That's so random. Some strategies are 30/70 profitable, others are 70/30 - profit factor and other metrics determine the profitability. Working on charts IS working on data. Your brain can in no way keep an accurate record of thousands of trades' metrics by eyeballing charts, so you are relying on data. Just FYI, Rentech is supposedly relying purely on data mining and they don't care at all that many, like you, feel it is inferior. Their results speak for themselves. I've been where you are and know how you must feel. I've been trading for longer than you though. Sounds like nonsense. Whipsaws are part of any trading method, no matter the approach. You just haven't found a method perhaps to deal with them reasonably well. "A successful trader" can use a concept but what is that concept based on? You said you look at charts. Guess what, you're also performing parameter optimization. --- Come back in 10 years and re-read your posts.
I didn't say the earth is flat. And there is no relation between being a professional pilot and trading successfully. It will surely be useful if you stop talking about yourself and personally attacking others instead of staying on the topic of discussion. Please, we are not here to learn about you or your teenager son. Stay on the topic of discussion please. Thanks.
You seem to think you know everything, thats ok, but you concentrate more on proving yourself an expert rather than providing a more justifiable reasoning..!! Why people here are so closed to a new idea.... frustrated with their own trading results ...???? There is a general lack of maturity , people here are more interested in talking about themselves rather than constructively exploring an idea....
People can't stand someone who walks in and says: "I discovered something new..." I believe you and I take it as an inspiration to search even harder myself.
Retail stock trader +30 years constant 7 days a week, but no expert by any stretch of the imagination.
I never claimed to know everything. What you're talking about isn't a new idea at all, in fact it's the oldest idea around. Intense data mining is actually the newest idea around. You talk about maturity and then go on to disagree with all traders here who have done this far longer.
People can't stand someone who claims to have discovered something new, despite everyone saying that it's been discovered before.