I use charts. I can't imagine life without them. In trade ES and NQ. Time and sales is the essence of order flow, but I use Jigsaw to help sift out the info.
Buy support. Sell resistance. Learn how to read order flow.
Practice, practice, practice.
That’s more or less it.
Ironically, beginners seek out complexity, and the more complex, the better. If it's esoteric, even better still. It can't possibly be any good if it's simple. After all, if it were simple, they'd have it already. And they would have it already if they were looking in the right place. But they are instead focused on the bright shiny objects being dangled up and off to the right rather than what is directly in front of them, in plain sight. And what is directly in front of them? Price. Unfortunately, no one today trades price, at least anyone who publishes, or even posts. If one wants to learn this, he must look back to Wyckoff and Livermore and, to some extent, Neil. Few do as this material is "old". However, it is also winning, just as much today as it has ever been.
