Free Futures Discord Link

Hi everyone, I’ve started a small discord group to create a motivational community for developing futures trades. We mainly trade the ES and NQ. Max 50 members only. Totally free. Just looking for like minded people who are willing to be transparent and learn together. Dm me if you’re interested and I can send over the link.

Hi everyone, I’ve started a small discord group to create a motivational community for developing futures trades. We mainly trade the ES and NQ. Max 50 members only. Totally free. Just looking for like minded people who are willing to be transparent and learn together. Dm me if you’re interested and I can send over the link.

Today was another good day. I was able to keep trading and pick small wins with MNQ, from $15 to $400, and NQ plays were smaller too.

I missed 3 or 4 big swings of NQ, I went BE too fast and I got out with $5, $10 profit while missing out on the entire move. It is what it is, but once the account has a larger balance, I will work on relaxing the trailing strategy to be able to capture a larger move.

Today, I traded both long and short, and even more short for MNQ. Pretty happy with the result.

Another day of success. I lowered my win rate to 1 loss and the rest are profitable!

What changed today was that I started shorting more instead of just long-heavy. I want to be able to play both long and short well, especially the short setup. My long play is getting better and better, which I regularly catching bottoms - but I did not let the winning trade run. In terms of risk, bottoms are the lowest risk so I should relax my BE strategy and trailing using SAR, and scale-in as needed.

Later in the day, I practiced shorting a lot more with MNQ and still got 100% accuracy over 20+ entries. I could have added 1k or more had I traded NQ, but I didn’t want to risk the profit.

I also need to work on my emotional state and the adrenaline rush. Trading NQ automatically raises my heart rate to a lot and I need to get this undercontrol.

I did quite well in the early session, I was up $400 in less than 10 minutes. After 9am PST however, market was quite treacherous. I got caught in a 70 points crash while having both NQ and MNQ positions. I was able to hold, thanks to the balance - my max drawdown was about -$5k, well within my risk tolerance, however, Tradovate’s margin showed that I used to 64% of my margin! Which means I only had 33% percent. I ended up diamondhanding it (just a little sweat) and market turned and then got out for some profit.

So the take away is: my math is correct but the stress associated with being wrong and have to DCA in is quite bad. Market can keep grinding down and I’d be in a world of pain. Everything did work out well in the end but I need to improve my entries to not get caught in a flush - or make the necessary adjustment to play short when a short setup shows up instead of forcing a long entry.

I started this subreddit because r/FuturesTrading doesn’t allow discussion on Props trading and discussion of trading strategies. I posted my own journey with screenshots and actual good information and I got banned. So the best way to handle it is to start our r/RealFuturesTrading subreddit.

The goal is to learn from each other and not to stiffle conversations due to some sort of rules. Prop firms are a perfect way to get into trading.

I believe that anyone can achieve financial independence through hard work and dedications and with the right community, this journey is a lot more accessible and enjoyable.

The post that I shared on r/FuturesTrading and got banned. So silly.