Trading Beyond the Matrix

The Red Pill for Traders and Investors

De: Van Tharp

Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray

How to transform your trading results by transforming yourself

In the unique arena of professional trading coaches and consultants, Van K. Tharp is an internationally recognized expert at helping others become the best traders they can be. In Trading Beyond the Matrix: The Red Pill for Traders and Investors, Tharp leads listeners to dramatically improve their trading results and financial life by looking within. He takes the listener by the hand through the steps of self-transformation, from incorporating "Tharp Think" - ideas drawn from his modeling work with great traders - making changes in yourself so that you can adopt the beliefs and attitudes necessary to win when you stop making mistakes and avoid methods that don't work. You'll change your level of consciousness so that you can avoiding trading out of fear and greed and move toward higher levels such as acceptance or joy.

• A leading trader offers unique learning strategies for turning yourself into a great trader
• Goes beyond trading systems to help listeners develop more effective trading psychology
• Trains the listener to overcome self-sabotage that obstructs trading success
• Presented through real transformations made by other traders

Advocating an unconventional approach to evaluating trading systems and beliefs, trading expert Van K. Tharp has produced a powerful manual every trader can use to make the best trades and optimize their success.

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outstanding literature

the first 70% of the book had great insight as to traders who are in the state we all strive to be in. completed self work and are dutifully making multiple Rs to achieve financial success. the last 30% caught me by total surprised and was a deep dive into Buddhism and it's direct correlation with becoming an adept trader.

I've listened to it 4 times...and then this last week bought the book version in hardcover.

As a psychologist who trades, I'm interested in growing as a person, and a bonus is it helps me to trade better. Van's trading methods are identical to the Surge Strategy trading I have learned now in 2024 and into 2025. I appreciate that reinforcement inethod.

Trading and Spiritual growth in one book

I enjoyed the book. This one is more about the mental, emotional and spiritual aspect of becoming a successful trader. It's just what I was looking for. The narrator was perfect as well.

Keep in mind this book is not about technical analysis or trading strategies. There are many books like that on the market already, so this one stands out as unique.

Another book to Forex your mind

This book was read(listen) to after another great trading book. I think this book goes well with helping a person who wants control of their trading & their life as a whole.

One Long Testimonial

Kid you not, half this book is just long testimonials about how great the author is.
There is very little actually helpful information, and nothing new at all. Can safely skip this one in your trading journey.

So much erroneous content crammed into a book.

Getting through this is torture and it probably didn’t need to be published. It’s not even the book most of us are looking for but for some reason Tharp’s other book is evidently banned (exaggerating) because it’s not available.

Mostly an Informercial and a Waste of Time

There’s a few things you can learn peppered throughout the book. The upper middle chapters of the book contain more frequent useful information, but this is largely an advertisement for the author’s $100,000 courseware.

All of the book’s testimonies can be boiled down to this statement:

Person A was backward, now after taking the course and achieving oneness, Person A makes a million dollars and has head screwed on right.

Don’t waste your time.

Just a marketing ploy

This whole book is just a bunch of interviews of people pumping the “van Tharp institute” and “Tharp Think”. Every chapter is just high level “I learned this from one of Tharps books and it was a game changer”.
Very frustrating to listen to. Almost like if all of the market wizards books were interviews of people you’ve never heard of telling you to read a different book.

Whole book is an advertisement for snake oil

The narrator actually has an attitude, I dunno if Tharp or whoever authorized the book to be narrated requested this but it's really annoying. He talks in a very matter-of-factly sort of way with an attitude of "my way or the highway peasant". 90% of the book is about how bad of a trader you are and will remain without the tharp mindset although you never really get to what the Tharp mindset is, I guess there is some Tharp academy you can join and I'm assuming it's extremely expensive. He sounds more like a snake oil salesmen using "the secret" type methodology. If you really want a good book on trading psychology, Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas is amazing. Jack D Schwager Market Wizards is another awesome series. Don't waste your time or credit on this one, unfortunately I fell asleep with it on and it played enough i can no longer return the book.

Disappointing and not all about trading

The first 8 chapters are excellent. Insightful and reflective to your own behaviour and beliefs. However, chapter 9 onwards is a book about Scientology, spiritualism, occult, Buddhism and Hinduism.

This caused a very negative impression and experience on this book. If you are religious in any way; then this is a book best avoided. I am simply disappointed as I have heard such positive comments about Prof Van K Tharp. Focusing on trading aspects and trading psychology would have been excellent. I didn’t have any intention to attend a spiritual retreat.