Dislikedyeah me too. i believe he is, before i read his thread i was doing calculated gambles, with risk rewards and stop losses, set and forget type of trades.
i won some, i lost some (mostly lost some) my stop was always getting hit before price took off, and sometimes i was glad i had a stop loss as my position would have been screwed.
when i had the chance to REALLY learn fti's methodology, i began to UNDERSTAND price, and began to observe and go along for the ride.
i owe him all my success and any other future success to ftiIgnored
Red, Fti caught your eye and has shown you a way to trade that you like and works for you, np with that.
My eye was caught early on by another genius trader and I was shown a way to trade that I liked and have found extremely reliable and profitable.
My way involves precision trading, with stops that totally erradicates the need to build a position or watch my charts wondering how the heck I can get out of an awful trade.
Euro long was a peach yesterday and imo the move had nothing to do with Greece or NFP, they used that stuff to manipulate the price but the level it went to was pure SR.
Think on this also, if you have a level of sr that you know needs testing, lets say 1.0712 on AU on a h1 chart (as was the case yesterday after NFP), you get a signal to go long at 1.0650 that was a 62 pip gap. If you understand how to trade the levels you can hit that long at every opportunity providing it hasn't already hit 1.0712 , try making 100 pips from a 62 pip gap.
As Custos mentioned , If you understand what the big money is doing by accumulating discounted orders and searching out liquidity then you would know why your stops always get hit and then the price reverses in your direction.