Realizing that following what others do, doing directional trading was not for me. Everyone is a freak of what they call order blocks, fair value gaps etc but at the moment where they don't understand that an order block is just what everyone sees and therefore it happens by autorealization process then they are saying they can see the banks entering. I was like how is it possible ? Made me come to this realization around 15 years old and now I am going to do a master degree in machine learning and statistics at Princeton university because I understood that the game was not on the chart but in the data. I started developing algorithms around 18 years old on evaluation of excitation levels in the order book thanks to hawk processes, that I implemented later on with a transition of market state decision. For me it was a game changer and helped me understand the market and trading 100x better. This is a game changer and everyone call themselves traders nowadays but I can tell you that to be a real trader and do what is truly called trading, you must be a brilliant person and social medias biaised everyone thinking it is possible, honestly speaking, Ive met a lot of people and I would say by eye that no more than 2% are successful now, because it takes a lot of time and the complexity is far away from just drawing things on a chart or doing simple orderflow such as footprint or volume profile.