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How many indicators are on your charts?

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Indicators are not going to make anyone a successful trader, nor is not having indicators, nor is anything else besides what is in the trader's head: how he/she puts what's on the chart to use.

Long-time members of FIO have seen many, many ways of trading being carried off successfully, and many more being unsuccessful. This includes any imaginable (and some unimaginable ) combinations of indicators and techniques, as well as trading on a bare chart with just price and volume, or even just price by itself. Some have worked well, many have not, and the deciding factor is really never what is or is not on the chart.

When you have a way of grasping the market that clicks for you, then you can start to make headway. Other people may have the exact opposite, and what they have may work for them.

This upsets people who think they need to find something "out there" that will make them trade well. I also upsets people who have found something that works for them, and think it's the only thing that can work, for everyone.

This is really a very individual game, and the burden is on the trader, not the methodology.

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Since most indicators are reactive and thus lagging to price action why bother? Indicators won't give you an edge only more reasons to hesitate to take the trade. Made far too important by many imho.

You can use indicators, because you want to exploit the traders who predictable use them.
http://www.followingthetrend.com/2014/06/a-counter-trend-indicator/


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What about no indicators or even no charts?

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What about no indicators or even no charts?

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What about no indicators or even no charts?

What about no indicators, no charts, AND no underwear?

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What about no indicators, no charts, AND no underwear?

TMI

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What about no indicators, no charts, AND no underwear?


I like the way you think, sir. LOL

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What about no indicators, no charts, AND no underwear?

My friends always tease me about sitting at home trading in my underwear, which must hit a nerve because I can honestly say that has never happened!

So no indicators, no charts, but yes to underwear & shorts!

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My friends always tease me about sitting at home trading in my underwear, which must hit a nerve because I can honestly say that has never happened!

So no indicators, no charts, but yes to underwear & shorts!

That's a relief.

Although still TMI.

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Let me guess... TMI!

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