As a Strategic Trader, we know that you have high aspirations and standards and are more than capable of doing things well on your own. However, we know you want to be the very best and learn from the very best.

Dr. Van K. Tharp has studied traders for over 20 years and has significant experience and expertise in the trading and investing arena. The following challenges are the ones that he has observed in traders of your type.

Take a moment to read through the challenges and the variety of resources and solutions that may be of interest to you.

As a Strategic Trader you are probably so logical, that you don't even recognize when your emotions are causing you to self-destruct. You must overcome the tendency to have your logic be so dominant that you cannot recognize mistakes; because repeated mistakes equal self-sabotage.

You have a strong desire to be right, even to the extent of perfectionism. This might cause you to never actually trade because you are continually trying to develop or buy better systems.

You probably don’t need people telling you what to do and may even find that your perfectionism has served you in many ways throughout your life. However, in the trading arena it would be practical to learn to avoid perfectionism so that you are able to learn the best ways to evaluate trading systems.

You may not honor your stops because you want to be right about your trades. This can lead to an even bigger issue and make you susceptible to the "loss trap." To win at trading, you must learn about the loss trap and how to overcome it.