My sensitivity to gut feelings is off the charts. Growing up I was the most sensitive person you ever know... Never thought it was a good thing so this is kinda reassuring.
It all starts going wrong when market does not do what your guts want it to do , then it's human emotions , stress , revenge trading , the need to be right and graveyard. There is no structure in the mind , which can be repeated year after year ..............but guts , emotions , testetrones , courage , strength , indiciplined trades , gut revenge , reactive trades All the pretenders on forums make these useless discussions , when they have not done it , or have any proof it is done succesfully. I can understand if successfull traders were posting here , after beating algos year after year.Let us suck up to bein great traders , beating the algos year after year. Writers write because they get paid to write , as long as it sells newspapers , they can write garbage. This is all nonsensene traders below https://www.ft.com/content/2d78785c-e755-11dd-aef2-0000779fd2ac http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36937109
Anecdotally speaking, I think this is true. I can't even tell you how many times that I've been watching the markets and had a gut feeling to buy or sell and a major move occurred right after. For some odd reason, I'd talk myself out of following this intuition damn near every time...and this gut feeling turned out to be right 9 times out 10.
Yes. A study has been done on George Soros backache selling tactic to quantify it. There is much more to it thsn these simple minds can grasp.
I doubt this approach would be effective for many, however I know with certainty that generally in life there are some highly disciplined people who are also highly instinctive. I think a trader relying on gut feeling can survive if (s)he is highly disciplined.