Quick Guide

The Mental Game of Trading

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM FOR TRADING PSYCHOLOGY

Map Your Pattern

Basic Action Application

You can’t stop what you
Use the Data Collection Worksheet can’t see. Collect Study what you’ve found so it
to map your pattern of emotion. becomes easier and easier to
detailed information
recognize variation in your emotions
around your emotions and performance and to visualize
and trading mistakes. your Inchworm.
Advanced Action

Create a detailed map of the Chapter 2 Bonus

different levels of your emotions
using the Greed, Fear, Tilt, Complete an A-to-C Game Analysis.
Confidence and Discipline profiles.

Identify the Root

Basic Action
Emotions are not the Application

Based on the data you collected, problem. Take the info Internalize your answers to create a
complete a Mental Hand History
you found and figure meaningful change in your
(MHH) to find the cause of your
out what’s driving the perspective
emotion.
emotion.

Advanced Action
Chapter 3 + Use
Complete a Mental Hand History for
Chapters 4 - 8 to
each distinct level of emotion that
you map. complete your answers

Real-Time Strategy

Basic Action Application

Tackle the problem
Use your answers in the MHH to head-on to reduce your Improve how you handle your
create an Injecting Logic Statement emotional reactions in real-time in
emotions in the
that corrects the cause of your order to permanently correct them.
emotion. Then apply it when you’re moments they are most
aware of that emotion in real-time. costly.

Bonus
Advanced Action Chapter 9
Refer to your A-to-C-game Analysis
Create unique Injecting Logic to rely less on PnL, or results, to
Statements to correct each emotion. evaluate your performance.

Repeat & Adapt

Application
Basic Action Correcting mental game
Sustain progress through repetition
Consistently apply the Injecting problems is a process,
and iteration of your strategy. If
Logic Statement in real-time, at the like chopping down a you’re not improving, troubleshoot
first sign your emotions are rising,
tree with an ax. You why. There's always a reason, find it.
until the problem is corrected.
don’t get a chainsaw,
you have to keep at it If you are improving, apply the
Inchworm concept to continue to
Advanced Action make forward progress.

Chapter 9 + 10
Update your map, MHH and Injecting Bonus
Logic Statement when you find new
details. Complete new ones as more Update A-to-C game analysis
subtle issues become evident. Repeat the cycle monthly to reflect the current state
of your game.

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 Quick Guide

The Mental Game of Trading

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM FOR TRADING PSYCHOLOGY

Map Your Pattern Identify the Root Real-Time Strategy Repeat and Adapt

You can’t stop what you can’t see. Emotions are not the problem. Take the Tackle the problem head-on to reduce Correcting mental game problems is a
Collect detailed information around your info you found and figure out what’s your emotions in the moments they are process, like chopping down a tree with
Main Idea emotions and trading mistakes. driving the emotion. most costly. an ax. You don’t get a chainsaw, you
have to keep at it.

Reference Chapter 2 Chapter 3 + Use chapters 4 to 8 to Chapter 9 Chapter 9 and 10

complete your answers
Chapter in The
Mental Game
of Trading

Use the Data Collection Worksheet to Based on the data you collected, Use your answers in the MHH to create Consistently apply the Injecting Logic
Basic map your pattern of emotion. complete a Mental Hand History (MHH) an Injecting Logic Statement that Statement in real-time, at the first sign
to find the cause of your emotion. corrects the cause of your emotion. Then your emotions are rising, until the
apply it when you’re aware of that problem is corrected.
emotion in real-time.
Create a detailed map of the different Complete a Mental Hand History for Create unique Injecting Logic Update your map, MHH and Injecting
levels of your emotions using the Greed, each distinct level of emotion that you Statements to correct each emotion. Logic Statement when you find new
Advanced Fear, Tilt, Confidence and Discipline map. details. Complete new ones as more
profiles. subtle issues become evident.

Complete an A-to-C Game Analysis Not applicable. Refer to your A-to-C-game Analysis to Update A-to-C game analysis monthly to
Bonus rely less on PnL, or results, to evaluate reflect the current state of your game.
your performance.

Study what you’ve found so it becomes Internalize your answers to create a Improve how you handle your emotional Sustain progress through repetition and
easier and easier to recognize variation meaningful change in your perspective. reactions in real-time in order to iteration of your strategy. If you’re not
in your emotions and performance and permanently correct them. improving, troubleshoot why. There's
to visualize your Inchworm. always a reason. Find it.
Application
If you are improving, apply the Inchworm
concept to continue to make forward
progress.

© Copyright 2021 Jared Tendler www.jaredtendler.com YouTube.com/c/jaredtendler