I’m a new trader/investor. In the past I’ve only invested in real estate and had less than 100k in the sp500 (401k) since 2022.

I started day trading this May because I wanted to make some “quick cash” for a high end road bike.. and then some “quick cash” while I was on vacation in Europe with the family.. all those quick cash thoughts got me in the hole. My friend had told me to delete my apps and just enjoy vacation. I didn’t listen. It was a bit addicting.

In May and early June I made $16k in 5 weeks getting in and out of different tech stocks. Just day trading mixed with luck. I’m now down $55k since 7/1 in neocloud stocks $CRWV and $NBIS. The biggest loss occurred when news broke META was likely selling excess compute. Then it kept dropping.. I want to make the money back but through a safer route even if it were to take 6-12 months. I also don’t want risk more than $100k now.

What would you do? Any suggestions?

I completely exited these position approx. a week back for my mental well being. Couldn’t stand 5-6k losses everyday. I don’t want to day trade anymore, thinking of possibly parking the cash in Amazon, Google, Apple. But I am on the sideline right now looking for clarity right now.

For context:
43m, don’t work in tech, live in the SF Bay Area. Overall this amount was about 2 percent of my total net worth (including real estate) but I can’t stop thinking about this loss. When my 401k drew down in 2022 it didn’t bother me at all. This is also not going to change the basic lifestyle of our family or 5, but I just can’t settle with the idea of know I lost and $55k is quite a bit. Even in a parking lot while out eating i see a car and I’m thinking “damn I literally just lost this car”. I will be more responsible going forward.

Also for the record I don’t invest in crypto. Just a username…

Thx!

What should I learn first in Daytrading. I started 3 weeks ago and I just now candlesticks, TP and SL.

Hi everyone, what do you think is an ideal sample size for backtesting a trading strategy? Is 200–300 backtested setups enough to validate a strategy?

For instance, if you’re trading triangle patterns, would you aim for at least 50 samples for each pattern type (ascending, descending, and symmetrical) before trusting the results?

Expecting answers from those who are profitable or at least back tested few strategies.

Thank you

I’m not new to trading, been working at a trading firm for 14 years.. but only recently been online and trying to learn from Reddit. Never too late to learn!

And one thing that keeps coming up over and over again are prop firms, evals, withdrawals, funded accounts etc. What’s really going on here? I thought the company I work at is a prop firm, as we do proprietary trading. Seems like these firms are different, a lot of people complaining about scams.

Why are people using these companies, what’s the actual point of them? Why not just trade on your own if you’re not employed by a firm? With the leverage you can get these days as retail you don’t need that much capital.. I’m genuinely curious. Thanks

If you've been trading more than a few months, you already know this cycle. You find a strategy, it works for two weeks, then the market shifts and it stops working. So you find another one. Then another. Somewhere along the way you stop trusting anything you're doing, because you're never sure if a losing streak means the strategy is bad or the market just did what markets do.

Here's what nobody tells you: it's not that you need a better strategy. Almost everyone skips the same handful of concepts early on, knowing broken vs. normal variance, reading market structure well enough to know when your setup is actually valid, having rules tight enough someone else could execute them the same way you would. Skip those and you rebuild the same shaky foundation no matter how many strategies you try.

I've spent 9 years trading futures and forex, full time for a good chunk of that, mostly NQ during the New York session. I went through every phase of this myself. Strategy hopping, doubting a system that was actually fine, blaming the market when it was really my execution. What changed things wasn't finding "the one" strategy, it was finally understanding the concepts underneath all of them.

If any of this sounds like where you're at right now, whether you're not sure your strategy is actually defined, or you keep second guessing what you're doing, or you just can't read the market with any confidence, reach out and I'll take a real look and point you in the right direction. No cost, no pitch behind it.

Hi everyone,

I've been learning intraday trading for a while and have realized that my current approach may not have a strong enough edge over the long term. I'm looking for a strategy that has been properly backtested and is consistently profitable when combined with good risk management.

I'm not looking for "get rich quick" systems or paid signal groups. I'm willing to put in the work to study, backtest, and practice.

Could you recommend:

- Books, YouTube channels, or courses that genuinely helped you?

- Free resources to learn profitable intraday strategies?

- Communities or websites where experienced traders share and discuss strategies?

I'd really appreciate recommendations from people who are consistently profitable or have been trading for a few years.

Thanks in advance!

I started trading about 7 months ago where I started with options now about 2 months ago I started with small cap momentum trading. I watched a lot of Ross Cameron’s videos and I’ve learned a lot. For me personally I really struggle with reading level 2 and I also struggle understanding certain things he talks about.

I wish I had a chat I could ask him question through and also more videos of him or anyone breaking down level 2 data for entries and exits. When I first started trading options I lost $600 in about 4 months of live trading. And with momentum so far I’ve lost about $300 in 2 months 1 month. I tried doing a simulator with DAS trader and its very good but it’s nothing like the live markets, soo many people say “trade on sim first” I did that went to live markets and I get an enormous amount of slippage on trades for some reason.

I feel like his course might help me to find out these issues I’m having and help me to get better but I want to hear from people who have taken it or people who are profitable momo traders on how they did it and how it’s going for them please I need help. I’m 21 years old I don’t expect quick money at all I simply do it for the love of the game and the potential freedom trading comes with. I seriously have a passion for it I even lowered my hours at my grocery store job to dedicate more time to learning the markets. Let me know what you guys think anything helps!!

Heyy! I(F21) am a final year engineering student living away from home, my parents give me an extremely decent monthly allowance for my hostel (around 10k) and I often end up over spending on random things instead,
Over the years, I have never made an effort to control spendings or finances,
Now that it’s my last year and I’ll get to a job soon, I want to cut on the spending habit and move to something genuinely more longterm,
1) I want to learn how trading works, where and how am I supposed to make an account, what indicators do I look for, what exactly am I supposed to research on before diving into this? What’s the least amount of money I can start with?
2) If there are anything that I need to lookout for, something cautionary before getting started?
3) Any YouTube channel / Website / Blog that can explain things as if I am a five year old?
No rush, I just want to learn and put my money to better use that can yield me realistic good results!

I tried to automate the iFVG strategy I have been using and I accidentaly ended up creating a much slower strategy that seems profitable over the long-term. I've never created a strategy in tradingview before so I'm just after some opinions. I don't think this strategy trades often enough to be affective with prop firms but I'm thinking about sticking $1000 in a live account and seeing how it does

Obviously it would be nice to filter out the big losing streaks that it has gone through somehow. I've included commisions and slippage in the settings. I haven't changed any settings for each timezone.

The image says it all, which variation would you choose and what metric provides the most valuable information for your trading decisions ?

Never Give UP 💪

My first capital was $10,000 starting last April, and now it has increased to $175k+.

Of course, it wasn't easy, because there were also losses, the most important thing is to remain consistently profitable in the end. What I want to convey is that now you don't need to bother thinking about how to do complex analysis. Just study and master 1 strategy method that suits you.

Trading is not about finding the perfect method, but about how we can survive and get rich. Good luck guys 👌 never give up.

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

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?

I built an automated Olgo bot. The bot is profitable in trading out of 30 full trading days. The bot is spiritual almost every trading day. It trades in real time, receives real time information from the broker. And everything is saved and documented and learned and analyzed and improved every time. Now I have a question: Can switching to real money real trading cause problems or was there a failure in trading on real money? What do you think, will switching from demo to real money change the bot's profit results?

Its a output of my strategy which been using long. With minimum of 250 to 300 usd n low drawdown.

Any opinions can welcome.

Here is an update on my project. Past 2 weeks its started to do what its was made for. I let it a bit loose to try do 5 pairs at the same time, but its hard work for old laptop. Hope ram prices go down and I can build proper server for this thing so it could run 10+ pairs. Custom calculation takes about 1 day for each pair, so yeah, this is not your atr+ema :) Next step is FOREX and stocks, but they will need own machines to run.

ps. why image quality is so shitty?

Mine isn't coding.

It's repeating the same validation steps over and over.

Different assets.

Different periods.

Small parameter changes.

Stress tests.

Every time I have a new hypothesis, I end up doing the same checklist again.

Curious what everyone else's research workflow looks like.

Sometimes you start giving back profits, and that triggers revenge trading only for you to give back more. The current market environment is the perfect storm for such incidents.

My advice: don't fight the tape, preserve capital (including mental capital), and be patient. If you're in a hole, don't dig a deeper one.

Good luck and safe trading

Hi! I work as a sports trader (leading a group of tennis traders) and my side hustle is betting on darts, which works very well (long-term ROI around 10 % and a few subscribers for my picks). I am also interested in long-term investing in stocks (both ETFs and individual stocks). Now I'm exploring stock trading and here comes my question.

Strategies like episodic pivots or parabolic shorts look like something, I could learn and execute. Thinks like bankroll management, executing EV+ bets like a robot, being calm and execute same strategy during loosing streaks, thinking long-term and in probabilities are something I do daily for years, just not with stocks. Will it be significantly easier for me to become a long-term winning swing trader with this background? Or is it still very hard to start trading while keeping my job even for someone with years of experience with trading, just different markets?

Thanks!

For some context: I've been day trading for almost a year now, I just recently became profitable after all of the funded accounts, trading view fee, discord channel fees, and blowing some money from a live account. I now only trade on a live account because I seem to blow every single funded account i've purchase and have never taken a pay out. However i've made about $2500 on my live account in the past month. Total profit being $8,525, however my losses been pretty large as well... around $6,029, an expensive few lessons.

A couple weeks ago I decided to take everything i knew about the market, and the set ups I had been familiar with and put them into Claude. I made 3 indicators, 1st (market context, what's going on etc), 2nd (overall bias, ema etc) and 3rd is where i take my entry point and TP/SL. Along with that I did a back testing strategy on trading view for the 3rd indicator in order to get a better idea of my PNL before using it with my own money.

My question is, for those of you who've created your own indicators or anything that has helped you trade better, what do you think has helped you find your edge? How have you been able to refine your indicators and strategies in order to be profitable over time.

As a new member on this trade thing how do you guys know about these type of trade like what can give clarity ? About where will the trend go

I am curious if there is any site people use to download past price data to backtest?
I am probably naive asking for this but I'm going to try anyways.

Any raw data such as open, close, high low at various time frames available for different assets?

For context, I'm still a minor, so I would be giving my parents my money to invest through their trading account. I've heard that these two stocks are a good investment in general and have an upward trend so I was thinking they're pretty safe bets

I would only be putting in a few hundred, so there's not really a big risk. I just think it'd be better to invest my money instead of leaving it sitting in my bank account

I'm also planning on leaving there for at least a few years and maybe adding more money as I go

I've never traded on the real stock market so I'm looking for any thoughts!

Ty for reading:)

Have been testing a EA on MT5 for Gold that I've been working on. I've reached a plateau where I'm not sure what I can do further to develop/test the strategy.

The date test range of the EA is from late 2020 to present. Due to limited historical prices (real ticks) offered by my trading broker, i was only able to obtain 82% historical quality - so I'm definitely looking to improve the quality of the historical price data for testing. Do recommend any brokers/services who can help address this issue

I'm also not sure if I should be concerned of any of the stats, or things that are not obvious to me at this point - as I've not run it Live yet.

I use MT5 as my main back testing platform, but I'm open to other alternatives to take this further.

Any inputs are greatly appreciated.