I have to applaud all those who mentor others in their journals and answer the many questions that are put to them. I know it is tiring to answer same questions over and over or say it in a different way for those learning to understand. I no longer have the patience to do so on a everyday commitment, when I was younger I did. Right now, after six years at tail end of health problems for most of them, some I will always have though hoping for practical solutions through better diet and understanding human body and sugars/fats/proteins. I have put so much study into human body, all I lack is medical degree and yet there are so many questions I still have. But the greatest advise I can give anyone trading, foods, you are what you eat. And if you don't exercise, it will get you eventually. What is truly funny, "diet" foods are really not good for you, yes has reduction in calories, but when ingested, body at times releases insulin anyway and has made me ill, and makes me feel like I ate nothing and has increased my desire to eat more. My body decided a few years ago to stop digesting anything that has hormones in foods, almost all meats are out, dairy out, fats mostly out, eggs out. And organic isn't always organic and very little formal rules on terms of "range fed". So I have had to gone to mostly raw diet of veggies, peanut butter, and some fish. Yep losing weight. What many forget that Forums were made for exchanging ideas, and yet so many want entire systems/methods while not taking the time to learn before they get here. I see over and over people buying expensive methods and yet they are unaware that they shouldn't without brokered statements for past three years. Trouble with most methods sold, they need to be tweaked from time to time and inexperienced people don't have the skills to tweak them. Some methods are greatly oversold and too many are following them including big brokerages. If one has an incredible method, they would never sell it nor given it away on this forum. I have several methods I never show on this forum and other methods I share on this forum are methods I still trade but do not do volume on them. I think it is important to have several methods going automated to give diversity. One thing I don't change from method to method are money management rules which I now have over forty of them. It takes years to get to the point where you just know you will make money most days. So many people say the markets are changing, NO they are not changing, comes down to you not experienced what is happening today. Best traders have long amount of notes of answers to "what ifs", I wish I started making this when I first started. Brainstorm and just think of questions, silly questions, dumb questions and smart questions. And find the answers to all of them cause they will come up eventually during trading. This cost me 10k long ago, girlfriend came into trading office to tell me the garbage can blew over and she can't lift it up and truck is a few houses down the block, I checked my position and ran out to lift up can, in my haste to hurry up, I had locked myself out of the house with no cell phone and she had left, I ended up breaking down the door, fracturing my shoulder and losing 10k cause some report came out. Funny yes? it is NOW, but back then lots of pain in so many ways, LOL. Now trading door is locked and if I have to leave, close out all positions, sounds easy now.
Great post Handle. And great advice regarding trading rules. And there is a lot to be said about exercise. I have found that a good swim at the end of the day has done wonders for me. Thanks