Intuition Amplifiers 2

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I consider myself extremely lucky because I have an occasional access to a FMRI machine. It is an eye opener! I have discovered that my subjects’ brains usually fire up the areas that responsible for the spatial orientation while they trade and not the areas responsible for logic or decision making! Interesting, isn’t it?
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That is very cool! Man you are lucky to have that access. I've read a bit about some FMRI studies, such as areas that light up for religious experiences . Not so much about trading. Would be almost interesting to compare the two. Even a visual book with the map images and studies would be great.

I assume you've read 'Why we believe what we believe,' Andrew Newberg.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Believe-W...r=8-1&keywords=why+we+believe+what+we+believe

Regarding brain structure, I remember seeing a study showing abnormally much more grey matter in autistic individuals. Dustin Hoffman's character was depicted as having an edge over the normal population in the film "Rain man." I wonder how he would do in something like trading (my guess would be not so well, as his abnormal memory and logical facilities would be useful in a card counting system with well defined rules, not so well with intuition required for games against an adversarial with strongly stochastic tendencies ).
 
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...the unknown and strange world of intuitive and subliminal decision making. It made him a believer of the possibility to succeed in what he thought was a “lost game”. His heart was racing for the first time in the past three years. “Intuition it is!” he said out loud to much surprise of the tired taxi driver.
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I've been reading and rereading quite a few of your posts in this thread and apart from enjoying the somewhat philosophical discussions I don't really get it. An intuition amplifier (IA) is used to ... what? Enhance decision making based on intuition? How would you even begin to measure that (ie proof of it's usefulness)?

A tool that could make me aware of "things I know but didn't know I knew", one that would push intuitive knowledge into the conscious mind, would be very useful. But that is not the purpose of an IA, right?

Anyway, I enjoy your posts. But I am far from the smartest guy in this room.

PS: There are "cardiac alert assistance dogs" and "diabetic alert assistance dogs" that are trained to alert their owners on an "imminent situation". Exactly how the dogs pick up these "signals" from humans is not fully understood (combination of body language and scent), but I guess you could call them CIAses (canine intuition amplifiers) :p .
 
Quote from dtrader98:

That is very cool! Man you are lucky to have that access. I've read a bit about some FMRI studies, such as areas that light up for religious experiences . Not so much about trading. Would be almost interesting to compare the two. Even a visual book with the map images and studies would be great.

I assume you've read 'Why we believe what we believe,' Andrew Newberg.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Believe-W...r=8-1&keywords=why+we+believe+what+we+believe

Regarding brain structure, I remember seeing a study showing abnormally much more grey matter in autistic individuals. Dustin Hoffman's character was depicted as having an edge over the normal population in the film "Rain man." I wonder how he would do in something like trading (my guess would be not so well, as his abnormal memory and logical facilities would be useful in a card counting system with well defined rules, not so well with intuition required for games against an adversarial with strongly stochastic tendencies ).
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I will post some images soon and we should discuss them. A very dear friend of mine is a head of one of the largest hospitals here in Toronto. He lets me in their FMRI lab at night when nobody is there. Because it’s at night I can only get my subjects to trade FOREX. During that time I record the activity areas of their brains. The results are very surprising. I can tell you that the only area of the brain that does not light steadily is the logic! I am just at the beginning of this research so I do not have many answers.
 
Quote from tobbe:

I've been reading and rereading quite a few of your posts in this thread and apart from enjoying the somewhat philosophical discussions I don't really get it. An intuition amplifier (IA) is used to ... what? Enhance decision making based on intuition? How would you even begin to measure that (ie proof of it's usefulness)?

A tool that could make me aware of "things I know but didn't know I knew", one that would push intuitive knowledge into the conscious mind, would be very useful. But that is not the purpose of an IA, right?

Anyway, I enjoy your posts. But I am far from the smartest guy in this room.

PS: There are "cardiac alert assistance dogs" and "diabetic alert assistance dogs" that are trained to alert their owners on an "imminent situation". Exactly how the dogs pick up these "signals" from humans is not fully understood (combination of body language and scent), but I guess you could call them CIAses (canine intuition amplifiers) :p .
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It is very difficult to describe. I can only show you. So, let me prepare a few examples (I am thinking of the videos) and share them with you. It will shed some light.
 
saw some pbs show years ago that described the female and male brain, the mall brain only used the front 2 lobes, the rest were off most of the time, the female brain rarely used those 2 and the other 4 were always on, even during sleep, going on memory
 
Quote from MAESTRO:

I have discovered that my subjects’ brains usually fire up the areas responsible for the spatial orientation while they trade and not the areas responsible for logic or decision making! Interesting, isn’t it?
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Quote from marketsurfer:

Exactly! This answers why the market is so rich, yet the traders so poor ( in general ) and why the losers keep coming back for more again and again
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What an interesting subject.....

It almost is like the markets are designed to deceive.....

even though they are not designed at all..... they just are what they are

I suspect that profitable retail daytraders are specially gifted (and spatially gifted) in some unique way

just having a good work ethic isn't enough.... there are lots of smart hard-working people who fail over and over again at this

I remember there was a woman at work who was really good at those Jumble word games in the newspaper

she could solve almost every one of them just by eyeballing them

I was terrible at them....
 
I've come to think logical reasoning (at least deductive arguments) won't work on a stochastic or fractal process with randomness involved, because these type of processes don't have one-to-one relationships between a given set of knowable inputs and the resulting outputs. It's better to use inductive arguments allowing for several outcomes with varying properties. I think this kind of if-then, one-to-one assumption trips up people in many areas beyond just trading.

The spatial regions show the most activity. For people who have this, could anyone describe the 'spatial thoughts' they have about trading? I suppose it might relate to not focusing on the time-price series as displayed on the chart. Myself, I try viewing probability distributions to the right, thinking about how one-at-a-time drawings from that distribution will create the path to come, but I don't think it has shown much effect on actual performance.
 
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I've come to think logical reasoning (at least deductive arguments) won't work on a stochastic or fractal process with randomness involved, because these type of processes don't have one-to-one relationships between a given set of knowable inputs and the resulting outputs. It's better to use inductive arguments allowing for several outcomes with varying properties. I think this kind of if-then, one-to-one assumption trips up people in many areas beyond just trading.

The spatial regions show the most activity. For people who have this, could anyone describe the 'spatial thoughts' they have about trading? I suppose it might relate to not focusing on the time-price series as displayed on the chart. Myself, I try viewing probability distributions to the right, thinking about how one-at-a-time drawings from that distribution will create the path to come, but I don't think it has shown much effect on actual performance.
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don't know if its spatial,but i think the markets are rigged and i try to percieve what the puppeteers are up to,sort of look from the top down if you want to think spiritual,use the biggest picture and work it down to the smallest, sort of a blueprint,then a foundation then floor by floor,room by room,then the trim ,then finished ,on to next project,foundation would be get long,then pump in a lot of news,data,salesmen(cnbc),push it up,find a buyer sell it to them, get short and work in reverse
 
Quote from MAESTRO:

Here is a trader's brain who just bought AUD/USD pair.
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Clearly folks who have 'wealth wounds' or other issues with money would react in a different way than those who view the markets as a game thus have a positive relationship with money. It is these wealth wounds that make the difference between simulated and real money trading. one needs to be aware of these difference prior to conducting testing or reaching conclusions.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Tony-Robbins---Personal-Power-II---Day-17---Wealth-Conditioning&id=5453524
 
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