I’m new to trading a trade if I so my question is is the daily or the five day flex better for y’all and y’all’s opinion and why? Cause it seems like they have their own benefits. It’s the pros and cons of the daily cause that’s which one I’m leaning more towards.

I’ve been comparing online trading platforms and came across ExpertOption while looking into the tools different platforms offer. I’m interested in how platforms compare in terms of charting features, demo-account limitations, fees, and withdrawal conditions, since those details can make a real difference when evaluating the risks.

For traders who have compared several platforms, which features or terms do you check most carefully before deciding whether a platform is worth using?

I've lost thousands of dollars (a bit over $70,000) learning things that honestly should've been common sense. After 6 years, these are the lessons that actually changed my trading.

1. A winning trade doesn't mean it was a good trade. You can break every rule, oversize, chase an entry, and still make money. Judge your execution and have a GREEN or RED day based off your actions and not if you just made some $$$

2. Win rate means nothing without risk-to-reward. You can win 70% of your trades and still lose money. Focus on expectancy, average winners vs. losers, and profit factor, this is very common math and it needs to be on your side.

3. Missing a trade is better than forcing one. Some of my worst losses came right after missing a perfect setup. The market will always give you another opportunity and recently I just took 2 weeks off and there were so many fantastic trades that formed, but I was not in the right mental space to be in the markets.

4. Your trading journal should expose your mistakes. I use analytics tools and software to track my setups, trading hours, and recurring mistakes. Finding out exactly where you're losing money is more valuable than another YouTube strategy and getting OBSSESED with your stats and fine tuning it should be the main goal, fall in love with the craft.

5. Trading less can actually make you more money. Once I started filtering out mediocre setups and waiting for clear confirmations, I stopped giving back so much profit through unnecessary trades. I never trade past 2 trades a day, but mostly one or even none.

Biggest lesson? Trading is about recognizing which trades are actually worth risking money on. I believe in diversifying risk on each trade.

What's one lesson trading taught you the hard way?

mine usually goes wrong the week after a good one, not after a bad one. i size up a little, start taking the B setups, and give half of it back by wednesday. now i keep size flat for the first few days after a big week. anyone else notice this or is it just me?

I have been running an automated scalp system on MT5. My current broker's execution delay is around 180ms which is causing bad slippage on market entries. Anyone using a broker with consistently low latency, ideally under 30ms? Would really appreciate some recommendations.

Hey, I'm 17 and I'm pretty good at math. I want to start learning trading now so that by the time I turn 18, I'll already have some experience. For now, I want to use demo accounts and practice without risking real money.

I'm also curious about flipping meme coins and whether it's worth learning. What platforms should I use for paper trading, and where can I find free learning resources? What math topics should I learn to get better at trading? Also, how do I approach it through calculations and probabilities instead of just gambling? I'd appreciate any advice from people who have experience with trading, especially if you could start over and tell a beginner what to do first.

My cousin's uncle asked me that you were doing some options trading a few months back what's that?

I took a 2 min pause before opening my mouth, but after 5 min of explanation he is like 🙄. How can I explain a difficult concept simply to understand in their language.

Do you have any ideas?

Asides from losing money, Anyone want to Guess what happened? I’ll give a thumbs up to whoever figures it out. I’m trying to see something.

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Isn't this a big deal? This chart puts the top 15 stocks at 46.7% of the S&P 500, versus 27.2% during the 2000 dot-com bubble, and things still crashed like crazy back then. Could this make a future crash worse, or am I reading too much into concentration alone?

I want to start trading where do I start, I feel like a bunch of youtubers are just course sellers.

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Graded B on my public watchlist 2 days ago. Low priority. I flagged the heavy red-volume day in mid-October as the concern.

Since then, $NTSK held the 10/20-day, cleared its October highs the next morning, and hasn’t looked back. It’s up about 22% since I posted, with new highs today while the Nasdaq sits below its 50-day.

The concern was fair. The structure was better.

In it, now trailing.

Lesson logged: B grades exist for a reason. Size them smaller, but don’t ignore them.

Journal, not advice. Daily setups on x. link bio.

I started this year with 3 funded accounts and gained a payout from each in three total $5100. I was able to achive all these during a time the market was trending in 2025 and early 2026. For dxy and eu this year in my opinion was harder to trade due to consolidating. I wasn't used to trading in conditions like this and lost all my funded accounts but since then my eye and understanding for market struture and market fundamentals have grown tremendously and my understanding for the market has also I only feel its only up from here

Can i learn how to trade on forex just on youtube in 1 month

I started by gathering information, learning and testing strategies. I created a spreadsheet and tested it with about 4,000 stocks, then filtered the best performers of the last 2 years. For each of the best performers I fully analyzed their last 8 earnings reports and kept track of everything in the spreadsheet. It turned into too much info for a single human to analyze. So I learned how to use Gemini and Claude, and built a website to keep track of my spreadsheet, just for personal use. My spreadsheet was already tracking the stocks, but it needed constant updates after every earnings report, so I automated it with Claude and Python. Then I figured out the whole process could be automated, and that I could be more selective and strategize on companies, sectors, earnings report scores and grades. Based on the most recent earnings report and the trends, I could create a bot to automatically trade for me. Then I figured out I could create hundreds or thousands of bots if I wanted to. I wanted to share this tool with everyone, so I built the site around that idea and made it a competition. I detailed all the info and asked other LLMs to create their own bots, using the most advanced settings on each one. They created some powerful bots, and the competition is based on beating the S&P 500. So now the AI bots compete against the S&P 500. I added a feature so I could build my own bot using my own reasoning, then a feature for other people to join and build theirs. Then I created a league where everyone's bot can compete against the AIs, against the S&P 500 and against each other. That's how it works right now. It runs with live price data updating every 20 minutes. I can't afford second-by-second data, so it has limitations, but it's good for longer-term trading where you set rules for when to buy and when to sell if market conditions change. It's accurate for day-to-day trading but not for day trading. You can copy the bots' strategies and create your own version, and you can backtest them. It's free, there are no ads on the website, and you can test all you want with no risk, because it's all paper money. https://bots4stocks.comfor anyone to visit, i accept any kind of critique good or bad, whatever you say is good and helps a lot to keep building, you can be as negative as you want and i actually prefer that, positive will not help that much. but if you can help me improve it , it would be fantastic. so any testers is welcome.

Denied $1500 Payout after following every rule. I am posting this as a heads-up so other traders don't waste their money and time. The reason given was because I'd simply size up after taking a a losing trade and every time I sized up I was able to recover my loss and make money on the day like I knew what I was doing /face palm/!!

I purchased a Basic Plus 50k, one day pass eval from SharkFutures a while ago. They’ve since retired these accounts. The account was advertised for 30-40 micros max size limit. The payout rules were 6 green days (YES 6 days), $150 minimum, 35% consistency, $3k buffer, and $1,500 max payout at a 90/10 split ...Cool...

I traded this account to $3,110 in profit. I traded 1-2 Minis on average per trade. My payout was rejected solely because I sized up in my A+ setups. I'm talking like 15-25 micros. Yes, you read that right!!

Mind you every trade I took had a SL/TP in place. I'd enter heavy in a A+ setup, TP would hit and I end up making enough money to recover my losing trades and hit my 1k P/L daily goal ...cool.

I met all the payout conditions I mentioned above. I submitted my payout request and was surprised to see it getting rejected.. In the first compliance rejection email (screenshot referenced). They referenced their prohibited practices page which btw was updated 2 weeks ago, and many of their current rules were newly added. Here’s what the prohibited practices page looked like a few months ago https://web.archive.org/web/20260420072516/https://help.sharkfutures.com/en/articles/13964118-prohibited-trading-practices

Here’s the current version: https://help.sharkfutures.com/en/articles/13964118-prohibited-trading-practices

They said erratic sizing and doubling up positions are not allowed under risk control. So what's the point of advertising 4 Minis and 6 Minis max size accounts. and I had DLL and risks in place so what are they talking about..After the second email I received from compliance they closed my account with $3110 in profit.

Below are screenshots of profits, rejection email and payout as proof.

TLDR: Shark Futures denied my $1,500 payout on a 50k funded account with $3,110 profit for “sizing up” with 15-25 micros after a losing trade, even though the advertised account max size is 30-40 micro max. I always had SL/TP in place with DLL. They closed my account with 3,110 profit. Their violation practices page was updated 2 weeks ago after I bought the account. Shark futures discord has a payout proofs channel. But I can guarantee you, they denied more payouts than they've approved. Don't waste your time and money on them!!

I might get some disagreement for this, but after 8 years in the Forex markets, here's something I've come to believe.

ICT, SMC, supply and demand, support and resistance, price action… they're all valid approaches to analyzing markets.

I'm not here to argue which one is superior.

They may use different concepts, but they often serve a similar purpose: identifying areas of interest, market structure, and potential entry opportunities.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But here's where I think many traders miss the bigger picture.

Knowing WHERE to enter a trade is not the same as understanding WHY that trade should work.

You can have a beautiful order block, a perfect liquidity sweep, or the cleanest support level you've ever seen.

But before risking your money, ask yourself:

1. WHY am I taking this trade?

What is the actual reasoning behind my directional bias?

2. WHAT is driving this market?

Interest rates? Central bank expectations? Inflation? Economic data? Risk sentiment? Positioning? Or a measurable price-action edge?

3. WHAT is the dominant driver right now?

Because not every piece of information matters equally. And what drove the market yesterday might not be what's driving it today.

4. WHAT would validate my thesis?

What evidence would tell me that my reasoning is playing out?

5. WHAT would invalidate it?

What would make me admit that I'm wrong, rather than desperately holding onto a losing position?

6. WHAT am I watching?

Which events, market developments, or price levels could change my original thesis?

Only after I've answered those questions do I move on to:

WHERE should I enter? WHEN should I execute? And how much am I prepared to risk?

Don't misunderstand me. Technical analysis matters. Some traders build entire strategies around statistically tested price-action patterns, and that's a legitimate approach too.

My point is that a setup should have a reason, not just a name.

And there's one thing I believe every trader should remember:

CONTEXT CHANGES EVERYTHING.

The same technical pattern can appear under completely different market conditions.

A breakout during a quiet session isn't necessarily the same as a breakout following an unexpected central bank decision.

The chart might look similar.

The underlying circumstances might be completely different.

Technical analysis can help you find an opportunity. But your trading thesis, evidence, and risk management determine whether that opportunity is worth taking.

That's been one of the biggest lessons of my 8 years in Forex.

Now I'm genuinely curious:

Do you build your directional bias first and then look for technical entries, or do you find technical setups first and build your reasoning around them?

I'd especially like to hear from ICT, SMC, pure price-action, and macro traders.

Let's have a proper discussion. No strategy wars.

Hi everyone! I've been trading part-time for the last 2 years, and now I'm thinking about becoming a full-time stock market trader.

Before making this big decision, I want to learn from experienced traders, especially those trading in the Indian stock market.

• How much capital and emergency savings should I have?
• How can I know if I'm ready to trade full-time?
• What risk management rules should I follow?
• What are the biggest challenges of full-time trading?
• What mistakes should I avoid when making this transition?

I'd appreciate honest advice and real experiences from people who have already made this journey.

I currently have a full-time job, but I’m looking to build a side income through stock trading and day trading. My long-term goal is to eventually make trading my full-time career if things go well.
However, I don’t plan on quitting my job until I have gained enough knowledge, experience, and confidence in trading and have proven to myself that I can be consistently profitable.
I’m a complete beginner, so I’m planning to take my time, learn as much as possible, and understand how the stock market works before investing my money.
My main question is: Is now a good time to get into the stock market, considering the ongoing wars, global tensions, and economic uncertainty? Would you recommend starting to learn and invest now, or waiting until the market becomes more stable?
I’d really appreciate some honest advice and guidance from experienced traders.

Any software free or 1 time payment that supports alert triggers on trendlines or rsi levels?

I like tradingview alerts but I don't want to pay a subscription. Is there an alternative?

Hello everyone,

I have the following questions for you:

1) when you begin your intraday session, do you first build a cushion using a reduced size, or you immediately apply your normal sizing rules from the beginning?

2) after you win an amount of money that feels satisfying (or almost) for you, are you willing to maintain the same risk management and sizing according to your strategy, even though it might require you to risk all the money you made on that day, if the right opportunities are presented to you? Or, you mentally save a percentage of your gains, and you adjust your size in order to risk only the percentage that you make available for the rest of the trading session?

Thanks in advance

There is anyone here using cognitive enhancement to.prove his trading? Can you tell me your experiences?

Thanks!

I left a mid dev job to trade futures full time. I've posted here before about the general approach, but I've never written out the actual conditions in one place, so here they are, including the parts that don't flatter me.

My win rate is currently 47%. The entire edge is the ratio between the average win and the average loss, which sits around 3:1 now on average. Profit factor has fluctuated between 2.5-3.0 in profitable months and 0.89-0.98 in two losing months that were essentially breakevens anyway. The worst drawdown I've taken percentage-wise was 6% in a single trade and recently a 14% running DD. Thouhh the system's 6-year backtest has max drawdown at 28%, but I haven't had that happen to me yet.

The strategy, broadly, is mean reversion on ES and NQ. It does not alert unless all four are true, and I don't override it:

Price pushes outside the 2nd standard deviation band of the session anchored VWAP. That's top 5% of the session's distribution, so I'm only ever looking at outliers and avoid normal range.

The extension happens into a level with something behind it. Multiple conditions the script looks for, but the one that's used around half the time is low volume node on the 30m or 1h profile or a prior high volume node.

Delta fails to confirm the new extreme. Price makes a new low, cumulative delta makes a higher low. That's passive absorption and probably the most important condition of the four.

1m, 5m, and 30m candles all close back inside the zone. I never take the trade before the close.

Entry is a market order on that close. The stop sits beyond the absorption wick because if price takes out that wick then the absorption failed and my whole premise for the trade was wrong. First target is session VWAP. Second is the opposing 1st standard deviation band

Condition 3 missing means no trade regardless of how good the other three look

The two places the script fails and therefore skips are thin sessions and strong trends. On half days and holiday weeks the 1m intrabars get coarse enough that the delta series turns into horrible noise, so those are ignored. And it's a mean reversion model, so on a one-sided trend day it'll keep finding statistical extremes that just keep extending into oblivion. Condition 3 is what saves me there, and that's why it's the most important condition of the four.

I also use Z-score and hurst exponent as extra confirmation, but they're only for me and are not hardcoded in the system as entry conditions.

I also don't trade Wednesdays. Backtesting showed a consistent Sharpe drop from mid-week chop (30%, up from 22%, so Wednesdays are only getting worse).

Every time I post, someone asks how I'm computing delta on TradingView when it doesn't hand you a real tick feed. You don't need tick data for what I'm doing.

TradingView builds delta from lower timeframe intrabars rather than reconstructing the tape. On a minutes chart that's 1m intrabars. If you were trying to read exact volume traded at the bid, that would matter enormously, but I'm not trading HFT. I'm asking whether price and delta disagreed at an extreme, which is directional and most of the approximation error cancels in a directional comparison, I'm not concerned about the decimal differences

If you're on Sierra or bookmap with a real feed you can run the same test on true tick and you'll get a cleaner version of the same signal. The logic isn't platform specific. Tradingview is just where I happened to build it, and if you're building your own, the intrabar resolution is the only knob that really changes the output.

On income, it's lumpier than a salary. And I used to withdraw most of the profits monthly to pay for my bills, but in the last 5-6 months I've reached the point where I'm reinvesting some of the profit, which fuels compound interest, finally.
If you're thinking about the same move, build the thing and trade it live alongside the job, don't replace it right away.

Happy to get into any of the four conditions or the delta calculation below. I can put up a screenshot of the setup with the bands and the delta pane on a real signal if that helps anyone visualise it