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In the unique arena of professional trading coaches and consultants, The Van Tharp Institute stands out as an international leader in the industry.
We are dedicated to offering high-quality educational products and services for traders and investors around the globe. To learn more about Dr. Tharp click here.
Helping others become the best trader or investor that they can be has been our mission since 1982. All of our instructors offer unique learning strategies, and Dr. Tharp’s core techniques for producing great traders are some of the most effective in the field. We can help you overcome self-sabotage and develop rock-solid discipline in your market performance
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Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Founder of Van Tharp Institute. He is a professional coach for traders and investors. Dr. Tharp is the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager’s best-selling book, The Market Wizard’s: Interviews with Great Traders. Dr. Tharp has written eleven books, each one making profound advances in the understanding of what creates trading success. His research and modeling work with outstanding traders over the past 30 years has made his training programs and workshops among the most well-respected in the world. His programs offer unique learning strategies, and effective techniques for producing Super Traders.
Dr. Tharp has been featured in 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.
RJ is the vice president of research and development at Van Tharp Institute. Before his employment with VTI in 2009, RJ was a long-time Van Tharp Institute client and student of the Super Trader program. He became a Super Trader graduate in 2012.
In his role, he develops new training products and helps guide the curriculum for our programs. RJ co-teaches several workshops with Van and is the lead instructor on many others. He also edits and writes for our newsletter ensuring top quality information for traders. RJ works closely with and helps guide, students in the Super Trader Program. He enjoys working with the most amazing client base he has had the privilege to serve.
Carol "Libby" Adams, PhD, DD, is the Founder and current President of the International Academy of Self-Knowledge. She is a highly skilled presenter and educator, having taught for many years in the public school system. She is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming and the developer of Transformational Meditation. Libby has used Transformational Meditation successfully with hundreds of students in the ten years since its inception.
Dr. Adams is a popular guest lecturer at Cal-State Long Beach, speaking on the topic of meditation. She is co-instructor with renowned trading coach Dr. Van Tharp at his Advanced Peak Performance 202 workshop. In 1999, she was voted Member of the Year in the Women's Council of the Long Beach Camber of Commerce and received a certificate from California Senator Betty Karnette in recognition of her commitment to community service and dedication to the promotion of women in business
Gabriel is a rule-based discretionary trader—the type of trader that Dr. Tharp has found to be the most successful. Gabriel’s systems have an important aspect that is based on visual pattern recognition. As such you will need to train your eyes to be able to detect the trade opportunities.
Based on the markets, you will craft together with Gabriel your weekly and daily trading plan by applying the three trend-following systems. You will trade (it is recommended to demo-trade) your own platform with your own money — all under the guidance of Gabriel, who will offer thorough direction and individualized feedback. The markets are analyzed and trades executed by Gabriel in an interactive way by using a projector.
Ken Long started investing in mutual funds in the 1990s but has grown over the last fifteen years into an outstanding big-picture thinker and tactical trader. He’s also evolved his strategies over the years and teaches his latest advancements in this workshop.
Ken is one of the few people who have a graduate degree in systems design and a doctorate in management with a dissertation on making decisions under uncertain conditions. Because of his academic training, military background and vast market experience, Ken spots trading ideas that most people would never think of. For example, when Ken attended our systems workshop and learned about the complex training game we were playing, he developed a procedure for strategizing about the game that Van Tharp now teaches in that same workshop. He’s that good!
Ken is one of our best instructors mainly because he treats his trading and teaching the way he treats his martial arts, his soccer coaching and life in general: he pursues excellence to the point of mastery. Ken is a thinker, philosopher, tinkerer, and leader. He applies what he learns to everything he does and therefore gets more done each day.
Kim is a Super Trader Graduate from VTI. Before she completed her studies with us, she had earned a Masters in Systems Engineering - which is no small feat! She has also served as an IT Security Consultant to the Pentagon, while also performing her duties with the Canadian Air Force.
She currently works as a Cyber Security Engineer at Lockheed Martin/Leidos and trades her systems part-time, finding a work/life balance that works for her and her family. With over 1,850 trades completed, Kim has the solutions and the experience to lead you. She knows what it takes to create winning trading strategies.
She has put in a tremendous amount of work and effort in to bringing unique training material. Originally designed with our Super Traders in mind, Kim and Van Tharp decided to develop workshops to share the training and critical information with all of our traders and investors.
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