Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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 Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Having modeled success in numerous areas of trading—the trading process, designing systems, and position sizing™ strategies—it still totally amazes me to see how we are almost “hard-wired” to do all the wrong things. It’s almost as if we were put on this planet to determine how many ways we can mess up our trading and even our lives. How do you respond to a […]

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 Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. We live in a world of polarities: good vs. bad, up vs. down, young vs. old, happy vs. sad. The “win and loss” polarity is just one example of many. In most cases, we tend to judge the polarity in that we prefer one side and dislike the other side. However, one of the secrets to life is to make both sides of the

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 Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. When I look back at my early experiences trading, my perception is that I made every mistake that any of you have ever made and perhaps more.  In fact, I have three early memories of market disasters.  The first is my memory trading Poloron, which I’ve already written about.  I’ve already talked about how everything I seemed to remember now seems as if it