How long did it take for you to find/discover your trading edge to the point where you are consistently profitable?
Since I've started trading (2009), I have been a 100% discretionary trader, however I've been trying to steer away from that as of very recently. About a week and a half to be exact. So I've been kinda half-assing myself to research new indicators, as the indicators and strategy I've used before wouldn't allow an automated trading style. I have seem to found a strategy that works much better than what I had been doing before, and yielding a lot more profits. I've never thought it would only take a week and a half to find another way. I feel like a week and a half is too soon, and I'm either missing something, or I am incredibly lucky. It took 1000 attempts to create the lightbulb, and here I am reading a few pages in a book here and there, slap on a couple of indicators in my chart, do 1 test, and viola, it works. So that's why I am wondering, for those of you who are consistently profitable in every market (bull, bear, sideways/chop), how long did it take you to find an automated method that works?
I'm not looking for any sarcastic comments. I just want to hear from traders who have an automated system, or near automated system that requires very little discretion to tell me how long it took them.
Since I've started trading (2009), I have been a 100% discretionary trader, however I've been trying to steer away from that as of very recently. About a week and a half to be exact. So I've been kinda half-assing myself to research new indicators, as the indicators and strategy I've used before wouldn't allow an automated trading style. I have seem to found a strategy that works much better than what I had been doing before, and yielding a lot more profits. I've never thought it would only take a week and a half to find another way. I feel like a week and a half is too soon, and I'm either missing something, or I am incredibly lucky. It took 1000 attempts to create the lightbulb, and here I am reading a few pages in a book here and there, slap on a couple of indicators in my chart, do 1 test, and viola, it works. So that's why I am wondering, for those of you who are consistently profitable in every market (bull, bear, sideways/chop), how long did it take you to find an automated method that works?
I'm not looking for any sarcastic comments. I just want to hear from traders who have an automated system, or near automated system that requires very little discretion to tell me how long it took them.
