Through my research, reading, following successful traders, and valuating all trusted sources I know of, there's quite a lot of key indicators and strategy planning that most successful traders put together before they hit "buy" or "trade".. I'm curious and asking from an "oblivious" point of view - what's the best guidelines/pointers to look at before trading?

I know that it'll never be a "one-size-fits-all" recipe, however experience taught me that sharing best practices does prove to be fruitful at some point.

However, I guess that the 1% major successful traders won't share their secrets 😅