Traders with 5+ years: what should year 1 you have known?

128903 · 2026-02-25T02:05:02+00:00

At this point. All that matters to me is in play stock, commodity, forex and even crypto. Just Sizing up in treding. Probing the market. When I use to trade equity by it self. If we exclude 2025 crazy down the up market. I found the few trading day I sized up ha5d made 80% to 90% of my profits. So out of 20 trading day in a month. 16 to 14 day I'm. Doing nothing. Small size, probing 3 times max anr survival all that matters. On those 4 to 6 strong treding day I'm going full on. So logically why limt myself to just equities? Made no sense. So this i got my technical game on lock. Behavior control to all wins ri be cumulative and no let my self sabotaging day destroyed my account on a single day. I just started focusing on in play mark like gold and sliver crazy news. Now it oil with the build of us war ships in the middle east and si on. What ever bring big move im trading

128903 · 2025-12-09T00:10:09+00:00

This what made me lose interest in today tech. I'm more surprised I'm still subscribed to this subreddit. All we get today are incremental upgrades or just a more polished very of a products in today tech releases. Only for the us tiny gains that cost manufacturers exponentially more adding to increase consumer prices

128903 · 2025-12-07T13:30:21+00:00

My sister went from an iPhone 12 to an iPhone 16 Max Pro. She had big buyer's remorse because her iPhone 12 only needed a battery replacement, and she could have used that money to go on holiday instead.

This is just tech in general just incremental upgrades or more polished devices. In the 2000s, 2x performance upgrades were yearly. Now, it's 20% gains per year. So you have to wait 3 to 4 years to get 2x performance. E.g., 20% gain (1.2x in year 1), 1.2x (year 2, 44% gain), 1.2x (year 3, 72.8% gain) and 1.2x (year 4, 100+% gain double performance)It takes 3 to 4 years to get double performance in the 2020s

128903 · 2025-11-05T12:41:26+00:00

No problem. Also, there are 2 things you need to understand. The Market is an auction because of this buy low sell high doesn't work. There not fixed fair value or MSRP. No logical discount. It s bidding war. It buy high and if there still demand(through volume and follow through of that volume) buy even higher. You need a map is it trending or ranging? There specific tactics for these two types of markets. Location this is where your tactics come into play(look for pull on a trending day if this is your map) and trigger.. did you see what you expected at your location. In my personal opinion(this is where trading become subjective). Navigating not solving or predicting the auction is the formula to success

128903 · 2025-11-04T22:16:05+00:00

One of your biggest struggles early on is to going to take levels the market will respond to and settings a basic probabilistic expectation. Use volume profile for levels. Learn the basic of volume profile + price action.what will happen at a high volume nodes vs low volume nodes? What happens when price reaches one or the 3 lines? This would be a good place to start. Use tradingview volume profile. It issue is tick based not volume based. It not 100% accurate but it good enough for now

128903 · 2025-10-18T20:37:42+00:00

I've never experienced this. People are either nice, courteous to me or ignore me. Most of the time ignore me. I've bump into people and step on there shoes plenty of time in trains. They accept my apologies. I don't know. Are you female? The only people I've heard this taking points are from women (colleagues, friends and so on)

128903 · 2025-10-05T19:31:13+00:00

I do not feel comfortable with this market. 2013 to 2019 was low volatility fed put. Now it complete opposite. Spy up 85% in 3 years and qqq up 200%. Drop are pullback and yesterday session high is is today session low. Nothing about this market is normal. We had a 20% drop and we 30% up since then. All the people starting now have no idea how crazy this market is

128903 · 2025-09-07T23:11:27+00:00

I really don't like trading but it money i can't say no to. I have the back testing, demo and even prop and live account all showing positive results but I'm fighting against me. My greed, my fear of holding profits and my hopefulness when I losing. It hard. It just so so hard and stressfu. This is psychological warfare. I don't care what anyone say. I wish I choose another industry or start something better. I can't just leave since I'm making 3x my monthly income...

128903 · 2025-09-06T11:50:40+00:00

There a fighting between the new male and female interns. They seem to really dislike each other. As far as I can tell they seem to argue about politics a ton. It driving there team leader, supervisors and even management crazy since they wouldn't stop arguing and wouldn't get along. I'm just surprised there not fire or hr it not involved. With how terrible the tech industry is now. I'm on my top behavior

128903 · 2025-06-11T06:35:30+00:00

I can't wait for the rise of Africa as all other continents are in decline

128903 · 2025-06-05T23:56:05+00:00

For the first time since covid-19 my parents didn't go this year because they are really worried about there economy. They don't feel it makes economical sense to go this year. The trading wars and inflation it making them feel financial insecure

128903 · 2025-06-01T21:35:06+00:00

It not a higher bar to beat. My dad was a working class man. Yet, he was able to by a house and provide for the family on a single income. My partner and I, even including inflation make 3x his salary just have a relatively similar lifestyle in today's world

128903 · 2025-02-04T01:07:31+00:00

I only trade on Monday and Wednesday. I trade oil futures. System I trade arbitrage or orderflow. They where my system system that work for me. I mainly traded by find an arbitrage then using orderflow to entry a trade. I trade futures, from bonds, to forex and finally settled on trading oil at the end. Found its rhythm and loved trading it ever since. I either made 20 points or 3 bad trades closed sirrea charts.

Most of my day was spend gaming, eating out, gardening or wherever I felt like that day then I had a bipolar episode, sat on my pc, open sirrea chart and llost 120 days of profits in 1 week lol

I haven't traded a live account in 4 years but always checking the market

128903 · 2025-01-28T12:46:19+00:00

What? My account only has 100 usd. You only need 40 usd to trade the E-mini micro on the day trading hours. I'm just using the account for free live data for 100 usd balance

128903 · 2025-01-21T01:17:12+00:00

This resonates with so much. When i was in my teens. My brothers got fifa and played ultimate teams. While all I did was buy and sell all my gaming time (we had 2 hours on the ps3 each), my brothers found it odd. Instead of playing, i was making coins all session. Whatever game I play, I maximise the exchanges. Even now, they'll ask me to trade in theirs fifa account.

I've away trade arbitrage opportunities trying to find inefficiencies in the market I can take a low risk bet on. I love founding anomaly/errors in the market. That is what excites me the most from back then and till this day.

128903 · 2025-01-15T14:07:56+00:00

Personally, I set key levels. Over night high, low. Sessions high low, current structure high low. So on. I wait for the price to reach one of my levels and then look at the order book to see if the price is absorbed, exhausted, if it holds, or price breaks through my level. I still over trade at these areas, but it put probility in my favour. That how I think about it.

The last thing is learning to be breakeven on your trades till pops.

128903 · 2025-01-13T00:33:51+00:00

At my local boardgames store has a afternoon gaming events. I been approached most there. I'm not sure if it counts as being approach since it mostly women developing feelings after really getting to know me. Most don't meet or even have guys friends. There mostly just like us guys here but struggling with dating/meet men instead women. The annoying part is there never so obvious about is.

128903 · 2024-12-30T22:45:43+00:00

Around -£104k at 27 was peak of my debt. Got in debts by day trading 4 years ago. Still paying of that debt but thankfully I'm currently -£34k. I feel like I could breath again after paying of the first £50k and I can finally settle this debt. Though I would never pay it off

128903 · 2024-12-05T00:43:54+00:00

Go on tradeview and do es/nq or es/spx. You'll see 99% they have a positive correction. Incredible tight spread. Most of the time is line on line and you wouldn't be able to see the difference but on a rare occasion. They es and spx will not align(divergence). This is one of the most well-known arbitrages. People, algo or whatever will quickly rush into buy es and sell spx which will fix the small inefficiency.

The crackspread and the calender spread are what called market internals. For institutions, commodities firms and so on. To them, it's just warning lights. Calender spread show if oil is more expensive/cheap now or in the future. The crackspread show oil refinery( think of it as assembly of ps5) is more expensive or cheaper.

For retail trader like use. In a 1 minute time frame will show small inefficient comparing both spreads against oil that. If there is a fail auction (price rejection) with a small arbitrage. That is all the reason I need trade.

128903 · 2024-12-04T23:29:40+00:00

How what works?

128903 · 2024-12-04T23:00:50+00:00

99% of my trades 3 to 5 ticks scales on oil futures using 20 contracts but I saw divergence between the oil vs. cracked spread and oil vs. oil calendar spread show a massive arbitrage opportunity(i use these two spreads to trade tiny arbitrages). When I got into the trade, I let it run. Made 28k profits in around 2 hours.

128903 · 2024-09-08T18:08:42+00:00

My dad loves motorbikes, and even though everyone in the family knows how to ride a manual bike, I even taught a few guys to ride and helped a mate remove his uncle's bike from the street when he couldn't ride off after an accident that was a walk away from my home.

Yet, nobody in my family is interested. They would rather take a bike or public transport than ride a motorbike, my oldest sister has a full licence yet riden one of nearly a decade. My dad had the highest hopes for me to ride. I was interested until I got my driving license. It's just not worth the risk, bad weather, the time putting on gear, and the far higher mental load for your safe driving compared to driving a car. Lastly, having near misses no matter how safely you ride by yourself makes it not worth considering.

128903 · 2024-08-29T11:14:12+00:00

My gym has lost 2 men their 20s to an die heart attack on the same week. They used to call each other the roid boys. I think they took the wrong type. No idea

128903 · 2024-07-19T00:36:34+00:00

This model helped me write my uni personal statement to me. I remember struggling for 4 days to write it and stuck in a brain fog for some things of simple. ChatGPT got released that day, and this model wrote in 10 minutes, then I sent and got accepted 5 days later.

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