Taking the holiday weekend to try to learn a thing or two.

Thanks.

Hello traders, joined the forum few months ago and now taking my trading journey seriously I glad to participate with this community. Thanks !

Hi, I am Maria - I am originally from Eastern Europe, now living in France. I teach children maths, mostly as a private tutor.

Things like pandemics and wars were not easy for me, to say it mildly, but I remain optimistic.

I have friends, both previous teachers, who now earn their living from trading - one "comfortably" and the other "just about". I hope to do this also by the end of 2024. (Is it unrealistic?).

I have very little experience and only on demo, but I have a degree in math and statistics, and probability is kind of "my subject," and naturally I am hoping this may be an advantage rather than a disadvantage(?).

The last forum I joined was horrible, I know already that this one will be both much nicer and much more suitable for me. I hope I will not be too unsuitable for it!

Good day traders. I'm barnes, trading since 2004. Mostly Forex as a swing trader without much success. Done several years of CFD trading stocks on ASX, without much success. Never blew my account. Had success mostly with carry trades but without leverage. I have a handyman's business and I'm a buyer's real estate agent as well, so life is busy. I came here to learn from all of you, and to slowly become a day trader with new vision. Thank you all in advance.

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Hello everyone!

My trading road was a bumpy one, starting 4 years ago with crypto and blowing account after account, low ones, never put too much money as I was seeing that I have no luck in that period. In time, i was seeing that the things that I was trading are more like the flip of a coin, trading chart patterns and bolinger bands wothout an actual strategy. From there I was aleays in a search for information on the internet, trying to filter information from BS.

At some point I found out about market profile and market microstructure and why prices move and this eas a subject that I started to love. Not just trading overall but why markets behave the way they do, even found a couple of university courses in the internet. This changed my trading a little bit and I started to see much more green on the screen. Almost an year ago, i have found about prop firms and tought that it would be best to leave crypto on a side and start trading futures and I think that this was the best decision ever. I started to use sierra charts instead of trading view and at first, my screen was full of footprint charts, market profiles, range charts with cumulative delta, etc. which furned out for me to not be quite as usefull as I tought.

Now, i have followed no BS trading’s advice and got rid of the charts, I only use them for pre market prep and to check from time to time what happsned and only have my DOM, trying to scalp and I love this stile. After a couple of weeks iI can feel a difference in my trading. My biggest problem tho is taking unnecessary trades and talking myself intk seeing things in the dom where there is actually just a random walk happening.


My win rate started to increase and I started recording my trades. Slowly but surely, it’s going in the roght direction.

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.....math and statistics, and probability is kind of "my subject," and naturally I am hoping this may be an advantage rather than a disadvantage(?).

Well, it certainly was for some, an advantage that is. Take for example Jim Simons (Renaissance Technologies) or Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard, the founders of "Prediction Company". Their amazing story is told in the book " The Predictors" written by Thomas Bass.

One thing is clear though, they use(d) a lot of computer power/knowledge.

Thought you might like it.

p.s. see the difference between these traders and the educators we were talking about in that other thread?

My introduction: Trade futures ES and options SPY on Tradestation. Work with cycles that I have developed myself for direction of the trend.

Hello I don't have much actual trading experience. I am using NinjaTrader at my internship and joined to learn some more things about it!

Hello traders,

I started to learn trading a few years ago, still haven't found consistency yet. Have always only traded small since I've not demonstrated to myself discipline and consistency yet. Have also only followed Al Brook's price action trading method so far. It's been a great learning experience and I quite enjoy it. I'm here to learn from all traders. Hoping that with a few years of hard work, I can become a full time day trader by 2027.

Thank you all in advance!