Trading

I've spent a lot of time researching, learning and trading cryptocurrencies and stocks. Over time, what I've realised is I dwelve into research and find some anomalies which lead me to researching more. Eventually I stumble upon some articles/research/videos/books that help me what I am looking for and I start compiling the information. I note it down and try to make a definitive trade setup.

Over the course of years, I've made many such setups. Most don't work or maybe they do, but I end up not executing them as I keep losing interest in them. After a few days, when I realise, Ive just been wandering, my brain automatically starts punishing me. I feel guilty for not following it thoroughly and I blame my inconsistency, discipline blah blah blah.

This makes me feel miserable and I make even more mistakes. Few hours later, I snap out of it and began fresh. One of the attributes I have is, I can't stay in the state of feeling bad for a long time. I go for a long walk or drive, sit alone in my office and start thinking from first principles. Its my kind of therapy which really works.

These things keep playing repeatedly like a loop. So sometimes I just need to zoom out and stop blaming myself to look at whats really happening here and find some truth in it. I ignore the part of blaming myself and look at it rationally. Like it didnt happen to me but I had to solve it like a math problem.

One of such times, I realized that my brain keeps losing this trade setups because they are really not short and easy to remember. So you see, if something is really very simple, like for instance; just buy when price crosses 200EMA in upward trending markets and stock. Its pretty easy to remeeber and execute. But now if you add layers of complication to it like, check 100 more indicators, it just doesnt get complicated and difficult to remember, but also very dificult to find the setups frequently. With every new condition added, the chances of finding good setups reduces by orders of magnitude.

But simple conditions have one problem. It doesn't solve the tough questions like where to keep stops, how can such simple attribute work? How do I maximise Reward for every Risk taken?

I am starting to think, I can't be alone feeling like this and there are many others who might be in the same boat as me, So I've decied to start sharing all my trading related research work here for you to see and learn from and maybe it answers some of your questions too.