In time, though, I realized I needed more than these cognitive operations. Often, while looking at a problem head-on and coming to some obvious solution I would catch a glimpse with peripheral vision of another possibility, another path into the future. It showed up as a mere blip in my consciousness, a momentary tug on my attention, but it was a flash of insight coupled with a gut feeling that gave it the imprimatur of the highly probable. An experienced trader, I think, learns to recognize these voices speaking from the fringes of awareness. To trade well you have to tear your attention
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