Mental Game Similarities Between Poker and Trading

Mental Game Similarities Between Poker and Trading

I’m best known these days for my work helping world class poker players eliminate their mental game weaknesses. However, in recent years I have been working a lot more with financial traders to do the same thing. This was a natural addition to my portfolio. A lot of...
Golf Has More Gamble Than You Think

Golf Has More Gamble Than You Think

For those of you that don’t know, I started as a mental game coach for golfers after using counselling psychology to fix my own mental game issues as a professional golfer. I then moved over to poker where I found a lot of success helping world-class professional...
The Mental Game of Trading

The Mental Game of Trading

I wrote a blog recently debunking the idea that golf is 90% mental, and I want to expand that to where I believe the mental game fits in to your performance as a trader. Whether you are a golfer or a trader, your job is to execute. Whether that’s hitting the...
In Defense of Results-Oriented Goals

In Defense of Results-Oriented Goals

Results-oriented goals have gotten a bad rap lately. Conventional poker wisdom shifted and now suggests that setting goals based on results, such as money or titles, are a big mistake because of how much variance there is in the short term. If you can play amazingly...
Chess Lessons From the Mental Game of Poker 2

Chess Lessons From the Mental Game of Poker 2

Jennifer Shahade, for the US Chess Federation, wrote a review of The Mental Game of Poker 2 and discussed the application of it for chess players. Here’s the beginning of her article: “I was first introduced to Jared Tendler’s Mental Game of Poker by...