Hosted by Sarah Banwart · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 18 episodes
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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.
Sarah Banwart hosts The Mental Edge: Trading Psychology Podcast, a business show with 18 episodes published.
In this episode, we go deeper than surface-level trading advice and unpack what a losing streak is actually doing to your nervous system. And it has nothing to do with a lack of discipline. Most traders in a losing strea
In this episode, we go deeper than surface-level trading advice and unpack what FOMO actually is at a nervous system level, and it has nothing to do with a lack of discipline. We're going over what's happening in your br
You keep taking impulsive trades, even when you know they are not in your plan. In this episode, I’m breaking down the real reason that happens, and it’s not because you lack discipline. Most impulsive trading is an atte
You finally got your first payout, you proved you can do this, and then a couple days later you blew the account. And now, no matter what you try, you can't get back to where you were. In this episode, I’m breaking down
Your brain will follow your plan flawlessly… right up until you are about to hit your goal. In this episode, I’m breaking down a pattern I named Finish Line Freeze , and why it has nothing to do with discipline. This is
Your brain is lying to you when you trade in ways that quietly sabotage your edge every single day. You don’t see the chart as it is. You see it through beliefs, emotions, recent experiences, and what your nervous system
How to Overcome the Fear of Losing Money in Trading You see a perfect setup, your rules say take it, but you can't pull the trigger. Or maybe you're in a trade and it goes fifty bucks against you, and suddenly your chest
Why You Can't Control Yourself After a Loss (It's Not Discipline) You take a loss, panic rises, and you know you should stop... but you can't. You take another trade, and another... until the account is blown or you're l
You know what you're supposed to do, you understand your strategy, but when you're sitting at your desk, you can't execute. Maybe you freeze at perfect setups. Maybe you can't stop overtrading. Maybe you take one loss an
Why do capable traders blow their accounts right before their first payout or within days after getting it? In part three of this funded trading series, I break down what happens to your brain when you get close to a pay
If you're struggling to keep your funded account, much more goes into it than being "undisciplined." In part two of this three-part funded trading series, I break down the biological and psychological shift that happens
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 pr
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 st
Your nervous system completely reorganizes the moment you switch from demo to live trading. What You'll Learn: Why your brain shifts from pursuit mode to protection mode when you activate a live accountThe dopamine crash
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 tradi
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 explai
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 w
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
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The Mental Edge: Trading Psychology Podcast is hosted by Sarah Banwart. The show is categorised under business (investing) and has published 18 episodes.
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