i have no doubt at all non directional trading is the way to go if you have a certain personality type (a preference for large winning trades % vs preference for large win:loss ratio), ive tryed so many breakout systems over the years and they all fell to crap, not saying it's not possible, i know a guy who only trades breakouts and does well, but for me i couldn;t hold out through the drawdowns and could never make a directional system work, found you had to use really loose stops which often got massive slippage or gapped through on news items, then i discovered pair trading about 2 yrs ago, and haven't looked back since, i don't even find my own trades, i use this
signal service for them and place the trades from my iPhone in the toilet at my work :whistling ive grown my a/c consistently and i have been steadily increasing my trade size all year. every now and then il take a look at a directional trading systems, some interest me and show good results, albeit only in backtesting, but when it comes to starting one of them i always hesitate and just stick to what works, non directional pair trading, trading has gotten almost boring now (hence why i can't stop looking at new methods) but at the end of the day my goal is to make money from trading, not get on some gambling high looking for action every minute of the day, i go to casino for that :clap:
