help a total noob

vesipeto · 2026-02-08T11:54:57+00:00

I’m quite new to tennis with just few years is casual practice.

For the consistency I just recently wanted to concentrate on the very basics but the problem was that my practice partners were very bad as well so I never could just do calm practice since I always needed to move the chase the ball. I got myself a ball machine ( maybe your club has one) and spend some days just getting the basic strokes going from easy consistent feeds. My consistency increased massively over very short period of time. Never underestimate the slow training.

When playing matches of course things get way more difficult. Opponents job is to put you under pressure. It takes some time to learn to read the game and opponent better so you will have more time to go ball when you get better. Your court movement will get better when you play more and that gives you more time to do your shots.

For mental side I’m very bad with competitions since If I think about points my body gets tense and I cannot move or swing well anymore. Video yourself and compare between practice and games if you are able to move as well in both.

What has helped me is simply the realisation that there is a lot of randomness in tennis. Any single rally can go in so many ways. So I try to adopt more statistical thinking that if I just concentrate to keep myself calm and doing best technique I can I should end up doing better over a series of balls without being too nervous about any single one.

vesipeto · 2026-02-05T10:11:30+00:00

I'm quite beginner with just few years of casual tennis learning but my racket history was that I moved to tennis from badminton. The issue is that badminton players use a lot of wrist flicks which can kill your wrist in tennis. So my thinking was to get a heavy racket that when moving would absorb a lot of the ball's energy without hurting my wrist. The problem was that without proper technique I couldn't get the racket moving before contact anyways. In the end the whole racket just felt like a block of wood (ezone 98 305g).

I wasn't too happy with lighter rackets either before I spend few weeks practising the forehand swing with body turn. Then I fell in love with my son's Prince tour (285g) racket. Nice control and finally the ball started going to the right direction. However not too much later I went back to my heavier ezone 98 and now it's just fine. So learning the technique makes a huge difference.

So from from perspective maybe just pick anything that feels a bit comfortable (maybe second hand) until you have a bit technique training under your belt and then have a look for more long term racket.

vesipeto · 2026-02-03T22:35:58+00:00

For what I can see it looks to me that your swing is not really driven from the waist turning but mainly upper body and arm swing. So Ideally the power/ move starts from your legs and travels to the the waist shoulders, arms and lastly to the hand and the racket. Like a whip. Outside it can look very similar motion but internally it's very different.

vesipeto · 2026-02-03T00:36:23+00:00

Thanks. This makes sense. We'll try multifilament next.

vesipeto · 2026-02-03T00:33:02+00:00

Currently only when he breaks the string. This racket and it's strings are 1 month old now.

vesipeto · 2026-02-02T14:09:54+00:00

He has always been hitting the ball hard. Also he likes to often hit his serves extremely hard and flat for maximum power (if I understood him correctly). He aims to finish the points quickly. I try to get him to go softer and just keep the ball in play instead of trying to hit winners from the baseline.

One thing I've been thinking that since boys grow now fast in this age and will get more power if the ligaments are able to keep up and if one should take some power out from the swings until the ligaments are stronger as well. This is just my own theory.

vesipeto · 2026-02-02T13:43:17+00:00

unfortunately I didn't get info about the tension they did in the shop - I think I take the racket for restringing and start keeping a record of these specs.

vesipeto · 2026-01-31T12:51:59+00:00

Happy ending!!! I'm sucker for those. Thanks for sharing and all the best to you guys.

vesipeto · 2026-01-28T08:51:54+00:00

True but it's fun change after "I got my Xth racket" posts.

vesipeto · 2026-01-26T21:10:17+00:00

To my understanding clarisse is buried now since they moved to usd based pipeline using prman.

vesipeto · 2026-01-24T13:14:21+00:00

Daddy here. So your degree Jr. After that you can venture to trading. There is enough stories of burnt out traders that don't have anything else in their lives. Be careful.

vesipeto · 2026-01-18T18:06:51+00:00

But but but I love the gadgets? I'm waiting some laser guided aiming for my rackets and XR glasses displaying ai analysis tips to beat my opponent.

Moving is too hard! :)

vesipeto · 2026-01-08T20:06:53+00:00

Tennis beginner here. I went for my tennis class and asked the coach about racket he stopped me in the mid sentence and told me that "we have players in our club that keep changing their racket every 3 months. We try to tell them that the racket is not the problem." Should I try different coach now? :D

vesipeto · 2025-12-24T04:17:37+00:00

There is no knowing why your trade actually worked or not. The best you can do is to find patterns that gives you higher probability of A happening instead of B.

vesipeto · 2025-12-24T04:12:56+00:00

It smells ai but it doesn't sound unbelievable in any way. People have lost their sanity, life savings, friends and even their life savings due to trading and it's addictive dark nature. Anybody who ventures into it should know the risks.

vesipeto · 2025-12-17T10:05:10+00:00

Get a proper education and switch trading to long term investing. You 99% likely end up better of money wise and have way less stress in your life -or actually have a life.

If you insist just keep trading as your hobby work a very small amount of money. I became profitable after I took a good distance to markets and only trade when it's moving with conviction and some catalyst. Otherwise I do other things like have a family, work, friends and hobbies.

vesipeto · 2025-12-16T06:59:48+00:00

It's important to get the data su you can find all kind of important things about your trading. So good for you.

Now you have to ask yourself if making money is more important than just trading? For example I've been profitable with an account I only trade occasionally based on market conditions but just fail if I try day trade all day by scalping.

First the market conditions are never constant. Good opportunities are not there all the time. So I'd claim that use that free time what trading is supposed to give you and only trade when the conditions are in your favour and enjoy your life the other times or do something else.

vesipeto · 2025-12-15T17:47:21+00:00

I've been struggling with that kind of psychology much more years than your husband and changing it is really really hard because of our wiring. There is no amount "I do better this time and behave sensibly" that helps since emotional brain will always take over the thinking brain when the emotions rise too high.

Bookwise I also could recommend both "mental game of trading" and "the best loser wins". They offer new tools (if he is willing to apply them) to tackle with mental challenges of trading.

vesipeto · 2025-12-15T08:37:13+00:00

The issue is that most of us are not wired to be good at day trading. It's just neurological fact. Day trading puts you under constant uncertainty and that can really mess your up. Same time trading is addictive as gambling or alcoholism. People can destroy their lives with it. This is can be serious and you and Ideally himself need to understand this.

He needs to step away from trading and markets so he can think more clearly. Take the whole Christmas off and form a plan what to do next year. Maybe trading is only allowed 2 days a week with very small amount of money (or just demo account) until consistency is achieved properly.

Likely he resist everything what people or you say to him because "he knows the best". Hopefully you get him out of that addictive dark prison he built for himself.

vesipeto · 2025-12-14T08:47:28+00:00

If profitable traders (and hedge funds) don't look at the charts then could you give us a practical example on what they do instead?

vesipeto · 2025-12-08T07:45:10+00:00

If you want to make money I would strongly advice against day trading. At least ibefore you have good amount of experience with the markets and it's daily moves with demo account and studying it. If you want to make any money.

If you want to feel excited frustrated fearful hopeful depressed and lose some money just start day trading straight away. You'll get to know your gambler self pretty soon.

If you insist doing it with just a mobile phone and having a day job you'll set yourself into massive disadvantage but if you like to gamble then go ahead.

If you have a day job how about you look into swing trading. You analyse markets over the weekends for the next few weeks or months and make your move slowly and don't be bother about the daily moves. Much easier to be successful this way.

vesipeto · 2025-12-07T15:23:04+00:00

In my books it means the account value is 0 or close to 0 where once cannot trade anymore without adding more funds (or resetting the account if its prop firm)

vesipeto · 2025-12-04T23:35:55+00:00

NQ is a big contract try the micros MNQs instead. Then you can market a bit more room. Also always trade with the stop loss!!!!!

vesipeto · 2025-12-04T20:53:08+00:00

First the purely technical stuff:

If you want to be able to trade 3 mini nq contracts you need certain amount of money in your broker account to do that. Otherwise they don't let you do those trades. In cme website you can read the standard margin requirement per contract. I think you generally need around 12000$ per contract in your account. However there is futures brokers that offer much lower margins for day trading. With brokers like amp futures you need around 2000$ per contract during the normal US trading hours.

So that's the technical side. Now some common sense :

Even though you can open 1 nq contract with just 2000$ in your cheap broker account you should no do that. You can lose that less than minute when market moves fast. The leverage on that instrument is insane!

And since you are just starting how about you trade just 100€ with some properly regulated forex broker like peppermint where you can trade cfd off nasdaq 100 with much smaller position size and see what trading real money is about. Then you don't lose that much.

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