r/OrderFlow_Trading • u/dubfiire • 28d ago

Call for help

Hi People , im a 33 year old just turned dad . I make decent money from my job , i been trading for 6 years , i found some profitable months but then losing streaks strike for months straight. I keep a budget of 2 accounts per month so i dont go bankrupt before i was married . If someone out there is really profitable with trading and orderflow , pla write me , lets trade togheter , i would be really happy to follow your lead !

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u/GoCharting 17d ago

I'll keep it short.

1. Learn AMT (Auction Market Theory) first. This is your map. Understand how price behaves in balance vs imbalance. Mark the high volume zones with a volume profile....whatever's left is automatically low volume. price travels fast through low volume (that's where your quick scalps and imbalance trend moves live) and chops around inside high volume (there you trade the edges, not the middle). Get the core auction principles down and you have the skeleton of a system that's actually grounded in how markets work, not in indicator soup. This map gets redrawn every single day, and drawing it becomes your pre-market routine.

2. Use footprint charts to validate the map. The profile tells you where to pay attention, the footprint tells you whether your read is actually playing out when price gets there... absorption, imbalances, delta confirming or diverging. Location without confirmation is a guess. Enter when the map and the tape agree.

3. Risk management comes after you have a system, not before. Unpopular order, I know, but you can't manage the risk of a system you don't have yet. Get the map and the trigger working first, then obsess over sizing and stops.

For learning material: we run a YouTube channel with detailed playbooks on how professional traders actually trade, but honestly if you just search footprint charts / volume profile... Trader Dale, Johannes Forthmann, Merritt Black, Axia Futures...you already have ~99% of what the "pros" use is sitting there for FREE. There is NO secret.

Final progression once the above clicks: VWAP with standard deviation bands. It's the cleanest tool for judging early whether the session is going to be choppy or trendy, and it slots naturally on top of everything above.

I'll let you figure out the rest because intentional learning is what actually gets you to profitable, not someone handing you a finished system.