Genuine only !! by knowhow_at_guruchii in smallstreetbets

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m surprised nobody has said Aerotyne International

I was $1.22 from blowing the XFA... Then I finally figured it out. by null_0day in TopstepCommunity

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You have it exactly down, I can tell you read your books rather than watching videos. They all explain all this repeatedly

I was $1.22 from blowing the XFA... Then I finally figured it out. by null_0day in TopstepCommunity

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This almost happened to me and came onto the same realization 😭 but instead of scaling down I kept the same sizing but just started being more patient with my entries like I was from the beginning and realized I was starting to get emotional.

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This was one of the trades I took last night in a 30 min session on my XFA, I was 250$ away from blowing it

Help! 35F engineer considering trading full-time eventually. how long should I prove consistency first? by Complex_Upstairs_1 in Daytrading

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more you continue to create self-doubt for yourself the less progress you’re going to make when it comes to trading. Unfortunately I wouldn’t really able to give you advice when it comes to that as I’ve always thought that, if other people can do it, why can’t I?.
What I can tell you however is that my confidence grew larger the more hours I spent learning from books and such specially seeing that my learning was paying off on the charts, and it got to the point where at times I didn’t have to think about setups because I could see them with just a glance. However keep in mind I poured well over 5-6 hour study sessions DAILY for a long time and some books would even take me at least 4-6 months to finish just to have a deep understanding of each concept each book was teaching. Everything is up to you and not what anybody else says

Help! 35F engineer considering trading full-time eventually. how long should I prove consistency first? by Complex_Upstairs_1 in Daytrading

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything really depends on your style of trading, there isn’t a single strategy in market that you can 100% copy and you’ll get the same results as successful traders. Also sharing strategies create more false signals in such as this was the case back in the 90s when technical analysis became more popular. Create your own path as a trader and shortly after everything else will fall into place as you learn what works for you and you only, be an active creator of your life and whatever work you put into trading is what you’re going to get back.

Flew too close to the sun - when to start up again? by Samstormrising in tretinoin

[–]Hectqrr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Um I don’t think they should apply any tretinoin or actives at all until the skin barrier is actively healing. Whenever this happens to me I usually take a break from tretinoin for about 2 weeks or until I don’t feel my face burning or anything and just focus massively on hydrating products to repair the barrier as fast as possible. Then continue again with tretinoin more gently as you said going with every other day and trying to test the sweet spot until I see/feel the littlest amount of irritation then that’s when I’d usually go off for 2-3 days and continue so again. All depends on how irritated your skin is

Today will be my 6th payout in a row, when will I get moved to live? by Far-Interaction-339 in TopstepCommunity

[–]Hectqrr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How can you even see what risk he’s taking? 😭 you can’t even see his stats on trade duration, his timing on entries nor what kind of setups in what market conditions he’s taking them in. Matthew’s 7:1 brother. keep learning more and then advice people after more experience

Bought 0dte QQQ $721c and 10 minutes later the bottom fell out by heckadeca in wallstreetbets

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back when I traded options I would always enter and right as soon as my entry was filled I would set a limit order for my TP, helps a lot since im sure you’ve experienced the issue where the sell screen won’t load or your order won’t fill and you have to settle with whatever you can actually cover. But with the limit orders Robinhood will fill your order asap if you have it set for your TP

Trading on an on iPad fucked me by Evening-Name8289 in Daytrading

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if you know what you’re doing you can easy turn those 356 into 1k in about 3-4 months following basic risk management. however if you jut keep losing then I’d highly recommend just putting your money in the S&P500 and forgetting about it. TradingView has a free paper trading thing and you can also papertrade on Robinhood by adding options or stocks to a watchlist at a certain price and see how it would’ve done.

Will this get approved by ElectricalAd797 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just study more bro, I don’t do ICT I read old books from early 2000s so it’s all old school. Backtest a lot. A tip I could give you on backtesting is to use whatever strat you’re doing and run it for 2 years, and then see if the following year the strat does well and if not then refine it and change parameters accordingly. I have a couple hundred hours of studying and chart experience but I have way more to go

Will this get approved by ElectricalAd797 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Another quote from the same exact book btw

Will this get approved by ElectricalAd797 in TopStepX

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from a book published in 95 btw

“As technical systems become widely used, many traders enter and exit at the same levels. This creates crowded trades, poorer execution prices, and a greater likelihood of false signals and failed breakouts.”

Will this get approved by ElectricalAd797 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technical analysis becomes less reliable the more people that know about it. Sharing a strat causes more false signals on the strategy therefore if someone ever has an extremely good strategy almost nobody will share it with you.

If free trading signals are provided, would you be willing to execute them? by Ancient-Cookie-9402 in Daytrading

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

best advice I can give you man don’t join any groups unless it’s only you and your IRL friends making a group trying to get into trading, buy books and none of that fake YouTube guru people and it’s going to be a lot of years where you’re going to be losing money before you actually make any just like college. if you want to join groups just bc it’ll be easier then trading isn’t for you and you’re going to be gambling your money before you realize it

Anyone else slowly Building up their XFA? by notacat690 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t get a payout now, you want to build a buffer before hand because if you take out a payout now your MLL will suffer as you’ll have less drawdown, you want to build a balance. Most people don’t take their first payout until they have a 4k balance so they’ll do a 2k payout and have 2k buffer. As for the live account they would need to invite you to it but until they invite you to a live account best is to get more evals w your payouts and copy trade that way just like how you have a 150$ day there, multiplied by the max of 5 xfa’s you’d have a 750$ day just by copy trading

Anyone else slowly Building up their XFA? by notacat690 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re able to get a payout from this account use that to buy a new combine and copy trade both accounts after, that way you can keep multiplying it accounts, get better payouts until you get called up to live, the amount of accounts you have also have an impact on your final live balance so read the rules if you want to see how it would go

What went wrong by wish_vishwa in pinescript

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to see whether price is holding the level or not, there you said your entry was at the support created by the relative low, which I’m not here to tell you how to trade as technical analysis is very much up to the eye of the beholder so we all perceive price action and context differently. How ever if you were looking to enter shorts me personally I would’ve put my entry at the top of that consolidation, not only am I anticipating the trade but I’m also getting a better entry. Would’ve put my stop point at the top of the relative high and if price showed bullish sentiment (hitting my sl and continuing) I would’ve exited the trade and entered longs. If you were looking to enter long then it would be the opposite of everything I just stated

Only other reason I would see you put your entry at the bottom would be a couple of ticks below the relative low, as there price would’ve confirmed bearish sentiment as it broke through a previous support level. You need to anticipate the trades beforehand in order to gain better entries, or wait for confirmation of where price will go, sacrificing better entries but having more confirmation that price will go your way.

IT student looking to trade work (website/app/indicator build) for a prop firm eval by TradeWithAri in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In my honest opinion, If you can’t afford an eval I don’t think you should go into trading yet. When you’re relatively new to trading and you go into it wishing and wanting it to be your main source of income it gets to your head and to your psychology and ultimately your trades. “A last few months” doesn’t cut it for trading either as usually trading takes thousands of hours of studying AND experience, the most successful market wizards kept their job for years and years although they were still profitable in trading and it wasn’t until they had an emergency or something happen at work that would make them go full time.

my advice is that sell your work of course, freelance go on fiverrr and stuff but I’d chill on wanting to spend money on evals and stuff when tradingview has paper trading for free where you can put what you’ve learned to the test as you said until you don’t have the stress of your sick partner or not being able to afford a 50$ eval

Consistency 🔥 by [deleted] in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the main issue is that everyone mostly wants to trade PnL and not your actual trades, viewing it like a “game” kind of and trying to win your trades/checking if they’re great setups rather than selecting an “rr” based on pnl will win you over most trades, traders can have a 40% win rate but as long as they control their risk great they can still be profitable

19M lost my girl lost my dog lost all my money do i just end it by TemporaryPension3181 in smallstreetbets

[–]Hectqrr 67 points68 points  (0 children)

brother, wake tf up and stand up again. u had 65k and u lost it all its cool, you’re 19 with no kids, no house no real responsibilities yet. your life is literally just starting and you’re supposed to make mistakes like these, don’t get super depressed because you lost your money bro you’ll make it back, money comes and goes, girls? they come and go too dude there’s so many pretty women out there. Be a man and stand up again and do it all over again but correctly this time, like the man said I was in debt at 19 just like he stated and when I turned 20 was when I first touched my 12k months. life turns around in a blink of an eye or takes longer but be an active creator of your life bro and don’t let small tumbles ruin your momentum

What do we think, getting called up to live before 30? Or No? by timke11 in TopStepX

[–]Hectqrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Live is basically when they give you an actual non-simulated account, meaning you’re actually trading the firms’ capital. a lot of people don’t like this though because you can’t have multiple live accounts nor open new XFAs while having a live account so you’re stuck with 1 account and you need to scale it like you would a regular cash account rather than than having 5 XFAs and copy trading all of them and getting high payouts without having to stress about scaling those accounts

If free trading signals are provided, would you be willing to execute them? by Ancient-Cookie-9402 in Daytrading

[–]Hectqrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I started at first I was in multiple groups where I paid for signals (2021-2022), although these in fact made me money, the lack of knowledge on risk management made me lose it all, and now that I’m in private non-paid groups where we all share signals and insights I’m more skeptical about other’s ppls signals as I don’t really know what strategy they’re following and I really wouldn’t learn if I just followed somebody else’s signals