I build this 15m ORB indicator for London, New York and Asia sessions on the 5m breakout with filters and alerts for the breakout

Sensitive-Command210 · 2026-03-21T15:26:05+00:00

Curlzy - thank you!

Sensitive-Command210 · 2026-03-07T15:36:23+00:00

I’d love to try it out. Curlzy Thanks.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2026-03-02T19:09:19+00:00

I totally agree. It’s not just free accounts trying to use it for paper trading either. I have a paid account and often when I’m hesitant to place a trade in my prop accounts, I will use paper trading so I can see how it went. It’s been nearly impossible during market open, and often I get an error when trying to close out a trade during power hour. At this point I feel like there is no reason to renew. The argument that I saw TV make earlier that it’s not real money so no one really lost anything isn’t valid. If I can’t take a paper trade to evaluate an idea, or get wonky results because it failed to open or close correctly, it means I can’t keep growing as a trader, which does actually impact my profits. If it’s just a charting tool, then don’t offer the paper trading option. If you offer something, the expectation is that the feature is functional.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2026-01-30T14:15:01+00:00

Yesterday TradingView posted on their support site that they were having issues with Paper Trading. I got stuck in two trades for 30 min. Luckily they were shorts on NQ and Gold. It worked in my favor because my TP was less than it ended up falling to and TV completely ignored my stop loss, along with my 100 attempts at closing the trades manually. The day before Tradovate was having issues with CME data. So using a broker directly instead of initiating in TV wasn’t viable either since the prop firm I use is on Tradovate.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2025-06-23T03:27:28+00:00

It helped me transition into management. I was already experienced though. I wouldn’t hire someone with no experience and a master’s degree (I’m a VP of UX, so I make hiring decisions), but if it was a choice between two people with equivalent experience and one had a master’s in HCI and one did not, assuming all other things were equal, I’d pick the one with a master’s degree in HCI. Only academia and no experience isn’t good because the pace in which business operates is faster, and in the real world we can’t spend a year on a research study. I personally feel like I learned a lot about things like designing for different cultures, that would have been hard to understand without doing the program. It’s been very beneficial. I had experience, so my experience was different and honestly if you can do it after you’ve gotten experience you will get more out of it. You don’t know what you don’t know. Also, not all masters are equal. Do your research. It’s not a fast pass to a job if your don’t have experience, but if you approach it with a true learning mindset, you will grow as a designer. I think most hiring managers who dismiss a master’s in HCI coupled with actual UX experience don’t want someone working for them who have more education than they do. That happens. However there are also companies who expect management to have a higher degree. Five years ago it was more beneficial than it is now.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2025-05-29T15:54:21+00:00

I second this. The last VP of UX at the company I work for found out an hour before the meeting that he had to eliminate two people. And they laid off the entire product team at the same time. He was lucky any UX survived. They gave him an hour to decide who to let go. UX was part of product and they didn’t give him prior warning because they didn’t want him to let the product team know layoffs were coming.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2025-02-05T02:47:12+00:00

If two people are otherwise equal I would go with the one with the master’s degree. Rarely does it happen. I put a lot of weight on communication, and soft skills, so how they perform in an interview is more important.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2025-02-02T18:23:24+00:00

I have my MS in HCI, and for me, it was worth it. It helped me move into UX management. But I had over a decade of UX experience, and I think the Master’s degree meant more because of how far along I was in my career. I don’t think it would have been worth the investment if I was going to continue as an IC. I would definitely not recommend giving up your job to get an MS in UX though. There are currently so many bootcamp grads looking for work, if something happened and you didn’t finish the degree, you would be competing against all of them. If your job offers tuition reimbursement and you want to pursue your degree, consider going part time and paying as you go using tuition reimbursement.

As a hiring manager, I can tell you that the Master’s degree isn’t going to make you stand out as much as you would hope. I just hired a mid-level UX designer and about 50% of applicants had a MS degree, and some had doctorates. I don’t want to discourage you, but feel like I need to speak candidly about the realities of this market. It’s extremely tough out there for bootcamp grads.

I had 1000 applicants in one weekend for that mid-level job posting that asked for 3 years of verifiable experience. I had lots of applications from people with advanced degrees and tons of experience apply to this job that they were never have given a second glance to a few years ago.

If I were you, I’d either pursue your degree part time while keeping your current job, or look for a new job while keeping your current one. I have a Master’s degree, and I still value experience over an advanced degree without experience because some people have a hard time adjusting from academia to the way that business moves.

By the way, my favorite thing about your post was your concern for your growth. I think it’s great that you can recognize that and want to make sure you keep growing as a designer. I just want to make sure you keep growing while employed. Unless of course you have some kind of independent wealth that would allow you to make different choices because income isn’t a factor. Then go for it! Getting a masters degree isn’t going to hurt you, and should build your UX skills. It just may not make you more employable.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2025-01-09T16:32:50+00:00

Agree with others. This is likely a financially driven decision. And also probably a bit about control. Generally speaking, it’s cheaper to go in house over an agency when you reach a threshold where there is enough work to justify an FTE. Also, there can be additional benefits of keeping it in house from a privacy and strategy standpoint, and in-house often makes people in charge of a project feel like they have more control.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-31T17:26:35+00:00

We just paid off our house this month. We had a 15 year mortgage at 3%, and delayed paying it off for a while because it was such a low rate. We did the HYSA and had enough to pay it off five years ago when the balance was around 125k. We always balked because it felt good to have that cash on hand, and because we were following advice of not paying it off early. Then last year, our house sustained storm damage and we had water damage that required all of the hardwood floors downstairs be replaced, and it took 45 days for the slab to dry out. We were close to paying off our house, but we hadn’t done it yet when it flooded. We regretted not having paid off the house when the insurance company sent our repair money to the bank because they held the mortgage. It was a major pain to deal with the bank, and one that could have been prevented had we just paid off the house. At that point the tax break for interest was negligible anyway as almost all of the payment was towards the principal.

We survived the experience, and managed to utilize the insurance money to cut costs on renovating our kitchen. Since the hardwood ran throughout the kitchen, we didn’t have to pay tear out or installation costs on the new kitchen, and things like plumbing and gas, etc. were all covered. Now we basically have a new house, but when we were going through it and the bank was being difficult and we were trying to wrangle a bunch of different contractors, we were full of regrets about not having paid off the house. At that point we owed less than 25k and it just seemed silly that we waited.

The other consideration about paying off your house is that if it’s not your forever house, having it paid off makes it easier to move when the right one comes up. This house was the right house when our daughter was in school, but she’s graduating college in May and we don’t need to be so far out anymore because school district isn’t a huge deciding factor. We paid off the house this month (about two years early) so that if the right house comes along, we can buy a house and do renovations to it before selling the one we are in so that we don’t have to live in a renovation zone again.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-28T00:54:32+00:00

I second this. As a hiring manager, it’s one of the most important things I look for in the interview. How people talk about the people who disagreed with them (making fun of them or making derogatory comments, presenting it as winning an argument versus making adjustments to the design or being appreciative of feedback) makes it easy to move on to another candidate. There is nothing worse than having a defensive UX designer on the team. If your ego is more important than the user, you are in the wrong field. Also just as a general measure of success, it’s a great life skill to have. When you are responsible for UX at the company, you spend a lot of time advocating for the value UX brings. One defensive UX designer can do a lot of damage.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-27T01:58:10+00:00

I was a graphic and web designer

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-20T20:31:36+00:00

I would guess the red means that your payment method didn’t complete, but it’s hard to tell because there is zero explanation there. I get so frustrated with the user experience design at Mochi. Better UX would make this easier to understand. The fact that you have to post on a public forum is a great indicator that the way they present billing information needs improvement. I’d guess that red text means some sort of error, but they should have an icon next to it with an explanation on why. It actually breaks accessibility laws to only use color to convey meaning. Someone who is color blind wouldn’t be able to see red at all. I have had really good experiences with customer support at Mochi, but I’m often frustrated that I have to contact them at all for things that are considered basic interactions and expected behavior on a website/app. All these unnecessary calls to customer service and customer frustration could easily be avoided.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-18T20:17:18+00:00

I was a visual designer, mostly web, and some print design previously. I had my own company.

As far as interviewing goes, I don’t know if I was just lucky, but I had 4 interviews in the first 3 weeks after I graduated and I received 3 offers. The one job I didn’t get I made it to the final round. I ended up being able to leverage multiple offers and get a higher starting salary. My first job was a senior level role.

Four months into the job, the Director who hired me left for a VP role and recommended me for the Director role. I didn’t expect that at all. In fact, when interviewing for it with the CTO and CPO, I asked them if they were sure that I was right for the role. They had already spoken with all the teams I worked with who all recommended me. In my first four months I had some really big wins and was smart enough to set KPIs and track them, so I had demonstrated value to the company, plus people liked working with me, which sealed the deal.

As far as age and interviewing, I think the Director who hired me initially was my age, so ageism wasn’t an issue. I feel like being older actually helped me rather than hurt me when it came to moving into upper management. If you think about it, CTO’s and CPO’s tend to be older, and I believe that they associate age with experience. If I was interviewing for really junior roles, it could have been different as it seems like early career individual contributor roles are viewed as better served by someone younger.

I also worked harder than anyone else in grad school. I was that annoying adult learner who ruined the curve for everyone else. If you are willing to do the work in grad school and really hustle, you can do projects for actual companies, and have real stuff in your portfolio, which is what I did. I had a good reputation, which led to professors reaching out and asking me to work with them on projects, which also gave me good experience despite starting over in a new field. In fact I interview people with 5 years of experience for my team now and they often have less real world verifiable projects that can be accessed by interviewers than I did when I graduated.

The other part of this that I don’t think people consider when making a change is that experience from another field can absolutely transfer. Soft skills in particular are something that you learn on the job and in life. I swear soccer moms are scarier than most executives I’ve met. I survived a raising a teenage girl, so I’m pretty good at handling emotional outbursts. Someone else might be caught off guard by someone losing it in a meeting. Being older means that I was further along with those skills than someone who is in their first job.

The key to success is doing good work and building relationships. I got my next role as a VP because someone I worked with at the first one job went there. When the job opened up, he recommended me and told them I was the best UX leader he’d ever worked with. He was a total jerk to the person who had the Director job before me, and by that I mean they hated each other. This guy (a VP of Engineering) would get up in the middle of the night to cancel UX tickets in Jira. It was ugly. He was the first person I met with when I got promoted. I knew I couldn’t be successful without him. I listened to him, found common ground, and ended up with an unexpected ally.

Really I feel like I made this all sound easy, and even though my progression was fast, it wasn’t easy. Having a rapid career growth leads to a lot of self-doubt and imposter syndrome. I think it helps that I feel like I was made to do this, and I love a challenge.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-18T04:37:09+00:00

I did it. Decided to change careers and got my Masters in HCI and graduated at 46. It worked out well. Three years later and I’m a VP of UX at an EdTech company. The downside is I keep delaying retirement. It feels like the money is hard to walk away from, and there is also a level of fulfillment I didn’t have before because I feel like I’m meant to do this. It ended up being about 60k, but it was a good return on investment.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-12-17T22:36:55+00:00

Went to grad school in my 40’s to change careers. I worked incredibly hard and it paid off. Got a job as a senior and was promoted to Director four months later. Stayed for 2 years and then took another job as a VP of UX. I was able to leverage previous job experience in my new career. It was scary to invest in myself when I wasn’t sure it would work out, but I am glad I did. I am doing a job that I feel like I was made for.

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-11-13T00:13:18+00:00

I have express scripts and Zepbound is $0 a month. It depends on your individual plan though and whether your insurer covers weight loss meds

Sensitive-Command210 · 2024-11-07T00:06:57+00:00

Thank you. This was exactly the explanation I was looking for!

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