I took off the training wheels a little over a week ago and I think I'm finally over them. The charts are so much clearer without the moving averages and my trading is improving as a result. I've removed the MA's before but soon went back to them, this was about 2 years ago. When you have any moving average on your chart, your eyes go to the moving averages first, instead of what is really important... Price!. I've also noticed that the moving averages squeeze the charts, the bars, etc. which makes recognizing profitable setups even more challenging because the patterns all look a little different. Now, all of my chart patterns look identical no matter what indices I'm trading and since I have no moving averages up, I'm forced to look left at real prior support and resistance aka Price.
