Hello,

Long time reader and finally created an account. I have dabbled in trading commodities and options for over 20 years. Never blew out my account but I have had big losses (ahem oil 2020). Overall, I have moderate gains with about a 40:60 success rate. A bit of swing trading and a bit price action. I work full time job so this is mostly a hobby when I have a time. I plan to continue to improve so in the future I can quit the corporate world and make enough to pay living expenses.

Hi, everyone, Happy Valentine's day. Glad to be here to exchange ideas.

I everyone, my name is Frank and I live in the beautiful Sunshine State.

I consider myself an intermediate trader since I learn a lot hitting myself against the wall many time. I currently run on ThinkorSwim and have a bunch of fine tune indicators that I have modified throughout the years. I started trading back in 2003 with a $500 account...which was my savings and I lost it all. Mostly doing the penny trade dream.

Anyways, after many brokers and methods I finally decided that I am not longer going to day trade since it takes a lot of my time as a professional and will work on fine tuning my entries to become more of a short term trader.

Hope to learn a lot from you guys as well as to give back to you. Thank you and hope to not be a RED BULL but a GREEN BULL with your knowledge.

Frank

Hey all,

My name is John, I am currently trading call options and making these trades based on what I know about technical analysis. I’ve heard a lot about how understanding premiums is the way to go, so I’ve been really trying to get into the field of quantitative finance. The problem is, my knowledge of math is very poor. I am a chemist at my day job, so I’m not a total stranger to math, but what I use is more algebra. I’ve taken up to calc 2 in university but managed to get by without understanding much of the theory behind it all (as I was never really interested). Things have changed now, and I am interested, but I am having a difficult time trying to figure out the right approach to learning calculus on my own. If anyone has any tips it’d be greatly appreciated

Hello everybody,

I am Belgian, in my 40s, living and working in Italy. The last year I have been investing a lot of time in my personal financial education, focusing mostly on long term investing. During this period I have also touched the topic of (day)trading. As an engineer, I was immediately drawn to the algorithmic side of trading. But before we get to that part, we have to understand the basics. In the search for info on trading I came across this forum. I am looking forward to absorb as much info as I can from this forum and hopefully to return something of my own experience at a later stage.

dedalus.

Hey all

My name is Jakub and im from Slovakia.

During pandemic and constant home office I kinda got bored and started looking for some hobbies. Im iOS developer so I started building my own app, but wanted to jump into sth completely different. Also Im in a state of buying my first flat and I found out, it would be nice to have better income that I have.

I heard from someone hey you should trade! And I had no clue what it is all about so I started digging around and oh ... its so fun! I mean, I was very exited I can make money so easy (heh ... yeah I saw all those get rich in 5 min youtube stuff) but I realised in about 30 mins it wont be that easy. Not at all.
But coming from technical background I got hooked up with charts and tech analysis. I started reading articles and watching videos 10 hours a day.
I really want to get into this. Sim trading for few months and then jump into it really slowly with micros.

Firstly, fib got me. As a programmer ... fib is awesome. I tried it and sometimes those retracements worked and sometimes didnt. Didnt know from which point should I draw them. Started watching eminimind and eminiaddict ... still kinda lost. I started digging more into why market moves and in which direction.
That leads into DOM and tape reading and all that stuff. Orderflow and market profile and volume profile. Much more interesting then fib

And it led me here. Best forum and ideas sharing I found out.

Glad to be here

Hello Traders,

Also a long time reader and I just finally created an account. I swing trade Futures and day trade (or scalp, depending of your definition) the Dow and US Treasury 30y, Future contracts, with my own capital.
I am a discretionary trader as I just use DOMs + Heikin-Ashi charts with MAs and horizontal lines.
The last time I blew up an account, it was very panful. Also, it was the beginning of a new chapter in my trading life. Almost 10y ago, I decided to stop trading options, limit my market exposure as much as possible, and think risks first. My goal was to stop losing and only trade when the odds were not to much against me.
Here I am, after all this trading time, still learning and still improving.
Thank you all for your posts, opinions and contributions.
Best!

Hi everybody,

some years ago I discovered the potential ability to make some money with trading
Unfortunately, like with many others I guess, it all stayed potentially, so I still try to master this interesting hobby of mine now. With this forum i hope to get one step closer to my goal. Thanks for everbody who puts effort in it so that others can learn .

Benni

Hello all,

I have been trading for only a short period of time, Aug. 2020, initially I got lucky and made money so that when I lost it all blowing up my account the cut felt much deeper. However, the upside is that I now know that I don't know anything about trading, which leave ample room to learn and grow. My search for knowledge in all things trading lead me to this post where I hope to learn something from everyone here.

While trading phycology and risk management are the two primary areas where I focus a lot of my attention, utilizing market profile and price action have become areas of interest as well. Any and all recommendations, books, videos, posts, and such in any of these areas is welcomed.

Take care and happy trading,

Swindell72

Heyo,

Hope all is well with you all.

I've been following the threads on futures.io for a few months now... needless to say, they've been extraordinarily helpful.

I am an amateur trader, very little experience trading. However, I have a broad foundation in (and strong affinity for) numerous applied sciences (mathematics, mechanical engineering, chemistry, etc).... which have served as learning tools to dig into the basic components of market dynamics and price action.

In that regard, the technical side of things has been fairly easy to digest, and I am beginning to take an interest in Indicator development (with next to no ability to code...yet). I've gone through quite a few of the papers I've found online... The "classics" ; Welles Wilder, Arthur Merrill (Elder is on the up-next list) .... and the "contemporaries"; Sylvain Vervoort Vitali Aprine, Ehlers (a current interest, and brain-stretcher).

Some of the aspects of fundamentals, as well as application of fundamentals (especially within Index Futures) is a bit elusive to me.... none-the-less I am eager to learn and expand understanding broadly

Anyways, I am looking forward to joining the community here, participating more actively, and contributing wherever I may be able to provide any valuable input!... or at least to share opinions/thoughts/ideas

Cheers to you all,






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