So what if I called the earnings release

So I called the earnings release.....Yea..Wow....Great....
But, the most important thing is can I repeat that call. It was a mixture of knowing the sentiment and knowing what to ignore. [ or maybe ignorant of what I was suppose to know] Anyways, coming from a left-brained analytical background, I usually want to know everything about a stock before I jump in.

What others' don't know
My approach has always been to figure out what other traders don't know about a stock or special situation. But the lesson here is that traders, at all levels of experience, were watching what they were suppose to be watching. They were following the rules of prudent day/swing trading like they were suppose to.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that you don't use safe guidelines or rules. But there are different levels of how deeply a trader gets engaged in data and facts. Each level has a self-interest and motivation. Each level has a standard set of best practices learned through experience and knowledge.

Invert the Process
I will paraphrase the adage made famous by Howard Marks, What do I know that other trader don't?
Invert the thinking process into the following. What knowledge do others have that they should be ignoring?

At a different level, what knowledge exists that other trader's are totally ignorant of?

Regardless of experience, the other half of the world that is right-brained and guided by intuition may be looking at something from a completely different point of view.