C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Magazine
Your guide to building resilience and making confident decisions. Align your actions with your values to boost mental clarity and self-awareness. We turn challenges into growth through informed, decisive steps, helping you lead a mindful, values-driven life.
Overcoming Strategy Hopping in Trading
Key Points: Identifying Psychological Triggers: Strategy hopping is often fueled by psychological triggers such as impatience, self-doubt, fear of missing out, and perfectionism. Understanding Emotional Coping Mechanisms: Traders frequently switch strategies to cope...
Is There an Upside to Avoidance?
Key Points Stress Pivoting offers emotional stability by temporarily setting aside stressors, creating space for more effective decision-making. Intentional Stress Pivoting is a buffer, allowing us to pause and regain focus, which is essential in high-stress...
Why a Trading Psychology Plan is Essential
Key Points: Establishing Mental Routines: Repetition creates disciplined habits that stabilize your mindset during trading. Emotional Resilience: A trading psychology plan helps regulate strong emotions, like fear and greed, through habituation, allowing you to stay...
Leveraging Contextual Trading Psychology Pt. 2
Key Points: Retail traders face unique challenges, including home distractions and the lack of structured oversight, making context management essential. The Sound Psych Process emphasizes context and values to reshape trading environments and align actions with core...
State Dependant Learning Matters
Key Points: State-dependent learning explains why skills are best recalled and applied when one's mental and emotional state matches the conditions in which they were learned, making it vital to train under realistic conditions. This is also referred to as...
Performance Killers Pt. 4: Overcompensation
Key Points: Overcompensation is a coping mechanism where individuals overcorrect to mask perceived weaknesses, leading to repeated mistakes and emotional strain. Traders often overcompensate after losses by taking impulsive actions, which leads to greater risk and...
Performance Killers Pt. 3: Avoidance
Key Points: Avoidance, while providing temporary relief, often perpetuates long-term emotional struggles and hinders personal growth. Traders frequently avoid admitting mistakes and seeking feedback, which leads to repeated errors and emotional strain. Confronting...
Performance Killers Pt. 2: The Weight of Guilt
Key Points: Guilt in trading often stems from early schemas, driving overcompensation behaviors that lead to burnout. Overworking, overcompensating, and lacking boundaries are common manifestations of guilt, reducing long-term decision-making effectiveness. Managing...
Performance Killers Pt. 1: Shame the Silent Saboteur
Key Points: Recognize and label shame using cognitive defusion to create emotional distance from shame-based thoughts. Practice self-compassion and reframe failures as learning opportunities to reduce shame’s impact. Set small, achievable goals and use mindfulness to...
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Sean Sawyer, MS
Author | Performance Coach
Sean Sawyer, a licensed psychotherapist since 2003 and full-time trader since 2017. Sean uniquely blends psychology and trading, offering insights from both worlds. His experience in psychological trauma and performance psychology helps individuals master decision-making and resilience in high-pressure situations.