# The Mental Game of Trading

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Jared Tendler, M.S.]]
- Full Title: The Mental Game of Trading
- Category: #books

## Highlightsw
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” 
  —Albert Einstein
- You analyze trades, tighten your rules, learn new techniques, develop your system, do more research, and test new strategies. Despite all of that work, the bleeding continues. You try again and again, but you still don’t get anywhere because the answer doesn’t lie in what you know about trading.
- e answer comes from the
  mental and emotional side of the game—your mental game, and you’re not e ectively working on it.
- at’s not to say trading is all about psychology. It’s not
- Even a perfect mental game—emotionally balanced, always focused, consistently in the zone—won’t make you pro table long term if you don’t have an edge in the market. But if you have an edge, yet aren’t making what you should, or are struggling with greed, fear, anger, con dence or discipline, your mental game may be costing you more than you realize.