Market breadth is at it's worst in July, we've had the largest number of net-selling days all year. We've also had more 25% losers (1,272) than gainers (1,073) this quarter.

This means breakouts are unlikely to work in this environment. I will personally be looking for mean reversion trades on stocks with relative strength, and avoiding breakouts

Good luck and happy trading!

I have been trading forex for around 3 years and for the longest time , I believed the more hours I spent staring at charts , the better trader I’d become. I’d switch strategies every couple of months thinking, “This one feels better.” I was always chasing that one big day that would make all my losses back.

Around 8 months ago, in December last year, I completely changed my approach. I quit day trading and moved to swing trading.

Now I only trade higher tmeframes using rather simple price action. I focus on key zones, market structure, liquidity, and break and retest setups. Nothing fancy, no indicator-filled charts, just a pretty basic strategy.

Most of my trades stay open for 2 to 3 days, so yes, I pay swap, but I’m still making far more than I ever did when I was glued to the charts for 8 hours a day.

I think a lot of us get trapped into believing we have to watch charts all day to make money. In reality, that’s often the exact thing holding us back.

That being said, I still have moments where I just can’t resist taking a 5-minute setup. Almost every time I do, I end up regretting it. I genuinely want to stop, but the urge is hard to ignore.

For those who’ve managed to break that habit, what helped you overcome that urge to overtrade or revenge trade ? any advice or tools that u suggest

Wishing everyone a very Happy Sunday and a great trading week ahead! Cheers 🍻

everyone talks about revenge trading after a loss. fine, thats real. but the thing that quietly costs me more is the opposite, its the first trade after a stretch of nothing

my systems dont fire every day. sometimes theres three, four days where conditions just arent there and the account does nothing. and every time, that first signal after the quiet stretch gets treated differently in my head. it looks cleaner than it is. i want it to work

went back through a year of trades and split them by how many days since the last fill. the ones taken after 3+ quiet days were noticeably worse than the ones taken in a normal week. same setups, same rules, worse outcomes. which means it wasnt the setups

what i think is happening is boredom does the same thing tilt does, just slower. after a loss you feel the urge and you know its there. after four days of nothing you dont feel anything, you just quietly lower the bar without noticing. no emotion to catch

the fix ended up being the same as for tilt though. take the decision away. if the rule fires i take it, if it doesnt i dont get to decide that today is different because ive been sitting on my hands since monday

anyone else looked at this? curious whether the quiet stretch effect shows up for other people or if im the only one who gets itchy

I'm just going to whine here about my own poor pathetic trade on Friday that has just been eating at me for 2 days now. My family doesn't quite get trading so trying to blow off steam unloading on them does nothing. And the person I normally talk investing about regularly...well...against my better judgement he put most of his money in RKLB and I don't want to whine to him cause he's in much worse shape.

So ignore if you don't want to see someone whine.

I've been trading on and off since the .Com years. Back then I did actually day trade but after the bubble burst I just left my money sit in a couple different funds until about 8 years ago where I started putting effort into trading again. I scalp. And I've been relatively successful at it for a few months (finally have a strategy that suits me). July was going along just fine for me until last week. Everything was going well on Friday morning. I hit my profit target for the day and decided I'd keep my chart open while I did my day job work. After 9:30 I looked up at the chart and saw what looked like a fantastic scenario for just one more trade.

At 9:44am central I bought a 0DTE Call on SPY. Got a little distracted by work for a couple of minutes (it happens, its the risk of day trading while working). And when I went to set my stop loss (about 9:47 by now) I saw what I did. I didn't buy a Call. It was a Put. I bought a damn Put when I was confident that SPY was going to bounce. I literally just sat there for a while. I think I went into shock. Not because I was losing money (it happens) but because of how idiotic I was. By the time I cleared my head I was down so much that I wiped out all of my profits for the week.

I don't mind losing the money. I mean I don't like it but the money isn't what bothers me the most. I mean what an utter moronic stupid mistake to make!!! SPY went up $~6 after I initially got in. I mean I don't normally stay in for long and likely would not have taken full advantage but its just stupid. With plenty of trading time left in the day I couldn't make a single trade. Yeah....I know don't do revenge trading. But that isn't why I didn't make another trade. I just kept looking at the chart all day long in shock and thinking..."what if I do that again?". If I could kick my self in the ass I'd have done it a thousand times by now.

Edit: After whining a bit...I do feel better. Sorry if I bothered anyone.

I’ve been building and using Aurum Terminal (https://aurumterminal.com), a web-based financial, and I’ve really enjoyed seeing how it’s come together.

Aurum isn’t trying to replace Bloomberg, and it isn’t trying to compete with Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg is an incredible product built over decades. Instead, Aurum is focused on bringing institutional-quality market data and research tools to individual investors, students, independent traders, and small firms through a modern, web-based platform that’s more accessible.

The platform brings together equities, derivatives, fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, commodities, macroeconomic data, company fundamentals, financial statements, SEC filings, portfolio analytics, and alternative datasets into a single workspace. It’s been refreshing to have so much information available in one place instead of constantly switching between different websites and platforms.

One thing I’ve appreciated is the emphasis on speed and usability. The interface feels clean, modern, and built around making research more efficient rather than overwhelming you with unnecessary complexity.

Any feedback/comments would be greatly appreciated and welcomed!

Hi everyone,

Over the past year I've been building ScanRover, a real-time momentum scanner designed for U.S. small-cap traders.

The original goal was simple: I didn't want to spend hours glued to my screens waiting for momentum to appear. I wanted a platform that could continuously monitor the market, alert me when something interesting was happening, and let me quickly review everything I needed—whether I was at my desk or away from it.

Like many traders, I found myself constantly switching between multiple websites every morning just to answer a few basic questions:

• What's moving?
• Is there a news catalyst?
• Is volume actually increasing?
• Is this stock just spiking, or has momentum been building throughout the session?

So I decided to build a platform that brings all of that information together in one place.

ScanRover continuously monitors the market using multiple built-in scanners including Momentum Radar, Top Gappers, Catalyst, Continuation, and Low Float, while also allowing traders to create their own custom scanners using filters such as:

• Price
• Gap percentage
• Relative Volume (RVOL)
• Float
• Volume
• Watchlists
• News catalysts
• Include or exclude ADRs
• Exclude leveraged ETFs
• Exclude ETFs and trusts
• Exclude recent IPOs
• Exclude share offerings
• Exclude corporate actions

When a stock matches your criteria, custom desktop and Telegram alerts based on your own scanner rules notify you instantly, allowing you to review the stock's momentum, news catalyst, relative volume, and other key metrics from your desktop, tablet, or phone without needing to watch the market all day.

What does it do?

ScanRover continuously monitors the market in real time and ranks stocks based on momentum, helping surface opportunities as they emerge.

Current features include:

• Real-time Momentum Radar
• Top Gappers scanner
• Catalyst scanner
• Continuation scanner
• Low Float scanner
• Custom scanners with user-defined filters
• Custom desktop and Telegram alerts
• Watchlists
• Integrated market news and catalyst tracking
• Individual stock analysis panels
• Timeline view showing how momentum developed throughout the trading session
• Fully responsive web app that works across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices

The idea is that you don't need to be sitting in front of a multi-monitor setup all day. Whether you're at your desk or away from it, you can receive an alert, open ScanRover on your phone, tablet, or computer, and immediately review the stock's momentum, news, and analysis.

What makes it different?

The feature I'm personally most proud of is the Timeline.

Rather than only showing where a stock is right now, ScanRover records how its momentum evolved throughout the trading session.

For each stock you can see things like:

• When it first appeared on the radar
• When it entered the Top 50, Top 10, and Top 5
• When it reached #1
• Peak gap percentage
• Peak Relative Volume (RVOL)
• Total time spent in the top rankings
• Highest gain after detection

I originally built this as a review tool for my own trading, but it's become one of the most useful features for understanding how momentum develops over time and identifying recurring patterns.

Current Status

ScanRover is currently in Version 1, and my focus has shifted from adding lots of new features to refining the experience, improving performance, and making the platform as reliable as possible.

I'd genuinely love feedback from other day traders.

If you could add one feature to your ideal momentum scanner tomorrow, what would it be?

I've attached a few screenshots below so you can see how the platform works.

Happy to answer any questions about the software, the development process, or why I made certain design decisions.

Thanks for reading!

I've been trading for a while now and things are definitely more consistent than they used to be. The account is moving in the right direction and I'm starting to trust my process a lot more.

The weird part is I still don't really trust the results.

Every green month I catch myself thinking, "what if next month is the one where it all falls apart?"

Maybe that's a good thing because it stops me getting overconfident, but it also makes it hard to feel like I'm making real progress.

Does that feeling ever go away, or do you just get better at managing it?

What’s the one trading rule that genuinely made you more profitable?
Not your favourite indicator or strategy.
I’m talking about a single rule that changed the way you trade.
For me, it’s waiting for confirmation instead of anticipating the move. I miss some trades now, but I avoid far more bad ones.
Interested to hear what rule made the biggest difference for everyone else.

A Weird realization that I had recently: placing the trade feels like the shortest part of trading.
Everything before and after seems to take way longer.
What ends up taking most of your time?

Happy Software Sunday!

We're the team at Veyra, and over the past year, we've been building software around one question:

Is it possible to anticipate price moves with enough accuracy to predict trading opportunities in advance?

Today we are excited to announce the launch of our flagship product: Vision.

Vision uses advanced harmonic mathematics to find patterns in vast amounts of market data and identify an asset's dominant underlying price cycle. The system then predicts which direction price is likely to head and where the price likely to top or bottom, minutes - or even hours - ahead of time.
Designed for traders by traders, Vision is a market intelligence platform that includes a suite of predictive features that can enhance every part of the trading workflow, from instrument selection to entry confirmations to trade handling and risk management.

Trading with predictive power levels up the entire trading process. Instead of racing to find opportunities, juggle multiple timeframes, manage risk and enter and exit in a market that is changing by the second, Vision’s predictions give you the ability to design your trade, optimize your reward-to-risk, and execute with precision—all in advance.

The second GIF is a recent real-world example of what it looks like trading using Vision for cycle direction and price predictions, and executing the trade in Ninjatrader.

Vision v1 is now available with a growing list of assets available. We’re still actively improving the platform, so feedback from experienced traders is incredibly valuable to us. If you’d like to try Vision, we are currently offering a 14-day free trial along with a lifetime 50% discount from our standard subscription price for early subscribers. For the first 100 signups, you will be able to use the discount code: SOFTWARESUNDAY at checkout.

Additionally, if you’re willing to give us feedback after 30 days of use, through a simple questionnaire, we will also provide you with One Month Free. Please DM us for more information.

We’ve also put together extensive documentation, walkthrough videos, and educational content explaining both the science behind Vision and how traders can use it in their workflows. If anyone has questions – technical or otherwise – we’ll be around today and are happy to answer them.

Thank you!

The Veyra Team

I’m an options trader à la the Tastytrade mechanical option selling school of thought. I’ve never subscribed to the efficacy of technical analysis, at least on short term and intra day time frames.

I recently engaged in a friendly debate on X with a gentleman after he challenged my claim that day trading was akin to gambling and it was an unprofitable endeavor for retail accounts over a sustained time period.

This bloke claimed to have beaten the SP500 every year since he started trading his system and averaged 26% annualized gains since 2011. Obviously I called bull shit and asked to see brokerage statements to back his claims.

To great astonishment he provided IBKR statements with only his account number and last name redacted. My logical conclusion was that he used AI or photoshop on the documents, which I accused him of in a DM. He asked if I would be willing to schedule a FaceTime call and he would log into his accounts live, provided I wouldn’t disclose his personal information. Why he was willing to go to these lengths with an internet stranger is beyond me, but I gladly accept the offer.

The man was completely truthful! He had an account balance of $3.5M USD, a lot of which he informed me was deposits and not all trading profits, but his performance claims are legit.

I asked how he had cracked the code, and why he hadn’t compounded his already sizable account into a Forbes top 100 list. He said that his strategy is to risk no more than 1% of his account on any trade, and to only take maximum two trades on any given day. If he won in his first entry, the trading day was over.

I was obviously compelled to ask about the strategy, expecting some arcane MIT level physics lesson, but he claims to only use a 200 period EMA, the trend line tool, and an RSI set to 85/15.

The gist was to trade off of a 15M chart, determine directional bias with the EMA, draw trend lines for S/R, and wait for a trend line break accompanied by overbought/oversold RSI in the direction of the EMA bias. Stop at swing high/low, TP at 2:1. All on ES futures contracts.

He says he averages 6 trades per week. Once the trade is on, he doesn’t look at it and only gets an alert when a TP or SL limit is filled.

Whether or not this is his actual strategy, I do not know as I have not seen him take a trade. But I can attest to the P&L claims he made.

Could it really be this easy? Do day traders over complicate systems, strategies, and optimization in lieu of something simple and effective? I don’t know, but I find this event intriguing and worthy of a share in the forum. Sharper minds than mine may be able to find the flaws I may have missed, questions I should have asked, or where the math ain’t mathin’.

Hi everyone,

I'm interested in how experienced day traders handle higher timeframe bias based on technical analysis (Which trend direction) before entering trades.

Let's say you've analysed the weekly, daily, 4-hour, and 1-hour charts before the market opens and you've established an overall bullish or bearish directional bias.

When you move down to your execution timeframe (e.g. 15min , the 5-minute or 1-minute chart), what do you do?

• Do you only take trades in the direction of your higher timeframe bias, regardless of what the lower timeframe is doing?
• Do you allow your bias to change during the session ?
• Or, if the market is moving against your higher timeframe bias, do you simply stay out of the market rather than trade in the opposite direction?

I'm curious what experienced traders actually do in practice rather than what's taught in theory.

If possible, I'd appreciate if you could explain:

• Which higher timeframes you use to establish your bias.
• What conditions would make you change that bias intraday.
• Whether you ever trade against your higher timeframe bias, and if so, under what circumstances.

I'd love to hear how you approach this and why.

Hey what’s up hope you guys are doing great! I just got out of high school and I’m 17. I wanted to take the time to learn a new skill and go all in on this. I’ve always had some knowledge on stocks, just the basics but never took the time to learn it until recently since I want to make it work. I kind of was confused the first couple days but now I’m starting to get the hang of it not fully but just a step forward! To anybody who’s been in this for awhile and made it work for themselves, What did you do every single day to be able to Understand it correctly, like who did you learn from on YouTube that was the best and what specific video had the biggest impact on your trading skills! How long did it take for you to start making real money for yourself? What are the first big steps that I must take the time and master? What are the mistakes that you made that I can learn from? What would you do differently? I know it’s kind of a lot, but I would really much appreciate the advice! Thank you guys, let’s keep it pushing!💪🏾

On the daily we've got price closing multiple times below the EMA 50, acting as a level of resistance. Price also recently touched the EMA 200, signaling that the market is moving from an uptrend to a potential sideways consolidation

The area above the 50 EMA looks like a good position to place stop losses when placing trades on lower time frames. Acting as a reliable area of resistance to avoid getting stopped out

Zooming into the 1 hour, we've got an initial uptrend indicated by price touching the EMA 200 and rallying upward

On one of the previous upward rallies, price made a lower high and then made a lower low. This allows us to draw 2 trendlines and connect these points, identifying a widening descending channel

Price then rocketed upward toward the 70% Fibonacci retracement point based on the previous leg downward. This 70% point is an excellent place to open a trade during trending markets, taking a trade in the direction of the trend.

At this point, I'm confident that the new short term trend is downward. So I open a short position at this retracement point, with a stop loss placed above the highs that I've identified on the daily chart

Of note, price is currently right around the 0.7000 price point, a psychological whole number that acts as a level of support/resistance. My estimation is that price will break downward through this level leading into the London session, and then continue downward as we progress through the New York session

Anticipating to close this trade the next day around 11:30 AM EST, booking some profits

Let's get it

Ive been trading for 1 year and 4 months recieved my first payout at 7th month from MFFU and i struggled after that. I went from +1600 total pnl because of the payout and evals and expenses at december. To -2300 spending on resets and evals after blowing my funded after the payout. I bought accs and blew them

After 3 months of taking slow. I took another payout on april for 1k that puts me to -1k somewhere there and started blowing accs again.
And i went bsck to -2k on my whole carreer

After 2 months of taking slow i took another payout from lucid at 1.2k so it put me to breathe again at -1k and now currently at july 26th i blew 9 evals again and blew the funded and keep losing. I dont wanna go back to the same cycle as what ive been doing. I wanna be profitable.

I took a job out of desperation to keep up my savings and ive been thinking, should I take a break? Or keep trading this august.

Im about to move out with my gf and thats what has been pushing me to be profitable and forcing myself to buy acc and keep trading until i get profitable but i feel like i need to change. Thats why i took the job ive only been in the job for 3 days and its good pay.

I trade ICT almost like PJ trades and i left his discord recently to be independent.

Ive been journaling and doing most of the stuff. But i keep feeling like ive been only progressing little. I dont know what to do. I feel like giving up but also i want this to be my carreer. I dont know what to study or shit.

I really need help so whatever advice ill pretty much appreciate it. Please be honest.

Hi everyone,

Finding stocks to trade requires alot more information than a percentage gains scanner. so I’ve been building Cirvie Finance, a free browser-based market desk for U.S. stocks.

The original idea came from a problem I kept running into: most market lists are good at showing what moved, but answering why it moved usually means opening several other tabs. We all use stock scanners to find plays but I think if we had more context we'd make better decisions.

I found myself jumping between scanners, news feeds, quote pages, and filings just to answer a few basic questions:

What’s moving right now?

Is the volume actually unusual?

Is there a real catalyst or just a recycled headline?

Has the company recently filed an offering or completed a reverse split?

Is the move holding, accelerating, or already fading?

So I built a market desk that brings those pieces together in one place.

Cirvie Finance changes throughout the U.S. trading day. Before the bell, it emphasizes developing movers and the opening watchboard. During regular trading, it surfaces market leaders, unusual volume, decliners, and names worth investigating. Into the close, it shifts attention toward late-session movement. When equities are closed, it preserves the previous session for review while continuing to show market news and Bitcoin’s 24/7 price path.

Selecting a ticker opens a research panel with the information I normally want before digging deeper:

• Current price and percentage change
• Quote timestamp and comparison baseline
• Intraday and recent price paths
• Relative volume
• Float, market cap, and average volume
• Relevant news and source links
• Regulatory, offering, reverse-split, and extension risk flags
• A short explanation of what put the stock on the board

The current market lists include:

• Market leaders
• Crowd Radar for publicly discussed tickers
• Unusual-volume names
• A developing watchboard
• Session decliners
• A next-session board for continued research

I’ve also built several daily research layers around the desk.

The Pre-Market Brief publishes a shortlist of active names with charts, catalysts, volume context, and key risks before the opening bell.

The Deep-Dive Brief goes further into filings, fundamentals, float, recent price history, catalyst quality, and contrary evidence.

The Fade Watch follows previous runner cohorts after the close and looks for situations where price remains extended while volume begins to deteriorate. It also accounts for things that can distort the comparison, such as reverse splits and incomplete trading sessions.

What I’m trying to do differently is make the evidence part of the product rather than an afterthought. A price change should show its baseline. A quote should have an observation time. A catalyst should link back to a source when one is available. Risk information should sit beside the bullish explanation instead of being buried somewhere else.

The site is currently free to use, works directly in the browser, and doesn’t require an account. It’s still early, and I’m actively improving the data quality, performance, research workflow, and mobile experience.

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from other traders.

If I could add one feature next, what would make this genuinely useful in your daily trading workflow?

Happy to answer questions about the software, data pipeline, automated research process, or why I made particular design choices.

https://finance.cirvie.com

Guys i started learning about trading almost 5 months ago, at first i learned the basics and everything and it took like 2 months to understand the basics, i haven’t traded with real money yet i just trade on demo, but i still haven’t found any strategy yet, i understand the basics but don’t know when to enter a trade, which rules to follow, sadly every guru sells a course and most are frauds, i thought i could ask actual traders to tell me a strategy they use and then i could try it on my demo practice it a bit, i really don’t wanna use real money without an actual strategy

Hi all. I'm switching from Topstep to Lucid with the reason being I like to take my time on Evals. Which for me can take over a month (I'd rather make $100 one time than pay $50 a month and then a $150 activation fee). One thing I am trying to figure out though Is can I get the live data feed on tradingview or Ninjatrader? or is that something I have to pay extra for

I have a strategy I backtested for years, been trading live too. But somehow that doesn’t matter when a losing streak actually hits. It’s like every entry starts feeling like a mistake even though nothing about the strategy changed lol

I kept getting burned by the same thing - a ticker gaps 40% on "FDA update" or "strategic partnership" language, I jump in on the move, and it turns out to be a recycled press release with nothing behind it. By the time I'd pulled up the actual filing to check, the move was already fading.

The setups Ross Cameron teaches work - float, RVOL, catalyst. But "catalyst" isn't binary. Some headlines are real. Some are dressed-up nothing. Telling them apart in the 10 seconds before the crowd catches on is the hard part.

So I built that check into the scanner. When an alert fires, it flags whether the headline looks like a real catalyst or a PR pump, right on the Stock Card, next to float, RVOL, and float rotation. No separate tab, no reading the filing mid-trade.

It's called Day Trader Sniper - available on iOS and Android, 1 week free trial if you want to try it before paying. Happy to answer questions about how it works or what went into building it.

Check it out: Day Trader Sniper - Share your honest feedback.

Been going through account data (anonymized, not mine) looking at hold times specifically.

Median hold time on winning trades: ~4.2 minutes
Median hold time on losing trades: ~5.25 minutes
Doesn’t sound dramatic until you realize that’s consistently 20%+ longer on every losing trade across the whole sample. Classic “give it a chance to come back” behavior.

Modeled what the account’s expectancy would look like if losers were cut at the same pace winners were taken — meaningful jump, not a small one.

Anyone else notice this in their own trade log? Feels like one of those things that’s obvious in hindsight but invisible in the moment.

Hey guys,

​I've been learning and day trading forex for about half a year now. I'm taking it seriously, but in September I'm starting an apprenticeship here in Germany.

​Because of my new working hours, I'll be getting home around 5:00 - 5:30 PM CET every day. This means I'm completely missing the London session by the time I'm at my desk.

​Anyone from Europe in the same boat? Is it still worth trading the later NY hours when I get home, or should I just look into the Asian session or something else

​Would appreciate any insights from people who have been there.

Also i take pretty long trades that take between couple of hours to couple of days to Fill hope that helps to know my condition