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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 | |