Train Your Gut Like a Master 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. How traders can recognize the moments when they must override their gut instincts and cognitive biases. Neuropsychology has taught us that the physical structure of the brain is prewired with certain tendencies designed for survival and reproduction of a species. Generally, these cognitive biases are very useful. However, in specific limited scenarios--particularly in trading and finance--they can trip you up. You need to retrain your gut to override them in specific trading circumstances....




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




Master Stock Traders Use Technology to Keep Their Skills Sharp and Their Intuition Honed


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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. How master traders use technology to combine intellect, analysis, and intuition--and make smarter, more profitable decisions. Master traders use technology to keep their skills sharp and their intuition honed to a fine edge. They use it to sift through hundreds or thousands of trading opportunities in the time they might previously have been able to sort through only tens. And they use it to learn faster, so they’re ready to act on any opportunities the market brings.




Trading for a Living


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Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas: * How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader * How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd * How to use a computer to find good trades * How to develop a powerful trading system * How to find the trades with the best odds of success * How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion volume--Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills. For example: Question Markets rise when * there are more buyers than sellers * buyers are more aggressive than sellers * sellers are afraid and demand a premium * more shares or contracts are bought than sold * I and II * II and III * II and IV * III and IV Answer B. II and III. Every change in price reflects what happens in the battle between bulls and bears. Markets rise when bulls feel more strongly than bears. They rally when buyers are confident and sellers demand a premium for participating in the game that is going against them. There is a buyer and a seller behind every transaction. The number of stocks or futures bought and sold is equal by definition.




Training and Trusting Your Gut for 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. 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....




The New Market Wizards


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Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS "Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I've ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you'll find that reading this book is time well spent." -Richard Dennis, President, The Dennis Trading Group, Inc. "Jack Schwager's deep knowledge of the markets and his extensive network of personal contacts throughout the industry have set him apart as the definitive market chronicler of our age." -Ed Seykota "Very interesting indeed!" -John Train, author of The Money Masters "Successful trading demands longtime experience because it requires firsthand knowledge. If there is a shortcut to this requirement, however, it is in reading about the experiences of others. Jack Schwager's book provides that shortcut. If you find yourself sweating upon occasion as you read, then you're as close to the trading experience as you can get without actually doing it yourself." -Robert R. Prechter, Jr., editor, The Elliott Wave Theorist THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS Some traders distinguish themselves from the herd. These supertraders make millions of dollars-sometimes in hours-and consistently outperform their peers. As he did in his acclaimed national bestseller, Market Wizards, Jack Schwager interviews a host of these supertraders, spectacular winners whose success occurs across a spectrum of financial markets. These traders use different methods, but they all share an edge. How do they do it? What separates them from the others? What can they teach the average trader or investor? In The New Market Wizards, these wildly successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success, as well as the embarrassing losses that have proven them all too human. Meet the Wizards of Wall Street: * Stan Druckenmiller, who, as manager of the Soros Quantum Fund, realized an average annual return of more than 38 percent on assets ranging between $2.0 and $3.5 billion * William Eckhardt, a mathematician who, in collaboration with trader Richard Dennis, selected and trained the now-legendary circle known as the Turtles * Bill Lipschutz, a former architect who, for eight years, was Salomon Brothers' largest and most successful currency trader * Blair Hull, a one-time blackjack player who began an options trading company with Asking the questions that readers with an interest in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, and filled with candid appraisals, The New Market Wizards takes its place as a classic.




Why Investors Should Trade Options Around Earnings Announcements


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This Element is an excerpt from Trading on Corporate Earnings News: Profiting from Targeted, Short-Term Options Positions (9780137084920) by John Shon, Ph.D., and Ping Zhou, Ph.D. Available in print and digital formats. Two Line Description How to trade options before earning announcements — and profit whether the market raves or rages! Text Excerpt We’ve all seen perplexing market reactions to earnings announcements, but would you have guessed that this happens 40% of the time? Even if you predict the right direction of an earnings surprise, it’s still easy to lose money with a directional bet. So how can you profit from an earnings announcement? You use an options trading strategy called a “straddle.”




The Fearful Rise of Synchronized Markets


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This Element is a very brief excerpt from The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future (9780137072996) by John Authers. Available in print and digital formats. Why markets are more synchronized than ever before–and why that’s so terrifying. World markets are synchronized, and far more prone to bubbles and meltdowns than ever. Why? In March 2007 I realized the world’s markets held each other in a tight, deadly embrace. One Bloomberg screen showed minute-by-minute action in the S&P 500. Then I called up a minute-by-minute chart of the yen’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar. The chart was identical. What was going on?




There Are Always Opportunties for the Objective Investor


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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading (9780137067084) by Quint Tatro. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how to profit from all price action — so you can earn returns in declining and sideways markets, too. The moment you stop allowing general market direction to dictate your emotions, you unleash powerful opportunities to capitalize on market movement. I was taught from a young age to seek out solid investments, buy them, and let them work. It took me years to truly embrace the philosophy that I could make money even in a stagnant or declining market.




Train Your Gut Like a Master Trader


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. How traders can recognize the moments when they must override their gut instincts and cognitive biases. Neuropsychology has taught us that the physical structure of the brain is prewired with certain tendencies designed for survival and reproduction of a species. Generally, these cognitive biases are very useful. However, in specific limited scenarios--particularly in trading and finance--they can trip you up. You need to retrain your gut to override them in specific trading circumstances ...