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Purely mechanical strategies miss the intention behind price moves
  • Mechanical rules can tell you where a pull‑back might occur, but they cannot explain *why* the market is pulling back.
  • Without recognizing inducement characteristics, a trader may enter a trade that looks perfect on paper but is opposed by underlying market intent.
  • Bamber notes that many traders wait for a structural shift and a pull‑back without assessing the price’s intention, leading to frequent failures.
  • Data shows that high‑IQ individuals are not automatically better traders because they often ignore this nuance.
Michael BamberTitans Of Tomorrow00:00:13

Supporting quotes

If you're just sat there waiting on a shift in market structure and a pullback into extreme without understanding the intention of price, inducement characteristics 100% mechanical strategy, it's not always going to work. Michael Bamber
Otherwise, the people with top IQs in the world would be the best traders. Data shows otherwise. Michael Bamber

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