Training and Trusting Your Gut for Trading

by Curtis Faith

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats. Understand how your brain really makes decisions--so you can put your whole brain to work in every trading decision you make!   One misconception people have about right-brain-dominant people is that they use emotion as the basis for their decision making. They think that somehow these people are relying on a more primitive and, therefore, inferior process for making decisions. This bias against right-brain-dominant thinking comes from the mistaken belief that right-brain thinking is based on emotions and is therefore somehow less rational....

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 14, 2010

About the author

Curtis Faith is best known as a member of the elite Chicago trading group, the Turtles. The group started as a bet between its founders: Were traders born or raised? In his early 20s, Curtis earned more money than makes good sense as a Turtle and he wrote a bestselling book, Way of the Turtle, detailing these adventures.