u/HotCod4436

Been thinking for a while now if I created a community to contribute to trading.

Now hear me out; not a mentorship program or a course! None of that paid bs!

A free space focused on something I feel a lot of trades are missing- Structure

I've spent time in different trading subs and the pattern is almost always the same- People are learning, putting in effort, and going through concepts, but still can't actually execute when they are on charts.

The intriguing part is; it doesn't look like a discipline problem.

It feels more like everything is learned in pieces, but never really connected into a clear way of reading price as a whole.

The idea is simple; Create a free space whose focus is on understanding how price actually moves; how to frame it, how to make sense of it, and how to stop relying on scattered bits of information.

I don't even know if people would be interested in something like this; but I thought I'd put it out there.

Let me hear your thoughts, and share it with others who may find this worth it.

Unpopular Opinion: YouTube is making most traders worse

I tend to think that YouTube content is designed for attention, not understanding. here is why; Everything is "fast", "simplified". and "looks easy". But trading isn't something you can "pick up" in 10-minute videos. We have all been in this cycle; we watch one strategy today, another tomorrow; and our brains ended up with: Fragments and no structure.

A lot of times I have come across posts like; "I have been learning so much for a certain period but I can't actually trade". I feel so bad when I see this;

What actually helped me wasn't more information. It was organizing what I already knew into a simple framework: How price moves, How to define bias, when I'm wrong. Everything else started making sense, and I got more clarity.

Traders, which do you prefer? Trading reversal trades or continuation trades and why?
I prefer both, provided I have clear bias of the higher timeframes. Share your preference

The market is not unfair to you; it does not wait for you to enter a position so that it starts reversing and deliver to the opposing direction. Have you ever asked yourself whether your entries align with what price is doing? Or have you ever asked yourself whether your stop loss is emotional or at a structural point? What if you trade the Points of Interest that do not align with the delivery of price? What if all of this came from fragmented learning? where you learnt strategies and points of interest as standalone systems rather than price as a coherent delivery framework? It could be any of these; and it will only be fixed if you have a structured way to read price. There are many misleading materials out there that are sold ridiculous amounts of money and they do not offer any value; a material I came across in my days of confusion changed my way on how to read price, and now I can see price before it makes a move, not after the move has occurred;
What are you doing wrong that keeps you stuck in your trading?

Any American trader here doing futures trading? I'd like to know about futures trading, the best brokers, the best knowledge providers, and which knowledge pack should I have to become a proficient futures trader?

I personally have and edge which is invalidation of higher timeframe bias, that is confirmed by lower timeframe price action confirming the bias invalidation, and I always look to trade in the new phase of delivery. What about you guys?

I don't understand the hype behind those traders who rush to using bots to trade gold. I mean, if you have an edge, you can do really well. My edge in trading gold is something simple; I look for either reversal or continuation trades.
First thing I do is to define the HTF bias, and look whether that bias is invalidated (frame reversals) or respected (frame continuations). I always get trades that offer 1:3 RR. What about you guys, do you prefer bots or just your edge?

What is with all these beginner traders rushing to look for strategies? It amazes me to see that some people think; all you need in trading is a "strategy". You will spend a lot of your time hopping from one strategy to another until you learn to read price and understand the delivery mechanism of price.

Your setups might be failing every now and then, it is not because you haven't found your edge yet, sometimes it has so much to do with how you were taught to read price. Many "mentors" teach surface level knowledge and fragment knowledge so that it is difficult to position your trades in the proper way. If only you can learn to view price as a delivery mechanism and place your trades within that realization, then your trading will become much clearer. If this resonates with you, you can upvote and share with other traders.

Hi everyone. I had lost my other account where I was on a mission to post trading content on price being a deliberate delivery mechanism, but we are so back. Let's proceed from where we left. It's so nice to be back.