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First, welcome to the community! We know day trading can be an exciting proposition and you’re eager to get started. But take a step back, read this post, learn from the free resources we have available and ask good questions! This will put you on a better path to being successful; but make no mistake - it is an extremely hard and difficult one. Keep in mind this community is for serious traders wanting to learn and talk with fellow traders. Memes, jokes and loss/gain porn is not allowed. Please take 60 seconds to read the sub rules. Getting Started If you’re looking where to start and don’t know much about day trading, please read our Getting Started Wiki. It has the answers to so many common questions and links to other great resources and posts by fellow community members. Questions are welcome, but please use the search first. Chances are it has been asked and answered - we can’t tell you how many times the same basic questions are asked. Learning to help yourself is a great skill to have for trading! Discord We also have an awesome and active Discord server for the community! Want a quick question answered or a more fluid conversation about trading? This is the place to be! The server also has a few nice features to help make your morning go smoother: Daily posting of a news watchlist A list of the most popular symbols traders are talking about The weekly Earnings Whispers’ watchlist Commands to call up charts on demand ----- Again, welcome to the community! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

My husband (31M) lost his corporate finance job last October. (He hated his job!) Now he very much wants to be his own boss / set his own schedule. He’s been actively day trading since January of this year. I will say he’s super smart and conservative with his trades. He has a masters degree in finance and is only working with $10,000 (not adding more) until he has consistent returns and strategy. Since January, his account is down about 50%. The problem is my job only covers 75% of bills, so we use savings to cover the other 25%. We are fortunate to have a large nest egg of savings. I suggested getting a part time job in the meantime, but he said that would impede on his trading schedule. How long would you give yourself (or your spouse) time to build up a strategy and start producing returns before you stop pursuing this career fulltime? What is reasonable? (I know there is no right answer here and maybe this is better suited for r/Marriage, but I want industry opinions here.) While in an active trade, with start/stop losses set, he usually watches YouTube or plays video games or naps. So I probably see him working 1-2 active hours a day. Is that normal? Is day trading a 40 hour a week job? Edit: He trades futures, currencies. Not stocks. Edit 2: fuck me, right? submitted by /u/auroraglitterdazzle [link] [comments]

For the past 2 years I have been trying to make profitable strategies. Just for them to become overfit and crumble the moment I forward test them. And guess what worked? a simple Bollinger bands breakout strategy GC1! 5m … im using it for futures now on prop firms and of course not running it on Minis. It even uses negative rr which is normally hated but for some reason I thought to myself why not just use dynamic sizing so when the strategy is about to lose just go down to 1 micro? And it works ! Backtest results: The numbers u see are based on minis but it’s supposed to be run with micros so the actual results is 1/10th of what you see so 11k drawdown is actually 1.1k drawdown. I have forward tested this and still doing that im up 1.6k on a 25k funded. Im not here to promote my strategy Im just here to show you that it’s possible to get something working. Share your thoughts submitted by /u/LengthinessFine6704 [link] [comments]

I am not sure if I am on a right track. it always started green with the start of the month but somewhere im between I lost my track. submitted by /u/Significant_Cause289 [link] [comments]

Wоrksport’s Q2 surge to 4.1 million in revenue (83 percent QoQ) and 26 percent margins signals a powerful comeback. The DOE grant-backed Buffalo expansion doubles capacity for SOLIS and COR production this autumn. Analysts anticipate breakeven by Q4 2025, with profit in Q1 2026. Dealer network growth from 94 to 550+ and OEM negotiations fuel sales projections. Plus, Terravis Energy’s AetherLux heat pump subsidiary targets the massive HVAC market. For traders and investors seeking asymmetry, this is a microcap loaded with catalysts. Nasdaq WКSP submitted by /u/tp488 [link] [comments]

I’ve been trading on and off for around 3 years now. The first 2.5 years I was just casually swing trading and learning the lingo and misc basics. Around February this year, I started to take trading seriously. I went through a long course I bought on Udemy, spent 6+ hours a day scalping HOOD and learning TradingView’s intricacies. I got fairly good at scalping, but I don’t have much capital to invest, and without leverage, scalping doesn’t yield a lot of profit. So, I moved to Forex. And… it was rough. So I started studying some ICT concepts, and a lot of stuff on T Trades’ channel. I was watching price action 8+ hours a day, 4 days a week, and 4 hours every night after work for months, identifying patterns and paper trading. But burn out inevitably got to me. Then I started wondering if everything my business mentor had said about day trading is true. He always says it’s just gambling. I still don’t believe that’s true, but I’m starting to wonder if it’s realistically viable. I’m 22 and I don’t want to spend years of my life trading with no guarantee of success whatsoever when I could focus on my new real estate wholesaling company and have a much higher chance of success. But I also don’t wanna give up on trading. I love it. What do y’all think? submitted by /u/the_deepstate_ [link] [comments]

Do novice traders really tend to gravitate toward these types of assets as a form of refuge? submitted by /u/Hot_Pay_2794 [link] [comments]

When a fellow member of this subreddit asked, “Does trading actually work?” and “What are the basics” that beginners should know, I responded in my regular, in-depth fashion. What follows is a larger, more flushed-out version of my initial comment to that fellow member. My philosophy on trading is radical. Simply because I approach trading with common sense. And the most common sense thing that I can think of is this. If 90% of people fail at day trading, then why would I do what most people do? When you ask people for resources, they’ll recommend the same resources. And in reality, there’s a LOT more ressources than most people recommend! So the problem isn’t a lack of information, the problem is knowing how to decipher what information is critical, or at least what information is best for you. If you don’t even know what’s worth knowing, how can you actually learn in a steady, useful manner? Moreover, if only 1 in 10 people make it in day trading, why in the world would you want to go down the same road? Me, personally, I don’t want to know the same thing. Nor do I want to do the same thing that everybody’s doing. The only rule in day trading is that there are no rules in day trading! If I knew that when I first began, I would’ve saved myself a lot headaches (and a lot of money). There’s standard technical stuff to learn of course. But you can decide how far down that rabbit hole you want to go just by beginning with “What’s a Market Trend and how do you determine it?” Even with just a decent understanding of Support & Resistance alone, a trader can be consistently profitable. And “profitable” doesn’t mean that you have to shoot for the moon with each trade. Now, keep in mind that most people mean well. But people can only give you the insight that they have. And most traders confuse what’s universal with what’s really only their subjective view. So a lot of traders spit out dogma and speak with an authoritative tone. (I read a comment earlier today where one trader told another trader: “Never trade Options.” Like, what’s that about?!) I don’t speak dogma and I always welcome a constructive exchange. In the end, the only thing that gives me the right to say anything about trading is the fact that I do it, that I survived long enough to do it. I just tell it like I see it, according to my trading journey and the specific observations that I have made. People can take what I have to say with a grain of salt. So if what I say resonates with you, use it. If what I say doesn’t resonate with you, that’s ok, too. Ignore it (and ignore me). But I know that some people will learn from my posts and comments. And that means a lot to me, because I know what’s it like to be completely in the dark about trading. I was there once. And I’ll never forget that feeling of being lost. Either way, in my opinion, the best way to learn trading is to have regular, intentional and purposeful communication (conversations) with traders who already know how to do it. And there’s no one way how to day trade! No one is going to tell you this. Most traders are just going to give you a list of books and to tell you: “Go read a book and watch videos,” etc. Please know this. People are quick to recommend books, when, in reality, you can just go to Investopedia and learn the most fundamental concepts for free and on a as-you-need-to-know basis. Once you have an introduction to the basics, it’s up to you to practice and further develop your understanding. I never read a single book that most traders recommend these days. And the trader who taught me the most was day trading long before most of the “popular” trading books were even published. So you want the basics? OK, let’s go! Here’s the 1st basics. Communicate relentlessly with traders that give you detailed, non-filler responses. Some people in this subreddit just show up to be contrarians or be negative about everything or play the “know-it-all” role or just make jokes in the comments of informative posts. Avoid these types and maintain connections with traders who tell it straight, with respect and patience. The 2nd basics. Asked detailed questions! Lots of why and how questions! Don’t ask, “What does X indicator do?” Ask. “How do you use X indicator?” and “Why do you use X indicator?” There is no resource greater than another person with experience. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will speed up your learning curve more than simply communicating with someone who has experience. Get a direct line to a trader who’s mastered a thing or two — not everything, no one knows everything, — and they’ll teach you about what to avoid, from their battle scars, faster than any resource. And at the beginning, it’s critical that you know some of the things that you commonly should avoid. The 3rd basics. What’s your personality? Are you someone more attracted to the complex or the simple? Nothing wrong with either personality. Some traders trade with 2 or 3 large monitors in front of them! And they do 4 hours+ of research each day; and they look at Institutional data and scan Order Books, etc. Some traders roll out of bed an hour before the Market opens, draw a few lines (key levels), and trade off of their phones for less than an hour or so. Then they take the rest of the day off. Neither approach is the right way of the wrong way. When it comes to day trading, what works for you is the only thing that matters. And most beginning traders never get told this fact. And many traders take years before they figure out how important it is to have your own system. Some traders live for this trading stuff! They love all of the jargon, and it shows in how they talk about the trading the information that they share. Some traders couldn’t care less about all of the acronyms and technical definitions. Neither personality is wrong or right. You just better know which side of things you fall on, and keep it real with yourself. The 4th basics. What’s your time frame? You want to make a reasonable amount of money in a reasonable amount of time? Or are you looking to make outsized returns in short periods of time? Be honest with yourself. A lot of traders will shoot down beginners and tell them what’s not possible or what’s not realistic. Hey, I’m not here to tell anybody what’s not possible. There’s a Risk Reward level for every trade, and there’s a Risk Reward psychology for every trader. The Market presents opportunities that create new millionaires every day! The Market also creates opportunities that wipe out Accounts every day! It’s a cold world; you get it where you fit in, and you learn how to stay warm. So, for instance, if you want a small, steady return over 10, 20 years, with very little risk, I’m going to tell you that maybe day trading isn’t for you, and that you may want to look into long-hold dividend stocks, etc. On the other hand, if you’re interested in turning decent Profits in a few days and weeks, then I’m going to point you in the direction of trading Options. There’s another approach between long-hold dividends and the fast-past world of Options. But I don’t believe in misdirecting people. People can choose the path that suits their personality, temperament, and financial objectives; and they can study and learn the path that they choose at their own pace. I just don’t believe in telling people, “never trade this,” or “only trade that”. Rather, if you tell me what you are trying to do, and if I know the pathway, I’ll tell you how to get there based on my journey and perspective. The 5th basics. Do you want to trade Common Shares or Options? Trading common shares involves a much lower degree of difficulty. But if you trade shares, I would strongly recommend that you go the large cap route and avoid FOMO Penny stocks route. If you wanna trade Options, you’re gonna need your big boy pants! But trading Options is far, far, FAR more lucrative and, by default, less time consuming. And with Options, you can choose your own level of complexity. But for some traders, Options are like the boogeyman. While for some other traders, Options are like an ATM machine! Only way you can know if Option are for you is to look into it for yourself. My fundamental advice with Options though is to simply buy Calls or buy Puts. There are a number complex Options strategies, but you don’t need to know them in order to be profitable trading Options. The 6th basics. You can only get better at trading by actually trading. So the sooner you start trading, the better off you’ll be. You can always explore resources at the same time. There’s no law that says that you have to pour through months of resources before you begin trading. And you can always start off trading paper (i.e. not real money). But you have to actually trade; you have to get a feel for it. Just commit. submitted by /u/BestDamnTrade [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, I'mlooking to make my own strat and just learning the fundamentals. One thing that seems to be quite common in other strats is that people use Volume a lot. So what exactly are you looking for with that data and how does it help you? submitted by /u/WebComp [link] [comments]

Lost 9 trades in a row doing it that way, found much more success waiting on the sidelines for something to pump up fast with volume, or dump down fast with a lot of big red candlesticks. Even though that takes time I never encountered a 9 loss losing streak until I tried trading every single minute. Who is trading every single minute for regardless of what the chart looks like? Is that for the algorithms? Is anybody successfully trading every single candlestick manually? I think my problem is I am addicted to trading, I always want constant action and income coming in, but this just doesn't seem the best way to trade. submitted by /u/Snoo_60933 [link] [comments]

My backtests are showing a statistically significant edge in my strategy, I think. Ideally everything would scale up perfectly, but we all know the real world is different. I prioritize high volume stocks, but sometimes there are smaller cap stocks that pass my filters on slower days. These are still profitable in my backtests, but naturally they are more prone to slippage in live trading I imagine. Looking for any traders full time or otherwise who had issues scaling up and what you did about it. Thank you. submitted by /u/gamingonion [link] [comments]

Berserk style trading submitted by /u/boneless365 [link] [comments]

I made an indicator that looks for divergences between ES/NQ and the true index. submitted by /u/venturetm [link] [comments]

It seems like the last 1hr tp 1hr 30min of the day before 0DTE Options get closed out the market just consolidates and moves sideways. Is there a reason for this besides theta decaying options? If so what is the benefit of the market preforming this way? submitted by /u/WhiteGirth [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a tool I wish existed back when I started trading, and now the MVP is finally live. Would love your feedback, suggestions, or test cases!! This tool lets you describe your strategy in plain English (no coding) and it automatically: * Backtests it on historical data * Returns performance metrics * Shows screenshots of each trade * Give you AI suggestion to improve your strategy Use Cases: * Found a new filter or condition that improves your strategy? Just type it in, hit run. * Trying to find a strategy that fits you better? Test multiple in minutes instead of weeks. * Want to sharpen your edge by spotting patterns faster? This saves you from repetitive work. I’d love your: * Brutal feedback (UI, UX, clarity, use cases…) * Ideas on what you’d want it to do next * Edge cases or strategies you’d want to test on it Link to the MVP: (Would recommend to try from a computer) https://www.BacktestAI.com submitted by /u/thefakeab [link] [comments]

After being in the red for months due to overtrading, oversizing, and being too aggressive, I’ve managed to fortify my mental and only size up on a+ setups instead of risking the same amount on every setup. Although this is only a couple weeks and I’m far from perfect, my worst bad habits have come to an end. A few more thousand in profit and I will be back in green for my all time PnL. Been trading for 3-4 months. (I don’t do anything special on Fridays, they all just happened to run very well lol) submitted by /u/Raizinbrand [link] [comments]

Everyone talks about the grind, the struggle and the drawdowns. But what happens if you succeed? I’ll tell you: Your problems don’t go away. They change. You’ll wake up and realize you don’t have to trade anymore, but you still want to. You’ll have days where you make in a day what you used to make in a month, and it won’t even feel real. You’ll realize freedom isn’t just money, it’s the discipline to protect it. You’ll deal with: Guilt on days you don’t work Pressure you put on yourself to keep growing Friends and family who don’t understand what you do Boredom if you don’t have a bigger vision than just “making money” You’ll realize that once you take care of money, your next fight is meaning. If you think making $500/day will solve all your problems, it won’t. But it will give you the space to solve them. Trading can buy your freedom. But it won’t fix your discipline, your habits or your mindset. That’s still your job. And if you’re willing to do that work, then yes this game can change your life. Do you need to show up everyday? Yes. Do you really need to trade everyday? No. You. Don't. submitted by /u/allen_trades_rddt [link] [comments]

Hi, This is a very serious post about traders who go through emotional turmoil and anxiety when they trade and lose money, it’s not normal. I’m writing this with experience so take this very seriously. So many of you people are ready to go through whatever mentally just to make trading work and don’t care much about themselves and their mental healthy while learning. Everytime you go through a bad week, bad day - talk with someone, analyse what’s going on with you, try talking to ChatGPT about it cuz normal people won’t get it. This - is so that you don’t have struggle on your own and your mind will not be able to process so much negative thoughts and emotions if you continue to go through it year after year. Again, for those who are struggling, take it seriously and make sure you talk whatever you feel. Either to a human or to AI. It doesn’t matter. Cheers! Trade well. submitted by /u/Aberz2105 [link] [comments]

https://preview.redd.it/x5d1nw670sff1.png?width=796&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d27dac7c36f2eb2ff7ad813bcfc5d1aafac1b6f https://preview.redd.it/q3ufgw670sff1.png?width=1051&format=png&auto=webp&s=4761f488d9e5471af00740a2990e00441caa0b05 https://preview.redd.it/0ff99x670sff1.png?width=791&format=png&auto=webp&s=6705238dbca492caa8c8cae8366fea5527e70f77 This is my interpretation of AMT. It’s based on the idea that buyers want to buy at a lower price and sell at a higher price—just like in any other market, not only in financial markets. As I mentioned in the post I made earlier, buyers typically buy at the lower end of the volume distribution, while sellers sell at the upper end. In image number 1, you can see the classic D-shaped profile, where most of the volume is distributed in the center of the trading session. When we have this type of distribution, our focus for the following session will be: the previous day’s high to find potential resistance, the previous day’s low to find potential support, and the POC as an area of interest. If you backtest what I’m explaining in this post, you’ll see that these levels I’m pointing out are indeed significant. Then we have image number 2, which shows a sort of lowercase “b” shaped distribution, where volume is concentrated in the lower part of the session. This is a very important indication because it tells us that, throughout the trading session, most of the trading activity occurred in the lower part of the range. How should this be interpreted? First, we need to see where the session began. If the session opens and price moves down without much volume, and only after the price has dropped we start to see volume coming in, this likely means that someone is accumulating. So, we can infer that in the following session, our support will be both at the session low and at the POC. In image 3, you can see how the price first moves upward and only afterward the volume comes in. What does this mean? Distribution. Someone sold at higher prices, and in the following session, we can expect a bearish move. That’s the basic idea. I’m planning to publish more posts to go deeper into this topic—if I see that you're interested. If you follow these posts and leave a like, I’ll definitely create a final post where I explain each part in detail. So, to recap: Where is the volume concentrated? Did price move first, or did volume come first? Let me know if you like this format by leaving a like and sharing! submitted by /u/devTrading [link] [comments]

I am losing my mind and at a crossroads. Earlier this year I was able to get about 98k from prop firm payouts with about a 20k cost. This all changed once my wife lost her job, we found out that she’s pregnant with our 4th and that one of my children was diagnosed with leukemia. I went from being on top of the world to now crying every single day. I can still pass prop challenges but I cannot get to payouts anymore, I used to have a 70-80% win rate scalping, now my win rate is 30-40% doing the same thing. I’m in a pretty dark place to be honest with you, we’ve reduced our quality of life and we are still at a 4-5k deficit monthly, only current income is my regular job. Our sons care require weekly or multiple times a week round trips of about 400 miles total for his care, no family to help. Anybody ever been in a similar situation, I feel so stuck and that I can’t get out. submitted by /u/TwiXXXie96 [link] [comments]

These are the only indicators you need to become a profitable trader. If you combine these indicators with price action and master how to use them then you will hopefully succeed in your quest to make money from trading. You will also need to master money management as this is crucial to your success. Hopefully this will help point you in the right direction and then the rest is up to you The indicators I have on my chat are as follows 9 EMA 21 EMA MACD (smoothed with histo) RSI VOLUME You can also add supply and demand zones and trendlines to your chart. I class these as price action analysis and that's why I didn't include them in the list of indicators submitted by /u/Content-Lychee-5266 [link] [comments]

Hi. Anyone else have custom scripts in tvate that are totally misbehaving? When i try to delete files in the code editor to reduce clutter, they just all reappear next time I open tradovate. Also, sometimes when i edit a file (which will then work how i want it to while I'm using the app), tvate will go ahead and roll back all the changes I made next time I open the web app or desktop app. Very epic. Surely this isn't a unique experience? Anyone find a way around it? Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/edjelly [link] [comments]

What exactly should I be journaling in Tradezella to improve my trading? submitted by /u/Lazy_Performance5952 [link] [comments]

To be clear: I'm referring to maintenance margin, NOT hard to borrow fees. So the amount of equity you need in your account in order to maintain the position. submitted by /u/Dismal-Daikon-1091 [link] [comments]

Long if Solana stays between 181.68 - 181.04, confirmation if it breaks 182.35 submitted by /u/SorryMoney4246 [link] [comments]

what a great green day. anyone else short $RCON today? $STAI and $HWH were great long scalps today as well. Hope everyone had a great GREEN day. YYEEwwwwwwwwwww submitted by /u/dsurfryder252 [link] [comments]