The Trading Year in Review - But it's just August!
Oscillating between trading strategies since the start of the year had taken a toll on my mental well being and it has been a journey of mental language. The journey has been about throwing together technical indicators that may or may not be put together in the same view, and seeing the interoperability of those technical indicators. Taking off the horse blinds of just using MACD all these years led me to unfamiliar places. Uncomfortable places. But I would not call it getting out of the comfort zone, since the time since 2016 has been a time of extreme discomfort. Sticking to MACD as the only indicator along with Williams %R had been stifling, and had taken away a lot of time that could have been spent doing constructive things. It also resulted in conditioning the psyche to not look for better alternatives since the trading system involving these two indicators looked so perfect in retrospect. Losses that were a regular feature were side swept since losses were just consi...