I win some, I lose some. I am a work in progress. I am getting better, but I am not yet good enough for me. But once I am, that will be good enough for me. I appreciate your sharing with us here, endroute. Thank you!

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Me too. Show me a cocky trader and I'll show you someone who probably isn't nearly as profitable as he lets on, and not nearly as profitable as he could be. The humbling process took me a while, but humbled I truly am.

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So many things in my life I could have done better and faster simply by heeding the advice of someone smarter. But we humans, my goodness, don't we all think we "know better" even when we in fact know nothing?

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And he's 92 and looks like mid 60's tops.

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Edward Thorp on gaining an edge in the market and in life video

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I agree, and as Mark Douglas taught, "you don't need to know what is going to happen next to make money." But that fact should not lead one to conclude that random entries will somehow yield long run profits.

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Nope. Give the most disciplined trader a system with negative expectancy he won't magically conjure profits from it. Math is math, and an edge is mathematically derived. A coin flip method won't yield long run profits. Given transaction costs, a ...

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Any system will work with it, ML. The roulette epiphany is a process enlightenment, not a strategy enlightenment. The key element of the roulette epiphany is that so long as you are certain your methodology has an edge, then take each trade as it ...

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Looks good, turnip!

(binned per thread starter’s request) Trading with the DTosc Indi

If you are trading CME micros and not CFDs you should be fine. I use Ninjatrader for charting and TopstepX ( a private label TV) for trading lol. I use NT for charting and trading my personal account.

(binned per thread starter’s request) Trading with the DTosc Indi

At first, I was disappointed in myself for allowing myself so easily to lose my grip on this gift I received, that gift being the roulette epiphany. However, from where I sit today, I realize that it was a form of "blessing in disguise." Even as ...

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I allowed myself to be distracted by the noise of the forum and lost the signal. Had to take time off from trading to just sit and watch. Now I'm back on the road to recovering the roulette mindset. Current chart needs no indicators other than those ...

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Here is Robert Miner's description of the DT Oscillator: "It is a stochastic of an RSI. Then it takes a moving average of that product and then a moving average of that moving average so we end up with two lines." As an example of one of his ...

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CL (WTI futures) HOLO long. I missed the HOLO short earlier which shouldawouldacoulda been the trade of the week. EDIT: +50 tick/pip take profit filled image

Highest Open / Lowest Open Trade

It isn't a reversal method and not a trend method, and it is built to take a defined take profit. Some set ups occur after a pullback from a trend, so the "reversal" is a pullback reversing to again move with the trend. Those do tend to be the best ...

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The increase in volatility that we saw in the NQ starting around the middle of December led me to revert in some ways. I started to doubt my method and also myself. I gave in to the temptation to strategy jump, instrument jump, time frame jump. All ...

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Yes, this exactly, and thank you medici. I appreciate you, your participation here in my journal, and all you have done for the FF community.

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Just a reminder that this is a journal and not a systems thread nor a trading discussion thread. If I dislike a post, please note it is the post to which I am objecting and not the aurthor of that post. I welcome and I have benefitd from the sharing ...

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