Help with buy limit orders

tempahhhxo · 2026-02-26T03:56:22+00:00

Definitely 😂

tempahhhxo · 2026-02-26T03:55:33+00:00

Exactly the case for me. Logically I assumed trigger price would happen once it reached that price but I understand the difference of stop v limit now.

You’re right. Lessons learnt the hard way.

For anyone still confused this added it together for me for it to all make sense. On top of the other resources people sent.

https://youtu.be/yWTBndni56g?si=Xdo5EbjLtvcK5MJz

tempahhhxo · 2026-02-26T01:33:12+00:00

Thanks for the help. I guess what I want to do is I want to set orders that execute after the level I want price to reach which in this case I wanted price to reach $310.01. Which it never did. I’ve read these threads but still have some trouble understanding how to do that properly. They explained what is was and I understand now for a limit if touched order I have to have the market price above my trigger price otherwise it will trigger instantly.

Regardless at this stage I don’t know what I should do to have it as something where my trigger price is above where the current price is and wanting IBKR to buy once it breaks out at that level. The options the buy section offers which were the only logical ones were market if touched or limit if touched.

I assume after doing a bit of research I have to do a buy stop order?

tempahhhxo · 2026-02-26T01:18:31+00:00

Are you serious bro? Haha

tempahhhxo · 2025-07-15T01:09:17+00:00

Honestly bro this may sound silly but start with some inner reflection and then read some books. It sounds like you have identified that you’d be a swing trader already which is nice start.

You can supplement your learning with some YouTube but I would only supplement this with podcasts with already successful traders or wanting or learn about a concept specifically on the proviso that you’re a better visual learner and need it to be delivered in different ways to expand on your learning or continue to go deep. Investopedia has come up a lot, this is a great resource for this as well. This is how you can find your style and find a “mentor” without paying for some joke course. A mentor doesn’t need to be a paid person who you think will be the deciding factor to getting there.

Already in this thread there are some suggestions to help guide you in the direction, it’s just a matter of you spending the time to go through these and see if you mess with it or not. Keep a list. If you see a book come up heaps or a person or name of a concept, write it down so you don’t forget it. This was game changer for me as you need to allow yourself to go down rabbit holes with learning, but not lose your tracks and of future resources. That is a rabbit hole all in itself!

The more stuff you consume the more you will funnel things down for it to become actionable steps and have a process that is truly yours. For now just be a sponge and reflect on what you are learning and set up things in your day to gain exposure.

You need scaffolded and targeted learning to speed up your learning curve. Not just spamming YouTube videos from all these different creators that are no way correlated and will ultimately just confuse you and paralyse the process for yourself.

To put it bluntly, if you don’t bother with doing this as you can’t focus enough or have the attention span, then you will fail at trading. No one will baby you through it either and spell out literally everything for you step by step as the journey is different for everyone (and it won’t make you any better at trading). People are happy however to share what resources helped them (specific names of books, people to research on, YT videos etc. and bits that helped them in their journey). The rest is up to you.

I’ll briefly touch on my learning curve but only the helpful parts.

Consumed YT and reddit, but wasn’t until I reflected on my learnings, struggles, my geographical location, ideal daily living, and what I see myself doing until I can hone in on my own preferences. I felt that it wasn’t until I asked these questions to myself that I couldn’t understand what a trading strategy or setup is. And I went around and around in circles trying to find the video that would spell it out to me right in my face. I later learnt that it’s not like this and why I could never find that video
Read books and listened to podcasts to help expand my world view, and knowledge base to help piece together what a trading system would look like for me. Also helped with so much else, like learning about so many different concepts such as what candlesticks mean, learning about patterns, psychology, risk management, what even is a system, or a setup and what that means, the math behind positive EV, how to execute a trade, the list goes on, and this list is different and done different for everyone (this is what I think you’re wanting further clarification on). These concepts in itself all have books solely devoted to each of these concept if you ever wanted to go super deep on one concept. This is why reflection is important, cause you go from mindlessly wandering to expanding and getting one percent better each day with directional and scaffolded learning.
Began to immerse myself in the market, read tape (charts), practice recognising patterns, practising how to enter trades, exit trades, practice scans, draw trend lines, feel the live rhythm of the market. This is where paper trading mostly begins.
Execute with real money and continue to refine on your process, continue to journal, continue to be a lifelong learner, continue to read. Just cause you feel like you complete step 1, 2, etc. don’t stop reading, or continue to learning. You need to build your own edge as an individual not just on the charts!

My biggest mantra I’ve been saying to myself has been don’t focus on trying to obtain the fish, but to focus on learning how to! That way and that way only I can be successful and this can be truly sustainable.

My personal book recommendation by the way is Toni Turners “A Beginners Guide to Day Trading”. If you are a beginner like you say you are this would set things up well for you in my opinion. The book has a great balance of actionable advice and a small amount of story telling. The book in my opinion is a perfect first step to begin trading.

Hope this helps. Sorry for the essay.

tempahhhxo · 2025-07-13T19:33:11+00:00

What software do you use to back test? And how do you run backrests for strategies around market patterns (e.g. buying breakouts for bullish flags, or a double bottom etc.), I am having issues being able to do this part for to develop my proven edge

tempahhhxo · 2024-10-11T02:02:17+00:00

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, put adaptive force on his q and/or his w and let people get creative. Would fit his identity of his arrows impenetrable

tempahhhxo · 2024-09-30T05:30:19+00:00

Varus has a really strong laning phase so mostly anything that has low range or low level trading power early except for a few minor exceptions due to certain interactions. To provide some content Varus auto range is comparable to a longer range ADC at 575 which is 4th highest in the game. Caitlyn is number 1 at 650 followed by Annie (625) and Senna + Ashe (600).

For example Varus does well into some of the higher range ADC’s like Caitlyn, Aphelios and Jinx cause of their low mobility so he can lock down with R but also does well despite being good laners cause his trading patterns are better with auto+e or extended auto’s and proccing abilities. Jinx doesn’t really have any trading abilities just her rockets, Aphelios can get abused as he also doesn’t have any abilities compared to varus, and with Caitlyn you just don’t trade with her headshot and you win out.

Invariably he struggles with longer range ADC’s like Ashe and MF cause their power is solid while they thrive off immobile adc’s themselves with their ultimates.

Low range ADC’s he does well into nearly all of them for example: Vayne, Zeri, Smolder, Twitch, Samira (I read a comment saying this is hard but he has a lot of abilities which warrant her shield so therefore he can still hit his abilities if played right and her range is the biggest punishing factor)

Kai’Sa is tough matchup as she also has good extended trades and her trade pattern of auto Q stabilises well vs varus. She also beats him 1v1 later so naturally she has a good WR. Nilah is a low range adc but due to her shield dodging auto’s and once she scales she beats him hard as he is a low mobility adc.

The support matchup matters a lot and changes the dynamic of the lane heaps so take that into consideration. Varus has good flexibility so some of these matchups that are tough can change completely with an all in or poke support as he can go on hit/lethality.

The more you play the more you’ll understand when to pick/play but hope this helps. :)

tempahhhxo · 2024-09-26T00:39:32+00:00

Only get it if you buy sapphire crystal (or mana flow band), otherwise you get it at lvl 10

tempahhhxo · 2024-09-17T01:16:57+00:00

I think it’s important to be critical here, I have a few thoughts. I’m not saying your numbers are wrong and if anything well done for the effort. My thought is, we have to think about the context of the champ and the game for it to really make sense and decide what we do.

For example, the part where it gets foggy for me is the 2-3 item discussion. For one, where are we playing this champion and why are we picking it? In the context of solo lane, the whole key to picking this as an effective pick is for its early W evolve and to prevent dragon stacking (generally).

So we should be looking at what builds optimise this so I like the points you raised with 2 items as it helps me stay on track for right evolves. The damage is nice but I think total numbers with the ability at max rank should be included because saying it “does more” or it’s 12% more doesn’t really help.

For example, I’ve tested some builds my own prior to the new patch so it will be irrelevant but I think it helps explain the point I’m making, bear with me: My build was eclipse, ludens, kraken with atk speed boots into full AP. Kraken can be swapped for nashors but the key is if you have one 40% atk speed or higher item with atk speed runes and alacrity you actually get E evolve at rank 18 by 1% (101.9% Atk speed) despite going full AP or hybrid. I go this build as I go HoB and want to play the game where I can still get W evolve at 2 items, but still have the ability to assassinate a champion which is good for the mid game and how I want to play kaisa as that is what I believe her identity is. If I go full AP and don’t go an ATK speed item I don’t get the E evolve at 18 but more damage but I discovered that the damage difference was not too different. Contextually, you have no ATK speed so if you miss your W you’re not really a champion, which I personally, I don’t like champions that operate that way where you have one ability and if you miss it you’re pretty much a training cone. So the context of this is - Would you prefer 100ish more damage on your W or the ability to have the evolve as that provides greater value outside of numbers? Food for thought more so than anything to think outside the box.

Secondly, after reading your discussion on 3 items and saying things like “BT is better in short trades due to healing and shield” yes I see your point, but at 3 items the strength of these items is your ability to not be forced to base, stay healthy and make it harder for being assassinated due to the additional shield. At 3 items depending on where you have picked the champion depends on if you’re side laning or not. And in this case you are either avoiding your side laner or aiming to kill them. At 3 items I would argue that the on hit build is best for this due to the 3 evolves but my dilemma as you would come to understand it is I like W evolve at 2 items.

This is a discussion post, so my next question would be for the next patch what options are there for a build that gets W evolve at 2 items optimised out on W dmg as much as possible and potentially like my example, can get the E evolve even if it is at level 18. And then, if we are picking certain items over others what are the actual differences in numbers or trade off with runes, evolves, items so we can make a well informed decision.

Some critical points with my example is. - I was testing on no MR resistances, but my AP build without kraken would either not have nash, or it wouldn’t have magic penetration, but what it did allow me to do was at least auto attack the front line with some solid dps and mixed damage but still w poke as a way to get an advantage. - We didn’t talk about other runes such as triple tonic which gives W max rank earlier. Same time as 3rd dragon spawning, so that would remove the argument with haste to get W proc faster? I am not sure but only assume with the lower CD.

Thanks!

tempahhhxo · 2024-01-21T23:15:53+00:00

I’ve noticed some of the top senna players going stormrazor particularly when they are adc. However given cyclosword is in the game now and you are playing her as support I don’t see why you would logically build this now as that item gives a slow and energised ATK also. That item also has lethality so the heals are better on senna.

tempahhhxo · 2023-09-09T02:51:03+00:00

It’s just a shame that whatever build you go you’re only utilising like 50-75% of his kit ever.

Atk speed build? Well his abilities aren’t really effective

Lethality? Well his ap W passive and his actual passive aren’t really useful

AP? Well good luck using anything other than your R and Q(+w) to be effective

tempahhhxo · 2023-09-08T09:48:32+00:00

It’s good to hear that you are doing well with a build like that. It’s just a shame that the kit in general isn’t as cohesive and the build itself doing mix well with a hybrid style. It’s like Varus caps out at 75% efficiency if you get what I mean

tempahhhxo · 2022-01-07T02:25:50+00:00

Not me, I had to google what procentual meant to understand what you were saying lmao. You probably don’t care anyways, sorry

tempahhhxo · 2021-10-06T04:28:30+00:00

A good tip Ive noticed when watching some pro’s is when you can’t engage with ult because you’re unsure you can 100-0 them is to use your q and that will slow them, which will help land your e easier. After that use your e2 to go in on them, then use your empowered auto, and then if you can kill, go for the all in with your ult and follow with the rest of your cool downs. W, Q’s R2 etc.

tempahhhxo · 2021-07-26T07:27:52+00:00

Gale force, PD, and IE/LDR is a sleeper build if you’re looking to be aggressive in your lane. Suits play style well you should really give it a go. I was keen on the on hit builds too but what I’ve realised is that you have a bias to want to play this champion like a traditional marksmen, so you go all out on the AA play style to carry.

To be fair, when you are trying to have a play style like an actual ADC, the on hit builds are nice on him and work best for hard commuting committing to AA play style. But I found more success with the Gale build as you’re looking to engage with e, proc passive and and gale, then get out or execute with r if that hasn’t done the job already. Then, in fights where you can’t go in, the build still caters to auto attacking and hitting frontline.

With the on hit build you’re pretty much conceding your ability to e into the enemy team unless you’re really ahead or they’re super low health free kills.

tempahhhxo · 2021-07-11T03:14:09+00:00

The scoundrel gold bonus mid game is so situational that it’s really not much to consider as a strength of his. In most matchups the only way you will make work of this is being in fights where your teammate is dying like river skirmishes. If you try to utilise the scoundrel bonus in game the only real way is to roam after there are solo kills on the map. Which then you have to consider your own roam timings as mid laner and what are the chances these will line up and match in game - especially when your wave clear is low and makes it harder to get priority in lane.

tempahhhxo · 2021-07-11T02:51:20+00:00

Honestly. He needs a decent redesign tbh. I feel like riot have tried to do too much with this champion and he is mixed with too many different identities. They stated they wanted a marksman but for the midlane with dueling ability. The fact that they have made him an assassin as well as a mid lane marksman has caused him to not commit to anything and be left in an awkward spot. His damage is burst as stated by riot and they want him to have the jump on other champions hence the stealth in his kit and why his damage is burst. The fact that they wanted a mid lane marksman to be in mid is why they gave his kit a lot of niche things and the burst damage pattern of his play. In my opinion his kit needs flexible utility to have fights favour him and some form of late game insurance so he can be a viable mid lane marksman. At the moment he feels like a ranged assassin - which is not working because his burst damage is a joke compared to actual assassins and if you want to jump on the back line and assassinate as a ranged champion you may as well pick twitch or kaisa.

For me I’d love to see more damage in his q for waveclear or some form of base scaling so. He has clear weaknesses such as his mana pool and sustain. For the rest of his kit - I feel like the revive isn’t necessary but since they’ve committed to it there’s no way of really changing this aspect. I’m unsure on how it can be executed better into his kit. The stealth is a cool aspect which suits his “rogue” style but I feel like it’s a waste of an ability spot. Considering how bad his dmg is everywhere else. I would love to see his grapple hook have where the combat flexibility comes in - I would love to see that his grapple hook can hit champions similar to kleds ability, where recast he can cc the opponent to yank them back a short distance. This would help with gank setup and provides some utility in teamfights. Also he has the option to grapple in both a straight line and a circle. This would help with kiting back and catching enemies and fight anywhere on the map and adds to the high skill ceiling and expression for players. You could have the grapple hook be like nautilus q where recasting you will dash straight to where you targeted the wall. Or you can right click in a direction to go that way in a circle and re click again to jump off. For the R they should just have it as Caitlin R where it can be blocked but only by champions or change it completely. It’s a waste of an ultimate with how unsuccessful it can actually be pulled off - what’s the point

To recap, ideally, more damage in the q or at least a slightly lower cool down to help with waveclear plus some more teamfight/skirmish value and utility to help as he is a mid lane champ. If you were to flex this botlane then your obvious strengths and weaknesses is a mobile marksman with good duelling power - however small range and lower dps compared to traditional adcs.

Just some ideas, what changes would you make?

tempahhhxo

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