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The art of trading

Maintaining An Intelligent State of Mind. Humans are both emotional and intelligent beings. As emotional beings, they make decisions with the right side of the brain, an automatic mechanism that uses intuition and emotions to determine which course of action to take in response to exterior stimuli and often using shortcuts by assuming that the future simply repeats the past. As intelligent beings, humans decide with the left side of the brain, a deliberate mechanism that uses reason and planning to reach a decision rather than intuition and emotion.While independent, the right and the left side are part of the same fantastic tool, which allocates tasks efficiently to each system. The emotional part is usually the first to respond to exterior stimuli, generating impressions and beliefs. The intellectual part usually takes these impressions and beliefs for granted, in essence, letting the right side respond to external stimuli.Sometimes, however, the left side take over on the emotional part of the brain, begin analyzing additional information, and deliberate an action different from the one suggested by right side. And it may take control of it, as is the case when emotions result in cognitive errors that lead to harmful behavior – such as overtrading, buying high and selling low or the other way; doubling-down in a bear market; or selling winners and holding onto losers.