Unlocking Your Ideal Performance Mindset (IPM) in Trading
How Top Performers Activate Their Best Self—And How You Can Too
A - Unlearning the Mind Programs Holding Back Your Trading Success
B - The Essential Keys To Focus On The Process
C - Maximizing the Power of Self-Awareness
D - Recovering from Market Trauma
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Tired of Repeating the Same Trading Mistakes Despite Knowing Better?
Most traders try to fix their mindset by working harder. Elite performers do the opposite.
When we think about elite performance, we usually picture sheer effort and discipline. And yeah, that’s part of it. But there’s more to it…
Michael Gervais, the sports coach of the Seattle Seahawks and executive coach of Microsft, calls it the Ideal Performance Mindset (IPM)—the mental state where top performers operate at their best. This is about knowing exactly what it feels like to be at your peak and intentionally triggering that state.
Most traders can describe to me in the coaching session their problem pattern in vivid detail. They know exactly what it feels like to be tilted—the thoughts, the emotions, the aftermath.
But when I ask them about their best pattern—their Ideal Performance Mindset—they struggle to verbalize it. Some realize they’ve never even experienced it.
And here’s the thing: It’s already hard to break out of a problem pattern. But it’s nearly impossible to move toward something you can’t even feel.
This IPM is closely tied to the flow state. The best performers in the world don’t just stumble into it—they create it.
What Top Performers Do Differently Before They Even Start
Watch a professional athlete before a game: from the preparation rituals to the way they walk onto the field and how they talk to themselves—it’s all intentional.
You might hear some scream, “You got this! Let’s go!” Others use a calm, focused internal dialogue. The common theme is that they don’t leave their mindset to chance; they deliberately anchor into their ideal state.
In today’s read, I’ll show you exactly how a client went from not knowing his IPM…
…to building a pre-trading ritual that anchored it—and drastically changed how he traded.
Let’s dive in.