Hi all!
I am a good trader without discipline after a few losses = bad trader.
Seriously trading for three years, but not able to get a grap on my discipline after a few losses. Maddening. Not giving up, but seriously looking for help.
Like the threads I have read here from this community. Great work.
Best

Hello everyone,

I started learning and investing in the mid 1990s with a retirement account and have been actively trading stocks and ETFs in a Schwab brokerage account for about the last 10 years with varying degrees of success (ie, a few decent wins and more dumb mistakes). I've mostly been a swing trend trader holding stocks for a couple of days to weeks. I studied and tried many indicators over the years but have scaled that back to just Heiken Ashi candles and moving averages for the most part to keep me on the right side of trends. I've also been increasing focus on trendlines and Support and Resistance to determine target levels and stops. My biggest challenge right now is that I really dislike waiting a day to see the next candle and hoping an overnight gap didn't take my stop out.

Since I don't have an extra $25K laying around to meet the PDT rules for daytrading stocks, I have been researching possibilities to get more active in trading. I'm not really interested in Forex or Options, and I like stock indices, metals and commodities, so I think Futures is the best direction for me. I am in the process of getting set up with Amp on my TradingView account and hope to start dabbling with Micro E-Minis pretty soon. I believe most people here would say that the MES is the best place to start, and I probably will start there. I think Price Action suits my personality and interests best, so I've bought and started working through Al Brooks Trading course. I think volume and order flow look interesting, but I just can't see a way to get an edge there yet. Maybe after I have a good handle on PA, I'll try to add order flow and/or volume to my analysis.

A couple of questions for the experienced Futures traders out there:

1. Assuming MES is the best to start with, is there a reason a person new to Futures shouldn't try the other micro asset types - Nasdaq, Gold, Oil, etc?

2. I'm still doing lots of searching and reading on futures.io, but I haven't found a good answer to whether there are normal people (not vendors, educators or people with 100K+ accounts) making their primary income off trading futures. Is it possible with say a $25K account?

3. Is Price Action enough to be profitable or do you need to add some form of order flow? Again, I've seen lots of opinions so far, but I still haven't found a definitive answer.

4. It looks like Ninjatrader is by far the most popular platform here. Is there anything about the TradingView/Amp platform combination that I should be concerned about?

Thank you all and I look forward to learning from you.
Danny

Hello everyone , okokokok1 is my trading name. I’m totally new to all of this. I am trying to learn a better life skill in hopes of making enough to get through without state or government help. I made poor choices many times in my life , here I am 60 without any plan or income. With a little savings I hope to learn and turn a little into a little more. I am here to learn and ask questions. I thank everyone for allowing me here.

Hello, Mike!
I am new here! I have just started in Ninja Trader.
Thanks for accept me here.

Hi,

I'm Tom, started a couple of months ago, for now in futures contracts.
Thanks

Hi

I'm pretty new to future trading and looking into automatic trading bots for ninja trader.
there is a lot of scam there and hoping to find here honest reviews and some recommendations about trading bots that works.

So message me if you have good recommendations.

Thanks

New Futures trader, looking for good communities.

Been trading Options for a few years. Wrote python code to automate the trades while I was at work. Options are becoming less profitable and I'm looking for better returns.

I trade for my IRA and personal money (small) . Looking at Prop Firms for larger contracts and use the profits to increase my personal accounts.

I retire in 10 years, so want to be able to support myself by then.

Zscore Indicator for Ninjatrader 8. Does anyone know if it exists?

Hi Everyone!

I think I was long overdue to join a community of traders, so I greatly appreciate Big Mike taking the time and effort to create a site like this.

A little about me... Most of my education in chart reading has come from reading Al Brooks and my experience has largely been focused on trading the ES. I've sent my share of cash to money heaven in the learning process and, like many beginners out there, I still struggle with emotions affecting my judgements which, it turn, keeps me from being profitable (eg. my practice trading on Ninjatrader market replays goes well consistently).

I read Gary Dayton's book, Trade Mindfully, and I'm kind of embarrassed to say how many of the beginner errors I recognized

Aside from extinguishing some of these bad habits, I plan to explore more about VSA, Weiss and Mbox wave indicators to see if focusing on volume in the ES is helpful to my trading.

I enjoying learning and listening to others and welcome feedback.

Hi,

New to the forum, almost 3 years trading futures here.

Glad to be here.