- Link to actual trade journal can be found here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...89#post5078089.
- I will use that journal to post pics of the trading platform and its Closed Positions window, at the end of every Swap Cycle.
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Though it may sound like the title of a new movie, it is merely the reality that has become my life as a Trader.
For more than a decade, I have tried to engineer the infallible trading system. I have researched, analyzed, studied, tested, tweaked, optimized and otherwise evaluated the market from top to bottom. I have applied scientific analysis, retro-mathematical interpretive analysis (my own creation) and multidimensional analysis (taken from cube analysis). I've worked as many as 36 hours a "day" without sleep, multiple times per week, searching, studying and looking for clues and patterns within the market data. All for not? No. All for the benefit of my education.
In all my searching, I have found many things that will make money. However, rarely I have found things that will make money consistently and relatively effortlessly - until now. It took more than a decade of hard study to realize that successful trading is by definition - easy. When the cash flows effortlessly, that's when you know that your education has come full circle. And, after all these years and countless numbers of custom indicator creations, ultimately, I will end up using only one (1) of them. 10 years... more than 100+ custom indicator designs... only 1 survived. There is an epic story to be told behind that reality. That's the confession.
Now, for The Secret.
To be a successful trader - to derive cash flow effortlessly - to breakeven without breaking so much as a sweat on a bad day - to trade without stress and without worry more than 99% of the time - to be the best of the best at what you do as a trader -- all you need is A Single Horizontal Line, Continued Directional Volatility and a Volatility Trigger. After that, all one needs to do is play the Swap game until the desired profit level is realized. That's the Secret.
I did not post this thread to discuss the details about how I trade. This thread was posted as a cathartic exercise for me personally. A sort of cleansing of the soul and the mind - a personal confirmation of sorts.
I am finally a mature Trader. One who now understands that there was never really anything to fear, but fear it self. Experience has taught me this and 10+ years of obtaining my education has humbled me to the reality that some "secrets" are deeply hidden not because they are buried 10 miles below the surface of the earth - but because they sitting directly underneath your nose.
Almost with tears in my eyes as I type this - I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. All of those dreams of doing things with my life that go well beyond trading, but that require huge capital outlays, I can now see myself actually doing in just few short years from now.
Not having to worry about what direction the market will move next, is a very refreshing and freeing experience. The bondage of directional trading is gone, forever! Never again will I have to worry about what direction the market takes. Whatever the market finally decides to do, I'll always be right there waiting - patiently.
The race is not given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but he who endures to the end.
Lesson learned [the hard way]. Finally!
Y = MX + B. The most important price level of all.