I came across a 21 years old trader who was posting some obscene 6 figures profits every month on a Discord server. Through shadowing his live call-outs on a simulator, I was convinced this guy was a real deal and asked him how he became this unbelievably skilled. He said his trading methodology was based on reading order flow, other than spending tons of screen time practicing, he emphasized that the educational materials from Jigsaw were some of the best he's ever seen.I knew nothing he was talking about at the time, but I thought to myself, if could make just 1/10 of what this lad is making, I would be among the top income bracket in my country!Following this lead, I came across the article written by Jigsaw's founder, Peter Davies, on the popular investor forum Futures.io, titled “Introduction to Order Flow - The Mechanics of Price Movement”.His introduction of these concise concepts explained the mystical part about the market dynamics that I always had problems with. I was shocked speechless. How could I not have heard about this anywhere else in the retail community before?What the technical analysis orthodox crowd (which accounts for perhaps 90% of all retail traders) are ignorant of, is the concept of bid-offer liquidity v.s. market orders, which is the most granular level building blocks of price movement, and this can be easily monitored on an order flow platform, which the retail community happened to actively avoid because of the widely circulated misconceptions about how spoofing orders impact the utility of DOM.The more I dug into it, the more I was exposed to the entirely different landscape of prop firm style trading. I realized that reading order flow is a standard practice in these professional trading environment, where traders generate a rate of return from their capital that's so insane, it's not even fathomable by average retail traders. I consumed lots of videos on Jigsaw's YouTube channel where folks from elite prop firms like Axia Futures, SMB capital joined as guests on webinars hosted by Peter Davies, sharing their drastically different philosophy than that of the retail traders'.They treat trader development like sports, they employ self-corrective, iterative processes to build up embodied skills of new traders. They don't just pluck a mechanical trading setup that's known to be working from their senior traders, and impose it on the newbies to blindly replicate it, because they knew it wouldn't work.The nuances of a trading setup would get lost in one's attempt to translate it for others. Two traders trying to trade the same setup in the same market would often end up targeting different entry and exist points, due to the inevitable variation in their personality, risk tolerance and quality of discretion.On the other hand, I've seen so many retail traders on various internet forums who have been trading for more than a decade, but they could still barely make a living. These guys have tried all sorts of indicators, familiarized themselves with every financial instruments and academic literatures over the years. They're so educated that they sounded like living encyclopedias whenever they opened their mouth. But for reasons unbeknownst to themselves, they just couldn't make money!Having identified this developmental hurdle that haunts most retail traders, the suit of trading educational guidelines that we can access freely after purchasing the Jigsaw software license is really of immense help.They make prop firm's training model accessible to retail traders by teaching through videos the order flow perspective of interpreting the market, guiding the practice of order flow drills to turn it into one's second language, kick-starting the process of positive feedback loop to identify, and amplify one's unique edge in the market…And if you get stuck in your journey to profitability, you can reach out to the community on Discord, or directly contact Peter Davies himself! Jigsaw's educational framework and support system have proven track records, as evidence by the successes of their customers, including the ridiculously skilled young trader I mentioned at the beginning.There's one caveat though, if you don't follow the instructions and put in hours of hyper focused practice, you can't expect to reap any success. Reading order flow is a hardcore, discretionary skill, that if done right, can open up huge profit potential. Not an eye candy of useless indicators that generate binary signals telling you when to buy or sell.
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