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  • #541
  • Nov 8, 2025 6:12am Nov 8, 2025 6:12am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Yes, I understand that and agree. It's just that I'm anything but self-concerned. I also value truth, beauty, and love above personal financial goals, but when you're struggling with financial problems every day for almost two decades, along with many other psychological and personal burdens, you might see things a little differently. If I were so egocentric, I probably wouldn't be spending most of my day caring for my father (or many other things and people in my life that are far more important to me than financial success). You're probably...
Why dont you try the simplest method of all..... Impulse, Correction, Impulse
  • #542
  • Nov 8, 2025 6:48am Nov 8, 2025 6:48am
Quoting T721
{quote} Why dont you try the simplest method of all..... Impulse, Correction, Impulse
Which in some contexts is called Fair Value Gap, which has been dismissed by the thread starter. Dismissed for being subjective, while it's actually one way of making Impulse-Correction-Impulse objective.
  • #543
  • Nov 8, 2025 7:00am Nov 8, 2025 7:00am
Quoting medici
{quote} Which in some contexts is called Fair Value Gap, which has been dismissed by the thread starter. Dismissed for being subjective, while it's actually one way of making Impulse-Correction-Impulse objective.
He seems to dismiss everything....... without even looking at charts just now we have 3 charts with this structure, gbp/usd, eur/usd and Oil. all easy easy setups imo
  • #544
  • Nov 8, 2025 7:01am Nov 8, 2025 7:01am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} I tried meditation, but it hasn't helped that much.
Yes, commonly meditation is treated as a technique one performs to feel better, healthier, relaxed, etc.

But it's not a technique, and it's not something one does. It's about the messy business of facing oneself. As such it's best just to sit in silent stillness. As an ancient Zen master said "Think of not-thinking. How do you think of not-thinking? Non-thinking. This is the essential art of zazen."

As such it's an opportunity to "be brutally honest with yourself", if you dare. It's the only thing that helps.
  • #545
  • Edited 8:39am Nov 8, 2025 7:26am | Edited 8:39am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Yes, I understand that and agree. It's just that I'm anything but self-concerned. I also value truth, beauty, and love above personal financial goals, but when you're struggling with financial problems every day for almost two decades, along with many other psychological and personal burdens, you might see things a little differently. If I were so egocentric, I probably wouldn't be spending most of my day caring for my father (or many other things and people in my life that are far more important to me than financial success). You're probably...
NoisyBoy...... what is it your'e really after.... All you are doing is playing the poor me. i need 5k pm, i have to get 5k pm, i have worries, i have troubles, i have bills, i have expenses, i have anxiety, i want, i need bla bla bla

Then if someone gives you something you do what you always have done...... spend 4ever ripping it apart instead of finding the parts that do work

WHAT IS IT YOUR"E REALLY AFTER ?? SEEMS LIKE ATTENTION TO ME. JUST A POOR ME ATTENTION SEEKER !!
  • #546
  • Edited 7:38am Nov 8, 2025 7:28am | Edited 7:38am
Quoting T721
{quote} He seems to dismiss everything....... without even looking at charts just now we have 3 charts with this structure, gbp/usd, eur/usd and Oil. all easy easy setups imo
Indeed he does, but they are all over the place. Here the reversal from the yesterday's bottom in NQ on an 1m chart.

First, after 6.10pm CET, two Impulse-Correction-Impulse patterns in the form of impulse candles followed by Inverted Hammer candles.

Or, if one prefers the comfort of a larger scale pattern, at 6.50pm an Inverted Hammer off of a bona fide Fair Value Gap.

Or, if FVGs are dismissed the larger geometric Impulse-Correction-Impulse pattern indicated by the yellow lines, which one could enter on break of EMA50.

After that there was a 500+ point move up. Both likely level of bottom and move up were anticipated by FF member montygoldy.

So three types of Impulse-Correction-Impulse patterns verifying a trade idea posted publicly here on FF, with more than 10KUSD profit per contract if followed through to the end.
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  • #547
  • Edited 7:59am Nov 8, 2025 7:41am | Edited 7:59am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Agree! {quote} That's what I've been preaching from the beginning. I need an approach that generates a consistent cash flow in relatively short-term intervals and that constantly, enough to cover my bills (monthly or, at most, quarterly). Long-term profitability (12-24 months) is great, but I wouldn't know how to live on it in the meantime without significant savings or other sources of income. If this strategy would provide enough valid signals on the 1-hour chart for a single market like XAU/USD that I can dedicate to manual trading within...
I need to earn at least €5,000 per month after deducting all trading costs, and I'd prefer not to risk more than three times that amount (-€15,000) at any given time.

We had this conversation 3yrs ago and yet you still haven't learnt shit. Your Skew is TITSUP
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  • #548
  • Nov 8, 2025 8:06am Nov 8, 2025 8:06am
Quoting Noisy
Some questions to get the conversation rolling: What has helped you most in moving towards consistent profitability? Do you focus on day trading, swing trading, or longer-term investing? How do you deal with the pressure of needing to cover regular monthly expenses while trading income can be irregular? What resources, tools, or routines have been game-changers for you?
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What has helped you most....... learning to code.......

Do you focus on....... all those......

How do you deal with the pressure...... admittedly a big concern for me years ago...... but no longer...... time dealt with that......

What routines have been game-changers for you........ ignoring all that is best ignored...... focusing only on entrys and exits.......

.......h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
  • #549
  • Nov 8, 2025 2:00pm Nov 8, 2025 2:00pm
Quoting T721
{quote} I need to earn at least €5,000 per month after deducting all trading costs, and I'd prefer not to risk more than three times that amount (-€15,000) at any given time. We had this conversation 3yrs ago and yet you still haven't learnt shit. Your Skew is TITSUP {image}
Hell of a memory.
Mark ... Everything you have been told is a LIE
  • #550
  • Nov 8, 2025 4:08pm Nov 8, 2025 4:08pm
Quoting T721
{quote} Why dont you try the simplest method of all..... Impulse, Correction, Impulse
Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it.

Otherwise, no, as I've already said several times, I don't want to follow a trading strategy that relies on my subjective chart reading and/or even has to be constantly monitored at undefined times of the day.

My available time for trading is severely limited, and therefore I need structure and clear rules about when and what to execute.

I get it…You’re are all discretionary chart readers who like the process of watching and trading charts all day long. I don’t. I‘m a very logical data driven / systematic type of a person.

And yes, I need to make a consistent minimum income from it - otherwise it’s a hobby. I have enough hobby’s already.

Have a good weekend all.
  • #551
  • Edited 6:38pm Nov 8, 2025 6:20pm | Edited 6:38pm
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it. Otherwise, no, as I've already said several times, I don't want to follow a trading strategy that relies on my subjective chart reading and/or even has to be constantly monitored at undefined times of the day. My available time for trading is severely limited, and therefore I need structure and clear rules about when and what to execute. I get...
Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it.

i just give you one...... Oil, GBP/USD, EUR/USD

Go look at those 3 charts and tell me what you see. Then plan how you will trade the next impulse and more importantly your stop if its wrong
  • #552
  • Edited 8:34pm Nov 8, 2025 7:39pm | Edited 8:34pm
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it.
This is bullshit. In your last reply to me, you claimed to be working a strategy that has delivered something like 13% positive return to your account. However, you continue to talk about the need for an approach that delivers sufficient returns to cover your monthly expenses. You either have an approach that delivers the returns you claim, or you are a liar. If you have an approach, then your issue is scale, and you need to increase your margin account balance from 11,300 to 150,000. Fyi, this is the wrong place to find 138,700. Or is it?

Since starting this thread, you've rejected every idea and thought offered to you. I think this is because you have other motives. I doubt you have a trading account. I strongly believe you know nothing about trading or markets. Much has been presented to you in this thread, but it's never enough. It's not enough because these discussions about success in trading isn't your objective. You want, and expect, something else. You just haven't revealed it yet.

This past week, I talked about the trades I made that delivered to me twice the income you need each month to cover your expenses. Your response: too much work and doesn't fit your lifestyle. But on the flip side: your life is terrible, you have few prospects, you have stress and sadness in your life, and you think about putting a gun to your head.

People have honestly tried to help you, and your response has been to dismiss them and, weakly rationalize this continuation of rejecting them while embracing your loser status.
  • #553
  • Nov 8, 2025 7:46pm Nov 8, 2025 7:46pm
Quoting GEfx
{quote} This is bullshit. In your last reply to me, you claimed to be working a strategy that has delivered something like 13% positive return to your account. However, you continue to talk about the need for an approach that delivers sufficient returns to cover your monthly expenses. You either have an approach that delivers the returns you claim, or you are a liar. If you have an approach, then your issue is scale, and you need to increase your margin account balance from 11,300 to 150,000. Fyi, this is the wrong place to find 138,700. Or is it?...
He's waisting his own time and life, but more importantly he is wasting ours
  • #554
  • Nov 8, 2025 7:56pm Nov 8, 2025 7:56pm
mallee sent you link to tg room... sorry i forgot to add you earlier
  • #555
  • Nov 8, 2025 8:36pm Nov 8, 2025 8:36pm
u know when u watch charts to much u start to see patterns everywhere - im listening to some music on youtube and looked at the video time and spotted something... a head and shoulders... it went back up retested the neckline then carried on down
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  • #556
  • Nov 8, 2025 10:48pm Nov 8, 2025 10:48pm
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it. Otherwise, no, as I've already said several times, I don't want to follow a trading strategy that relies on my subjective chart reading and/or even has to be constantly monitored at undefined times of the day. My available time for trading is severely limited, and therefore I need structure and clear rules about when and what to execute. I get...
I don’t. I‘m a very logical data driven / systematic type of a person.

and how far has that approach gotten you so far. NOFUCKINWHERE
  • #557
  • Nov 9, 2025 1:45am Nov 9, 2025 1:45am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it. Otherwise, no, as I've already said several times, I don't want to follow a trading strategy that relies on my subjective chart reading and/or even has to be constantly monitored at undefined times of the day. My available time for trading is severely limited, and therefore I need structure and clear rules about when and what to execute....
Fair Value Gaps are exactly that. Whether an FVG strategy should be automated or not could be debated. Here's the first paragraph of the conclusion section of attached research report on the topic:

"Automating a Fair Value Gap day trading strategy represents a legitimate but non-trivial undertaking. The core concept has merit: identifying price gaps left behind by rapid market moves, then profiting as price returns to fill those gaps. However, transforming this concept into a profitable automated system requires architectural sophistication, rigorous validation, robust risk management, and realistic expectations about inevitable drawdowns and slippage."

Something to get you started. Now prove yourself competent of something other than complaining.

And here something for inspiration by a competent trader:

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PS: you are describing exactly how I trade: based on a strategy that "plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations".
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  • #558
  • Nov 9, 2025 2:29am Nov 9, 2025 2:29am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Yes, I understand that and agree. .
no body give a shit for personal drama.

if you do not know to trade then learn to trade

If you are incapable to learn then give up trading..
  • #559
  • Nov 9, 2025 7:53am Nov 9, 2025 7:53am
Quoting Noisy
{quote} Well, show me a strategy that makes this approach objectively replicable and thus plots trade entries and exits on a chart based on clear mathematical calculations, then I'd be happy to backtest it. Otherwise, no, as I've already said several times.....
learn to trade, use your own brain, spend your own time and your own money and make your own trading strategy ...

who are you to demand from others anything?
  • #560
  • Nov 9, 2025 8:56am Nov 9, 2025 8:56am
The last trade shows a sharp rejection from the recent high around 103,352 USD, as the price pulled back to 103,237 USD. This indicates possible short-term selling pressure after a strong upward move.
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