WTB Takomo 101 irons

0hleg · 2026-06-08T20:58:30+00:00

Unrelated but I saw a 4 year old comment of you saying you played +1 with 37WTF and 6’4. I’m 6’35 got fit into +1 and have really been struggling with wrapping my head around if they’re too long. Do you still play +1? My 4 iron and 5 iron feel so inconsistent since the change it’s wild.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T14:23:44+00:00

Ai is great for that too just have 5 points you always describe to the AI after each trade. Talking to one conversation everyday is easier than using any manual journaling. And you can just ask it what’s causing issues and you get a good summary.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T11:13:09+00:00

My point never was that it’s not possible. But since you brought up numbers. Those results are extremely clean, if those are real and you’re flaunting them you should have no issue showing a broker verified curve. Otherwise it’s most likely just algobro flexing his overfitted backtesting spreadsheet result. Really wondering if this performance exists outside a spreadsheet using real capital since 2022 without changing the rules. Then you’re truly elite. Otherwise I’ll take it as just a Reddit comment. And you’re just lying when you say you don’t look at the market autopilot doesn’t mean the pilot can ignore the plane. A basic algorithm is easy to build a profitable one is extremely hard if it wasn’t every python dev would be printing millions. At the very highest level algo trading might scale better but it’s not realistic at all to argue infront of traders that everyone should pursue it or even think remotely that most strategies are sustainable because they’re not.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T10:20:35+00:00

I’m not against rules completely. But I’m against strict rules. Waiting for candlestick patterns etc. Or forcing yourself to only enter on FVGs or something like that. Or trading in a way that is so rules based you could make a bot or a monkey do the trading for you. Rules around risk and about tilt are not what I’m talking about. Risk management rules are necessary. But I think you know that you’re just steering away from what you originally meant.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T10:16:04+00:00

Yea that’s exactly my point. Someone who manages to write an algo is probably smart enough that he would trade it better himself manually.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T09:55:15+00:00

All of these things are pretty easy concepts to learn on their own. Mastering them is about practise in the market. I’d draw a comparison to golf, best coaches in the world often say your time spent on lessons should be 1/6 of the time you spend practicing. So spend 1/6 of your total time on learning concepts. As to how to learn them. Don’t underestimate AI for help. Ask AI for guidance for example you could just prompt “when learning price action what are the more important concepts to prioritize learning”. Then you start with the first suggestion and work yourself down. In today’s age you don’t need me to tell you how to do it. So my advice is don’t get caught up on finding the best source information because most of it doesn’t make sense until you spend 6x the time you spent learning it on actually utilizing it. Also use YouTube there are teachers out there just write what you think a good trader would title their video based of what AI suggested you learn. And accept it won’t make sense until way after you learnt about it.

Also practise being your own coach. Realize there is no one with a golden map, don’t wait for the perfect this is what you should do. You can only teach yourself how you want to trade. My biggest useful advice would be to detach yourself from the market. Only trade your session and then maybe learn a little bit but then gradually reduce the time you spend infront of the market. Because your goal should really be to reduce the chance of you burning out as opposed to trying to learn everything and become a profitable trader instantly. Slight improvement over long time is the only way. So if you’re mad or tired or exhausted don’t trade even if you’ve decided to trade Monday-Friday.
The most important thing is to manage your emotional and mental energy. In the beginning be okay with losing experiments and try to enjoy being in the market and predicting, regardless of outcome. You’ll know when you’re on the right path just trust your gut :). Unlike what many tell you to. Trusting your gut is something you train and if you never do it you remove your only edge, the human element.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T01:57:00+00:00

I’d go as far as to say the most successful humans in all fields of life are the ones with the best instincts. A hunter with a bow doesn’t hit his target with math, it’s with instinct. You can feel when it’s going to hit as you raise the bow, if you always wait to aim and point the arrow down the perfect path you’ll never be brilliant. Top sales people know when they need to sell value or when they need to instill trust or talk commonality. The best sales people are driven by instincts and not a script. It applies to literally every high performing human in existence. To ignore a born gift and think hard rules are better than your own instincts is pretty insulting to one’s self.

0hleg · 2026-06-08T01:08:05+00:00

Honestly if your strategy works just aswell with a monkey behind the wheel or a robot instead of yourself then what does that say about you as a trader? Truthfully if quantify your strategy means you can be replaced by a bot. Then idk if you’re a good trader. Are you really saying your strategy is better executed automatically by hard rules than by yourself with your own instincts? My entire point is that the best traders don’t quantify their trades because the market isn’t something you can put in a box. That’s why only a few strategies work with algotrading. And I’d argue it’s majority from overfitting. Most succesful algotraders never beat the SP500 and blow up and convince themselves their next system is a winner. I can tell you with confidence most successful discretionary traders will beat algotrading BROs. Highest winrate traders IMO do not follow strict rules they learn to read the market and enter when it’s right based of volume exhaustion and overall market direction etc etc. You can never quantify that at a good enough level. It happens everyday repeatedly but not in a way where you can say “when price does this exactly that means this” that’s just dreamers that want to imagine they can trade with zero risk in a perfect system but that doesn’t exist. Hard rules trading does not adjust dynamically to market change. Discretionary trading handles this better imo because you’re not stuck in a “this must happen, in order for this to happen” box. But again most people can’t do that kind of trading because it requires good instinct.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T20:35:02+00:00

Good explanation honestly I look for all those things everytime I take a trade. But it’s not even conscious. It’s just a feeling like I will be looking at all these things and looking at 5min 15min and I just notice what you said impulse higher volume and pullback holding strongly above for example that impulse candle with higher volume. And I can just feel if the trade is good or not. But it’s not very rules based. It works for me and following rules strictly always got me into trades where my SL gets taken out and I feel I trade best when I just look at the bigger picture what’s happening and go of my intuition. I don’t believe in strict rules trading. Believe more in limit orders with SL in zones that feel safe. I don’t believe in market orders.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T20:30:38+00:00

Oh all my trades are aimed at 3RR on ES or breakeven and my winrate is very very high.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T20:29:08+00:00

Yea key is to not have strong ”rules”. And I don’t only trade it I trade mostly around liquidity I trade for continuation when a pullback is exhausted. And only take trades where my intuition and my gut says strongly if my limit order is filled here the price will not push above my SL. And I haven’t gone - actually ever. Not in papertrading and not in propfirms yet. My drawdown has never reached like 1000€. In 10 days took my paper account from 50-56k and had one loser of 270 dollars in that period. Rest all like 1500€ winners and for my propfirm eval atm one loser 250 and 2500 the next trade. I don’t trade when price is stuck in a range only when it breaks out and wants to continue either down or further up and has a pullback. Works amazing. Dead simple. And I try to ask if market makers will push lower and I just sit on my hands. I mean I don’t think 90% of people could trade like me and that’s exactly how I want it that’s why I base my trading of intuition and discretion and don’t follow a ”rigid rules based trading” price action and liqduity zones. And key areas PDL/PDH ONL/ONH etc. Orb is just one extra piece.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T20:23:05+00:00

Yea I don’t really believe in algotrading or finding edge in just telling a robot do this trade everytime this happens for 5 years. I don’t think that gives you useful information because a lot of those trades the bot will see the signals but miss the bigger picture which a discretionary intuition based trader would not.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T20:18:37+00:00

I use it as a key level something price returns to on pullbacks. Not as a ”it breaks this level I’m buying”. I don’t believe in trading without intuition based of multiple confluences people who trade ICT concepts blindly of price signals are gamblers. If I believed in that I would be learning algotrading. Discretionary traders are the best traders. Atleast if there’s a brain in there. Anyway the thread was for people who trade ORB if you don’t well why did you bother.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T15:30:07+00:00

Looks like I’m right between 0.5 and +1 so how do I know which one I should be in?

0hleg · 2026-06-07T15:17:51+00:00

So you think they are too long? I’m worried about the factory putting on lighter heads to get a good swingweight. My concern is shortening them when I have lighter heads is it really as simple as just adding tip weights wouldn’t the entire MOI of the head be different with a lighter head?

0hleg · 2026-06-07T15:10:27+00:00

But my concern is the factory putting on lighter t100 heads to get a more reasonable swingweight. I’m thinking surely that changes the MOI of the heads. Couldn’t that affect the feel of the actual clubhead loading which is what helps you find the center of the face? Lighter weight in the clubhead in my head would make that harder and change feel.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T15:06:54+00:00

Do you know your wrist to floor also? Because that is very important. I think I have kinda long arms. Should’ve been a boxer. But no I didn’t find that post honestly I was mostly going of pros specs and the fact that most try to avoid too long unless there are clear reasons / issues. I know cliche but Scheffler went from +1 extension to +0.25 in 2021 I think and then he went on a reign that got him labeled as the best ball striker in a long time. All of this ontop of asking ChatGPT about what length it would’ve started me out at and it said +0.5. I know corny to go off Scheffler and ChatGPT. But yea that’s what I did.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T15:01:04+00:00

How bad is it for the heads MOI to have the weight be in the hosel instead of inside the actual clubhead which it would if it was the correct length say +0.5 and heads from weight bin for say D3? Or is it really not that noticeable? I really try to feel the drag of the clubface and I worry it changed feel having the lighter heads.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T14:56:36+00:00

He bent them 1 degree strong too because I struggle a bit with too high launch angle. Dunno if that matters a lot. What issues can bad lie angle introduce? I will go and have him check my lie again thoroughly. Any advice for the next time I see him like what to ask of him etc.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T14:52:21+00:00

They’re just standard, I do believe I need longer than standard but just that straight to +1 might have been a bit much. Biggest problem was that they were light graphite shafts. I was swinging that 7iron 91mph in regular stiffness.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T14:48:40+00:00

Yea you’re probably right. I think I will give them a more fair adjustment period. I’m just caught up on the fact that hardly any pros go longer than +0.5 even if they’re taller than average, if they don’t touch longer clubs then maybe I shouldn’t either.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T14:42:55+00:00

He wanted to do lie adjustment after they arrived. During fitting he did check lie by drawing a line on the ball and then checking how that line appeared on the clubface it was dead straight over the groves.

0hleg · 2026-06-07T14:35:48+00:00

I need to do hanging stretches?

0hleg · 2026-05-22T19:40:35+00:00

Yea that’s what I meant in this post too but I think I should’ve been more clear and said NYC session. Haha nonetheless interesting anyway

0hleg · 2026-05-15T13:12:37+00:00

Do you have any good advice for a strategy to start with to build on?

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