1) Ex-pit traders - especially the locals (self-employed, had to earn to live) - are worth listening to to understand the hustle 2) retail crow about impressive gains, industry tries to keep them under wraps. Ridiculous returns exist but are normally in prop firms (Jane street, citadel etc) where they don't have to disclose figures. 3) think big, act small. I'm not talking about flexing on a forum and what not, I mean check out what's happening in big finance, but leverage your edge as someone with no real capacity constraints. 4) macro and quant traders rub each other up the wrong way. Ignore the sniping and focus on what they definitively know rather than what they reckon the other side gets up to 5) TA if done right is simply quant with pictures. If it can't be tested it almost certainly sucks. 6) trading is about information and the more useful it is, the harder it is to find, which creates a perfect vacuum for retail gurus to fill with nonsense. your protection against this is industry knowledge. 7) fastest way to learn about how markets work is to spend a day digging out the big fines from regulators and media reports and understand what they did.
for me scalping i have a bracket profit target and the sar is my stop loss with another auto attached profit target bracket. market volatility takes care of the rest. so what im saying is i have no stop the reversal acts as my stop.
Because I am not interested in giving you nor anyone's the opportunity to see that done. If you like the technique then try it yourself on sim or any other type of account at your discretion. Most of the videos were in live real time but on a SIM. But just not in a real money account. However they can be seen on a Sim to work when I do them. Just add or subract a tick to each entry and exit if you have doubts about them getting filled. I am not going to get into proving thing. I only want to demonstrate the techniques that any trader can test out for themselves if they so desire. Most of my journal is static charts with annotations drawn in and explanations and summaries written up. It was getting to be too much work. Someone suggested I make videos instead so I learned how to do that and it is less work. But people like you still complain. Look just try them out for yourself if you know how to read price read price action. Sim or real account that is up to you entirely. If you don't know how to read PA with it's patterns and probabilities then don't do it as the market will eat you alive even using any technique or set up I show.
you know your arguing with a pig right they love the mud far too much - no matter what you say they wallow in the mud.
You and Mark Browneye trying to dump your shitty systems on rubes. That Ironchef pigeon almost had a nervous breakdown. Just stop already with your hype or show real time trades.
I POST REAL TIME TRADES FOOL FOR DECADES. of course with that bush over your eyes you probably can't see anything..
This. The more binary and rule-based you can make your system, the better. The less room for subjectivity, the better. If you can define a setup where you only do this when that happens, you’ve got something. That’s not easy, because most people look at a chart and think it’s all chaos. But if you can carve out a system inside that chaos, now you’ve got an edge—and more importantly, you’ve got something you can actually track. You’ll start to see how often it hits, how often it fails, and get a clear sense of your odds. Once you understand that losses are part of the game—even the big, annoying ones—you stop fearing them. You stop letting them shake you. You realize they’re baked into the system, and that even the losses still push your average forward. You start handling them like data, not drama. That’s the real power of SIM testing—it trains your brain to stay steady when it counts.
Every trader stares at charts like a zombie goat, endlessly, and think they've discovered some magical understanding or constant coincidence. Yet most still fail rather miserably because they lack true understanding and depth of the trade environment. Gamblers happy to be just lucky.
It’s not about staring at a chart endlessly. It’s about identifying a repeatable pattern of events that you can actually test. Honestly, I’d argue most people don’t even try to do that. They just watch YouTube videos because they don’t want to put in the effort to build and test their own system.