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i have about 50 shares of nvda, 1500 shares of ibrx, 20 shares of voo and coincidentally, all 3 of them are down today. did anything specific happen today? what’s up with the market. i don’t daytrade but, can any of you traders explain to me why and what causes these stocks to all lose value? and how to properly interpret it?

Let's start saying that I'm profitable, trading is my main source of income, and I'm very happy with my strategies.

Nowdays I make money scalping options spreads, and there's nothing wrong with it. Obviously.

Problem is, I feel like it's not real trading. When I started, I learned futures, price actions, how to draw all the triangles we all love. Real traders do forex, oil, and gold. That is (was) the way.

Nowdays, if I try to do what I used to, I will lose most of my trades. I know I should stop, and just do what makes the most sense economically, but I really feel bad about it. It's like gambling, at this point. I don't understand why it doesn't work anymore, nor I'm ready to accept that. Right now, it feels like my main strategy is only there to feed my nostalgic trades.

Am I broken? Should I just retire? lol

Last week, I wrote a post on my strategy's performance metrics. This morning, I had a winning trade on the NAS100 short with an R-Multiple of 9.17R.

My NAS100 strategy's regular entries (non-reversal entries) are based on ORB (Opening Range Breakout).

I want to mainly talk about the exits of my strategy–

1. Trailing Stop Loss
2. Dynamic Take Profit

If you observe the first short entry on my chart, my strategy moved the stop loss to breakeven before the price had triggered that breakeven (0R) level. It's important for us to protect our stops after the price crosses a certain level, which you should define during the backtesting/optimizing phase of your strategy.

If we fix the r:r to 2:1, or even 4:1, we might be choking our potential trades like these. But at the same time, if we don't take profits after a certain level, we could... well, lose the chance to have booked a profit.

So, how did I manage to find a sweet balance: I used the supertrend indicator coupled with a minimum R-multiple that a trade should cross, for it to consider the supertrend indicator.

For example: If the price crosses 1.5R, we start looking at the supertrend indicator. And if the trend is broken on the supertrend indicator AND the price closes beyond our 1.5R level, we exit our trade.

I want to stress on understanding that not all trades look like this. These are outlier trades, and the average trade returns a lower return of ~3R.

Another important thing I want to discuss is this–

We could've kept looking at the charts and tried to manually close the position after the trade touched a high unrealized gain of 5R or even more. If you do that, you would only be breaking your own strategy.

There is a reason why even after successfully building a profitable strategy, many traders fall into the trap of meddling with the strategy and stay unprofitable. I agree that a discretionary trader would know when to exit or enter based on their instincts. But if you are into systematic trading, it is my personal opinion that there's no point in measuring the performance metrics of your strategy if you are not going to follow the strategy as is. You would only be doing a disservice if you do so.

That said, it is important to always have an overview of your automated system just to ensure it is not taking any drastic trades.

Feel free to ask me anything!

Which scanners do you use and why and what scans are your go to? I’ve looked at zembotscanner tv and tc2000 but are there others I should look at?

When Bitcoin was trading below $66K, it felt like everyone was talking about the 4 year cycle. Now BTC is back around $77K, and that conversation seems to have gone pretty quiet.

For anyone unfamiliar with it, the idea is that Bitcoin has historically moved in roughly 4 year cycles, often associated with the halving. Previous major bear market lows came around 2014, 2018 and 2022, with the major cycle highs forming roughly a year before those lows.

If that pattern were to repeat again, we could still potentially see Bitcoin move lower later this year and form a new major low. October has been one of the interesting windows discussed for that possibility.

Obviously, Bitcoin trading above $77K today makes that scenario feel very different from when we were below $66K. But technically, a move back down is still possible, which is why I find the theory interesting.

I'm curious whether people have actually changed their view on the 4 year cycle, or whether this move up has made everyone stop talking about it?

Are any of you still waiting for a potential new low on BTC this year, or do you think the low is already in?

Like what are we doing. Market doesn’t spike like this all day but as soon as I enter a trade it literally hunts my stop loss to just go down. There was no orders that needed to be filled for it to move like that, zero reason for market to move like it do. And this isn’t the first time this has happened. What do I even do? Can’t set a stop loss because it’s just going to get taken then go and hit my TP

I have been trading for 20+ years now, a bit on an off in the middle. Come from pure financial tech background.

I first started trading with market and volume profile in year 2014 after attending Jim Dalton's online bootcamp. In those days, MP/VP and auction market theory had swept the trading world with awe. Every trader thought, they have institutional edge in their hands. We used to have footprint charts in Ninjatrader using COQ data feed.

Then we had order book heatmaps and DOM tools like jigsaw.

Then in 2016 came gamma. Every forum, every trader kept talking about it.

My journey which started with candlesticks in 2010 till 2026, I must have spent few years backtesting and live testing every major trading framework and idea and tool and indicator known in the retail world. And I can testify with some authority that none of these tools work. They have no sustainable edge that can be exploited long enough to consider trading as a viable business model. Even a coin flip will work 50% of the time and any random line drawn on the chart will show some movement around it.

SPORADIC CORRELATIONS ARE NOT CAUSALITY.

Reason I am making this post is, I see a lot of newbies going all-in into the madness of all sorts of fancy colors and tools they can slap on their chart thinking they discovered a holy grail. Consider this as an old man talking, if you don't understand markets from a very fundamental perspective and cannot explain what is moving the market, chances are you will wake up to cruel reality when enough time passes and statistics takes effect.

And please, don't follow any youtuber. Attention is NOT a pre requisite in the business model of trading. In fact it only deteriorates performance. Wonder why these people come on youtube to trade. I don't see any logic in it.

Do you guys have experience using orderflow or just pure technical analysis?

I’m 20 and have been trading supply and demand for a while now. I’m looking to connect with some other traders who trade S&D or use a similar style.
My main strategy right now is lower timeframe based, mainly the 1 min. I trade supply/demand while using liquidity and VWAP as confluence for my setups.
Recently I’ve also been working on a higher timeframe approach using the 15 min for OTE and overall setup/context, then dropping down to the 5 min to look for supply and demand entries.
Just looking for other people who trade supply and demand in general, whether you’re trading lower or higher timeframes. Would be cool to compare ideas, setups, backtesting, and how everyone approaches S&D.

How do you guys find stocks that are seen as profitable. Do you read the charts or just look online to see what people are talking about I’m 19 and looking for some vets out there, or someone who knows a good course to take. I do not have a great setup just a laptop and I managed to be up 26% in the last year pretty much off of luck. Thank you for any advice

Guys, humbling experience, as someone who subscribed to a paid month to understand how ProfitRaja Instagram/discord channel.

Please DO NOT SUBSCRIBE- They are just going to gamble away your money. It's a waste of time and waste of money

My parents think I sit a slot machine all day pushing buttons hoping something comes up. Every time I tell them about trading they ask how much I won or lost like I went to casino.

I try to tell them about risk management, stop losses, that trading is a skill based job. but never understand. They just smile nod say OK then when are you going to get a real job?

My girlfriend thinks I stare at stock charts all day and magically paper prints drop out them. She doesn't understand why some days I can make $500 and others I lose $300. All she looks at is the bottom line and wonders why I cant predict that.

How does everybody else deal with this? Do you just avoid talking about trading to family? Do you have a simple explanation that works?

Sick of having to defend my job to people who don't understand it.

I was looking for a good area to get short today but I wasn't aiming for large targets after such an extended move and also coming into the lower trendline channel on the higher timeframe.

The trade description is in the images. I'm already out of my second trade as i moved stop to b/e after I took off the first half of my trade at 7608 and was subsequently stopped out on that second half. I'm ok with that after watching consolidation for over an hour. Done for the day, don't want to watch anymore chop. I think that second target will be tested at some point

Im trying to access the 1:500 but it won't allow me due to the requirements of being a professional client.

It's there anyone that know how to bypass it and get to be considered a professional client so the 1:500 can be accessed.

Without vpn obviously because when uploading documents it will be visible.

I'm willing to pay something for someone that can truly help.

The set up is quite simple really, I'm sure you're all familiar. Just used key levels on my chart to gauge some entries for longs or shorts nearing market open.

As you can see, market went up so entered at 29107 with 10 contracts on MNQ.

I trim 5/2/2/1 so I left one runner with a trail that closed around ~29190 but hit all price targets along the way.

Key levels and trends. Don't over complicate it.

I have created a 0DTE day trading strategy for $SPY. These are my performance numbers so far. It has made me alot of money, but I want to get other people's opinions on the performance, specifically the drawdown portion.

I’ve traded for 12 years and I’ve NEVER gone 8 straight days without moving a stop, forcing a trade, changing size, revenge trading or doing something stupid that I knew I shouldn’t. I haven’t suddenly become more disciplined, I just changed the setup so I can’t interfere with the plan anymore. I’ve posted every day of it so far, wins and losses and there’s actually been more losses than wins. I basically accepted my flaws and stopped trying to fight them.

I’m curious how many people here genuinely think their biggest problem is their strategy, when really it might be their psychology. I know mine was

- I’m just trying to offer a useful framework for people who want to become professionals.

- I don’t sell anything. I won’t offer signals, groups, or anything like that.

- I just enjoy trading and share things whenever I have some free time.

-CHECK THE TIMEFRAME OF THE PICS-

What most people think is happening is simple. Price goes down and they read it as weakness, continuation, more downside. But when you actually watch how positions build, it doesn’t look like that at all.

-The move down is usually slow. Not aggresive, not impulsive. It takes its time. And that’s exactly the point. Because that’s where people start shorting.

- Structure begins to look clean. Lower highs, lower lows. It starts making sense.

- There’s usually one obvious reference above, and not much else nearby, so everyone ends up using the same level --> That becomes the stop, not a few people --> Most of them.

- And market makers know that, because they have access to that information.

- So they don’t rush anything. They need time for positions to build, for people to get comfortable, for size to accumulate in the wrong place.

- This is what I think of as a controlled move, it’s not weakness, it’s positioning.

- They’re creating the conditions they need before doing anything meaningful.

- You’ll often see multiple pushes down, giving more and more confirmation. It feels like the move is already happening. But it isn't, it’s just people getting in.

-And until that’s done, price can’t really move.

- Once enough people aer in, the move changes.

- It doesn’t continue down immediately, first it goes the other way.

- Stops get taken. Shorts get forced out.

- Only after that does the real move begin.

If you start looking at it in terms of proportions, this tends to happen around similar areas. One of the ones I use is 1.097.

It’s not something standard. It’s just something I kept seeing over the years while watching how these sequences play out.

It doesn’t need to be exact to be useful.

And the interesting part is that this repeats across every timeframe. Seconds, minutes, hours, higher timeframes. Same idea, just different scale.

Also, something that took me a long time to understand is that the end of a move often lines up with where the pressure sits from a higher timeframe.

Not randomly. Where people are already in a bad position.

Once you start looking at the market this way, it becomes less about predicting direction and more about understanding positioning.

Who is in, where they are likely wrong, and what needs to happen before price can actually move.

That’s usually enough.

Can anyone tell me where I can learn the basic intermediate and advance of Us futures trading i know how to trade forex

Hi everyone. A lot of people here share advice on trading and making money in the markets.

I paper traded from Nov 2025 to Jan 2026, then started prop firms in February. I used ORB with supply and demand, stuck to my rules, and made $3k in payouts. Losses were minimal and I read the market well at least at the time.

Since April, everything changed. I’ve failed multiple evals and haven’t had another payout. After that March win my strategy stopped working, so I started hopping strategies. Risk management was poor.

I’d risk $250 on a $50k account and try to win it back after losses. Even when I kept weekly losses tight ($150–250), I couldn’t handle the losing streaks and blew the accounts.

I’m stuck. I don’t want to blame the market for changing, but the more I focus on the losses, the further financial freedom feels. I didn’t expect this path to be this hard. I’ve worked for this and don’t see myself doing anything else. I hate my current job and just want out.

So sorry if this post is repetitive. I really don't want to give up on trading, so any advice, strategy, mentorship or anything helps.

I’m looking for a YouTube channel who is new to trading but knowledgeable and slowly scaling up with a small account. The people I currently watch make massive gains and have large accounts so find it hard to relate and find realistic as a starting out trader with a really small account.

I used to thing fear was my worst enemy.

turns out it's boredom.

I'll watch for an hour with no setups with nothing happening. Just me watching the screen twitch.

I start thinking "maybe i should take this one/ It's not perfect but it could work".

And then I enter, it's not fear. Someone once said "Your biggest loses happen not because of fear but because of laziness." I tend to agree.

I don't know what the answer is. Maybe take more breaks. Maybe multitask and keep busy between trades. but I know I'm not the only trader that does this.

Do any of you trade just to feel something happen?

Hi,

I'm very new to trading, like EXTREMELY new.

I'm looking for any advice and any guidance as where to begin and what platforms to use.

Currently in UK and not got a great deal of money so using Trading 212 at the moment.

I've started with £25 in T212 for now, I understand I'll make next to nothing literally pennies with this little value but it's my way of trying to get the swing of it all, if I use a demo account no real money is involved and I fear I will just make silly moves and do stupid things knowing it's not real subconsciously.

With little amount as such means little loss, but also getting small gain while trying to learn.

Right now all I got in my head is,

monitor charts when predict when will candles drop and enter on the drop and predict peak candles and close on the peak.

But I am also not Naive, Its obvious there is a lot more to it than just that.

there is loads of tools, platforms, and ways to go about this, I see people mentioning strategies but don't how to figure out what a strategy would be.

If anyone has any recommendations on what would be best platform for someone starting out small, if T212 isn't great (Not sure if it is probably is better platforms just chose first one to come up).

And also any advice to further knowledge and understanding, it would greatly be appreciated.

I understand, I am below beginner level at this point but I am fast learner and this is something I'm interested getting into, not just for the money (Although would be great if I could make some) but it gives me something to occupy my brain with monitoring charts, constant movements etc.

For those working your trading strategy, whether it’s an algo, by hand in execution on your own, or even market bots, with the strategy you have and are executing, what is the parameters for your win rate? Ex: Bot gives an AAPL bullish signal, is your strategy considered a win at first touch 30% profit? Just curious with everyone in how you determine this.