At the end of the day, if you can’t read price, you won’t STAY profitable.
Everything starts with the chart. If you have to look at a chart. You’re a retailer.
Learn price action first. Learn how candles move, where liquidity sits, where structure breaks, where buyers and sellers actually react.
Then add the extras.
Gamma, heat maps, flow, news / catalyst, indicators, heat maps. All of that is secondary.
Because if you don’t understand price, everything else just becomes noise.
There’s a different level of power that comes when you build confidence in both DAY TRADING and SWING TRADING.
You day trade and scalp to stay sharp, take advantage of intraday opportunities, and generate cash flow... while your swing positions to cook in the background.
You swing when the higher time frames show structure, continuation, and room for a multi-day move. (I’m personally still getting better at this)
You day trade when the intraday setup gives you clean risk, clean execution, and IMMEDIATE opportunity. This shit suits my personality more. I want my money same day, type shit.
It’s the ability to let one edge work while another one develops.
Find your edge and respect the process behind both, and you will start to understand what trading can truly unlock.
Saying one is more superior than the other is weakness and insecurity. Learn how to do both and simply just capitalize.