Few words about trading platforms

Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to draw certain things with the tools of your trading platform? Ever wondered why a certain view of candlesticks is simply impossible to materialize or why you have to click unnecessarily over and over again?

Now, I am not going into naming any of the trading platforms as I consider all of them faulty. All I want to draw your attention to is the fact that trading platforms are designed to be faulty and not designed to serve your purpose of trading successfully. Whatever your beliefs about the market and its players are, you can consider your reaction to a phenomena that might have an effect on your trading – the difficulty of reaching certainty based on how you want to look at charts. When you want to look at a chart in a certain way, that certain way you expect to be possible. When it is not possible, it very much becomes part of your trading, part of your emotional setup, the way you feel either when opening a position, defending a position or closing a position. This is all I want you to think about, be able to differentiate and do something about it, preferably to know where your feelings or parts of your feelings come from and how they are being generated. Once you understand the process of how your emotions are generated you may be able to do something that bring parts of your emotions under control.

Let’s take a look at some of the issues that you may have not even considered, only tried to battle them. Understand that you are not alone, you are not stupid, slow, ignorant, careless or uneducated. Everything is designed for you to feel that way and end up acting emotional, make mistakes that cost you money that ends up in other people’s pocket.

So what are the major issues of trading platforms?

In the age of technology, AI and all, would you believe that there is a major platform that do not allow traders to draw an arrow and indicate a relationship between two areas of a single chart?

Ever wondered why zooming in and out results in either seeing twice as much without details or half as much with unnecessary details.

What about changing letter size? Would not magnifying letters when zooming in and seeing them smaller when zooming out serve your interest?

How about doing a price prediction over the weekend just to learn on Monday morning that your lines are all messed up and you can start doing it all over again?

The list could go on and on…

All platforms make you keep clicking unnecessary because somebody or something does not want you to see what needs to be seen. Instead, platforms want you to feel empowered but be engaged in activities that do not serve your purpose. So if you feel you are clicking and trying to figure things out with a lot of technical work but without tangible results, it may be time to think about what is being done to you that causes you to keep doing what you are doing. It may be time to wake up and change perspectives.