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Well, maybe it was all meant to be, and could not have gone any other way. If you hadn't made those losses, you might never have discovered your edge in the market. Big losses are always a good reminder how bad things can really get. They serve a purpose - to make you hesitate whenever tempted...

Strat 1 1. If the choice is between a pleasant vs unpleasant trading experience, why not choose the pleasant. Life is too short to spend on feeling bad over your losses all the time. Then there is this thing called Law of Attraction... 2. It's a little risky to rely on that one big winning trade...

Is English your native language? Just curious...

Could you provide some specifics about your strategy?

You have to decide how to increase your trade size. Larry Williams used very aggressive money management to win a trading championship, but later switched to Kelly method (calculate amount risk based on largest loss) because the drawdowns were too big.

He trades using VWAP, price action, market structure.

Ehlers adaptive moving averages are definitely less "laggy" compared to the conventional MAs. The math behind them tends to get pretty formidable though...

Interesting approach, but the problem is that the dividend received is usually relatively small compared to day-to-day price movement. The risk of a significant drop in price overshadows the benefit of receiving the dividend.

Do you apply your programming knowledge in your trading? I use C# for all my web scraping data analytical tools. I really like Microsoft's VS Community IDE, and the more recent VS Code IDE. Their new "minimap" code scrolling feature is just delightful.

Yes, but it's a lot easier when you're young and have the energy for it. Basically, you have to spend a lot of time staring at the monitor, often trying to figure out other people's code, unless you're coding everything by yourself.

Holy cr*p dude, learn to use some paragraphs. It's not that hard.

I say throw out the checklist and just roll the dice.

Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. Also a good source of trading ideas, some of the authors seem to come from deep scientific background.

If you're doing a debit spread, the amount you pay is equal to the maximum loss of the spread. For credit spread is the opposite (imagine you're the person selling the spread to the buyer of the debit spread), then you get paid cash up front equal to the maximum profit of the spread. The number...

I think it depends on what kind of asset you're trading, as well as the specific strategy employed. My experience tells me that the moving average is still a useful tool to use in forex trading, for example.

Which to use depends on the position of strikes. If the legs are equidistance from underlying price, then it makes little difference.

Here's an idea...use a bunch of strategies to smooth the equity curve (hopefully uncorrelated). When one of them starts to falter, swap out for another. That way, you don't put all your eggs in one strategy. Downside being it takes more effort to manage the trades. Even heavily curve-fitted...

This is the first time I heard of S/R explained in terms of quantum theory - I bet "scientific thought experiment" wasn't what OP was expecting :D.

You should do as much research on the different trading methodologies before you start trading. If you want to be successful at trading, you cannot give up easily, even after a few losing trades. If you have a true edge in the market, you will find success eventually. In my opinion, paper...

I tested turtle system years ago, if I remember correctly using it on a single commodity leads to large drawdowns as expected from for trend following systems in general. The long term result was very average. The correct way to use it is to run on multiple commodities so that a drawdown from...