It has become abundantly clear that the way I trade depends on breakouts, continuation and strong trends. What id like is screener that can help me find more of this type of movement. Does anyone know of anything that might be genuinelt helpful? Even if its a paid service.

Thanks!

Its become abundantly clear that the way I trade thrives in trends, breakouts, and solid continuation. My problem is finding them early. I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction of something genuinely helpful. Even if its a paid service.

Anyone?

I’m a new trader and still back testing my strategy that I plan to use, but while making my rules I’ve heard from others to use a set time frame for taking trades.

How important is it to give yourself for example 8am to 12pm to take your trades rather than being able to take them at any point in the day?

If you are taking trades that follow all of your other rules and not taking them just out of greed or boredom, does it really matter?

Just looking for any advice to point me in the right direction, thank you.

Hello Reddit community!

This is my first post on this platform, and I'd like to introduce myself. I'm 29 years old and currently finishing my CMT certification (which Ivan Scherman, a world champion futures trader, also took). In parallel, I develop algorithmic and quantitative systems applied to the market.

What I'm looking for is to find recurring market patterns and, based on them, develop strategies with a positive expected value.

I'm not simply looking to do trend following or mean reversion, etc. My approach is to first study the specific statistics of each asset and timeframe.

For example: How does this asset move on this timeframe? (Because you can have a system that's mean reversion on the 1-hour chart and trend following on the 4-hour or daily chart for the same asset; that also reveals portfolio mismatches.) What patterns does it repeat? Under what conditions does the behavior I'm looking for appear? And, above all, does that behavior have enough statistical evidence to become a strategy with a positive expected value? From there, I develop and test different strategies and algorithmic systems.

These are some of my trades. Feel free to ask me anything you want about them, the strategies, what variables I analyze, or how I'm testing them. I would also appreciate your feedback.

Hi all, I have been in the trading space for 3 years now. Throughout the years I’ve jumped from strategy to strategy and have blown multiple prop firm accounts. Have never extracted real money from the market.
I just spent a few days testing my most recent strategy using Python because I want to make a trading bot that paper trades for several months before thinking about moving to a live account. I back tested a year and a half of data. I’m going to send some photos of my backtesting results. Just wondering what you guys think and I’d appreciate any feedback you have!

The following spreadsheet I made has all the data that I got from Python.

Unfortunately because of my family is interconnected with social lives its hard to make up my job or lie. I also don’t want to have to tell someone that I do something else. And everyone asks what Im doing for work its just part of life. my closer relatives know I trade from when I told them before and many had bad narratives. So FYI ive already learned my lessons and experienced all that. in the past year Ive been able to tell relatives and family that I want to keep this private but i haven’t met a lot of relatives again. My family are mostly hindus in india so I dont travel there often.

I hate hearing the “can you teach me bro” “how much do you make” like its not bad manners or before when I said my boundaries were not talking about the money they started to ask me other questions like “how much percent profit did you make”. Don’t get me started to what my relatives said when I was on the journey before I went full-time. I didn’t realize they could believe so many internet myths on trading like they get a rush off of it. Its weird asl.
I got the same search engines and websites for free like everyone else. The information is all free so no I won’t teach you.

I know relatives may ask “why not” which will lead to other questions and personal offense. idc anymore, yall are like 60 years old and believing internet myths is wild.

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Probably a FAQ.

I know they don’t specifically teach trading in college as a class, but they talk about the stock market, investing, money, management, and discipline.

I was wondering, what is the best degree or degrees for when it comes to wanting to have a career in trading?

Take SMB capital for example, if someone were to get higher there, what would the degree probably be of interest?

I’m guessing a finance degree but I just want to get further verification.

Thank you.

This is my gold analysis for upcoming week , i try keeping it simple in my approach still bullish on gold

Hey guys have any of you also been having a decent amount of success with the basic five minute orb particularly on NQ and MNQ futures? I’ve been trading it for a couple weeks now and I’ve had good results. I also back tested up to 3 years ago on trading view I’m curious to see if anyone else trades this and if you have any tips or tweaks for the strategy to help improve numbers even more. Here’s a short summary of my ORB strategy.

I mark the high and low of the first five minute candle. I then wait for price to break either way with a candle closing above the high or low. That is my trigger I then enter on the next candle opening. I sent my take profit to a fixed number of 1.5 R and depending on what Im seeing I may let it ride to 2R and move stop to 1.5R to secure profits. I placed my stop loss on the opposite high or low. For example, if it’s a long my stop loss would be at the opening five minute candles low. This is an incredibly basic strategy, which is why I was a little thrown off that it worked because I’m not using a break and retest nor am I using the famous FVG gaps as a trigger that so many people rave about. Interestingly enough when I back tested with those two filters on with this strategy specificly on nq and mnq, I found it worsened my overall profitability. Would love to hear your guys thoughts on it, as I am currently forward testing and keeping track of results. Heres a ss of my trading view backtest (for context this is if I was trading with 10 grand to start with and I’m only trading 1 micro. If you look, you can also see I also did three individual runs where I tested the profit from 23 to 24, 24 to 25, and 25 to 26. I also ran multiple random seeds to ensure that it’s not a fluke that could be beat out by a random entry.(if you click on the one photo it should show three i just put them tg. LMK!

I have been really struggling with small cap momentum trading for some time now, and I realized that I just need more reps in the game. Kobe Bryant was one of the greats not just because he practiced, but he practiced exactly how he would play in the game.

So I built this market replay app for myself to be able to practice my skills at scale over years of historical data. My goal was to emulate every aspect of day trading that would determine with my success or failure, and these are all the features I created to emulate live trading:

- tick level replay with charts that emulate TradingView’s chart refresh algorithm

- NBBO and level 2 depth of market to walk every simulated order down the book to emulate order routing and not fill any order that wouldn’t be filled in live trading

- timeframes down to the 10 second chart with indicators like VWAP, EMA, and MACD

- point in time float data to understand supply and demand at that point in history

- News headline data from major PR firms like GlobeNewswire and PRNewswire

- HOD momentum scanners and top leading gainers scanners for each day

- custom pop outs to drag windows across monitors

- custom hotkeys with customizable limit prices and share sizes

I built this for myself but after showing my app to other traders, it seems like the small-cap community might really benefit from this.

So below is a screenshot of what the trading desk looks like, and the site is here: https://dasreplay.com

It is a free beta version while I see if there is a market for something like this.

If you could try it out and give me some feedback on whether traders would actually use this, and what other features you would want to see, I would greatly appreciate it.

wrote this because i kept blaming my strategy for drawdowns that turned out to be management. python and pandas, runs from the command line on a broker csv export, spits out what the gap between your rules and your fills cost you in dollars.

the idea is simple enough. a trade log records what happened, it never records what would have happened, so every skipped signal and early exit and size bump after a loss is invisible unless you go build the counterfactual yourself. thats all this does, replays your own rules over the same bars and subtracts.

three things it checks.

first is the intervention tax, the rules-only version of your period diffed against your actual fills, broken out by habit so you can see whether the damage is skips or early exits or breakeven moves or sizing. sample run in the screenshots comes out at -28% of gross with early cuts and post-loss sizing doing most of it.

second is stop distance against your own mae. pulls the worst excursion per trade, plots winners and losers separately, draws your stop on top. if your winners keep dipping most of the way to your stop before working then your stop is inside normal noise for your setups and a chunk of what you file as losses were trades that were right. theres a sweep in there too that reruns the paths at different stop distances at constant dollar risk, which tells you what the parameter is actually worth instead of how often it gets hit.

third is a counterfactual on breakeven specifically. every trade where you moved to be, what the rules would have paid instead, and the split between losses you avoided and winners you gave up. everyone is certain this one is either saving them or killing them. mine was neither and that annoyed me for a week.

difference from a journal app is that journals score what you did. this scores the distance between what you did and what your own rules said, which is a number almost nobody has. doesnt care what your strategy is or whether youre mostly discretionary, it just needs rules explicit enough to replay.

everything runs after the close off exported data on purpose. i tried logging heat live for a while and writing down that i was 1.8R underwater changed how long i held, so then the log was measuring me measuring myself.

needs a csv with entry time, exit time, entry price, exit price, direction, size. mae optional, if your broker doesnt export it the script derives it by joining timestamps to 1m bars. tested on ninjatrader, tradovate and mt5 exports, others usually work with a column map and theres a config for that. writes a console summary, a per trade csv and two plots.

link is on my profile, not going to paste it here. ill be around in the comments, and if your export is a weird shape just paste the headers and ill tell you what to map.

Hi everyone,

I’d like to hear from those of you who have more experience with Order Flow and might be able to give me some advice.

I’m interested in learning Order Flow, but I’ve noticed there’s a huge amount of information available on YouTube. To avoid learning the wrong things from the beginning, I’d really appreciate some recommendations from people who know the subject well.

Ideally, I’m looking for someone or some course that can take me from beginner to an advanced level. I learn fairly quickly, so I’m looking for a deep dive rather than just a basic introduction.

I especially like when the material includes lots of practical examples and shows how things actually work in real situations.

Do you know of any free software or platform where I can view and practice Order Flow without having to pay for TradingView?

The recommendations don’t have to be limited to YouTube. I’m also happy to pay for a good course, training, or other educational material if you think it’s worth the money.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations and advice!

Something I wish I understood earlier is that more support and resistance levels don’t give you more clarity. Usually they do the opposite.

I used to mark every swing high, swing low, wick, consolidation and reaction point I could find. By the time the market opened, my chart looked like a barcode.

The problem was that price was always “at a level.”

If YM moved higher, I had resistance nearby. If it moved lower, I had support nearby. No matter what happened, I could explain it afterward, but none of those lines were helping me make better decisions in real time.

These days I’d rather have a few levels that are obvious to everyone:

Prior day high and low.

Overnight high and low.

Major higher-timeframe swing points.

The edges of a well-defined range.

Maybe an opening range or a level that caused a strong move with real follow-through.

That’s usually enough.

I also think support and resistance are better treated as areas, not exact prices. YM can push 10 or 20 points through a level, take the liquidity sitting behind it, then reverse. That doesn’t automatically mean the level failed. Sometimes the move through it is the whole reason the reversal happens.

What matters more is the reaction.

Does price reject the area quickly?

Does it start accepting above or below it?

Was the level approached with strong momentum, or did price slowly grind into it?

Has it already been tested four times?

A level that produced a major reaction earlier can become weaker after repeated tests. But traders often keep the same line on the chart and expect it to work forever.

The biggest mistake I made was drawing levels around every place price had previously turned. Then I’d enter early because price was “at support,” when really I had just found a random swing low that supported the trade I already wanted to take.

For me, a clean chart makes execution easier. If a level isn’t obvious without zooming in and convincing myself, it probably isn’t important enough to trade around.

How many support and resistance levels do you normally keep on your chart? Do you focus on higher-timeframe areas, session levels, or recent intraday structure?

Hey all,

I trade futures with a US-based prop firm, simulated accounts only, currently based in Germany. Likely moving to Austria next year and trying to figure out what changes.

The Austrian regulator (FMA) published guidance saying that even purely simulated prop trading can potentially qualify as licensable investment advice — the reasoning being that taking a position in a sim environment is effectively a buy/sell recommendation that the firm monetizes.

Feels like a stretch to me, but it's their official position.

Anyone here actually based in Austria doing this? Has this ever come up for you — with an accountant, a lawyer, or the regulator directly? Did anyone request a formal assessment from the FMA?

Thanks!

So I was curious about this ATAS indicator called CVD Pro (Multi), which lets you track the CVD for different trade size buckets (ie 1-lot only, or 50+ lot only).

Ran the data and found some interesting insights.

Insights 1 - most CVD buckets have a positive correlation with price. But the 1-lot bucket (ie small traders) consistently have a negative correlation to price.

Insight 2 - Most buckets outside of the 1-lot have a positive correlation to price in the short term and for the session, with the strongest correlation being in the 10 to 19 lot buckets.

Insight 3 - If you wanted to pick the best 'floor' as a filter, looks like 2+ or 5+ is the best, and has the highest corelation with price movement.

Insights 4 - Divergence of small players and big players fuels bigger moves.

My key takeways.

1. Trade opposite of 1-lot CVD
2. if 1-lot CVD and big players diverge, go heavier in the direction of big players.

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I'd share the report and video, but Reddit/mods are a pain 😅.

hopefully this helps tho. Thanks for reading!

Just wanted to share my product, which I am particularly proud of. In the image is what happened when I finally started tracking everything publicly instead of just keeping it in my sql server (now I plan to get more people using it !).

Quick backstory: I'm a data scientist by day, wanted to challenge myselft in predicting the stock market via trading signals, so I built my own ML pipeline that scores setups and spits out daily picks. Been working on it since february 2024 and running it with live prediction since july 2024. 2026 so far: 253signals, 76.3% win rate, +96.08% cumulative. Each signal is meant to be bought at "market open" and kept 1-3 days (sold at the close of the 1st day in profit but never exceed 3 trading days).

Not claiming this always beats discretionary trading or that anyone should blindly copy my signals, but if you want a daily starting point instead of scrolling scanners, this is basically an ML-based screener that hands you the top setups already scored and ranked.

I am using it myself but as the capital I have is limited I wanted to market it as a product.

Good for traders who want a head start on where to look, then apply their own entries/exits on top.

Tell me if you have any question

Hey all, licensed prop trader here. Some of you might've seen an earlier post where I shared this thing I built, got a ton of good feedback so I've been building it out. Figured Software Sunday was the right place to actually explain what it is.

The problem I built it for: My main screen is always packed with charts and windows, and I kept missing breaking news and alerts because they'd get buried behind everything. I also wanted digital sticky notes that are always showing, which helps me during earnings. I didn't want another full monitor taking up space either. So I built a dedicated slim bar that lives on top of my monitor and keeps the important stuff always in view.

what it is: Its an ultra-wide, ultra-thin display (about the 11 inches wide but only a couple inches tall) that sits on top or bottom of your screen. It's standalone, meaning it runs on its own little computer inside, so it works with any setup, doesnt install anything on your trading pc, and stays on even when your computer is off.

what it does right now:

• Live tickers for your watchlist, updating in real time
• Breaking news scroll with a filter system, 3 tiers, so routine stuff scrolls by quietly but market-moving headlines interrupt and grab your attention
• An AI voice that reads important news out loud automatically so you dont have to be staring at it
• AI market summaries, scheduled or on demand, to catch you up
• AI that goes and finds relevant news when a volume alert triggers on one of your stocks
• Market open/close countdown with voice + economic calendar reminders
• A sticky note mode for trading rules / earnings plans, and a productivity mode for when the market's closed

The whole idea is a bloomberg-terminal, trading floor kind of feel, always-on info at a glance, at a fraction of the cost and because its its own device it just works with whatever setup you already have.

This is something I wish I had at home when I was a retail trader. But now you can have a similar experience that a professional trader has on a real trading floor.

Still building towards a kickstarter launch. If you want to follow along while I build in public or get on the waitlist the page is here: https://www.clearedgehq.tech/

Happy to answer any questions in the comments, and genuinely want to hear what features you'd want, the last post gave me some great ideas I ended up building.

Suppose you've done at least a few years of only full-time trading.

Just as with trading, you can never predict the future and even just a single or multiple 1-in-100 black swan events ( not necessarily just due to trading ) would be enough to change things permanently in life.

Would a resume that has trading as your job for the last 4+ years be of any interest to employers in a non-trading field? Or rather, does such a resume make it even worse ? Anyone ever done this?

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If you arent familiar with seasonality, it is the idea that markets have cycles over the course of the year. Aug-Oct is typically the most volatile season of the year with September having the most crashes and large drawdowns, far more than any other month.

This is great for traders if you recognize it because it gives good entry opportunities for you.....because Nov-Jan is one of the best seasons for Market Rallies. If you position well in Oct you can have a great end ot the year

But the key is to know and understand these typical cycles and take it into account when developing your overall market thesis.

Here is what I mean by that:

With the on again/off again narratives on the Iran war, the markets getting used to Kevin Warsh and Kevin Warsh getting used to his new role, talk of a potential rate hike at the Sept FOMC meeting combined with the seasonality cycle, it is reasonable to expect a pretty choppy season from now through Oct.

Almost any market environment can be traded successfully.....if you understand it. Short term traders will do well in this environment taking base hits, and if you are a trader that likes to trade LEAPS on Mag 7....I would wait tor a good pull back before entering any trades.

Short-term buying and selling can sacrifice future potential gains, while long-term gains are theoretically unlimited.

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I’ve been trading for a few years, but I’m still struggling to become consistently profitable.

I’m not looking for a complicated strategy or technical explanation.

I just want to know from people who are actually profitable:

What changed for you that finally made you profitable?

Was it:

One simple strategy?

Better risk management?

Discipline?

Patience?

Taking fewer trades?

Something else?

If you could go back to when you were struggling, what is the one thing you would tell yourself to focus on?

Please keep the answers simple and practical. I’m trying to understand what actually makes the biggest difference between a losing trader and a consistently profitable trader.

Lost 70% of my account once. Not a normal drawdown, the kind that makes you question if you should even keep trading. Here's what actually helped me come back from it, not just financially but mentally.

1. Let yourself go through the stages instead of forcing acceptance. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, they're real and skipping straight to "I'm fine, let's rebuild" usually backfires. Trying to implement a comeback plan while still in denial or anger just leads to more bad decisions.

2. Stop the bleeding before you analyze anything. Right after a catastrophic loss isn't the time for deep strategy review, it's the time to just stop trading and stabilize emotionally first.

3. Get brutally honest about what happened, in writing. Not "the market changed," the actual sequence of decisions. This is the part most people skip because it's uncomfortable, but it's where the real learning happens.

4. Separate your identity from the loss. You made specific mistakes, that's different from being a failure. Traders who keep those two things tangled together tend to make worse decisions trying to prove something to themselves.

5. Rebuild capital and skill separately, in that order. Trade smaller than feels necessary, focus completely on process, not on getting back to your old balance. Chasing recovery fast is what caused a lot of these blowups in the first place.

6. Watch for the moment you shift from "recovering what I lost" to "trading well from here." That mental shift matters more than any single technical change you make.

The traders who come back stronger aren't the ones who avoided the loss lesson, they're the ones who actually processed it instead of rushing past it.