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    How big account size should you start with and how to build it up?

    Depositing each on each positive month? If so how much? 20% more? How big of an account size say your monthly income is 5000? Or if you are a student? Etc etc
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    What % of hedge funds make money? Are SOME really as clueless as retail?

    What % of hedge funds make money over time and how many close down within a year or 5 years? What are some interesting statistics?
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    How many setups do you take & what type of trader are you?

    What timeframes do you trade on? How many setups do you take per week/day/month/year etc.
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    I am trying to trade SR levels, then look for lower time frame breakout and enter on pullback. What you think?
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    Here’s a similar chart? Where would you exit if you were long a reversal? Do you break even the stops after take off?
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    Shouldn't a candle need to close above the highs to signal uptrend? Or do you use close above/below the previous candle close to signal continuation?
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    What’s the correct way to manually backtest?

    What’s the most effective way? How do you actually backtest? Backtest every single thing? Or pick out random chunks to test?
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    How late is too late though? What is considered late?
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    Oh, so too late in trend, people might take profit?
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    What % of Hedge Funds/Institutions actually make money?

    Wow, meaning it's kind of like the retail trader industry, few make big $$$. The rest make little to no money I assume?
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    What does "Chasing long is risky" in an uptrend mean?

    It's an uptrend, so what does this mean? Shouldn't a trend continue? So why is this risky? Nearby resistance/support? But it has a high possibility to reach there no?
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    What % of Hedge Funds/Institutions actually make money?

    What does this mean? Over 30% of the 3k registered funds are managed by 100 shops? Meaning these 100 shops own an average of 30 funds each?
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    What % of Hedge Funds/Institutions actually make money?

    Means most of hedge funds are not doing well aren't they? ... I always thought most hedge funds made money since they were "Professional"
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    What % of Hedge Funds/Institutions actually make money?

    What % beat the S&P? How many actually make money every year? What's the lifespan of an average hedge fund? How many actually survive/succeed?
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    Journey to Profitability

    I have another question on your break even trades. You have told me about your stats, and I am wondering, don't you need price to turn in your favor like a 95% of the time? 5% they go straight to the stop loss without turning? Those are some insane entries. Have you backtested ABCD patterns or...
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    Journey to Profitability

    When is a TL too steep and when is it too shallow? Often price doesn’t touch the shallow trendline for an entry, that’s why I’m thinking of using a 50% retrace entry. When is an entry too late? In that chart I feel that there is still space for price to move before hitting resistance. The...
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    Journey to Profitability

    Here are some questions, I have put them on the chart as well regarding the entries. #1 Let price go through, wait for close below and if it goes back up, your long. Let price break the TL, if it goes back upenter on this candle? #2 Price just hits TL and your long. I understand this. #3...
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    Journey to Profitability

    I bought there, thinking price still had some space to move before hitting resistance (previous high). You are right, my entry was late and too high. https://www.tradingview.com/x/Fl1RYQog/
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    What’s wrong with buying and holding the SPX500?

    I was looking at the chart of the nikkei, what happened there?
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