Important update regarding the 'Trades I liked' chart:

I'M GOING NAKED 😱

Don't worry, there is method behind the madness 😉 This is a thread, grab a coffee or a glass of wine. Or you could just have an Irish Coffee instead, cover all bases😊

I used to take trades all the time off various levels & vwaps. All these give off some great trades! However more recently, the majority of my trades have been off the naked bars. Not a lot beats trading wicks for me, it's a simple setup that repeats all day long!
As Matt used to say in the room "If you're not using something, why the fuck is it on your chart"? I found myself thinking the same thing tonight when explaining my chart to someone.
Now altho I haven't been taking that many trades off levels or vwaps, I still want to know where they are. E.G. If I'm long & I can see we're going to run into the PSH (Previous Session High) or Day 3 VWAP, I'll think abt adding-on (to bring target below) or killing trade there.
Context is so important. The 15m chart with the levels and vwaps on give me what I need to see (the overall picture with where the potential road blocks for the day will be). For the 1m chart, I don't actually need them on there.
Having them on the 1m chart just seems to confuse people more. It also adds unnecessary clutter for the way that I trade it. Consider last Friday's chart. No trades were based off any level or vwap:
Now look at the same chart with no indicators. Completely different! Also, it accurately presents the information that I am taking my charts off - THE BARS 😊
Yes of course, I will miss some trades by using a naked chart. But my job isn't to catch every trade. Just one big enough for my Nut, and trading the wicks gives me plenty of opportunities to do just that👍

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This model was created Dr. Ron Westrum, a widely-cited sociologist who studied the impact of culture on safety


Thanks to Dr. @nicolefv, I was able to interview him for an upcoming episode of the Idealcast! 🤯

It was a very heady experience, and while preparing to interview him, I was startled to discover how much work he's done in healthcare, aviation, spaceflight, but also innovation.

I've read 4+ of his papers, so I thought I was familiar with his work. (Here's one paper:
https://t.co/7X00O67VgS)

I was startled to learn he has also studied in depth what enables innovation. He wrote a wonderful book "Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake"


Dr. Westrum writes about China Lake Research Labs: "its design and structure had one purpose: to foster technical creativity. It did; China Lake operated far outside the normal envelope... Sidewinder & others were "impossible" accomplishments,

I love this book because it describes traits of organizations that routinely create and maintain greatness: US space program (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo), US Naval Reactors, Toyota, Team of Teams, Tesla, the tech giants (Amazon, Google, Netflix, Google)

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