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Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader
- By Curtis Faith
- Published Dec 2, 2009 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 6 X 9
- Pages: 224
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-704768-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704768-0
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Product Author Bios
Curtis Faith is author of the bestselling book Way of the Turtle, which has sold 70,000 copies and has been translated into nine languages. In his early 20s, Faith earned more than $30 million as a member of the legendary Chicago trading group, the Turtles, a renowned group that started as a bet between founders Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt.
Drawing from his unique experience as an original Turtle and as a successful entrepreneur–having founded several software and high-tech startups–Faith has developed a “whole mind” approach that gives traders at all skill levels the tools to become master traders. Combining insights on trading psychology, managing risk, and trading methods, Faith delivers a method that is as much art as it is science and gives traders the tools to use all of the weapons at their disposal...namely, instinct and analysis. His most recent book is Inside the Mind of the Turtles.
“For all those who wonder if the powers of right brain thinking could apply to the trends-and-charts universe of stock and options trading, Curtis Faith has their answer. In Trading from Your Gut, Faith taps brain research, neurological models, and the wisdom of experience to provide a roadmap for decision making in a new era of volatility.”
–Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Drive
“I consider a book to be worth reading if it helps me develop a major paradigm shift. The section in this book about how to train your brain to help you become an intuitive trader blew me away and gave some fantastic ideas that will significantly help traders learn to trade better. For me, that kind of idea-generating inspiration is what makes Trading from Your Gut a great trading book.”
–Van K. Tharp, bestselling author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and Super Trader
“…with the skill of both a trained psychoanalyst and market pro, Curtis Faith’s Trading from Your Gut examines the human instinct behind our investment decisions. Because we are too often our own worst enemy in the markets, this is a unique and thoughtful guide to overcoming the biggest hurdle of financial success...ourselves.”
–Jonathan Hoenig, Portfolio Manager, Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC and Fox News contributor
“Curtis Faith’s new book Trading from Your Gut…takes the insights derived from psychology, marries them to cogent observations by master traders like George Soros, and then superimposes them onto a series of analysis-based theories to deliver a cogent trading plan.”
–David Stevenson, Financial Times “Adventurous Investor” columnist
“…With the encouragement of this book, you will learn to listen to both your intuition and your intellect to become a more complete trader, giving yourself the edge for success.”
–Alan Northcott, author of The Complete Guide to Investing In Short Term Trading
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
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Good Stuff, But Not Enough of it to Fill a Book, By
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In this book, former Turtle Curtis Faith takes a different approach from the trading systems orientation of his earlier Way of the Turtle. It's one that would seem to contradict his earlier focus on systems. After all, instinct and gut feel would seem to be the complete opposite of system trading. It's not really that simple, though.At the core, Trading from Your Gut is about integrating the right-brain instincts and intuition you develop as a trader with the left-brain rational side from which systematic analysis and trading tends to flow. Faith spends a fair amount of time arguing for why that is important. In fact, the better part of the book could be said to fall into that area. The idea is that combining the two parts of your brain will make for much better results than either one on its own. Now, having said that, Faith considers the swing trading timeframe the most optimal for trading with both sides of your brain. Real short-term trading, he contends,... Read more
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Learning to Grow and Trust Your Instincts,
This review is from: Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (Hardcover)
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First what this book is not: Not a "how to" book on stock trading. Not a primer for beginning investors. Not a treatise on any particular trading style. Therefore, "Trading from Your Gut" is not by itself a sufficient source of training for becoming a stock trader. But these "nots" are what make Mr. Faith's book unique and valuable - there is no other book that provides the same very valuable perspective.His basis thesis - it's right there in the subtitle - is that a stock trader needs to use both his analytical and his intuitive abilities. He emphasizes that with practice the human mind can recognize general patterns in graphs and data that are very difficult for a computer to discern. The ability to immediately "see" that a stock is bouncing off of a support line or that it is "rolling over" may be a very reliable indicator that it is time to buy or to sell, and it often can be obvious with little more than a glance. For a busy trader in a fast-moving market,... Read more
25 of 31 people found the following review helpful
This Material Is Dangerous, By ForexHitman (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (Hardcover)
I am a currency trader and have a read a decent amount of trading books covering technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and market/trading psychology. This was a tough one to finish. Trading the way Faith suggests in this book is a foolish venture. The content is riddled with holes and the psychology behind what he is saying will not help you be a better trader. I do agree that any person experienced in their field has a certain intuition that runs in the background of their thinking, but this intuition is based on years of study of actual principles tested in real life situations. It's not based on guessing or a "feeling" as that sort of approach is detrimental to trading.Trading is a skill, and a difficult skill to master. The odds are stacked against you, maybe more than any other professional field. The last thing you want to be doing is making "gut" decisions. A recent best selling book by Malcolm Gladwell, titled Blink, deals with these same concepts you... Read more |
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Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader
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 A Careful Balancing Act 151
Conclusion 159
Afterword 169
Bibliography 187
About the Author 191
The Art of the Trade Trilogy 193
Index 197
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