Discover how EMDR can help traders reprocess stressful memories and enhance performance. Integrating EMDR with Schema Therapy improves emotional regulation and trading outcomes.
THE SOUND EXECUTION SYSTEM (SES)
When pressure mounts, your nervous system shifts from process-oriented execution to outcome-desperate survival. That shift, tilt, produces STRAY trading (State-Triggered Reactions Against Yourself): revenge trades, FOMO entries, position sizing violations, premature exits.
The SES builds the psychological architecture to detect that shift before it hijacks your execution, regulates the state, and maintains values alignment (your why) even when urgency is present.
Biological Backfire: “Tough Love” Trading Psychology Is a Recipe for Ruin.
The post is everywhere. It’s the staple of every trading Discord and motivational feed: “90% of your problems are decision-making problems. Just stop being afraid. Start with small positions and build your confidence. Stop being a little bitch and learn how to make a decision.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Trading Euphoria
Understand the effects of trading euphoria on decision-making. Learn techniques to manage euphoria and maintain a balanced, rational approach to trading.
Self-Compassion and Performance
Explore the role of self-compassion in trading performance. Discover techniques to cultivate self-compassion and its positive impact on resilience and decision-making.
Becoming a Master Through Self-Efficacy
Understand the significance of self-efficacy in trading performance. Learn strategies to enhance self-efficacy and its connection to successful trading outcomes.
Mindfulness: The Silent Partner
Let’s get one thing straight: mindfulness for trading isn’t about getting calm, peaceful, or zen. It’s not about taking away the stress or reaching a blissful state whereby movements in markets no longer bother you. That’s not realistic, and that’s not what it’s about.
Dialectical Thinking: The Bias Breaker
Boost your trading mindset by embracing dialectical thinking. This approach integrates opposing perspectives, enhancing flexibility, problem-solving, and decision-making. Learn how to balance conflicting emotions and thoughts to improve resilience and adaptability in trading. Cultivate a mindset that embraces complexity and drives better trading performance.
Reducing Tilt with Defusion
Before understanding defusion, you need to recognize what you’re defusing from. Cognitive fusion is the state where thoughts and reality become indistinguishable. When you’re fused with an idea, you don’t experience it as a thought; you experience it as truth, as fact, as an imperative requiring action.
Risk Management = Threat Management
Master risk management in trading with practical strategies to protect your capital and enhance performance. Learn to navigate market volatility, manage psychological stress, and make informed decisions under pressure. Develop a robust risk management plan tailored to your trading style and goals for consistent success. Discover the essential components for effective risk management in trading.
Values-Driven Risk Management
Unlock the secrets of values-driven risk management to elevate your trading performance. Learn how aligning your trading decisions with core values fosters consistency, reduces emotional stress, and enhances long-term success. Embrace a holistic approach to risk that integrates personal values, ethical considerations, and practical strategies for more effective and fulfilling trading.
Sean Sawyer, MS
Psychotherapist | Trader
Sean Sawyer has been a psychotherapist since 2003 and a full-time trader since 2018. Sean helps traders prevent tilt & repeat the same mistakes by rewiring the brain patterns that fail them under pressure.