This is not Subliminal. This is not Hypnosis. This is PURE Science.
I ran across the concept that sound frequencies could excite neurotransmitters and reduce the obstacles traders now face: limited trading confidence, second guessing investments, emotionally driven decisions, ignoring trading plans, beating oneself up after losses, ultimately, fear of pulling the trigger altogether.
After months of trial and error, I finally landed upon the precise highly tuned frequencies that excite neurotransmitters in traders, and I created a series of programs that my clients could play in the background while they bought and sold. I had to ensure that these programs would not interfere with their task at hand, trading, in a sense, heard but not heard.
The research on which Tuned Trading Frequency is based was developed by scientists M.L. Lenhardt, Department of Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering Program, Medical College of Virginia,and Ruth Skellett, Peter Wang, and Alex M. Clarke, also of the Biomedical Engineering Program, Medical College of Virginia.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Starbucks Experiment - Trading Attention Deficits?
Their research was published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Abel's group aimed to better Abel's group aimed to better understand the role of the nucleoside adenosine in the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with memory function.
"For a long time, researchers have known that sleep deprivation results in increased levels of adenosine in the brain, and has this effect from fruit flies to mice to humans." Abel said. "There is accumulating evidence that this adenosine is really the source of a number of the deficits and impact of sleep deprivation, including memory loss and attention deficits. One thing that underscores that evidence is that caffeine is a drug that blocks the effects of adenosine, so we sometimes refer to this as 'the Starbucks experiment.'"
The Road to Trading Success
To achieve trading success, you must be able to pull the trigger and execute your trading plan. This requires confidence in yourself and your trading strategies. Unfortunately, one by one, trading losses eat away at your confidence, leaving you with a gut wrenching feeling in your stomach every time you pull the trigger. So how can you restore your ability to buy and sell?
Abel's group aimed to better Abel's group aimed to better understand the role of the nucleoside adenosine in the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with memory function.
"For a long time, researchers have known that sleep deprivation results in increased levels of adenosine in the brain, and has this effect from fruit flies to mice to humans." Abel said. "There is accumulating evidence that this adenosine is really the source of a number of the deficits and impact of sleep deprivation, including memory loss and attention deficits. One thing that underscores that evidence is that caffeine is a drug that blocks the effects of adenosine, so we sometimes refer to this as 'the Starbucks experiment.'"
The Road to Trading Success
To achieve trading success, you must be able to pull the trigger and execute your trading plan. This requires confidence in yourself and your trading strategies. Unfortunately, one by one, trading losses eat away at your confidence, leaving you with a gut wrenching feeling in your stomach every time you pull the trigger. So how can you restore your ability to buy and sell?
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Getting Angry While Trading? You Can Reset Your Mind
Science Daily
When we get angry, the heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone production increases, cortisol (the stress hormone) decreases, and the left hemisphere of the brain becomes more stimulated. This is indicated by a new investigation lead by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV) that analyses the changes in the brain's cardiovascular, hormonal and asymmetric activation response when we get angry.
Traders Journey teaches you How To Create a TRIGGER to reset Your Emotions While Trading
"Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes," Neus Herrero, main author of the study and researcher at UV, explains.
The results, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, reveal that anger provokes profound changes in the state of mind of the subjects ("they felt angered and had a more negative state of mind") and in different psychobiological parameters. There is an increase in heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone, but the cortisol level decreases.
When we get angry, the heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone production increases, cortisol (the stress hormone) decreases, and the left hemisphere of the brain becomes more stimulated. This is indicated by a new investigation lead by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV) that analyses the changes in the brain's cardiovascular, hormonal and asymmetric activation response when we get angry.
Traders Journey teaches you How To Create a TRIGGER to reset Your Emotions While Trading
"Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes," Neus Herrero, main author of the study and researcher at UV, explains.
The results, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, reveal that anger provokes profound changes in the state of mind of the subjects ("they felt angered and had a more negative state of mind") and in different psychobiological parameters. There is an increase in heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone, but the cortisol level decreases.
Working Memory Capacity and Spontaneous Emotion Regulation may help Forex Traders Handle Stress
Science Daily
How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically?
Heath A. Demaree, professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, finds clues in what psychologists call "hot" and "cold" psychology.
"People differ with regard to how well they can control their emotions, and one factor that predicts it is non-emotional in nature -- it is a 'cold' cognitive construct," Demaree explains referring to Working Memory Capacity.
Working memory capacity, or WMC, is the "ability to process a stream of information while engaging in a separate task or while being distracted" he said. For example, taking notes during a lecture: you must listen to what the lecturer is saying at the moment, remember what has already been said, and write it down.
People with a high level of working memory capacity were best at using a coping mechanism to make themselves feel better and control negative emotions after being harshly criticized.
This kind of research where "cold" cognitive psychology meets "hot" emotional psychology is a new route providing the foundation for Demaree's recent study: "Working Memory Capacity and Spontaneous Emotion Regulation: High Capacity Predicts Self-Enhancement in Response to Negative Feedback," published in Emotion
How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically?
Heath A. Demaree, professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, finds clues in what psychologists call "hot" and "cold" psychology.
"People differ with regard to how well they can control their emotions, and one factor that predicts it is non-emotional in nature -- it is a 'cold' cognitive construct," Demaree explains referring to Working Memory Capacity.
Working memory capacity, or WMC, is the "ability to process a stream of information while engaging in a separate task or while being distracted" he said. For example, taking notes during a lecture: you must listen to what the lecturer is saying at the moment, remember what has already been said, and write it down.
People with a high level of working memory capacity were best at using a coping mechanism to make themselves feel better and control negative emotions after being harshly criticized.
This kind of research where "cold" cognitive psychology meets "hot" emotional psychology is a new route providing the foundation for Demaree's recent study: "Working Memory Capacity and Spontaneous Emotion Regulation: High Capacity Predicts Self-Enhancement in Response to Negative Feedback," published in Emotion
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Traders Setting Higher Goals More Satisfied?
What Are Your Trading Goals?
Authors Cecile K. Cho (University of California, Riverside) and Venkataramani Johar (Columbia University) compared people who set conservative goals with people who set ambitious goals. They focused on situations in which goals were achieved, and measured the level of satisfaction with the achieved goals.
In one experiment, the researchers asked participants to set a target goal before they collected information on several stocks and picked three. They were then provided with the performance of the three stocks they picked. "When participants find out that their investment goals have been met, those who set a conservative goal are less satisfied than those who set ambitious goals," the authors write. The same was true with a subsequent experiment with puzzles.
"Satisfaction is often driven by comparing the level of performance to a different standard than one's initial goal," the authors write. They found that when participants were reminded of the goals they had set, they reached similar levels of satisfaction, regardless of whether the performance was low or high.
Authors Cecile K. Cho (University of California, Riverside) and Venkataramani Johar (Columbia University) compared people who set conservative goals with people who set ambitious goals. They focused on situations in which goals were achieved, and measured the level of satisfaction with the achieved goals.
In one experiment, the researchers asked participants to set a target goal before they collected information on several stocks and picked three. They were then provided with the performance of the three stocks they picked. "When participants find out that their investment goals have been met, those who set a conservative goal are less satisfied than those who set ambitious goals," the authors write. The same was true with a subsequent experiment with puzzles.
"Satisfaction is often driven by comparing the level of performance to a different standard than one's initial goal," the authors write. They found that when participants were reminded of the goals they had set, they reached similar levels of satisfaction, regardless of whether the performance was low or high.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Trend Climbers - Overcome Trading Anxiety & Pull The Trigger
Scientists believe that your brain has a built-in “negativity bias.” In other words, as we evolved over millions of years, dodging sticks and chasing carrots, it was a lot more important to notice, react to, and remember sticks than it was for carrots.
The negativity bias shows up in lots of ways. For example, studies have found that:
• In a relationship, it typically takes five good interactions to make up for a single bad one.
• People will work much harder to avoid losing $100 than they will work to gain the same amount of money.
• Painful experiences are much more memorable than pleasurable ones.
Perhaps this has shown up in your trading as fear of Pulling the Trigger? now you can release those past negative trading feelings and rebuild your confidence.
In your own mind, what do you usually think about at the end of the day? The fifty things that went right, or the one that went wrong? Like the guy who cut you off in traffic, what you wish you had said differently to a co-worker, or the one thing on your To Do list that didn’t get done . . .
Besides the sheer injustice of it, acquiring a big pile of negative experiences in implicit memory banks naturally makes a person more anxious, irritable, and blue.
The result: a brain that is tilted against lasting contentment and fulfillment.
But you don’t have to accept this bias! By tilting toward the good – “good” in the practical sense of that which brings more happiness to oneself and more helpfulness to others – you merely level the playing field.
The negativity bias shows up in lots of ways. For example, studies have found that:
• In a relationship, it typically takes five good interactions to make up for a single bad one.
• People will work much harder to avoid losing $100 than they will work to gain the same amount of money.
• Painful experiences are much more memorable than pleasurable ones.
Perhaps this has shown up in your trading as fear of Pulling the Trigger? now you can release those past negative trading feelings and rebuild your confidence.
In your own mind, what do you usually think about at the end of the day? The fifty things that went right, or the one that went wrong? Like the guy who cut you off in traffic, what you wish you had said differently to a co-worker, or the one thing on your To Do list that didn’t get done . . .
Besides the sheer injustice of it, acquiring a big pile of negative experiences in implicit memory banks naturally makes a person more anxious, irritable, and blue.
The result: a brain that is tilted against lasting contentment and fulfillment.
But you don’t have to accept this bias! By tilting toward the good – “good” in the practical sense of that which brings more happiness to oneself and more helpfulness to others – you merely level the playing field.
Trading Competition, Is It About YOU? Don't Take It Personally
Is it about you? The Practice Don’t take it personally.
Why?
Here’s an updated parable from the ancient Taoist teacher, Chuang-Tzu: Imagine that you are floating in a canoe on a slow-moving river, having a Sunday picnic with a friend. Suddenly there is a loud thump on the side of the canoe, and it rolls over. You come up sputtering, and what do you see? Somebody has snuck up on your canoe, flipped it over for a joke, and is laughing at you. How do you feel?
OK. Now imagine the exact same situation again: the picnic in a canoe, loud thump, dumped into the river, coming up sputtering, and what do you see? A large submerged log has drifted downstream and bumped into your canoe. This time, how do you feel?
The facts are the same in each case: cold and wet, picnic ruined. But when you feel personally picked on, everything feels worse. The thing is, most of what bumps into us in life – including emotional reactions from others, traffic jams, illness, or mistreatment at work – is like an impersonal log put in motion by 10,000 causes upstream.
Why?
Here’s an updated parable from the ancient Taoist teacher, Chuang-Tzu: Imagine that you are floating in a canoe on a slow-moving river, having a Sunday picnic with a friend. Suddenly there is a loud thump on the side of the canoe, and it rolls over. You come up sputtering, and what do you see? Somebody has snuck up on your canoe, flipped it over for a joke, and is laughing at you. How do you feel?
OK. Now imagine the exact same situation again: the picnic in a canoe, loud thump, dumped into the river, coming up sputtering, and what do you see? A large submerged log has drifted downstream and bumped into your canoe. This time, how do you feel?
The facts are the same in each case: cold and wet, picnic ruined. But when you feel personally picked on, everything feels worse. The thing is, most of what bumps into us in life – including emotional reactions from others, traffic jams, illness, or mistreatment at work – is like an impersonal log put in motion by 10,000 causes upstream.
Trading Stress Reduced By Drinking Tea?
SYDNEY: Daily cups of tea can help you recover more quickly from the stresses of everyday life by affecting levels of the stress hormone cortisol, a new British study shows.
Published in the international journal Psychopharmacology, the study found that people who drank tea were able to de-stress more quickly than those who drank a tea substitute. Following a stressful event, tea-drinkers also had lower levels of cortisol in their blood when compared with a control group who drank placebo tea.
"Drinking tea has traditionally been associated with stress relief," said co-author Andrew Steptoe, of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Until now, however, scientific evidence for the relaxing properties of tea has been quite limited, he said.
Published in the international journal Psychopharmacology, the study found that people who drank tea were able to de-stress more quickly than those who drank a tea substitute. Following a stressful event, tea-drinkers also had lower levels of cortisol in their blood when compared with a control group who drank placebo tea.
"Drinking tea has traditionally been associated with stress relief," said co-author Andrew Steptoe, of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Until now, however, scientific evidence for the relaxing properties of tea has been quite limited, he said.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Day Traders, Walking Correlates With Brain Volume
Walking Correlates With Brain Volume
Seniors committed to walking had larger gray-matter volume and less cognitive impairment years later than those with more sedentary habits, researchers said.
Among 299 cognitively normal participants in the large Cardiovascular Health Study, those in the top quartile of distance walked each week at baseline had markedly higher gray-matter volumes when measured by MRI nine years later compared with participants in the lower three quartiles, according to Kirk Erickson, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues.Action Points
Note that a large amount of physical activity was necessary to detect a difference in brain structure over a nine-year follow-up period.
Point out that as an observational study, causality cannot be determined and there remains the possiblity of confounding factors.
Direct correlations between weekly walking distance and the likelihood of later diagnosis with mild cognitive impairment or dementia fell just short of statistical significance (P=0.07), they reported online in the Oct. 19 issue of Neurology.
But they did find significant associations between reduced risk of cognitive impairment and increased volume of three gray-matter regions -- the inferior frontal gyrus (OR 1.99, P<0.01), the hippocampal formation (OR 2.01, P<0.009), and the supplementary motor area (OR 2.24, P<0.01).
Seniors committed to walking had larger gray-matter volume and less cognitive impairment years later than those with more sedentary habits, researchers said.
Among 299 cognitively normal participants in the large Cardiovascular Health Study, those in the top quartile of distance walked each week at baseline had markedly higher gray-matter volumes when measured by MRI nine years later compared with participants in the lower three quartiles, according to Kirk Erickson, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues.Action Points
Note that a large amount of physical activity was necessary to detect a difference in brain structure over a nine-year follow-up period.
Point out that as an observational study, causality cannot be determined and there remains the possiblity of confounding factors.
Direct correlations between weekly walking distance and the likelihood of later diagnosis with mild cognitive impairment or dementia fell just short of statistical significance (P=0.07), they reported online in the Oct. 19 issue of Neurology.
But they did find significant associations between reduced risk of cognitive impairment and increased volume of three gray-matter regions -- the inferior frontal gyrus (OR 1.99, P<0.01), the hippocampal formation (OR 2.01, P<0.009), and the supplementary motor area (OR 2.24, P<0.01).
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Create Your New Trading Mindset
You can regain control of your mind.
Your mind has taken over and you are on autopilot.
Are you ready to regain your confidence and release the past.
The highly tuned trader frequencies can get you there in record time.
See the images the frequencies have created
For info on how you can get started visit www.mytrading-mind.com
Your mind has taken over and you are on autopilot.
Are you ready to regain your confidence and release the past.
The highly tuned trader frequencies can get you there in record time.
See the images the frequencies have created
For info on how you can get started visit www.mytrading-mind.com
Power and Choice - Is Trading The Right Choice for YOU?
Power and Choice Are Interchangeable: It's All About Controlling Your Life
ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2011) — Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other. For example, if people lack power, they clamor for choice, and if they have an abundance of choice they don't strive as much for power.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2011) — Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other. For example, if people lack power, they clamor for choice, and if they have an abundance of choice they don't strive as much for power.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Early to Rise -Your Traders Journey
Before you begin trading each day, take a moment to get into the zone.
Your Traders Journey, a reframe your brain program, teaches you a secret that will get you into a zone of relaxation before you begin trading. It is also an essential tool to manage the adrenaline rush after a winning trade or to reset your mind after a losing trade. This program is to be listened to with headphones, your eyes closed while you relax. You’ll want to experience this often to release stress from daily living.
Your Traders Journey, a reframe your brain program, teaches you a secret that will get you into a zone of relaxation before you begin trading. It is also an essential tool to manage the adrenaline rush after a winning trade or to reset your mind after a losing trade. This program is to be listened to with headphones, your eyes closed while you relax. You’ll want to experience this often to release stress from daily living.
Stock Pattern Analysis
Every trader should begin with Part Time Trader (even if you are trading full time). Once your brain has adjusted to this Frequency and you are trading successfully, you can progress through the other three programs, Fundamental Analyst, Technical Analyst and Sky’s the Limit. Listen while you sit and relax, or while you work, while you study, while you read, exercise, and especially while you are trading. You should use these programs as much as possible, and listen anywhere that you either have access to a computer. Headphones are not required. Be sure to trade on the simulator first to give your brain time to adjust to each frequency
Fundamental Analysts...For those of you who spend time analyzing corporate financial statements, management teams, competitive advantages, competitors, sectors, and overall economic factors that may affect the corporation's well being, there is a different program for you. The frequency tempo and accompanying affirmations are a bit faster than the Part-Time Trading program. Again, this should help you remain calm while making key decisions about your investment future.
http://www.mytrading-mind.com
Fundamental Analysts...For those of you who spend time analyzing corporate financial statements, management teams, competitive advantages, competitors, sectors, and overall economic factors that may affect the corporation's well being, there is a different program for you. The frequency tempo and accompanying affirmations are a bit faster than the Part-Time Trading program. Again, this should help you remain calm while making key decisions about your investment future.
http://www.mytrading-mind.com
The Subtle Trap of Trading
I Could Just Trade Forever
Ever hear of a "Runner's High?" Runner's high occurs during long, strenuous workouts, when the level of intensity is high and breathing becomes difficult. It was long thought that endorphins caused this feeling of being able to run forever. But as of late, the endorfin rush has been called into question. Chief Science Officer for the American Council on Exercise, Cedric Bryant, PhD, now says that, "while our circular levels of endorphins might be up, whether that impacts a person's psychological outlook output directly is probably not that likely."
Instead of endorphins, Bryant examines the roll neurotransmitters, especially Dopamine, play in running. "These neurotransmitters also tend to be released and produced in higher concentrations during exercise, so people think that it may be some of these other biochemical substances, aside from the endorphins, that might be responsible for this effect," Bryant said.
You can manage your trading highs as well when you learn to manage your brain.
Think what would it be like to feel you could just trade forever?
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Free Personal Stress Trading - Custom Solutions by Kaayla Halen
Free Personal Stress Trading Level Test
Understand Your Stress Level While Trading
Stress can vary from trader to trader, so what one person can handle may make another person feel overwhelmed. Identifying our trading stress level is the first step towards figuring out exactly what we need to do to lower our stress, and ultimately feel better about trading
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By answering these questions we can help you to analyze your trading stress level.
These questions about your trading life will help put your stress levels into perspective
Answer Yes or no after each question.
Do you feel dread when thinking about the next day of trading.
Do you often multi task when you are watching the market during trading?
Do you get easily frustrated when the market doesn’t go where you think it will?
Do you have heavy debt or have continuous difficulty paying your bills?
Have you been recently unemployed?
Have you been unemployed for a long period of time within the last year?
Do you push yourself to take a trade?
Do you take time to relax before trading?
Are you having unusual difficulties with family or friends?
Do you have an illness in the family or have any personal health issues?
Have you separated or gone through a divorce?
Are you trading with scared money?
Do you have a specific trading schedule?
Do you have a regular exercise routine?
Do you generally eat a balance Diet?
Do you have a good support system concerning your trading
With family friends or co-workers?
Do you enjoy leisure time?
Do you have a trusted friend that you confide your problems and accomplishment in?
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
When you include your first name and email address,
You will receive a custom high frequency program designed by Kaayla
to help you manage your stress every evening while you sleep.
Email to kaayla411@gmail.com
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