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

by Faith, Curtis

• ISBN13: 9780137047680
• ISBN10: 0137047681
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-02
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Original Turtle trader Curtis Faith gives active traders the tools for finessing the art of the trade, to blend instinct and technique. bull; bull;Duplicates Faith's winning style of trading that blends intuition, analysis, and discipline. bull;Teaches active traders how to hone their edge by recognizing and mastering principles of trading psychology. bull;Author of the global bestseller Way of the Turtle delivers unique insights on trading psychology and how to use them to your advantage. In Trading from Your Gut, original Turtle Trader and bestselling author Curtis Faith shows active traders how to profit from combining right brain skills (i.e., instinct) with left brain analysis. Drawing from his expertise in trading psychology and the Turtle trading method, Faith gives readers the tools to become a master trader. Master traders are able to harness their intuition in order to react quickly to market changes, are aware of behavioral biases, and are skilled analysts. Simply put, they combine the best of their right and left brain attributes and experience greater, more sustainable profitability. Many investors either rely solely on 'system trading' based on rigid, predefined criteria, or use 'discretionary' techniques based primarily on gut instincts. In this book, Faith shows how to combine the best of both approaches. You'll discover why your human instincts are a more powerful trading tool than you ever realized, capable of processing thousands of inputs almost instantaneously... how to harness, control, and sharpen your instincts, and overcome the emotional and psychological factors that cloud them... when not to trust your gut, and to rely on a dedicated trading system instead... how to hone your edge by recognizing the market behaviors that signal major profit opportunities... how to manage risks by sizing your trades appropriately... handle changing markets... and make the most of today's automated, Internetbased tools. 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 twenties, Faith earned more than $30 million as a member of the legendary Chicago trading group, the Turtles. He founded several software and high-tech startups, including a public company and an Inc. 500 firm. His most recent book is Inside the Mind of the Turtles .

Author Biography

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.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. 1
The Power of the Gut	p. 7
The Purpose of Gut Intuition	p. 19
Wrong-Brain Thinking	p. 33
The Structure of the Markets	p. 53
Training and Trusting Your Gut	p. 79
Trading Smarts	p. 97
Simplicity and Speed: Training to Be a Master	p. 119
Techno Traders	p. 139
A Careful Balancing Act	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 159
Afterword	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 187
About the Author	p. 191
The Art of the Trade Trilogy	p. 193
Index	p. 197
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