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What’s your timezone/how early are you talking about? Most of the action in the Elite Room is during the NY morning session (9:30am-12pm ET), and many traders have made their money by 11am ET.
If it doesn’t fit your schedule, there are plenty of trades to be had throughout the day with various Apex strategies. There is also plenty of help to be had through mentor groups and here in the forum.
The main Apex systems require the Apex toolkit that puts indicators on your NinjaTrader charts. However, if you would be trading during the Pacific session (6pm-3am ET), you can check out the Iron Condor strategy for overnight trades. (More info here and here.) That actually doesn’t require any indicators.
There are also news opportunities listed here.
Outside of that, the forex market can have some good movement during the London open at 3am ET. I personally haven’t looked into those charts for SEES Power setups:
“Power Trading with "Walls"” (the system most folks in the Elite Room trade), but I imagine there’s some good opportunity there.
To answer your question though, no you’re not dumb. If consistently-profitable trading was easy, everyone would be doing it. It’s deceiving because it seems easy, because it doesn’t look like there’s much to it. And there isn’t, when you really get down to it. But just because it can be simple doesn’t mean it’s easy. It really comes down to experience. I’m reminded of the comment Chris Haueter (5th degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu) makes here:
It's not who's good, it's who's left. And it's hours on the mat. And if you put in that time, natural athlete or not, you practice the art—you'll be a black belt.
You don't have to be a computer expert or a financial wizard. You just have to put in the time to develop the proper mode of operation. Part of that is technical, but a bigger part is mental. In _Trading in the Zone_, Mark Douglas talks about "getting your mind right." So much of trading is really just about dealing with your own psychology and learning to operate from a proper mindset. And honestly the biggest part of getting there is just trading. It's hours with the charts. Yes, you need a good system, but you still have to put in the time. It's becoming familiar with how markets behave, and learning to operate in a specific way that allows you to take advantage of opportunity, and not shoot yourself in the foot.
That being said, I understand you're not looking to become a guru, but at the same time, it'll still take some time. The good news is, if you take that time it'll be the [best paying "hobby" in the world](https://forum.apexinvesting.com/t/the-goal-of-trading-for-any-trader-is/4425).
