Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader, Adobe Reader

EARN SERIOUS TRADING PROFITS BY USING YOUR WHOLE BRAIN!

 

Legendary traders like Jesse Livermore, George Soros, Richard Dennis, and Steven Cohen use their full range of powers that encompass both instinct and analysis. That’s how they made their fortunes–and that’s how you can, too. In Trading from Your Gut, Curtis Faith, renowned trader and author of the global bestseller Way of the Turtle, reveals why human intuition is an amazingly powerful trading tool, capable of processing thousands of inputs almost instantaneously. Faith teaches you how to harness, sharpen, train, and trust your instincts and to trade smarter with your whole mind.

 

Just as important, you’ll learn when not to trust your gut–and how to complement your intuition with systematic analysis.

 

You’ve got a left brain: analytical and rational. You’ve got a right brain: intuitive and holistic. Use them both to make better trades, and more money!

 

“Whole Mind” trading: the best of discretionary and system approaches

How winning traders use analysis and disciplined intuition together

 

How to profit from other traders’ “Wrong Brain Thinking”

Understand other traders, without acting like them

 

How to provide a firm intellectual framework for your trades

What successful traders have discovered about the market’s structure and laws

 

The unique value of intuition in swing trading

Use your intuition to trade patterns that computer technology can’t recognize

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     xi

Foreword     xiii

 

Preface           Zen and the Smooth Stroke     1

Chapter 1        The Power of the Gut     7

Chapter 2        The Purpose of Gut Intuition     19

Chapter 3        Wrong Brain Thinking     33

Chapter 4        The Structure of the Markets     53

Chapter 5        Training and Trusting Your Gut     79

Chapter 6        Trading Smarts     97

Chapter 7        Simplicity and Speed: Training to Be a Master     119

Chapter 8        Techno Traders     139

Chapter 9        The Art of the Trade: A Careful Balancing Act     151

Conclusion     159

Afterword     169

Bibliography     187

About the Author     191

Index     197