[Subtraction before adding settings] Procedure to choose what to remove from the screen on Sunday

On a Sunday with a lot of confusion, are you thinking "next time I’ll try a new indicator" and adding it to your chart?

Even though Monday’s screen is busier than last week, isn’t it true that the anxiety hasn’t decreased for some reason?

The more you waver in a week, the more you want to believe you were missing something.

But when you take a single shot of the screen and look at it, the opposite often happens.

Good evening!

This is Masashi ^^

This time, in the short Sunday window, I’ll talk about deciding what to remove from the screen before adding settings.

Also, I’ll redraw the boundary between what you decide and what the tool decides for you.

On Sundays when you feel like adding something, remove one thing first.

? The more you waver in a week, the busier Monday’s screen becomes

The weeks you hesitate to enter during weekdays tend to feel that something was missing by the weekend.

So you add another line, another indicator, another timeframe’s chart to the screen.

Immediately after adding, you feel relieved because more material is visible.

However, when the market starts moving on Monday, the more places you look at, the longer you spend wondering where to look first.

What you added to reduce the confusion ends up increasing the confusion for the next week.

I hadn’t realized this turnover for a long time (;'∀')

? When I had ten-odd lines on my chart

Honestly speaking.

A few years after starting trading, my chart had ten-odd lines drawn by me, and four or five indicators overlapping.

Every time I lost, I thought "this line could have helped me avoid it," so I added them one by one.

Before I knew it, the candlesticks were buried in the gaps between the lines and became hard to see… lol

The most troublesome thing was that there was always a reason to enter in any situation.

With ten-odd lines, price is usually near one of the lines.

When you feel like entering, you end up choosing the convenient one from among them.

? With too many materials on screen, judging becomes harder because of excuses to enter rather than clearer decisions.

? Use a week’s worth of records to decide what to remove

So, what should you remove?

For me, I decide based on whether I actually used it in that week’s decisions.

If you write, for each weekday, the reason you entered or why you passed, then the materials that appear there are the ones you used.

If you have a line like "Pass: not yet at the target line / little remaining time," then you used two things—the line and the remaining time.

Lines or indicators that never appear in your records were simply on the screen, not used.

For example, if you look back at five days of records and only see the "target line / remaining time / your own stop-loss position," then the rest of the indicators did not influence your decisions this week.

Those ones that were not involved become candidates to remove.

The criterion for removing is not like/dislike, but whether it appeared in the records at least once.

? Separate your own column and the tool’s column on paper

Before choosing what to remove, there’s one more thing to do.

Fold a sheet of paper vertically in two, writing on the left "things you decide yourself" and on the right "things received from the tool."

My paper usually looks like this.

・Left: Stop-loss position and the maximum loss you will tolerate at one time

・Left: Reasons to decide not to enter today

・Right: Position of the target line and remaining time for the move

・Right: An estimate whether the quantity is not too large

What you wrote on the left remains your work regardless of what tools you add.

What you wrote on the right can be shown on the screen without you counting or drawing it every time.

By dividing like this, you can see materials that don’t fit into either column.

You may also find materials on the right that you’re also doing by hand yourself.

Materials that don’t fit into either column become top candidates to remove.

? Golden Line Sniper AI is a tool that brings the right column into one screen

Golden Line Sniper AI is a decision-support tool used on MT5’s GOLD chart.

AI target lines, arrow signals, panels, remaining time of the move, and lot safety display can be checked without switching screens.

In terms of that paper, it’s the tool to bring what you wrote on the right into one screen.

You can start from a state where you don’t have ten-odd lines drawn yourself, focusing on where to look.

However, it does not take on the left column.

Where to cut losses or whether to decide not to enter today is still up to the user even with the tool.

The tool handles only the right column. Leave the left column empty and do not use it.

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✅ Sunday’s subtraction method

Fifteen minutes is enough time.

Make a cup of coffee and proceed in the following order.

・Take a single shot of the current chart screen

・Write down everything that appears on the screen on paper

・Circle the items that appeared in weekday records

・From those not circled, remove just one

・Write the removed item’s name in the "Removed List"

Removing several at once makes it difficult to tell what worked or what was missing the following week.

The "Removed List" might be written as, for example: [This week removed: three horizontal lines I drew myself / Reason: for five days, never appeared in the records]

? The key point to watch is whether the time I missed entering has shortened during the following week after removal.

? “If you remove it, won’t you miss it?”

When I bring this up, people often think this.

“No, no, there are more indications shown, so I won’t miss them!”

That anxiety existed for me too when I first reduced lines.

In the week I reduced, I still felt uneasy as if I had missed something important.

That’s why I keep the “Removed List.”

If there was a moment in the removed week when that material would have been truly useful, write a line about that moment.

For example: [Wed: price stopped around the removed horizontal line, but I noticed it late]

If the next Sunday you read that line and realize it was needed, you can restore it.

In practice, there aren’t that many materials you want to restore.

What you removed was probably one or two out of ten-odd lines.

❌ Some things must not be removed

I’ve been deducting until now, but I’ll apply the brakes here.

Just because it didn’t appear in the records doesn’t mean you can remove anything you like.

For example, things related to the magnitude of loss, like the quantity guideline or stop-loss location, matter for the size of the loss.

These often don’t appear in records in weeks that went well on weekdays.

But not appearing in the record doesn’t mean there wasn’t a problem.

Another is removing based on mood right after a loss.

If you remove because of “this display caused the losses” in a losing week, you’re deciding by outcome rather than by records.

Stop-loss is a cost you’ve anticipated from the time you placed it, so it’s not a reason by itself to remove a material.

? People who fit, people who don’t

I think this is a good tool for people who want to keep deciding themselves but want to complete the check of lines and times on one screen.

It’s also suitable for people who feel lost on a cluttered screen and don’t know where to start.

Conversely, it’s not suitable for those who want the tool to decide everything—from stop-loss location to entry points.

The left column on paper remains empty even when you install Golden Line Sniper AI.

Organizing the screen doesn’t guarantee profits by itself.

What changes is the length of time you spend wavering before you check yourself on Monday after opening the screen.

? Summary: This Sunday, remove one item and write one line

A week with a lot of indecision tends to make you want to add material.

But what you add can increase the places you look during the next week and extend the time you hesitate.

Decide removal based on whether it appeared at least once in weekday records.

Fold the paper in two, separating what you decide yourself from what you receive from tools, and you’ll see materials that don’t fit into either column.

Whether you manually align the right column every time or use a one-screen tool is up to you.

If you choose Golden Line Sniper AI, start by letting the right column handle it and fill in the left column yourself.

This Sunday, take a single chart screenshot and remove only one item that wasn’t circled.

If you write the removed item’s name in one line, you can calmly decide next Sunday whether to restore it ^^

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Thank you always for reading ^^