Quote from Bearbelly:
Im flattered that youre keeping track of me. You would probably be suprised to see how much of your stuff I am using. I was just a bit surprised by your approval of profs method but now I see that you feel that it works but is inferior to your own.
Prof's method is not inferior in my opinion. If you think it is inferior, then that may be an unfounded judgement that you are making on your part to deal with a need that you have to judge.
I deal with a paradigm that is pool extraction. Pool extraction is done by making a comparison of what is there and what is extracted. I use ticks/minute as a measure of the ES rate (this is a first derivative with respect to time in calculus). From that a person can measure his effectiveness and efficiency. Once a person has a level of effectiveness and efficiency, then he can turn to optimizing pool extraction. Optimizing is the process of seeing what is available and making one's strategy take that from the market when it becomes available.
You are now working your way up to setting up your screens to be able to see the markets. You have no plan or method of trading. As you see in this and other threads in trading, the viewing, methods, and results are nominal. ET shows long term daily returns in the 1 point per day range where people trade very small capital and come and go over time. Largely repeated failure is being discussed and posted.
You are making an error by using parts of my stuff. This would apply to anyone using parts of any one else's stuff when they are where you are in learning the trading process.
FYI, people who are learning to be traders do best when they go through the process of acquiring any rational and logical system.
There is no way that learning and "inventing" can be mixed successfully. Most inventing is done as an alternative to doing the work involved in a process.
Reading books is an example of avoiding doing a learning process.
Doing drills is an example of doing work as part of a process.
Your first drill is a long way off.