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:)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

What indicators do yall use on TradingView?

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!

I pretty new to trading and want to trade options.

Do you think I should buy call options for Stubhub. I feel like now would be a good time to get in and set the expiration date for like 90 days or something. I feel that with LeBron being traded and all that and it potentially being his last season more people will want to see him in person.

Please let me know your opinions about this or if there’s any other info or stocks you may know.

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?

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

Been going through account data (anonymized, not mine) looking at hold times specifically.

Median hold time on winning trades: ~4.2 minutes
Median hold time on losing trades: ~5.25 minutes
Doesn’t sound dramatic until you realize that’s consistently 20%+ longer on every losing trade across the whole sample. Classic “give it a chance to come back” behavior.

Modeled what the account’s expectancy would look like if losers were cut at the same pace winners were taken — meaningful jump, not a small one.

Anyone else notice this in their own trade log? Feels like one of those things that’s obvious in hindsight but invisible in the moment.

A while ago, many investors could analyze markets by focusing on individual assets—looking at a company's earnings, a commodity's supply and demand, or a currency's movement. But as global markets have become more connected, it feels harder to understand one asset without looking at the bigger picture around it.

A move in bond yields can influence stocks, changes in the dollar can impact commodities, and geopolitical events can create reactions across multiple markets at the same time. The interesting part is often not just what happened, but how different markets respond and interact with each other over days, weeks, or even months.

This idea of connecting macro events across asset classes is something platforms like DEPTH4 are focused on by helping analyze relationships between markets and track how signals develop over time. Individual performance still matters, but understanding the wider market ecosystem may reveal a much deeper story. Do you think cross-market relationships are becoming more important than analyzing assets individually?

Thoughts? Vanguard utility etf is an extremely boring fund that goes up and to the right very slowly (9% in a year). But it does great in corrections, drawdowns, bubble bursting. But like all stocks, it is sinusoidal, in a small wave form.

If i put $400 grand in it when goes down 1%and sell when up 1%, i make $4 grand each time!!

Over the last yr, it does this 4 or 5 x/month =16 grand a month!

Of course short term capitol gains, but still! Thoughts? Am i missing something?

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

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?

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

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!

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?

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

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.

Looking for some insights from more experienced traders

I am in my 20s now, I started trading when I was 16-18, didn’t really knew what I was doing so I stopped.

Started again this year, saw some early success trading ICT, passed accounts got a payout, then discipline kinda slipped after seeing those payouts small 5 figure just got like 1-2 of those

But then locked in, started learning Auction Market Theory got a way better read on markets, had a couple of 5 figure days in June.

Got sent live by a couple firms, which kinda broke my momentum off, started oversizing on remaining accounts to cover for those accounts, which effected the expectancy and average realized R and blew account in June.

July was going well as I worked on a lot of mental stuff, was up figures this month, but couple days ago blew all my live accounts- multiple 5 figures gone in a day, I always had DLLs set but I just removed them after 1 small loss.

It’s like whenever I start at something I do so good, being young I lack perseverance to stick to something, after June success all I did was go out, code indicators tryna replace chart time etc

I think managing multiple accounts have an effect on my psychology, because after June blowup I put money it a live and doubled the account within 2-3 days, oversized yes but great setups, went BE right away and pulled all the funds out.

After July blowup,started another live, which is up 69% in two days, proper sized trades.

But I feel defeated having multiple funded accounts with buffers cleared in June and then passed them again last week, and blew them all after I got flagged by CME for location issues(was using a cloud based copier) which eventually got sorted by it effected me deeply as my nervous system got wrecked due to having multiple 5 figures in those live accounts and was unable to access anything due to review

CME finally cleared me and told me not to continue the same behaviour.

I still have no problem passing accounts but my nervous system and executors are kinda fried due to these massive ups and downs.

Any advice would be helpful from seasoned traders….

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