{quote} O. OK. That makes sense. I’ve been following your posts since the beginning of this year (and looking back on your posts from before this year). Trying to understand your strategy/philosophy and what things you look for to read the market. Thanks for your response, I really appreciate it.
GDS...there's no need to read all my posts
...when I encounter someone new or intrequing that has a red diamond on this site the first thing I do is look at their profile... years ago the fastest way to gain subscribers and popularity was start a bunch of worthless threads...maybe you've noticed guys that started 10-15-20 or even more threads cause then people subscribe to them so they know when a new post was made..those guys are what I call the facebook crowd...they just look for popularity..now days people subscribe to 2000 others and get their red diamond in a week like saal did LOLhttps://www.forexfactory.com/saal
he got a diamond in 60 posts LOL
the next thing I do is click the attachment and image icon on their profile and look thru their charts...i think everybody knows by now my disdain for indicators LOL...so if I see that guy use 3 or 4 of them on the charts I just skip over his posts from then on
so just click myimages cause I usually add a chart to my more serious posts...and my "system" is all revealed within those 1000 posts with charts since I explain and analyze what the chart means to me not like some knuckleheads that just post a plain chart with any kind of commentary cause they're the same as the facebook guys...they want room to weasel out of their "call" should it go against them LOL....so there's no need to read all 5000 posts
the rest is for you and 1in1out:
I started out like everybody else by trendtrading and scalping and using indicators and trading setups the books said I should and kept losing accounts...so after the 3rd time of blowing up my account I realized the way the books and videos say to trade is all wrong...the trend isn't your friend since price trends just 25% of the time and that's why those people in here are always wrong at the turns
...if the books and videos were right than 90-95% of people wouldn't lose their shirtthe books I likes were edwards and magee for TA and Livermore and wyckoffs books cause they wrote some...just remember the oldtimers traded off the daily chart from charts they had to update manually using pencils since there were no computers and they didn't use indicators like the thousands there is now...if you want to make steady money from trading stop clicking the mouse and devise stupid ass indicators you can sell to dummies...there's no shortage of them LOL
livermore and wyckoff used price action...the relation of bars or candles between themselves...thats not the same price action that ICT means...his price action just means he doesn't use indicators and just blindly buys and shorts sup/res levels ..what I mean is tape reading which livermore used cause he had an eidetic memory so he could trade in the bucketshopsjust using recall ...the name of the book about him is reminiscences of a stock operator....don't rush to get it cause there no setups in it...its more of a psychology trading book...its best to read it after trading for awhile cause I read it just starting out so didn't understand much of what he was saying back then LOL
I learned the most from magazines called futures magazine and technical analysis of stocks and commodities magazine
https://store.traders.com/s-c1s.html...BoCEJAQAvD_BwE
you might be able to find an archive on the net for old futures magazines if you search hard enuf of go to a library
I knew in high school when I was a pimply teenager this is what I wanted to do so I would go to my local library and read these magazines and when I got older I would spend a lazy afternoon in cafe part of a bookstore before amazon killed them all reading mags there LOL
futures mag is defunct now and got bought out by topstep prop firm and I guess is behind a paywall now but TASC is still publishing but I don't read them anymore since the only good ones from 15 years ago and before...the new editions are just as worthless as youtube vids with their influencers lol...TASC was the first place that started writing about programs and offering codes for automated trading 25 years ago for neural net software as it was called back then so if I cant disuade anyone from screwing around with robots at least learn something worthwhile from old editions of that mag... i don't know about other countries but look in your local libraries for those two mags cause there's more knowledge in one months edition than the whole of youtube LOL
so anyways thats it for me...I'm not an educator and don't want to be a teacher..there teaching threads on FF you could search for..best ones were started over a decade ago before the ignorant hordes of prop traders descended on FF and there's nothing worthwhile now as teaching threads now are started by 20 something guys with barely any experience playing with simulated money trying to pretend their real adult traders
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...ng-made-simple thats a good thread even for indicators ... eelfranz died and a couple dipshits took over and spend all their time fighting with each other LOL
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...-pivot-trading ..this guy is/was a crazy nut and prolly has the most people on ignore in FF LOL
this guy was good https://www.forexfactory.com/sisse
gatorinla is good in the swamp https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/582459-the-swamp?
but my favorites threads and posters are these
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...e-only-pattern
https://www.forexfactory.com/okshop
fxcyborg kept being attacked by losers and had a psychotic meltdown like nubbie and got revoked but left a goldmine in these threads... i always read old posts from guys that get attacked cause more often than not they're good traders since the other dipshits are jealous ...he deleted the explanations to fis systems from his 1st post but you can glean and reverse engineer what they were from all the other posts
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...ique-w-low-dds
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...op-hunt-candle
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...h-little-to-no
short trump and go long the deepstate
