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Brian Carter's avatar

Thanks for the honesty. In one account, I lost about 15% starting with the oct gold dip. Fortunately i was more cautious in my main account.

What I learned was that my screeners were inadequate. They only worked in high momentum.

Since then I’ve developed a 3 regime approach based on various market measurements, and then the screeners emphasize different tech indicators for each regime. I was finally able to turn it around on Nov 20.

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Freedom Trades's avatar

Very well said, Brian. Personally, I treat the screener as an idea generator.

Then those ideas need to be filtered through my own strategy, (say TA plus fundamentals) , and usually every week I am left with maybe three to five stocks that are true high-probability trades.

After that, I filter again based on which one has the best EV and the best risk-to-reward ratio.

At that point, I probably have one, maybe two or three trades I can actually take.

And in the end, I only act if the environment is right. Because you can have the best setup and the best catalyst, but the market won’t care if it’s in a phase where it reacts only to bearish news.

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Brian Carter's avatar

Yup. I have some fundamental filters in like EPS diluted growth, D:E, etc. The cool thing about Tradingview screeners is they have fundies and TI's. But they don't have everything the charts do, so my charts are the confirm/reject.

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My Weekly Stock's avatar

Love the transparency.

November was brutal for me. But enjoyed last week’s recovery.

The most important is to take the lesson and move on!

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Freedom Trades's avatar

Thank you!

Appreciate you sharing this. November was hard for a lot of traders!

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Deepak Singh's avatar

There is a link which says 70% off for 1st year but when I click on it, it says 20% off. Some discrepancy...

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Freedom Trades's avatar

Deepak, thanks for the message. The annual plan is already discounted by 60 percent, and on top of that I added another discount, which brings it to about 70 percent off. I know prices can vary depending on the platform you’re using. It’s crazy, but I recently found out that if you buy on iOS mobile, you can end up paying up to 30 percent more. So it’s better to try on the web.

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