What helped you the most when you just started?

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

  1. qlai

    qlai

    Welcome! One of the reasons perhaps?
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-day-trader-shows-what-russians-do-to-survive
    Second I think automation brings more programmers here. We should rename it Electronic Trader soon. Just kidding. My two kopeiki is you must actuslly trade or none of the advise will register. You must live (suffer) through it first to understand. Good luck.
     
    #51     Jul 14, 2018
  2. Gasparov

    Gasparov

    maybe because cars and socks aren't (usually) investments? indicators are great.
     
    #52     Jul 18, 2018
  3. Alfing

    Alfing

    Hey,

    Which ones would you recommend looking into? I am currently studying VPA.
     
    #53     Jul 18, 2018
  4. Gasparov

    Gasparov

    I was taught with the MACD, and so I only use exponential moving averages and MACD. I've never needed anything else, so I haven't bothered learning any other ones.
     
    #54     Jul 19, 2018
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  5. Alfing

    Alfing

    MACD is an interesting indicator. Where can people learn about it in depth?
     
    #55     Jul 19, 2018
  6. tomorton

    tomorton

    Learning to use a stop-loss.
     
    #56     Jul 19, 2018
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  7. They

    They

    Losing an unacceptable amount of money, and then learning to not do that again.
     
    #57     Jul 19, 2018
  8. D-3C0

    D-3C0

    Trader dante blueprint video on YouTube is pretty good. Always watch it when I mess up and it sets me back on track hopefully what he says can get ingrained in me some time in the future
     
    #58     Jul 19, 2018
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  9. Gasparov

    Gasparov

    Thanks for that. I like this guy; he doesn't bullshit, and he trades purely off of technicals, so you know he knows what he's doing. It's great to see someone like that who wants to help others out too, honestly very rare.

    Honestly, I saw some general videos on YouTube when I started with it, which just defined it and went over topics like convergence/divergence. A lot of what I know now came from thousands of hours of trading (demo and live) and watching/studying charts. I would recommend you dedicate some hours everyday to watching live markets even if you are not trading (depending on your time frame of course), and if not watching, going through historical data so you can see the correlations and how convergence/divergence gives you trade setups. It's honestly not that complicated but it takes time to figure out how to apply it consistently to the price action.
     
    #59     Jul 20, 2018
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  10. Alfing

    Alfing

    When I find a new edge or approach I backtest it over the last ninety days of data.

    Can you outline basic principles of convergence/divergence of MACD?
     
    #60     Jul 20, 2018