How can you tell when the trend is over?

[virtusa]

Or it means that you suck at picking entries

And end up like Baron...

 

[virtusa]

I'm in the camp that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to trading approach. Every idea you and I have come up with has been thought about by countless of traders/investors before.

The big mistake you make is that you assume that everything has already been tried. The fact is that a lot of new inventions are discovered every day. Why did nobody think about Google, Facebook, Tesla, begfore the creators did it? Because nobody thought about it before. So everything was clearly not tried out.
Scientist, researchers and inventors try to find new things all the time. To you that would be a waste of time as everything has already be tried. They would never find anything better anymore. Which is just the opposite from what happens in real life.
Inventions are things that are found out by thinking, or approaching problems in a way it was never done before. The world is in constant evolution by new things that are found. Things that nobody ever thought about before.

If your trading strategy can be easily reversed engineered in just a small sample size, then I'm sorry to tell you that you're trading the same system like everybody else.

I think that reverse engineering my trading strategy is almost impossible. I say clearly "I think". If I was sure it is impossible I would post more, but I don't take that risk as it brings no profits/advantages to me, only more risks. On top of that, if people always try to tear you down, why would I help them?

But if you don't want to share, then that's fine too. But what's the point of making claims when you refuse to engage when you're confronted about it?

I posted two clear signals in this thread just show that BTC and crypto's in general are scams, and that people who buy them have no clue what they are doing. The 70% loss in one year by Baron confirmed my opinion. I always read about people making tons of money with crypto's, but reality seems to be different as 75% of them just lose money.
In the 18 years that I am on ET I did not post many signals or trades.
I don't need recognition, I have that recognition on a daily basis from my account statements.

I posted a lot of things that might be interesting, but as someone posted before: 98% of ET have no clue what I post about.

 

[Tradess0610]

Actually there are just a few specific people who keep commenting because they think they are really good at teaching when they are really not.
You might be good at trading but that doesnt automatically make you a good teacher.

...and the opposite You can be a good teacher but a bad trader..

 

[speedo]

Learin

That was the logic that I used too. I mentioned many times on ET that the classical things available for free on internet don't work. I never studied any of these things as it is a waste of time and energy. For a real breakthru you need to start from zero and think out of the box.
Best way to have optimal results was not to read anything about the classical way people trade as that would infect the way you think in a negative way. Your subconscious would still use that knowlegde from classical theories and sabotage your attempts to research something completelly different.

I don't agree with your last sentence. I could not find an uncomplicated way. But maybe I am too stupid to find that.

Learning to trade and learning to behave as a professional is a difficult task whether through classical patterns or by reinventing the wheel. We are all different and we (those who survive the trials) will ultimately trade differently. I have posted many charts through the years, both in scalping and in recent years largely day swings showing what I do. I have no interest in mentoring nor the need for recognition. If it helps someone struggling to learn then it was worth the effort. But i certainly have no hidden secrets...the "Holy Grail"
is within us if we do the work.

 

[speedo]

...and the opposite You can be a good teacher but a bad trader..

Yep, not mutually exclusive but separate skills.

 

[MarkBrown]

now the question is how can you know when a thread is dead....

 

[s trader]

Mine is the last. It's dead now.

 

[GotherL]

Users here are more reluctant in spoonfeeding strategies. That's a million dollar question.

You will have better luck on reddit, youtube, google etc.

 

[s trader]

Darn. Double down. This is really the last.

 

[schizo]

Users here are more reluctant in spoonfeeding strategies. That's a million dollar question.

You will have better luck on reddit, youtube, google etc.

If you read between the lines, there are many golden nuggets to be found on ET. The problem is most people here suffer from attention-deficit syndrome. They can't focus on one thing at length. If the topic is about "trend", they start talking about some voodoo crap, always going off the tangent.