I've been successful during our bear market this year, by using the Depth Chart, or Micro-analysis of the order book.
That's surprising. I've always found order book analysis to be misleading. People are always playing games on the order book.
My thought as well. I haven't been able to even remotely use any exchange order book in my advantage to obtain useful and potentially profitable data. One or more players can fill up or empty order books in a matter of minutes.
Another thing is that I see a lot people here talk about how well they are doing with trading, but it's pretty difficult for me to believe that this is actually happening. The far majority of the people trading are losers overall.
Funny thing however is that the people pretending to be trading successfully never bother to point out their trades before cashing them out. With that in mind I can make myself look like a solid trader here as well, but I don't.