Chart Guys – Meditation for Traders

Train and work with your mind and your emotions.

As a trader, you’re more similar to an endurance athlete than you might think, unless you’re both, then you’ll get this comparison pretty easily. An endurance athlete must take a long-term approach in their day-to-day training as they prepare for races over the months, years, and decades. Specifically they steadily train and cultivate their physiological and aerobic capacities in order to optimize their long-term performance and results.

Similarly, as a trader you are continually training for long-term, sustained financial success, and you’re an endurance monster, patiently watching and analyzing charts. Instead of training your physiology, I would argue that you as a trader are, at a fundamental level, training the power of your mind more than anything. Your mind is both the oxygen and the core muscle of your trading. You continue to sharpen your mind and perceptive capacity to more deeply understand trading, charts, markets, etc. You also work with your emotional responses and reactivity, whether FOMO, FUD, or mania, so as to not let reactivity hijack the power of your mind and attention to see clearly and make smart decisions in real-time.

Given how central working with your mind and emotions are as a trader, committing to training your mind directly in conscious practice you can greatly improve both your success in trading as well as your recovery, wellbeing, and joy away from the charts.

In this course I’m offering you several tools and practices for you to train and work with your mind and your emotions at the most foundational and core level of your being, in the same way an endurance athlete trains their biological systems for performance in races and in optimizing their recovery.

What You’ll Learn In Meditation for Traders

Module 1

• Introduction
• Introduction Video
• Course Overview

Module 2

• Clarifications and Advice
• Recorded Guided Meditations
• Chair vs. Cushion
• Physical Posture
• How To Use The Recordings
• Quality Over Quantity
• Getting More Help

Module 3

• Regular Meditation Practice
• Advice on Setting Up Regular Meditation

Module 4

• Disentangling from the Charts
• Disentangling from the Charts
• Version 1 – Seated at Computer, Screens On
• Version 2 – Computer + Screens Off

Module 5

• Clearing the Deck Post-Trading
• Gathering and Releasing Attention

Module 6

• Power of Attention
• Harnessing the Power of Attention
• Techniques
• Flavours
• Technique 1 – Breath
• Technique 2 – Triangle Mouth

Module 7

• Settling in the Body
• Overview
• Physical Pain
• Nervous System
• Limits Your Capacities of Mind
• Embodiment Shift Practice

Module 8

• Advanced Somatic Meditation
• Aware Of vs. Inhabiting The Body
• Pervasive Space
• Practice – Aware vs. Inhabiting
• Practice – Matter, Energy, Space
• Practice – Simple Somatic Meditation

Module 9

• Get Moving
• Moving Meditations Overview
• Seated Meditation
• Standing Meditation
• Walking Meditation
• Advanced Standing, Walking, and Movement Practices
• Moving Arms as Wholeness and Subtlety
• Cultivating Wholeness while Standing
• Walking with Attention to Points on the Feet

Module 10

• Setting Intention
• Intro Video
• Setting Your Daily Intention with a Question
• Settling and Inquiry – What is needed?

Module 11

• Celebrating a Win
• Celebrating a Winning Trade or Day of Trading
• Embodying the Win
• Spontaneous Gratitude

Module 12

• Dealing with a Loss
• Dealing with a Losing Trade or a Tough Day of Trading
• Working with the content of your difficult experience
• Embodied Shadow Work Meditation
• Outloud Meditation or Social Meditation
• There is Noting
• Allowing Noting
• May it Arise Noting

Module 13

• Outloud / Social Meditation
• Solo and Social Meditation
• There is Six Sense Noting
• There is Noting (Freestyle)
• May it Arise
• Allowing Noting
• Gratitude Noting

Module 14

• Six Ways to Meditate

Module 15

• Go Deeper