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It's a misleading analogy. Left unsaid is that you're driving a car with an opaque windshield. So why rag on TA for only providing you with a rearview and side views when the exact same argument applies to every other form of analysis (FA, QA, etc.)? You can't directly see the road ahead. So...

I'm curious. In this driving analogy of yours, what method is "the windshield" that lets you see "the road ahead" (aka the future)?

You're confused and mixing apples and oranges My reply to you was in response to your response to me regarding my reply to the OP. It is the OP, not I, who is seeking knowledge on how to avoid chop. I already possess that knowledge. OTOH my question to Handle123 was purely out of curiosity. I...

How do you assign a trend (a direction) when you're in chop (a directionless market)?

That looks like a recipe for trading the chop. Which still doesn't answer the question: how to avoid chop. What hasn't been pointed out heretofore is that trading chop and avoiding chop both have the same prerequisite: finding the chop, or knowing when you're in the chop. That's the hardest...

"How do you avoid choppy markets?" A worthy question. But one not easily answered, for two reasons. Most of the answers you've received so far fall under reason #1. Most of the respondents know even less than you do on this topic. Trust me on this. Reason #2: possibly one or two respondents...

You're farther along than I thought just going by your first post. What category does your trading strategy fall under? Trend following? Something else? As far as stock picking goes, you can probably do better than Cramer. Here's a sample of what I found by googling "stock picking" ...

For sure. The OP should just buy one of Cramer's books. He's written two of them, and I'm sure he's egotistical enough to have put his history as a stock picker in both of them. Or go to the library, where books are free.

http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?posts/4261132/

• go to finance.yahoo.com • enter stock symbol into search bar and go to stock page • click on Historical Prices in left column • enter desired dates and click on Weekly; go to data set • download data and place in chart program or spreadsheet • apply Bollinger Bands or Keltner channels...

Gloria Brown : ET's biggest panhandler for trading strategies. http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/published-trading-strategies.286291/ http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/trading-strategies-bloggers-authors-professors.289058/...

There are different types of trading and many of them don't "mesh". For example, the market conditions that facilitate trend following are very different from the market conditions that facilitate mean-reversion strategies. But within each category (e.g., trend following), there is most likely...

"The real problems of trading are with discipline and execution." I can only assume your trading "system" is a discretionary trading method. Real systematic (aka mechanical) traders don't have these concerns. So the real problem of trading, discretionary or mechanical, is lack of a...

Position trading has always been more profitable than daytrading. Daytraders don't see this. Daytraders are greedy ("I want it now!") and greed lowers IQ points. There's an old saying: Haste Makes Waste.

As others have pointed out, your conclusion about TA is way premature. Based on what you've listed, you haven't even covered the tip of the iceberg. The longest TA thread n this website covers the ACD method. Did your game cover ACD? Of course not. Did your game cover P&F? Of course not...

Never let a trade turn into an investment. -- James Cramer

Investors and traders follow different rules. Among other things, investors base decisions on FA. Traders rarely do that. I don't often agree with Jim Cramer but one thing he said that I do agree with is: Never let a trade turn into an investment. You enter a trade because you're confident...

Speaking only for myself, I have found value in only two canned indicators that shall remain nameless. One can be used as is. The other one requires considerable tweaking to reach its full value. As far as volume, I use it only to assure that my trading instrument has liquidity.

What have you been studying for months that you don't already know this? Get familiar with investopedia.com, they define a great many trading terms, including "price action" and "technical indicator". Fwiw I see a technical indicator as a mathematical expression based on recent price data...