Are Indicators Killing Your Trading Edge?

[rachid el jaafari]

Everyone talks about indicators like they’re magic… but the truth? Most ‘famous’ indicators are just lagging signals.
Price action beats them 9 times out of 10. Who actually trades without indicators and survives?

[Ryan L Johnson]

rachid el jaafari:
Everyone talks about indicators like they’re magic… but the truth? Most ‘famous’ indicators are just lagging signals.
Price action beats them 9 times out of 10. Who actually trades without indicators and survives?

There are some who say that bars on a chart are an indicator, in and of themselves.

[Alexandr Saprykin]

rachid el jaafari:
Who actually trades without indicators and survives?

Those who have inside information

[Mehrdad Shoghi]

rachid el jaafari:
Everyone talks about indicators like they’re magic… but the truth? Most ‘famous’ indicators are just lagging signals.
Price action beats them 9 times out of 10. Who actually trades without indicators and survives?

I trade without indicators. My edge is data, context, and pure price action—no lag, no decoration. Price is the signal.