The Factor Report ✓
@PeterLBrandt · MN and AZ · joined 05 Feb 2011
Premier site for classical chart analysis of futures markets. Trader for five decades. Market Wizard. Author. Membership Factor Report https://t.co/83DcDyF2SE
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Hey Gen Z aspiring market traders
Being a life-time five decade trader of a personal pot, I will let you on on what might be a secret to your generation.
In my trading company,, Factor, for which I have been and am retiring, successful market speculation is not about getting
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It is half true. Huge slugs of volume can be starting volume or stopping volume
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@PeterLBrandt Peter, What do you think of the old market adage "volume stops trend"?
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If the markets were living self-aware entities (which in some ways they are -- more on this later) they would have several goals regarding retail traders
1. To make them feel magical before stomping on their heads
2. To make them feel smart just before making them feel like http
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My trading company, Factor LLC, trades almost exclusively with 1930s classical chart patterns (Richard W. Schabacker)
When I first started we did not have computers. Only later did we have a computer that could print out charts (on that old shiny fax paper
We kept charts my hand
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There are two reasons I still use X
1. It is important for traders to constantly preach "best practices" to themselves -- I mean daily, hourly, trade by trade
2. Putting thoughts into typed words helps me work through the details of a trade
There is a third -- and that is rare
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People take up markets for hundreds of different nuanced reasons. Most are not self-insightful enough to be honest with themselves. Those that become honest with self are far more likely to actually learn (with bruises) trading talents that are profitable
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Wow. Super assumptive. You do know I am all but crippled, don't you
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Ask 10 truly successful traders what the market make them think:
9 of the 10 would say
"The markets often make me want to think I am dumb. This is what the markets are so good at doing"
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@PeterLBrandt Have learned a lot from you Mr Brandt
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@PeterLBrandt A horizontal line is a real price where people actually bought and sold. A trendline is a different price depending on which low you started from. One is a fact, the other is a choice.
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@PeterLBrandt Check out this crazy horizontal resistance on #ETH https://t.co/Qa7SZ7DQ2b
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In my mind, simple horizontal lines are the only ones that really matter https://t.co/B5NMSbfSOF
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These are the countries represented by my private X community
Only a few years before I ride off into the sunset of trading after taking many millions out the market (I do NOT shout out exact numbers like so many like to do on social media)
https://t.co/gDeM5nTjTq https://t.co/Qc
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There are certain things a trader must learn to do to be successful. Most do not have a clue what they are for themselves because of their ego
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I started splitting trades into multiple tranches in the 2020s, resulting in higher trade counts
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@PeterLBrandt İşlemcinin ortalama kazanma oranı (Win rate) %54,3 ile dengeli bir seviyededir. Ancak stratejinin asıl gücü, kazanma oranından ziyade risk/ödül dengesinde yatmaktadır. Ortalama kazanç (Avg Gain) 63 baz puan iken, ortalama kayıp (Avg Loss) yalnızca 16 baz puandır. Bu
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views29 447this account16 468median for 1M–10M
Reach, %2.24%this account0.78%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.35%this account0.91%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 29 447 | 16 468 | 1.79× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.24% | 0.78% | 2.88× |
| Engagement rate | 0.35% | 0.91% | 0.39× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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35K11 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.27%9 Sep
0.65%
0.35%
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0.60%
0.18%
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1.81%10 Sep
1.28%
0.95%11 Sep
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1.62%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.91%.
What the audience does
Likes68.0%3 292 in total
Reposts9.0%436 in total
Replies5.0%240 in total
Quotes0.1%5 in total
Bookmarks17.9%865 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 09 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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