There’s no other job quite like being a trader. You live on the very edge of the human experience, using highly leveraged vehicles to capture portions of monies flows on the world’s economic grid. Sometimes you capture discrete portions of those money flows by holding positions measured in nanoseconds, arbitraging for differences. Other times you may hold directional positions for weeks, months, even years, profiting from longer-term trends.
Either way, there’s a lot of stress and competition inherent in the work. No one is just going to give you their money no matter how good you are, no matter how fast your computers are, no matter how advanced your quant systems are. The competition has talented people and big computers too.
In short, the market will find a way to test you and/or your systems by gap-filling, back-filling, poaching your stops, or taking the opposite sides of your trades. There are no guarantees for anybody and someone is always trying to replace you at the top of the pyramid.
All in all, trading is a job unique unto itself—high risk, high reward. It’s like being a professional athlete: everybody wants to do it, but few can actually make money consistently at the highest levels.
But there’s a cost to success: time lost with family and friends, anxiety and stress related to office politics, the need to be “on the job” 24/7, the need to be constantly on the alert for new technologies, new quant formulas, new local and international regulations, new competitors and other disruptive innovations which may make your systems and methods obsolete.
The truth is, no matter how successful you are today, there’s always someone out there targeting your profits—such is the nature of a zero-sum game.
And that’s not even mentioning certain “personality flaws” which all people have, and which, the market seems to have a “nose” for sniffing out: the inability to cut losers, the inability to ride winners, a lack of discipline to stick with your system, dealing with negative self-talk in high stress moments, the loss of confidence that comes from a string of bad trades, the feeling of being frozen by fear, the feeling of missing out on life because you devote all your attention to the markets.
All of these issues can be helped with hypnotherapy.
By connecting directly with your subconscious, hypnotherapy can help you find and heal old blockages, old patterns, old habits which may be hurting your performance. Hypnotherapy can help you find a way to put a barrier between you and the stress you face every day. It can make you more creative by stripping away old self-imposed limitations and giving you a new way to “see” or measure the markets (think: “Moneyball”). Hypnotherapy can also help you discover a better work/life balance which, in the long run, will be better for your health and thus your bank account. What’s the point of making all that money anyway, if you don’t live long enough to enjoy it?
I work fast. You won’t be locked up for years doing therapies which may or may not work. You will feel better beginning with the very first appointment. I recommend at least three 2-hour sessions to fully uncover and heal one issue. That’s six hours. Six hours out of your life. Working with you, we will design a personalized program to uncover and resolve any self-sabotaging behaviors which may be hindering your performance.
I can meet you before the markets open, at your lunch hour, or after the market close. I can stop by your place of work if you want to keep your normal office routine. I’m also available for one-hour “relaxation” sessions, if you feel the need to “get your head out of the mixing bowl.”
Sound good?
Fill out the form on the Contact page or send me an email: tcw@EnglishHypnosisParis.com
We will make a first appointment and you can get back to work, doing the job you love, doing the work only a relative few individuals on this planet are capable of doing.