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Acknowledgments | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface: Understanding Transformation | |
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Transformation of the Trading Game | |
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Understanding the Matrix and Reprogramming Yourself | |
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Trading Beyond the Matrix | |
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Your Personal Application of This Material | |
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Transformation of the Trading Game: Understanding the Basics | |
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Two Sets of Rules | |
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I Just Made 130 Percent-and That Was Just the Beginning | |
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Learning to Trade | |
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"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" | |
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Tharp Think 101 | |
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Not All Lessons Are Equal | |
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Finally, Some Winning Marbles | |
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The Automation of Tharp Think | |
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My Journey into Doing the Trading Myself | |
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Training Someone Else | |
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Why This Is Possible | |
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Addendum | |
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From Commercial Loan Officer to Financially Free Trader Investor | |
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My Initial Psychological Changes | |
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What I've Learned about the Trading Game | |
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Understanding the Trading Game | |
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So How Do You Get a Positive Expectancy System? | |
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Getting a System That Works | |
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Trading Psychology | |
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How My Life Has Changed | |
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From Army Major to Systems Expert | |
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What I Have Learned and How I Have Changed | |
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The Power of Beliefs | |
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Statistics-Based Trading | |
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Trading Extremes | |
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Reward-to-Risk Assessments | |
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R-Multiples | |
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Position-Sizing Strategies™ and Bullets | |
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SQN Performance to Evaluate Systems, Targets, and Markets | |
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Market Classification Strategies | |
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Transformations | |
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Improved Systematic Performance | |
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Specific Systems for Specific Market Conditions | |
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Detailed Documentation and Analysis of Trades | |
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Evidence-Based Management | |
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Reduced Stress | |
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Performance | |
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Long-Term System with Monthly Rebalancing | |
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Weekly Swing Trade with Once-a-Week Portfolio Adjustments | |
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Pattern Swing Trade Using End-of-Day Data | |
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Live Trading Workshops Results | |
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Using Tharp Think to Go from Full-Time Broker to Full-Time Trader | |
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My New Venture | |
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Going to North Carolina | |
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Restarting Trading | |
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Where I Am Now | |
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Adapting Tharp Think to Your Trading | |
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Area One: Thoroughly Understand the Principles of Successful Trading | |
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Learning to Trade Is Hard Work, But It Can Be Taught | |
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Knowing Yourself | |
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Mistakes | |
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Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies | |
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Probability and Reward-to-Risk Assessment | |
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Systems and Market Type | |
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Steps to Learning Tharp Think | |
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Psychological Transformations to Help You Function at a Superior Level Within the Matrix | |
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Beliefs: The Basis for the Matrix | |
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Understanding the Impact of Beliefs Will Change Your Life | |
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How I Create My Experience | |
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You Are the Awareness of Thoughts that Flow through You | |
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Belief Hierarchy | |
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Changing Your Beliefs | |
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Everything Has the Meaning You Give It | |
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A Journey through the Stunning World of Feelings and Trapped Emotions | |
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The Turning Point | |
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Self-Sabotage Models | |
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Accepting My Feelings | |
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Where I Am Now | |
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Note from Editor: Feeling Release as a Metric for Awakening | |
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You Are a Crowd of Conflicting Parts Inside | |
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Exercise: Have a Parts Party | |
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Parts Negotiation Exercise | |
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Interview with a CBOE Floor Trader | |
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Working with Dr. Van Tharp | |
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Dealing with Conflicting Parts | |
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What's Changed Since Then | |
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Where I Am Now (Several Years Later) | |
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My Inner Guidance: A Personal Journey of Miracles | |
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My Personal Journey | |
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Conversations with God | |
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Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing | |
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My Relationship with Mitzi | |
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My Current Inner Guidance | |
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Revisiting the Transformed Engineering Professor | |
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My Relationship with Durga Grows | |
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Oneness with God | |
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Bond with the Divine | |
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The Nature of the Relationship Is Critical | |
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What Does this Mean for You and for Your Trading? | |
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Some Recent Updates | |
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Mother Meera's Second Blessing | |
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I Clear My Fear-Based Spiritual Beliefs | |
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My Experiences Using Transformational Meditation | |
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"I" Have a Problem Using and Relating to the Word "God" | |
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Five Transformations | |
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Some More "Little i's" That Didn't Get the Message | |
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Discussion | |
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Dealing with Mistakes | |
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Discussion | |
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Closing Reflections | |
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An Addendum | |
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Creating Your Own World | |
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Nine Steps to Mastering Yourself | |
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Step 1: Learn That You Are a Crowd Inside | |
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Step 2: Get 25 to 30 Identity-Level Beliefs from Each Part | |
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Step 3: Do a Belief Examination Paradigm on Each of Your Beliefs | |
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Step 4: Learn about Projection and Your Shadow Self | |
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Step 5: Work on the Charge through Feeling-Release Exercises | |
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Step 6: Do a Life Review and List the Beliefs That Come Up | |
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Step 7: Make a List of Your Problems and Find the Root Cause (Beliefs and Feelings) | |
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Step 8: Get in Touch with Your Internal Guidance | |
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Step 9: Work to Eliminate Parts, or to at Least Get Them to Work Together with You | |
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Moving Beyond the Matrix by Transforming Your Level of Consciousness | |
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Our Most Powerful Tool | |
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Super Trader Journeys through Transformation | |
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How I Turbocharged My Transformational Journey | |
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Discovering the Linchpin | |
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Transformations Turbocharged! | |
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Getting Rid of Fear | |
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Tapping into a Higher Power | |
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My Purpose in Life | |
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Finally Getting Rid of My Need for Control | |
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Taming My Unconscious Fear of Becoming a Millionaire | |
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A Snapshot of Before and After | |
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The Turbocharged Transformational Model | |
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Conclusion | |
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From Engineer to Spiritual Warrior: A Trading Journey | |
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Downhill Accelerating | |
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Crawling out of the Pit | |
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A Message from Somewhere | |
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Finding Out That I Would Be a Professional Investor as Soon as I Retire | |
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Do I Have a Real Problem, or Do I Just See Monsters in the Closet? | |
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Meeting Super Trader Program Students: I'll Have What They're Having | |
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Dropping the Pain of Past Projections | |
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Original Situation | |
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Actions to Achieve Transformation | |
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Transformed State | |
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Interlude: There's Money for Everyone | |
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Firsthand Experience of a Benign Universe | |
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Original Situation | |
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Actions to Achieve Transformation | |
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Transformed State | |
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Realizing My Purpose | |
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Original Situation | |
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Actions to Achieve Transformation | |
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Transformed State | |
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Finding a Vehicle That Suits Me | |
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Original Situation | |
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Actions to Achieve Transformation | |
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Transformed State | |
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Become an Active Manager of Emotional States | |
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Original Situation | |
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Actions to Achieve Transformation | |
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Transformed State | |
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Bottom Line: Net Winner in Life | |
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A Professional Trader's Journey beyond the Matrix | |
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My Early Trading Experiences | |
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Stumbling on the Van Tharp Institute | |
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Taking Personal Responsibility | |
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Able to Deal with Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions | |
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Knowing My Thoughts Are Not Mine | |
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Trusting My Inner Guidance | |
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Understanding That the World Is Perfect | |
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Knowing My Purpose | |
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Reinventing Myself | |
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So Where Am I Now? | |
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My Journey to Trading in the Now | |
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My Transformation Journey | |
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My Anxiety or Worry | |
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My Impatience | |
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My Fear of Failure or Being Wrong | |
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Being Overwhelmed | |
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Tendency to Believe That I'm Always Bight | |
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Trading with No Plan or System | |
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How It Happened | |
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Where Am I Now? | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Thoughts on Raising Your Level of Consciousness | |
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Some Exercises for Trading in the Now | |
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Trading in the Now | |
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Level IV Transformation | |
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Questions on Raising Your Level of Consciousness | |
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Continuing the Journey | |
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Area Three: Develop a Personal Business Handbook for Trading/Investing | |
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Area Four: Assessing Your Preparation or Trading | |
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Area Five: Understand Your Trading Mistakes | |
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Appendix: Recommended Readings | |
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Appendix: Key Words Defined | |
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Appendix: Reference Notes | |
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About the Author | |
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A Personal Invitation from Dr. Van K. Tharp | |
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Index | |