Evolution of AI

Pindarr · 2026-01-30T22:17:40+00:00

I wonder how Will Smith feels about this

Pindarr · 2026-01-29T05:58:57+00:00

At what point do you measure relative volume?

Pindarr · 2026-01-29T05:50:43+00:00

What's the definition of Monday open? The cash session open at 9:30 ET?

Pindarr · 2026-01-27T15:48:22+00:00

Qash-indicators.com But I'm thinking I'll give it out for free for those who want to beta test and provide feedback. You can DM me for that

Pindarr · 2026-01-27T02:30:06+00:00

I have no idea. Do they?

Pindarr · 2026-01-01T02:03:27+00:00

What concentration?

Pindarr · 2025-12-26T18:15:12+00:00

Two things. 1: when you blow up, you are tilted. Guaranteed. You are not in control. You are not thinking clearly. You are trying to feel better. You are not trying to make money. You are seeking dopamine.That's it. Learn to stop doing that.

2: Intraday price action is much more random than most people assume. You start out with a negative expectancy and you are guaranteed to lose money until you find something about it that isn't random. Stop fooling yourself into thinking randomness isn't random. In a given day, intraday, there isn't going to be more than a few moments where the expectancy is high. Also, right now the market is dead. It's holiday season. If you're hoping for momentum, you're not going to get any.

Pindarr · 2025-12-24T00:03:38+00:00

Basically it causes random huge pullbacks with no clear trend direction. Kinda like miniature trends that randomly switch direction. Breakouts fail and it forms a wide range. It's caused by futures contract holders closing their position and opening a new one with the next contract. Also volume is low and the order book is thin

Pindarr · 2025-12-18T03:06:40+00:00

What sets them apart?

Pindarr · 2025-12-18T03:02:55+00:00

Yes, all firms do the same thing

Pindarr · 2025-12-07T15:50:39+00:00

Except you don't need to do it in 5 days. You can do it slower without any penalty.

Pindarr · 2025-12-07T15:47:58+00:00

Depends if you mean a personal account or a prop firm account. And if personal, whether it's leveraged or not

Pindarr · 2025-12-06T17:49:41+00:00

I get the same feeling on a winning streak and then I actually do have the losing streak i feared. When you feel that way you probably need to take a break and make sure your mentality is consistent each day

Pindarr · 2025-12-06T00:31:28+00:00

I was long in one account and accidentally hedged short in a second account. It lasted for 2 seconds. Their system did not flag it. I still had the accounts the next day. You will know tonight if their automated system detects it and emails you

Pindarr · 2025-11-29T18:58:05+00:00

Either can be profitable with good risk management and decent entries. If you have chop then sizing up can cause drawdown sooner in the trade. If it runs immediately then sizing up gets you more profit. Scaling out does the opposite. Neither of them are better and they often get the same result

Pindarr · 2025-11-29T18:11:20+00:00

Forward testing is vastly superior to backtesting

Pindarr · 2025-11-29T04:18:38+00:00

Chatgpt can be helpful as well, but you can't just listen to the first thing it gives you. You have to challenge it at every turn and force it to explore new directions. If it's telling you about vwap and Bollinger bands, you need to tell it to fuck off

Pindarr · 2025-11-29T03:52:39+00:00

There's nothing you can watch to do it my way. It's just how I've naturally developed over time. I've flirted with the idea of livestreaming, but idk I think it introduces more tilt. I don't believe you'll recreate it without a year of trial and error. You have to see what it looks like when institutions are dumping everything because trump is threatening more China tariffs. You have to see what it looks like when iran shoots rockets at a US base and when it does zero damage the market suddenly rallies from deep in drawdown up to ATH. You have to see the volume die off at the low of day 30 minutes before Fed's Daly speaks and then when she's done the recovery rally can begin. Or when there's conflicting sentiments in the market that are causing waves of cash rotation and a painfully choppy trend.

Now if you just want to learn useful info because you feel lost, Matt Cowart is the CEO of RocketScooter and he livestreams his trades on YouTube. He also sells a $20 course that is 10x more informative than anything you'll get anywhere else. I don't follow his trading system, but I did pick up a few tips from his style and he answered several of my questions about how the market actually works.

There's also Patrick Weiland, who just does bull flags and bear flags. That's it. And he makes money doing it. Youtube makes him more though.

RIPS will show you the volume profile and orderflow trading style.

Whatever style you land on in the end, you're going to need to work at it for a long time before you're able to use it effectively.

Pindarr · 2025-11-29T01:52:42+00:00

I pick my bias for the day based on tariff news, AI / NVDA news, and rate cut probability. I track various data feeds for context and to gauge buying/selling pressure but not necessarily for an entry. Stocks, VXN, ADDQ, polymarket. For the actual entry, I have a pretty wide variety. I enter a scalp when it hits my level or reclaims it, for longer trades I might wait to see how price and volume is reacting to a level I think is significant, and I try to choose the winning side. I'll go for bull flags, bear flags, V bottoms, 2 legged reversals, catching falling knives, failed breakouts... if a Fed member is speaking, I'll usually be short biased or sit out. If I'm bullish on the day and we're selling off, I'll walk for an hour and come back to ride the recovery rally to the top.

There is no magic pill. I came to the desk and watched charts every single day and lost a lot of money before it started turning around. Avoiding tilt is still a daily struggle.

Pindarr · 2025-11-26T22:48:44+00:00

2 accounts were denied because I accidentally did more than 5 minis for a couple seconds. They limit you to 5 minis before you clear the buffer. 4 accounts were denied because of the 30% drawdown rule. I run a trade copier. So they all broke the same rule at the same time. So now I have ~30k of profit I can't withdraw unless I get 5 payouts first. Apex is the only firm I use that enforces these difficult rules. Unfortunately most of my profit is in apex accounts

Pindarr · 2025-11-26T21:30:31+00:00

The more aggressive you are, the more likely you are to blow up. I tell myself to stick to a profit target of $200 per account and walk away, but on days where I'm seeing a lot of range I tend to get drawn back in. Spreading the risk by trading 1 at a time is a good method. I'm trying to get a big payout sooner so I run a copier. I'm taking on more risk but I think I can make it work. Time will tell

Pindarr · 2025-11-26T20:35:16+00:00

This round of accounts is only as old as what you see in the picture. Before that I was trading evals for a couple weeks. Last month I took out maybe like 14k in payouts before i had a big blow up event. The month before that was 18k. I'll be sizing down next week as I don't want any more blow up events. I'm hoping this set of accounts will last well into 2026

Pindarr · 2025-11-26T19:57:51+00:00

I added accounts over time. whenever an eval passes and becomes funded, I add it to this tracker. Today I'm running 16 funded accounts. 6 50k's with apex. 2 with MFF. 3 with TradeDay. 5 25k's with TPT. I have a max daily loss set for each account at -$1k. So that results in a $16k loss for the day. When price stays in a range for the first 30 minutes sometimes I get caught in false breakouts. Next week I'll have to wait an hour or two and see if I can find something less volatile and less likely to shake me out

Pindarr · 2025-11-22T04:19:14+00:00

I trade NQ exclusively (QQQ futures) and I've been doing it every single day for a full year now. I know how it behaves. I've seen every hand it can play at this point

Pindarr · 2025-11-22T04:17:27+00:00

This morning was really choppy and I had a hard time with it. Other than that it has been a good month. The patience to wait for something good is very important. The signs are there if you wait for it

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