Thanks for your reply. Iceman... would you mind expanding on your thoughts.... I'm getting confused... Also, honestly, I feel I'm not being metaphysical. I think the best analogy for the meta stuff is like, "Moving Average works for A. Moving Average works for B. Mr. A and Mr. B are arguing all the time because they have perspective differences. Not about 'right or wrong' and 'truth' and 'un-truth'" Still, would like to hear from others with different opinions.
This journal hit 100 posts!!! Well, that's it... (This post is the 101th post) If you're happy for me... please fade my trades... Planning on scalping for another week... I'm finding the Market Depth interesting... they are just like Torque Effects...
Well, I'm trading kinda well... And... it's my trading idea too... I have a flaw in my trading style and I'm trying to correct it... he he...
OK... trend started this trade the market stuff and it's the individual's perspective that trades it. So today's rant's title: Trading Style, Methodology, and Edge Honestly, I'm changing some styles. I've been through a few transitions from system trading to now scalping (which is temporary). In a sense, I don't have a style. I'm confident I can go back to system trade anytime (it's just putting orders in, though I think I can do better now because I'm getting better at reading depth). But here I am scalping 15 handles of ES today (thank you, I did good today... I wasn't in the chat room so... you know... there's no credibility) But I still think I have continued to pursue myself as a trader, within a common theme. I started trading grains using Gann and failed. Then I went for Turtle Trading Method and had moderate success trading multiple commodity futures. Then I went into systems, signal picking, Gann, then here I am trading with a blank bar chart, only using chart patterns. But I still think I have continued to pursue myself as a trader, within a common theme. Honestly, I don't know what the core theme is in myself. I was just trying to become a better trader. The way I'm going towards trading under simplicity wasn't my intention though it might have been. It was the conclusions I got based on each problems I had at the time of my trading.... So I guess trading style, methodology, and edge isn't so important after all. It's more of who you are and how you represent it. It might be represented through edge then methodology and finally style. My conclusion based on my experience is that the more you trade and more you struggle, you get better at expressing and relating yourself with the market, little by little.
Most of the fun traders who posted whom I liked to read "about trading" are gone... These days... it's all about Chit-Chat stuff which is very boring... Actually, we should get rid of Chit-Chat... it's becoming the center of this forum and getting tiring to read all these egos pointlessly debate... Trading stuff are all too immature with pointless newb questions. All the journals including mine are just pointless... including mine... Hrmmm... maybe time to retire from ET... I did reach my 100 posts in the journal...
Scalping... scalping... scalping... Hmm... I'm now going to try to trade only with the book because I'm using too much charts. Depth trading is hard but will come in handy when I trade how I used to... The continuing concentration is tough adjusting though...