Everyone is different, and everyone has a style of trading that suits them best. I know people who make 7 figures scalping with a 30 second time frame using nothing but guts for analysis, and I know people who make 7 figures who have held the same trades for literally several years. I am a floor trader at times, off floor at others, and the "intuition" that I have gained from the floor guides what I do when trading from home. I personally think, as the previous poster noted, that the intuition is simply a synthesis of a pretty large (although it often doesn't seem that way) body of knowledge and experience that I can't tease out in linear fashion. I also lack the reflexes to scalp, as well as the patience to position trade for months, so I had to find a system with a time frame that suits my personality. I tend to like quantitative analysis, and I've gotten pretty good at it, so that is part of what I do as well. I also have friends that make a multiple of what I do that think that what I do is ridiculous voodoo. And I have other friends who make even larger multiples, who do pretty much exactly what I do, but better and bigger. Anyhow, all the sucessful traders I know found their own way, and found what suited them best, and the others blew out, because they were doing what they "should" do following someone else's methods, and it didn't really fit their own personality and temperment. There isn't any holy grail, and there isn't any single best way.
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Jessie
