Why you must keep Evolving if you want to become a succeful Trader.
A Thread.
1. Using tools won't make you succeed.
Using the same tools and Indicators in the same manner as everyone else is, you won't succeed.
You need to find your own Edge. Your own secret.
Retail is behind for a simple reason, they use the common tools in common ways.
To reiterate, the common Indicators must be learnt thoroughly but using them in the common ways won't make you profitable in the long learn.
You must design your own weapons, your own Edge.
Find your Edge.
2. High Accuracy is a joke.
The most Profitable trader in this world Jim Simons has a hit rate of 47%.
The edge lies in
1. Managing risk and cursing losses when the trade goes wrong.
2. The win trades should be high probability, high confluence and Huge R:R.
If you make a lot of losing trades but cut the losses and manage risk, and your system allows for a huge Profit in the winning trades, you have an edge.
Risk Management in itself is not enough.
As Jack Schwager said, 'Can you win at Roulette by risk Management'?
Roulette is a bad R:R trade. A gamble and hence Risk Management won't save you.
You need an edge that noone else has, gives good entries when it runs and you need to projects its flaws via Risk Management.
Conclusion.
1. You need to find your own Edge. If you're using the same thing that everyone else is using, you don't have an edge.
2. Risk Management is not an edge but it's the only Thing that'll keep you alive.
Hope this was helpful and gives you a new perspective to successful trading.
You can find greater discussion for free here on my Telegram if you want to understand it in more detail.
Some Changes I would make to my trading if I started again.
1. A few winning trades is a myth. Don't Listen to stupid influencers who keep telling you that you just need a few winning trades. You can't 2x your portfolio by risking it all in one trade and then assume you'll keep doing the same forever.
You need to risk small or maybe higher if you're very sure about the trade with higher conviction.
Higher risk has always blown portfolios. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling a course for a living.
Small risks, many trades. If you're really sure or early or have insider info about a trade, then can skew the risk higher.
2. For swing trading, nothing is more important than market structure and people make losses because they don't want to believe the market structure or keep holding onto a losing trade, even when they can see a different market structure.
Market Structure is there for a reason, use it, study it and believe in it.
3. You can't me use the same mindset, data and zones for different types of trading.
Each type of trading, Scalping, swing or investment is to be done in different time scales and you need a different zone and need to ignore a few zones for different time length of trading.
A Mega Thread for All Major Altcoins and how to trade them.
Book Mark and Study for your trades.
BNB
Since our last update, we flipped the 0.0093 resistance level, now forming a new range
Expecting a small range against BTC here before continuation higher.
Suggestion - Hold on to bottom entries if you bought with me around $500.
SOL
Tricky situation, if we hold range high we just flipped, I expect to reach $170 soon
Bidding region would be under $135 sweep based on BTC chart.
1. Visible Range OI Delta Profile on @coinalyzetool
Shows where traders are entering and exiting. Use this like VPVR.
Use this indicator on LTF to identify trading levels in a trending market.
In range, use this to scalp on either side as target when price deviates.
2. Aggregate OI:
Having net open interest across all trading pairs is very useful.
Sometimes, one exchange will market enter large long positions while there is no action or selling action on other exchange. This filters out misinterpretation of that data to a large extent.