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Sure would be nice to concentrate on the origin and proliferation of that skill
as much as most have and will continue to concentrate their attentions to
systems and market patterns, wouldn't it?
Who knows, it may just take exercising it to make it bigger and stronger,
without even knowing what or where it is. Just like any mental skill or body
muscle, use it or loose it.
Do you think a pro-gambler has this in his toolkit?
As you say, it could be a costly exercise unless it is done with
"paper-trading".
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What's left when there is no body and no mind? That is the Question.
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>>Ever had that emotional gutt feeling that goes with the foamed-mumbling and
>>outright yelling real profanities at your computer screen interspersed with
the
>>approximate statement "I knew it!". "I knew it was going to (rocket or dump or
>>break-out or bottom or top or break me today)". Never, oh well, then delete
>>please.
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>SNIP
>> True or not, this is what I call "intuition" at work.
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>What you have just described goes on 24hrs a day in Vegas.
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>Intuition, "the immediate understanding of something without conscious
>reasoning or study" - or so the dictionary says.
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>The problem is knowing whether your intuition is correct before the fact.
>This takes many trades and will probably turn out to be an expensive
experiment.
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>I must admit, I would rather be an intuitive trader than a systems trader,
>given equal reward. Must be a damn site more interesting! :-)
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