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Gratitude – My Journey By, Kala Tharp

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I have so many wonderful memories with Van. Little did I know what I was getting myself into when our journey began in 1992. Van opened up to me a whole new vocabulary and a very different world. Let’s put it this way, life was never boring around Van. I had never met anyone who worked on himself every day like Van did. Self-work was so important to him and he always encouraged me to work on myself too. I admit that I was a very difficult student. I resisted …

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Greatness at a Glance By, RJ Hixson

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This is our final Tharp’s Thoughts newsletter – a kind of end. Rather than being the destination, however, we have arrived at a midpoint. Before we consider your journey ahead, let’s make a quick assessment of where we are.  What a long, wonderful, rich, and transformative journey we have had with Dr. Van Keith Tharp as a guide! How best do we make a brief assessment of where we are and how far we have come? How about in two ways that Van would probably appreciate: with a model and …

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Gifts From Van: Part Two

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A big thank you goes to all of you who are reading this newsletter. We have two more weeks to continue this publication. As in our previous issue we will take this time to feature VTI team members, partners, instructors and Super Trader coaches as we share our Gifts from Van with you. Our final message, next week, on November 15th will have an article from RJ Hixson and a final Gifts from Van message from Kala Tharp. We continue today with Part Two, of Gifts from Van. Strong Connections …

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Learn to Dissociate By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. If you wanted to know what peak performance trading looks like, you could examine a market genius and study how that person approaches her craft. You also could look at a genius in some other area and notice if some of his behavior could be applied to trading. In that regard, I’ve been thinking about how Einstein would think about the modern markets. I …

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Albert Einstein on the Markets: Parts 1 & 2 By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. PART 1 Note from Van: I am particularly indebted to the insights of Robert Dilts in producing this article. Robert is one of my favorite NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) teachers and he is also the author of a series of books entitled Strategies of Genius. The second book of the series (out of print right now) is entirely devoted to Einstein so Dilts did much of …

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Determine Your Time Frame For Trading By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Below is an excerpt from Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom2nd ed 2007 McGraw Hill, Van Tharp How active do you want to be in the market? What is your time frame for trading? Do you want to have a very long-term outlook, probably making a change in your portfolio only once a quarter? Do you want to be a stock trader who holds …

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Scaffolding: A New Tharp Think Concept By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. One of my Super Traders is almost finished with the program and just submitted his three trading systems for approval. His three different systems each trade a particular market under various conditions. There was nothing unusual about his systems until we got to his SQNSM scores — they were all in the “Holy Grail” range — mostly above 10. Now those results were based on …

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Understanding Your Motivation Criteria by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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People usually make decisions or judgments based upon certain criteria. Whether you are deciding what to have for lunch or who to marry, you have criteria for the decision that help you determine which way to go. For example, think about becoming a Super Trader — and let’s say you could consistently make 2% (or more) in the market each month no matter what the market type was. Think about how that would feel. So see yourself doing that, feel really good, and that could motivate you to take action. …

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Understanding The Phenomenon of Projection by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. A presupposition of my book Trading Beyond the Matrix is that the world we live in is all made up. We create it through our language, through our beliefs, and through our evaluations about things. What’s out there in the real world is just energy, vibrations. Our sensory systems pick up a small portion of those vibrations. For example, the cones in your eye pick up …

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Why Science Evolves and Humanity Stagnates: Or I Hate You For Your Discrimination By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information or missing images. Have you ever wondered why science continues to evolve, developing more complex models, explaining more, and allowing us to create more while humanity stagnates and continues to be in conflict — often approaching war? All you have to do is look at American politics (or at politics of any other nation for that matter) to see the idea in action. Alfred Korzybski left Europe during …

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