I am 98% convinced that the way to profitably trade by yourself is like this

[1a2b3cppp]

Absolutely. Predicting numbers might be difficult because each number is unrelated to the last. Although with trading, it's not really. If price isn't going anywhere, eventually someone is going to buy. When price keeps falling, people are going to buy once it gets cheap enough. Totally different.

 

[1a2b3cppp]

Selecting tops and bottoms is not trend following.

 

[MarketAddict]

This entire forum is a pile of people trying to discuss trend following. The one thing that's worse is trend lines. A guy will post a pic and everyone will be like no you're doing it wrong. But then they post one and other people are like wrong, you're doing it poorly. It's difficult.

No one can even define trend following, much less apply it. I'm sure they can do it themselves despite never posting statements, but it's impossible to explain it to someone else on a forum. That being said, I am not desiring to talk to someone or learn from someone who cannot technically explain it. I have chatted with one person on this forum who could explain a trend. There is no room for vagueness in a trading discussion.

Brother, why do you sound mad for? Trading isn't an easy game.. It take years of practice and watching the charts. Life itself is not easy.. If you want to pick tops and bottoms then go ahead.. There's no right or wrong way to trade.. Whatever is working is the right way..

 

[DTB2]

Brother, why do you sound mad for? Trading isn't an easy game.. It take years of practice and watching the charts. Life itself is not easy.. If you want to pick tops and bottoms then go ahead.. There's no right or wrong way to trade.. Whatever is working is the right way..

He's dissed every style of trade there is. Yet he keeps asking for a setup. I gave him one with an illustration too. He must be trading it because he never came back to rip it. LOL

The guy's gotten tons of help and continues to squawk.

 

[mbondy]

My purpose for mentioning these is because I actually think trailing stops might be required which means I'm considering that I was wrong about something.

After 10 years of membership and 2882 posts if you still haven't discerned how to trade profitably, perhaps you're wrong about everything.

 

[Hotcakes]

If you had a profitable method, you wouldn't post this thread seeking confirmation. Obvious eh?

 

[schweiz]

There are apparently posters who get paid to start new threads. A matter of keeping enough traffic. $$$
OP is one of them.He started in les then 6 weeks 18 new threads. Not really the average poster.
Result is a number of stupid and/or useless threads. We also see what I call reanimation of previous death threads, by starting the same subject again. Examples are: trends don't exist, become millionaire with $1500 starting capital, TA does not work...

 

[tomorton]

This entire forum is a pile of people trying to discuss trend following.......it's impossible to explain it to someone else on a forum......

Its certainly impossible to explain to you.

 

[misterkel]

Any directional bet on the market is by definition a trend following play

m-m-maybe... If you're picking reversals, then you're not following the trend, you're leading it. It seems to me an important distinction because the methodologies are different.

 

[tomorton]

m-m-maybe... If you're picking reversals, then you're not following the trend, you're leading it. It seems to me an important distinction because the methodologies are different.

Yep. There are basically only two strategies for trading - buy because price has been going up, or sell because price has been going up. Each makes absolutely no sense to practitioners of the other.