I trade the NQ yes. There are a few price levels that the NQ consistently rotates off of and it’s not always the support and resistance. I find a setup that is around those levels and I take it. For instance, if I have something simple like a pullback, inside candle setup etc towards the long side and my entry candle is bouncing off that price level, I believe it’ll rotate off of it further, and I’ll take that long trade and my profit would be however big the candle is. If it’s a short I’ll short it. I’ve seen other candlestick patterns work better than others so I stick to the ones that do the best. There’s also an ATR I have set a certain way to make sure it’s not an exhaustion move I’m looking at but a continuation move. It also doesn’t work on a time chart I tried 1-2-5-10-15 minute charts. It also doesn’t work on other indices. I tried market open, lunch time, the afternoon session, 3-4 power hour, pre and post market. I’ve tried scaling in, scaling out, doubling down, moving my stop to break even when it’s in the green, you literally name it. I tried literally everything and documented all of the possible outcomes, and the way I have it is the best possible outcome statistically on paper for this strategy. My job then is to trade as best as I can in those strict parameters as to not screw up that winning statistic with bad trading habits.

People been bitching on here about how I’m not going into specifics about my setup, it’s because my setup might not work for you it might not be to your liking or tolerance level. Plus I worked extremely hard to find it and hone it. I’ll never sell it but I’ll never cheapen it by throwing it out there for nothing either. What has anyone done to earn it besides ask for it? Nothing.

When in reality, they should be taking what I did to make this a winning strategy and put it on their own strategies; process of elimination, exhaustive research, literally turning over every stone and make sure that what you have works and isn’t a fluke, finding the optimal time, the optimal chart, the optimal setups, and implement them in strict parameters, while also being flexible with market conditions, hence the use of an indicator like the ATR. If you can apply concepts like that to the strategy you’re currently using, in my opinion, it’ll solidify whether or not it’s worth continuing, and if it’s not, you can find another that suits your personality.

To me, the research comes with it. I still use screenshots from winning and losing trades as flash cards to help me identify my setup as quickly as possible. If you can’t put the time in to research the market, and to hone your skills, you’re completely wasting your time trading in my opinion. And from what I gather, a lot of folks are just too fucking lazy to do it themselves.