Van K. Tharp
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Dr. Van K. Tharp is an American psychologist, traders coach and bestselling author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom; Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom Financial Freedom through Electronic Day Trading, Super Trader, The Definitive Guide To Position Sizing and The Peak Performance Trading Course. He is best known as a coach for traders who specializes in trader psychology, systems development and position sizing techniques. His original book Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom was one of the first books to cover position sizing as a way of controlling risk in great detail.
Dr. Tharp is the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager's best selling book, Market Wizards
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, TraderPlanet.com and Trader's Journal.
He is also 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.
Tharp collected more than 5,000 successful trading profiles in a 10-year study of individual traders and investors, including many of the top traders and investors in the world. From these studies he developed a model for advanced trading and investing that other people can adopt and learn. He also developed The Investment Psychology Inventory Profile to help people better understand their strengths and weaknesses in relation to trading or investing and has produced a number of home study courses.
His original learning strategies and techniques for producing successful traders are considered by some to be the most effective in the field. Over the years Tharp has helped people overcome problems in areas of system development and trading psychology and success-related issues such as self-sabotage.
He is a regular contributor on the TraderPlanet.com financial social network
He has a son, Robert, from his first marriage and has been married to his wife Kala for 12 years. Her niece, Nanthini, from Malaysia lives with them and is, in his words, "like a daughter" who they have recently put through college.
Dr. Tharp is the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager's best selling book, Market Wizards
Market Wizards
Market Wizards is a book written by Jack D. Schwager and published in 1988 in which he interviews a wide range of traders with excellent track records of profitability.The book contains four parts covering interviews with traders in a wide range of markets...
Interviews with Great Traders. Tharp has published numerous articles in various industry publications and has been featured in publications such as Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, Barron's Market Week, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Investors Business Daily and Futures and Options World, TraderPlanet.com and Trader's Journal.
Education
Tharp has a Ph.D. in psychology which he has received from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in 1975.He is also 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.
Career
'Dr. Van K. Tharp is the founder and president of the Van Tharp Institute and stands out as an internationally recognised specialist among professional trading coaches and consultants. Since 1982 Tharp considered his mission helping others become a better trader or investor that they can be'.Tharp collected more than 5,000 successful trading profiles in a 10-year study of individual traders and investors, including many of the top traders and investors in the world. From these studies he developed a model for advanced trading and investing that other people can adopt and learn. He also developed The Investment Psychology Inventory Profile to help people better understand their strengths and weaknesses in relation to trading or investing and has produced a number of home study courses.
His original learning strategies and techniques for producing successful traders are considered by some to be the most effective in the field. Over the years Tharp has helped people overcome problems in areas of system development and trading psychology and success-related issues such as self-sabotage.
He is a regular contributor on the TraderPlanet.com financial social network
Personal
Outside of trading, Tharp, who now lives in North Carolina, has a strong interest in spiritual studies, is an avid stamp and art collector and is an active supporter of the Green Bay Packers. He is also a movie buff, loves going to theatrical productions and shows and is a fan of music and dancing (everything from ballroom to the disco dance floor).He has a son, Robert, from his first marriage and has been married to his wife Kala for 12 years. Her niece, Nanthini, from Malaysia lives with them and is, in his words, "like a daughter" who they have recently put through college.