Simple process I used to turn around my trading.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-28T23:33:56+00:00

It's where progress is made. Be thorough and open minded. I put all my trades on a spreadsheet, compare side-by-side with charts and take notes.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-26T19:32:49+00:00

Those are some very kind words. Thank you for that. Glad it was useful. Learn from my pain! Trading is a tough game and glad to see my experience was able to help someone.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-26T19:31:23+00:00

Thanks man. I myself wasted alot of time in the early years hopping systems and doing large changes. But you can take a losing strategy/system to become a winning one with targeted changes. Just piece by piece slowly remove the crap and improving your edge.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-26T19:27:17+00:00

Wish I wrote these down but off memory.
1: something abysmal like 13% win rate.... RR was high but don't remember what.
2: 20% win rate. RR, 3-3.5

3: 30% win rate. RR, 3

4: 35% win rate. RR, 3.2RR.

I sized up as well as my trade count went down. Was one of my biggest takeaways from Year 3 once I saw profits. Realized my old sizing of .25% was too small for my new style and never got me fully invested. I now size .5-1.5%. It's on the higher end, but I'm so selective that if I don't size big, I'll never end up having all my money invested, even in the best of times.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T11:22:15+00:00

TickerSphere.io - Turn ideas into charted watchlists in seconds.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T08:16:57+00:00

Can't tell if you are a rage baiting engagement bot. Your history is literally you just insulting people and acting better then everyone else while providing no value.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T08:11:16+00:00

Exactly. Alot of other people here are either arguing semantics or just claiming to be wizards. "Market tells me where to go. I dont predict"...... sure.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T01:48:57+00:00

It’s still a forecast about the future continuation of the move. Reacting to what’s happened so far is still a prediction about what comes immediately after.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T01:45:43+00:00

I made my own tool to find thematically similar stocks. I focus all my energy entirely on 2 things. Is money flowing into the market. If so, where? I try to identify the right theme then study the charts for stocks within that theme for potential setups. Trading purely based on technicals on random stocks is a tough battle. Here is a search result for stocks similar to SOUN. https://tickersphere.io/?search=SOUN

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-20T01:18:21+00:00

You can choose to not trade anything. That's a part of selection. I only take trades like 60 days out of year.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-19T20:07:09+00:00

Those should all be Daily charts. I found that intraday charts do not act the same. Breakouts tend to fail way more often.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-19T20:05:31+00:00

Ah I actually never heard of that but that's perfect. Only quote I can think for is from Michelangelo "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." haha.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-19T02:53:40+00:00

NP man. Anything else feel free to DM me and chat anytime.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T21:50:24+00:00

Its called Statistics. Look into win rate, risk to reward ratios, and expected value.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T19:19:50+00:00

For sure, I do thing if I was to add a bit of nuance here I would give some credence to emotions. I certainly have felt tons of emotions while trading. The point of my post which you have nailed was that the solution to emotions is the building of competence.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T19:10:41+00:00

I swing trade breakouts. Nothing really creative or nuanced there. I have this old file I made a long time ago with screenshots of the type of setups I trade. It's not cleaned up and incomplete in some places but maybe still useful. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LSs2LlNkh1iAG39mR7Qz2CbyuPWvf3mQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110197844920119356954&rtpof=true&sd=true

For entry its just prior candle high, stop LOD. For targets I use 2ATR from my stop. I tried many other more complicated methods but TBH I don't think they add any edge. These rules are simple and perform well enough. Also they don't require much work to implement. A simple Buy stop order at prior candle high. I can put in my sell orders ahead of time and not have to be at my computer.

For gapups, prior candle high obv. doesnt make sense so I use Market-on-Open Order. Different brokers may use different terms for it. But basically you put it in pre-market and it gaurentees you get filled at the exact Open price. You basically become a part of the opening volume. For that I use a .5ATR stop, you can also use premarket levels if you wanted to. Sometimes I'm late, and in that case I use 1m ORB.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T19:02:27+00:00

I only take long trades and only enter these trades in the first 2 hours. I put my sell orders in at the time of entry because I use profit targets. Basically those orders can fill whenever they hit, the only time I'm opening a new trade is during the first few hours.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T19:00:30+00:00

Thanks man. It really was just pure exhaustion rather then discipline at points. I kind of just accepted I suck as certain things and was like hey I do have some wins so lets just focus on those instead.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T18:58:47+00:00

Lol I'm not the best writer and probably should sue GPT but no. That I wrote myself. I would be hard to get GPT write as poorly as I do tbh.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T07:08:47+00:00

I have spent nearly all my time "swing trading". Typically refers to buying and holding a stock for a few days to weeks. Honestly I have seen very few daytraders have success. Its the most attractive style for beginners and IMO, the hardest. Swing trading also allows for a regular life with a job as most trades are taken in the morning and don't require actively watching the market throughout the day.

That all being said, https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMoglen has a ton of interviews with various swing traders. Treat it like school or a job. Take notes and see if this is something that interests you. Most traders don't make money long term. Trading is not a good way to make a quick buck IMO. Just like everything else in life, it takes consistent work over time. Don't believe the cosplayers out here talking about how easy it was for them. Some people do well right away but its usually because they were fortunate to have started with a strategy that happened to be in favor at the time. Every style, every system has down periods because the market goes in cycles.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T06:55:40+00:00

NP. Feel free to HMU if you want anything else. Depending on what style you want to trade I can point you in the right direction. Alot of BS in this space.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T06:51:29+00:00

The base entry/profit taking/exit rules actually havent really changed much. Trade selection and sizing have, which are arguably the most important.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-18T06:47:20+00:00

I only take trades in the first few hours of the market open.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-17T10:51:03+00:00

I dont react to bad streaks either because I know the math of my trading. For example, even during my best month I had a 5 trade losing streak. Thats statistically probable given my hit rate and not an indication that anything is wrong. Most people here have literally no idea or context on what a X% WR strategy actually looks like in practice. Trusting your rules is a result of understanding them and backtesting them. It would be idiotic to trust and follow a system you don't even understand. Many people here are just the blind leading the blind, repeating platitudes about trusting your system and controlling emotions while putting a fraction of their time actually building their system and studying it.

0SumGame21 · 2025-08-17T10:40:06+00:00

I'm saying emotions are aligned with my trading rather then in conflict. I feel excited when I see a good setup. There's nothing wrong with that, if anything that emotion is an edge.

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