How Markets Are Structured

Curtis Faith

Having gut intuition in trading is not enough to become a master trader. You also need a mature understanding of the structure of the markets, or as Einstein said, “a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” This implies the use of the whole mind—a mix of the analytical left brain and the intuitive right brain.

In a 1991 interview with The Academy of Achievement, Jonas Salk highlighted the need for both hemispheres:

Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way. The[y] both are necessary. The way I like to put it is that I might have an intuition about something, [so] I send it over to the reason department. ...