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 make the most of both their intuition and their intellect — and why they must.
It is not sufficient to be strong and tough: the source of psychological confidence and strength matters. Traders who combine intellect and instinct–smarts and intuition–will have a much easier emotional ride. Traders who fight their instincts and let their left brains dominate when their right brains are screaming “No” will find it much harder to manage adversity.
Curtis Faith is author of Trading from Your Gut, as well as 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 books also include Inside the Mind of the Turtles.