Let us get real. Nobody is going to give you the secret sauce if that is what you seek. Why would anyone give you their edge when you are directly competing with them? Choose any book written by so called gurus, experts, etc. Most would give you snippets of their strategy. You never get the whole enchilada. That is reality because they will not tell you everything for the paltry price of their books or even the thousands they charge you to train you? Instead, follow the trend. There are trends on the short term, intermediate and longterm time durations.
To learn something well may take 1-2 years. But to have confidence in that what you have learned , to TRUST it , will take a lot more time and i feel many people ,not only in the trading world but also in Main street, NEVER ACTUALLY TRUST WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED. after doing all the analysis, you have to trust that and go confidently, if not the market will make you doubt everything. In golf the pros used to advice TRUST YOUR SWING SAME IN TRADING
randomness is a joke markets are not random: you mean to say GOldman Sachs sell and buy randomly? if they are not random you can watch and figure out what they are doing
OMG, yes, we all got it, he dived into it, unprepared, naive.amd he lost money. He stated such. So what. His point was on dishonest sales people who claim they can teach beginners trading when in almost all cases they can't. He came here and exposed himself. Some of you people really have a stick up your assess, you kush and shut up when brazen snake oil salesmen come on this board and BS their way through life and into beginners' lives. Where are you with your bazooka when those scammers roam the threads? Nowhere. But then you vomit on the one guy who was honest and admitted he fucked up. Pretty fucked up priorities and sense of morals if you ask me
Well just sit right down, i'll be able to explain half the theory in a couple thousand hours, make yourself a cuppa tea and get comfortable
Dead Trader is also dead wrong how long does it take to learn a language- English Chinese- fluently enough so that you can make money out of it? How long does it take to learn the language of markets fluently?. IN TWO YEARS YOU WILL LEARN THE ENGLISH ALPHABETS. can you understand Dickens Wordsworth or any literature after that ? did the teachers lie did they fraud their students? It will take at least 10 years before ANY NORMAL STUDENT is fluent in any language. DO YOU THINK THE LANGUAGE OF MARKETS IS ANY DIFFERENT?
What I have found with those who know how to program, most either take forever to learn or never get it. Yes, I know about quants, but their systems usually quit working in months. There is no science theories of price action, it is based on Volume (people) and those who do the most volume rule the roost. Trading is understand that buying low and selling high is most true clean statement there is. Trading is going against logical emotions and programming is "0 and 1", you trade long enough, you know the story of what people are thinking and doing in each pattern and some are forced with volume to attract those with less experience to enter, best game in the world once you understand. Once one understands, then you can program with clearer understanding. The most advertised trainers are not trading, those with extensive colorful sites are spending time making new sites, people who trade make more in few trades than those who charge thousands, who the hell wants to deal with masses of people to water down one's methods. You have to grind it out day after day.