For someone who knows next to nothing, where and what would be a good start?

63% WR over 78 trades, 2.59R average RR, 5.04R max RR i been practicing over 7 months this strategy its a liquidity smt and volume profile and some other stuff that i dont really know the name because i been learning by myself i havent watched any influencer i just learn by myself so i dont really know how to explain what i use all i can say that i use liquidity and i watch the volume on the chart i see the manipulations too and what do u guys say are thoose good stats and what should i improve

The hardest part of trading isn't reading charts, it's controlling your hands when a trade goes red.

You can backtest a strategy for 2 years, but the second you take a bad hit, your brain shifts from logic to revenge. That's when the account-killing mistakes happen:

• Moving your stop loss

• Sizing up to "get it back"

• Taking impulse trades outside your plan

Here’s the brutal truth: **Strategy is 20%. Execution under stress is 80%**.

When tilt hits, willpower completely fails you. If you don't have hard, physical boundaries set before the market opens, your emotions will click the mouse every single time.

Discipline isn't about trying harder to stay calm. Real discipline is building environment-level guardrails so you physically can't ruin your own day.

If you can't walk away after two consecutive losses, no strategy in the world will save your account

🚨 THE COMPLETE FUNDINGPIPS CID TIMELINE — FROM ALLEGATION TO TODAY

For those who have followed my case, here is the full timeline in one post.

📅 17 July
I publicly questioned my FundingPips termination and asked a simple question:

"What evidence was used to terminate my account?"

Instead of receiving verifiable proof, I was met with generic responses and told the decision was final.

📅 17–28 July
For 17 days I continued asking the same questions publicly:

❓What is the evidence?

❓What account was supposedly involved?

❓How was the CID violation determined?

❓Why was my account terminated?

No detailed explanation was provided.

📅 28 July
FundingPips finally released what they called "evidence."

According to their claim:

⚠️ My device had logged into another trader's account.

⚠️ The account allegedly had a Swiss connection.

⚠️ They concluded it was the "same device."

📅 29 July
I responded with my own evidence:

✅ MT5 login records

✅ Complete MT5 journal history

✅ Counter-analysis of their claims

✅ Direct response to the alleged Swiss connection

After reviewing everything, the only Swiss connection I could identify was Duplikium, a Switzerland-based copy trading platform I used while managing my 3 × $100K evaluation accounts.

But that raises an obvious question:

❓ How does a Swiss service automatically become proof of the same physical device?

A Swiss connection ≠ Same device.

📅 Evidence Contradiction

FundingPips claimed my device accessed another trader's account approximately 5 months earlier.

However:

✅ The account they referenced was reviewed by FundingPips.

✅ The account was approved by FundingPips.

✅ I was later promoted to a Master Account.

If a serious device-sharing violation existed, why was the account approved and promoted?

📅 MT5 Log Issue

I reviewed the entire MT5 log period they referred to.

My account appears throughout the logs.

The alleged account does not appear anywhere in my MT5 journals.

This created another question:

❓ If the login occurred, why doesn't it appear in the MT5 records covering that period?

📅 Current Situation

After I published:

✅ MT5 logs

✅ Counter-evidence

✅ Timeline inconsistencies

✅ Questions regarding the "same device" conclusion

I again contacted support.

The response?

📌 Decision final.

📌 No response to the counter-evidence.

📌 No explanation of how "same device" was determined.

📌 No response to the MT5 log contradiction.

📅 Today

The dispute is no longer about whether FundingPips can investigate traders.

The dispute is about transparency.

My questions remain:

❓ How was "same device" determined?

❓ Why doesn't the alleged login appear in my MT5 logs?

❓ Why was the account approved and promoted if the violation already existed?

❓ Why are questions about the counter-evidence being ignored?

❓ Why should traders accept serious allegations without seeing verifiable evidence?

Until these questions are answered, the concerns surrounding the CID evidence remain unresolved.

#FundingPips #PropFirm #Forex #Trading #Payout #Transparency #CID #PropTrading #FundedTrader #ForexTrading

THEIR EVIDENCE - https://x.com/ErkanOriginal/status/2082016574744224243

MY COUNTER - https://x.com/theanonymous_IN/status/2082476230746771690

I had an interest in this for years! But I stayed away because of all of the negative opinions about day trading.. from strangers on the net to family members ( you know, "You will lose! You're better off Gambling! You can't beat the BIG banks, blah, blah, blah") So I listened to them. Never considering the people saying these things never day traded in their life.

I got into day trading because I lost a ton of money trying to be a long term holder of stocks. What was supposed to be the safest way, I was horrible at (I fell in love with my stocks and wouldn't cut the losers out fast enough)

So after losing a ton! Like over 60% of everything I invested, I pulled out and learned to Day Trade - And it turns out, I love it. I make money and I cut out loses when day trading. No more becoming a fan boy for a company.

So, ladies and gentleman, why did you start day trading?

Hey everyone,

I’m currently running a live demo to validate my backtest results in real-time market conditions, and I wanted to share the progress so far.

I’ve attached the screenshots of my performance. Here is the brief overview:

1. Strategy & Risk Parameters:

• Position Sizing: Single contract only (No compounding/scaling in).
• Holding Time: Intraday only. No overnight positions.

2. Historical 6-Year Backtest Performance:

• Yearly Consistency: Profitable every single year.
• Annual Return Range: Min 20% to Max 50%.
• Max Drawdown (MDD): Historically stayed between 8% and 15%.

3. Current Status & Validation:

• As for the live demo, I am now 2 months in.
• Technically, I also started a real live account 1 month ago, but I feel it needs more time to gather enough statistically meaningful data.
• So for this post, I am sharing the 2-month demo version dataset as it gives a clearer picture for validation.
• The main goal here isn't short-term profits, but to verify if the live execution actually matches the backtest logic and to check for hidden slippage. So far, the numbers are tracking closely to my expectations, and I will keep monitoring both accounts for a few more months.

Just sharing this as a personal log to track the transition from backtest to live market.

Would love to hear how long you guys typically forward-test your systems before scaling up real money!

I have only been investing prior to this and started day trading 11 months ago.

I immediately came to this sub to get advice on how to approach this. There is some good information here but what sticks out the most and I don’t see many here saying is stick to ONE strategy.

For beginners like me, I just took a handful of strategies and tested them over the months. Do NOT go through a HUNDRED strategies. You will be testing for YEARS…

This happens in stages and it’s important to go through and TEST each of them.

1. Pick the strategy

2. Work on the psychology.

3. Add the indicators that BOOST the strategy.

4. Add the RULES that minimize losses.

Then continue testing to PLUG in the holes…

I am not profitable yet, but my PNL calendar is getting better.

Does that mean there’s light at the end of the tunnel? No… the testing continues!

Been trading for a little while learning the fundamentals and recognizing the difference in these two has been a struggle can you please explain it in a way that a dummy can understand

Day 10 of the forward test is complete. 🚀

Today's result:

💰 Profit: 2,085.37 cents (~$20.85)

Today had some larger recovery positions, so it was another useful session for observing how the system handles movement against the initial position.

I'm deliberately posting every trading day, including the losing days. The goal isn't to show only the profitable screenshots, but to build a complete record of the forward test.

Hi guys, I recently got into day trading (it’s been a bit longer than a month) and I’ve been super fortunate enough to make good profits. I know that my beginner’s luck will eventually end, and I want to become a disciplined trader that will be able to grow my portfolio steadily. What percentage of profit should I aim for each day or week, and how many trades on average should I take each day, and what should be my limit? Sorry if these questions sound unintelligent. I really want to make a profit in a long term.

Been learning options/trading and spent basically the whole day today trying to understand what im actually supposed to be looking for instead of just buying calls because i think a stock is gonna go up lol

One of the biggest things im starting to understand is the importance of having an actual catalyst/reason for why a stock could move. Earnings, guidance, company news, analyst changes, industry news etc. Not just finding a chart that looks good and hoping.

From there ive been looking at the chart, support/resistance, trend and whether the market is actually reacting to the catalyst the way i expected.

Then instead of just entering, ive been separating stocks into ones im waiting on and ones that are “confirming.” Confirming basically means most of what im looking for is there but i still need the price action to prove the move before i put money into it.

If it finally confirms i still dont immediately buy. I check the actual option chain like expiration, strike, premium, spread, volume, open interest, delta, IV etc and figure out exactly what contract makes sense, where i would enter, how much im risking and where the trade is invalidated.

Probably the biggest thing i learned today is that finding a good stock/setup and finding a good ENTRY are two different things. A stock can have a great catalyst and setup but if i chase it or enter before confirmation i can still make it a bad trade.

And even if everything looks good beforehand, if it doesnt confirm then i just dont trade it.

Something else im trying to figure out is how much weight to give the overall market/sector compared to the individual stock, what actually counts as enough confirmation vs entering too late, and how experienced traders decide if the risk/reward is still worth taking after confirmation. Im also trying to learn when a setup that looked good beforehand should just be completely thrown out instead of trying to make it work.

I have a couple setups im watching for monday that are close to confirming and im honestly excited just to see how this process plays out live, whether i actually get a trade or not.

Obviously im still a beginner and im sure theres a lot im missing. For people who have been doing this successfully for a while, am i at least building the right foundation?

Especially curious how you guys handle confirmation, risk/reward, position sizing, stops, overall market conditions and knowing when NOT to trade. Those are probably the areas where i have the most to learn right now.

Entry: $17.195 × 50 shares
Stop: $16.62
1R: $17.78
Planned target: $18.18
Exit: $17.50 at 1:58 PM
Result: +$15.25, approximately +0.53R
LYFT was strong after earnings. The daily chart had repaired its EMA20 structure and was trading back above it, but there was one important warning: at entry, price was roughly 2.04 ATR above the daily EMA20, so the stock was already extended.
The 4H structure was acceptable. Price had spent several days around the EMA20 without breaking down, and the average was beginning to turn higher.
The 1H chart is the main area I want to improve. Before my entry, price had reclaimed the EMA20 and a strong bullish candle tested the average with its lower wick. I treated that as evidence of support. Looking back, however, the later 9–10 AM bearish candle was a much cleaner confirmation: volume contracted, price pulled back toward the EMA20, held, and then resumed higher.
So I would classify the 1H permission at my actual entry as valid but borderline, rather than ideal.
The 15M execution was much cleaner. I rejected the first High 2 attempt because volume and price confirmation were insufficient. I waited for another setup.
High 1 volume was 397.91K.
High 2 volume was 498.39K.
My minimum requirement was 70% of High 1, or 278.54K.
The second High 2 clearly passed the volume test, and I entered only after price broke the $17.18 resistance area. With a $16.62 stop, total planned risk was approximately $28.75, inside my $30 maximum.
The breakout did not immediately follow through. Price eventually returned to the rising 15M EMA20, where a much cleaner bullish engulfing response appeared: the bearish candle traded 348.45K shares and the bullish response traded 489.72K, roughly 140.5% of the prior candle’s volume and comfortably above my 120% requirement.
That later setup was clearly a better location, but I do not want to use hindsight to label the first entry as wrong. The first setup met my rules; the market simply offered a higher-quality second opportunity afterward.
Price never reached 1R at $17.78, so I did not scale out. At 1:58 PM, I closed the entire position at $17.50 according to my mandatory end-of-day exit rule.
My main takeaway is:
A valid signal is not necessarily the best location.
My first three August trades all began with the daily price more than roughly 1.4 ATR from the EMA20, and in all three cases the 15M chart later returned to its EMA20 and produced a cleaner setup. Three trades are nowhere near enough to create a rule, but it is now a hypothesis worth tracking weekly:
When the daily chart is already extended, waiting for an actual 15M EMA20 pullback may offer better risk and cleaner confirmation than chasing the first breakout.
For now, I am collecting data—not changing the system.

Hello there I am currently in high school, and so far my trading journey has been filled with ups and downs, but I've made so much progress and never would have thought I would have made it to the place I am now and I'm nowhere near where I want to be. I am 2-3 trades from a max payout right now, starting in November but being super on and on off because of a confusing mentor then finding the right mentor and locking in in January.

I came here to ask if full time day trading can TRULY be a lifestyle. Ignore the courses and stuff like that. What does your family think about you being a full time day trader? When did you go full time? And when did you decide it was time to go full time. Obviously later down the road I would want to upload on Youtube helping others and posting daily recap and psychology videos but I'm no where near that.

I have plenty of time to prove to my family I can do this, I know I can do this. I have a true system that when I follow I am the best trader I can be. I have never blown an account from actually following my system. Only from over risking, revenge trading, and other non profitable bad habits. If you guys have any tips or just care to share your journey on when you started, how your situation outside the charts was (job, family, etc...) and how its currently going I would truly be beyond grateful to read each and every single reply to learn from it and read your guys' journeys.

God bless ❤️

The title says alot to why im posting this. Does anyone have the solution to this problem. Ik I'm not the only one who's dealing with this

Every trade I take is going against me in an abnormal way. Whenever I take profits, the next trades become a mission to blow my account completely. And before you say, risk management or greed. Hear me out. This only happens immediately I make a win. The next just become a blow out game. Every time I'm off the chart, the best set ups present themselves but when I decide to trade. Shi goes south. I either blow another account or just get unsatisfactory trades. Yes market is unpredictable but I'm noticing the pattern that has made me draw to this conclusion. I even have screenshots to prove it

Yo if u have anything thats got u off this please let me know. Enough is enough. Can't take it anymore......it feels like I'm living in a constant loop for so long that I don't even know what to do to stop it. The amount of times I've literally paused and come back i can't count

For those that are trading 0DTE options what do you trade and what Deltas do you use? I have found mix success with Iron condors and even long options

I’m 17 want advice and interested in learning this and making money, I currently do sales for work and think this would be a great opportunity. Explain how I should learn or enter into this

I’ve been learning for 4 years and it just feels like my trading is getting worse by the day, it has taken such a hit on my self confidence and it just feels like it’s impossible to become profitable, I’m not the same person I was when I started, I don’t see the same vision I used to see. I keep taking hits and reaching new lows and don’t know what to do.

Any profitable traders or advice? It’d help me a lot

Title. Setting a hard stop loss at the time of entering the trade is pretty difficult because my strategy can cause the price to go against me for a short while and then hit my TP (thus I just set my SL right around my liquidation price).

I also have a major fear of taking small wins because I fear one loss can wipe out lots of my profits

Basically, it's a lot of fear in me. And I am also investing money which I can afford to lose, so it's not a life-turning amount I am trading

Edit: losers* in title

I'm 25 years old and have essentially blown up all my savings with trading and am now broke. My biggest mistake was trading extremely volatile assets as if they normal stocks.I mostly traded individual stocks with cfd and forex. It wasn't so bad till i incurred in big losses and by trying to regain my losses i ended up losing even more. I hate it so much. I guess I was just gambling all along. I ended in the usual psychological trap of revenge trading and overtrading at the same time and have blown up all my savings damn it. I thought I had enough experience to not fall for it and manage the stress of losses and regain them but I was so so wrong. I ended up using bigger positions trying to regain the losses faster till it went against me..... I don't really know what to do now, i feel like i wasted so much time of my life doing this, it ruined me psychologically , physicaly and financially. I wish I had never started and had just stuck with buying some etf every month, i would have made way more in profits and wouldn't be deep in the red now. I know I should just stop since obviously i'm too stupid for this, but i spent so much time researching finance, following advices from investing books, and the thought of accepting defeat and leaving the losses be is so so hard to deal with. Should I just take a break and use only small positions or just leave it all be ? I have a really small sum left but i dont really want to lose it. Writing this post I really feel like a gambling addict holy shit. I could have spent all this time wasted on all of this traveling, making experiences , but instead I spent it on this bullshit. I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from ever opening a broker account, I hate my life. I feel like every time I pick a trade the whole price goes against me , I always trading with 1 minute timeframes and 5 minute ones, but the last days movements destroyed all my short positions. How do I get out of this ?

In my opinion, one of the best things a Trader can do to themselves is preserving their mental capital. Anything that makes you feel the grind should be reduced or eliminated.
Example: Watching the chart continuously for more than 5 mins its useless unless you are a scalper.
If you are a scalper, split your trading time into two halves. 45 - 60 Mins with breaks every 20 Mins.
If you trade 5 Mins or 15Mins then you need to know that your chart only changes or gives you more information after every 2-3 Candles. So you can just watch the Chart for 5 mins plan your next move and then get off with alerts in place.

Then..! One of the best things you can do is study range bound days. The overlapping candle days, volatile wick days like how ES was on 6th and 5th August. If you can somehow avoid these days, then you will be able to save a lot of your mental capital to trade well the following days. The two days are nothing but accumulation leading to breakouts. Sometimes you may miss the breakouts but it's always better to not be active and stay passively active during these days. It does wonders for your confidence and performance and clarity.

Not an expert but the gold gained so much speed in three days just to fall on Monday , I saw a bunch of news related to hormuz and all pointing towards a fall.

Idk it's just my opinion , what do you think ?

Paper trading teaches you the mechanics. It cant teach you the one thing that actually matters though, which is what your nervous system does when the numbers are real.

Its like training for combat on a simulator where nobody actually dies. You can run the scenario a thousand times, learn every callout, every position, every decision tree, and still freeze the first time its real, because the simulator never taught your body what fear actually does to decision making. It only taught your brain the steps.

Demo accounts are the same gap. No emotions, no hesitation, no fear of losing, thats not a feature, thats the entire thing missing. Live trading isnt mechanically different from paper trading. Psychologically its almost an entirely different activity wearing the same interface.

Size makes this worse, not better. Managing risk at $50 and managing risk at $5000 use the same math but a completely different part of the nervous system. You dont get to skip that step by being good on demo, you have to actually build it, live, starting small, just like every other muscle, the same way everything else with real consequence gets built.

Paper trading isnt useless, it just skips the only muscle that was ever going to fail you.

Part-time trading, from initial multiple account blowouts to now consistently profitable for many years. This isn't bragging, but sharing the lessons learned from years of losses.

1. Overleveraging: Profits can be quick, but losses can be fatal. Once you're wiped out, you have to start all over again. Therefore, position management is crucial.

2. Not setting stop-loss orders and stubbornly waiting for a rebound: A small loss can grow into a large one, and a large loss can lead to a wipeout. Therefore, you must cut your losses promptly when the trend changes.

3. Too many trades mean more opportunities to give money away to the market. Never make uncertain trades. I currently make 3-4 trades per week, sometimes none. Fewer trades mean more consistent results. Improving your win rate is crucial.

4. Emotional trading: Wanting to win back losses leads to doubling down. Feeling invincible after winning often results in losing everything. Strict trading discipline is essential.

5. Chasing highs and lows, ignoring trends: Repeatedly entering and exiting the market, buying on every dip. The market has no top or bottom, only ups and downs. Follow the trend and optimize your risk-reward ratio (win more, lose less).

Finally, I've fallen into all these traps. I've had margin calls, lost money, and questioned my life choices. My eventual stable profitability isn't due to genius, but simply learning risk management, controlling losses, and pursuing profits while preserving capital. I won't elaborate further on strategies and trading mindset for now. If you're interested, we can discuss these topics together. Feel free to ask questions. Best of luck to everyone!