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Competition is serious lately in this field, especially for currency trading systems.

I used chat for that purpose. Great company if you join the right people there. :)

Convexx, do you mean to say that spread trading overall has higher success rate among industry professionals?

A perfect test for reality awareness. I fully agree with you.

OY and Convex, thank you for kind words. I don't treat it as a failure, rather as a step to success in speculation/investment career. So some day this thread (or it's clone) may have a continuation. :)

I couldn't publicly make it during the year passed, so Surf was right at that moment, correct.

Try to reproduce everything you did when were successful. Think graphically about your success in spare time, visualize it, make yourself feel like you already have it. Easier for you to do because you already experienced it.

Have to correct two points here: I actually was profitable during the few months of live calls in chat and first three months of OPM. Nearly not as profitable as I planned, but nevertheless. Then things piled up (mostly stress and other psychological factors I believe) and performance dropped...

That post made me wonder, does history know any famous trading mentors, who never trade themselves?

Most traders don't even get to the stage when emotional discipline (which is a derivative of emotional maturity) is needed. Why? Because it's easy to follow the rules if you mathematically and objectively see they "work" for real. For most trading approaches though, it's not easy to...

With all respect, I think emotional discipline only makes sense when the method is profitable in the first place with every entry/exit/adjustment rule already in place. Otherwise we deal with fuzzy edge, an art if you wish. Which is OK, but it's extremely difficult to share talent. Hence...

To defend people who applied rules and failed. Most successful traders I personally witnessed use fuzzy edges indeed. With many small nuances. Never I saw anybody online sharing a truly profitable and universal (applicable to any market or TF) TA system presented in a way of clear and...

Oops, I see NoD already replied herself. :)

Well those people are not interested in public exposure anyway and didn't give me permission to talk about anything like that. :) Besides you of course, since you already are here. :D

To be honest, I never followed her system and don't even know exactly what her entries/exits are. I simply never asked about it in details. But as far as I know, she gives me credit for some elements of her approach. :)

Must be she is much better than me at it. We better ask her. :) To her defense, I have never heard about her taking money for mentoring anyone. Only rumors, but never a proof of anyone saying she/he paid her to teach trading.

Things simply changed. I did make good profits day trading. Which quite a few people can confirm. But then it got worse. And I am not going to lie to anyone here saying black is white. It WAS easier for me when volatility was there. Now it is not. Plus I have something else to compare with now...

That may be a bit of extreme sample of course, but it surely is pretty easy to sell a truck driver who broke rear lights on his DAF new lights and make 50% ROI without much risk. Repeat 20 times a day. :D My point is: typical human to human sell side business is really easy (for me at least)...

I wouldn't say so. Rather both me and NoD learned a lot from the same trader (Bighog).

Yes, intraday entries can probably be great way to fine-tune signals on larger scale and achieve amazing R:R. But without consideration of those larger scale factors... I don't know, it suddenly started to feel random to me. Maybe it really did become more random, I don't know.