(revision) Moved entries here; and, left the HTML language in on purpose, entering a blank space between [ and S, so it's copyable into another post. This isn't a record of my trades, just a sample of using the method. Profitable examples'd be ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

A successful person may teach how to put it all together, where you want to go with it and the different variables you want to bother with, sure. What you put together, no, due to personality differences and technique equivalencies one can learn ...

Where to start, I'm overwhelmed..

I can see calling too much information noise is if your goal is to obtain a certain percent of a higher-TF move, so that only certain larger news items or moves would apply to this trade. I tend to take the opposite view. It's easier for me to ...

D1 and M5, which is noiser?

Here's how I usually make my lines; I found more continuity through multiple patterns connecting with each other. I'd already suspected about news evening with prior technicals. Last night: 1 image 2 image 3 image 4 image Get it? In 1, level ...

EUR/USD patterns

Dude, sorry if I was harsh. No, it's not. Kudos to you if you've got the psychology right. Most people don't, even after using a trading method such as yours. Try laying down the psychology on paper. It's a thousand times more difficult than the ...

Is trading FX for living a myth?

No way is it ever that simple. I googled 'risk % per trade', and the first thing I got was a CMS article on trading psychology and how it affects trading a plan, especially losses it accrues. ANY plan at the level of yours will earn nothing without ...

Is trading FX for living a myth?

(account study, continued) — I made an error of generalization: 2.95 pips at 83%/300:1 is fine. If that's what I'm used to and I can do it all of the time, then okay. The problem lies in what's next: Sometimes I have to trade big. I traded ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(revision) The contributor was right, so I'll narrow my study. It seems cccdt (ability to trade) ,(<>(-+1)X trade focus) may connect to gut instinct (trade pattern, pivot and maybe other things) rather well, they both being body-based. At least, I ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Hello, bs123. Thank you for your input. Yes, only that's how I think. I love to systematize everything and do it pragmatically: I've probably churned over far more trading ideas than most people, to arrive at rational, simple and very fast use ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(revision) Figured a way to combine technical and psychological study, so I don't have to worry about speed or distraction. Personal distance is the parameter organizing this approach: One is outside of (c.1), in sych with (c.3), or inside of (c.5) ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

It's popularly estimated that one must watch and actively engage oneself with a live-tick chart for at least 1000 hours before getting a 'gut feel' for trading, even if you trade with regular chart indicators. 1000 hours of live-tick chartwatching / ...

Where to start, I'm overwhelmed..

This seems something worth thinking about. I trade the 1', right now more scalping than anything, and wish to stop scalping so much. I usually define a solid entry and unconsciously finalize a framing of the area in which my trade will be. Then, ...

Exit is more important than the entry

Added a red shift (two sets of examples in picture), to go from one set of midline - doji bunch confirm to another set: image This closes the method in on being repeatable.

balance lines

Introducing a recorded, indicatorized gut instinct spurred me to reorganize my entire method around it. Fortunately, this worked well, despite how the density of prose below seems to show otherwise. overall method, revision: News logic (an unposted ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(revision) Added gut instinct, or rather inner body language telling of next trend etc. A lot of it is description only, albeit in precise terms. column titles: [last trade -- (+/-%) ] reason:move [this trade -- personal direction (y,n)CHART] ...

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00 (and 50) lines, on g/u 5' candles, seem to make great center lines; price, once it settles down into an area, goes around it. Occasionally they're s/r, usually not. (pic)

Help finding areas of support and resistance?

(revision) The idea in this revision is to begin with something concrete. Then, it moves to a general impression of the material to study for a trade, continues with potential gain from the area of that material. Next it compares the impression with ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(revision) While doing technicals, write these dozen variables, in order, on a spreadsheet ( file ) (current entry on top, to view with chart) to see how well a trade may go: relation personal direction (y or n): confidence control change definition ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

While these aren't balance lines, and are kind of an ordinary use of trendlines, it seems worth presenting. These do involve balancing, for average-spread, randomly-mixed candles. Here's a simple juxtaposition of doji groups, support/resistance and ...

balance lines

(revision) trade-plan psych table; or, Excel journal --> Do one's technical indicators as usual, while filling in the spaces under the columns below: 1) direction -- five columns ccdt (confidence, control, change, definition, threat): yes ...

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