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

Author:Curtis Faith [Faith, Curtis]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2009-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Limbic Ranking and Preferences

The kind of signal you get from a properly trained right brain often comes that way—as a feeling. The limbic system is responsible for these feelings, which are part of its evaluation and preference mechanism. What course or option do you prefer? What kind of food do you want to eat? What color pleases you? What smells bring good thoughts? This same preference and ranking system is often used to rank your preferences based on right-brain thinking that takes place outside of conscious thought.

Sometimes you are inexplicably drawn to something or someone. Or you might find that you have a strong aversion to some object, smell, or person without any conscious explanation. You might say that you got “bad vibes” or “good vibes” from someone or a particular place. Other times, the work of the right brain connects directly to your conscious thought. It generally does this by bringing your attention to some thought or item that your senses have just seen or heard. The right brain performs this activity very well. It observes and notices. Bottom-up thinking often produces observations—fully assembled pieces of thought characterized by causative or associative connections between various phenomena.

You might notice that a particular phenomenon tends to precede another phenomenon. For example, you might notice that budding of the trees tends to precede the coming of the spring rains. You might notice that a certain coworker tends to come into work late on Friday mornings and that the weekly poker game at his apartment is on Thursday nights. You notice a potential causal connection between the two phenomena.

When trading, you might observe something and note to yourself, “That’s odd. It seems like when there is a vertical run-up in a stock, there is often a gap down right near the top.” These conscious observations are easy to handle. They interface with our linear left-brain thinking quite seamlessly.

The feelings you get from intuition outside our consciousness are more difficult to handle for left-brain-dominant people who always seek an explanation for their actions and thoughts. They often need to be able to connect the dots between conscious thoughts to make a decision.

Contrast this with the way the very best athletes use their intuition and subconscious to move without making conscious decisions. Sports legends at the top of their game often talk about moments of “flow” or times when they’re “in the zone.” On these occasions, time seems to slow down and their play seems effortless. Talented players who find moments of flow often have practiced for years, so their motor skills centers and their nervous systems already know how to do what needs to be done to perform well.

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