DislikedHi Simond, I'm going to join your thread. It caught my eye and is totally in line with my trading mindset. I've been demo trading for some 2 years and just until 3 months ago I found the S/D approach. It totally clicked on me. I'm still learning of course, but I think I can understand now how the market moves rather well. I read all the the free info on RTM and I think it was a good start. Right now I'm reading Red's tread as you suggested. I'm right now at page 55 but haven't found any enlightening post as of yet. Maybe because I already read the...Ignored
I'm glad to hear that you're still demo trading. This is the proper approach. Aside from obviously the cost of our time, there's no need for this market to cost us a penny when we're learning how it moves.
You may or may not find a kind of "penny-drop" moment in red's thread. The toughest part I think of learning how to trade is that even with the universal concept of SD we must still each find our own niche way to make it work for us. And of course each of our personal stories are going to be different. From my side, after two years of being a member of various websites I understood that from my point of view, these websites were presenting esoteric trading concepts but in a universal way. Looks good on the outside, not so good on the inside I'm afraid.
As best I could to try and see the market others' way, after two years of banging my head against the wall I realised that it was impossible. And so I walked away. It was just by chance that I went back to reading red's thread and what I immediately understood is that the various things that I'd been seeing through my own eyes, tallied in the way red had been seeing them. More than this, I discovered similarities between my way of describing what I saw, and red's way. And for me this was enough confirmation that I was on the right track, but more importantly it was confirmation to continue to tread that track by myself. Persistence is key. As long as you persist, the "ah-ha" moments should eventually come.
Good luck with it.
Simon