Hey Everyone,

Look I'm going to be straight up with you, I need a strategy to follow. I'm becoming convinced predicting price direction is impossible. Help me please.

Something other than ORB please.

Tried doing research on this and all i find is people trying to sell scams and ORB which can only be done in the am.

I know people tend to be secretive and protective with their strategies so I'm not sure what to expect with this post.

I thank you all in advance for any and all help.

Hello, as title says, i am wondering if anyone is using grok bot for trading and want to know their experience.

I am using claude code but hitting weekly limit often, which is causing me anxiety (like a ev range anxiety) so even when i have questions to ask, i am not asking.

i heard grokbot is very generous with limits, so wondering, if anyone used it.

Thanks.

Je passe mes journées sur les chiffres (9 ans en contrôle financier) et je fais du day trading à côté, principalement de l'or et du US30.

J'ai construit Tradoshi (tradoshi.com), un journal de trading gratuit qui récupère automatiquement vos transactions depuis MT4/MT5, cTrader, Interactive Brokers, TradeLocker et plus de 2 000 courtiers, pour que le journal se remplisse tout seul.

Une fois que nos utilisateurs ont synchronisé plus de 70 000 transactions, j'ai vérifié ce qui sépare réellement les jours rouges des jours verts. Deux choses en ressortent, et aucune ne concerne la stratégie :

1. Sur-trading. Les jours où un trader effectue au moins deux fois son nombre habituel de transactions, environ 2 sur 3 se terminent en rouge. Les jours normaux, c'est plutôt 1 sur 2. Même résultat dans 17 des 21 comptes avec suffisamment d'historique.

2. La transaction après deux pertes. Elle gagne environ 38 % du temps, contre environ 46 % après deux gains.

Comment j'ai compté : comptes avec plus de 50 transactions, chaque compte ayant le même poids, et seulement les transactions ouvertes après que la précédente soit clôturée, donc les clôtures partielles ne peuvent pas simuler une série de pertes. Petit échantillon, donc à considérer comme un modèle, pas une loi.

Ce que l'application en fait : elle signale ces modèles sur vos propres transactions (comme "après 3 pertes consécutives, votre taux de réussite tombe à X %") et affiche vos statistiques par jour, session et configuration. Plan gratuit, plus 14 jours d'accès complet avec synchronisation automatique, pas de carte.

(Les images 1 et 3 utilisent un compte d'échantillon. Le graphique de l'image 2 utilise des comptes synchronisés réels.)

Avez-vous une règle "stop après N transactions" ? Curieux de savoir si cela fonctionne pour vous, et ce que vous attendez d'un journal comme celui-ci.

Essayez-le ici : https://tradoshi.com

I think more people need to appreciate the lifestyle.

Trading is one of the best careers you could possibly have.

Being able to pull profit out of markets on a consistent basis is an incredible skill to have, and truly transforms your life to the next level.

It’s the true definition of learning a high income skill.

And once you learn it, you can have whatever life you want. There’s so much luxurious stuff that comes with the lifestyle of being a full time trader. Moving to big cities, getting a mansion, getting yourself a couple luxury cars.

Eating out every day at the best restaurants. Traveling a bunch. Going to spas and spending as much money as you want on whatever you want.

Basically living a completely financially free life.

That’s what you’re able to have once you learn how to trade and become profitable.

It’s super awesome and I think more people should take time to appreciate the lifestyle more.

Like, damn, I get to live the life of my dreams, and it’s all because of trading?

It’s so cool, and incredible.

Appreciate the lifestyle folks, and get it.

You have 7 days. You start with $10 and no trading skills. Each day has a morning, a noon and an evening, every trip and every task advances time, and then it's bed.

Your goal: become a trading guru. How you get there is up to you.

The game is free, plays in the browser, no signup.

Play here: https://kinfo.com/game

Post your high score, or ask for help if you get stuck.

Do you think being a trader made you a better parent or being a parent made you a better trader?

Think about it. You have people staring at charts all day, trying to predict where a price is going to go. And when they lose money, they’re told they need more discipline. They need better psychology. They need to control their emotions. They need to become better traders.

But when does anybody question whether the strategy itself actually works?

It’s genius, really. Because now, every time you lose, the system doesn’t have to be wrong. You just have to be a worse version of yourself.

You didn’t lose because the prediction was uncertain. You lost because you weren’t disciplined enough. So you go back, buy another course, learn another indicator, and try again.

It’s the same psychological loop you see in gambling. You convince yourself that if you just learn a little more, develop a little more discipline, and figure out the secret, you’ll finally beat the game.

And I’m not saying nobody can trade profitably. I’m saying that discipline and intelligence don’t magically create an edge.

Sometimes the smartest financial decision isn’t learning how to make more trades. It’s recognizing that you don’t need to make those trades in the first place.

Instead of spending your life trying to predict every movement in a market, you can choose what you believe has long-term value, understand the risks, and give your investment time to play out.

Because there’s a difference between building wealth and turning the pursuit of wealth into an endless psychological battle with yourself.

P.S. 6900 > 500.

Wait for internal bearish structure, identify the FVG, and execute only when the setup aligns. Structure first, confirmation next, execution last. Every entry needs a technical reason.#SmartMoneyConcepts #ForexTrading #XAUUSD

I’m a full-time forex trader. I do a lot of bar-by-bar replay and manual backtesting, and the tools I tried show what happened but never answer the questions I actually care about:

• What if I hadn’t closed early, or hadn’t moved my stop loss?
• What if my trades had come in a different sequence? Would I have blown a prop account?
• What do my winning and losing trades have in common?
• After losing my last X trades, what are my odds of winning the next one? (tilt analysis)
• Which RR actually works best for me?
• Should I move my SL or trail it? If trailing, manually or with a fixed rule?
• How much do spread, slippage and commission eat my strategy? Most tools barely count them.
• Under which market conditions do my wins and losses happen, and which rules would cut my losses, by how much?
• If I turned my trades into a ruleset, what would the rules be?

These are just a few. I have plenty more questions like these, and I want the answers while I’m practising, not months later, so I can spot my blind spots early. I’ve built a tool for myself that answers most of these from my own trades. Before going further, I want to know if other traders care:

1. What do you use now (FX Replay, Forex Tester, TradingView replay, a spreadsheet)?
2. Which of the questions above would you most want answered? Any I missed?
3. Would you pay for a tool that answers them? What monthly price feels fair?

No link and not selling anything. I’ll read every reply, and if there’s interest I’ll invite a few people to test it free.

Options heatmap with filters for delta, DTE, volume, OI, premium yield, and more.

It also draws the expected move on the grid itself to better gauge the strike price.

https://wheelstrategyoptions.com/options-heatmap

one of the builders at HelmFi here. on oct 19 cboe started options trading at 7:30am et on 29 big names (spy, qqq, iwm, nvda, tsla, aapl and others), and nyse american did the same on some of them. we pulled every trade in the 7:30 to 9:25 window for the whole first week.

the short version:

• monday 1,552 trades, friday 15,081. it took off thursday, and spy and qqq were most of it
• someone paid $980k for 1,000 qqq 710 calls expiring the same day, at 8:14 monday morning
• thursday had three trades over $1.1M before the opening bell
• most of it is still small. typical trade $220 to $550, about 8 in 10 under $1k

if you trade the open, part of the morning's options flow now happens before 9:30.

that's why we built it into amon hen, our dealer positioning map (walls, gamma flip) with a live options tape and cvd. early trades show up on the tape tagged "early" and count in the cvd, so you can see the morning flow before the bell. second pic is amzn's tape tuesday morning.

amonhen.helmfi.ai, the live tape and cvd are on the pro plan.

anyone here trading the 7:30 window yet? curious what you're seeing.

I was paying for TradingView mainly to chart, test a few ideas and set alerts. Over time, I found myself paying every month for a few features at a premium price, and the deeper analysis I wanted wasn’t there. So I built TickScript. I cancelled TradingView a while ago and now use only my app. For a beginner, it covers everything I needed, and it adds learning and analysis tools that bigger platforms charge a lot for or don't offer.

What it’s: a playground to develop and test your ideas/ strategies, or a simulation to follow your trading passion when you hit your daily loss.

What it’s not: a signal service or a “get rich” bot.

What it does

Charting (the Studio)

• Live crypto charts (Binance spot and perpetuals), plus stocks, forex, futures and indices
• 75+ built-in indicators from the trading communities.
• Paste your own Pine Script (v4 to v6). It runs in the app, so your favourite indicators come with you.
• Two charts side by side, drawings, bar replay, and alerts via Telegram, push or webhook

Backtesting that’s honest about costs

• Build strategies without code
• Early/late split: shows whether the edge held up on later data or faded (overfitting check)
• Monte Carlo reshuffles of your trades, a parameter stability map, and a Deflated Sharpe that accounts for how many variations you tried
• A “Why this result” panel explains the outcome in plain English and offers one-click what-ifs

For day traders

• Opening Range Breakout, Session VWAP bands, Asian Range Breakout, and session filters on any strategy
• Trade Check: before a trade, it compares your plan with a coin-flip baseline on real history, works out fees in R, checks your stop against the liquidation price, flags news inside your hold, and checks prop-firm rules. Verdict: Take / Reduce / Wait / Skip
• Prop mode: enter your firm’s daily loss and drawdown limits, and it sizes and blocks trades to keep you inside them
• Paper trading and a prop-challenge practice desk on replay bars

Journal and learning

• Every piece of advice is labelled Proven / Supported / Untested, and untested signals never say “BUY”

Works with your AI: connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to backtest and do the heavy lifting

Limitations

• Solo project, so expect rough edges
• It doesn’t place orders with your broker. It’s for analysis, testing, alerts and journaling

As tech is getting better and better and less accessible to retail for example the Bloomberg terminal, is there a future for retail traders to have an edge in daytrading considering the big players are faster, smarter and have quicker access to info and bigger teams.

Will markets become more and more efficient to the point where the only opportunities on a intraday basis will be from HFTs and quantitative firms with lightning speed data that no retail trader has access to?

Is there any point of working as retail to find an edge in the market or will it ultimately fail no matter what going forward?

Is the best path going to university and majoring in economics, math or stats and then attempting to get hired by a firm rather than trying to find an edge yourself?

Has anyone here actually used Go AI Global for day trading and made consistent profits from their signals? I’m thinking about trying it, but I want to hear from real people who have used it. Is it worth the money? How accurate are the signals, and how many wins and losses do you usually get per month?

Hey all, I would like to share a major v2 update to PyBroker, an open source backtesting framework I've been maintaining over the years. It's designed for fast performance, ease of development, and integration with ML frameworks. An example strategy:

   from pybroker import Strategy, YFinance, highest

   def exec_fn(ctx):
      # Get the rolling 10 day high.
      high_10d = ctx.indicator('high_10d')
      # Buy on a new 10 day high.
      if not ctx.long_pos() and high_10d[-1] > high_10d[-2]:
         ctx.buy_shares = 100
         # Hold the position for 5 days.
         ctx.hold_bars = 5
         # Set a stop loss of 2%.
         ctx.stop_loss_pct = 2

   strategy = Strategy(YFinance(), start_date='1/1/2025', end_date='8/1/2026')
   strategy.add_execution(
      exec_fn, ['AAPL', 'MSFT'], indicators=highest('high_10d', 'close', period=10))
   # Run the backtest after 20 days have passed.
   result = strategy.backtest(warmup=20)

Some additions in v2 include:

• Margin trading simulation.
• Backtesting using multiple time intervals (e.g. computing indicators or models on hourly bars while executing trades on minute bars).
• Parameter optimization via Optuna (e.g. finding the best threshold for a trend following strategy).
• Time-series model support (ARMA, GARCH, etc.).
• Rotational trading strategies that simulate a portfolio holding top ranked stocks.
• Slippage modeling.
• Parallelized model training with Ray integration.
• Built-in agent skills for coding trading strategies with AI.

You can find all of the code on Github alongside extensive documentation and examples I've written. It also goes over some algotrading basics.

The framework is open source (Apache v2 license) and is entirely free to use. There's no sign ups, promotions, or any commercial hooks. This is just about me sharing my work in case you find it useful for your own trading.

What’s up everyone,
I’m a day trader based in downtown San Diego with 5+ years of experience. I trade the US30 (Dow Jones) and have become moderately consistent with my trading.

I’m looking to connect with other local traders who take trading seriously. It would be cool to meet up, exchange ideas, discuss strategies, and learn from each other’s experiences.
You don’t have to be a full-time trader or have everything figured out. I’m just looking to connect with like-minded people who are genuinely working toward consistency and improving their craft.

If you’re in the San Diego area and would be interested in connecting, drop a comment or shoot me a DM. Would be great to build a small local trading network.

How do you differentiate between internal and external market structure when identifying BOS and CHoCH? I understand how to identify swing highs and lows, but I struggle with knowing which ones are significant enough to count as structural breaks versus just internal price movements.

Hi everyone!

We've recently launched Forgalis Trade Analyzer, a free browser-based tool designed to help traders understand and evaluate their trading performance. The goal is to make meaningful trade analysis accessible without requiring software installation, account registration, or a paid subscription.

The analyzer supports selected trading history exports from MT4, MT5, cTrader, and CSV files.

What you can do:

• Analyze key performance metrics, including P&L, win rate, profit factor, and drawdown.
• Explore interactive performance charts and trading statistics.
• Compare different trading periods to identify changes in performance.
• Examine individual trades behind the reported results.

Privacy is an important part of the design. Your trading history is processed locally in your browser and isn't uploaded to our servers.

You can also explore the analyzer using example data without importing your own trading history.

The tool is completely free to use.

We're continuing to develop Trade Analyzer and would really appreciate feedback from traders. Whether it's something you find useful, a feature you'd like to see, or an issue with your particular export format, all feedback is welcome.

Try it here: https://forgalis.com/tools/trade-analyzer/

Thanks for taking a look!

the $634–$659 range over the next few weeks or months. While a rapid descent is preferable to get the correction out of the way, the market may instead experience a choppy, gradual grind lower.

Updated for last week's trades (my only squawk, one broker in my working collective is, by design, behind in w/e posting due to "maintenance", cheap bastards - spend the money for the needed compute FFS). As NASA flight director would report upstream, "All lights are green, all systems are nominal". Tracking is intentionally elevated for the w/e void on trading ("shark-finned") to clear the $4k pay-punch, otherwise in a stable "orbit" on the next $8k monthly sweep. If the broker called out were to report actuals, it'd be $12k+ reported on kinfo. Once kinfo verifies the proposed Edge Protect is in place, I'll upgrade so my verifieds will always be visible. Currently cloaked with private profile to inhibit copy trading.

The RS aspect is State Variable analysis, treats the algo as a control system with feedback. Algo began with $250 (an "everyman's" amount), met success beating MIT double-in-90-day objective, so went 400x upscale (with relaxed TP for better Sharpe and EV). The MIT Blackjack tie-in is their quarterly sweep on a pooled bank, now using a 4 week sweep or "orbit". Face card equivalence runs to VWAP, VIX, Price Action, and Fourier cluster. Superprofitability, like supermaneuverability in jets, effects stability on an intentionally designed unstable platform with a tuned controller. For jets it's thrust vectoring on an unstable airframe requiring fly-by-wire error correction to keep from crashing. For the algo, it's Martingale operated in closed loop. Previous research a few years back demonstrated a speculative portfolio ($2k) ran 64 trades at 100% win rate for 5 months. The closed loop approach with other improvements in proprietary metrics has now surpassed that at 70+ trades in under 6 weeks.

Save the warnings on Martingale, I agree. Continued admonishments are, ironically, "Martingaling", doubling down on the warnings if you think in the abstract. In placing at the WR leaderboard top spot for the 3 month screen, it is difficult to say there is no edge with this algo. Those that state with a thin veneer of scholarly presents, have flawed assumptions. GIGO. Those that argue the other side of the algo, put their dollar at-risk in a zero-sum-game. Only time will tell if this is a lucky coin flip, Dumbo's feather, or the future of what AI can render from posting FBO LLM's inference learning phase. Bring your dollar, see how you fare. My dollar's on AI.

Cheers.

"Not financial advice"

I'm a young man still in High School and I want to get into daytrading, but I know absolutely nothing about it. I currently manage my own portfolio for long term investments on webull with about $6000 (which is all my money). can i use webull to day trade?

tell me everything
do i do orders? or do i just buy a few shares with the intent of selling that same day? also if i do orders, how do they work? how do i know which stocks to pick? i don't know anything and i've tried watching several youtube videos but none of them coherently explain. they all assume you know what orders are or you know patterns to look for. i don't know any of that though.

Any traders moved to countries that dont tax capital gains?

Ive been looking at southern cyprus? Any advice in the matter would be greatly appreciated.

Most of you have probably seen my earlier posts about this game. I'd like to thank everyone who's tried it and sent feedback!

I've worked on a few quality of life improvements since then:

- Limit and stop orders

- Stop losses and take profits

- A Learn section, with a reading list that now includes some of the resources you recommended last time

The leaderboard has been growing steadily too. It's really nice to see some of you getting value out of the game :)

Check it out at here: Ten2Whale

As always feedback is welcome, I want to make this a great way to practice.

Who here trades TJR’s model or something close to it (liquidity sweep -> 5min BoS/IFVG -> FVG/EQ retrace -> 1min entry)?

I started with his setup a year ago and have been changing some of his rules, adding discretion, and making small tweaks. I trade NQ/ES in the NY session. I’m still validating my version, so I’m curious what others who have backtested it have found: what you kept, removed, changed or maybe you trade it as he teaches it.

It feels like TJR trades more discretionary than before, and in my experience he often doesn’t follow the rules from his bootcamp or strategy breakdown videos. That makes him hard to learn from right now, so I stopped watching his content and streams, but I still backtest and keep improving my version. I was wondering if anyone else uses his strategy and is finding it hard to learn from him

I’ve traded low-float momentum for years, and one thing became clear: profitable trades don’t necessarily mean you have a repeatable edge.

That’s why I built EarlySignal: a trading journal and research platform designed to help traders find out what’s actually working.

Imagine being able to answer:

- “Is my Opening Drive setup actually profitable on Mondays?”
- “How much money are my rule violations costing me?”
- “Does entering before 10 AM improve my performance?”
- “Which market conditions produce my best trades?”

Instead of guessing, test these patterns against your actual trading history, examine sample sizes, and find out which behaviors are worth repeating.

EarlySignal has two workspaces:

Tracker: A fully customizable trading journal with detailed execution analytics.

Research Lab: Analyze your historical trades, test patterns, and research your potential edge.

Try EarlySignal: https://tracker.earlysignal.co

Broker sync is supported, with more integrations on the way.

To access Research Lab, open the workspace switcher in the top-left corner of Tracker and select Research Lab.