I do not use indicators, except two simple MAs as defacto for trends and an ADX Index that I pay attention to when it goes below 13 (that is another story)

I think new traders are waaaaaaay too complex in how they try to understand price. A daily OHLC bar chart is all I need, although as I have aged the weekly chart draws more attention than it once did.

An OHLC bar tells me everything I needed to know about today.

Of course you Zs and younger Ms will tell me you got it all figured out. I've heard that talk for 50 years, no offense. Of course if you can get all your complexity to work, then all the more power to you.

By "get it to work" I do not mean a screen shot of a phony profit or a monthly profit or even a big spurt in capital. Talk to me if you've been profitable in two of the last three years, have a Profit Factor >3.0, a three-year Calmar >2.0.

Then, and only then, would I even let you close to the younger Peter Brandt