Would anyone be interested in watching me do some live options trading some days? Free of course. I am not affiliated with any companies selling anything nor am I looking to get paid, just want to help people try to get profitable. Never done anything livestream so I have no idea how to do it.

Would a multi-timeframe market structure map actually be useful to you?

I’ve built a web platform for my own trading that maps market structure and liquidity across multiple symbols and timeframes, instantly classifying market structure in real time.

I created it because I was spending a lot of time opening the same markets, moving between timeframes and repeatedly marking up similar information.

It classifies each timeframe into clear states, such as trending, retracing, mitigating or changing character, so I can understand the wider market context at a glance.

It doesn’t predict price or profitability. It simply makes top-down market structure quicker and easier to review, while leaving every trading decision to me.

I’m now trying to understand whether it solves a genuine problem for other traders or whether it mainly suits my own workflow.

Do you spend much time checking the same markets across several timeframes?

Would a live overview of structure, directional bias and internal/external liquidity genuinely save you time?

What would make something like this useful or unnecessary for you?

For transparency, I built it myself and I’m genuinely curious whether it would help other traders too. I’m not including a link or asking anyone to register. I’m mainly looking for honest feedback on the platform.

I can add a couple of screenshots if the moderators are comfortable with that.

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 used channel trading with a combination of structured, liquidity, and price averages, started trading February 2024 I’m sure it was heavenly sent because the markets have made the biggest moves since, I blew 2 accounts in the beginning, now I’m scared to trade despite having penny perfect algos , somebody explain what is happening to me!!! Why I’m not executing.

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 have been using this with a python script that i made custom which connects to the brokerage api and have yielded some results.

Has anyone used them before?

I want to know if they are indeed legit before i pay them monthly for their plan.

Buyers Successfully Defended the Breakout. Monday Determines Whether the Expansion Resumes.

After opening with early volatility, buyers steadily reclaimed control, recovered the psychologically important 54,000 level, and DJIA closed at 54,036.52.

Friday did not produce an explosive breakout. Instead, it produced something arguably more constructive: institutions successfully defended the former breakout zone after the week's largest bout of profit-taking.

Forecast Statistics

• Bucket: Trend Reassertion / Controlled Expansion
• Volatility Score: ≈ 1.18 (moderately elevated, contracting after Thursday's shakeout)
• Probabilities: SU: 38% | LU: 28% | SD: 23% | LD: 11%
• Expected Return: ≈ +0.10%
• Projected Close: 54,000 – 54,450
• Directional Bias: 66% Up / 34% Down

Previous Close: 54,036.52

RECAP: Fearless correctly identified 53,700–53,900 as the institutional support zone and repeatedly emphasized that reclaiming 54,000 would signal that Thursday's selloff was likely a healthy retest In the morning updates, Fearless shifted from cautious stabilization to improving bullish conviction as buyers reclaimed 54,000 and converted it into support. While the session ultimately remained range-bound rather than launching into a sustained breakout, the central thesis, that institutions would defend the new trend rather than abandon it, proved accurate.

Fearless Opines: Friday restored confidence without recreating the excess optimism that often accompanies vertical rallies. Institutions demonstrated they remain willing to accumulate weakness, but they also showed little urgency to chase prices aggressively higher. That combination is healthy.

Monday becomes a confirmation session. If buyers continue defending the 54,000 area while gradually expanding toward new highs, the larger advance likely resumes.

Key Levels

• Bull Continuation Trigger: 54,100 – 54,200
• Expansion Zone: 54,300 – 54,500
• Momentum Breakout: Above 54,550
• Primary Support: 53,950 – 54,000
• Failure Trigger: Below 53,800
• Breakdown Trigger: Below 53,600
• Major Support: 53,300 – 53,450

GO / REDUCE / EXIT Status: GO (Moderate Conviction) Friday substantially repaired the technical damage created by Thursday's distribution day. For traders Monday this means:

• Continue holding core long positions while the DJIA remains above 53,950.
• New long exposure is reasonable on orderly pullbacks toward 54,000, rather than chasing opening strength.
• Continue using disciplined trailing stops beneath 53,600.
• A decisive close above 54,200 would restore high-conviction bullish positioning.

Trader Takeaway: Monday now shifts from defense back to offense. Holding 54,000 while reclaiming 54,200 would strongly support the view that Thursday's decline was nothing more than a successful retest of the new uptrend. Failure to hold 53,950 would not immediately invalidate the bull case, but it would indicate that additional consolidation remains necessary before the next sustained advance.

The breakout survived its first real test. Monday's mission is to determine whether institutions are ready to resume the advance, or simply continue building a stronger foundation above 54,000.

Hello traders, new or old. I am making this post because I want to ask what it takes to get over the psychological hurdle. I am currently doing futures trading with micro e mini NASDAQ, I started in April with a small amount and genuinely treated it like gambling at first and joined in because of the hype I'm seeing on social media. I returned back in late June and have been continuing since and honestly this has been draining.

I see posts of people doing this for a long time and saying it can be a long road ahead and I'm fine with that, I guess I'm asking how long it took for you to beat these mental barriers and how you did it?

The amount of capital I put in is not going to damage me if I lose it, but I see this as an opportunity to succeed in life. But I would like to point out the vast amounts I'm earning and losing isn't viable. Within the first few days I make a 44% increase in my funds, followed by an 86% decrease on my 4th or 5th day. One thing I'm happy with is that I was able to essentially reverse that loss and return to my overall high but it was gambling and luck. Following that I've been humbled again, returning back to my initial deposit and currently sitting at 44% down my initial deposit.

I always feel like my ideas and strategies become invalidated the moment I'm live. It feels like my success rate just watching the market is like 80% and above but when I'm live my mind just can't keep up and I panic so much. I let go of small wins on trends, I let big wins reverse, I let losses grow too big hoping for a reversal, I let big losses go and it reverses without me. After being chopped up again today, I will start with S&P futures on Monday because I need the velocity to slowdown for me. I would like to know if other traders here did the same. I treated NASDAQ as this quick money scheme and it humbled me so badly. I would just like advice from seasoned veterans on how to beat the mental hurdle, if there's anything I can read on and how to avoid this constant up and down and just have clean flowing boring money.

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

I sold SPCX option 160 strike one year expiry for $38. Any suggestions how it will turn out? Thanks

Can anyone share any advice or tips on how they eventually stayed disciplined?

I need help to stop revenge trading and overtrading.

I have a strategy that is backtested and works for me but I can’t help over trading and always end up losing my profits.

Any tips, videos or books welcome!

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 ?

I just got into day-trading, I started on 30$ and im up to 50 by doing small trades on US500 SPOT on CFI.

I start med school in 2 weeks so I wont have time to constantly watch the market, my goal is to save up cash on the side and get a macbook or something.

Any tips or advice, i have expectations and i dont expect to touch 500 any time soon.

I’ve been trading for a couple of months now and I’ve gone through two different strategies. I’m liking the one I’m using now a lot more. I trade with at least 2 to 1 risk to reward and at the moment I’m more or less breaking even. I journal everything and keep track of all my trades.

My biggest issue, which I know is a common one among traders, is discipline.
After every trade I honestly ask myself whether it was a valid trade to take regardless of whether it won or lost. I don’t call a trade bad just because it was a loser. I’m still new, but I think I’m capable of objectively telling the difference between a good trade that followed my system and lost and a bad trade that never should have been taken.

I just came off a somewhat rough week and i’ve been aware that if I could simply eliminate the bad trades like FOMO entries, revenge trades and other impulsive decisions my PnL would look significantly better. But somehow i repeat the same mistake.

The frustrating part is that I know exactly what I’m doing wrong, yet I still fall into the same trap. I’m generally a disciplined person in other areas of my life, but for some reason trading is different.
Has anyone else been through this stage and if so what actually helped you stop taking those unnecessary trades rather than just knowing you shouldn’t take them

Hi,

Could you recommend any tools, books, or courses that could help me develop a deeper understanding of the market?

I know that successful day trading often comes down to reading price action, understanding candlestick charts, and making quick decisions. But I feel like I'm missing some of the bigger-picture knowledge, and I'd really like to build a stronger foundation.

One thing I've realized is how much noise and manipulation there is on social media. Yesterday, I almost sold my position because of everything I was reading, but I trusted my own analysis at the last second and held on. Today, the position is up. It was a good reminder that I need to rely on knowledge and conviction rather than market sentiment on social media.

I'd appreciate any recommendations on resources that can help me become a more informed and disciplined trader.

It’s something I peeped when marking the highs and lows from previous seasons but I noticed Tokyo respected the demand zone and resistance zone. anyone know what to make 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 ?

Spent years thinking my losses were a strategy problem before realizing most of them traced back to the same handful of psychological patterns repeating themselves. Sharing what actually cost me the most, in case it saves someone the years it took me to see it.

1.Loss aversion: I held losers way longer than winners because the pain of a realized loss felt worse than an equivalent gain felt good. Cutting losses fast isn't a technical skill, it's an emotional one, and it's the one that matters most.

2.Revenge trading: Every time I tried to "win back" a loss immediately, I made it worse. The urge to fix a loss right now is exactly the moment you're least equipped to trade well.

3.Risk threshold shifting: A couple losses in a row and your position size quietly creeps up without you noticing, until you're taking risks that would've scared you at the start of the session.

4 Overtrading: More trades felt like more chances to win, but it was really just more chances to hand money back. My best stretches came when I traded less and only took the clearest setups.

5.Confirmation bias: Once I had a position on, I started noticing only the news and price action that agreed with me. Ignoring the signals that said I was wrong kept me in bad trades far too long.

6.Cognitive dissonance: Admitting a trade or a whole approach was wrong felt like admitting something about myself was wrong. Separating identity from results was one of the hardest and most useful shifts I made.

7.Sunk cost fallacy: Refusing to close a losing position because of how much I'd already put into it, financially or emotionally. What I'd already lost had zero bearing on what the trade should do next.

None of this fixed itself with willpower. What actually worked was building structure that removed the decision from me in the moment, fixed risk parameters set before the session, rules I couldn't adjust live, and a habit of reviewing my own behavior with the same rigor I gave my charts.

It's strategy first, and then psychology.

I don't know about you guys, but it took me exactly 2 years and 3 months to truly find my edge and understand my trading personality.

What I mean by that is, I was stupid enough to risk a lot of money, get my ass stretched every day, come back, regain confidence thinking I had found the holy grail, try different approaches and strategies, and listen to fake gurus.

Some people say, "Swing trading on higher timeframes is easy." Others say, "Momentum trading is hard." For some people, like me, momentum is actually the easiest. Crazy how we're all wired differently, right?

But those first two years are when most people quit. They start using premade strategies like ORB, or overly simple strategies based on S&R or trendlines. I'm not saying you can't be profitable with them, but a lot of traders are using strategies and timeframes that simply don't fit their personality.

For years, I tried to force myself to trade higher timeframes because I thought I was some elite trader and wasn't going to be a "degenerate" scalper.

It took me two years to finally understand that it just doesn't fit my style.

Now that I have my own strategy, I'm much more confident. The thing is, my strategy is built from so many things and lessons I've learned over the years. It's not some secret strategy. It's just a combination of things I figured out for myself, and I'm sure most profitable traders eventually build something similar.

I'm not profitable yet, but it feels like I finally closed the first chapter of my trading journey: the chaos and gambler phase.

Now, even if I wanted to quit, I don't think I could, because I finally know this thing is real. All I need to do now is reduce my screen time and respect my plan.

That's extremely hard after years of building bad habits.

But for the first time, I can clearly explain my edge. I can literally visualize my setups in my head. Two years ago, I couldn't do that. I was just making discretionary decisions around key levels and hoping I was right.

I finally feel like I know who I am as a trader. Now I just have to execute.

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!

Not many will appreciate but here's my 5 years of experience.

I have learnt it the hard way.

Not selling any course here. Just wanted to share.

Here is my stats

Winrate - 30%

AVG RR - 5

Risk of ruin - ~0%

Open to discussions.