best advantage you can by properly planning out your success.

Get help planning your trading success here

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Trading As A Business - Success Tip #5 for a great 2012

January 8, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brian here with Success Tip #5 - Decide right now to live your life on purpose.

Living on purpose means to give your life and the various parts of it very specific meaning.

It means that you will benefit greatly if you live and trade for something more than just ‘to make lots of money’.

It also means that you should understand something about yourself and your motivations.

I’ve been in this spot before too, so don’t feel bad and definitely do NOT be offended.

But I’ve found that traders will generally fall into 1 of 4 groups:

Group #1. When you’re in this group, you’re very unhappy with your life and you are mostly just running away from it.

You don’t know for sure what you want, you just know that “this isn’t it.”

You’re so highly motivated to get away from the status quo that you are easily sold just about anything that promises the escape, even if it is easily seen to be an unrealistic solution in retrospect.

Because of your near-desperation, you are also the most likely to be taken for a ride by the many scammers and charlatans in the trading space.

Group #2. When you’re in the second group, you are still unhappy too, but you’ve made just enough progress to reach a point of tolerance.

You still don’t know very clearly what you want, “this” still isn’t it, and what you’re doing still isn’t making you happy, but things are tolerable, so you don’t readily take action.

You’ve “tried and failed” with enough attempts and seen enough crap, that you are hesitant to believe that anything will make a real difference.

Your current situation isn’t really working for you, but it does have an odd comfort and security in it, enough so that you usually opt to do nothing rather than change.

In this group, you are like a frog in the frying pan where the heat has been slowing turning up, so you are just waiting to die.  You are uncomfortable, but not enough so that you’ll jump out and save yourself.

In group #2, these are the traders that often have their trading careers suffer a long, slow and rather painful financial death.

Group #3. The third group is significantly different.

In group #3, you too are not happy with your current situation, but you know where you want to be.

You’ve gotten clear on where you are going, and what you want things to be like when you arrive.

You have clear, measurable objectives, a time frame, and often a plan on how and when you’ll get there.

When opportunities come to you, you can look at it and see if it matches up with your plan and your objectives.

This is tremendously freeing because now, instead of being so tempted and torn when the latest new system or gadget is being promoted and promising, you can quickly and comfortably see if it fits with you, and dismiss it without any issue and with minimum wasted time and energy.

You enjoy not having their time or attention sucked away by all the tempting but not-well-aligned distractions.

You can also see very quickly when something that will truly help you DOES fit with your plan.  You jump on it, benefit from it and feel good knowing that you’ve taken action, that you’re one step closer, and that it was indeed a worthwhile move.

You continue to make progress because you know where they’re going, what you need to get there and you easily recognize those things and acquire them without remorse.  You keep taking those necessary steps in the right direction.

Your decisions are fairly easy and you maintain momentum.

You are in this group temporarily, because since you are organized, you move fairly quickly into group 4.


Group 4. You are now among the traders that have arrived.

You no longer spend all day wondering how you’ll survive or if you’ll make it.

Your time is spent exploring how you’ll expand your trading profits, and how you’ll spend your time with your family and personal interests.

You feel relaxed, secure and fulfilled.  You also feel generous, experiencing abundance and have the strong desire to help others.

My job is to help you get into Group 3 if you’re not already there, and then as quickly as possible into Group 4.

What makes the Groups 3 and 4 different from the other two is living on purpose.

A large part of ‘Treating your trading as a business” is getting clear, as in Group 3, and then continuing as you move into Group 4.

You don’t just happen along through life.  You give yourself direction and get clear on your purpose and what you are trying to achieve.

You don’t have to be a maniacal Type A to do it.  It’s about ending the waste, even if you choose to go at a relaxed pace.

Don’t wait for next year.  Now is the time to begin.

Brian

P.S. It’s nearly impossible to get into Group 3 or Group 4 without approaching the problem differently than when you’re in Groups 1 or 2.  You can’t just sit in the frying pan hoping for better while making no changes.

You have to do things differently to get different results.

And it all begins with YOU.

This is your final notice about the killer package deal on two truly transformational trader training programs.

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