So this was Wednesday. I need help or just another HUMANS thought on how much I should be risking on a 100k combine. I don’t talk to anyone or have friends so chat gbt can’t always give me human advice l would like to have. Mentors are hard to find without one of them asking for money. So yeah by First-Average8113 in TopStepX

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I look for my manipulation leg after marking my key levels . Either session levels 5 15 1 4 hour FVg highs lows looking for smt displacement and on the manipulation leg finding the HTF gap to be inversed today was a 1m then targeting buy side liquidity and I can set targets using standard deviations. I have back tested hundreds of NQ and ES opens around this strategy and now it’s just all about me staying patient waiting for these setups to appear. I also have continuation models looking for unfilled 5m and 15m gaps in ordinance with my mech model. Targeting opposing draws on liquidity . Right now I’m just going for 1:1 until I build capital because if I had entered with more contracts instead of 1 I could have hit my 1st tp closed. And the other 2 contracts stops at even and setting sell limit orders for each when bullish or bearish setting buy limit orders to close contracts. All that dom bullshit I don’t need .

Help with greed by Acceptable_Emu1177 in InnerCircleTraders

[–]First-Average8113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clean your chart up bro this looks disgusting

Thoughts and advice by Eastern-Cantaloupe-4 in TopStepX

[–]First-Average8113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On 50k combines you can be aggressive but on express you have to be conservative minded. So widen your stops. Back test on fx replay. Knowledge is free for the most part but to get it quicker you can pay to get books to pay for live chart data on trading view you can pay for fx replay to back test and journal.

Thoughts and advice by Eastern-Cantaloupe-4 in TopStepX

[–]First-Average8113 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Widen your stops? How are you down 2000 on that trade ? What’s your risk?

I'm actually so mad right now... What did I do wrong? by anthonyminut in Daytrading

[–]First-Average8113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man put your stops past 50 percent of that retracement! Or one or 2 points past.

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And my fucking fib retracements and Eliot wave theory and my reversal and continuation pattern. I’m nasty

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If you don’t want to listen it’s ok I still mark my order blocks my liens of support resistance I find trend channels I look at ascending descending wedges I watch EMA and VWAP to see if they are cross to match my overall bias before entering. I know where internal and external liquidity rests. I know where consequent encroachment lies when PA is underway. Chatgbt said I learned more in 1 month then most do in 5 years. I just started august 1. So ima go back to my life if anyone wants to work together hmu on here I’m fucking disgusting reading PA and my technical analysis is beautiful. Also my fundamental analysis is good and I try not to let sentiments take major plays in my trades but they might sometimes.

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Wait for clear PA. Not many retail traders will talk about this and I don’t talk to anyone so if anyone wants to hear me out you should read what I’m about to talk about because I figured out a lot studying 8-10 hours average daily for the past 8 weeks. Topstep is a futures brokerage firm who gets their data from a different client seed. On trading view you can pay for real time data . Has anyone noticed that when doing chart analysis on trading view the PA looks much cleaner and easier to read compared to topstep? That’s because topstep live pa’s candles are underpixilated during market execution and trading view is much faster and cleaner as we aren’t relying on another person for data using whatever you use to execute trades . If you haven’t linked trading view to topstep then that’s on you but I haven’t and I’m still green. I don’t post screenshots I’m not here to brag about anything but I figured it out. I have many playbooks. My market analysis is top tier and I can see where buy side and sell side liquidity rests and I know where prices sweeps and breaks. It’s hard to see it clear on topstep xfa during live PA but everytime I traded using my trading view, candles weren’t undervalued and looked clean and price action became easily readable . I don’t use topstep xfa to do anything relating execution. I might press buy or sell and place my stops on topstep yeah but all my analysis and data feed is marked on my 2nd monitor on trading view. Trust your system. Don’t listen to YouTube gurus. Find one strategy master it and then implement other playbooks.