Ted Walls, MA, LCMHC is co-founder of Wisemind Trading, a leader on the Psychology team at Warrior Trading, and a Psychotherapist in private practice. Ted’s work focuses on teaching heart-centered mindfulness and self compassion to help traders understand the psychology of trading and develop the skills necessary for dealing with the emotional swings trading can bring. For nearly a decade Ted has been the personal trading psychology coach for Ross Cameron, founder and CEO of Warrior Trading. Ted’s wisdom and warm, compassionate presence provide traders with invaluable guidance on their journey towards success.
Diane Hicks, MSW, LICSW is co-founder of Wisemind Trading, a leader on the Warrior Trading Psychology Team as well as a psychotherapist in private practice. Diane utilizes her training as a psychotherapist, mindfulness practitioner, certified yoga and meditation instructor, and former classroom teacher to guide traders in working with emotions that arise through trading as well as cultivating an understanding of thought and decision-making processes. Diane’s combined background in psychotherapy and education gives her perspective on how thoughts and emotions are a function of trading stage and competency level. Her insight as a psychotherapist helps students to pinpoint trading blocks, and to compassionately work through them. Through parts work, Diane helps students access their trading “troublemakers” and develop the skills to facilitate internal collaboration between even the most rigid or polarized parts. Her mindset is curious, genuine and frequently playful.
The challenges of trading are not just about mastering technical analysis, reading the charts, developing a strategy and cultivating an understanding of trade execution, position sizing and risk management. Successful trading also requires mastery of our emotions and the development of a much more engaged relationship with our internal world. Recognizing the role of emotions and deeply held beliefs–which may be creating blocks or blind spots, in turn stalling one’s evolution as a trader–is integral to progressing. In short, trading is a mind game. How wise is your mind?
Developing the Final Edge–that ever-elusive last 10%
Have you seemingly mastered what it takes to trade but still end up making the same mistakes again and again? Wise Mind Trading will work with you to develop an understanding of the elements at play behind the scenes. We will help you to access not only your trading troublemakers, but your internal resources. We are dedicated to the idea that there is a warm compassionate presence alive in each of us, capable of meeting our greatest challenges and transforming our behaviors and outcomes. In learning to trade, there are fundamental points you must navigate. Your capacity to meet adversity and loss as well as the learning curve with flexibility and vitality allows for survival and progression. As trading coaches, we help clients to unhook from emotions sparked by habitual triggers in order to bring themselves back into balance where they have more access to their full range of cognitive capacities. This is essential to successful trading. As traders become more relaxed and mindful about their emotions and motivations, they find greater clarity in the actions they take. We offer guidance and support along this journey. Our sessions focus on working with the emotional and physiological aspects of trading, which once untangled, allow traders to meet the market they are in and themselves more honestly.