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If you want to know what successful trading is about, this post by Ziad @ the eminiplayer blog sums it very well. I re-read it every couple of days just for motivation, and to keep me grounded.
Several others have pointed it out already, but I sincerely hope you stop your search; People with a profitable method won't sell it...
You have start to think conceptually about what you are trying to achieve and then do some statistical analysis. This does not have to be more complex (to get started) than doing manual backtests on ideas you formulate.
As for your reluctance to use wider than 5 tick stops, I would disagree. Most beginning traders use tight stops out of fear, but it is more costly to get stopped out on 6 5-tick stops than one 15 tick stop... Your stops should be relative to the average fluctuations of the instrument you are trading, thus avoiding being stopped out noise.
You know, in retrospect, some of my losers could have been winners had my stops been further away.
Any techniques on how to guage what a resonable stop should be for any given market. somewhere I saw a stop that functioned based on atr real-time, can't remember where I saw it?
So your a consistant, profitable pure price action day trader! WOW, a very rare breed!
May I ask how long it took you to become profitable?
Do you have a pre-defined pattern(s) your looking for or do the pattern(s) find you as they taking form?
Could you show us some of your charts and trades taken?
The pattern appeared right including a bend on the top channel line of the keltner.
Entry was at close of 3rd bar of pattern at 1.4376
Could have rode the price down to 1.4365 when the K & D lines on the Stoch touched for a cool 12 ticks, however I go to breakeven on 4 ticks and as Roger F. says, after this you have a free trade on your hands, so you could have gotten bolder and not exited on the first Stoch touch, instead gone on for the final touch/cross of stoch at 1.4353 for a whopping 17 tick profit!!
I think traders who can trade like this are indeed a rare breed. I believe they are born, not made. I think it is a mistake to want to emulate that if you don't have that inbred aptitude. You have been at this for a while, if you had that natural aptitude, it would have asserted itself already, and you would have naturally fallen into that trading style. I think traders with that aptitude, only need a certain amount of screen time to naturally develop that ability into an intangible sixth sense, and I believe it cannot be taught. You will notice that traders who trade that way generally say trading is easy, natural, effortless. I would say, that is not the norm for most of us.
I doubt there are such people. I would think these people simply haven't managed to explain in words, or quantify what they are seeing on their charts.