Training and Trusting Your Gut for Trading

Curtis Faith

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 than left-brain thinking.

Distinguishing between emotional feelings and intuition that comes from the right brain is often difficult. In English, the word feeling is used to describe both concepts: intuitive responses for which no conscious logical basis exists, and the more primitive, ...