The Day Trader’s Way

It’s nice to work with templates, models, and procedures, isn’t it? Unfortunately, in trading—especially in scalping—defining patterns is difficult, but not impossible.

Patterns cannot be clearly defined, because in day trading they are based mainly on intuition:

“I’ve seen this before, I have déjà vu—so what do I do with it now?” Intuition, however, is trained through observation and repeated practice of familiar setups.

Patterns contain no absolutes. It’s like trying to find your way in a fog, on a highway full of potholes, where participants drive without licenses—often reckless, blind, and deaf—speeding at unimaginable velocities. It’s a completely abstract road, full of unpredictable obstacles: deep craters, fallen trees, or wrecked cars—everything you’d rather not meet on the Tape.

This abstract reality unfolds before a day trader the moment you launch your platform and begin trading. Yet, you can find your way on this highway—provided you spend enough time driving on it and learn to recognize the signs: solid lines, double lanes, rises and drops, narrowings, roadworks, stop signs, or forks. You’ll begin to discover ways to bypass obstacles.

Your inquisitive mind must constantly register situations and events so you can refer back to them during the next market open. Repetition leads to routine pattern recognition—and that’s partly the point. Price movements have a certain repetitiveness and similarity. Early recognition of these movements is the foundation of profitable trading.

The market is not just about extreme, rare events that happen once every few months.

It’s primarily about the daily, rapid flow of price action, where opportunities hide. Every market open is like entering a river that never stops flowing. Within this river are waves, whirlpools, and calmer stretches—and it’s here the trader must find their place. Opportunities don’t appear once a year, but every day, in hundreds of small sequences. The trader’s task is not to predict the future, but to learn how to swim in this river: to recognize the current, feel its tempo, and know when to jump in and when to stay on the shore. The market doesn’t reward those who wait only for extraordinary moments—it rewards those who can exploit ordinary days and repeating patterns.

All traders face the same rules,

but the data on the screen can be interpreted in two ways: Act or Wait. That’s because we perceive and interpret the same information differently. That’s why there are winners and losers. Losers are the inexperienced drivers who speed onto the highway where experienced traders already ride—and those veterans eliminate the rest.

Every trader must develop their own methods. Otherwise, they slowly begin to lose their mind. Did I mention that training with an experienced trader—first as a coach, and later as a mentor—is the fastest and cheapest road to early profits?