Mark Douglas and Paula T’s approach to trading psychology has unlocked the door for many traders since the 1980s as one of three original traders (including Dr. Van K. Tharp), teaching the concepts of trading psychology in the unknown field at that time, within this now popular concept that everyone claims to be expert at.  “The difference between Mark and Paula and all the rest is that Mark and Paula live what they teach.”  (Dr. Van K. Tharp)

What Paula T and Mark are adept at doing is to explore not only the very nature of trading itself, providing practical definitions to common trading terminology but more so, dismissing many of the collective erroneous notions about how the markets actually work, and why they exist.  How many traders out there today know, or rather believe, there is another trader on the other side of their trade or have the misconception that trading is just a computer ‘game?’  In their materials whether books or workshops or personal coaching you will finally understand what makes a trader “tick” and how the markets are made up of pure energy, the energy, beliefs, and opinions of every trader across the world each time they point and click their mouse.  By using their materials or through a personal coaching session, there will be no more doubt in the trader’s mind as to just what they need to do, and how they need to think to become a consistently successful trader.

Mark's interest in trading began in the late 1970s while he was an executive at a commercial casualty insurance firm.  Giving up a lucrative six-figure income which included an expense account, a yearly new company car (Porsche or Jaguar of course!), he began studying to become a broker for Merrill Lynch at the Chicago Board of Trade.  Once licensed, his career began.  What he found in his position as a broker was that most brokers he worked with had no clue as to what the market was going to do, but claimed to know to convince their clients to put on trades.  This was and still is not uncommon in the investment world.  Because, if you truly believe in probabilities and understand that the market moves based on the perspectives of every single trader across the planet, you know there is no way anyone can "know" what direction the market may move in any given moment, because you cannot know what any other trader is thinking at any given moment.

"Every trader - is the market."

Based on several years of watching fellow brokers trade and his own trading efforts – which included filing bankruptcy, led him to begin keeping a daily journal of his thoughts and actions for each and every trade.  What he found initially was that he did not know what he was thinking or feeling, and set out to know what he was thinking before, during, and after every trade, to determine if he was using valid signals or just hoping the trades would work.  This unique approach is something that he and Paula T fashioned into their life as traders, trading coaches, and which became their first best-selling and award-winning book "The Disciplined Trader" which he and Paula T co-wrote.  This is why “The Disciplined Trader™” is dedicated to her.  "Trading in the Zone" is an expansion of their experiences as traders, as well as their decades of expertise as trading coaches, traveling together around the world and across the U.S. hosting workshops and live trading workshops helping traders become the best they can be.  To date, they have over 15 best-selling and award-winning books, with five of them translated into eight languages, on the psychology of thinking like a winner.