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We were advice during my forex trading by trading expert that we should not depend only on technical and fundamentals indicators alone in trading but we should focus our mind in the third indicator which is our gut instinct and we were told that it can not fail us but making us rich and build our confident in trading.  However. I think about 80% of traders don't know how to hear the voice of their instinct during trading!  Can one get this gut instinct training like others investments tools?  Is it even truth that we have something like gut instinct?

Yes it is true that we have that.
Technical analysis are like broken lines. You will still need to decide at the end whether when to sell or buy.
That is your instinct telling you to do it.

When you get it right what do you feel? That feeling of success is because of your instinct and not just your analysis.

I hope you didn't pay for this advice.

Instinct is a nutral present of mind of everyone so to,this ideas in trading is helpfull but need also to analysts all decision in trading, as of now I can't heard if there have an training school for the instinct development.

lol, you made my day. Btw if anyone goes on forex courses and thinks that if he/she learns everything well, will become successful trader, then sorry but you are wrong. In trading someone loses and someone wins, without losers you can't win.
Also trading is luck and luck plays a huge role, sometimes price can decrease at time when you think everything around currency is positive and every chart/statistics supports your opinion but somehow won't be correct.
In gut instict do you mean the wish of more profit? If yes, then everyone thinks and trades to get much profit, so it's hard to stop when you really have to stop because for example if you waited for 2 day and would gain 1.5x profit, then you feel guilty and so on.

Intuition vs luck vs skills.

Do you think you could survive in trading if you have lack one of these? I think it is better to have a combination of these 3 if you are trading, this is to ensure that your chances of winning will gonna get high despite of having a low score in one of these categories.

No I don't follow my guts in trading, I used indicators and fundamental analysis when I trade, I used data and logic to make a decision, following guts could be dangerous, without proper research, trading would be like gambling and following gut is consider as gambling, if you are lucky it could make you rich, if you are unlucky then you will lose money, trading is not supposed like gambling

I have been a bit too hard on technical analysis in the last months I guess. In the end, it all comes down to having it work in your favor to increase the probability of a trade to be profitable. In general, if you apply technical analysis the way it should be applied, especially during a calmer market, you are more likely to have more winning than losing trades.

Gut instinct is gambling. You can be right in the short term, feel like you have become an expert, but you'll likely get rekt in the long run and lose it all.

last year These guys also follow their instincts:

Tom Lee: BTC will reach $25K (https://cointelegraph.com/news/tom-lee-says-btc-will-hit-25000-in-2018-advises-aggressive-buying-at-market-low)

John McAfee: BTC will hit $500K in three years (https://cointelegraph.com/news/john-mcafee-doubles-down-predicts-1-mln-btc-bets-his-dk-on-it)

and see where the price is

This is serious and that s the major reason I do ask if we should follow our gut in trading.  Some traders are trip in technical analysis and often times follow chart pattern and candlesticks pattern but lose money during trading.  I think we should not underestimate the power of the three and these technical,  fundamental and gut instinct should be combined before we invest into cryptocurrencies market.
I could remember we paid around $500 for two weeks training but it was very useful to me.

All kind of trading are done by  our instinct only,because we all are buying the cryptos with the hope of the prices will increase someday.

So it is not a wrong this to follow your instinct but don't just go like gambling with your coins.

It depends on the rates. If I have more chances to gain, sometimes I try. But if both are 50%, this is not trading, I call it ''bet'', ''gambling''. I do not think there is anything forcing you to trade. If you can not get a result from the analysis, why not wait?

Couldn't have said it better. It reminds of someone who said that in order to be successful in trading, you have to follow your heart and make the right decision, which is hilarious. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. :D

At the end of the day, trading is a guessing game. If you blindly guess you are more likely to be wrong. If you make an educated guess, you are more likely to be less wrong. Only a very few traders end their sessions with profit....

I know of myself that if it isn't a long term trade, like buy low sell high, there is no point for me to trade because I suck at it. I tried it, failed, then tried it with paper trading, failed again. I'm happy to distance myself from making mistakes.

Since I can't apply the things that I have seen on the internet on how to trade then I have to really follow my own gut to trade and I have to learn some things on my own to be better at it.

I think you should only rely on your gut instinct when there is very little analytically between your options. Aside from those times it's better to go with analysis and data rather than on a hunch you have.

Yes, many times :P. There are many cases were you need to trust on your gut feeling. Even though your strategy and your bots are against your gut feel trust your gut.

When you trade for qualitative amount of time and you are good at reading market you start getting come intuitions. Many times during the dump in last Jan Feb my gut feel was the one that hold me back from taking a long.

I usually get inputs from other traders and use that as a basis of my trading ventures, though I don't solely rely on those alone. I also have my own strategies formulated over time, but it never is a pain to look at someone's prediction of what's to come and weigh whatever is more plausible and reasonable. Oftentimes, our gut feeling really helps, but that alone IMO isn't a sufficient basis for monetary/financial decisions as they are not guaranteed correct 100% of the time. You might kick yourself in the process while saying "I told you so" when you turn out right, but then again, deductive reasoning and pure logic is still far superior than just gut feeling alone.

Definitely. Most of the time when I trade I check on the charts and all that but I try to follow the trend and the price usually moves around one or two spots and I try to buy and sell between those numbers without looking at the chart too much. If I feel like bitcoin will drop to a certain amount than I sell above that (well put sell order above it) and when I feel like it will be going up than I put a buy order at a bit below what I think it will reach.

That is how I made most of my profits in the past 2 months, even tho price hasn't changed much I have made one of the most profits I have ever made in crypto for the past 6 years except the shocking 20 thousand dollar 2017 peak times. It is just getting to know bitcoin and understanding that it doesn't stay still and usually move between two positions constantly.

Sometimes I follow what I think maybe it worthly impossible to happened and for sure it's my own decision to do because its a strategy if the price going up or down. So made your own path.

There are quite a number of investors who have been very successful thanks to investing in the way they listen to their own voices. But to get an accurate voice, you need to have a high level of expertise and a lot of reasoning about the business you're about to invest. That word, inside you can create a voice and it will be quite accurate. We always need to cultivate knowledge to succeed.

We should bear in mind as well, that trading cryptocurrencies, due to trading volume has another factor - thinking what whales are about to do right now if we are speaking of short term trades. In the last 10 days we could see a number of attempts of BTC to make a strong move, all of them failed.

That instinct makes us confident in trading, but that instinct must have a reason, for example combining several indicators that all show buy or sell signals, so it's not the origin of guessing without reason.

I agree with you, because sometimes luck can also be a part of us when trading. indeed there are many factors that we must consider in trade, so that makes trade difficult and challenging.

Trying sometimes bring you earnings. But, trusting to chance every time when you fail to reach conclusion, will end your business. Imagine if you had lost instead of gain, what position were you now? When the analyzes do not work, watching is better than relying on luck.

I agree with you. sometimes it does work for me. Most of the time technical analysis of the market and signals do fail, but when you make use of your instinct it does perform magic. At that point, you learn and you will feel very happy. When it didn't work out you feel disappointed but you will still learn and gain more experience. It is good to use our instinct in trading.

TA doesn’t always work we should look for something else sometimes, and its your guts that can help you. I’m just trading with some research but more on the guts because its works for me. I mean there’s a thing within you that TA can’t explain and you have to take that risk to earn more and its good its work.

Following my instinct?
What kind of man are you?

When it comes to chasing women, or buying fruits at the grocery store, I've always followed my instinct, but I have absolutely no instinct to tell me that today XMR will go up or down. And I don't think any man has instinct for that.

maybe not only instincts but about self-confidence, that might be what often happens if we feel confident and confident then we can make a decision,
 because the movement of the price of bitcoin is strongly influenced by some big country policies so we can observe some policies from big countries.
so things like this can be a reference for us to determine our attitude.

Agree, your instincts must also be accompanied by profound reasons, you cannot just originate instinct because it only means that you are guessing or trying your luck and trading is not the same as gambling. I myself not too dependent on instincts, except when cornered and doesnt have other choice

But at least there's some kind of stimulus that make you follow your instinct. Did you see read the news today? Did you go around the community and read somewhere that the price might spike in the next coming days?

It's not like you just wake up and say I will go full Ethereum today because my gut instinct tells me to do. There's still that market influence and then you just follow it and call "instinct investing".

It's true I'm a person who doesn't really understand the graphs, candles, statistics of trading, etc. but I have some backgrounds about them however I don't usually use it all the time since it's really hard for me to understand those kind of complicated stuff and in result I just following my guts in selling and trading for example once I earned 5-10% I will sell it automatically and if I lose 10-15% I will sell it immediately to avoid further losses.

So I'm trading using my instinct and if I sense something like I think there's a dump that will happen I will sell it immediately.

I dont know about that but i depend on fundementals and technical analysis to make the right calls to buy or sell and stop my loss of crypto tokens. I just dont usually rely on gut feeling cause last time ive relied on it. I loss my investment well not totally but quite significant enough to not rely in gut feeling but in strategies and trading experts who really knows what their doing.

I don't follow anyone in trading, only by myself. Even loss or profit, i can learn something from that. At past i follow my friend, trading in a group, and can share information each others, but a lot of loss i get in there.

technical and fundamental analysis is one of the important factors, but do not leave the instinctive factor, everyone has a different narrative and it can change the way of looking at the risks taken and capture in tranding, if it is combined with trade, I think that's an extraordinary thing

Isn't when we say gut instinct, it is a part of our human nature instinct, or could I say part of our emotions. Because, in my experience every time I do the actual trade in the market. There are only 2 things which is only possible to be happen and that is my emotion controls me or I will control my emotions.

Making our own decision while trading is important because no one really knows how the makret will going to be so just deciding based our assumptions and act accordingly will help our confidence to increase a lot while we did some profitable trades or just keep it as lesson.

At the end we will always trust our gut on our decision making even if we have read all the news, done our research, and made our technical analysis of our own it is always our gut we will be depending on if we believe what we have gathered is right or not so there is really no choice here if  we are on our order list. To be honest you cannot be as comfortable investing in the crypto market as compared to the stock market as based on my experience everything can go to the opposite direction even if you are 100% sure of your analysis, its how the market behaves and we can't control it.

gut instinct should be the arbiter (the final authority) in decision-making, but it shouldn't be the primary factor. if everything is based on your gut, you're basically trading on emotion---that's a big no-no.

fundamental and technical analysis should always come first. they should frame whether a trade setup has positive expected value (eg a 60/40 or 55/45 chance of success). gut instinct should prevail in situations where perceived risk/reward is marginal and a trader needs to decide whether a trade is really worth entering.

Well sometimes your gut feel is right, sometimes it can be wrong. The only thing about it is you don't have to blame anyone else when you follow it. I agree that not all the time ta's will hit the point. You sometimes have to pair it with that your instinct tells you.

Sometimes I try when I lose myself into graphs. Because, especially in crypto trade, sometimes price analysis can be very difficult. I know this isn't true but when I make profit it makes me feel like I earn without doing nothing and I like it.  ;D

You must be very lucky then if can pick right coins and right price in trading activity. Because sometime it is  very hard to decide which coin we want to buy and in what rates, if someone keep do good on that thing, trading will look very easy to everyone.

Your instinct is just your subconscious knowing how to process the information already. Technical analysis leads the way, experience tells me wether to pull the trigger. Patience is my guide

In terms of analyzing the behaviour of crypto price, it's really a usual thing to not just consider technical analysis and charting when making a next strategy. That's how volatile crypto is and can spoiled all professional analysis in just a one sweep of a trend.

On the other hand, putting instinct doesn't have a direct effect to increase luck "BUT" it's a good reference for our next plan strategy especially if the thing on our mind are well backed up by our own analysis. Not a direct trading and investment tool but a "self tool".

Take note that just setup a limit and try to be "realistic" all the time. We are avoiding the possibility of being carried away here that can lead to losses.

I also agreed with what you were about following ones gut when the technical and fundamentals analysis seems not to be working but before ones can choose to follow the third analysis which is gut ones must have a knowledge about the crypto market in other not to go wrong because any foul played can happen through the whales.

It is not gut or instinct. It is called a choice and decision making.

If you rely on gut then it is like relying on luck. Use analysis and other means of checking the prices. Like charts and history of a certain coin that you are trading.
Monitoring. It also helps. An hour or a day of checking the price fluctuation, until you get used to it.

I agree that if we need not only knowledge about technical  and fundamental analysis but also others different skill,  like how to control emotion and understanding about psychology in trading activity. Make trading activity just like doing hoby so we can avoid boring and stress.

I think in some instances that "gut instinct" is referred to as "Trading Psychology". Every trader needs to have a grip on it if they want to succeed. Though I must confess it isn't that easy controlling. It's like patience. Most traders lack the virtue of patience.

Not just with trading, everywhere we need some "third" force for finalising all our hard work. Some people do call it superstition and some people are calling it luck factor. But here in this case, if you are believing in to this "third factor" completely then your trading will be nothing short of gambling.

Basically, you need to be very much strong in your technical analysis, so that you will be confident about positive results from your trading. When you are very much positive about producing profitable results than you will get that "third factor" supporting you without having to do any thing for that. This is how usually instinct are working for us. Being positive will work for us to ease our hurdles.

When you are not good at technical analysis, you cannot be confident and being positive. So, basically you need to be strong in generating accurate trading calls then instinct will get you positive energy which will lead to big profits on its own way.

actually not all instincts present the truth, sometimes someone's instincts are wrong. but if we follow our instincts, we will feel calm and create self-confidence.
personally always see the predictions of others, and take decisions according to my instincts.

Making decisions through your instincts are really risky decision. You can't ensure that you can win in trading by following your instincts because you do not have enough data for you to make a basis. It is better if you have enough information in trading for you to make good decisions.

Yes I do but I try to leave that way because bring me to part that I can't think realistic anymore. Instinct is more like experience, something that always repeat ( momentum method ) but I can say if we believe that please keep use stop loss and take profit point. Everything need limit and without limit you'll see dark future.

Instinct can deceive you as well as good or bad news, charts, advice from experienced traders and investors, etc. I recently tried to use instinct in connection with the fall of cryptocurrency rates,nothing good came out of it.

By gut instinct, i guess you mean intuition. Yeah, just blindly following peoples advice will get you no where. Instead you might end up suffering from huge losses. If your intuition tells you to do something else, then if you think that is right, just do what your intuition is telling you to do.
You get those gut "feeling"/"instinct" because you know whats going to be best for you.

There is instinct everywhere in trading although dont forget there is also your emotions kickiing everywhere so you just need to be watchful the one you take because one can hurt you very much

I believe that instinct has a big impact on the results of trading that we do. Even with the right instincts, many people experience success. this is an indicator that with instinct someone can make the right decision. Do not underestimate the power of instinct because this is a good capital in starting trading.

Maybe sometimes I also follow my gut instinct in trading because it gives way to happened sometimes so it's not a problem if you gonna do things will enters your mind.

Of course, we listen also what is in our heart and follow what it is if we feel good into. Everything in our body are connected to our mind and goes into the final decision. Though a lot of things to consider when you are in trading specially for decision making but it is in our heart to finally decide what could be the best and not just rely of what the others say.

Exactly.Even though we are full of knowledge that will make us more confident in trading,i still believe that our very own instinct has really a big part in making our final decision.We should always weigh things right and only our own instinct is capable of doing it right.But i think not all instinct will end up in success,sometimes we end up committing mistakes but we should learn from it.

Sometimes the price changes in the market are indeed unpredictable and usually I don't trade when that is the case happen,
but if I am forced I will use the instinct to make a choice. but don't let you depend on that method..

Yups I certainly is,our instincts must be part of the decisions we may have specially in this community by which the luck is always indeed fo us to generate earnings

Many traders rely on graphs and AI and most of the time in signals that has given by so called ‘experts’but in the end they go home for nothing profitable and losses is what they’ve got

Our instinct will fail us sometimes but mostly giving us guidance for what is positive and not negativity

Everyone has their own instincts and it can be developed by itself through a long experiences. The more knowledge and experiences we have, then naturally our instincts will also grow. And in making decisions, of course, instincts will always give their role. Instinct is part of decision making and it is a unit with other tools that cannot be separated. But certainly, we cannot rely solely on our instincts and ignoring the other factors.

No, I only follow my strategy depend analysis. In my opinion trading/ investment for people like me is about number ( data ) but I also know if people decides to use instinct it could be fundamental player. You can follow anything you want as long can give you profit but never forget about stop loss and disciplines. Never forget to keep learning from your mistakes, that will become your valuable experience to built your character.

You can look numbers and charts, I`m doing the same, but instinct is very important to me too. How to trade and buy something if you don`t believe in that, if instinct doesn`t tell you that after your buying price will go up and not down again? We can`t say where is the bottom, we need to guess it and in the end after all numbers and charts instinct tells us "it`s the time, from here price will start rising".

yes, I always follow my instincts, because in my opinion that instinct arises when I have read the market conditions and found the next direction.

Every analysis can fail and even your instincts can as well,so it's wrong to believe that trading with instincts means one will end up with success,no analysis is a sure one,it can only increase your chances of success,but cannot guarantee you success
I prefer studying charts and putting a lot of considerations in check before trading as I'm usually very careful when trading to avoid losses

Guts or instinct is always been there not only on trading field but in all sorts of situations which do involves on having choices or decisions in life even on simple things but

since we do talk about trading, im not saying that we dont need this thing and in fact there are really times that i do make use or follow my guts basing on my own analysis

either with technical or fundamentals because risking will always been part of investment and you do really need the guts to proceed or believe on what you have planned.

Well I think some of us is following our instinct because what ever the decision we made is still its up to us. If you feel that is good for why not to grab it right? It's depend to our strategy.

Yes at the end following our own Instinct will give you some satisfaction in our where trading why it was not also good it will not be a big problem while we are taking our own risk without following any other strategy and in most of the day and it will always works.

Traders don't really care what it is that they trade, or if it has long term potential or not, the charts is all they need. People somehow think fundamentals matter, which they do in the long term, but not in the short term.

You can have the best fundamentals just like Bitcoin has, but the short term market has been trashing even Bitcoin, so you have to be very careful when it comes to basing your trades on instinct or believe.

Being neutral is what I consider one of the most important aspects of being a trader. Even if it concerns coins you dislike, you trade them because you see an opportunity, and there are plenty of opportunities with crypto.

Sometimes trading requires an instinct, even though it is more influenced by the data and analysis that we have.
Instinct is an important thing because if we can determine the right time and be in the right situation then we can get good opportunities in trading.

instinct is a pattern of behavior and reaction to a particular stimulus that is not studied but has existed since the birth of a living creature and is obtained from generation to generation.

and right, I trade forex and crypto instinctively, but I also see media news to be additional in predictions

We came up with our decisions through considering some factors around but it mostly coming from our own instinct to decide what is best.
Media news are just one of the environmental factors affecting our decisions but we should consider the market trend as this is a major basis of our trading plans.

I think many times when we opened a position and lost, there was an internal voice that said: Do not enter ... After reading some books, I meet Jesse Livermore, who speaks specifically of instinct, and often, if there is an instinct that you must follow, pay attention, because as strange as it may seem sometimes works, then he advises that if you have an instinct, you have to pay attention.

That instinct does not come from nowhere, it's coming from within and that is based on what we usually read or analyze.
I will always follow with my instinct but I will make sure I am educating my self very well so it could give me a chance to come up with a better decision.
Risk is high and we know that, following your instinct alone without basis will not gonna give you a good result.

Sometimes, following instinct in trading is good especially if we are doubt with the market. I am not too often to use my instinct because I think as long as I have a calculation or predicting where the price goes, I don't use it. But if somehow, I cannot see a clear sign for the market then I will use my instinct to decide to buy or not.

But it's not always guaranteed to see the instinct can help us because sometimes, we were too greedy to get the profit and it causes us to not listen to our instinct.

I tried that so many times, and I failed miserably. The first time I did, that is when I don't even know what I was doing but I am trading all the time. I don't know how to read charts, add indicators, what indicators mean and I go with the flow. If I see a high percentage, I buy in and then dump happens. I just didn't know what I was doing. Thankfully I found out that you could get to automate your trading. With Gunbot, I have managed to be consistent in my trades and didn't have to follow my gut always. When I did, I just did it for the sake of adding trading pairs and not when I'm buying and selling. I'm letting the numbers do the talking.

Gut instinct can be a bit misleading if care is not taking; Gut instinct is just like gambling or speculation. I have actually used this and sometimes, it works for me and sometimes backfires big time, one bad thing about gut instinct is that the time you need it most is when it fails you.

I didn’t get my trading strategy right until I started relying more on technical and fundamental analysis 100% which I think that is what you should train yourself on more because technical and analysis learning never finishes. So gut instinct cannot be train friend except luck decided to shine on you just like lotto of gambling.

I believe it is true to have something like gut instinct. IMO, it is actually built from your own experience. That goes to say that it take years of trading experience to have a more accurate gut instinct.

Relying on instinct is very difficult if we do not have enough knowledge and experience, instincts will be formed by themselves if we have good experience and knowledge and for ordinary people if only relying on that instinct there can be a lucky factor that will help him gain profit. So, trading is not enough to just rely on one skill, it takes a lot of expertise in trading so you can make good profits during trading.

Our gut instinct is somehow true and somehow false. This is why we don't rely on it however it doesn't mean that we don't use it. Although there are indicators and other tools that helps us in deciding when to enter the market, the decision is still on us. This is when you should use your gut instinct. Through this process, you have more chanes of making profit.

The first question that comes to my mind is, is your tutor really making money in the markets or is he making money selling books and other stuff? Because following your instinct may sound great but that only works for those that have decades of experience in the market and making huge profits, for your average trader such a thing will never work, in my opinion you should create a strategy, verify that it gives profits and then stick to it.

I don't know how many strategies you have created but I think we should read the comments and the aim of opening a threat before said anything.  I have more than 9 years in trading of both stocks and forex trading before adding cryptocurrencies in 2016. Your gut cannot fail you but no matter how good a strategy has been it has failed and makes you lose money one time.  Most of the professionals follow their gut in trading and that is what makes them to invest at the right time and sell when everyone thought that markets are in good condition.  I will advise us to reduce the risk by invest the amount you can lose.

I wouldn't trust internal voice in trading that much. Sometimes you can not define what it is about. Better spend time to watch news and create a trading plan.

Well,everyone following it because we are just doing trading when we get a feels that this product will get more value in future so having it now will give us a chance to make money while the price increases.In crypto trading it will be well suited for long term investors because they are investing on a coin based on their opinion they are not going to use analysis for very long term investment.

Yes, it's better to analyze the market because that is the real things that we could see. We don't know if the voice is from our mind or from the greediness that keeps telling us that "You should sell at that price." And sometimes we are confusing to determine which one is true and in the end, we make a wrong decision.

But sometimes, the instinct doesn't lie to us, but it was not clear for us to see if that is only a trick or it's come from our instinct. So maybe to solve this is when you hear any voice in your mind, accept that but you need to search on the market and if the sign in the market can show the information for you then maybe the voice could be true.

Instinct or what you are saying the internal voice is literally based on charts and price history, you can't just have instinct on what you do not know or what you do not care about. Instinct is also speculation which makes the cryptocurrency's price on the market. Guts is your stand on your instinct, how strong or weak you believe in.

Yes I really do most of the times and it will come to be true at many instances as well in the small price change level.But for a regular trader they need to be stick with the analytical skills for making profits in trading.

Of course, it will surely fail you because all gut instinct does is to create way for emotional trading and unnecessary panic selling, for someone who is not so good at trading or does not have so much time spend on the system for trading.

I think the bot you mentioned such as the gunbot is best but personally for me, I will rather put my analysis to test fundamentally and technically while trading, this is still the best though trading manually takes a whole lot of your time.

I agree.Regular traders have their own trading skills already that have developed through their good analytical and fundamental thinking.Trading using your gut instinct is only advisable as long as you know what you are doing in the first place.Because if not,you might end up trading as a gambling one.So better trade according to your own analysis and not just on what your gut instinct says.

Gut instinct is the worst form of trading. More often than not, your emotions betray you. You panic dump when you're supposed to buy blood. You panic buy because of greed and fomo, when you should be selling. Never go with the herd.

You can make some profitable orders by instinct but it doesn't work, can't be trained. It's just a mistake of survivor. I prefer don't hear that feeling because it's connected with other ones like fear and greed.

Yes, I follow my instincts when trading, because it is indeed important and very useful for me, but in trading we must not only follow instincts, we also have to understand the techniques in trading, such as technical and fundamental.

Not all the time,if you let your emotions take out your decision making ability then you are going to get trapped and be in losses.

For sure you can make profits by trading with your instinct,if you have some luck.

Its really hard to just use your instinct in trading, I think its more reliable if you study a lot before you trade. Following your instinct is just like gambling, where you will do everything just to have profit, luck can also be the reason. Its true that emotion is bad, and losses will be the result of this. I do trade with TA because I believe that it really works but not all the time of course. Good luck on your tradings, if you just depend on your instinct.

In trading, you can not do without an intuitive component, because not always everything is subjected to technical and fundamental analysis, but you still need to set certain goals and periodically adjust them)

Yes I am a trader and I created my own strategy, and I suppose this is one of those circumstances in which we will need to accept the different approach of the other person because I do not follow my instincts at all when I trade, the strategy that I created tells me what I need to do in every circumstance and I just follow it since I have verified that it gives profits over the long term, but if following your instincts works for you and you have been successful for so long then keep doing it.

But it mostly connected with our luck so if that meant to be happen then we need to follow our instinct on the trading but as you said it is not a skill so it should not be followed at every trade when someone doing.

well, sometimes I follow my instincts, but accompanied by the information that is overwhelming. like a coin will list in an exchagner or something like that. at that time, my instincts said that prices could go up high.

I did not follow the instincts but I followed the results of my analysis of trading, trading was not as easy as it was done, it needed analysis and accuracy to get profit

Isn’t trading with gut instinct a form of gambling? I don’t think this is a good way to do trading. IMO, trading with gut instinct is dangerous and you might just lost it all easily.

That is why trading is totally different from gambling, or watching a football match where you can apply your feeling to decide or guess what will happen. Most traders have lost their money to trading using the feelings or trading with emotion.

What your instinct does when you out it to practice is that it deceives you to believing you are 100% sure, you might actually get some right and that is for those that are not constant traders but if you are constant trader and you use your feeling to trade, you will eventually loose whatever the feeling gets you out of luck. So as far as trading is concern, you have to use your TA and FA to verify whatever you instinct tells you to do.

I am defining that as a mind reflex.
Brain is learning from previously historical data you see pr you learnt.
Sometimes bringing and combining outputs which are not exactly defined in your consciousness.
So we are defining these outputs all as gut instinct or in my literature it is mind reflex.

sometime guts feeling give you profit but that doesnt means it will always be true,going technical is the best choice and their is no luck in trading and in crypto trading even technical skills fails when there is big manipulation so it experience is the big factor in any time in trading.

Trading without having some basis will turns into nothing in the end and so following our instinct isn't effective.
Technical analysis is very important to know some possibilities if we gain or not.
Sometimes we used our instinct and succeed but it could be different in trading fields, may we could used it in gambling.

basically instinct is one of the strengths in conducting trade.
but sometimes instincts can plunge us into losses, therefore I don't always rely on instinct, I base it more on several analyzes.

Lets not put away gut feeling down right away, I know it is not the best way to trade and many people who trade with gut feelings will most likely get burnt and lose money. However, if you are an experienced trader and have been doing this sort of thing for years (and I mean like professionally, not in the sense that you have other jobs but buy and sell stuff here and there, I mean actually as a business and get a salary for this on some bank) than your gut feeling would be superior to many peoples researches.

I had read a book about Peter Lynch for example and dude has strict rules about buying and selling stocks and he only buys and sell stocks if it fits his own criteria which is great for long term however time to time he had some gut feelings towards some companies (body shop for example if I remember correctly) and it all worked out.

very true and in trading that must be used is the right analysis and knowledge also because it will bring you to run well and will get a good profit

Agree, sometimes instinct will give us a reasonable advice and decision, but again, this is just sometimes, it's not always perfect, the risk from using instincts and emotions for trading, it is very large, it even seems to put us in an extremely dangerous place and cannot find a way out. Want to make money and survive in trading, we should aim to what you and many people are saying, skills and techniques, the weapons are more powerful than instincts, it will greatly determine the profit we can get

There is always some Instinct are coming out from my mind while I was start trading because it always needed for me to get the flow of going with the proper way and make it more easier also so I think it will definitely be an important part for a trader to get success with his trading.

I think i can say i use 80% on charts and 20% on gut feel whenever i will decide whether i sell or buy coins. We should be glad that trafing decision can be relied on charts and datas gathered through history. Its not like gambling where you use your gutfeel or or hunch most of the time.

Either I have not yet become a successful trader, or I just have no luck. Because my instinct very often fails me. I try to listen to him, but it doesn't always work out the way I need to.

I suggest you have to keep learning directly in the exchange place and make it your important experience, because every trade you do has a different strategy.

everyone has an instinct ... we are born already have the mind and mind there, so we can analyze and think about trading in the digital world such as forex, binance and other exchangers, I think do not analyze too and predict, we must know when the price it will rise when the price will go down we must know so that we do not regret later

I think it is all about luck now; I mean take the last bull run with ETH; Everything indicated that the bull run would continue to hit 200 resistance level just so it plums within seconds. I honestly don't know what to think of it anymore.

If your target is only $200 then maybe you will see that soon.
Don't get discourage for every failure to break a resistance as it's just part of the game, though it failed but it does not mean success is not possible.
The timing will help break any resistance and as this market continues to exist, one day we will see a big good news that will change it to bullish.

Whenever I do trading, there are so many times that my instict were true. Yes i am using fundamental analysis but I do have a full trust with my guts. Sometimes, when i follow other's TA and i have different instinct about it, mine was always happening. But of course, i have a basis for that using some indicators, too.

Our gut instinct can not fail us? Really? That depends on what gut instinct means.
I don't know if instinct has been reliable for me in trading.  I depend mostly on technical analysis for my trading and it works fine for me.

I must agreed that majority of the traders don't know how to hear the voice of their instinct. In fact, majority of the traders are depending on their skills and luck and that's the reason why so many of them got loss their coins because of this things. Therefore, if You/We only how to use our instinct in a proper manner for sure we can always get a good profit at the end of the day.

There is gut instinct and this to me simply implies your discretion, sensitivity. Being able to perceive and predict when best to make moves that pays.
This is also needed on bitcoin because the scale we all follow is not control by us and it is not regular. When it is high it wouldn't be for ever.

Instinct its important but learn to use other tools that ensure successful trade.  Like knowing how to read a chart and using technical and fundamental analysis will also help

Even in gambling, you just cannot rely always on the gut instinct and have to have set and very well and purpose oriented strategies.

So yeah, I do follow my gut instinct at times but not always. Using your market strategies at time of investment has later on high benefits. You should always look at the market and jump and invest right away when the values are down because that is the time when you actually make your self some value edge.

There are times that I did follow my gut feels, though some of it were bad and some were good. But as a trader, I'd always based everything on my research and if there's an excess or an extra credit from my pass earnings, I use it for some experiment which don't include my data. Pure risk and gut feels, it's quite fun when it's a success and if it fails then, a little bit sad but not that much.

Well, when you meet a successful trader, they will tell you that gut feeling is also an important part of trading in investing.
In fact, According to Winton Felt “Gut feeling in trading It is a kind of sixth sense that grows out of a trader's accumulated knowledge and experience with the market”.

So, virtually we all are not left out no matter how good you feel you are, just that the level varies, most professional trader has matured gut feeling which is most time helpful too in deciding a trade, so gut feeling for trading is not the same intuition for gambling.

I do not think instincts are that much important, it's just a spontaneous belief or thought and can always be wrong, it's more of less like emotions.
Instead of following instincts, it's better to apply normal analysis, such as fundamental and technical ones and getting to trade with other forms as well, instincts are based on luck

Well most of the time though the market moves away from what ta's dictate and you have to be a little flexible with your decision making. It's different from having your emotions take the lead. If you're already an experienced trader, then you'll develop certain instincts for certain market movements.

I am very data oriented, so always looking to automate everything I do :D trading included

And even that is not enough, there is something called confirmation bias in which a person tries to look for information that confirms his held believes and dismisses anything that contradicts it, so even if you use technical analysis to try to confirm what your instincts are telling you it will be for nothing if you left out information that says that you are wrong, this is why I do not use my instincts when I trade since I do not want to make that kind of mistake.

When we do trade for making money in regular term then we should not simply believe our luck to make it,we should work for it by what are the things important to predict the future prices.Long term traders can simply follow their instinct which may be right at the most of the time if they didn't sell their cryptos due to panic selling in between.

Yes I am following it and to be honest I made some good profit because of it,
The only problem I have is that even if I don't want to sell the cryptos that I have I couldn't hold them because of financial problem.

Sometimes, and it is not something that is out of the ordinary, because a great speculator named Jesse Livermore, advises in his books that if there is any feeling or some instinct for no apparent reason, it must be taken into account, because it can be successful. In one of his Experiences he let himself be carried away by his instinct and won considerably, in fact he reaped great wealth in the decision of that trade operation.

of course there are times when prices are unpredictable or your analysis and calculations do not provide a picture and strong choices for you to choose and instincts can be used at that time. you're right, not always gut instincts can be used, trade is not about luck, but full of analysis

From the start you already make it hard for you.

If you will follow the principle of investing strictly, you will not face that problem anytime, because regardless of the price action, you will remain
focus on your goal. Next time when you invest, always invest what you can afford to loss, that way you will have a peace of mind.

I myself believe that instincts can be trained through experiences that we can get from trading, for those who rely on instincts as well as betting on luck, they are even more confident with technical and fundamentals indicators. Maybe by relying on instincts it can lead us to profit or avoid losses, but isn't it logically unreasonable to do.

The fact is that those traders who have enough experience can already instinctively determine their capabilities during certain actions. I have repeatedly met such people who have learned the cryptocurrency market so that it does not feel like a fish in water.

I already know about technical and fundamentals analysis but does it really helped in a long-term success?  Your guts instinct is a God gift to us to be able to make a right decision including investments decision. Fundamentally it is very difficult to predict the market accurately and likewise technically and that is why you really need gut to make investments decision including all the indicatiors.

taking our own decision without any others statement will give the satisfaction if we are getting the losses also so I think the Instinct always not work but it will give the satisfaction about our work for doing the next.

Not really, i usually combined my gut instinct with the information that i got from news, gossip, issue and hype.

We also need to see the crypto market condition first before trading. Trading is not that easy like only following your gut instinct.

Gut works in trading in some cases but not in all cases it is patience and observation and total money management is required in trading

With trading market observation is the must, next is the selection of the right assets for trading. Further is the decision whether it needs to be preferred for short term or long term profiting. When each of this is studied further is the guts to go forward and do the trade. Gut instinct is always a necessary factor with trading without which it isn't possible to achieve good results.

It seems to me that today, even if we monitor the cryptocurrency market all day, all the same, only experience and instincts suggest certain actions that always turn out to be the right decision for professionals. On the basis of but if a person is really experienced in this activity, then one must listen to the inner feeling.

All I can say is that it’s CRAZY if we try to follow our gut instinct or anything as such, it’s something that could create HUGE problem for us. We must work through proper strategy and method, and only in situations where we are stuck, then it make sense to go for gut feeling.

But if you make it a common theory then you are moving towards the worst possible direction. I do use Crypto Trading Tools (https://cryptolinks.com/cryptocurrency-trading-tools), which simplifies my way but aside that I have very proper strategy in place.

I agree.It's not bad to follow our gut instinct some time but we should also have our own analytical and fundamental skills that will be the basis of our trading.Otherwise,if you just follow alone what your gut instinct says,you might fall into gambling which has no assurance if you'll just lose or make profit at the end of the day.

That is how our own TA helping us to succeed in trading. It is somewhat difficult for new traders but they particularly learned it once they want to work on it. It most cases that traders are just using their guts which it eventually burning them and never been profitable with that. We need some basis to work it well and do strategies to support, in fact, we have our own strategies only be needing those looks to be effective.

Gut instinct or otherwise known as emotions. I would trust my gut feelings if there's money at stake or if it is related to money. If there are tools that help us decide if its time to buy or sell better use it than use your gut feeling. That's the reason why there are tools like parabolic sar, rsi and bollinger bands, to help us better decide than follow our emotions.

On most cases we should really do this thing but there are really some orders that we cant understand and we just put up our entry or exit point without
any analysis that have been made because we do just feel that we should do that thing on point.Most of the time this isn't an ideal thing to be done but
there are instance which these gut made decisions do benefit us.

I think use technical and fundamental analysis for trading is more accurate than use instinct. And use instinct in trading just the same like gambling. We need also to have good psycology in trading to avoid greedy and not patient.

Here we can say that we are talking more about intuition, but it needs to be very well developed to predict in most cases the course of further events

Correct, instinct is just like guessing you don't have solid proof that it might happen. Just like listening to your own emotion but the fact is that not accurate. Instead of using instinct why we do not use proper timing from picking a good coin and having buy and sell in trading that is the important thing here to have proper timing in every decision and followed by fundamental skills.

Sometimes our instinct was telling the truth, and we are missing the chance to pick the right coin. I have this experience before, if I follow my instinct, I can make a big profit, but unfortunately, I don't trust my feeling at that time, so I only make a small profit. And after that, I will listen to my instinct, but I still do analyze to decide if it's a good time to buy or sell.

Although we have no evidence to say that what we feel will happen but we should understand that feelings and worries will never happen randomly in trading, especially if we are an experienced trader with this market, intuition and emotion only appear when danger and risk are approaching. Agree that we cannot know exactly whether this feeling is right or wrong but we should believe it, sometimes we may miss good opportunities because it but sometimes it can prevent a huge loss for us, consider choice, intuition is not useless

Following your instinct is not 100% chances you can get a good profit because you only thinking what will happen to the altcoin.
For me following a technical analysis is better because it has a sign tobe pump or dump, Im notsaying it has a 100% sureball but based on my experience its better.

Who says it's going to be 100 percent? Even technical analysis won't give you perfect trades all the time. Sometimes i do follow my instincts when i make trades and there are a lot of times when i can say i made the right move in following my gut feel. The more experienced you get the more reliable your instincts would be.

Instinct doesn't work in trading if you rely on that as well then if I am going to rate this instinct it will be at 15% helpful to us but we give prior to having own research. Instinct may make a false statement regarding in trading, why we should have to give prior on that. We all know that trading may cause pure luck and not allow others.

Undoubtedly it seem that OP paid for such advice. A little bit confuse because am not still yet a good trader. Instinct has nothing to do with making more rich; when trading on a positive mindset but trading skills does. As a little trader i am, i ensure to put my skills on work to earn a return from trading.

@Xcana, I know you will not come here to read my reply and other people that will make quality posts concerniing the issues of discussion but let me tell you what you me not understand about others and trading.  Trading is a thing of the mind and this is because it deals with emotions,  decisions making and be able to summon courage and buy or invest at the right time.  Your guts instinct is what enabling you to buy or stop trading after analyzing the market using both technical and fundamentals indicators.
I am an experienced traders and I have been to many places in seeking for how to perfect my trading decision. I started trading since 2007 and uptill now I am still trading forex,  stocks and commodities.  I have makes money from trading no doubt but guts instinct is one of the tools that do help my trading decision after proper technical and fundamentals analysis.

Yes, sometimes also besides using technical analysis and fundamentals, trading based on instincts several times I have tried it, the results vary. So I think something like this is more or less like gambling. You just think where the price will go then bet to buy / sell at that price.

When I was a beginner in crypto, I used to follow my intuition but then I realized that this is what mainly gets me in trouble. Gut instinct is trading with emotions; that is not good for us traders. What we should do is study TA and trade objectively. If possible, use trading bots to maximize profit also to trade without emotions.

I am following my gut rather than other people and their predictions but it doesn't mean that I'm not reading and analysing what others think. I just don't act on what they are saying but on my own thoughts and it usually works out well.

You said that we shouldn't trust indicators and I agree because they are sometimes telling us different things. You can see a pattern forming on 1h chart and then look at 1 day and see something else. You have to use your head to sort this mess out.

Gut instinct is the most appropriate for the unpredictable situation as nowadays. For example, we do not know how this situation will end, but we can instinctively solve the situation. lol

I believe so. Trying to follow your gut instinct involves your emotions that is not really good for trading. I usually trade through my own research and analysis. I do sometimes follow what my gut instinct says but i also see to it that it will not end up like gambling just like what most of the traders have experienced.

Over time you will get used to what you usually do, you have to try all the ways and there you will determine the best choice you will use.
strong instincts are not necessarily accurate but must learn and find good information to combine your instincts to make choices, all your decisions for yourself and you will also make choices.
I personally will combine all the ways and combine with the way, the good and bad sides for the percentage and the total of all which sides are superior and I will take action.

I only do that when I profit too much. I put at least BTC.01-02 in a few random altcoins that I see huge potential of growing at least 2x and above. But it does not really work that much, research about the tokens first before buying is still more effective.

IF we can only follow our instincts rightfully then for sure this will help us to some successful tradings

The only problem is our greediness being humans that we are not contented in small profits and looking for much bigger and bigger ,in this way instincts are covered by greed and so the failure comes next,this is sad but reality

How could you sure if your instinct was right and it will lead us to a successful thing. IF we follow an instinct that is connected to emotions and probably greediness will also a part on that. It can be manipulated you by your instinct, so, how you conclude that it will help us to have successful trading. However, trading needs deep research, good timing, and fundamental skills, of course, the last is pure luck.

My instincts never give me good result or maybe because i don't have any experience of that. I can't always pick a coin and ask of my friend. But when make decision, i always do wrong and sometime stuck in a coin.

Never stop investing, your time has not come yet.

You ask your friend or you made a research, that does not guarantee as success, there is a right, we can be wrong or right but we should
continue to improve ourselves and never give up, one day we will be able to find the coin that could give us a fortune.

I think following your gut is always important when we are talking about making important decisions in life, especially when working with money. The problem is most people don't know how to follow their gut instinct or they try to use it too often and that's going to lead them to failing. Your instincts will always be there and help you when you need it but don't abuse it

yes, sometimes I use my instincts in certain circumstances, and for me instinct is the last choice when I find it difficult to make my trading choices.

Guts would either work or not here on crypto but due to lots of option to be selected then chances of hitting a trash is there.So, it cant really be avoided that being stucked or losing money is inevitable if we fully rely
with our guts or instinct.Trading is not like gambling where you can just simply put your bet and roll.It do really need some corresponding analysis and skills for you to be profitable for long term.

We analyze but we use our instinct in making a decision.
Everyone has to use our instinct, even in gambling we also use it, the fact that the outcome is not known, we should guess it based on what we believe.

And if you're already into trading for a while now, your gut instinct will be a big help. With all the trades you've made in the past, there will be times when a trader's instincts are even better followed than ta's. But of course it can't be all that but me? Yeah i do follow my instincts most of the time.

In my view instinct should be based on previous experience and technical analysis because if it's pure of instinct i think it similar to putting your money for bets and sometimes i was following my instinct when decide to buy or sell particular coins but during it my percentages to loss are more than 50% which mean my instinct almost be missed

Yeah. Sometimes my guts dictating me buy this, sell this, but at the end i didn't cannot make any decision because of uncertainty. But i realize this third indicator is so much important, you can learn from your decision, if you didn't make a move its your loss. At the end you will learn from your guts.

For me, gut instinct usually don’t work for me, I don’t know if it is my mindset or it just won’t work, it still happened yesterday when BTC was making a drastically rise and my gut instinct asked me to pick a particular point believing that it will go above that, it was just  around that price that I picked and placed my order that BTC reversed drastically but thank God I had already activated my stop limit which stopped the trade by minimizing my risk but eventually, the price still had to go back low and until I used my technical analysis before I couldn’t succeed in placing at the right price and selling off at the right price.

I personally believe in instinct more than others, because the instincts that come out of ourselves represent our hidden desires. While the analysis is the result of brain thinking based on the calculation of existing data data.
Then both are combined to make decisions during crypto trading execution, whether to buy or sell. That's 100% the result of self opinion.

as far as I know, sharpening instincts can only be done by each individual. in facing the market, I think the coach will teach more about psychology, then go on to the technical. but the instinct to make decisions will be different for everyone

Because of the inner voice, people lose their deposits. To intuitively understand the market you need to have many years of experience in trading.

not! i am not follow my feeling but, i will follow my pridict. i sure, feeling just make your gambling in trading. But, if you, want to use analyzes you can have potential get profit

Instincts will not produce maximum results, because the instincts will be influenced by your feelings and instincts can say to sell for fear of losing more, but the analysis may say differently. do not follow gut instinct, this is not gambling mate. use your skills to analyze and make choices

Sometimes our instinct can give the right answer in trading and will give us guidance to choose the coin. But we underestimate that sounds inside ourselves, and we deny that sounds. But after we know that suddenly the price can increase, we are regret to let our sounds, and we don't buy those coins. But sometimes, that sound is not from our instinct, but it's from our mind that sometimes just trick us to buy the wrong coin.

You only make a profit that you got went in vain. I believe to get profit when I trade is really hard, I need a several times to make the price will up and thinking a thousand of time the correction will come. So as I use my profit for things that are very useful, or I am looking for some altcoins that are really true for myself its price has potential to increase with the spread of some news about the altcoin. But most likely, I used my profit to buy bitcoin again because I'll not gave a doubt that its price will increase again.

Well, instinct is an accumulation of experience for many months that we participate in the crypto market, which allows us to feel the dangers that may come but the accuracy from instinct is only very low, sometimes it will be true while most of the time it will be wrong because the sound comes from instinct is always very vague, it has nothing to authenticate. And trading is always a job that requires analysis and has clear information on the market, trading based on instincts only makes us fall into danger many times, very few times I follow instinct, it's too dangerous

Yes, the sixth sense (gut instinct) is the accumulated experience. We keep everything in our mind (like on computer disk). When something very useful is needed, our intuition takes it out from the mind corners and prompts us what to do. It works in trading also.

We might underestimate our instincts cause in the first place, we don't have much self-confidence causing doubts inside.
I have that self-confidence and so I believe of what I've got in my mind but of course with some considerations and exemptions.
We know sometimes we got wrong and making such decisions bringing us to huge regret of our entire life.

IMO, short term trading is more difficult to be done because I've experience it.
It's become worse when I try to do with instinct so from that day, I change my method into long term investment by holding for years.

Although it's slowly but sure ( profit guarantee ! )

I don’t use guts in trading instead I base it on historical data, cash flows and facts in trading, gut feeling maybe good at some other things but trading is out of it. When you say guts that means you’re only guessing, good if you win but what if you lose? For you to be able to make a good trade and have profits then you need to study the market and any necessary information needed for a successful trading.

A good guide to use as your basis in your everyday trades will be more better if you will base everything into factors that really affects each market movements, there's some point where you need to use your instincts but you should always have supporting evidence that what you have inside your mind will bring good benefits.

When it comes to trading it's good to use some good quality data and make some analsys, do the research and similar but you shouldn't neglect your instict also. That comes with experiences and many years spent on the market but yes, I often listen what my instict is telling me. Sometimes it's wrong, sometimes it's wrong but at least I make my decisions on my own. But I guess everyone has different strategy.

It seems to me that studying a cryptocurrency market, each newcomer practically uses the same strategies and only with coming experience does something different develop, like a personal strategy.  But it really gives experience and professionalism, when you fully understand the structure of the development of a cryptocurrency market and understand the principle of trading.

Well that's if you're able to tell when your mind is really the one talking to you or if you're just the one talking to yourself. Yep, sometimes if you rely too much on your instincts, before you know it, it wouldn't be your instinct anymore but you talking to yourself lol. So you should also have technical and fundamental tools to do your proper research and know what to choose. So what I'm trying to say is that you should combine everything and also try to know when it's your instincts that's talking to you and when to accept that. If you don't, you will always be making a mistake.

It seems to me that your result on the trading market depends not only on the amount of knowledge gained earlier, because your knowledge should work in tandem with already existing experience and available studied information on all projects that are of your interest.  By the way, luck and luck also play a very important role in the activities of the cryptocurrency trading market.

It's necessary to be realistic, though this is just a big guessing game but at least having great factors to consider in analyzing would result to a profitable trade. Sometimes we also need to use our instinct as this market has never been easy to predict.

You can't base your trades in intuition because most of the time gut instinct is not reliable well at least for me, when I started trading I mainly base it on gut instinct because i'm trying to also study the market and the results of my trades in the past are not good. I win sometimes, its like the ratio is 4 wins out of 10 trades so based on experience I don't use guts to trade I would rather use technical and fundamental indicators to guarantee profits.

This instinct is based on your experience. The more you trade, the more things you remember. Even if you think you forgot something, your subconscious prompts you the right answer. Sometimes, these are the correct answers.

I think following your gut instinct is the practice in cryptocurrency trading or investments, after doing your findings and research about any project, coin or the current value of a coin you should buy, you still have to follow your guts.

With the situation today, I don't believe that market analysis will actually do right but giving into our spirit will play.
We have that instinct but not to totally depend on this, prices goes high and the risk get so high also, any possible dumps may happen after that is why we should be careful at this time. 

Trading is such a very risky move so we should not just depend on our own instinct to be profitable in trading.I usually trade based on my own researches.Having fundamental and analytical skills could be very helpful to come up with sucessful trading,but still some traders still chose to follow their gut instinct when trading and that is also their own choice.