So I was reading how traders say that with out a border in the market, your betting and the market will sooner or later get your account balance. I don't disagree with that, a casino is a perfect example.

What is an edge? I think we can all agree it's something you need to your advantage over other market participants.

A few folks on this forum which do this for a living obviously are winning consistently. Do they have an edge?

One forum member plays daily pin bars on a chart obvious as can be to everybody. He is consistently profitable.

Another forum member plays break-outs with only a brief time period chart. He too is consistently profitable.

We have order flow traders that use news, information available to everybody. They are able to understand the market and its inefficiencies better than many nonetheless.

What I'm getting at here is.

I think a lot of edges in the market are not super secret hidden info or things like that. I think most edges in the market just come from being more experienced and educated than the rest.
(I want to mention I don't think most profitable retail traders are more knowledgeable or experienced than the men at the central banks or Wall Street. I would say we've got an advantage/edge of being minnows at a sea, where we don't need to look for pools of money to select up or dump orders. Then again, the large men create the order flow which moves the markets and they are concerned with where the liquidity is... So you probably should be too )


Maybe this is obvious to everybody and I'm just thinking out loud, but I feel like too many men and women get discouraged or look for the sacred fail err I mean holy grail their whole trading professions instead of just sitting down and spending some fantastic excellent time grinding out some knowledge from the vast resources available to people.