Orderflow trading

I don't know who needs to hear this...but last 2 years of trading was hell to me...blowing accounts, breaking my discipline and literally crying. I back tested like 4 years of data on ICT inversion-based strategy, sitting on my PC for 10 10 hours continuously but it did not click for me. Although my back testing results were good enough but during the live market, I was fucked agn nd agn. I had rules like only taking 1 trade per trade, having perfect confluence list bt it was just all crap.

When I shifted to orderflow everything changed and I would say that I have not changed I am still the same person...I feel angry at the loss, I feel impatient when I see fluctuating PNL but what changed is the I have started accepting losses becoz I know I can literally take 10 trades in a day that thought made me calm...as I shifted from intraday trader to a scalper my impatient of holding a trade has been eliminated becoz 90% of my trades never goes above 1 or 2mins and these learnings did not come from outside.

I analyzed myself and in spite of Gurus advise like meditating, gyming I changed things around my behavior, and everything changed. We as humans always tries to make ourselves better by working hard, but do we rally tries to understand ourselves like what if our internal chaos is good enough to satisfy external circumstance nd with that chaos we could direct better decisions

U r right

same thing...I did use developing profile . Price closed below VAH of developing proifle which is considered as failed auction.. aggressive buyers came before but all got absorbed footprint showed heavy sellers came in even CVD broke the low before futures' price did close below. Classis first 30min failed auction ORB strategy
jsut look at CVD and footprint chart after aggressive buyers broke above VAH although rn VAH is above as it has shifed nd then the entry of aggressive sellers

Orderflow is just data and alternative for candlesticks....people used candlesticks to make money and are still doing it butttt....orderflow instead gives you just better confirmation with more certainty....and you pair it with the concept of liquidity or auction market theory and you basically know how markets work and move and for this you don't have to know where the market is going to go ..in this you know where it's going and you act upon the present....


And about self improvement..I've never mediated in life and never completed a single trading book I just read important thing and when I think it has no value I close the book....people get into too complicated stuff (especially ICT ) due it being one of the easiest things that requires least amount of thinking power.....but in other methodologies where you have to put your actual brain and where your brain itself is the strategy then you know that I INTERPRETED THE MARKET WRONG , MY READ WAS BAD, then you know get to alot more responsibility and accountability where in trading those pattern strats where you can just blame the stratagy and anything else...

Really great recap