Is journalling one of OR the main reason you're profitable?

Journaling, or rather R&D, is the ONLY reason I'm profitable. Not main reason, not top reason, ONLY reason.

Between the blind leading the blind and the scammers trying to scam, odds are any advice you get will be total crap. There's almost no point in even asking questions anymore, you should go it alone with some books to learn the basics. Once you know the basics, you do the R&D to figure out what works for you.

Long gone are the days of things like Avid Trader forums, BBS, USENET, and IRC. The internet was a different place when I started;