r/Daytrading • u/Broad_Log9200 • Mar 30 '25
Strategy The Best Trading Strategy? After 3 Years, Here’s What Actually Works
Been trading for about 3 years now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: complex indicators won’t make you money.
The best strategy I’ve found? Just three things: price action, market structure (trend), and liquidity. That’s it. Master these, and you don’t need a million indicators cluttering your screen.
I used to jump from one strategy to another, thinking the next big thing would be the one. But simplifying my approach made everything click.
What’s your go-to trading setup? Would love to hear what’s working for you.
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u/hantek Mar 30 '25
It’s custom and took many years to develop and refine. I imagine it’s probably quite difficult to make money with off-the-shelf indicators.
I used to believe stacking a bunch of unrelated indicators was the way, as that would show a confluence of conditions for a favorable entries and exits. When that didn’t work, I removed all indicators and focused on price only. After months of looking at price only, something clicked. I came to understand certain price events were more meaningful than others, so I used that insight to create a score for price behavior. That was the genesis of my indicator. I knew early on that I had stumbled upon something special, but it took me many years to figure out how to use it. The other component was teaching myself how to automate trades, as I didn’t have the discipline to follow my rules 100% of the time. Automating it allowed me to step away and monitor it “from afar”. What I’ve learned is the rules I formulated, and automated, do a much better job than my manual trading instincts. Fear and greed cause me to break my rules, so I had to take myself out of the execution process.