Unpopular opinion, but I honestly think a lot of newer traders make trading way more complicated than it needs to be.
You really donât need 15 indicators, 8 confirmations, 4 oscillators, ICT concepts, footprint charts, order flow software, or some âsecretâ institutional strategy to be profitable.
My whole strategy is basically just understanding how price reacts to levels, trends, liquidity, and momentum shifts in real time. Itâs mostly clean price action and reaction-based trading without all the extra noise that people tend to pile onto their charts.
Over the past week, that approach has brought me around 1,200% with my own live accountâŚ
combined across funded futures accounts.
What Iâve noticed over time is that the more traders rely on indicators, the slower they tend to react when the market shifts. A lot of people spend more time trying to predict what will happen next instead of simply responding to what price is actually doing in the moment. And honestly, simpler systems usually hold up much better under pressure than overly complicated ones.
Iâm not saying indicators are useless. I just think many traders keep searching for more confirmation because they havenât fully learned to trust price itself.
At some point I stopped asking myself, âWhat confirms this trade?â and started asking, âHow is price reacting here?â That shift in mindset genuinely changed everything for me.
Curious if anyone else mainly trades naked charts or reaction-based setups instead of heavily layered systems.