I'm reminded of our departed ET member, Jack Hershey, whose trading instructions filled endless threads and tireless discussions. His charts had more lines than price bars. He claimed to never have a losing trade, claimed to have regularly made three times the daily range, but never made a real time trading call on ET, despite numerous requests to do so. If I recall correctly, he did make some calls on another site, and did badly. Nevertheless, and despite people evidently needing to spend years learning his trading method, he had vigorous defenders claiming to have made all kinds of headway, and were no doubt on the cusp of greatness. I wonder how they're all doing.
Now it seems, you've devolved into a troll. Maybe there's hope, I dunno.
There are many successful cases of transference. He's posted countless logs of his trades. If one doesn't take to time to comprehend what one is reading, that's on you. It might be a case of lost keys. Lost keys that were found right in front of you.
The exploration of Jack's work builds one concept at a time. Provided the person taking up the effort just follows simple instructions. Print out threads and charts, place in 3-4ring binders and mark up with notes. It's an NLP thing to accelerate learning by slowing down and comprehending more by using more of your senses.
One doesn't step over anything. Build a Glossary. Track down concepts. Use sleep to come up with new questions. Perform MADA during RTH on a liquid instrument and annotate the 5m chart. Log bar-by-bar. Debrief. Collect insights. Build capacity. Build sports memory through repetition. Carve the turns even better the next day. Repeat.
The goal is come to a deep and grounded understanding in the structure of the Market's System of Operation as expressed in an Operating Order of Events. By doing this first one learns to 'read' a market and extracting capital is a natural byproduct.
In so doing, the ability to extract the market's offer is,...well there's really no words than a deep and abiding feeling of appreciation and gratitude for Jack! It's a bit mind boggling, a different paradigm for sure. It's more forward testing than backtesting.
Jack didn't give out fish, he taught people how to fish!
In spades !!
It all comes to someone having the where-with-all to put all the pieces together.
There's a trading logic layer that's separate and distinct from 'reading a market' layer.
Jack's Methodology is a partnership in monitoring the market bar-by-bar. I suffer losses (yes, still a healthy amount) whenever I deviate from acknowledging what the market is doing in present time as the future crystalizes into the now. However, doing MADA bar by bar is self-correcting as long as I concentrate again on following a simple routine. Market action is frequently hypnotic. At least for me.
Unfortunately from what you've said whatever you've been doing while Jack was posting has been ineffectual in understanding his message. That's on you and nobody else. Unless of course you're one of those folks whom the buck stops anywhere but here.
No teacher owes you an insight. Those are what you earn through your own due diligence.
Jack's stuff isn't for everyone. A person can still offer respect for something they don't understand. That's an elementary skill right there. Do what resonates with you and speak well of those who contributed greatly to the discipline of trading.
I'm not up to debating the above. I've done my own due diligence, performed the work and reaping the rewards. They are private. They grow simultaneously with the expansion of my understanding. Hand logging and debriefing are underrated. My vantage point has moved from 3x the ATR as an impossibility to something understandable and achievable. From where you stand, there are way more peaks and valleys between you and the promised land. Impassable and unsurmountable is my guess, better to seek and easier way.
For what it's worth,
Happy Trading to You!
