Chapter 1
Brain-Compatible Trading
IN THIS CHAPTER
Seeing how human evolution has impacted financial decision-making processes
Looking more closely at the trader brain
Understanding neural circuits and biochemical processes
Tracing the miracle of neuroplasticity
Using process orientation for success
In this chapter, I take you way back — way, way back. Across millions of years, the evolutionary selection process has made us humans what we are today. We must take that knowledge into account when we’re surprised about behaviors that no longer fit in our modern time — including behaviors on the trading floor. To better understand what’s going on, it pays to take a closer look at the trader brain. (I hope to convince you that this closer look will provide some answers.) Modern brain research has made some exciting discoveries about how the decision-making process actually takes place — which parts of the brain are involved and which biochemical processes occur simultaneously, for example. ...
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