The Mental Edge is a trading psychology podcast for traders who want to understand the neuroscience behind their emotional reactions at the charts. Hosted by Sarah, a retired therapist turned trader, each episode breaks down the neuroscience of trading psychology and gives you practical tools to regulate your nervous system, build confidence, and trade from identity instead of impulse. No hustle culture. No shame. Just real science and real solutions.
The Mental Edge is a trading psychology podcast for traders who want to understand the neuroscience behind their emotional reactions at the charts. Hosted by Sarah, a retired therapist turned trader, each episode breaks down the neuroscience of trading psychology and gives you practical tools to regulate your nervous system, build confidence, and trade from identity instead of impulse. No hustle culture. No shame. Just real science and real solutions.
Why do so many capable, intelligent traders keep blowing prop firm challenges right before they pass?
In part one of this three-part funded trading series, I break down what’s actually happening in your brain during a prop firm challenge and why willpower and discipline stop working when your nervous system shifts into survival mode.
This episode walks through the neuroscience behind emotional trading, how specific prop firm rules activate stress and urgency responses, and why traders tend to implode in the final stretch even when everything was going well.
You’ll learn:
This episode removes the shame around “lack of discipline” and gives you a clear framework for understanding why getting funded feels so difficult and what actually needs to change for consistent execution.
Part two covers why traders struggle to stay funded. Part three breaks down what happens psychologically right before payouts and why success often triggers self-sabotage.
Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical or financial advice. This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial guidance.
You can't just "be more disciplined" after you take a losing trade because your brain sees a loss as a threat to your survival.
In this episode, I break down the neuroscience of why revenge trading feels impossible to stop and give five easy-to-implement exercises that you can start tomorrow to stop help stop revenge trading once and for all.
You'll learn:
This episode explains why revenge trading is a nervous system problem, not a discipline problem, and gives you 5 protocols to interrupt the cycle before it blows your account.
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Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.
Your nervous system completely reorganizes the moment you switch from demo to live trading.
Use this protocol any time you feel activated on live (chest tight, stomach dropping, urge to close early, pressure to force a trade)
N - NAME the sensation out loud
A - ACKNOWLEDGE the state change
M - MOVE your body to signal safety
E - EXHALE to activate your calm response
S - SIT STILL for 90 seconds
Complete this every single morning BEFORE you open your charts
Score yourself on a scale of 1-10 in each area (1 = worst, 10 = best):
Add up your total score:
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Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.
Why can't you stay patient in trading even when you know better? Your nervous system is stuck in survival mode.
In this episode, I break down the neuroscience behind impatience and the 5 fears disguised as greed in trading.
You'll learn:
This episode explains why patience isn't a personality trait and how to train your nervous system to feel safe while you wait.
Want more? Subscribe to my weekly newsletter for trading psychology insights you won't find anywhere else: mentaledgetrading.co
Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.
Why does a $200 loss send you into total panic one day when you could handle a $500 loss just fine last week? It's because of your Window of Tolerance.
In this episode, I break down a concept from DBT therapy that explains why your emotions take over at the worst possible times and what to do about it.
You'll learn:
This episode explains why you can't out-discipline a dysregulated nervous system and how to stay regulated enough to actually execute your edge.
Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.
Why do you blow your account right before payout? Why does success feel more dangerous than failure?
In this episode, I break down Finish Line Freeze. This is the nervous system pattern that makes you sabotage yourself when you're closest to winning.
You'll learn:
This episode explains why "one more trade" destroys your account, why calm feels dangerous, and how to build a nervous system that can handle success, not just hustle.
Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.
What is trading psychology, and why do smart traders keep breaking their own rules? In this episode, I break down the neuroscience behind emotional trading and why discipline isn't your problem, your dysregulated nervous system is.
You'll learn:
This episode removes the shame around "lack of discipline" and gives you the framework to understand what's really happening in your brain when you trade.
Disclaimer: I am a retired therapist and no longer practicing. I am not a licensed professional providing clinical advice. Everything shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care or financial advice.