Invest in a setup idea if you want to make money trading

If you find a good setup invest time and effort in to perfecting it. More effort you invest higher will be your returns.

It means go in to significant detail of the setup idea. In order to make a setup work you need to really internalize the setup and make it part of you.

That means studying historically how the setup worked. Studding 1000, 5000, 10000 past instances of the setup ideas. And then from that derive leanings. That process is what is the key to building a long term edge in trading a setup.

When Livermore had a setup idea, he would go back in to his price records and see how it worked in past. He would always have a pad and pencil next to his bed according to his biography. If some setup idea hit him in the night , he would write it down and then next day he would research it.

If you want to trade a range breakout setup on growth stocks (which is popular and proven setup idea) then go  in to significant details about that setup . 

If you want to trade momentum burst setup  then go  in to significant details about that setup . 

If you want to trade anticipation setup  then go  in to significant details about that setup . 

If you invest significantly in setup idea you will find unique patterns and nuances that others have not found.

The effort makes you expert on that setup and when trading the same setup in current market they can instantly in their mind compare the setup to 20000 or 50000 past setup.

This is like chess grand master. Scientist have studied the brains of grand master and what they found is a grand master when making a move can compare the current state of the game to 50000 or more past games.A grand master in his mind instantly can look at a move of opponent and see how the game will unfold over next 20 to 30 moves, while novice looks at only 2-3 possible moves.

As against that most novice traders will abandon a setup if it does not work for 2 to 3 trades. Instead of investing in one setup idea for long period of time they flirt from setup to setup.

Significant investment in setup ideas is a recurring theme in every successful traders biography.
Most of us are not born traders.There are some who can instinctively get a setup idea in few minutes or weeks but most of us are duffers when we get in to trading. The solution to us duffers is to put in significant effort and then our game will improve.

So if you are serious about trading setups discussed here or any other setup, invest significant effort in to understanding and internalizing that setup.

There is no other short cut to that....

Unless you understand that you will continue to chase others ideas or recommendations and never have confidence in your own setups.....