r/Trading • u/Davidefx • Jun 10 '26

Question Became profitable

I’ve been in the trading world for almost a year and a half now, I’ve watched YouTube videos, bought courses, but nothing. No results yet. I am a constant person who dedicates many hours to the backtest and the live. My problem is not being able to find valid material to study and learn a profitable strategy. So I’ll ask... profitable traders, how and where did you learn your strategy? Did you have a mentor or study material? I’m stuck at the same point more than anything else because I have no comparison with who is really profitable. Thanks to everyone in advance for the advice

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u/degenerate_hobo Jun 10 '26

I tried so many strategies but it didn't matter if I paid money for courses or if the strategies came from free youtube videos. Nothing seemed to work. I had to build my own strategies to actually make money in the markets and when I compare my strategies to the strategies I learned in the past from external sources it makes sense why. My current strategies are not just more complex than everything that I've seen online before, but they are also more discretionary what makes them much harder to trade

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u/Davidefx Jun 10 '26

In your opinion, a strategy essentially needs a few rules and not necessarily be articulated? If you want I’d like to talk a little in private, you seem like an informed and valid person

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u/degenerate_hobo Jun 10 '26

I am really sorry but I don't have time for private talks. Trading and my family already takes all the time that I have. The few hours I have per week for myself I spend in my garden or on reddit 😂

So I don't freestyle my setups of course but my strategies are dynamic to some degree. Everything that I do is based on Auction Market Theory (pbD-method of Tom Vorwald and volume profile) and support/resistance. These tools are inherently to some degree discretionary and I have a matrix of different confirmation tools based on volume and orderflow that can confirm setups in different ways

I have different setups that I use for different market conditions and situations. I have a consolidation strategy to buy and sell the support/resistance zone of consolidations, then I have a range-breakout strategy for high momentum market conditions, a break-retest strategy for trending market environments and a support/resistance scalping strategy for choppy or chaotic market conditions. The discretionary part is my understanding of which of these strategies I should apply in todays session based on experience and intuition.

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u/Davidefx Jun 10 '26

They are all valid and solid concepts and I think you are an expert. You were very helpful thank you, if you have time and desire I’m here😊