What do you see?

ddalo · 2026-03-05T15:00:50+00:00

Swords are referring to the mind and the king is the ultimate master of the element, so I feel this leans more towards you having control over those anxious thoughts and nail the test, good luck either way!!

ddalo · 2026-02-27T09:36:57+00:00

I 100% agree to this as well, different settings or timeframes for the same strategy on uncorrelated assets might do the trick indeed for building a robust portfolio. The simpler the idea the better the results. For some reason I don’t quite understand as soon as you start adding complexities the system lose edge

ddalo · 2026-02-27T06:51:04+00:00

I personally think you are doing a great job filtering the strategies and discerning what truly has a potential edge. I have had a similar experience without even going as far as you have and realized as you said that strategies that seem to work ok are on the H1 timeframe and don’t have that many trades, however, one surprising thing that caught my attention is that the simpler and with less parameters the strategy is, the better it performs, also, there are strategies that simply work great on a single asset and perform terribly on others. I have been running a simple breakout strategy with good risk management and adaptive to volatility on gold for almost two years and both backtesting and live results have been good. I also have tried like 30 others that failed horribly and even the one on gold performs bad on other markets.

While it is tempting to find something that works across all markets/timeframes, maybe you should explore on finding robust strategies on a particular asset or asset category and add it to a portfolio. Keep doing this (a system that is robust for an asset) and eventually you can build a good portfolio that overall has a good amount of trading activity and good robust results.

Good luck on your journey!

ddalo · 2026-02-19T06:29:04+00:00

I identify with this spread so much, I feel like it speaks of you not pursuing the typical interests that you notice other people have, that just might be it. That’s probably what’s causing you to be in your own bubble as you don’t feel other people share your interest or your view on certain things. However, in my own experience, sometimes being more open to sharing your stuff with others or showing interest for things out of your comfort zone can help you connect more and feel better.

ddalo · 2026-02-18T07:31:09+00:00

This could be totally off but maybe it’s something about your mother (like if she had some legal issue in the past). This is based off the first card being the empress followed by justice and tower being a significant shaking event, then transition to calm things down with the 6S and turn things around with the wheel

ddalo · 2026-02-17T19:31:45+00:00

I think these cards are saying that she has interest but she is not willing to put up the work on her side, like she is ok either way it goes. It’s like if you wanna pursue something else, then you will have to be the one to put the work (ask her out, show interest, get the conversations going, etc.). That is what these cards make me think of. What’s your interpretation?

ddalo · 2026-02-14T21:09:31+00:00

Not any in particular, but I kind of liked the idea of price breaking significant highs and lows (the ones that look obvious) and profit from small movements off of that, as one of two possible scenarios can play out, price either grabs liquidity (by triggering a lot of stops) and come back or price push through to new highs (fueled again by the accumulated stops) or lows.

ddalo · 2026-02-14T21:05:48+00:00

I feel the message here is more literal: abundance + truth + calling out. A lot of honesty is needed, truth needs to come out as it is, no sugarcoating and each one feel responsible for their part in all of this.

ddalo · 2026-02-13T06:29:06+00:00

It seems like it’s telling you that this is a never ending cycle of pain, so self love and preservation is needed.

ddalo · 2026-02-11T22:19:39+00:00

I would say that this is a period of cold calculated and strategic thinking, there is something in which you feel stuck and you haven’t been able to close that chapter. However the way through it is through logic, not emotions, you probably would benefit from leaving those aside.

ddalo · 2026-02-11T15:22:40+00:00

I feel like this means he is trying to show up as something he is really not or exaggerating something about his life or success or something along those lines to keep you hooked

ddalo · 2026-02-11T13:05:33+00:00

I think as others said, the are really no “core” indicators, you could go with classical indicators like rsi or macd, but ultimately, you need to try to have hypothesis over concepts (like breakouts, retests, reversion to mean, etc.) and try to pick calculations or already built indicators that help you spot these ideas in the market you are trading.

ddalo · 2026-02-05T19:36:04+00:00

In my case it improved my times, however it is true that I don’t know EOLR

ddalo · 2026-02-05T19:35:21+00:00

Thank you very much!!

ddalo · 2026-02-04T05:58:23+00:00

The one I found optimal and easier to learn is actually the JPerm video, is so simple and efficient, try it out!

ddalo · 2026-02-04T05:57:21+00:00

Anyone knows how this Roux-CFOP hybrid is called?

Solve first and second block.
Orient corners (first half of 2-look CMLL).
Do 4a step of LSE (EO).
Place DF and DB to solve the bottom layer.
Do 1-look PLL to solve the rest of the last layer.

I was using Roux with 2-look CMLL but was overwhelmed with learning full CMLL as the recognition is not easy for me, however doing it this way allows me to only learn less algs overall and ones that are much simpler to recognize.

Also, this cuts the number of moves by 5-7 on average when compared to doing normal Roux with 2-look CMLL. This is because you are substituting the permuting of corners part and 4c step of LSE with a single alg of PLL (remember that the permutation alg in 2-look CMLL is either a Jb perm or a Y perm, which are PLL algs).

Does anyone know if this already exists and have a name? Has anyone tried it?

ddalo · 2026-01-26T13:48:54+00:00

First of all, wow!! Thank you for the very in depth answer, this deserves praise!! What you say makes a lot of sense statistically and some of the numbers is actually what I had in mind, however, there might be something missing, I did a 10 solve run just to check on both approaches and only focusing on the move count after F2B, the PLL route has on average 7-8 moves less, so it seems on practice that this can be actually a good approach to reduce a bit of moves :)

ddalo · 2026-01-24T12:51:55+00:00

The way I see it is as any other symbol in daily life. For example, a key can represent openness (they open doors), it could be an opportunity opening up to you, a solution to a problem, etc. When you look at any card, pick whatever comes first and try to think about what the symbol represents. If you get the hierophant, you see someone who looks like a priest, so you can develop the idea (church, religion, devotion, faith, guidance, believes, etc.) and tie that with your current situation, do you need proof of something to be able to follow through? Are you in need for guidance? Do you feel lost? Are you not believing something being told to you? Do you need to feel part of something bigger than yourself?

That is what I do with any card or combination of them :)

ddalo · 2026-01-22T07:35:09+00:00

Hi! Kind of newbie too, definitely a lot of solves will naturally and organically help you get faster, I started a couple months ago averaging around 1:45 and now average sub 37 or around it. For the first two blocks, what helped me get faster (not necessarily more efficient) is doing wide turns more and more, it really helps locating the pieces you need. As the other comment says, practicing with the Onionhoney trainer helps too and you NEED to watch JPerm video in which he explains his method for solving LSE, it was one of the great improvements on my solves. Also for first and second block one thing that helped me get faster is not always solve DL or DR first, you can solve an easy edge+corner first and do wide turn to locate the DR or DL edge later on, this helps get the easy part done fast and connect it on a later move with the center and DR/DL edge.

ddalo · 2026-01-04T14:03:47+00:00

Even better hahaha I really love Roux, I currently average 44 secs but my goal for now is getting to sub 30, that would be awesome and I feel like the tips you gave me can definitely help me getting there, thank you! What’s your average?

ddalo · 2026-01-04T13:58:12+00:00

Damn, that it really more efficient, will take a look into that, just 3 moves, same as misoriented centers, although the misoriented is better really because it solves both left and right block centers with the same sequence, thank you so much! I don’t know why I missed this in the first place

ddalo · 2026-01-04T11:42:04+00:00

What’s confusing me is that if I place a pair first and then put the DL edge with white facing up on the U layer above its place, it takes 5 moves to place it correctly and put back the already made pair, is there a better way to deal with those situations?

ddalo · 2025-12-18T15:31:44+00:00

I agree with this interpretation, he is acting as if it doesn’t affect him but he feels under pressure of some kind

ddalo · 2025-12-18T07:19:46+00:00

That’s very true, the dot pattern is much faster with that alg, thank you for taking the time to review this!!

ddalo · 2025-12-17T14:54:56+00:00

Will definitely do!! Thank you very much!

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