Ever since buy and sell signals started showing up on my Trading View charts people have asked about my super secret trading strategy.

They’ve offered money, trips, favors, food and wine to get their grubby little hands on it.

“Sorry,” I said. “Can’t do it. I’ve worked too hard to uncover the mind blowing mysteries of the market wizards. They’re like the Philosopher’s Stone or White Eyebrow Kung Fu and the Five Finger Lotus Palm of Death. I couldn’t possibly sell them because in the wrong hands they’d prove fatal.”

On the other end of the chat channel I’m usually laughing my ass off.

I find it funny that people are always looking for secrets.

They imagine some mystical knowledge from the dawn of time, painted in flowing calligraphy on a crumbling scroll, locked in the golden safe of an ancient temple on a mountain cloaked in diaphanous mist.

If only they could get their hands on it, everything would change! They’d become the master of the universe.

I have the poweeeeeeeeeeeeer!

Well there is one secret. Are you ready?

There are no secrets. Everything is hidden in plain sight.

But I’m not just going to say it. I’m going to prove it to you. I’m going to give you my entire strategy for free, right in this article.

I’m even going to give you the Pine script for Trading View that got me started.

That’s right. After telling everyone I wouldn’t take their money I’m just going to give it away.

Why the hell would I do that?

Because it doesn’t matter in the least whether someone has my system.

The reason is simple. They won’t know what to do with it and they almost certainly won’t follow it anyway.

A trading system is about discipline. And most people won’t put in the effort to make it work for them. They won’t go through all the steps necessary to become a master. People imagine that if they just get the secret master’s scroll they can do killer Kung Fu. But it doesn’t work like that at all. No matter what knowledge you get in life you have to put in the work to understand it and to make it yours.

That’s why I can give it away.

So what is my strategy?

It’s based on the breakout system of the Turtle Traders, a famous trading experiment from the 1980’s where famed commodities trader Richard Dennis wanted to see if trading was nature or nurture. In other words, could someone learn to trade or was it some innate gift?

He put out an ad saying he’d train people with no experience and then give them a million dollars of his money to trade for him. He hired bar tenders, games designers, a former drug dealer and more, aka a rag tag band of misfits and outcasts, with only a handful of grad school and MBA types mixed in for good measure.

You can and should read about it in The Complete Turtle Trader and Way of the Turtle.

The yellow book goes into a huge level of detail about the strategy and how it worked. And if you want all the rules in one simple PDF, here you go. One of the original Turtles gave them away free. I’m going to go further than that though.

Like I said, I’m going to give you the Pine script you can plug into Trading View right here in this article.

But first you need to know that you can’t just take the rules and drop them into crypto with no thinking on your part whatsoever. For example, the system uses a dollar volatility calculation which doesn’t make the least bit of sense for crypto. That means you’ll have to use your own insights and experience to figure out which rules are still useful and which ones need changing.

Like anything in life it requires critical thinking.

Maybe the best definition of critical thinking is the old X-Files slogan:

“Question everything.”

If you’re emailing me or messaging me on Facebook or Twitter and asking me to feed you signals I got news for you, you haven’t learned a damn thing and you won’t learn if you keep looking for someone else to think for you. I can’t do it and I won’t do it.

If you want to learn to fish I’m you’re guy. If you want me to fish for you, keep right on moving because I have my own fish to catch.

You’ve got to take the original rules and modify them for yourself.

That means you have to use the scientific method, aka trial and error, to figure out what works and what doesn’t work.

Guess what?

That takes time. It takes effort. It takes losing money and making it again.

And it’s the most important part of the process.

The two weeks of training didn’t make the Turtles. Their hard work over many years made them.

If you won’t put in the effort and you want a signals group that encourages you to blindly buy whatever they tell you, you might as well take your money and light it on fire right now because it’s faster. As soon as that group is gone you’re in serious trouble. But if you put in the hard work to learn this yourself, you’ll come out ahead.

That’s why some of the Turtles, like Jerry Parker, went on to start mega-successful firms like Chesapeake Capital and some of the other Turtles flamed out after Dennis cut them loose in the late 80s. They were on their own with only the skills they’d learned to make them successful.