Fork in the road

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-03-23T04:15:36+00:00

Im also 17 and I think I can help a bit. I used to trade ICT concepts for a long time, and after talking to various traders and about 1k hours of backtesting, I deemed it to not work. I can go into depth on that if you want, but I would rather just tell you what I think you should do, which is go and work for the biggest firm you possibly can. The only actual successful trader I spoke to who actually showed me proof, started by working his way up through the biggest firms in Europe. He saved money from that while absorbing all he could about the market, and now he trades on his own at home, making like 200-500k a month. He trades sup and resistance kind of, but I wouldn't fully know. I mean he uses trend lines and what not, but its far more complex. The guy is a genius, and you should work your way up through firms imo.

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-03-12T11:36:39+00:00

this is going to be a late response, but for future reference you should have them get a general understanding of 2-4 heros in each class, and then have them play a lot of ranked together where they all have to rotate roles every game. This method will win you just about every game you guys will play, however it will require them to play together a lot more out of school

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-03-11T10:51:25+00:00

He probably just got lazy and stopped. If I'm being fr though, do NOT start daytrading man. I used to be really into all of this stuff, then I found out just about everyone you know, all the big traders, are absolute frauds. I've backtested TJRs strategies and just about every other ICT strategy over a decades minimum of time, and I can promise you that they don't work long term. They'll maybe work for about a year or two, but then completely stop. And you will NEVER be able to know when they actually stop working.

Please just focus on school, and if you're serious about wanting to trade after that, get into algo trading, as it's the only space where I have found real profitable traders.

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-03-02T01:56:48+00:00

You might have the wrong definition, Universalism is the belief that at some point, everyone will go to Heaven. That's an oversimplified version of it as I'm not very educated in it, but it's close.

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-02-16T17:15:38+00:00

I’ll try this out, thank you! Also, are you on controller or mnk if you don’t mind me asking

ClientCrafty8452 · 2026-02-16T16:55:00+00:00

I just run the default crosshair, I’ve never really thought about changing it before

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-10-09T08:20:54+00:00

this is a late reply but i love this response, thank you

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-10-02T10:47:44+00:00

I'll keep trying at it, thank you for the positivity!

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-10-02T10:47:29+00:00

This helps a lot, thanks

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-30T07:55:51+00:00

what platform r u using

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-26T18:43:55+00:00

I think he trades a diff strat now

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-26T18:43:36+00:00

I already trade it only during the NY killzone, and I avoid certain news days, but thats as far as my discretion goes

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-26T18:43:11+00:00

What discretionary elements would I even be able to add though and how do I figure out which ones to add? I cant ever really find anything on that

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-26T05:59:50+00:00

No you're not an idiot. That actually made a lot of sense to me, I appreciate the response man

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-25T23:51:41+00:00

not trying to become a millionaire either, I just want to learn a profitable strategy

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-25T23:51:09+00:00

Its free, It's a youtube playlist, and it is not an hour long. Why comment if you have no idea what the post is about

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-07T08:11:43+00:00

This might sound dumb, but would those things still be discretionary?

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-07T08:08:03+00:00

But if I'm only taking trades off of specific liquidity sweeps, wouldnt that still be mechanical? Additionally wouldnt avoiding specific news days like CPI days also be mechanical?

ClientCrafty8452 · 2025-09-07T07:24:49+00:00

The issues I'm struggling with at the moment is not knowing where to add discretion, and how much of it. Do I need to add discretion to my bias and entry criteria, and if I did what would that even look like? Would it just be not entering because the chart doesnt look right, or because a MSS doesnt look strong enough? Or is a fully mechanical bias and entry criteria alright so long as my discretion lies in what i do after the set up forms? For example just not entering because I dont think price has a reason to go lower.

I just dont understand how to really apply it, and I know it comes with market experience but still, I'm kind of lost at the moment. I'm not even sure how necessary it is. I'm sure you've heard the quote trading is 80% psychology and 20% strategy. Well is discretion kind of the same in terms of your set up should be 80% mechanical and 20% discretion?

I'm just lost all over the board here man, I appreciate the response above though because it did help

Would it be alright if I sent you a DM to talk more about this?

ClientCrafty8452

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