RE: Story of Sphere3D or Tale of Successful Trading Mistakes

You're definitely right, false hope can really damage a trader, it'll become difficult to see prospect in a venture that's good enough for trading.
I think your strategy wasn't really bad at least it didn't involve an technicalities of reading chart. For a pretty new trader you definitely did well then using your methodology. I'll still say you're one trader who's advanced with time. Books help a lot too