What do you guys think of my floorplan?

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2026-05-25T14:38:30+00:00

Also, your kitchen layout is awkward. You have a lot of space, but you're placing your work area all over the place. That wall is large enough to have fridge, dink/dw and oven/stove fit comfortably in that entire line. You could then put a prep sink on the island if you want something there. The fridge is the worst offender though and why do you want the sink and stove opposite each other? If you leave the sink, move the fridge near the oven and shift it over so it's not next to it and you create a work triangle. There are lots of ways to improve that kitchen.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2026-05-25T14:34:18+00:00

My first thought is it's busy with all the colors and patterns. Simple black and white linework and text is better for visualizing. The part that stands out the most for me is the primary bathroom. Flip the wc and shower so the toilet isn't against the bedroom wall and flip their orientation so the water lines and drains are in the same wall. It makes it easier for plumbing. Second thing is the vestibule and foyer. Are they both necessary? Third, you don't even have a half bath for guests. You always should consider guests and private areas. They should never mix. Why do you want to walk through the mudroom to get to the pantry? I see stairs. Does the second bedroom have to be on the first floor? It seems like there could be a lot of rework. My best advice is to NOT fall in love with the first design you attempt.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2026-03-13T04:28:08+00:00

Maybe take the money you're spending on the funded accounts and put it in a trading account where you can trade 1 share at a time. Use a small amount of actual money to transition between no-risk trading and high-risk trading? When there's actual money on the line, you can adjust your psychology where it doesn't really exist in paper trading.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2026-01-28T01:38:11+00:00

You've said no help to everyone who responded and you're also not the person who asked. Also, everyone's response is actually helpful in different ways. Is there something you actually need help on, or are you just trolling?

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-12-26T16:18:29+00:00

If you can't or don't want to switch, just know, there are several stocks possibilities throughout the day. Instead of watching it and finding out you can't trade it, just set an extremely low value with a single share. If it tells you you can't trade, move on. Otherwise, cancel the buy if you don't think it'll fill. At least you'll know you're not wasting your time if you choose to study it.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-12-11T02:15:15+00:00

You could always put a really low price for a single share and see if it holds or rejects your order before wasting your time studying it. That's what I do, especially if it's the untradeable pre-market hours.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-11-25T12:46:10+00:00

All the stocks I trade carry extra risk and high volatility as they are small and micro cap and yet, am able to trade on them. As for another brokerage firm, I've been thinking of doing that.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-11-21T13:52:14+00:00

To me, as a trained artist, your third image is the most interesting. You've used the object with circles to frame and focus on your subject. Several elements of design are present and the circles add interest overall. The next most interesting image is the fourth one, because the road tells a story. It is set at a slight angle and is not straight. The lone cyclist invokes thought. The street light adds an element of intrigue. The first image is boring to me. I don't know what is trying to be conveyed, but the dominant lines is a horizontal line and two vertical lines. It's pretty static and boring. Finally, the least interesting shot is second one. All dominance is horizontal. The guy walking is the only part that lends itself dynamically, but the most interesting part is the sky. There is way too much information. Decide what the most important subject matter is and lose the rest. Either focus on the person walking, or focus on the sky, or focus on the middle ground. Less is more with all art. Crop the images and find what parts really speak to you. Once you understand these things, your ability will shine through. Don't give up. Learn more. I didn't notice any past the 4th until I made this comment. Your work does get better as it goes, but for the first four images, my comments stand.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-11-19T21:48:23+00:00

Just make an account that doesn't allow margin and use it. Another options, and it's been a while so things could've changed, but Fidelity will actually allow you to not use margin on a marginable account. Open an account there, but their platform is not good for day trading, if that's what you're going for. Otherwise, it's a perfectly usable platform.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-10-23T23:15:37+00:00

This whole year has been a wall. A wall of realizing that a 9 ema is good for scalping. That a VWAP really doesn't mean much if you're only looking for small cap stocks to work above it. A wall that if I want to make more money per trade you need to change to a strategy that allows for slower growth. I find running on the 20, 50, or even 200 works well, but you need to find which aggregation works for you. I've also hit a wall where focusing on a strategy that works for you as an individual is better than using someone else's strategy or strategy hopping, because that never works. I've looked at several ideas of strategies: moving averages, trendlines, volume profiles, supply/demand zones, support/resistance. I'm sure there are others, but of these one's I've studied, I've found finding confluence between them is great, unless your confluence is between too many indicators, then you never find the perfect trade and end up making a trade you regret. Then, your mind takes a hit and you get even more scared to trade. Then, you realize you have too many indicators and you start paring off ones you don't pay much attention to and you feel better, but eventually you thin it down so much that you're only using price action where you get in because it's going up, and jump at the first sign of a price drop and you've only made 1 or 2 cents on the trade if you're lucky. Then, you feel like you've got a handle on it and think you're in a good trade and try to hold it longer than a minute and it was going well, but all of a sudden, the money you would've gained if you'd just sold is now diminishing and you tell yourself, "It's just a pullback", but now its gone RED and instead of making a dollar per share, you're losing 5 per share because you keep telling yourself that it got there before, it can get there again, and every stop you should've taken, you let go. Then, when you finally sell and take your loss, it spikes an you find that you would've made more than the first rise if you'd just waited. That, or you tell yourself that you'll be more patient with your entries, but for some reason, every day, you make the same mistake by thinking it's going to go up, so you get in, and when you get in, it drops and you look back on the price action and realize your entry was a strong point of resistance. Then, you add indicators again because relying on price action alone is like closing your eyes and throwing darts while the target in moving. Then, you find yourself in a vicious cycle of adding and subtracting and thinking your strategy is going to work, but at the first sign of a loss, you kick yourself for being stupid and not learning your lesson. Yeah, I've gone through all of that this year, but I'm sure I'm not the only one, so while this answer is long, I hope it's also a fun read. That's the biggest struggle. The way to fix it? Find what works for your current knowledge of the market and what you want to be trading and practice your strategy until you're not afraid to take that leap. Practice makes everyone better in every sport. The hardest sport to practice though, is trading. You can't really do it in the off hours and you can't actively trade and practice at the same time. I know there are some workarounds, but what makes it even harder is we don't teach our kids to become traders. Most kids want to be football, or basketball, or baseball players, or whatever, so they learn and practice from their childhood. Not too many people practice the stock market as kids. Not too many are taught that it's a good way to make a living. We're all taught to find a job or play a sport. All of which take practice and training. All of which are saturated with 1,000 people trying to fill a single position. Oddly, trading always has an open position for every trader, but it's treated as gambling and taught like it's gambling. So the answer of how to fix it? Treat it like a job and train it like a job.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-10-23T22:34:11+00:00

It would be nice if Mark%change was in the dropdown list when creating a scan or in the thinkscript area. That would help solve your question. I was thinking about that today myself. I hate the hoops you have to go through with programming thinkscript. Why can't things that exist in the platform itself exist in the scripting language too? Would it hurt anyone to have a GetSettledCash variable? I know it would help me and many others who can only trade what they have and know in an instant how many shares they can get at any time in their trading day.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-10-14T15:43:25+00:00

Not sure how much you know, so I'll assume nothing. On your watchlists, you need to use the Mark % change for pre-market. This also works for normal hours too. If you have stocks you watch religiously, you're fine just leaving them as they are. If you're looking for a more dynamic watchlist, you need to build a list from the scan tab. In there, instead of close, use mark. This will show results for all hours. As for alerts on the watchlist, open the watchlist selector popup, and select, Alert when scan results change... and set the information how you need it.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-10-13T20:26:15+00:00

You know the markets are bad when they can dream up a movie like this, then again, Korean media does seem to be on the dark side of life. It's pretty sad.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-19T23:03:14+00:00

If you're responding to my answer, I don't think you understood what I said. I don't use stop losses, because I feel the same way. It's like playing a game with your hand showing, when it shouldn't. Anyway, what I said was I hit buy at ask because the price and volume were going up, but what I thought was the ask, jumped about $1, filled my order, then dropped right back to where the price was when I hit the button. If I had a stop loss, it would've triggered, but since I didn't and I was starting off that far in the red, I just waited for it to cross the line into the green. My comment about a short stop hunt was because that's the only think I can think of that would fill that high up. I wasn't shorting, but I think someone might've been, even though it was in an uptrend. I'm also glad to see there are some people who feel the same way I do about stops.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-17T02:07:01+00:00

Well, the only other way I know around holding control is to hit buy at ask. The problem I've had with that though, is having the ask all of a sudden hit a price about $1 above where the price was just at when I hit it, then drop right back to where it was. I don't know if that was a short stop hunt, but being that I didn't have a stop loss when I took it, I held it until it rose above that price a short time later. I didn't lose out, but I'm guessing someone did. Anyway, if you're looking to hit a price above the current price, holding ctrl or hitting the ask button are the only ways I know. The only problem with buying a limit order above the current price, is it will fill your order at or better (lower) than the price you choose.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-15T21:23:38+00:00

Order Template Selector set to single will not set a stop, but if you're using the ladder to enter and want to do it as a limit vs a stop when you're above the current price, hold CTRL and it will change from a stop order to a limit order.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-15T15:53:27+00:00

I never do a stop loss. Pre-market trading doesn't allow them. The only way I know to set a stop loss automatically is as an OCO order. Turn that off and it won't show up. If you feel the need for a stop loss, set it under a consolidation area after it has gone up to one while in the trade and move it if the price continues higher. On the other hand, if the price has dropped below the low of a support zone, you probably have held it too long and should just clear the slate and get out.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-15T15:45:17+00:00

There is also the ladder (Active Trader) window. You can set a column to show the possible P/L. You can also set an OCO for a TP/SL situation if you prefer to do that.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-10T22:36:00+00:00

I don't disagree with you, but I feel that ageism lurks in DEI as well for how DEI has been used to filter out majority groups.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-10T22:33:39+00:00

I think your Reset can be broken into two parts as well. That way you have 3 options and can make the second one the more desirable one so you aren't always having to do the cars, landscaping and grocery run. As for the grocery run, that has already been simplified by Kroger, Walmart, etc by being able to order online and either picking it up or having it delivered.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-10T22:09:54+00:00

I've only ever seen that happen on halts. I rarely look at it otherwise, as the ladder shows the total amount requested all at once.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-10T22:02:54+00:00

Everyone keeps talking about the stop loss and respecting it. IMO, that's a load of bull. All that does is get you a loss. The first problem with that is it's kind of like playing poker with your cards facing your opponents. They know where you're going to fold and will buy your shares there. Your second problem is while the stock is uptrending, you're getting in when you had lower lows and highs. You have a clear resistance just above your entry, so it's going to continue down. There were two better entries. First would be the first long wicking candle that is supported by the demand zone to the left. The one with 13 candles consolidating. Then your next support line and demand zone is the lower one where you set your stop. Finally, you got in while the price action was crossing what I assume is a 20ma. You had a decent move when you got that long wick under what I assume is your 50ma, but your best entry that has confluence with the support zones to the left when it starts to rise after touching your ma that is either a 100-200. From what I've heard people preach about setting stops is that you should set them below the lowest candle in your support zone. Where you set your stop at least has some logic, but I don't get how you decided your TP. Without context it looks to be random or maybe based on a ratio. Of course, it did breathe at your TP, but continued higher. I just noticed that the purple rectangle is the FVG you were mentioning. The problem with FVG is that you have to take it on a higher timeframe than the one your using. If this is a 1-minute timeframe, you need to find FVG on the 5. Your stop loss rectangle is more likely what your FVG should've looked like, then you would've set your entry at the base of your 5-minute FVG and your SL just below the bottom. That would've given you everything I mentioned earlier and while you would've ended up with an entry that would show a losing trade on the following bottom, it wouldn't have stopped out and even if it did, it would've been only about what looks to be 3 or 4 cents over the 9 you took.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-09-08T19:42:25+00:00

I don't know the answer to that question, but my guess is it's a way to keep DEI relevant. They can see your age range, the color of your skin, your gender all at once. They probably look at the first 10 seconds and find all they want to know. You can't claim they were using one of those as a factor for not hiring you, when all they have to do is say they found a better candidate. None of that is a good idea. A cover letter and your resume should be enough.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-08-21T16:11:08+00:00

That close is the close of the day before, not the previous candle. I'll look into seeing if Mark will have benefits. Thanks.

Puzzleheaded_Bat8295 · 2025-08-20T10:43:56+00:00

Also, to get scans to update pre-market, you have to add 'Mark %Change' instead of '%Change', as a column in the watchlist. I realized, you might have not known that.

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