The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline by Jared Tendler

The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline by Jared Tendler

"The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline"—published in 2021—is a groundbreaking psychological workbook authored by elite performance coach Jared Tendler.

Tendler stands as a unique authority in financial literature. Rather than approaching psychology from a traditional Wall Street perspective, he brought over an elite track record of coaching PGA Tour golfers, world-champion poker players, and institutional esports athletes into the trading world. Tendler’s core thesis is a radical departure from conventional trading advice: he argues that popular mantras like "just control your emotions" or "eliminate fear and greed" are completely useless and scientifically flawed. Emotions are not the enemy; they are symptoms. By treating emotional volatility as a data signal rather than a character defect, Tendler provides a structured system to diagnose the hidden flaws in a trader's execution engine and permanently resolve them.

Tendler’s Practical System for Psychological Resolution

• Build Your Mental Hand History: Borrowing a technique from elite poker players, Tendler mandates writing down a real-time log of your failures immediately after a bad trading session. Document exactly what triggered the emotion, what physical sensations you felt (such as a racing heart, heavy breathing, or clenching your jaw), what thoughts ran through your mind, and precisely how you broke your execution rules. This serves as an early-warning diagnostic tool for future sessions.

• Deploy Injecting Logic (The Real-Time Circuit Breaker): When you identify yourself slipping into a known emotional pattern during a live trade (e.g., about to delete a stop-loss out of fear), you must inject a pre-written statement of pure logic to break the psychological momentum. For example: "This individual outcome is completely random. If I move this stop-loss, I am abandoning my statistical edge and burning my business capital."

• Trade Within Your True Capacity: If a specific position size or market volatility regime triggers an uncontrollable wave of fear or anger, your brain is simply experiencing cognitive overload. Reduce your share sizing to a level where your emotions remain completely neutral. Build up your mental capacity slowly and systematically, exactly like lifting weights at a gym.

Language: English.

Genre: Trading.

Binding: সেলাই করা বাইন্ডিং

Quality: Premium Quality Books.

Printing: High Quality Printing.

Paper: Eye Friendly paper (Cream White)

Cover: Matt cover (Paperback).