What helped you the most when you just started?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Alfing, Jul 8, 2018.

  1. qxr1011

    qxr1011

    nothing
     
    #11     Jul 8, 2018
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  2. dozu888

    dozu888

    stay away from indicators. you don't use them to buy a car or a pair of socks, why stocks.

    read my 'trading is easy' thread, study price action and market structure.
     
    #12     Jul 8, 2018
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  3. Alfing

    Alfing

    I'm a fan of pure PA and no indicators. Read Brooks, reading Volman. What else would you recommend?

     
    #13     Jul 8, 2018
  4. Alfing

    Alfing

    The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! They are already here!

    Next thing you know, they are takin over. Beware ;-)

    Jokes aside, trying to trade /ES for the last couple of months. Will check out the Hall of Fame.

    P.S.: Sorry, did not mean to be sexist by using 'man' in my prev. post.

     
    #14     Jul 8, 2018
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  5. Alfing

    Alfing

    Thank you, sir!

    I wish I could find a place to hang out with older traders! Wishful thinking, can't even find a mentor ;-(

    Can you please point me to some qualitative resources in "Educational Resources" to get me started?

     
    #15     Jul 8, 2018
  6. Alfing

    Alfing

    Subscribed to your 'trading easy' thread, studying Brooks and Volman on PA, what is a good resource on market structure?

     
    #16     Jul 8, 2018
  7. CSEtrader

    CSEtrader

    Great you identified the gender now, lol, but you lost again - I am Russian too, from Odessa!
    Es is the best for me too, and there are many experienced and successful ES traders here.
    Here are two more threads
    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/the-best-trading-proverbs.284308/page-116#post-4685294
    and this one
    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...coming-profitable.165170/page-36#post-4684697
    May those last be your first, so then, soon you may start your own melancholic thread like this
    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/millions-made-much-of-the-world-seen-what-now.319486/
     
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    #17     Jul 8, 2018
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  8. Learning how to lose...which is to say, knowing when to walk away. This applies to winners too...knowing when to take diminished profits after you missed the exit.

    It's not really something you can learn from a book or simulated trading. Of course you can find the rational explanation of it and implement it paper trading, but it's so much more of a personal and subjective thing when it's real money.

    Also, cutting costs is something that will give back to you on every single subsequent trade and go a long way to tipping the scales back to even, if not in your favor...spend a lot of time focusing on this because it's a heck of a lot easier than squeezing more out of the gains side of the equation.
     
    #18     Jul 8, 2018
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  9. dozu888

    dozu888

    I use a very rough structure - pros and amateurs, longs, flats shorts.

    but you can research on the money manager behaviors.
     
    #19     Jul 8, 2018
  10. Alfing

    Alfing

    Hall of Fame is pretty good. Where are all these "experienced and successful ES traders here" hang out? Asking about thread/subsection.
     
    #20     Jul 8, 2018
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