[zdo]

You are invited to apply for a full scholarship to participate in an upcoming 4 session trading psychology webinar with Rande Howell.

If you are interested, please return to me., zdo, a 1 or 2 paragragh (ie very short) description via PM of your need to work on your trading and self at this level. Also address your level of commitment to completing the course.

This offer is open to traders of all levels of experience who see value in including non trading methods work in their development as a trader.

zdo


Note to admin: Please allow the one duplicate post found at
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...olarships.html
and / or move the first thread to announcements.
Thanks.

[gosu]

Just curious as to why Rande is not touting the webinar and the "scholarship" himself.

I am in a feisty mood and offer this challenge to Rande:

If you are up to having your webinar reviewed by a seasoned trader, offer me a scholarship and I will attend your webinar with an open mind and upon its completion I will provide a thorough and brutally honest review to you and this community.

[zdo]

gosu,

Rande could also offer you or others a scholarship if he likes...maybe PM him if you don't like the idea of 'jumping through my hoops' ...
hope he is applying the same criteria I am - applicant's real interest and need and not the promise of a testimonial...

zdo

[gosu]

So you are operating on your own and without his knowledge. OK, that clears it up a bit.

It would seem that the site owner does not prohibit getting free advertising so I was just curious as to the method of plugging the seminar via the offer of a "scholarship" through an agent.

[zdo]

My interest is in benefitting traders, not marketing.
If the site allows this, many thanks. If not, so be it.

... and Rande is aware I'm doing this ... just to keep everything above board...

Thousands and thousands of traders out there who put thousands and thousands of hours into method / edge / market reading... this is a chance for a few of them to complement all that work with a few hours of self development work.

[gosu]

Originally Posted by zdo »

My interest is in benefitting traders, not marketing.
If the site allows this, many thanks. If not, so be it.

... and Rande is aware I'm doing this ... just to keep everything above board...

Thousands and thousands of traders out there who put thousands and thousands of hours into method / edge / market reading... this is a chance for a few of them to complement all that work with a few hours of self development work.

Whether or not your motives are altruistic, you are plugging the webinar through your "scholarship" announcement. It doesn't bother me one bit. As I stated, I was just curious as to why he would go through you, given the lax vendor oversight on this site. It was just idle curiosity.

I take it that you are a satisfied client and thus the reason for your endorsement. I am rather skeptical as you already know. But I limit my skepticism to what I've gleaned from his posts and articles since I am not a customer.

[zdo]

Originally Posted by gosu »

I take it that you are a satisfied client and thus the reason for your endorsement.

...more truth in ‘advertising’ ...
I am not a client (at least not yet)
I have read and reviewed his first book (at http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...nner-game.html) and most of the articles he has published herein. I have also asked him some questions here on TL. That is the extent of my contact with him.

While I have suggested to him that spending some time actually trading would vastly improve his rapport with traders, I did not, within that perspective, suggest that trading experience would improve his ability to help traders progress. In every performance ‘game’ / work, while they have coaches who have previously mastered the art, they also - at the highest levels of every performance work - engage specialized coaches who can assist in raising the ‘mental game’ without knowing much at all about the specific operational skills involved…this is an opportunity to expose yourself to that kind of coaching and improve at those levels.

Why am I promoting this webinar?
Fear. Whether it is episodic or habitual, fear degrades ‘options awareness’. It interferes with choice. It lowers the level of performance in a ‘performance’ world.

Without using the same terms, they are talking about the same basic thing over in the most recent posts of http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...leading-9.html right now.
A trader’s ‘markets’ must remain a ‘good’ kind of unpredictability and mystery and there is only one way that is possible – in neuro terms, both amygdales must remain oriented to opportunity instead of possible threats ie in ‘effortless’ high performance the neuro system and peptide 'juices' must operate in an absence of fear

I deal with my fear by capitalization and never letting any single position go into size or adversity to where it ‘hurts’. I have self congruent edges and multiples more position / screen time than whole groups of our noobs combined, BUT if I had to start with a small account I would have the same fear obstacles poorly capitalized noob traders have. My almost 25 years of perseverance in this field is telling you: Regardless of current experience and performance levels - those who man up and avail themselves of this opportunity will be glad they did in the long term.

[Rande Howell]

Originally Posted by gosu »

Just curious as to why Rande is not touting the webinar and the "scholarship" himself.

I am in a feisty mood and offer this challenge to Rande:

If you are up to having your webinar reviewed by a seasoned trader, offer me a scholarship and I will attend your webinar with an open mind and upon its completion I will provide a thorough and brutally honest review to you and this community.

gosu

My intent is to help some traders build psychological skills necessary for their trading. It is not to seek approval from someone. I asked zdo to moderate a forum because feedback in the past from this particular course indicated that having a forum to discuss would help integrate the work. zdo over time has also proven level headed and genuinely motivated to help others learn -- and not appear as an overlord. These traits seem appropriate for a moderator. And zdo graciously accepted my invitation. His acceptance allows me to leverage my time more effectively.

You are welcome to apply for the scholarship, or you could register at the course price. You could bring your opinions to the forum on TL like every other trader. If you are a trader who wants the opportunity to engage this work and learn, then please apply. Then, people of all levels of trading will have the opportunity to assess the value of Developing Traders State of Mind. And walk away with something intended as a gift.

Rande Howell