Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money

Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.