Hello rogeryrogery,rogeryrogery wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:27 am Mine same but I do see entry here, which hit my SL. I am learning so please be nice.
What could I have done difference, I see Xard price on your chart say's under Daily open and mine as well, but When I looked on daily candle price was UP of daily open.
Don't stress too much, it's not an easy road, but there is a solution for your journey, and I'll give you a history of my life in trading.
There is one before I met this fantastic community, but I won't go into it now.
That's why I'm going to talk to you directly and publicly so that everyone knows who the person behind the nick Curioso is.
I discovered this community by chance, I registered and I was just a member like so many who wanted to learn a bit more about trading, I didn't participate much, very shy, because, I'm afraid the judgments with people with more knowledge in that time, so in the constant search for an indicator that I needed for my entries, yes the search was very exhausting and obsessive, because I saw it on other forums and videos and I always thought, but how do they manage to make gains of 10pip or how do they manage to maintain discipline with that indicator something that I can't do. Sometimes i talk about the mindset, here´s the point.
Before I start to learning into xard, I used to have charts with more than 30 or 50 indicators, and all I did was miss good trends, a lot of stress and anguish, and watching time go by, because I couldn't see anything the way I wanted to, it was all just a matter of time, I even made videos for myself (yes, learning how to use the strategy tester helps a lot to understand the behavior of indicators or strategies). Sometimes i talk about the clean charts, here´s the point.
And at the same time I came to this thread and thought, but how do they get 1 to +40% every day, but I ignored I'll be very honest because it seemed to me and reading to the title is just a strategy that is simple, but must be another that must be more of the same. This has to do with the feeling of depression, negativity, a different mindset and even today I avoid getting into that kind of energy, it's not good for me and especially for the people around me.
Then suddenly I saw a post by BeatlemaniaSA presenting the strategy XU-Hybrid Version 7 and it was like a click. i think, wait a minute! so many people are talking so passionately about this, maybe it could be my path. Thank you BeatlemaniaSA,
I didn't understand why the comparison between TFs was used (it's still complex for me today explain), but it is what it is. And when I started studying, I lost money (which is why I don't support those who are learning to never open real accounts, demo accounts are what they're for).
But let´s continue, and at that point, I started to realize a few things, but nothing spectacular in terms of daily gains. Here's the lesson I learned at the time, to learn more about what a 2nd minidot strategy is, for me it's one of the most egnimatic and spectacular things there is, but I studied, studied, studied a lot about xard, endless hours on strategy tester writing on the chart, making videos for myself, writing a lot on paper, writing a lot on the computer, but I still didn't understand what I was doing wrong.
And then I realized that it was time to start figuring out who was developing the many different versions and shared visions of this mysterious 2nd minidot.
I started coming to this thread, applying the concept of having invested a lot of hours around strategy, I started reading this thread, yes I've read all of it to date, three times, writing my notes, making my private videos, a lot of pages written in my handwriting of notes that I've collected and until I always hit a point of how do I see if the point is valid or not?
post1295503246.html#p1295503246 . I read that book several times (where you can find it on some versions of xard), and continued with my notes and writing a lot. Thank you Jedidiah
And after more than a year, day and night, always studying the xard strategy, plus the time before I joined this community, it was a few years of permanent struggle, If you see my post reference with important posts for me i talk about that. Thank you Jimmy for pin in the post #1 of this amazing thread. And there is: post1295537552.html#p1295537552
And until I was about a week away from giving up on this whole trading thing, I decided to send a message to a member of this community (yes, he knows very well who he is, and he's always in the thanks I give) who speaks my language and I opened my heart, because there were points that confused me and a phrase he said opened my eyes.
"Don't invent, keep it simple and follow the trend."
It made tremendous sense to me, I went back to my tests, sometimes in real time and sometimes in demo, because I saw that there were small details that I didn't understand and I started to tune my mindset to M15 and it was supposed to be on that timeframe, but my daily gains were only between 10 and 30% in daily pl.
And I started participating more in this community, leaving some posts, some of the material I read didn't make sense to me, because what I read in some of the posts and in my notes I started crossing out things and notes that I thought was how some members did it, so I started creating my rules, and creating a different way of thinking and acting, thinking like xard777, seeing things simply, and transparently.
And then came the version that was a huge eye-opener for me, the famous original 65 version (yes that one, not the 65m because that was later), so how to open positions and manage positions according to the completed template with RSI, Spike, Index Entry, yes because I also had the brilliant idea of removing what I thought was useless, like the zigzags or the panel1. And I started to gain consistency every day, not in pips, because at the end of the day that's just pips, but in knowledge, the most wonderful gift we have.
And I'd see some members with higher earnings than me and I'd always think okay, but if they can do it, I can do it too. I started working on my mindset, doing regular meditation sessions, I started reading about trading psychology, studying under pressure with alerts, in multiple pairs, yes, I've also been in majors and minors.
And in M15 I spent many weeks gaining confidence.
I moved down to M5, taking losses because I didn't understand why, with so many pairs (majors and minors), I started to get stressed out. So I started looking only at the pairs you share in each of your setups, yes 3 or 6, depending on the post. And in the moment i reduce the numbers the stress going out in that moment and is amazing the way your brain works. In this time 30~60% in daily pl. And yes, take much time for me too, to adjust all my entries.
I rode the M5 for a while and the motivation and energy came back, until the famous 65m version appeared and it was like an opportunity falling from the sky and the gods aligned at that moment. I decided to move on to M1, yes that's right, with the confidence I had gained, with the summaries we had, xard777 with his spectacular posts and I thought it was time to give back to the community that has given me so much in knowledge and that has changed my life so much (I've mentioned this several times, because I'm grateful every day and I always try to help and make a difference every day). Thank you xard777 for all knowledge and setups during these years and continue surprising in each version.
I've been trading only on M1 for many weeks/months now, I don´t trade every day, for example if i don´t see the patterns i´m looking for do not enter, and see my previous message is a example of that, I don't change timeframes, why? I have this knowledge, i have my rules, sometimes i break, i preferred not talking so much, because is some of them are controversial, I'm always pleased to see and realize that there are other members who think like me, you don't make millions overnight, that's a myth, but is only a timeframe, like M5, M15, M30, H1, is great too, the problem sometimes is understand the logic.
You can find all the pairs I trade in this post post1295547227.html#p1295547227 , but im only talk about BTCUSD and XAUUSD, because i say in the previous point maybe some my entry is controversial in the way i manage my entry. And hope if you understand.
Trading is probably the hardest thing I've faced in my life, at least I see it that way, whether it's MN1 or M1, you and all the members, (I'm not going to say it's for me), but always believe in yourself and never forget that Curioso was the member that was 1 week away from giving up trading and dedicating himself to other things. Now don't be in a hurry to open positions, mark them (image at the end this post with menu, and for people want the template, here to), it'll help you, use what you've got all you've got because you can do it. For the rest, believe me, time is your best friend (of course after Stop Loss, but that's later in the order of execution) because waiting in time will bring you the pips you desire, but always with patient, discipline, never break rules, unless you know exactly what you're doing. This is not a contest to prove you archive more pips, this is about friendship, sharing ideas and visions, because when we share ideas, it means we are grow up, and we're not bound by ideas.
And don't rush, take your time, because the more knowledge you have, the better it will be for you.
I'm sorry this is such a long post, but it's something I've been meaning to do for a while, but it happened today, and you have a summary of what the person behind Curioso is all about.
