Is Coaching For You?

The path to trading consistency is first and foremost a question of managing yourself and this means your trading psychology. Coaching smoothes out the path to trading consistency and will assist you to clear trading emotions every trader has to deal with at some point in their career.

It isn't always easy to self coach yourself, when you are up against trading issues that can affect you even when you have traded for some time. Just like a dentist will not be able do dental work on himself, you are too close to yourself to lift yourself beyond your own limitations off your own steam alone.

A good coach can assist you to get a different perspective of yourself and your trading. This shifts energy and propels positive change as well as a fast resolution of trading issues.

Common issues for traders from all levels are hesitation, inflexibility, lack of focus, loss aversion and occasional impulse trading and lack of trading confidence.

These issues are merely the tip of the iceberg though. They serve as valuable signposts alerting one to hidden subconscious blocks unrelated to trading in 99% of all cases.

Transference, meaning subconsciously transferring unresolved issues from other areas in your life to your trading decisions, is a common issue that can hamper trading performance. Transference is not well understood by most traders, and is challenging to deal with by yourself, unless you have the knowledge and tools to do your own detective work. Good coaching will give you the tools.

Oftentimes traders face challenges in their relationships, as the high demands placed on them by the job affect mood and change the one's interactions with others. Coaching can assist greatly in smoothing out any relationship issues which are transferred to your trading and vice versa: It helps to stop transferring your trading emotions to your relationships.

Paradigm transitions challenge your trading emotions

The major paradigm transition we are going through on a global scale is also affecting our trading emotions, relationships and paradigms of life in general. Not only our minds but our bodies are adjusting and rebuilding themselves to higher evolutionary levels as we are going through this change. It appears that the heart space is opening up and aligning with the root chakra, to mention just one of the effects this massive cosmic shift is having on our bodies. The realignment and opening of the chakras also affects our consciousness promoting a departure from old values to higher values and a deeper appreciation of mankind and our existence in general.

This process invariably brings up old unresolved issues in its wake which have been lying dormant for long periods of time.

Where we were able to function quite well using old and tested strategies, these strategies are not working so well any more. This causes consternation and insecurities begin to surface as one does not know how to best respond. Many issues we are facing now are simply part of the masssive cosmic evolutionary shift affecting all of us at some level. They are not personal.

Navigating uncharted waters is always a challenge as all of us are dealing with sitations we have never faced in our lifetimes, possibly not faced in the history of mankind.

Coaching is more important than ever before

Finding a good coach with whom you have a good rapport will pay off handsomely and is possibly one of the best investments you can make in yourself. It will assist you to navigate not only your trading emotions but help you navigate life's challenges at large in due course. When two like minded people get together energy and power builds exponentially. You will shift faster into new paradigms then you would on your own.

Good coaching is all encompassing. When you address one issue automatically other issues in your life will start resolving. Trading emotions reflect issues which ultimately have nothing, or very little to do with trading. They are just brought out by trading and other high performance pursuits. One might also say that pursuing a high performance occupation provides a platform for growth and development if you are open to it.

Please contact me, Mercedes Oestermann van Essen if you are interested in booking a coaching session, or to find out more.