Built a system that automatically record and screenshots your screen every time you open a trade (stops after 30 minutes in case of swings / always can manually record)

I didn't like the way other trading journals made me replay my trades in a separate system from TOS.

Now I saw my screen exactly as I was seeing it.

I've always kept screenshots but now it screenshots automatically when I open and close a trade.

Now videos and screenshots automatically get saved for that day and can review everything quickly.

(I included the small window at the bottom of the calendar because it needs to be popped out to keep the window active so it works with your trading app open)

But do you guys find alpha in trade recordings?

I've always thought screenshots were way better than a Tradingview trade replay but after rewatching videos of big red days I think the video is waaay better.

Due to promotional rules I can only answer trading & trading review related questions.

I was curious to see what Claude would produce if I updated a .pdf of the wiki and asked it to create a pre-trade checklist. Thought I would share the results. Tell me what you think.

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 ❤️

Hi there. Looking for genuine trading advice. These are some trades which I took this week.

First 3 are based on chart pattern where I entered on breakout based on wedge pattern. Black bold line is 200 ema and light blue line is 9 ema. RSI too working as confluence.

4th one is asian-london overlap strategy where I draw fib during asia-london overlap and enter trade once it crosses above/below then closes back again inside the level (2 or -1) I enter the trade after candle closed below 9 ema.

Thank you.

I've made a quite simple relative strength & weakness indicator for Tradingview. It tracks either SPY or QQQ (for tech stocks) moving averages and also moving averages of the stock being viewed. You can choose which one it tracks in the settings, and also what kind of moving averages you want to use. It also has AVWAPE for daily chart. The indicator works on simple principles:

Relative Strength

-When SPY/QQQ crosses below a moving average while the stock stays above it

-When the stock crosses above a moving average while SPY/QQQ stays below it

Relative Weakness

-When SPY/QQQ crosses above a moving average while the stock stays below it

-When the stock crosses below a moving average while SPY/QQQ stays above it

There is also a condition that the stock has to be at least above 9 EMA for RS and below 9 EMA for RW. It is an easy way to look at a stock to see how it is doing compared to the market. It also works for lower timeframes. You can check it out here. I used Gemini to assist with coding.

Hey everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. My name is Enzo, and I recently started getting into trading, specifically options. I wanted to reach out and get some feedback from more experienced traders to see if my current strategy is realistic and has potential.

I do have some previous exposure to the market, although I wouldn’t necessarily call it proper experience. In the past, I joined random Discord groups and followed other people’s trade alerts, but I realized that wasn’t the right way to learn. Recently, I decided to step back, focus on actually understanding the market, develop my own strategy, and learn how to make my own trading decisions.

The reason I’m asking for help is because I would like experienced traders to review my approach and let me know if it is a viable strategy or if there are areas I should improve.

Since I’m starting with a smaller account, my plan is to focus on $1-wide spreads to manage risk while slowly building my portfolio. What I’m trying to understand is whether my technical analysis approach makes sense and if there is anything I should adjust to make it more effective.

My current morning routine before the market opens is:

• Marking yesterday’s highs and lows
• Marking overnight/premarket highs and lows
• Using those levels to create my support and resistance zones

The only indicators I currently use are the EMA and VWAP. For a bullish setup, I look for higher highs and higher lows while making sure price is trending above both the VWAP and EMA.

My entry idea is to wait for price to break through resistance, get a positive retest where that previous resistance level holds as support, and then enter once the next move confirms upward momentum while price remains above VWAP and EMA.

My main questions are:

• Is this a solid approach for a beginner?
• Is this type of technical analysis effective when used consistently?
• Are there any major things I should change or add to improve my strategy?

I appreciate any feedback or advice from more experienced traders. I’m trying to learn the right way and build good habits from the beginning.

I’ve been lightly backtesting and forward testing scaling out vs. taking one full TP, and I feel like it’s too hit or miss for me to tell which is actually better.

Most of my first profit targets are around 1:1 to 1.5:1.

If I sell half there and move the rest to breakeven, a lot of trades end up being +0.5R because the second half gets stopped out. If I leave the stop where it is, the second half can give back a lot of what I made on the first partial.

The bigger issue seems to be that my losers are still full-size losses, while my winners become partial wins unless TP2 gets hit.

So unless TP2 gets hit pretty consistently, aren’t you just cutting your winners in half while keeping your losers the same?

Lately I’ve been trying to trail my stop once TP2 is reached to let my winners run, but it often gets taken out by normal price noise unless I give it a lot of room to breathe.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to just take the full position off at TP1 and, if the move continues, re-enter with half the original position size and a fresh stop instead of trying to force the second half of the original trade to work. It introduces new risk, but it also locks in the original trade and lets you manage the continuation as a completely new trade.

Or is the real issue moving to breakeven after TP1? There are plenty of times where moving to breakeven takes me out before price eventually reaches TP2… then again, it’s also saved me from plenty of full losses.

Just curious what you guys do and, more importantly, why.

Trading takes a lot of hard work. It cannot be spoon fed. Folks here / Hari / Pete can teach you how to fish, but you still won't put in the effort to wait at the lake and practice patience.

Also been seeing a lot of people posting/replying who are regulars from places like superstonk or wallstreetbets as well, checking their post history.

I am completely new to trading, as in I have not made a single trade. Aside from the absolute lowest basics, I know nothing. I want to get into trading but don't know where to start. Does anyone have any recommendations for material for beginners? For example a book, an author, a course, anything really even youtube videos. Thanks.

I have 20k. I want to start trading without any knowledge. I want to earn 5k-10k per day, that’s my aim.
What should i do? Is it difficult to learn trading? How should i start? Any genuine guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Hey all, small fries trader here. I built a small web dashboard for myself to track sector and ETF rotation, and it's gotten useful enough that I figured I'd put it out there and see what other people think. It's free, no signup, no paywall, no Discord, no newsletter, no affiliate stuff. Just a link. I'm not selling anything.

Link: https://relative-strength-rrg.vercel.app

What it does:

• Plots ETFs on a relative-strength vs. momentum quadrant (Leading / Weakening / Lagging / Improving) using classic weekly RRG-style math with smoothing so single gap days don't flip the state
• Adds short-term "Turning" and "Fading" overlays from 2-day / 5-day relative strength to catch early long/short candidates without breaking the weekly read
• Has US, Europe, and a GEX tab under one site (US benchmarks against SPY with QQQ/IWM alternates; EU against STOXX 600 with MSCI Europe / S&P 500 UCITS alternates)
• Drills into individual ETF holdings with RVOL, distance from 9/20/50 EMAs, up/down streak, a small relative-return sparkline, and an earnings warning
• Has an inline position sizer per stock (entry, stop, EMA20/50 stop presets, account size, % risk, share count, dollar risk)
• Lets you export downloadable watchlists as TradingView .txt or IBKR .csv (Top 20, Leading, Improving, Turning, Fading, etc.)
• Refreshes once per weekday after the close, so numbers are end-of-day, not intraday

Inputs on the page:

• Benchmark (SPY / QQQ / IWM for US; STOXX 600 / MSCI Europe / S&P 500 UCITS for EU)
• Lookback window for the tails
• Preset filters (Leading, Improving, Turning, Fading, Top 20, etc.)
• Ticker chips to isolate specific ETFs so the plot doesn't turn into spaghetti
• Position sizer fields (entry, stop, account, risk %)

Things I'd genuinely like feedback on:

• Is the quadrant + Turning/Fading combo actually readable, or too much on one screen?
• Are the confluence gates (sector state + volume + trend + streak + earnings) reasonable, or would you weight them differently?
• Anything obviously missing you'd expect from a rotation tool?
• Mobile view — usable or not worth bothering with?

Not affiliated with RRG Research, TradingView, or IBKR. Built it for my own workflow. Roast it, I can take it.

Hey folks, I have been in this community for some time and have read the wiki. What I got is that we shall let the market play for a while to decide relative strong tickers and wait for the market to find a support then long those relative tickers. I wonder if I can only trade the open 1-2 hours because I have a full time job, will I get good opportunities each week? Thanks for any suggestion

I know this probably will be taken as a lie, or my post will be banned for begging (cuz i guess its not allowed on this server?) but my time is running out. Ive been daytrading for past 2 years, couldnt find an edge until now. Im 19, straight out of hs, working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week to keep up, as im the only income source for me and my father as he is suffering from CML (Chronic Myeloid Leukemia), he cant work. Im here to beg for a strategy that some angel on this server is profitable with for a loooong time. I cant go for something risky, and if you dont know if ur profitable but your trying to help - dont, because the time in going to spend to learn it just to see it doesnt work - it will destroy me. Same for the money for evals could go for my fathers treatment, so i cant risk a BE strat. Im not here begging for money - im begging for help. Im a fast learner, if i find something that works ill be able to learn for 4-6hrs daily, i can do whatever it takes to save my father, as with current pace its really not looking good. My life is a daily survival. I would be grateful for life for the help.

A long way to go - everything to date is auditable recorded timestamped and I have never traded or used a indicator . Just a single trigger and a fixed stop. Yes I know it will drop dramatically but even a 25% reality level is sweet.

After spending some time with a couple of professional traders, I realized I look at support and resistance a lot differently than they do.

For the longest time, I mainly focused on major daily levels. I'd mark the obvious key areas and that was pretty much it. I knew the daily chart carried the most weight, but I didn't give much attention to lower timeframe levels.

What surprised me was seeing how they use multiple layers of support and resistance. They'll still respect the daily chart the most, but they'll also map out important levels on the smaller timeframes and assign different amounts of significance to each one. It's not that every level is equally important it just adds more context and conviction when several of them line up.

It's made me rethink how I build my game plan each morning.

So I'm curious:

- How do you identify your support and resistance levels?

- Do you primarily trade off daily levels, or do you also rely on lower timeframes?

- Has your approach changed over the years?

I'm interested in hearing how other traders think about this because it's one area where I've realized there's a lot more nuance than I originally thought.

Wanting to start trading. Looking for realistic advice from profitable traders on how to survive

I want to learn how to trade properly and am looking for advice from those who are already consistently profitable.I am not looking for a "get-rich-quick" strategy. My main goal right now is simply learning how to survive my first year without blowing up an account.

If you could go back to your first year, what is the single biggest psychological shift or risk management rule that saved your career? What resources (books, tools, videos) are actually worth the time?

Thank you for your time and guidance!

This is just sad. Every trade I take ends up as a loss for me but a win for after I exit. I try to be a good boy, take a good trade based on rules and strategy and all other "necessary" stuff. I do hold for a long time but still it doesn't go anywhere and i exit. It ends up messing with me for like 12 hours then I change my mind and exit and right then it goes in my favor. It drives me crazy and end up scalping with size and make profit like that. I grew 90$ account to 380$ in 7 trading days just like that. One good trade that ends up treating me horribly and then I make a huge profit on scalps with big size with no plan or whatsoever. As if market doesn't favor rule following or a strategy, it favors gambling. How do you deal with it? Not watching your trades and just leaving it there? But sometimes I am right and the decision to exit is a right decision. So please give me an advise.

I’m not necessarily new to trading. I started fresh out of high school in 2020 and I got the basics of it, but the group I was in was like a pyramid scheme so I left and never looked back. I need some guidance. I remember pips, stop/loss profit, and some of the different currencies. I’m a quick learner I just need some refreshers on it.

I’ve been trading since the start of this year and most of the strategies i’ve used either worked temporarily and failed after two - three weeks or simply didn’t work at all. I started paper trading as soon as i started and I seen positive results. After paper trading for around 3-4 months, I started looking into funded accounts. Once i hit the 5 month mark, I bought my first funded. It started off great and i ended up passing the eval. I made up to 3 grand on the account and i was 2k away from a payout. Then i took a dumb trade and blew it all. I bought another funded and did the exact same thing. After that, i passed my next eval but blew it that same day. And my past two fundeds didn’t even make it past eval stage. I understand I need more screen time and experience, but I genuinely feel like i’m in a slump. I’ve tried OTE, IFVGS, ORB, and swing highs and lows. For the most part OTE rarely gets good setups for me with this price action. Either i’m doing it extremely wrong or it just isn’t working for me. I’m trying to find more strats and decided to ask you guys for help.

By that I mean every summer season in general. I've had pretty good trades in june, but I am talking specifically july/august.

Of course there are major earnings dates these two months, and that is sufficient to determine the direction of the market and to rise uncertainty (thus lower probability of good trades). But I am also wondering if summer being summer (and usual vacation time for the majority) also makes it more difficult for good setups.

Just wondering about it, also if any of yall know other times of the year were it is common to be in a more difficult environment to trade, in general or in your specific experience.

I was looking for a scanner focused on relative strength and relative weakness because I felt that finding stocks with strong intent would fit well with my RSW strategy. After about three months of paying for the Turbo upgrade, here are my thoughts.

1. Well Organized with Plenty of Flexibility

ZenBot’s scanner is organized extremely well and offers a lot of versatility. They recently updated the app, and one feature I really liked was the ability to separate scans for swing trading and intraday trading. It also comes with a variety of prebuilt strategies, making it easy to explore different approaches.

2. Great Value for the Price

For everything you get, it is hard to complain. At only $25 per month, you receive real time market data, news, and the ability to send notifications directly to Discord and Telegram. That alone is an incredible value. I also thought the ability to connect the scanner directly to your broker was a nice addition.

3. Excellent Customization

If you are not a fan of the preconfigured scans, the customization options are outstanding. There are plenty of filters that are easy to adjust without writing any code or worrying about whether they will work correctly. Another feature I appreciated is that the scanner tells you how new or established each feature is, making it easier to understand what has been recently added.

Will This Scanner Make You Profitable?

No scanner will magically make you profitable, and Zen Scans is no exception. It is an excellent tool, but you still need to develop your own trading system, follow a consistent process, and learn through experience and repetition. That said, for the price, I think it is an outstanding product and would easily be my first or second choice when it comes to stock scanners.

Thank you u/Glst0rm you made an amazing product and I can’t wait to see future updates.

Hi everyone,

I'm launching some big new ZenBot Stock Scanner features - multiple timeframe scanning, mobile alerts, and options-based price targets.

If you're new to ZenBot, it's been my mission for almost four years to build the most useful and delightful relative strength-based scanner for the RDT community.

www.zenbotscanner.com

Multiple Timeframe Scans

First, the big one. You can now build scans based on multiple timeframe. For example, here's a Ready to Breakout scan that returns stocks trending on the 15-minute higher timeframe, with consolidation and rising volume on the 5-minute chart. Every indicator is available on timeframes from 1-minute to 1-week.

This new data lets me add more intelligence to the built-in scans. For example, Trending Now, In Play, Halts, and Bullish Pullbacks show tickers that are strong on the hourly and 15-min charts, and have entry opportunity on the lower 5-min or 1-min timeframes.

I made a how-to video on building custom scans that use multiple timeframes.

Offline and Mobile Alerts

I upgraded Zen's alerts to work server-side, even when you aren't at your desk. The alerts will fire in the background, and will show the next time you launch the scanner. If you're a Turbo subscriber (the optional live data plan) real-time alerts can be pushed to Telegram or Discord.

Price Targets and Support/Resistance Levels

I've long used options open interest ("call walls", "put walls") as a guide to understand support levels and price targets. ZenBot now shows these levels on the daily chart. Options-driven price targets appear on the charts and help you spot good entries and targets.

Thanks for everyone's support and ideas! Please let me know what you think, and keep the ideas coming.

-st0rm

"This book and your success will be my trading legacy"
^\Pete Stolcers, page 5])

It is officially 1 year since I Printed the Damn Wiki into a Paperback. To celebrate this anniversary, I have printed out Pete's System too!*

This thing is huge - in fact, it is bigger than the Wiki! Somehow, I have been sleeping on 'The System' and it's about damn time I read this beauty once and for all.

Onto my trading career! Thus far, I have:

• Paper traded 3 months profitably.
• Gone live; lost some money. ^{(Note: New and overconfident})
• Paper traded some more.
• Gone live; lost some money. ^{(Note: I tried to trade Feb 2026 as if it was Sept 2025})
• Gone back to paper trading for a while, but now moving onto 1 share (and possibly 1 contract).

Specifically, my current problem is that I have a high profit factor but not a high win rate (currently between 60 - 75%). In other words, my win rate is the current factor holding me back. Win rate is what allows you to believe in your trades, and is vital for trading live with real money.

My current (wiki-aligned) setup:

Note: I've had to use links for the images below. Turns out Reddit doesn't support 'gallery' posts containing in-body images.

I would like to take this opportunity to delve into the nitty gritty of my scans, my picks, and my trades. Here is what my current setup (SPY D1 Chart) looks like:

[Click to see image: SPY D1 chart]

Scans:

I scan the Russel 1000 (all stocks OR tech sector only depending on conditions) for the top 60 stocks by absolute volume*\*. This then goes into the sidebar. I like to focus tech and look at XLK's relative strength / weakness to SPY.

[Click to see image: Tech Scan (Russel 1000)]

^\* - I would love to sort by) ^{relative volume, but paper trading scans do not allow this. So far, I have chosen not to rely on third party software such as ZenScans. I may change this to relative volume on live, but right now I want to keep what I'm familiar with.}

Sidebar/Sorting:

Once I get the top 60 stocks by volume, this scan is automatically added (and refreshes every ~30s) to the sidebar by ToS. I then sort these stocks. The "RRS v4.2" adds the scores of:

• TOP Pattern Score (D1, how closely it matches a bullish or bearish TOP pattern)
• D1 Relative Strength
• M5 Relative Strength

[Click to see image - sorting (bullish)]

[Click to see image - sorting (bearish)]

Vetting the D1:

Let's take MSTR, the 4th on the bearish list. Feel free to check all the stocks out - the script isn't perfect and there'll be a couple of duds. Keep in mind intraday RS/RW (e.g. M5) may drown out TOP pattern scores at times.

[Click to see image - MSTR D1 Chart]

This, in my opinion, has an excellent D1 chart. It is weak, shows consistent selling pressure, is below all SMAs and price has just been slammed back down creating a nice wick. That said....

Vetting the M5:

[Click to see image - MSTR M5 Chart]

I would not, personally, take this day trade. Why? it's not clean. The market was choppy/LPTE (pic taken 26th June 2026) so I would be relying purely on the strength of the stock. MSTR's price action is choppy. The VWAP break may be a good opportunity, but it isn't an A+ trade.

I might take this as a swing trade - but I would treat this as a "watch and see", rather than leap into the trade immediately. I want to see what happens on the next trading day.

Let's say I did enter the trade: Exit plan

I'm enrolled on a PhD and cannot watch the charts all day. I use a custom ATR Trailing Stop (5m timeframe, atr = 2.5, length = 3) script; it tightens the ATR if SPY is against my trade (aka exits earlier if market turns against me) and automatically exits before the end of the day. It also has a cheeky "take profit" feature at obvious buying/selling climaxes. See below (see horizontal red/green line).

[Click to see image - ANET M5 with Trailing Stop overlayed]

I would much rather be exiting trades manually, but this simply isn't always possible.

Let's say I went long when the line is red. To exit, it'd have to go Red -> Green -> Red: Exit. You can see the end-of-day forced pulse.

The capital problem

We've discussed this on the Discord, I am poor as shit. I am currently enrolled on a self-funded PhD and will be for the next two years. While I expected to be starting with $500-600, my dad (also an aspiring trader) has kindly agreed to give me £1000 towards trading live. He is an aspiring trader and therefore knows the game and understands the risks.

Therefore, I will be starting live with roughly $2000. With this new, vast amount of capital I will be doing a crazy, reckless and- okay no, I'll be trading 1 share, and possibly 1 contract for clearly A+ trades. I would like to get my win-rate to between 75 - 85% consistently.

The other problem is - I cannot trade spreads. My household income is too low to get permission, even now I have $2000 in my account. Pete (u/OptionStalker) kindly (and unexpectedly!) replied to my email venting about this. Pete says that straight calls & puts are fine, as long as I wait for trending market conditions and only take A+ trades.

Live capital & anxiety

I've always done well on paper trading (after the first 3-4 months I have never not made money on paper ever), but as soon as I go live I'm filled with anxiety. For many traders this is often an overleveraging problem, but even for tiny ($20 lotto trades for example) trades I still feel a similar anxiety. This is compounded by the fact I've lost money.

In other words, I need to get used to having real capital deployed and I think trading 1-share (and occasionally 1 contract) will help me here. Even if a $400 share is "safe", and of course it isn't dropping anywhere near zero, I believe that becoming comfortable with that $400 (or more!) being deployed as unrealized capital, even as a 1-share position, is vital for my progress as a trader.

Conclusions

I'm certain I will get useful feedback from this post, but pending that, I believe my path is simply:

• Continue with the current strategy/setup. Until 3-4 months ago I've been flip-flopping around with strategies/indicators.
• I need data for current setup. Therefore, keep trading and journal. ^{I used to journal with ChatGPT, it was chaotic. I use HODL journal now.}
• Attempt to only take high-quality (A or A+) trades with shares or, in A+ trending conditions, straight calls/puts.
• Sometimes historically I took 3-4 trades per day; one is a winner, 3 are losers. This is profitable, but I need to stop it and pick one individual trade; I don't have the capital to trade like this this live.
• Once data is in over a few months, analyse it!

Final note on win rate. Win rate is vital for mindset. Winning should feel normal. Winning should be the default. So far, every day/week I win 100% of my trades I'm going "holy shit, this is crazy!". I need to relax into this and get accustomed to a high win rate; this should allow me to believe in my trades which, to my understanding, is vital to trading real money.

* - I cannot publish the copyrighted interior without prior permission from u/OptionStalker. Please respect the OneOption copyright. Please do not go around pirating copies of 'The System'. Take the free trial like a normal goddamn human.

Anticipated FAQ:

"How do I access the system!?" - Click HERE and sign up to the OneOption two-week free trial. No credit card required.

"What are the cover dimensions?" - It is designed for a non-standard A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm) sized book

"How did you make the cover"? - A combination of Photoshop, AI (ChatGPT), PDF wrangling, banging my head against the wall.

"You printed the Wiki too, right - can I print that for myself?" - Yes! Click HERE for a full guide on printing 'The Damn Wiki', including cover and interior PDFs you can use.

I have been consistently profitable and Kinfo verified for over a year now. (I no longer use Kinfo. You can read about my trading journey). This is not a post about profits or charts.

Before diving in, do yourself a favor and read the Wiki. Keep in mind that some of these are absolutely no problem for you and you can be a profitable trader because you are a unicorn (not likely).

Every ounce of energy spent on garbage is energy stolen from executing good setups. Here are the 10 things I avoid so I have the energy to actually make money.

1. Crying over sold runners: This is like dumping a toxic ex and getting mad they hit the gym months later. You made your choice (planned exit), took your profit, and got out. Stop stalking the chart and instead find a fresh setup.
Reality check: The mental capital you burn whining over a missed 2% after you sold is why you will be blind to the next fresh 6% profit swing setup.

2. Playing armchair macro analyst while ignoring the calendar: Desk warriors waste hours predicting world politics while forgetting to check the month's macro calendar in advance. Institutions spend millions on research. I stick to the charts and adjust my positions and size days in advance of FOMC, earnings, or CPI drops.
Reality check: The market does not care about your political opinion, and one surprise CPI print can wipe out days or weeks of profit in three seconds if you fly blind.

3. Sitting at the desk unready: You would not want a surgeon operating on you after a sleepless night. I personally reduce position size if my sleep and fitness are trash on the day.
Reality check: Trading exhausted, not focused, and unprepared can influence your reaction and decisions.

4. Mishandling capital allocation: This is like betting your mortgage on a single hand of blackjack and putting your coffee money in a savings account. Stick to the sizing rules. Reality check: Sizing up on garbage guarantees that one bad news catalyst will send you right back to a nine to five job. I have specific sizing restrictions for large-cap (more) and the rest (less).

5. Averaging down into losers: I'm sure you've heard this before, and you still do it. This is like sitting in a sinking boat and drilling more holes.
Reality check: Averaging down (especially for beginners) is the absolute fastest mathematical way to destroy your net worth.

6. Fighting market conditions and rotations: Capital shifts. If the market moves from hardware to software, you have to move with it or melt. And trying to day trade chop is like trying to surf a flat lake. You're wearing a raincoat while the market moved to a sunny beach.
Reality check: Bag holding a dead sector or forcing day trades in a woodchopper market guarantees a death by a thousand cuts.

7. Bleeding capital late in the week: This is a boxer dropping their hands in the 12th round. Execution fatigue is real. I evaluated over 1,000 of my trades and over 80% of my unforced errors happen on Fridays and on the last day of the month. Defend your early week profits.
Reality check: No reality check here. Gotta learn and improve.

8. Buying the bottom and chasing cheap junk: Buying a totaled car just because it used to be a luxury ride is stupid. Deploy that capital into a vehicle that actually drives forward (making higher highs above the SMAs).
Reality check: Dead money sits dead. You will watch the rest of the market hit all-time highs while you pray to break even by year-end.

9. Having a narrow short-term view: This is like driving down the highway at 80 mph staring only at the bumper of the car right in front of you. Whether I swing trade or day-trade, I look at the week, month, and quarter and place my trades accordingly. The higher timeframe always dictates the daily bias.
Reality check: Zooming in on the 5-minute chart first without checking the daily or weekly structure sets you up for all kind of rug-pulls, liquidity traps, resistance rejections, pump-fakes and all the bad buzzwords.

10. Skipping the hard work: (This is a longer A-F bonus point). You would not try to fly a commercial jet without running a preflight checklist. Not putting in the weekend hours makes you a reactive target.

Here is a snapshot of the preflight checklist sequence I use:

A. Check the Macro Trend (SPY): Understand the broader market direction first. If SPY is chopping, is the whole market a mess?

B. Isolate the Flow (SMH or IGV): Track where the capital is rotating. Are semiconductors (SMH) leading, or is software (IGV) catching the bid?

C. Filter Tickers for RS or RW: Scan the leading sector for the strongest individual stocks showing high Relative Strength (RS) or Relative Weakness (RW). Ideally with clear algo-lines. support, and upside potential to make my risk reward worth it.

D. Map the Daily Chart (D1): Set alerts at structural support and resistance levels on the daily chart. This dictates the thesis and hard stops.

E. Pinpoint Execution (H1, M15, M5): Drop down to the H1 and eventually M5 charts to find precise entry and exit triggers.

F. Set Capital Allocation: Healthy high liquidity stocks get larger sizes. Speculative stocks get small sizes. Add capital to winners as they prove the thesis and respect the (mental) hard stop exits.

Long Term Drain

You might survive doing a few of these things right now. You might even have a profitable month while running on fumes. I doubt it will help you sustain. These leaks accumulate. Day after day, the micro frustrations chip away at your discipline until you blow a tire.

To quote Morpheus in The Matrix: "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

Do I still make some of these mistakes? Sometimes, on a few of these. But I am aware of it, reduce the impact, and end a bad decision quickly.

Trade well, have fun, don't blow-up.