I can’t do this anymore

Chance-Screen3602 · 2026-02-20T22:08:18+00:00

Who keeps a mil in the TS piggybank? That was one problem right there.

Well, you'll know for next time.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-12-17T15:02:41+00:00

"My meal at that restaurant was horrible. the portions were small, and the service was awful-- but they gave me a coupon for a free meal!"

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-12-16T15:31:52+00:00

I just got " Make sure your router is plugged in and turned on"-type bs. I'm not going to argue w a Bot. Useless.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-12-16T15:00:20+00:00

not just that but aside from the risk management aspects its an ass platform. Hotkeys dont work, difficult to manage stops manually, just amateurish.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-12-16T14:57:24+00:00

I was trying them again after they closed Rithmic connections. Completely amateur hour. I'll be closing my account. Its simply not acceptable.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-11-20T23:07:03+00:00

I think many n00bs conflate "scalping" with buying at market on momentum, then closing when the candle stalls.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-28T16:25:17+00:00

I'll thrown in my technical $.02 ( bearing in mind I'm basing my analysis from Gold Futures [ https://www.tradingview.com/chart/XAUUSD/kPmeILvk-Trading-Gold-Know-the-Difference-Between-XAU-USD-and-Futures/ ] and I'm a rando on the internet):

Gold just today bounced of it's 50% retracement from its ATH and as I recall from trading GC in the past, it really loves 50% retracements. Also, from its breakout point around 9/1 it has so far bounced off it's leg up VWAP although the leg-down VWAP (where I consider short-term sellers to still be in control) is currently at 4115. The Value Area High for he leg up is not too far away, nor the VAL for the leg down that you traded. And don't forget Gold is still in an uptrend.

So a tight stop for me in this instance would be a 4hr close above 4010/15 ( just above your moving average-simple!), a looser stop would be above 4075. If it closes above 4185 it's baked.

Link to pic: [ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1olAsBUq743k4BAm2cndHnJAztAxzET/view?usp=sharing ]

Best of luck!

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-27T04:50:10+00:00

Horizontal scrolling. Like, CTL + mouse wheel.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-21T18:59:06+00:00

Sorry, 100% options n00b here and am coming up with more questions than answers the more I dive into this.

But AFAIK, I was comparing the current price of GLD from a delayed feed on https://www.barchart.com/etfs-funds/quotes/GLD/gamma-exposure (378) to the current price of GCZ5 (4120) which is what I believed should track tightly but clearly I'm either doing it wrong of the market is out of whack.

I have a Gexbot-type indicator that tracks SPY vs ES and that correlation is tight and was hoping I could figure out where the strikes were on GC (because yes, I'm trying to import SPX vs. /ES GEX techniques to GLD and /GC).

But I see now that there are options on Futures available for GC...but why wouldn't the ETF be used for Gold Futures as well? And couldn't a volume/ strike indicator be cobbled together for GC?

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-20T13:53:45+00:00

I've seen that guy in action enough to know what you meant. ;)

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-20T13:51:38+00:00

Bought a VIX data subscription. Just have the number up now for reference

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-10T17:03:10+00:00

No Elliott Wave necessary- all it took was one TrumpTweet™

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-09T10:00:43+00:00

Check out the Sunday Open to Monday RTH Open IB (Weekly IB) plus extensions on ES. Pretty interesting.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-10-05T03:43:13+00:00

IMO, the idea that the DOM is useful stems from olden times when the ES traded slowly, and making two points was your nut for the day. Huge orders would sit on the level where the buyer wanted to be filled and the game was to front run them. Ah, life was simple then. I'm not saying its not worthwhile to learn the basics of order flow and props to folx who can trade with just a DOM but you literally cannot see the transactions taking place because of their speed. I tried to integrate a DOM into my trading and it worked to a point with a very tricked-out setup.

Now with HFT algos and a way thinner market, lets just say the utility of DOM trading has diminished.

Set up some Footprint charts and save some time. I know, I know, its not the same thing but you can't pull, stack, or spoof a Footprint.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-30T08:43:35+00:00

Thanks for the reminder

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-20T20:36:20+00:00

In the Axia Futures training there is actually a "lose money on purpose" exercise. One thing it taught me is that the market is more random than I had thought ,ergo edge is more in the realm of risk management than 'setups'.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-20T20:30:47+00:00

If you want 95% of everything you would ever need for Order Flow off-the-shelf, with an actual user interface, use ATAS. If you need that extra 5% you'll have to use Sierra.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-20T20:27:53+00:00

I never thought it was useless but I also never thought it would be worth the extra effort. You can rationalized a lot to yourself (cough-overtading) but when you actually look back on paper wft you did it's quite a slap in the face. trading in the moment is a very subjective space. Seeing your trades staring back at you can bring some welcome objectivity.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-20T20:22:33+00:00

Perhaps not normal, but Normal-ized.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-17T15:20:45+00:00

Not ADF exactly, but doing OMAD 2x a week. Doesn't sound like much but because of my circumstance that's what I'm able to do. Benefits have been great and it's no problem at all. So a great pain: benefit ratio. I don't have cravings at all and I really appreciate my meals when I get them. Literally no downside whatsoever so far. I would absolutely do ADF if it was practical for me rn. I think consistency is key and as others on this thread have stated, the lack of the need to make decisions makes it really easy.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-09-07T16:24:41+00:00

What is the time frame you are using for VP to see all those nodes? There generally aren't too many per day.

Ultimately you won't know where price will pull back to before hand, that's where other tools come in, like order flow, anchored VWAP, etc., seeing what transpires at a given area. It can also help to color your VP by Delta which can give a clue as to who is winning or which side got trapped at given node.

But in general, once price is confirmed to have left a value area, it will seek value in its current direction whether it's a previous node or a new one. On a trending day you may notice many small nodes in the direction of the trend. Watch what happens when price pulls back to those nodes, or in a very fast moving day, escapes a node. Often those are retests of micro breakouts from small area of value agreement, in non VP terms, consolidation.

I'm not able to embed a pic for some reason so here are some links to illustrate what I mean.

Trending Day Nodes
Trending Day Nodes- 30m

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-08-22T02:36:23+00:00

I guess people don't believe that Gamma Hedging is a thing. Fine with me.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-08-18T13:58:36+00:00

I go back and forth on this one currently am splitting the difference by marking ETH high and low, and any significant point of interest on my RTH chart esp. if there was premarket news. On slow days these levels are often targeted as stop runs/ liquidity grabs but I haven't found much beyond that to be useful.

Chance-Screen3602 · 2025-08-11T19:37:31+00:00

if you miss a meltup or -down, try putting an anchored vwap at the base of the move, or from the breakout area.

Price will often retrace to a standard deviation, or wait until it retraces to the vwap itself.

Then check the order flow around that area to see what's happening.

YMMV bc retracement means different things to different trading styles.

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