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Tharp uses a
combination of skills and education to fine-tune his strategies to
coach, consult and teach traders and investors. He received his
Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oklahoma Health Science
Center in 1975. He is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro
Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Certified Master Time Line
Therapist, a certified Modeler of NLP, and an Assistant Trainer of
NLP. He has used his expertise in NLP to create the successful
models of trading and investing upon which so much of his work is
based.
Dr. Tharp is the author
of three acclaimed books published by McGraw Hill; Trade Your Way to
Financial Freedom, the New York
Times Bestseller, Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, and Financial Freedom Through Electronic
Day Trading.
In addition, Tharp is
the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager's best selling
book, The Market Wizard's: Interviews with Great Traders.
Tharp has published numerous articles in various industry
publications and has been featured in publications such as Forbes,
Barron's Market Week, Technical Analysis of Stocks and
Commodities, Investors Business Daily and Futures and
Options World, and Trader's Journal, just to name a few.
Dr. Tharp has collected
over 5,000 successful trading profiles by studying and researching
individual traders and investors, including many of the top
traders and investors in the world.
From these studies he
developed a model for successful trading and investing in which
other people can adopt and learn. He has developed a five-volume Peak
Performance Home Study Course (more...), teaching the results of this
ten-year study. He also developed The Investment Psychology
Inventory Profile (more...) to help people better understand their strengths and
weaknesses in relation to trading or investing. He has developed a
course on How
to Develop A Winning Trading System That Fits You, (more...), written a
special report on
money management and position sizing (more...), published
the Market
Mastery newsletter (more...), and publishes a free weekly
e-newsletter, Tharp's
Thoughts (more...).
The Van Tharp Institute
offers workshops year-round to help traders improve performance.
Dr. Tharp has designed special seminars for banks and
institutions, and has presented these throughout the United
States, as well as Paris, Italy, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, London, Vienna,
Stockholm, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, and numerous other places
throughout the world. In 1997 he toured Asia as a guest speaker
with Dow Jones. He has conducted workshops for floor traders at
the CBOT, the CBOE, and the CME. He is also a regular speaker to
portfolio and hedge fund managers worldwide.
He is currently a
member on the distinguished Investment Advisory Panel of the
prestigious Oxford Club-a rare honor only half dozen or so
individuals have received. In addition Dr. Tharp is also a highly
rated guest speaker at expositions and conferences throughout the
world.
While Van Tharp’s expertise is in the area of
finance, his mission is to touch people in a way that changes them
for the better. In his books, courses and workshops, he uses the
financial metaphor to do so.
Read what the National Press
has to say about Trading Coach, Van Tharp.
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