Understanding your own,
personal Inner Market (IM)®

Self growth is your personal edge,
helping you execute your market edge.

Andrew Menaker, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, trader, and performance coach for high achievers, helping clients understand the importance of self-awareness and self-management, the key attributes to developing yourself as your own best edge. Clients learn to recognize and develop intuition, make better decisions, move beyond previous limits, and break the boom-and-bust cycle.

Andrew’s unique approach leverages his education, extensive professional experience as a trader and consultant in high risk law enforcement and military situations, and his knowledge of body-mind synergy, EQ and cutting edge neuroscience. Considered a pioneer in the field of trading psychology, Andrew has been a high performance coach for traders, portfolio managers, and executives since 1995.

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Andrew in the News

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Andrew is interviewed in The Wall Street Journal, along with one of his coaching clients. And he’s interviewed on Al Jazeera TV, where he discusses market psychology during a tumultuous period in global markets. In an article featuring a “trio of the money world’s elite mind-molders”, Andrew provides the NY Post with tips on breaking the income ceiling. Futures Magazine interviews Andrew on ways to end the boom & bust cycle for traders and investors.

What Andrew’s Clients Say

“Andrew ‘gets me’, our talks help me get my feel back after a rough patch. There’s lots of good traders at my firm, sometimes I forget it’s best if I just compete with myself. . . Sometimes it’s the market and sometimes it’s just personal stuff outside trading that throws me off my game. Andrew is a valuable resource for me, he’s special, and his coaching has proved to be a highly valuable investment”.

Ed Vasta

Portfolio Mgr at Schonfeld/Sassicaia Capital

“Andrew is a valuable and well known resource to the trading community. His background as an individual trader, enables him to better understand and help traders. Andrew has presented to our traders in the SMB NYC office; he’s also been a 1:1 psych coach working with some of our top traders. I have found him to be patient, thoughtful, empathetic, and creative in tackling trading challenges. I have known his work and him for many years and strongly recommend him if you’re looking for help with your trading psychology.”

Mike Bellafiore

Co-founder/Partner SMB Capital, author of, 'One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading

“I’ve been involved professionally in markets for many years, and was CTO/EVP at optionsXpress that got acquired by Schwab. . . My coaching with Andrew helped me return to my best trading. . . coaching was so helpful, that after several months, I asked him to be a subject matter expert on my new website.”

Vlad Karpel

CEO/Founder of Tradespoon, and YellowTunnel

“. . . In my years as a quant in the HF world, my work with Andrew has been amongst the most interesting and innovative. . . in a field crowded with pop psychologists. . . he’s the real deal. It is a privilege to work with him.”

Mike Loss

former Quantitative Strategist and Algorithmic Signals Developer, Balyasny Asset Mgmt.

“I wanted the best coach I could find to help me to get to the next level in my trading, and asked Brett Steembarger for a recommendation. He referred me to Andrew. As my coach, Andrew has been instrumental in helping me go way beyond my previous limits. . . He really understands me and is great to work with.”

Adam Nadler

independent trader, listed in Top 30 Traders Under 30, Trader Monthly Magazine

“In the very fast and free flow of the markets, positive and negative, Andrew’s ability to combine his knowledge of the human psyche, with his coaching and trading experience, naturally puts his clients at an advantage. . . Andrew facilitates the unlocking of opportunity and a greater awareness, enabling rapid growth. Andrew should coach every trader who has the ability to recognize the need for excellence.”

Paulette van der Merwe

independent trader, South Africa

“Andrew helped me transition from a bank sell-side trader, to managing money on the buy-side at a large HF. He has a stellar ability to communicate delicate matters that I was unaware of. Andrew’s insights are extraordinary and his ability to formulate them into practical terms is invaluable. Very highly recommended.”

N.T.

HF portfolio manager, $1B AUM

“For years I was up, down and breakeven. Mostly down on my profits. Now for the first time in years, I’m having back-to-back profitable weeks and months!”

John Cantu

independent trader, Texas

“Andrew is an incredibly dynamic speaker. We positioned him as the opening keynote. . . and he delivered a terrific talk. He was entertaining, insightful, and engaging. . . The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. . . Traders really appreciated the unique, change-of-pace direction of his talk.”

Ian McRae

Executive Director and Sr. Conference Producer at Worldwide Business Research (WBR)

“I have worked with Andrew in one capacity or another for around 15 years. He has always been a great resource offering consistently sound advice and guidance. My trading career began while working on the CME trading floor and then I moved to the trading screen. Andrew was instrumental in helping me address some trading challenges I had, such as, holding winners longer and fear of losing. His approach was just what I was looking for… I’m very grateful for his friendship and professionalism and would highly recommend him to anyone looking to increase their trading performance.”

Trevor Harnett

independent trader, former CME floor trader

“As a futures trading survivor of 30 years, I have seen my share of therapists, psychologists, and neuro linguistic programmers, but none that I regard as highly a Dr. Andrew Menaker. He seems to have such a calming effect when I listen to him… I don’t know if it’s the fact that he is an active trader that makes him sensitive, or just that he cares so much for his fellow traders (humans) that makes him special. Dr. Menaker takes time out of his busy life to provide his knowledge to traders he doesn’t even know. To me, that’s the measure of a man, one who turns arou…

John Hoagland

Director of Trader Development TopstepTrader, former CME floor trader

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