Steps to Become a Whole-Brain Trader


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats. Your concise step-by-step guide to becoming a successful “whole-brain” trader! Here, I break down the different steps toward becoming a trading master, show the goal for each step, show how each step provides practice, and show a recommended approach for each step. The first step in your daily trading process is to analyze the market state. Is the market good for initiating buys, initiating short sales, or neither?




Steps to Become a Whole-brain Trader


Book Description

"This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Your concise step-by-step guide to becoming a successful "whole-brain" trader!"--Resource description page.







The Power of Whole-Brain Trading


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Why the best traders use their whole brains--both rational and intuitive. ¿ George Soros, one of the greatest traders alive, trades from the gut. He has widely remarked on the correlation between his backaches and trading choices. Some traders scoff at the idea of making decisions based on “feelings” or intuition. They see the trader’s role as rationally choosing the right course while others are tossed about by their emotions. Who is right?




The Power of Whole-Brain Trading


Book Description

This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct and Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Why the best traders use their whole brains--both rational and intuitive. ¿ George Soros, one of the greatest traders alive, trades from the gut. He has widely remarked on the correlation between his backaches and trading choices. Some traders scoff at the idea of making decisions based on "feelings" or intuition. They see the trader's role as rationally choosing the right course while others are tossed about by their emotions. Who is right?




The Whole-Brain Trader's Guide to Swing Trading


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. This Element is an excerpt from "Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader" (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats. Swing trading techniques that leverage psychology to profit from market overreactions and underreactions. Predicting market prices themselves is very hard. Predicting human reactions to them is somewhat easier. But easiest of all is detecting what has already happened and reacting to "that." If the market overreacts, you can make money by anticipating a return to "correct" price levels. If the market underreacts, you can also make money that way....




Investment Chart Patterns


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Discover the little-known technical patterns that reveal when the market’s headed sideways. Markets go up and down, but they also go sideways. Both bulls and bears can lose their desires to buy and sell aggressively as value is established. They wait for the next clues the market will leave as it decides where it wants to go next. Just like a car, trending markets must rest occasionally to refuel. Their “rest stops” are called congestion zones....




Trading from Your Gut


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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




Chart Patterns


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to recognize market turning points that are just about to happen, so you can profit--and avoid getting hammered. ¿ If some chart patterns are merely a rest stop for the market, others are turning points. If you already own a position in the market and one of these patterns form, it is probably time to consider selling. Here, you will learn to recognize these “reversal patterns”....




Investment Charts and Concepts


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Technical charts demystified: why they work, how they work, and how to get started with them. Patterns on charts are not random apparitions. They are formed when real people, acting in their self interests, buy and sell stocks, bonds, currencies, or commodities in pursuit of financial gain. They act, that action is recorded, and the sum actions of all participants form the patterns we see. Period. There is no conspiracy and there is no randomness.