Piquant, As a final note, one way i developed my technique and feel for music is learning from the "masters". I learn their music, i dissect every bit of it. I try to get inside their head. I begin to see things as they MIGHT have seen it.
I'd go ahead and argue that's the only way to learn something, to build the right foundation we need a mentor or someone who's doing it right and have reached a virtuoso level we learn best by watching someone do it right but the real challenge begins when you actually try to do it yourself, at first you imitate but as time goes on after hours and hours of practice as you said you almost feel what your mentor may have been feeling or seeing in that moment or scenario that's when the process of internalization begins which is a crucial stage to pass only after this stage you can begin to improvise and on your way to mastery.
I have been a musician most of my life playing gigs, touring the country so i can relate to the music analogy. Maybe I can relate my experiences to the market . Maybe it will help you understand my point of view.
Aha so you're the musician you must know better than me 
and I do agree with everything you've said on that front.
"feel" is gained from experience. The act of doing...and deliberately refining that process. the more you practice and DO the less vague "feel" will be.
I'm not trying to pick an argument but I still do have a problem with "feel" although I absolutely understand where you're coming from especially you being a musician, I do enjoy singing myself but I'm not a pro nor do I have any knowledge in notes and intricate details and techniques of producing various sounds but I just do it by feel so I totally understand your point of view just as how some people play by ear not by notes as for singing I think I can get by without learning the technique and go by feel that's been nurtured for many years through practice because the voice comes from my own flesh and not from an instrument or something outside of me makes sense ? so I have a better control over how things may or can sound.
But as for piano or any kind of instrument for that matter you really can't go far if you can't master the technique I can play a tune by ear on a keyboard but since I didn't learn the notes I just couldn't go any further than playing monotone tunes, forget about variety and the richness I can't produce any of that without learning the technique not only that now do I have any control over what sound it may make ?
Back to trading, we're faced with the brightest the smartest and the ones who's got the most advantage over us not only we have to deal with our internal emotions and mindset we also have to anticipate what they're intending to do.
To me it's all about control - without control you can't produce any tune that's pleasing to the ear same goes for trading without control everything crumbles down your discipline, your emotion, your account and more... so "technique" is a must ! and it is impossible to assess the terrain without a technique if you don't have the right representation of the terrain you can't control anything that's about to happen.
How can you be sure if what you're feeling is what your opponent is feeling if you don't have some kind of a "measuring tool" , how do you assess the terrain ?
There's a visual representation of what they maybe feeling or maybe intending to do - a chart, so the technique to me is to learn to read their marks and learn to anticipate their action through a measuring tool that "they use" not my "feel" as it often can be inaccurate and they can't care less about my input anyways.
I don't think this can be done just by feel, of course the more mileage you collect the less vague the feel will become but without a proper technique to identify and dissect movements and behaviors that are associated with those movements what do you do with your feeling alone ? do you just hope for the best and pray that your feeling is right ? I'm not trying to sound intentionally bitter because I've done this and it was hell.
Now I can lock myself in a dark room and stare at charts 10000 hours but as you said we need deliberate practice you need a compass otherwise that 10000 hours can easily go to waste. Look at people who's spent 10years and still are not profitable they surely must have gathered that 10000 hours but somehow still haven't made it. Now I don't want to be one of those people, I want to dance the dance, properly ! and to do that I need the technique , a precise rule based off of their input not my input.
If not i suggest reading through the first 200 pages and when you've done that...do it again and again.
I will !!
I hope it did make sense 
{quote} I'd go ahead and argue that's the only way to learn something, to build the right foundation we need a mentor or someone who's doing it right and have reached a virtuoso level we learn best by watching someone do it right
I'm not trying to pick an argument
{quote} @ everyone our friend FTi left us his training manual, he clearly states this is a course for his students (he trained his peeps to trade at the banks/etc, that was part of his job), it is up to us how we use it (or abuse it, the double edge sword thingy). regards Phil.
. I'm grateful for everything he shared! He gave his time and his energy for a nearly a decade. There are lessons there that transfer to many areas of life...that changed my mindset... for the better.
{quote} Yes and its name is FOREX ANGEL.#6973 - here
{quote} Actually I think it was renamed "Technical Analysis Fallacy"---->https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...38#post2786838
Dustin good work mate
