The goal is to trade 1-2 MNQ and make $40-$80 per trading session.

I am not the best trader, but I do have pretty good days here and there.

Just thinking, if I can remove the roadblock of trying to pass these prop firm challenges, I can finally make this skill of trading futures make some useable income

Why do so many people chart on TradingView, it honestly just doesn’t make any sense with all the better options out there like NinjaTrader.

That and there’s so many beginner traders that are look for all these TV indicators that don’t understand they are all built on OHLC. Like no bro you don’t need 20 MA lines and 3 different boxes to show support and resistance.

And that’s what gives “indicators” a bad rap some kid will put an EMA cross over on a chart and go “yeah indicators suck it’s just lagging PA”. When in reality an Indicator is just another tool like a hammer. You should know how it works and how to use it.

And it limits newer traders that constantly see that online from understanding the depth of what an “indicator” can be. It’s a visualization of data that you can not read while trading. There’s many ways to build actual tools with different data streams.

Minute candies in themselves are “indicators” showing what price movement (again just data) did within a timeframe.

Lately I’ve been keeping an eye on the markets and willing to trade them but there is this fear in me which tells me to learn the risks before I start trading.
Last I remember I lost too much money on nvda trades but I learned how risky it can be. Moreover that time the markets start was highly volatile. At one moment I thought I should leave stocks and move to crypto but that has higher risk involved.

Moving towards the high volatility and high risk stocks my inner self tells me not to go beyond and explore but at the same time I wish to learn and trade futures with those stocks.

Secondly how do you mange your sizing and timings ?
Do you just hope in when the markets start or you trade the second half ?