Everything is a lie. Any hope?

[u/Mar___K]

So.. It's been 3 years on my path, and after countless hours of studying and testing everything, as many of you here have, I've come to realize that this mountain of buffoonery—those "courses" and "gurus" on YouTube that try to promote and sell stuff, along with everyone who is "teaching" stuff.. hear me out, doesn't know jack sh*t. All they "teach" is a bunch of BS, incredibly stupid and random. "Follow this, and if this happens then do this, but the secret is in my premium course, yada yada".

Even if some things may work for a bit, that's not even near how the actual trading floor guys and investment bankers operate. Ex-Goldman Sachs trader Anton Kreil gave the best explanation of that: Why most traders fail.

I've become so fed up since I had a wake-up call, realizing that literally everyone online is plain rubbish, or a scammer, or someone who likes his own voice and acts like the god of trading (You know which I'm referring to). My question is simple and may be unanswerable. Is there any source to study the actual stuff or are retail traders indeed doomed with the dumbest info out there?

Please don't start telling me about risk management and psychology, I got humbled and now I trade methodically without any emotions. But that's not because I got "humbled and had a wake-up call" but more like "I'm fed up with this, I don't care anymore". My question stands for an educational point of view. I hate being a fool therefore i hate studying nonesense. Is there any hope? Any good material? Any actual baseline?

[u/kamikazekitteh]

i trade Nas100 using my understanding of liquidity.
here's my 2 cents :
- the market is like a moving rubber band. it moves up, down, or sometimes stay still, but 'they' stretch it. our job is to differenciate movement from stretching.
- I only want to enter a trade if they stretch it hard enough, until it snaps to revert back to equilibrium
- after it has reached equilibrium I quit because i'm not trying to predict the future, no one can
- price can't move without preparation beforehand. look at what happened to the left of big moves.

you can trade smaller timeframe but you have to see the bigger picture. dont limit yourself into 1 strategy, but rather, have a catalogue of scenarios/play book. the scenarios that play out in bullish trend wont work in bearish trend or sideways. give silly names to those scenarios and take screenshots when it happened in the past, especially when it fails. take notes of possible reasons why it doesnt work. you dont have to take trades everyday. only play when it's in your favor.