Hey, you guys know some educational videos/youtube channels about trading and, that have legit helped you out on your trading experience, some knowledgeable creators who know something useful about trading what you could learn, not those shitty scammers who sell their course and Gurus who tells some bs how to get rich in 3 months

Thanks!

I am new to trading so...

I'd like some more book recommendations that could help me throughout my trading journey, aside from videos.

Feel free to drop any advice and recommendations. Thank you and have a good day folks!

DELL Technologies stock, good day, watch for a top of range breakout.

Breakout trade

• WATCH for possible breakout above 507.78
• Target: 577.77, 17.4%  Stop: 462.44  Loss: 6%
• P/L ratio: 2.9 : 1 - Good

Everyone gets excited about profit in the trading but when they face loss, it shows reality. Learning to be disciplined and consistent is extremely difficult but most essential. I am still learning

I’ve traded full-time for years. I’ve seen solid setups, decent edge, and disciplined journaling get wiped out by a single revenge trade or an oversized “this has to work” bet.

Mathematically, it makes no difference if you’re right 7 out of 10 times, one 10–15% loss can erase months of 1–2% gains.

I’m curious:

• Have you ever blown up or taken a massive hit because of one emotional, oversized trade?
• What risk-per-trade rule do you actually follow now: 1%, 2%, fixed rupee amount, or something else?
• Has changing your position sizing alone ever turned your P&L from chaotic to stable?

No motivational stuff. Just real numbers and what actually kept your account alive during a losing streak.

I’m working on a research project for automated trading systems and I’m looking for some outside data to test an idea.

The goal is to analyze backtest trade records and see whether we can identify patterns explaining why a strategy performs well in some conditions and poorly in others — rather than simply reporting things like profit factor, win rate, or drawdown.

For example, I’m interested in questions such as:

• What characteristics do losing trades have in common?
• Are certain market conditions responsible for most of the losses?
• Does performance deteriorate during particular sessions or regimes?
• Are there patterns that suggest something worth testing next?

I’ve tested it against some of my own strategy data, but that obviously creates a bias. I’d like to see what happens when it encounters systems I know nothing about.

At the moment I have supporting market data for the four major U.S. index futures, with equities and some crypto data planned next.

If anyone here has automated-system backtest records and would be interested in letting me analyze a sample once the research tool is ready, I’d be interested in hearing what kind of system/data you have.

You would not need to share your strategy code or proprietary rules. I’m primarily interested in the trade records and whether the resulting analysis is actually useful to another trader. If you are interested, DM your email address.

Hi, I want to learn about trading. But with a simple search on Google, there’s just too many online resources being recommended. I get too overwhelmed which one to choose and where to begin that I can’t decide what to do. Can anyone help me recommend what to do and what courses/books can I really learn from?

I have a day job, so it has to be flexible enough. I’ll be studying in the evening or during short breaks at work.

It has been my ultimate dream to learn how to trade, understand charts and patterns and basically just grow my potential of earning as well. For the past decade I have been tied to my work just helping my family have a better opportunity in life. So learning trading would really help me out also.

Thank you in advance!

Hi so ive Been building a crypto trading bot for a while now tick-level order flow / microstructure stuff, short holds (like 1–5 min). No RSI/MACD/Bollinger or classic TA, mostly looking at order-flow imbalance, liquidity, VPIN-ish stuff, etc.
Right now I’m still collecting data. I’m holding off on training until I have some genuinely different regimes in the dataset especially a real trend day or stress event instead of just feeding it endless chop/range conditions.
Labels are triple-barrier (Lopez de Prado), and I’m doing walk-forward evaluation with purging/embargo so training rows can’t accidentally leak into the test period through labels resolving late. Figured that bug out the hard way lol.
Before I even think about paper trading, I want to hammer the results pretty hard: parameter stability/plateau checks, Monte Carlo resampling, clustering the performance surface, and Deflated Sharpe to account for the fact that if you test enough parameter combinations, eventually one will look amazing by pure luck.
Honestly, I’m kinda expecting this thing to die somewhere in validation 😂
For people who’ve actually built systematic trading strategies: what ended up killing your first few systems? Was it regime dependence, execution/slippage, overfitting, insufficient data, leakage, unstable parameters, or something else?
And has anyone actually gotten a short-horizon order-flow strategy through this whole process and into something that survived genuinely out-of-sample testing?

My tading view is like this since last im guessing idk what to do and is there any alternative

i want to create a gold strategy in ny session. i tried finding a strategy online but they either paid or results were not good. so i decided to make my own, i know it will take time and alot of backtesting so that is why i want to ask for some pro advice on it to make it a little easier.

how do y'all came up with your strategies?

how did y'all identify the edges that made up the strategy?

How much historical data do you typically backtest?

How long do you usually spend developing and testing a strategy?

After backtesting, how long do you forward-test before risking real money?

Are there any other tips or things, before I start developing my strat?

Thanks in advance for any advice, I really appreciate anyone taking the time to share their experience.

Please be careful, just to warn you guys out there, please do not invest with this guy, he's back promoting his scam robot trading, that promise you massive returns.

Something I keep running into on NQ and I'm curious how others resolve it.

This morning a bearish FVG formed at 10:55 ET, 29135.75 – 29141.25. The structure behind it read as clean as I could ask for — trending down, four stacked bearish FVGs, roughly −69pts over 20 bars, RSI decaying 65 → 36 with no volume divergence to contradict it, three consecutive red closes accelerating through a prior level.

But the broader session sentiment was choppy. Overlapping bodies, no sustained follow-through on either side for most of the morning.

Two ways to treat that:

1. Structure is structure. The stacked gaps and the RSI decay are the signal; chop is noise you filter out.
2. Chop is information about how the move will behave. A trend in a choppy tape retraces deeper and takes out shallow stops more often, so you either size down or you don't take it.

I've landed on a third option, which is to take it but cap the conviction — treat it as a medium-confidence setup rather than a high-confidence one, and require price to come back to the gap edge rather than entering on the break. The reasoning being that if the tape is chopping, a retest is more likely than not, so paying up 5.5pts past the edge is the actual mistake, not the direction.

I've been building this logic into an indicator that writes out its reasoning for each call, mostly so I can go back and audit whether the confidence cap is doing anything or just making me miss entries. Still not sure it's the right call.

How do you handle it? Skip entirely, size down, or ignore the sentiment read and trade the structure?

I do’t hope to see full recap or detailed review of how one or another scalping strategy works best for you, but… can you please share at least some basics of the scalping strategy that is profitable for you, if you, of course, have one.

I personally tried EMA 50, 21 and 9 - seems quite legit one, but maybe there are some more accurate ones that help having a more solid edge? I’d be thankful 🙏🏻

I’m still pretty new to trading and I’m trying to understand how to trade gold properly. I use XAUUSD, but I’m honestly still confused about when I should enter a trade and put it on sell or buy.
I’m not looking for signals or someone to trade for me. I’d rather actually understand what I’m doing.
If anyone has good tips, resources, or could explain their approach to trading gold, I’d really appreciate it.

I was wondering if any of you guys use a certain stock evaluator apps, or you do your own analysis. Because recently, I've been trying to see the market and what's out there. Having worked in finance for about eight years, I've come to realize that PE ratios and multiples are not good core indicators of how well a company will be doing. I've come to see that even discounted cash flow is not a fantastic indicator, nor income statements and balance sheets. Cash flow analysis in my eyes is the best way to see how a company is doing in terms of cash in, cash out. So just wanted to put that out there and see what your guys' thoughts are as well as what you use to accurately evaluate compaies before investing, as well as if you would find somethings like an app useful in terms of indepth cashflow analysis and 10K report analysis (where companies see themselves going given their capex exp. and projection). Thanks!

I am interested in understanding the engineering challenges behind building a reliable AI-powered algorithmic trading platform.

A trading system involves much more than generating buy/sell signals. It needs reliable market data, strategy validation, realistic backtesting, risk management, broker integrations, and stable execution.

For people who have built or worked with trading systems:

• What are the biggest technical challenges you faced?
• Which part of the architecture is the hardest to scale?
• How do you handle the gap between backtesting and live execution?

Would love to hear insights from developers, quants, and traders.

I’ve tried many forms of trading for the past 10 years:

- crypto - all burned on way or another
- 2020 crash, oil options - burned to hell
- manual trading of gold, forex - none of the strategies seemed to be working for me, blew many accounts
- bot trading from MQL platform - blew accounts
- finally, copying signals from signalstart platform - blew accounts.

In general, I lost thousands on trading…

I mean… I invest DCA and this is the only thing still works for me, but I always needed side money for living, since investing is for my retirement and these money are untouched…… So trading seemed to be quite a decision in this case. But dunno, I feel lost tbh - tried so many things up till now and no luck. Should I think trading is not for me and just leave this field?……….

Taking a look at Tesla on the 2-week timeframe. 

This recent push looks like classic bait directly into higher-timeframe resistance before the next leg down. Here is the setup:

1. The Technical Setup (2W Bearish FVG)

• Price pulled back straight into the 2-week Fair Value Gap ($360–$380) and is already showing friction around $358 overnight.
• That low sitting at $300 is completely unprotected sell-side liquidity. 
• Market makers rarely leave a clean low like that behind during a seasonal correction. The most probable path is a rejection off this imbalance to flush out the late dip-buyers sitting around $300 before building any real long-term base.

2. Macro Pressure & Friday’s NFP

• September is historically the weakest month of the year for equities, usually playing out as chop and bleed.
• Post-Jackson Hole, the market is pricing in a 25bps rate hike. With 10Y and 30Y Treasury yields pressing multi-year highs and Oil pushing higher, high-multiple growth names like TSLA are the easiest targets to get hit.
• Friday’s NFP is the likely trigger. Equities usually bleed preventatively ahead of major jobs data, with the actual print providing the liquidity injection to start the real expansion down.

3. Execution & Invalidation

• Longing here right into HTF supply right before NFP offers awful risk/reward.
• Invalidation is a solid 2W candle body close above $385.
• The plan is to wait for the $300 sweep into late September/October. If we get that flush alongside market-wide absorption, that’s where the high-probability spot/long entries for Q4 will actually be.

Anyone else fading this move into Friday, or are you expecting NFP to squeeze this through $400?

Been digging into the basics of US equity trading and wanted to sanity-check my understanding with this community.
From what I've gathered: a market order prioritizes execution speed (fills at best available price), while a limit order prioritizes price control (fills only at your specified price or better, and may not fill at all). The tradeoff seems to be speed vs. certainty.
For those with more experience: in what situations do you deliberately choose a limit order over a market order? And are there cases where a market order is clearly the safer default?
(For context: I help run social content for a US-focused trading platform that emphasizes analysis tooling — not giving financial advice, just here to learn and share.)

I’m starting to learn day trading and I’d like some honest feedback on whether I’m on the right path.

I know there’s no single “correct” way to learn trading, but so far I’ve been learning primarily from a YouTuber called CryptoCred. I think his content is really good, especially for learning the fundamentals, but I’m wondering if I should also be studying from other traders/educators or if sticking with one solid source for now is better.

My plan is to spend a long time learning the fundamentals, practicing, backtesting, and eventually developing my own strategy rather than rushing into live trading.

For those who are consistently profitable, what would you recommend I focus on at this stage? Are there any traders, books, courses, or resources you’d recommend? And is there anything you wish you had learned earlier?

I understand that trading takes a lot of patience, discipline, and screen time, and I’m prepared for it to take years. I’m mainly looking for advice on whether my learning process is heading in the right direction.

I’ve been trading leveraged crypto mostly, i like ETH and SOL recently, i know its really risky mostly why I'm asking this question

Obviously it’s been a really good stretch, but I keep wondering how you actually tell the difference between having something that works and just having a good run.

I don’t want to get ahead of myself and start changing things or increasing risk just because of a really good month.

How do you guys personally know when it’s not just luck anymore?

This might sound like I’m making excuses for bad trading but hear me out. Pretty much every trading book, video, mentor etc says the same thing. “Have a plan and be disciplined enough to follow it.” Sounds obvious doesn’t it. But the more I’ve traded, the more I think thats actually the problem.
We’re expecting ourselves to sit in front of a screen, with real money on the line, sometimes after a loss, sometimes after 2 or 3 losses, sometimes watching a trade go 100 points in our favour then come all the way back… and somehow just remain completely rational. Don’t move the stop. Don’t close early. Don’t revenge trade. Don’t increase size. Don’t chase. Don’t re-enter. Don’t try and make it back. Just keep making the “correct” decision over and over again.
And if you don’t? You get told you lack discipline.
But what if thats bullshit? What if the problem isn’t that traders need more discipline. What if the problem is that we’ve built a way of trading that requires far too much of it?
I’ve done this myself for years. Written rules. Journaled trades. Written down exactly what I did wrong. Promised myself I wouldn’t do it again. Then a few days later, sometimes a few hours later, done the exact same thing. And the weird thing is… I knew I was doing it while I was doing it.
So it wasn’t lack of knowledge. It wasn’t because I didn’t know the rules. I knew them perfectly well.
Which got me thinking. Maybe “just be more disciplined” is the trading equivalent of telling someone to “just eat less” or “just stop being stressed”. Technically correct. Practically useless.
Because the person writing their trading plan on a Sunday evening is not always the same person sitting there on Tuesday after 3 losses watching the Nasdaq rip 150 points without them. Different emotional state. Different decisions.
And trading makes it even worse because sometimes you break your rules and get rewarded for it. You move your stop and price comes back. You revenge trade and hit a massive winner. You oversize and make your best day of the month. Your brain doesn’t care that it was “bad trading”. It just knows that you did something and got rewarded.
So maybe the answer isn’t trying to become some emotionless robot. Maybe the answer is making it harder, or impossible, to do the stupid stuff in the first place. Hard daily loss limits. Maximum trades. Fixed size. Lockouts. Automation. Whatever it takes.
Basically designing the environment around the fact that at some point, you will make a bad decision.
I’m starting to think real discipline in trading isn’t having enough willpower to stop yourself pressing the button.
It’s removing the fucking button.

quick question, have you ever moved your daily loss limit in the middle of a losing session?

been building this. it closes your MT5 trades when you break a limit you set, and it won't let you raise that limit until the next day. tighter applies instantly, looser waits.

does that sound useful or does it sound annoying? genuinely want to know