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Coffee-talks with CrucialPoint: How I Cracked and Solved the Puzzle.
It's not a BS question... It's an excellent and a very smart question
(sorry for the grammar or misspelling in advance, don't have time to check)

I inherited some innate skills from my Father's side. On my Father's side there are 4 highly successful Entrepreneurs (including my Dad). Highly street-smart and strong work ethics. Mum is the trophy wife, nobody excelled from her side of the family. Grandpa (my Dad's father) was also a successful entrepreneur. All came from a poor background and became highly successful.

At 5yo, I already knew I wanted to be a scientist. At 5yo I was already highly competitive. I always wanted to be 1st in anything I'm involved in. When I was 5, My dad showed me a magic trick: jumping match-sticks. I figured it out all by myself at 5yo with no help.
At 5yo I already possessed the following innate skills: Highly Competitive + High Attention to Details.
What's more interesting was that at 5yo, I wasn't interested in "how the trick was done". I was interested the in governing principles of all magic tricks. I'm wasn't interested in you teaching me about slight movement of hands, secret compartments nor the effects of the illusions. In search for more knowledge, I read books on magic tricks but was disappointed. I approach a professional magician and he taught me the principles and philosophies... the crucial points. He taught me the about the psychological aspects on how to fool and redirect an audience's attention, etc... This also opened a new door of interest within me: the human psychology.

By 10yo, I've quit magic tricks and was focused on the human psychology. The books on psychology I was accompanied were Personal Development books. And thus I read lots of personal development books until 15yo. But at 10yo, I was surrounded by entrepreneurs (unlce's, dad and grandpa). I was there when they did business deals and negotiate things with other business and customers. The showed me the ropes and explained all the "insider's secret" into making a successful business. Including the ugly sides - corruptions, bribery, legal loop holes, etc... Unconsciously, I absorbed a lot of things and how to be street-smart. They taught me the principles and philosophies on running a successful business and not text book follow 1 2 3. Again, I wasn't interested in the process of how to buy or create a product and make profit. I was more interested in the governing principles/philosophies of all successful business. They taught me the crucial points. Basically I was in the inner circle of successful entrepreneurs.
At 15yo, I already possessed the following skills: Business and Psychology + Real World Experience (dealing with the broad spectrum of personalities).
At 15yo, it was clear as day, the comparison between a successful business and a failed/inevitable to fail.

Between 15-18yo I spent a lot time with my dad in his business (industrial machines electrical/mechanical maintenance). He taught me one important philosophy: that any problem can be solved. He was a genius in his field (also an inventor). Because there was not 1 problem he wasn't able to solve. Where engineers and technicians and other professionals (with long years of experience) failed in solving the problem, he triumphed over the problems swiftly.
He taught me his special skill: How to diagnose and solve a problem. How to approach and solve a problem. How to deconstruct a problem.
The skill he taught me were applicable in all aspect of life and not just limited to industrial machinery.

At 16 (since I had quite of a life experience). My English teacher asked my opinions about certain social issues regarding religion, politics, relationships, history, etc... He said, "you will be excellent in a debate team and you will enjoy it." My reply, "Do they have hot chicks there?"
And so begin a new journey, I learned how to debate. Debate is not what most people think. Debate is highly structured. From presented and countering an argument, from objectivity versus subjective opinions, right through philosophical and critical thinking. At this time I was fascinated in court cases as lawyers defended their cases. Movie shows with slick counterargument to prove their client is not guilty. Even movie such as "Legally Blonde" where she defended her client's murder case and won, due to hair perm. I was like "That was fucking genius!!!" In order to win a court case, you need the skill to objectively sift through the Bullshit. And a lot of people don't posses this skill to draw a highly objective conclusion >>> Is there a god or not? Go Vegan or eat Meat? Is the market random or not? Does CrucialPoint talk BS or not? etc.
Debate taught me a very important skill: How to take any argument (without bias) and present both side of the story, objectively.

By 18, I was young and confident with lots of experience and skills compared to your typical 18yo. I was hungry of what the world has to offer and to discover. It opened more doors, more endeavors to pursue, more skills to be developed. Again, I wasn't interested in processes. I was interested in universal foundations that leverage one's potentials, the crucial points of life skills: Accelerated learning, Memory enhancement, Cognitive thinking improvements, Problem solving techniques, Creative thinking, etc...

After developing a satisfactory level of skills in those areas, picking up any topic and subject was a walk in the park. The difference is that I am not a walking library of information, but rather, I have a deep understanding of the subject and topic of my choosing. The world is my oyster. I digested Psychology, Stoicism, Physics, History, Science, Maths, Gambling, PUA, Philosophy, Business and entrepreneurship, internet, Environment, Moral Ethics, Law, Meta-physics, Music, Sports, Statistics, Biographies of the great people in history, Company development, illegal drugs and customs, Fraudulent finance, Tactical warfare, combat strategies and techniques, etc... I ate a vast range of subjects like freshly cooked pizza.
I wasn't just a bookworm, I'm a man of action (as were my predecessors). Between 18yo to 23yo. I started an online company with another friend. I finished a degree. Gambled at the casinos, winnings not big enough and left. I managed to get blacklisted by google and other social media. If you're in Australia and if you remember Harvey Norman and Dick Smith in the early 2000, on the news complaining small online retail is taking away a big part of their business. And they were pushing for online tax sales >>> That's was me on the other end of the stick. Silk road wasn't around then (thank god). Forex came into my life and I found a new challenge and focus.

Before I began my journey with FX, my foundation was set and was deep enough to tackle the FX problem. Despite having strong foundation, it still took me nearly 7 years to crack it. IF you're reading this and smirking about me taking that long. I'm smirking right back at that puny account of yours. Side note advice: If you know what you are doing >>> It is not an excuse not to have a Million dollar account trading FX. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to turn 10k into 1M in 3 years (conservatively in any type of market condition). In today's current monetary value in western society, you should be making 1M each year (in FX), if you know what you're doing. I'm going to be blunt: If you can't turn 10k into 1M in 3 years, you've got the wrong strategy. And you don't know what you are doing.

If you ever read Copernicus' posts on this thread, as he reach orgasm regarding quantum randomness and those scientific quantitative/qualitative jargon. Excellent stuff Copernicus I've traveled on the same path as he has, and also came to that dead-end road. I stood there, in front of the biggest mountain I have ever faced: "How do I capture randomness?"

Over the years, I studied great sportsmen/women of our time. How they became champions, what did they do different. What are the crucial points/crucial elements of their success. They have one skill that leverage their other skill: Highly observant. They will watch a footage a million times, over and over, endlessly. And after a while, hidden details will emerge. Which leads to the improvement of another set of skill: a faster recognition of details and increased awareness.
Over the years, I studied combat strategies and techniques. I studied Tactical warfare from the Roman empire, to Genghis Khan, Alexander the great, WW1, WW2, Napoleon, etc... These including sporting strategies and techniques. Political/Marketing strategies and techniques. Making sure I capture the principles and philosophies and not just the minor executions/implementations. In all of the infinite combinations of strategies, tactics, techniques, etc... will emerge the underlying crucial points of principles and philosophies that are forever timeless and infinite. People try to create trading strategies, trading plans, trading systems yet they lack the skill: How to create an effective strategy. How to exploit the enemy's weakness/defense. How to transcribe principles and philosophy into a strategy/plan. It like trying to lift 50kg, yet you don't have the developed muscles to do so.

Over the years I studied successful Traders, trading styles/strategies/techniques/systems in search for that universal trading principles.
There is a difference between looking versus seeing.
... difference between hearing and listening.
... difference between working and accomplishing.
... difference between knowing and understanding.

I also studied lots of great thinkers of our time. I found a cluster in how they have approach a problem or how they invented and formed a creative idea/solution. They turned to nature for the solution, they observed nature. Nature have solved the problem, long before you had the problem to begin with. Every scientific breakthrough came from nature. Every answer to a problem has a connection with nature/universe. So I searched, "where in nature do I find randomness being captured?" >>> the cheetah. I mentioned that nature designed the cheetah to be an efficient and effective hunting machine. And RhondaRousey counter-argued that the cheetah only has a 30% success rate in hunting down a gazelle. Which is true. But as usual, missed the crucial point that it has a 30% success rate of capturing randomness. On top of that, nature designed the gazelle to evade a predator. That's like capturing randomness x2. Maybe you can find another predator with a higher % rate. Fuck me, right? But the crucial answer is that nature has captured randomness. You have your answer. Transcribe the principles/techniques into a trading strategy.

Like I said, the biggest part of my success was due to luck:

1. I was born and inherited certain genes.
2. I was born in a family of successful people.
3. I was given the right environment to developed certain skills.
4. I had professional coaches which I never had time to mention (and others).
5. I had teachers/business people change the course and direction of my life.
6. I had the free time/support to pursue whatever I wanted and was not tied down to hindering circumstances.
7. etc....

I can say that it was all because of my hard work and free choice to make/create the life I desired, I control my destiny. But that's the ego speaking.
Take one of those elements away and it is a butterfly effect. I might wouldn't have made any money in FX. I would've probably be looking and not seeing. Hearing and not listening. Working hard and not accomplishing. Knowing things and not understanding them.

I would probably end up like Metta87 and Dukas_trader

I quote only this line for now because was way tooooo funny ...and had to make fun on my turn

BRAVO for your post....i bow to my GOD and to him alone , else i would take you as my mentor

Please keep coming your posts, like someone said earlier, there are few eyes that are waching in silence

Thank you for sharing your story!

wow.
when i read this i would thing, CP is a different man like he is presenting here :-).

lets tell the point speaking with arguments: you are same low level often like many people here, who send pictures when dont have any more arguments and dont stand to their bigger mistakes. you looks like you think you dont make mistakes, but people need to correct you so often, but at no time you did mention this, always tried hiding. when you was corrected i did see how angry and childish you answered. this was you, this was the CP in real not possible to hide any more behind basic things. and this was your learning to debate, then you are most worst debating man on the planet and you need to learn debating correct? only because you are learning debating , you are not debating correct, its to often to see that what you tell people you learned, you cant do correct. when a man who tells other here, he learned to debate with arguments and defend positions, shows that he cant debate and dont have arguments to defend positions and same time is childish and agressive, it only shows he was big liar and cant debate, its so easy. debating is with all respect never ever a good point on you, or debating without argments and childish attacking is a new trend in debating?
i told you that i looks like many learn from your bascis (by the way often total basics) and you could same time learn from your many mistakes. but it dont look like you do, but same time your write what you learned already. the only thing possible, you fake a lot or you did not learn how to learn, no man would be writing your bullshit sometimes and then can defend by arguments and starts attacking like a child, of not something is wrong.

next: you did do so much learning and learning, wow. but the traders i know (who by the way look 100 times more experienced then you look like) have invested only in learning basics step by step and finished and started trading and won. looks you need more help in life, whats not the problem, but the people who needed so much help for looks like so much less return --> and then you speak you would end like duskastrader , funny point, i dont think you will be ever have a chance to get to my point and will always play this many levels down under, you would need to learn your basic correct and start to learn from your mistakes first.

its really a wonder, how a man with so many mistakes in basics and many mistakes in advanced topics tells people he is good and have finished a good way. you are presenting you as such a big faker. i would not tell i am very good, but against you i would all the time say "with less time and better life i got much more return", and i would see no chnace how this will not be correct, when this is only correct what you wrote in this last post and by looking what you wrote in other parts.

at least, funny CP is often producing laughs, so no useless life. but whatever, you are more a very poor man. after some correct you you hided long time, come always back because you dont have any more in your life and want other tell you (because of the basics you tell here) you are good? and on the end you look always again stupd, and same start: you always tell "i will leave , only short time now here" (by the way, this words are now in some bank department the inside jokes, after i did show them some of your funny posts in seminars as examples for some type of persons, so for this laugh parts at least i need to thank you), and this you are doing many years now and you always cam back after short time. some people cant see it or dont want see it, but you look more a child with book experience (what you write here down often) then a real man.

Can you say that again please? please try again...try your best for other to understand your language...

Also, can you backup this with some evidence?

thx

i did correct it, now better possible to read?

a evidence? how, its no way possible to show anything online that cant be faked? if you are interesting enough i would maybe meet you and show you some parts, but i have only met one person, who maybe is this worth in this forum.

Cp, thank you for that....it is very inspiring...

Im not interested into meeting you as a real person, for that i choose my gang carefully. Besides, i have not found you very funny. Rather full of hate and criticism...but thats not the point now.

I understand you dont want to show off with your wealth and your 'better life', and i agree with you that its a personal thing and too sensitive to be shared publicly.

On the other hand i'm very interested to see some or your lucrative trading system or at least a proof you have been trading lately..... Its all i ask.

hope you understand and you'll not avoid my direct demand.

all you show online is possible to fake, all. so proves nothing. i can understand your demand, but i see no proof possible in online world. thatswhy the online world is so often used for scammers and fakers, because all is possible to fake and there are people who believe in what they read here without thinking about.

and my sentence with "interesting" was more, if i am interested in meeting i would do so and invite you to meet personal.

and i am not full of hate, show me one post with hate without a reason before when someone was attacking?show me criticism without any reason? CP is perfect excample of faking much and doing opposite. he speak more about knowledge, then shows same time he dont has this knowledge....
when someone is showing so easy he is doing opposite things, then critic is possible, i even wonder why others cant see it.some are new and dont see so fast, but the older traders should see it without any problems. but they are so nice , so they think "let him live in his dreamland, he is only playing around and dont harm anybody, so he dont need to be honest.". but he misleaded often people with wrong things too. not to speak about when he was wrong and then disappeares, hided this by doing nothing or simple attacking.

but i have to say, when you write this style i like you 100 times more then before, questions are possible to answer, arguments possible to discuss. if you dont mind, we could continue in this style.

mate..once again....you talk like in purpose to gather 100 words when only few were necessary?!...

please put a screenshot or a picture of your trading setup, your best trading plan, or whatever .....just to show that you really know what you are talking!

YOU NEVER SHOWED ANYTHING REGARDING YOUR TRADING STUFF, please do so now.

Not going to continue further showing you where you were attacking people...thats you or others to look into your past posts...and not the object of my demand here.

I was checking this thread daily only because cp posting here.....
With out cp this thread is bullshit..

ok again:
you told me i attacked, so when you claim this, you have also to show this, or at the end you stand their as a liar.

and then, i dont know if you learned the basics from others or by your own, but there are some rules of what you dont do:
and one of this big rule: if you already have problems to get volume in the market, dont show tradingsystems (and special intraday systems) or whatever. you only lose big money with it. even when you dont have volume problem, showing is stupid and brings nothing, i dont need followers, my life is good so it is.

when you know basics in trading, you will know what i am talk about. if not, you need to learn the basics or start attack for nothing.
there are questions possible, to judge other person, like if you trade less then 10000. less then 100k, less then 1 mio, less then 20 mio, because with different borders you get different problems (depends from trading style) and you learn different knowledge from reality as primary experience (not only secondary). this are usefull questions maybe, but showing trading stuff of an more experienced trader is crazy. he is not experienced when showing or has not won really big money with it and still earn with it. or he will use managed accounts maybe later or whatever reason people have to show , what will be a problem for their own future to show... often they simple dont know it better.

you can people teach how to find trading system and develop, thats an other part, but showing your own, no way with me. you would cost me maybe money you dont earn in decades.

Oh man...what are you doing here then? only gathering material for your so called 'presentations' of on fx-god-know-what?

More important, whats your meaning here on FF ? what's your focus? interest? reason?

From what you say you let me thinking you are a big hotshot trading +xxMio and in no way you gonna show anything you trade or how you trade, as you rely on the surprise effect on other participants on the market! LOL
But you forget one thing: you are nowhere near Bruno Iksil, Alexis Stenfors or Boris Picano and others such as these guys. Also you dont trade such account that are able to influence in such way the markets.

Aside from that i have asked to show a system, not a volume trading. Big difference. And i asked knowing almost 100% that either you will deny this demand either you will show a BS system with a BS theory behind it....

So stop talking about hiding your orders because you wanna get in into the market without being noticed. Its not your case. Else you will not be here everyday talking.....You are just another dude that spend his freetime in forums to beat his boredom to death.

oh man, i told you you will not understand when you did not learn the basics, so you show you did not learn the basics.

i dont teach you all, but some , that you are not always asking people for stupid things:

- you mention here some people with other trading systems then i have: you look for some people who do what you like to present, and then tell me i have to be like this people? are you crazy? it depends from my tradingsystems how i influcence market, and yes i do so, and this since many years that i buy (at the moment i go inside the market) the whole amount whats possible for a good spread (i can dandle with my systems) and take whatever is on market or i have a good chance to come out if it is to much. i dont influcence in such points that i push any market (or at max so very small its no problem to my own entries), i speak about when other would starting buying same time the spread would increase and my volume what i can get at this points would decrease and so the win will go down. whats so difficult in this simple basic fact to understand?
- you still did not show why i attacked, same hiding like crucial point when doing bigger mistakes, no sorry for your weak imputation.
- i am here, because of many reasons: i want to be fit in my brain and want trained in writing, i want meet interesting people (not many , but some are), i use it for showing different in my consultant work (to show on some comments whats wrong or true and how to avoid this, and for showing different type of traders and believes), i like to help some people (because i got trained and payed from my coach at the beginning and i know how much time i saved by got mentioned all the mistakes done),..........
- there are no fx gods? ofcourse you can win many millions in trading, thats not the problem. you can also earn many millions by work same time, also not the problem. but thats not good or bad, many do not so good, some do better. there is no feeling like god or devil, its simple easy hobby i do. my luck is that i like my hoby and can earn with it, so simple. trading and life need to be connected to enjoy the advantages full,
- you want present a system and not a volume trading? what will you tell me here. i invest in any system volume, so you tell me i shall present you a theoretical system i dont trade in real? why? this will at best exist when i test it, but when i really test it it can be worth millions, and i shall prenet you? man, think twice.
- i got often to points, that even some lP thought about not be my counterpart any more because of to steady loss in some currencies, and i needed special conditions with special lp bundles so can trade some system ( and i dont trade any arbitrage, basket, martingale, big SL styles....). i know what i speak about, and i would never speak about a topic i dont know about. and i would never criticize someone when i dont soo there is something big to criticize. if i would be wrong i would say big sorry, so simple. i dont know how many percents of trading volume from some prime brokers you are, but when you are some percents, you would understand all i did wrote much better. i do this +20 years now, and i dont have time to write always same textes again and again, becaause people dont want to do their homework and learn the basics step by step. then you would never ask me this questions.

i really thought you got better, and started take it more serious with arguments and try at least to learn from your mistakes. but you attack always and has a big problem with simple asking question without attacking.

My apologies folks, I woke up to this and can't help myself. Note: Other than that which is related to trading, take nothing I say seriously. I like to smile, laugh and enjoy life, and like to joke around to keep things light. I almost sent VEE to the psychiatric ward with a joke and for Copernicus, no explanation ever required. Again, my quip above made me smile, and I hope you did as well. I am well educated, but I can spot super human analytical brain power in a flash. I know your sequence of a-t-c-g's on your 21st chromosome all lined up in a different order than most, so just exploit it, and laugh at the world.

As for CP, slightly different genome sequencing in effect:
Coffee-talks with CrucialPoint: How I Cracked and Solved the Puzzle.
Anyone who refers to themselves in the first person, not much more required to be said. As far as cracking and solving the puzzle, please post just 1 chart with just 1 trade so I may see and understand why so many require medication for the lumbar strain induced by looking so high up on the pedestal your perched on. Better yet, post a live trade in action. I don't put traders on pedestals any more than I would put doctors on them. In every profession you have those at the top of their chosen field, then you have the rest. It's left up to you not to admire, but to respect those that have risen to the heights of their professions. I'm not better or above anyone on these boards, I'm simply trying to be the best trader I can be, along with the rest of us!

As for me, I was an entrepreneur as a fetus, while simultaneously obtaining a medical degree, so I could deliver myself from the womb on my own terms and use the space as a tax writeoff. My parents were elated when they received a birthing refund a month later.
My parents also had the fortitude to drill into my head that anyone can do anything as long as you wanted it bad enough, and to never take no for an answer when seeking a yes! Such has been my approach to life and to trading. The best advice money could never buy!!

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Cheetah and Gazelle......Momentum and Risilence.......

Mathematical equations do not capture many of nature’s most essential mechanisms
For more than three centuries, mathematical equations and methods such as calculus have been taken as the foundation for the exact sciences. There have been many profound successes, but a great many important and obvious phenomena in nature remain unexplained–especially ones where more complex forms or behavior are observed.

Cheetah does have to hunt gazelle to survive and gazelle does have to run away from cheetah to survive as well, nonetheless they are both successful in their living task: how is that?
Because each of the competitors in nature does know perfectly itself, they know who they are, their strengthnesses and weeknesses and each of them plays its natural role developing at their best their skills; second they save their energy to put it fully at play only when the odds are on their side.
None of them ever think, none of them needs to know the future, they simply react to the present moment in the best way each of them knows: nature has provided each living being with all that it needs to survive successfully.
Randomness is the unpredictable element that is needed to keep natural equilibrium.

Quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb ....... the opponent is future change. The defining characteristic of future change is that it is impossible, and foolhardy, to try to predict it. Instead it is essential to make peace with uncertainty, randomness and volatility. Those who do not — who insist not only on trying to predict the future, but also on somehow trying to manage it — cannot survive.

ROFL

That's interesting. You do consulting?.... And you show these writings to your clients??

Do you speak to your clients the way you speak in here as well??

Just curious, it's ok if you don't respond

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@ Copernicus.... ROFL indeed

Copernicus, That's the best!!!