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Markets are strange and peculiar organisms, which follow their own non-linear logic, because they are in the business of putting anything that is well-known about them out of business.
There was a time when a trader could draw some trend lines on a chart and some support and resistance lines and they would work like crazy because almost nobody knew about them. This was back in the late 19th century. They still have some value today, but the difference is that millions of traders are looking at them now.
There was a time when you could look at flags, rates-of-change, MAs, MACD, ADX, etc., and they would be clean and relatively fake-out free. No longer. The markets have wized up to those things and many others. The usual and known indicators, even in tweaked-up forms, are anticipated now, and thus much less amenable to profit. You may have to take some time to find this out for yourself.
It is folly to suppose that a market is going to reward you for using things that virtually everyone else in that market is also aware of. It has no mechanism for doing so. It has no mechanism for rewarding traders when they are using things that are common knowledge among other traders and investors.
A person can always get lucky for a limited time, but the markets cannot reward you consistently for approaching them in ways that are similar to everyone else's. It has no way of performing such magic, like giving candy to a child.
There was a time when charts themselves were a rarity. Now virtually all serious traders have electronic screens with all the standard indicators already built in. Tweaking these standard indicators a bit isn't going to help you when you are up against institutions and trading desks and professional traders, all with access to advantages.
The individual trader and investor also has some unique advantages, but these are not immediately obvious. Though not readily apparent, they must be wielded with great clarity and insight.
It is imperative to be using something that the market knows very little about, because markets will keep constantly shaking out traders who are using indicators that are either commonly available or constructed upon technology that is commonly available.
Above all, a superior system must be constantly self-adapting to the nature of a given market. That is part of the reason why Ocean performs so amazingly, because it has been designed from the ground up to be naturally and ongoingly self-adaptive to evolving markets.
All elements of Ocean Theory have this remarkable quality. However the later stages, beginning with the STX technology, carry this process to undreamed-of heights.
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