Your notes above helped me recall how I started learning TA from scratch: Allow your mind to randomly pick SR levels, and then break down why you think you drew them from others', and eventually your, TA reasons. Repeat this lots of times until what ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

That's a heck of a lot of mistrust. If a TL or Gann Fan aligns with most of the chart exactly, there's only, fairly high % that the device used will work.

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

On bars, asked and answered by someone else earlier. On channels etc.: Because of the "inherent reason" another'd spoken of a few posts ago; it builds upward into drawing as well as downward to a single bar. TA such as mine has to reflect this or I ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

The curves look similar, is how I take it. It's not a math thing. Just substitute the word momentum, if I ever post 'logarithm'. Also, I usually draw momentum with Gann Fans, at least when I suspect the momentum will dry up. They're notorious for ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

Yeah, "unconscious subpatterns of human nature" is a really bloated phrase I couldn't prove in a million years. Perhaps different symbols can offer a little differentiation toward such an effort. All I meant was, the chart repeats certain ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

not to speak out of turn... I wouldn't usually use a trendline's formal definition; its way too restrictive to be used most of the time.

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

demo — Makes sense about bars / candles; they do have an inherent sense about them. I disagree with your argument against patterns and drawing devices. People trade with unconscious subpatterns of human nature, such as momentum ('logarithms'), ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

Congrats on finding your method. That's what I'm trying for, almost 100% winners and a very high SL. Only, with earlier developments of my method I could get a dozen margin calls in a row. So, I keep thinking of switching the SL to match a 1:1 or ...

95% winners live test

I don't know, but I do know there's a world of difference between the simulator and real feeds. Time distance between candle moves seems to be too regular in simulator, I think. I attributed it to why Ronald Raygun seems to use his own tick ...

Transferring Success in Simulator to Demo

My brain is alot slower, perhaps. I study to get a trade setup for up to five minutes a trade. And, I may get refreshments or something. Hey, it's discretionary, cut me some slack

Transferring Success in Simulator to Demo

Cool thread, appreciate it. I've been using simulator on the 1' TF for almost two years, and find it much better than demo. Occasionally I'll toy with a trade in demo, but know that the real work is in doing simulator. I average 3-5 trades in a half ...

Transferring Success in Simulator to Demo

post#1, addition: I have to be aware of the situation which impresses me with a wrong emotion-pattern emphasis (i.e., too independent of a good chart study.) It's the 'don't bring your problems to work' syndrome: This is further away from, and often ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post #1: revised) Returned emotions to fray -- image After much consideration of how the different variables in this picture work with each other, I broke my run of hundreds of margin calls (punctuated with a winning trade here and there) and had ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — What am I missing here? You say you can put in a 1-pip SL and a 30-pip TP and make a profit over lots of trades. Or 10 SL, 300 TP. Etc. That's definitely only programming. Can't imagine even a scalper trying this. 1 to 3, maybe, your 1 ...

Winning TP / SL ratio

I thought I read on ff that professionals earn that much only because they're limited to 1:1, that they'd earn far more than retail if given the leverage.

Good returns realistic by trading with higher time frames?

(post#1 dump) ----- An amateur's interpretation: image The purpose of chart study is to capture longterm regularities and trade with them: Looked for longterm regularities, expanded upon them, and read the current bars for direction. ex.: image ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

continued — post#1, new method picture: image -------------------------- extreme longterm, line-bracketed immediate area, advanced lines form#11 two trades, first manually exited and second small form#10 redux Worked this time, tho the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

It's my form. I've been going through various ordinary activities in different environments through the day, and was able to use the picture on post#1 -- image -- and found how much I depended on my form to get me through one of the activities ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

What a tangled web... Turveyd, yes, of course you're right. And that's where I begin my study, to avoid all that individual-candle reading if you will. Crucialpoint, your leap into mm befuddles me. I meant, reasons at the level of bars (patterns, ...

Why exactly do EMA crossover systems not work?

demo — Sorry, no, you miss my point (which Crucialpoint understood well enough.) Another way to say it: Each bar has a distinct position in relation to every other bar, such that groups of bars (which one reason or another defines) follow ...

Why exactly do EMA crossover systems not work?