What do gymnasts and traders have in common? It sounds like the start of a bad joke, right?
The answer: much more than you might think.
Recently I attended my daughter’s gymnastics class—Saturday morning, half asleep, watching through the small glass window from the parents room as she jumped and tumbled her way around the gym.
This is a “fun” gymnastics class for small kids. But this was the first week where I understood the method in the madness of a class full of pre-schoolers doing what seemed like random playful activities.
I started to see how each of the activities that the kids were doing was the foundation of a proper gymnastics move.
- Doing a bunny hop while placing two hands on the ground – foundation of a cartwheel
- Sliding along a high cube on their belly with their hands on the ground – foundation of a handstand
- Rocking backwards and touching their feet off the floor above their heads – foundation of a backwards tumble
For every gymnastics skill that the kids will eventually go on to learn, there is a series of smaller “building block” skills to master.
With this logical and systematic progression, even a more advanced move like a backflip can eventually be conquered with high levels of confidence and minimal risk.
The secret is that each skill in the series builds on the one previously. And they eventually gel together to culminate in the fluid and intuitive execution of a complex move.
It’s not just motor skills that require this phased approach to mastery—it’s the exact same principle with cultivating your trading mental edge.
Perfecting The Trading Mental Edge
When you set out with the intention of “achieving pro-level discipline and consistency” in your trading, that is akin to the novice gymnast being faced with the challenge of wanting to perfect a backflip—it’s entirely possible, but it requires a strategic and repetitive training regime.
This is an aspect of trading psychology that is often overlooked.
Many traders believe that if they watch the right YouTube videos, read the right books or follow the best gurus, they will discover the “secret” to mindset-mastery that can unlock large profits in the market.
But, in reality, there is no one “holy grail” secret or solution.
It’s the consistent, daily conditioning of your emotional control and your mindset inside and outside of the market that will help you reach peak performance.
Follow The Blueprint
If you are currently struggling with breaking your trading rules; revenge trading, ignoring daily loss limits, hesitating to take trades, jumping out of winning trades too early…or even blowing up accounts…
…then it may feel like you are light-years away from the pro-level execution that you are craving.
Even with the dedication and discipline of a Marine in terms of a daily mental conditioning practice, it can still be daunting to try and jump from rocking backwards on the floor to pulling off a triple back flip.
But, in truth, it’s only daunting when you don’t have a blueprint to follow.
If you treat mastering your mental edge like a series of smaller, building-block skills that culminate in pro-level trading plan execution, your chances of success increase exponentially.
Then the challenge of conquering your trading psychology becomes a simple three-step process:
- Find out the key skills that need to be acquired.
- Understand the linear sequence in which to tackle each skill to increase your chances of success.
- Commit to working on your mindset and psychology on a daily basis so that you condition your mind to help you achieve the results you desire.
Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™: A proven system for cultivating unbreakable trading psychology.
This is the exact approach that I took when creating my signature Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™ program to help traders overcome destructive habits and reach elite-level discipline and consistency.
I developed the system over 16 years of 1-1 performance coaching with traders, athletes, business leaders and professionals in other high-performance arenas.
In working with thousands of clients, I found that in every 1-1 coaching program we ended up following a very similar trajectory in terms of the topics addressed, the skills that were mastered and even the sequence in which we tackled each skill.
This was true whether I was working with an athlete, pilot or CEO—there was a natural methodology emerging from the coaching process.
In 2021, after working with many traders on a 1-1 basis and seeing the same methodology proving itself yet in the trading arena, I committed the system to a formal structure and created the Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™ online program.
This is an 8-module, comprehensive online program that helps you to systematically sharpen your mindset, discipline and consistency for peak trading performance.
The program follows a logical progression where each module builds on the foundation of the one before —just like the gymnasts gearing up for their backflip.
We start by auditing all the factors that can possibly impact your trading performance, then establish a clear goal-setting and tracking process for 100% accountability.
This sets us up to then systematically work through every aspect of the mental edge from deep subconscious limiting beliefs that are holding you back in your trading, to eradicating biases and mind traps, bolstering resilience to pressure and setting up the high performance routines and habits that can carry you to success.
The result? You…
- ✅ Decode the root causes of destructive habits in your trading.
- ✅ Systematically build the mindset, discipline and consistency of an elite trader.
- ✅ Finish the program with a deeply personalised mental training routine that becomes an integral part of your daily and weekly trading.
- ✅ Acquire a complete skill set that allows you to quickly decode and resolve any future trading psychology challenge—essentially helping you to become your own trading psychology coach.
Trader Case Study – Meleen Sheth’s Measurable Results in Just Six Weeks
Meleen Sheth was a trader who took the Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™ course to address some costly challenges with his trading psychology.
Meleen had hit a wall in his trading. He was struggling with exiting his trades early and not following his profit-taking process.
Crucially, Meleen followed the Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™ system to a tee. He didn’t jump from one topic to the next. He systematically built his trading mental edge block by block.
The results? He experienced measurable improvements in discipline, consistency and profitability in just six weeks. Some of his key wins included:
- Taking 100% A+ setups as opposed to 75% before starting the course
- Following his profit taking process for 93% of trades as opposed to 61% prior to taking the course
- Increase in trading profits and growing his trading account
In his video testimonial for the course, Meleen breaks down the exact steps he took that worked for him:
- Identified process and performance goals that would eventually lead to achieving PNL-based goals.
- Decoded the subconscious blocks that were holding him back.
- Narrowed down habits that were supportive and unsupportive of what he was trying to achieve.
- Clarified triggers for good and bad habits.
- Built a Decision-Tree to help him bring about the results he wanted.
But this isn’t a once-off phenomenon. Many other traders who have taken the program—and followed the system in its entirety—have experienced similar improvements in discipline and consistency. You can check out other trader testimonials here.
Your Next Steps
If mastering your trading psychology currently feels harder than Simone Biles’ triple backflip, start by eradicating the overwhelm.
Break it down into a set of skills that can be tackled and mastered one step at a time.
And if you want to skip the trial and error, the Go Deep to Level Up Your Trading™ program provides a ready-made blueprint to accelerate your progress.
Check it out here and start building your mental edge today.
Rooting for your trading success,
Créde
Créde Performance
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