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Meet Alphatrends™ guest expert Andrew Menaker, PhD
Andrew Menaker, PhD is a performance psychologist helping Alphatrends traders master the mental game so they can lock in the process and maximize their profits.
Brian Shannon and Andy Moss can hand you the charts, the levels, and a repeatable process. But here’s the uncomfortable truth every experienced trader already knows: knowing the right trade and taking the right trade are two very different things.
That gap, the one between your plan and your finger on the button, is where accounts quietly bleed out. It’s also exactly where Andrew Menaker, PhD, goes to work.
Andrew is a licensed clinical psychologist, though as he likes to put it, he’s more of a “stretch” than a “shrink.”
As a performance coach specializing in trading psychology, his clients include some of the top professional investors and traders in the world.
An active trader himself, when Andrew talks about the fear of pulling the trigger or the sting of a stopped-out position, he’s speaking your language, not reading from a textbook.
While Brian and Andy specialize in reading the stock chart, Andrew’s focus is the person reading the chart. Two traders can look at the identical setup and walk away with opposite results, and the difference is rarely the analysis. It’s how each one responds to uncertainty, risk, and opportunity in the moment.
Andrew calls this behavior your Inner Market (IM)®, and learning to manage it is the piece most traders are missing.
Andrew’s approach was forged well outside the markets. In the early 1990s, he spent two years as a psychological consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy, advising senior officers on threat assessment and crisis management.
Along the way he worked with U.S. Military Intelligence, the Secret Service, and NCIS (the agency, not the TV show), and earned a letter of commendation from the U.S. Navy. He has even debriefed dozens of bank robberies.
In 1995 he brought that hard-won expertise to the trading floor, consulting for institutional traders at Wells Fargo and HSBC Trade Bank. He saw quickly that split-second decisions under pressure look remarkably similar whether the stakes are a hostage situation or a fast-moving market
Most trading advice tells you what to do. Andrew focuses on why you don’t do it, even when you know better.
His work translates recent neuroscience into practical steps you can actually use, treating emotion as useful information rather than a glitch to be squashed. The result is a calmer, clearer response when real money is on the line.
This goes well beyond the usual “just be mindful” advice. It’s a framework for understanding the unconscious habits that drive your best trades, and your worst ones.
Our Signature Offer
Andrew brings his approach to trading psychology directly to the Alphatrends community, so your mindset can finally catch up to your charts.
With Andrew’s course and seminar at your fingertips, you can harness your mindset to produce even more incredible results.
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Andrew’s course & seminar add-on is available for Alphatrends™ Premium members only.
Already a member? Get Andrew’s ‘Master Yourself, Master Your Trading’ add-on at this link here.
