I deleted every indicator from my chart. No RSI. No MACD. No EMA. No Bollinger Bands. Just horizontal lines, candlesticks, and levels. For 100 trades on EURUSD H4, I allowed myself one tool: support and resistance zones with at least 3 prior touches. Here's what naked price action taught me.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Win Rate | 61% |
| Profit Factor | 2.31 |
| Avg RR | 1.8:1 |
| Net Pips | +2,870 |
| Longest Losing Streak | 5 |
61% win rate. 2.31 profit factor. These are the best numbers I've ever produced — and I was using nothing but horizontal lines. No math. No calculations. Just levels that price had proven it respects.
Every indicator adds lag. RSI needs 14 periods to calculate. MACD needs 12, 26, and 9. A 20 EMA is, by definition, 20 candles behind current price. When I stacked 3-4 indicators on a chart, I was looking at 4 different lagging signals, each telling me what price did in the past, and I was trying to extrapolate the future.
Horizontal levels have zero lag. A zone at 1.0850 that price bounced from 4 times over 2 months is a fact — not a calculation. Either price respects it again or it doesn't. My job was simply to wait at the level, confirm with a candle close, and enter. No interpretation. No "RSI is oversold but MACD hasn't crossed yet." Just: is price at my level? Is the candle closing in my direction? Enter.
The result was fewer trades, higher conviction, better timing. I took 100 trades over 6 trading months — roughly 4 per week. Compare that to the M1 scalp experiment where I was taking 10-15 trades per session. Trading less frequently at proven levels outperformed trading frequently at calculated levels by a factor of 3 on profit factor.