One thing that always interested me is how other Traders are progressing. I'd like to know how your *Roadmap* so far looked like, what big Challenges did you overcome and which Realisations paved your way?
How did you get where you are today?
My Roadmap so far looks kinda like this:

- Trading is easy. Buy low sell high. Duh. Imma build a trading bot.
- My bot doesn't bot
- *Searching for the magic indicator*
- Getting swayed by Trading Gurus
- Actually Researching the Gurus. Turns out they're broke.

- After much search, realising that there's no Magic indicator. But shurely there must be a working combination of them?
- TA Systems don't work. I'll try discretionary Trading.
- Running with my head against a wall for half a year trying to get at least an edge in discretionary trading.
- Realising that what I'm doing is completely stupid.

- Actually thinking, what it would take to make money in the financial Markets.
- Kinda get together, what a system should look like, what you would exploit, how different approaches to the market work etc.
- Testing my ideas (No strategies, just asumptions on how to build strategies, etc.)
- Finally realising the existence of Inefficienies in the markets

- Starting to build strategies in TradingView, cause I don't want to program my own engine
- Realising the importance of Simplicity
- Realising the importance of exits
- Realising the importance of filters

- After many difficulties with Tradingview (well. what would you expect) researching for better, easily programmable Backtesting engines
- Finding Zorro (great btw.)
- Reading through all the stuff
- Confirming some of my findings, getting introduced to new ones
- Finally a profitable (heavily inspired but selfbuild) strategy

- Learning how to find new ideas for strategies (by not copying others from the web but actually getting own ideas)
- Creating strategies (mostly unprofitable) with the occasional winner
- Building a portfolio of profitable strategies

Well, that's how I got where I am. Still struggling with finding filters. And beeing amazed at JCl's findings.
So how looked your journey? Where are you still struggling. Would love to kow.