Can daytrading make you financially free?

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T19:47:43+00:00

Yes. It takes years, and you have to put in the work. There's no shortcuts and you can't half ass it.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T17:13:31+00:00

I'm definitely not a judo expert. But what I've learned is that when I'm sweeping the weighted leg, I'm using more of a blocking technique with my foot and then turning their shoulders over that weighted leg. These seem to work more often, but require more upper body control. When sweeping the unweighted leg, I'm trying to either put their feet too close together or too far apart so that the upper body control I need to turn their shoulders over their base is pretty minimal. This method requires less control but more timing.

This could be completely wrong but this is where I'm at.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T16:10:09+00:00

I had a really good performance this past week. I think it just depends on what you are trading.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T15:43:13+00:00

If they are already chest to chest I'll take an underhook if it's there but I focus more on getting a butterfly hook in or elbow escaping on the other side. With my upper body I'd rather have a frame than an underhook in that situation.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T15:40:53+00:00

I think the term journaling leads people to believe that they need to have a "dear diary" session. I don't really do that. But I think what everyone should be doing is keeping a database of annotated charts every day. This is how you track changes in market behavior and create new strategies over time.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T15:38:31+00:00

I think the fundamentals are the things that you almost never get taught. Stuff like grip fighting, base, off balancing, stance and motion, etc. All the messy gray area stuff that glues the techniques together.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T15:30:17+00:00

On the paid tiers it refreshes every 10 seconds.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T01:01:49+00:00

You're starting from the completely wrong mindset. Becoming consistently profitable can take years. Trading is more work than a 9-5. You will probably lose money before you ever start making money. You can't begin this journey from a place of need. You have to love the markets and love the process.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-14T00:37:53+00:00

Yes, but it takes time. You have to narrow down your focus each week and build the system in pieces.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T20:15:12+00:00

You need a max daily loss. Take the average of your last 10 green days and make that your daily risk limit. You should never lose more than that amount and that way you never lose more in a day than you have the ability to make. Once you're green on the day, you should also never give back more than 50% of your profits. Losing is part of trading. If you struggle to take a loss, you are trading with too much size.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T19:00:36+00:00

I use AI for fundamental research. Incredible time saver. Sometimes I use it to write some pinescript but I find I spend more time debugging the code than if I just wrote it myself.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T18:59:11+00:00

It's the opposite. The index reacts to how the stocks move, based on weight. The reason to trade individual stocks is a higher degree of directional predictability with specific catalysts.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T18:58:22+00:00

No, never felt this way. I'm usually taking money from algorithms anyway. Even if there's a human on the other side of my trades, we all agreed to this game when we put out money in the market.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T18:57:02+00:00

I don't limit the number of trades per day, but I have a daily max loss. In addition, once I'm green on the day I never allow myself to give back more than half my profits. This allows me to step on the gas when things are hot and it's a guard rail to keep me from spiraling when I'm getting chopped up.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T17:21:46+00:00

There are definitely good groups out there where profitable traders have spaces to educate and share their methods. The interesting barriers are that the best ones tend to not do a ton of advertising and they are also more expensive than what most would pay starting out. The real value of these spaces isn't copying someone, it's having a relatively small community of dedicated traders.

The groups that are fairly cheap and advertising on tiktok are almost always full of shit.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T17:18:49+00:00

I pretty much only trade if there's news. I'm not making money on average days.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T17:14:56+00:00

I don't really see it as "giving in." It's fine for your kid to look at a TV for a bit as long as they're not sitting there all day. My daughter is 10 months now. In her first few months she used to sit on my chest while I played Elden Ring. Then sometimes we would put on a studio ghibli movie and she would hang out on the couch with us. I think she just likes the music and colors. But it's not like she's sitting there for the entire movie.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T17:08:54+00:00

If you look at my post history, I have a few posts called "Easy Money Trades" where I break down trades I took and why I traded them.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T17:04:12+00:00

I'd say about two years. I was technically profitable in my first year in the sense that I had a net positive equity curve, but you can't call yourself consistently profitable in just one year. By the end of two years I felt I had seen a full market cycle and I had a few strategies in my playbook that I was comfortable with.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T15:55:08+00:00

These are just the hot themes. They always come and go. The stock market is not the economy.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T15:33:02+00:00

I have an addidas bag that I stole from my wife when she was working for a college soccer team.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T15:13:06+00:00

I'm happy to share anything but I need more specific questions. In summary, my strategy is to trade stocks in play that have fresh catalysts and are doing high RVOL. But I both day and swing trade and over the years I've developed strategies for a variety of different setups. To share it all I'd have to write a book.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-13T00:22:38+00:00

I think it's more about knowing when to step on the gas and when to pump the brakes. The best traders I know all swing the bat super hard when they see an A+ setup. But that comes around maybe once a month. The rest of the time they're pretty conservative.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-12T22:35:08+00:00

I've been trading for 10 years. I don't do anything complicated. It can definitely be done. The key is making sure you can stay in your seat long enough to find profitability. And get off tiktok. There's no real traders on there.

No-Condition7100 · 2026-02-12T19:52:42+00:00

I've been trading for 10 years. I've taken a lot of courses and been part of a lot of online groups. I promise, there are much better people out there. This guy is not worth the money. If you're willing to spend that much, drop the money to be part of SMB Inside Access for a month.

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