u/GreggJ

Hey ya'll.

I recently bought an iPhone (have used Android for 14 years), and this is (one of the things that is) bothering me.

When I go to my contacts, I can't see where they're saved. Whether it's my Google acount, CardDAV, or my phone, or my iCloud....

Where can I see where my newest contacts are getting saved? How can I save new contacts to my CardDAV directly? And most importantly - is it possible to change where they're saved? Example - this contact is saved in my Google account, and I'd like to move it to my CardDAV (where I want all my contacts to be).

I'm confused by the UI, but I'd like to think there's an easy way to do this, given the fact that, according to my friends who are Apple fans, everything in iOS is easier (in short, I'm assuming it's a skill issue of mine).

Many thanks.

So here's the thing guys. This post may sound a tiny bit emotional, but there's a mix of frustration, and awareness of what I have in front of me.

I've been doing my homework. Read price action books, I even read Anna Coulling's volume book, I've been watching AMT videos and reading some material on it, etc etc...

But when I go to the markets (I trade futures in case that matters for anyone) to try to apply the concepts I've been "learning", the reality is much different than the one presented in books. Markets are (seem) unpredictable, and just when I think I've found a textbook scenario in front of me while I'm trading, the trades go straight into SL.

This happens very frequently. And I'd like to know if anyone else has lived the same thing, and how you navigated this mentally in order to keep going and eventually figure this out and make your trading profitable

(for the ones focused on technicalities - yes. I'm aware not every single trade is going to be a winner. But coming 5 days in a row to attempt to trade, and losing more than 85% of the trades you put in, in paper trading of course, is not so great either).

Many thanks

This question is directed towards people that have stayed practicing and studying trading for years before even seeing consistency/profitability.

As I study trading more by reading books, looking at charts, putting some trades here and there with no positive results of course, I of course realize that this path is VERY far from easy.

Which I'm perfectly ok with, but the thing about trading is that there's no apparent "feedback" that tells you what exactly what you're doing wrong. For example, I think my risk management is perfectly fine in the sense that, I don't let losers run, I never risk more than 1R (worse case scenario) per trade, and if I have a few losers in a row, I cut my risk by 50% (or more). So, that's really not my problem.

And, I don't overtrade either. After about 3 losses in a row, I stop trading for that day, and I come back the next day to try again.

My particular problem is that my win rate is ridiculously low (I'm paper trading here, and I won't risk real money until I'm consistently profitable), and I have no way of knowing why. Let's say I want to see rejections from one of the two deviations from the VWAP and I want to place the TP at the VWAP. I try a few trades during the day using that concept, in what appears to be range days... And I still lose most of the trades I put in.

And that has happened to me with many strategies I've tried in the past.

And I'm not sure how to move forward to be honest. I read (it's been about 6 books so far), I try to apply what I read, but maybe something doesn't click or whatever, because in the real world, when I want to apply the knowledge I've acquired recently, the failure rate is still high, even though I try to apply whatever I thought I learned.

I'm not sure how to either stay motivated, or how to move forward, or how to even tell what exactly I'm doing wrong in order to improve.

For those that have stuck long enough to get to consistent profitability - how did you do it? Even mentally, how were you able to stick to it even though probably things like this happened to you as well? What did you do in order to move forward, and how did you learn from your mistakes? How could you even tell what your mistakes were?

Appreciate the feedback ya'll. The more I trade and the more I read, the more I realize how frustrating this can be. But I want to stick to it until I fukin figure it out. No matter how long it takes.

Hey ya'll.

Recently I've started to learn about volume profile, and how to read markets that way, and I find it truly fascinating to see financial markets in terms of VALUE, and so forth.

But the thing is - I own the book Mind Over Markets, which talks about market profile instead of volume profile.

My question is - can the knowledge in that book (or of market profile in general) be applied to volume profile, if that's what you end up using?

I read the first I think it was like, two chapters of Mind Over Markets, and it really was mind blowing. I'm just wondering if the knowledge can be applied to both things, even though the value areas and so forth may vary a bit.

Thanks a lot!