📈futures-stocks-chat

[surreal dust]

all accounts locked out now tho lol so I am just an observer for today 🙂

[spare bloom]

atleast i survived the apocalypse

that a w

[surreal dust]

you haven't had the latest FUD yet... so hold on 😄

Nvidia chips contain new bird flu strain 😄

can be digitally transmitted 😏

[spare bloom]

to your bank account

[surreal dust]

haha

now thats an apocalypse 😄

although it will pump BTC 😄

[spare bloom]

This is why ny is king

[agile jasper]

very volatile

[spare bloom]

It goes smoother than the bs we had to deal with in the morning

[nocturne sigil]

NQ 5m

[surreal dust]

I mean small move in US session so far... got a long to go to catch up Asia and Uk session moves 😋

[agile jasper]

21300 on the horizon if we break 70s

[surreal dust]

Cartia will be desperately longing now to prove me wrong 😂

pumping that NY cheese :d

[spare bloom]

Ny did in 5 min what took hours to do

[surreal dust]

slow and steady 😄

[spare bloom]

many people tried to long and died

[surreal dust]

I may regret locking out 😄

[nocturne sigil]

Who trades 3m?

[surreal dust]

i hope you did haha

[agile jasper]

ES pushing

[surreal dust]

you are definitely battle worn today haha 😄

[agile jasper]

scared of pullbacks, they'll be 100 points or so

[surreal dust]

we gonna get the V during US 😄

[agile jasper]

massive gap to fill

[spare bloom]

Ikr

i gotta admit i got off gaurd with today's volatility

[surreal dust]

I think most were

I was expecting lower

but not that lower and not that hard lol

and not during Asia and UK

so 😄

[spare bloom]

it is a monday didnt expect to do 1200 points on no major news

[surreal dust]

Crazy move really on the back of not much

Nikkei tanked as well like 2.7% I think

[spare bloom]

Deepseek ai news is over a week old atleast the newest version only came out 20th jan

[surreal dust]

Slow readers ? 😂 Maybe it was in Chinese thats why 😄

[nocturne sigil]

👀

[spare bloom]

Not really there were many youtube vids in english on it on release day

[surreal dust]

US AI couldn't translate as it is too slow 😄

[spare bloom]

i even used it myself

[surreal dust]

I mean it is good if you caught the short 😄

[nocturne sigil]

huh?

[surreal dust]

Deepseek AI news being better than US developed AI

[spare bloom]

Also it is not better tbh

it is pretty good for sure but still not close to chatgpt

not the paid version anyways

[surreal dust]

I dont know enough about it as I haven't followed the Deepseek news but it sounds good !

[normal bison]

Bought a call at open and sold at the previous weekly low

[spare bloom]

deepseek is really good if you cant afford the paid version of chatgpt

[surreal dust]

Chinese ingenuity at its best ! I guess that is what Trump wants to correct... how to compete with Chinese companies backed by the government and subsidized.... US should do the same ... it makes sense... well to me anyway

in the UK we would just call that corruption... so will never do it and just keep falling behind China/ US etc

🤦‍♂️

[spare bloom]

They could litrally just use the ban card like they did with Huawei

[sturdy wharf]

longed nasdaq and it scared me

[agile jasper]

push it

[urban flint]

Long is the play until pdl

[surreal dust]

I guess that will happened if it gains too much traction

[sturdy wharf]

Stop loss is at BE Nothing can go wrong

[nocturne sigil]

[urban flint]

Lost of stuff going on at top here. Waiting for a pullback to take the short at one point

[sturdy wharf]

horizontal line of justice

[normal bison]

Looks like spy may drop again

[surreal dust]

did you stay in your Asia short overnight?

[spare bloom]

It is only fair game it goes up

Market overreacted like hell today

[surreal dust]

Need to check what Pelosi is doing

😄

[normal bison]

Pelosi ftw! Wish I would have followed her years ago

Her and her ol boy husband know what's up

[surreal dust]

She probably leaked the news

and bought both

😂

i haven't actually heard this quote before

[agile jasper]

new home sales incoming

[quiet turret]

4 Hours NQ chart

[surreal dust]

School run time... gl whoever is trading

[snow delta]

Buy every dump, Sell Every Euphoric

[sturdy wharf]

I DID IT

100k account just trading lean hogs and live cattle LMAO

[agile jasper]

well done!

[sturdy wharf]

Fullporting was a little stupid but it moves so slow it was lowkey still better then like 2-3 NQ cons lmao

[nocturne sigil]

What firm?

[agile jasper]

THE BEST

[nocturne sigil]

Oh the firm of Caca & Caca LTD ?

[agile jasper]

at the vwap now on NQ

[nocturne sigil]

wanna take the mic today?

[sturdy wharf]

topstepx

[sturdy wharf]

If its wanted sure id be more then happy to

[nocturne sigil]

it would be nice to have a stream dedicated to members taking the mic

anyone else wanna take the mic today?

☝️

[snow delta]

https://tenor.com/view/money-printer-gif-6699448061706491662

Bullish Until Powell

[agile jasper]

@sturdy wharf

bounced off the vwap and up 100 points

[agile jasper]

is that x5 XFA?

[fair socket]

maybe

[sturdy wharf]

Insane

[agile jasper]

DOW filled the gap

[fair socket]

done for the dayyyy

[sturdy wharf]

huge snipe danny

[agile jasper]

dinner on you son

[fair socket]

pays for holiday im booking for me and mrs ha

right off for my walk, decided to hold fire whilst i was in trade

also up on a ton of 50k combines too

[agile jasper]

oh I SEE WHAT YOU DOING THERE

loading up the gun 😂

[fair socket]

took your inspiration

[granite parrot]

Crazy by just trading market structure with PAC there’s no need to use the oscillator or even S&O. Watching @nocturne sigil live streams over the weekend really has changed my approach toward trading.

[nocturne sigil]

thats cool, wanna take the mic today as well?

LOL

[sturdy wharf]

do it

[nocturne sigil]

but serious, that cool!

[granite parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-hide-in-shrubs-hiding-in-bushes-disappear-into-hedges-embarrassed-gif-24183287

😅

[agile jasper]

dae it!

[urban flint]

Do it! 🙂

[surreal dust]

nice!

[urban flint]

NQ continue to recover. Took a long earlier. Still now just watching up at PDL. Will be interesting to see if the retracement areas will send it down here again or actually continue to grind up. It does look strong

[surreal dust]

Its official @agile jasper I now regret locking out lol

[agile jasper]

i locked out 10 mins ago and i don't regret. closed at pnl high

[surreal dust]

very nice !

[urban flint]

I really would like to see a strong reversal down on Nq..

[agile jasper]

the push is too strong

i regret not having a contract short overnight

[surreal dust]

If it loses where it is now today I think we are downtrending this week

until news / earnings for possibily reversals

[surreal dust]

exactly

[urban flint]

Yeah, I Agree at this time.

[agile jasper]

everytime i had on xfa i got cooked.
everytime i had on the practice account, it hit massive TP

[surreal dust]

for the overnights?

[agile jasper]

yeah

[surreal dust]

typical haha

i feel that

lol

i got stopped on a topstep one during a big pump

[agile jasper]

overnight shorts on practice

[surreal dust]

but the apex stayed opened... and that is capped ofc 🤦‍♂️

[surreal dust]

well clearly you dont need more practicse 😂

[snow delta]

Shout out to @luxalgo for such amazing tools!!

[agile jasper]

Mickys streaming LIVE! https://discord.com/channels/641770286638694402/1178430832151638077

[urban flint]

I’m short

[agile jasper]

good short ngl

[surreal dust]

Can't keep qaction down for long

unless he is short :d

[urban flint]

I should change my user to Saction for slow action

Let’s see NQ teleport to 17k now

lol

[agile jasper]

EASY NOW

200 points dump

[surreal dust]

hahaha nice 😄

[granite parrot]

$QQQ Got right up to too .618 level and rejected

[surreal dust]

Pelosi's puts have been triggered for sure 😄

17% down on Nvidia

[urban flint]

Haha

Best stock trader in the world

It’s kind of being a teacher taking your own test

[surreal dust]

lol

imean tbh if it comes down anywhere near 100

I am buying all i can

😂

probably good for a call option too

Those were fast responses 😄

[urban flint]

Haha scam

[agile jasper]

HELLO

[surreal dust]

i mean like SUPER FAST lol

[agile jasper]

NOT WHILE I AM HERE

[surreal dust]

Not as fast as Caca tho 😂

got owned scammers 😄

[agile jasper]

you have been asking the same question in a different chat.
use google to do research otherwise you attract scammers, thank you

[urban flint]

Haha

Impressive

[surreal dust]

isn't he part of the scam tho? lol

like one asks a question the other one answers?

How did the scammer reply so fast !

[agile jasper]

no idea but i can give you the link he posted so you can ask?

[surreal dust]

thanks man I love you too

[urban flint]

Closed my short

[surreal dust]

Caca just tried to short me lol

[urban flint]

Haha report

[surreal dust]

I would but have a feeling it will fall on deaf ears 😂

[urban flint]

Nvidia just keeps falling g

[surreal dust]

18% must be a record

was right

Bad day to be in semiconductors

[agile jasper]

good ripper off the 50% opening range

[surreal dust]

lol funny how gold is going down too

dont need so much gold anymore with nvidia chips? 🤷‍♂️ 😅

and there goes BTC too

[spare bloom]

market is just dumb it will go up. also i checked these idiots saying 6 million only on deepseek well they got 50k h100 gpu and each one costs 30k thats already over 1 billion...

[nocturne sigil]

https://youtu.be/_EA_t3pub6A

[urban flint]

Another nice short

Not so fast said the bulls again 🙂

[spare bloom]

i still call it a w it did take london highs

from such a massive dump it atleast recovered

dow recovered pretty completely and made a new high

[urban flint]

It will at one point for sure

Right now, undecided

[tight jay]

when you share this is it about an entry or did I miss something?
being new i figured i would ask

the green arrow is that a buy signal?

sorry if that is a dumb question just am not used to what yall post in here, im sure it was just showing what NQ looks like on the 5 min but I wanted to make sure

[agile jasper]

the arrow is a buy signal generated by Signals & Overlays

[nocturne sigil]

Im just sharing a few charts on different timeframes,
Not a signal call chart or anything.
Just showing you examples of LuxAlgo templates.

@sturdy wharf What TF's you use again?

[agile jasper]

hello, you can check the recording posted in #1199356285813006367 and pause when he presents, his charts will be on the timeframe he trades.

[nocturne sigil]

NQ 4H

Crazy how price reacted to these two key levels

[agile jasper]

curious if we see 20k tested this week

[sturdy wharf]

5 minute for small time frame scalping. 20 for mini longer term real money trading

15 minute PAC (HTF analysis)

[nocturne sigil]

I like REAL MONEY Trading

[sturdy wharf]

Small scale lol im not jeff bezos pre divorce okay

[nocturne sigil]

Ill take post divorce, im not greedy

[sturdy wharf]

Even works on LTF lol

Happened today lol

[sturdy wharf]

just money maker

Live cattle is a money machine

[nocturne sigil]

Im gonna have to look at this again over the weekend

🐄

[granite parrot]

Congrats on the success you’ve been having man!

The whole market seems to be dying except Apple

[spring lion]

It was a great day to be in tqqq…

My sell order didn’t fill Friday by like .2% 🥺

Be stupid, lose money

[sturdy wharf]

Hey thanks man

[proper ore]

is someone who long us500 today?

[nocturne sigil]

What a crazy day, huh?

[surreal dust]

not over yet!

[agile jasper]

this was me today. 3 shorts and 2 longs were losers

[surreal dust]

is that on topstep?

[agile jasper]

yes

[surreal dust]

oh nice

i literally just go straight to the trading screen I have never looked anywhere else 😄

lol someone else just told me there is a journel on topstep as well to use

I probably should look around sometime.... rather than press the same 5 buttons all day 😂

[nocturne sigil]

Oh boy

Power
Hour
?

[agile jasper]

it's okay you just need to press buttons

[proper ore]

i also got into 2 transactions with buy position

got me 2 tps

it's a gap who needs to be filled soon

[agile jasper]

won't be filled today unless we get a surprise move

[proper ore]

not today

but in the upcoming days

that s why i am bullish all week

[agile jasper]

either gap fill or 20k

50% of the gap is at 21337. we looked above and we rejected

[surreal dust]

tbh i am hoping we dont fill the gap today because I am locked out everywhere

so hoping it does nothing 😂

[agile jasper]

doubt we will

[urban flint]

NQ is looking like a pile of garbage today 🙂

If this continues, not sure where bottom is

[nocturne sigil]

YOLO? Fomo?

SomeLo?

[agile jasper]

we just broke the opening range low

[urban flint]

I was trying to play a long on that upside breakout then closed due to fakeout

Took a short after that.

Just no steam in NQ today

[agile jasper]

rejected the vwap so why long

[urban flint]

21260 vwap?

[agile jasper]

21250 it was yeah

[urban flint]

Didn't see it, saw a breakout

Bad call clearly. but yea, it died quickly

Looked really good until then

[agile jasper]

briefly closed above it, i would have taken the long as well probably

i was in paper shorts for the range play

in hindsight a perfect short

[urban flint]

It's been an odd day, very undecided market at the moment. I think it's still in shock

[agile jasper]

hahaha

[urban flint]

Spot on

[high sand]

Well ok, you find the holy grail of the AI industry and then you make it open source to share your strategic advantage over the world with everybody

It seems just dumb or a scam

[urban flint]

Finally some move

[proper ore]

i was talking about s&p

but it also a gap on nasdaq

[surreal dust]

nolo 😄

[surreal dust]

haha that is good 😄

please hold here and retest during asia so I can short you :d

going to take a nap before Asia .... see you guys 😄

[nocturne sigil]

yeah

nolo

[urban flint]

I feel like taking a nap with this price action. Seems like price is stuck

Every time there’s a potential breakout it get stopped

[surreal dust]

not worth it today too much choppy now

[urban flint]

Yeah, hence I’ve taken like 2 trades :/

[surreal dust]

not that I can trade anyway been locked out for 8 hours

😂

so I dont know what I am talking about it 😄

[urban flint]

Even had a long at Cl earlier that didn’t move much

[surreal dust]

good ones?

[urban flint]

It’s static

1 good one loss

[surreal dust]

I only did 3 today tbh but that was enough to lock out so that was nice

I did a mega trade earlier

banked 16k!

on 2 contracts lol

that kinda of day!

[urban flint]

Enjoy your nap!

[surreal dust]

will do! See you 😄

[urban flint]

Another attempt now

To the upside

So we break wap this time?

[agile jasper]

you finally put it on your chart? 😂

[urban flint]

I switch to another view lol

I have one anchored that about it

[agile jasper]

boner candle NQ right before close

[urban flint]

Yes

Send

Amazing how much buying that took to work through that supply

Done

[tropic sedge]

I just saw a campaign on kc. They're having a huge prizepool for Margin trading.

it was just released today until feb10

[shell path]

sounds cool! How do you get in on it?

[tropic sedge]

You just need to register and start trading on Margin.

Your rewards depend on your daily trading volume.

So basically, the more you trade, the bigger your share of the prize

[shell path]

how long is this campaign running for?

[tropic sedge]

It ends on February 10th, so you’ve got a little time to join in

[gloomy sentinel]

Kc? so it's on kucoin right?

gotta check that one, it seems interesting

[snow delta]

https://tenor.com/view/fed-federal-reserve-inflation-powell-jerome-powell-gif-25678114

[normal bison]

i had a great day today!

[nocturne sigil]

nice job

[normal bison]

Picked up 606c calls at close for tomorrow looking for it to move up overnight and possibly close the gap tomorrow

[nocturne sigil]

leave some for us, ok?

😆

[normal bison]

"If my competition was buried neck deep I'd walk over and shove a gardenhose in his mouth."🤣

[nocturne sigil]

LOL

[normal bison]

Ray Kroc said that, the guy that "founded" mcdonalds

[nocturne sigil]

I love me some McD's fries

[agile jasper]

superbowl wednesday

[agile jasper]

here's NQ going

trump done it again

[raw gate]

we need some alertig of trump comments .. where do you tracking.. x is too much

[agile jasper]

https://x.com/financialjuice this and inside topstepx i have a trader hub where news are posted. they will be with lag i reckon

FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) on X

Market moving headlines for professional day traders 24/7 via audio squawk.

X

topstepx might be getting a feed from the financialjuice's twitter. the timings match

[urban flint]

Choppy markets

[nocturne sigil]

Large range on the 4H

[granite parrot]

Classic example of don’t take a long until price actually touches the order-block. This is Bitcoin on my 2 min chart tonight.

[nocturne sigil]

Nice one
Your ready to take @sturdy wharf 's place on the mic

[granite parrot]

I should be able too on Wednesday, if I’m not able I’ll let you know

Juggling married/kid life, work, and trading makes it hard to where I’m not distracted at all for the livestream. But I definitely won’t mind doing it soon.

[nocturne sigil]

No pressure, we’re just playing with you.

[nocturne sigil]

I hear you, same situation with me, plus 3 needy, attached dogs

[sturdy wharf]

Yeahhhhhhhh Woodyyyy

welcome

[fair socket]

Todays news

[civic tiger]

Has anyone heard of Al Brooks and his pac ?

[upbeat sail]

#ETF500 to the moooon 💪🏽

[surreal dust]

GM guys

[fair socket]

Morning 👋🏻

[surreal dust]

Waiting for London moves

[surreal dust]

oh they are waking up

[quiet turret]

Good morning

[surreal dust]

GM

[quiet turret]

Slow action overnight

[ocean onyx]

Does anyone have an updated strat for scalping futures/fx?

1m time frame

[sturdy wharf]

Good morningggg

[slim iris]

1m TF is the best for me when it comes for scalping

[granite parrot]

GM Lux gang!

[agile jasper]

GM

[quiet turret]

Good morning

[granite parrot]

Really random but it would be weird living out on the west coast where Micky’s at and the market opening at 6:30 am lol

[quiet turret]

Best place would be to live in Hawaii maret starts at 4:30 am and you are done at 11 am

[granite parrot]

Then hit the beach after

[urban flint]

Good Morning. I’m surprised it has not sent NQ to 17k (yet)

[quiet turret]

Waiting for big earnings and FOMC tomorrrow

Today can be a quite day. Let's see the opening.

[urban flint]

Plenty of other dark clouds

[granite parrot]

Yup

[agile jasper]

vwap at 320

[untold charm]

Yes I have, if you make a free account on td365.com you can see a part of his video’s for free

[nocturne sigil]

21,000?

[agile jasper]

21k

[sturdy wharf]

shorted NQ off the break but it jumped 25 points in the opposite direction when I shorted then continued with the trend. Classic.

[agile jasper]

classic NQ

numbers in 15

vwap left the range

[nocturne sigil]

Where's our man, the Hog-Man

[agile jasper]

@sturdy wharf

[sturdy wharf]

weeee

[agile jasper]

NQ ripping

[urban flint]

Nq doing Nq things 🙂

[agile jasper]

yup

[spare bloom]

qaction gave the perfect long signal as usual

[agile jasper]

he had the perfect short though

[urban flint]

If a 2k short was not the play at open, I’m not sure what is?

[agile jasper]

if you bought where he shorted you got rekt

[surreal dust]

😎

[spare bloom]

i only cared about the timing hahaha

2 min after he posted it here teh market pumped

[agile jasper]

vwap here at 280

[surreal dust]

school run too

[quiet turret]

YM rejection at VWAP so far. NQ at VWAP

[granite parrot]

Quick scalp on SPY, entered off the 1HR OB and exited when it got near the 15min breaker (1min candles) SL was set at the LL

[spare bloom]

great long

[topaz violet]

I’m long nq

[spare bloom]

already at session high

[topaz violet]

Only 1 micro

[agile jasper]

new session high

[spare bloom]

nice short squeeze

[granite parrot]

If I could stare at my chart all day I’d be longing NQ as well

[agile jasper]

longs are getting paid

[spare bloom]

ez longs

[agile jasper]

400 next stop

[topaz violet]

I want 500s lol

[nocturne sigil]

Doesnt this bother anyone?

Missing lego piece

Missing puzzle piece

Its like finishin a huge puzzle, but you lost one piece

https://tenor.com/view/finish-last-piece-colors-puzzle-ending-gif-17068808

[quiet turret]

Lets go fix it

[nocturne sigil]

thats what Im saying

right?

[quiet turret]

Yes. Should be good target by tomorrow. Bog earnings and FOMC

Nice Bear trap today at open

[agile jasper]

here he is

[agile jasper]

YES

go get that filled

[fair socket]

tp hit

[urban flint]

Up another 1500

Good morning 🏃

[topaz violet]

Man I should’ve got a whole contract lol

[nocturne sigil]

No one looks at crude?
So clean

[urban flint]

Pretty strong move here!

[nocturne sigil]

Looks clean
easy said than done, right?

ha

[urban flint]

By far my best morning. Up 4k by 10:30

[agile jasper]

amazing well done

weekend started early then?

[urban flint]

I am just going to take it so. And just step out and touch grass

[quiet turret]

Now come back to 423 for long entry

[agile jasper]

you got it son

[surreal dust]

man missed all the fun again

school run is the worse

need to injury my other leg so I dont have to do it

😂

[sturdy wharf]

Hougaard strat mentioned POG

Lean hogggsss

[agile jasper]

you gonna take a payout from trading lean hogs?

is that the challenge now?

[sturdy wharf]

Yes LMAO

[agile jasper]

love the dedication

[surreal dust]

lost me with that one 😄

[sturdy wharf]

sadly its struggling to find buyers are this level

closed at up 220

its in a big resistance level RIP

1 day down 4 to go

[agile jasper]

Mickys streaming LIVE! https://discord.com/channels/641770286638694402/1178430832151638077

[granite parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/nope-brennan-huff-step-brothers-no-not-at-all-gif-16704124883174027526

[surreal dust]

tomorrow on news :d

[quiet turret]

Bull flag kind of the action on 5 Min. Need to breakout of the range.

Shorts need to cover before FOMC and big earnings.

Normally FOMC Tuesdays are quite.

[heady wren]

What does "need to cover" mean?

noobish question

[quiet turret]

Close the short position.

[agile jasper]

it finally broke

[quiet turret]

Shorts are guaranteed buyers.

[heady wren]

Close by getting rekt right?

[surreal dust]

See if I get it

locked in now just in case

[urban flint]

Another

[surreal dust]

done for now too tired today

[surreal dust]

mate you are killing it today ! 💪

amazing patience too

[urban flint]

6k?

If this goes to 2k

[agile jasper]

you in for the gap fill?

[surreal dust]

man I am half asleep

I can barely understand myself today

let alone anyone else

😂

[surreal dust]

not gap fill till tomorrow please :/

actually we deserve a gap fill

lets fill it 😄

[urban flint]

Yes, took that buck wick on 15 and failed breakdown

[agile jasper]

400 to 480 range was nasty but good money to be made before the breakout

nearly 2h of range play

all this for a 50 points break? they can do better

[surreal dust]

i needed a bot today my decision making is around 2000 ping currently 😄

[urban flint]

Hehe, true

[surreal dust]

yeah that is right... you tell those bishes Caca

[urban flint]

Nq is looking strong for sure.

[agile jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-frustated-mad-gif-1493979694804943467

[urban flint]

Alright, up 2k on that trade

Moving Sl and let’s see if I get some more luck

[surreal dust]

nice

[agile jasper]

staircase up, elevator down

[surreal dust]

i love you

make it happen

🥳

My TP is 2681 tho 😄

[quiet turret]

Tiny resistance coming

[agile jasper]

565s?

[surreal dust]

563

nasty orders there hope we can punch through

[agile jasper]

yeah should blast through that with no issues

[surreal dust]

there are some really strange GIFs under "push it" 😂

[agile jasper]

sometimes i wish i had @urban flint's patience

teach us master

[surreal dust]

ES and NQ at resistence now

[urban flint]

And out

[surreal dust]

i can't believe i closed my gold for 100 profit before the school run lol

didn't want to leave it open

and it has run so far

[quiet turret]

We can fill FVG 5

500 round number

[surreal dust]

I shouldn't have traded today... feeling tired and under the weather .... was down 3k... I am lucky I managed to get it back and currently up 3.6k ... definitely pushed my luck today

[urban flint]

Happy with that run

[agile jasper]

luck is part of the game

[surreal dust]

i put a massive SL on silver and the bitch took me out and then moved off 😂 -2k for me on that and the move was 6k profit... or should have been

[surreal dust]

very nice

[quiet turret]

Beautiful!

[surreal dust]

need more 😄

[topaz violet]

TP hit perfectly not a tick less lol

[surreal dust]

most satisfying sir

[urban flint]

Yesterday was a frustrating day for me. Made me question everything. It’s really hard to trade when the market is undecided and I need to get better with range trading or just avoid that all together

Still made money, but just frustrating

[surreal dust]

yeah I am leaning towards avoiding it... even though I did range trade the other day

it is not my preferred trade tbh

prefer to trade the breakout or breakdown of the range

need to get better at ranges but I dont like the "smaller" profits so I tend not to close when I should do when range trading

[urban flint]

It’s hard when you get quick unexpected moves in a breakout. For someone trading trend, it always feel like a fakeout, which leaves you wondering.

[surreal dust]

that is true .. can mess with your head for sure

[urban flint]

I agree there. I just took a step away and said let the market come back with some trade. And it sure did

[surreal dust]

it always does

that is the thing

hard to remember sometimes

especially when you miss a sweet move (like I did today)

today was nice actually for trading as it happens throughout the day pretty much

[urban flint]

Exactly. I am getting better at it tough. You just have to remember that trades will come. They might not just be on the chart yet. Always better to take a good setup trade than half assing because you want to trade

[surreal dust]

for sure and speaking about you... you always find and pick them up

so there is no reason to force it really

and I also should not brute force 😂

https://tenor.com/view/idiocracy-dumb-gif-22939957

bad habit

[urban flint]

lol, sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I don’t. The key is consistency

Goals are for someone that wants to do something once, following process is for someone that wants to win repeatedly

[surreal dust]

for sure .. I have definitely not be patient today lol

just got lucky to get out of a hole

[urban flint]

That ms good though. Step away and kick it tomorrow

Or if there’s is actually something that is high probability

[surreal dust]

yeah I am done really... in small positions now but sl is in profit and if it hits I am done anyway

[nocturne sigil]

LOL

[surreal dust]

stupid 565

need wall street to get off lunch

does anyone actually eat lunch tho

at 12? 😄

[surreal dust]

I guess so

got a push aove 565 finally

[quiet turret]

Hope not the liquidity grab

[surreal dust]

well lunch is over so hopefully not

[quiet turret]

We can wait for the 5 min close

[surreal dust]

waiting for volume

[surreal dust]

you go 5 i'll go 15 😄

[quiet turret]

Quick short scalp done

[surreal dust]

still holding

watching the retest on this 15m candle

[quiet turret]

Just couldn't resist to take short scalp. Back long

[surreal dust]

100% bank it !

[quiet turret]

We are a critical level 61.8%

[surreal dust]

dont really want to see it close back in this area

[quiet turret]

We need to hold 15 min low

[quiet turret]

They normally make this kinds of moves

[surreal dust]

as long as it is out in 2 mins that is fine for me 🙂

[quiet turret]

Trapping both sides

[surreal dust]

otherwise I will move my SL into profit

[quiet turret]

Because short trade I get in and out so currently 7 points red

You can move your SL

[granite parrot]

Waited till QQQ hit the .618 retracement area to scalp a few puts. They paid quick

[surreal dust]

didn't want to see a close below 565 really on 15m

so yeah moved stop up

[quiet turret]

What price on QQQ?

I See 522.5

Resistance there also

Closeting the trade fir now

[granite parrot]

Right around 522ish is where I entered a few puts. When they hit my goal (profit wise) I exited. I could’ve held on longer but it’s not worth the risk.

The high from last Friday to the low of yesterday morning is where I drew my fibs. Looks like that area was the top today

It could go back up tho and just chop around till the close

[quiet turret]

Lets look at OI

I see more call writers on SPX as well on /ES at 6075 (so 15 points lower)

[surreal dust]

https://tenor.com/view/gokacik-gok-o-yerim-yerim-yerım-gif-8234693358169729819

[agile jasper]

turn it off already

[quiet turret]

CL above VWAP

[surreal dust]

watching tv series now

have an alert set either side of the NQ range 😄

[quiet turret]

Hourly close not very strong

[agile jasper]

nah, nothing is happening

[quiet turret]

Short sellers can help in closing 😀

OI on ES and SPX does not support up move

CL good move from VWAP

[surreal dust]

come on NQ this time

[agile jasper]

gap fill during power hour incoming

[surreal dust]

nooooooooooo

but yessss as I went back into a long

😄

[agile jasper]

you're playing with fire son

[surreal dust]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-burn-letitburn-gif-11493949

sl moved up now

[surreal parrot]

Hi Everyone I am looking a very strong alert system I don’t need so many alerts I just need 5-10 alerts in a day but it should be solid alerts . Do you have any strategy like this. Price action + signals overlays + oscillator = 10 solid alerts in a day with 90% efficiency. Any help will be appreciated ☺️

[surreal dust]

90% high bar 😄

[snow delta]

https://tenor.com/view/money-printer-gif-6699448061706491662

[quiet turret]

There are possible market structures

[agile jasper]

power hour time!

[quiet turret]

ES 6100 lot of call writers are there

SPX lots of options are closed already so not much going on there

[surreal dust]

too ambitious 😄

[quiet turret]

RTY breaking out

[surreal dust]

wow just loked at apple and nvidia nice moves

[agile jasper]

do deepseek news was an excuse to pullback?

[surreal dust]

looks like it

move almost reversed

[quiet turret]

So much market money is invested in Nvidia. They can't let it happen.

But now when Nvidia moves up they might start unloading slowly

[granite parrot]

Hopefully Powell pushes her down enough tomorrow to get a bearish BOS on the 15 min

[quiet turret]

Wow

[granite parrot]

Back below the .618 she goes lol

[quiet turret]

Nice scalp

[zinc ferry]

Bulls letting end of day sell off....again! LOL. Would love o have 1 rip in o the close this year!

[quiet turret]

I was just thinking about you

[zinc ferry]

ha

im on the sideline right now but ...man...those BULLS are awful...they only buy when it is easy

[quiet turret]

They buy in asia or UK time

AT this level in Market I think most of the buyers are retail

[zinc ferry]

see. BULLS are horriblw

[quiet turret]

😁

Need to run pickup kids

talk to you guys soon

[nocturne sigil]

thats right

you had the reminder calls

[sturdy wharf]

Wheat movement looks nice

[nocturne sigil]

Tick chart?

[sturdy wharf]

100 tick yessir

[urban flint]

Just took a short on CL

[agile jasper]

just listened to the livestream from yesterday well done @sturdy wharf boy!!! loved it

[sturdy wharf]

Thanks bro I always appreciate your support!

[agile jasper]

you got the snow off the road?

[sturdy wharf]

Yeah headed home from the ball and chains place we are planning on moving in, maybe in march or april which is huge

[agile jasper]

pics or didn't happen

[sturdy wharf]

pics of the place?

[agile jasper]

and the roads being clear of snow

otherwise you're in the dog house for leaving the open mic stream early

[sturdy wharf]

I left her house tho you want me to drive back lmao

[agile jasper]

😂 you're excused this time only

[sturdy wharf]

Thank you

More people should tune into the live streams tho, there's another reason im successful 👀

https://tenor.com/view/mark-cuban-shark-tank-notes-taking-notes-remember-gif-15073512

[urban flint]

Just went and listened to it. @sturdy wharf nice job man! Interesting to hear and fun to hear your journey!

[sturdy wharf]

Thanks man!

[buoyant rapids]

Any one know why the NQ sky rocketed on the hour?

[mental sky]

No idea. Biggest one minute candles with no apparent news that I’ve ever seen.

[buoyant rapids]

Right... I was in a bullish play and the second it switched boom hit my take profit so damn fast lmao

[snow delta]

They're filling the gap 22,000

[mental sky]

250 ticks in a 1min bar

[buoyant rapids]

I mean best explanation I got lmao still doesn't make sense though

Shit it was in 30 seconds lmao

[mental sky]

Agree. Gaps aren’t filled that aggressively. Maybe some sort of algo glitch

[snow delta]

Anything can happen in 1-2 days

[mental sky]

I was in a short in profit. Fair to say it didn’t end profitably

[mental sky]

Absolutely. But seconds is unusual.

[buoyant rapids]

Especially at this time

[snow delta]

https://www.luxalgo.com/backtesting/chat/

Depends on what timeframe your playing.

[buoyant rapids]

Asml beat earning what ever that is. I got that news at 12:04. I dunno

[mental sky]

This was an unusual event regardless how you spin it

[snow delta]

Can't short it when it's bullish confirmation on NQ

[buoyant rapids]

Facts lmao I'll take it

[north zinc]

Hey guys, I have some doubt, I took 25k account from apex and I am on my way to pass the challenge, and it showing that membership again renewal on Jan 30th, this means again it will buy me another account or what? What if I cancel it?

[native drum]

The subscription model is pretty common for futures prop firms. This means that as long as you haven't passed the challenge, the subscription will be renewed monthly. Passing a challenge and proceeding to a funded account may require a 1 time fee or monthly sub depending on the prop firm.

[north zinc]

I reset my account, then it counts from that day or previous month when I took it?

[native drum]

Best to ask the company itself in order to be certain. Each firm has different rules and procedures.

[fair socket]

Todays news

[fair socket]

be nice if we could close that gap today

[agile jasper]

it will

[velvet summit]

Hi all, any prop firm recommendations to trade futures?

[agile jasper]

i personally use topstep, but there is people using MFFU and apex here as well

[peak mauve]

Got my first payout from MFFU today so highly recommend them

[fair socket]

Massive Congrats!

NQ bumbling around atm.. slow day for now

[peak mauve]

Thank you! 1.5 years in the making and just over a month after I started using the Price Action indicator 🔥

[fair socket]

Looks like patience is paying off, good job 😎

[fair socket]

Finally some movement, hope i can TP before news later

i had to open my mouth 😂

[agile jasper]

ahahahah

[surreal dust]

So choppy

probably going to be like this until news

[agile jasper]

nah NY will fill the gap and powell will dump it

[surreal dust]

going to be interesting

i think higher at this level but if we lose it and go back to dopen/below I definitely go bearish

see what the day brings... will be ride either way 😄

ES looking weaker than NQ too but ES is near ATH and NQ is not

so kinda hard to judge right now 🤷‍♂️

[surreal dust]

that is his specialty 😄

[surreal dust]

nice entry... tryign to get in as well

going to try and wait for vwap test again

[fair socket]

its basically at entry now for me

[surreal dust]

definitely stuck in that range for now poc shifting all over too

got to love news days

its going to rip in one direction for sure eventually 😅

[agile jasper]

no news until FOMC

no news is usually good news

[surreal dust]

well it is 95% expected or something isn't it

so as long as is what it is... should be ok 😂

But it is Powell and Trump did taunt him 😄

[urban flint]

I'm really going to sit on my hands today

[fair socket]

watch the chaos from the sidelines

[urban flint]

Seems like a lot going on with quick turns, if anything I would just take a quick 1-5 min trade lol

Yea, not super comfortable with holding today

[agile jasper]

see money take money day

[urban flint]

Good way of putting it

[sturdy wharf]

good morning!

lean hogs and live cattle dont open till 9:30 so im chilling for rn lol

[nocturne sigil]

Lets see 👀

Wheres our hog-man?

What are the hours for hogs? @sturdy wharf

[sturdy wharf]

9:30 open as well

[nocturne sigil]

doesnt trade overnight, right? from when to when?

[sturdy wharf]

Hogs are mostly rangeboundish Live cattle are at ATH's so

[nocturne sigil]

Boom

[sturdy wharf]

9:30-2:05 EST

[nocturne sigil]

and cattle?

[sturdy wharf]

same

[nocturne sigil]

hmmm, there may be something to the limited hours.
no games could be played before or after, just business during live trading

[sturdy wharf]

Its a charge out of the gate at 9:30 then dies out like everything else but its honestly nice

Opening gaps are pretty important

[nocturne sigil]

what and when the farmer news are released? or we watch the weather?

[topaz violet]

I’m long nq

[sturdy wharf]

FASDE gets released on friday once a month I believe

but mostly weather and flock numbers

[nocturne sigil]

gaps are typically magnets?

[sturdy wharf]

wouldnt you like to know

sneak peak of the data analysis ive done on cattle LMAO

[agile jasper]

robinhood $1250 margin requirement for a micro ES lol

[nocturne sigil]

OMG
You have been a secret with all this stuff

[sturdy wharf]

I have DATA my friend

[nocturne sigil]

Im gonna create a Farmers Discord Channel

Invite-Only

[sturdy wharf]

robinhood is a crazy place lots of degen options traders

Soybeans, wheat, corn, soybean oil, and soybean meal all open at 8:00 PM and then close briefly before market open 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM then closes at 2:10 PM love it so much

[nocturne sigil]

so from 2:10pm-8:00pm closed?

[sturdy wharf]

correct

[granite parrot]

Sounds like we need a commodity discord channel now lol

[nocturne sigil]

interesting, gives time for those corn traders to do some cattle stuff

[nocturne sigil]

oh we already do, invite-only

BWAHAHAHAHA

(joking)

[agile jasper]

hahaha

it's that hidden i can't see it

[quiet turret]

Good morning everyone

[sturdy wharf]

I would literally live in that channel

[nocturne sigil]

Yup, hidden

[sturdy wharf]

Time to request that channel LMAO

[nocturne sigil]

remember when we didnt have a futures channel back in the day?

[quiet turret]

Futures trading covers these commodities.

[granite parrot]

You sure, I believe it’s hidden 😅

[quiet turret]

It is a good way to diversify by trading commodities, interest rates, currency futures.

specialy for auto trading

[granite parrot]

So what y’all thinking, we getting a Powell pump or dump today?

[sturdy wharf]

depends on the choice LMAO

[agile jasper]

NQ at vwap now

[quiet turret]

I am thinking not much happing till earning results.

[agile jasper]

chop will be

[granite parrot]

After the last giant dump I’m thinking the same as well. A lot of retail will go short anticipating another big drop.

[urban flint]

0 trades so far here.

Es looks ready to fall however

[quiet turret]

Jut wait and watch kind of a day

[tight roost]

@quiet turret

[agile jasper]

NQ new low

[nocturne sigil]

https://discord.com/channels/641770286638694402/1178430832151638077

[urban flint]

Kind of looks like Nq is about to turn the ship to upside

[agile jasper]

yes

was looking at that

need 500s to hold

[urban flint]

I am to afraid to trade today lol

But might try one here if it starts moving

I like the look and got that good feeling when seeing the data which is usually a good start

Someone must have heard or seen that too and was like, let’s bring it down more so we can close our short 🙂

[granite parrot]

All I’ve done is one quick scalp to the downside, I’m gonna wait till Powell is done speaking and do one more trade before the close

[urban flint]

So tempted at buying now. lol

[agile jasper]

full port

[urban flint]

Do you take it? I’m still not in

[agile jasper]

i did and i closed earlier

still stuck in a range

[urban flint]

I’m waiting for one more close on 5

[agile jasper]

i want a test of 555

[urban flint]

Yeah, no interest it seems

[tribal sapphire]

starting to move i think

[urban flint]

There’s no volume. Most traders are probably looking at risk reward here before big moves and avoid

[surreal dust]

yeah everyone

trying to figure out

what the right side is to be on

very unclear unlike the last 2 events

leaning bearish tho

20500 and 5850

[agile jasper]

CL is ripping to the downside

[urban flint]

I saw that and took the short last night. It was a really nice setup, but it had to do another retest to get me out

My idea was 1) prices are trending down and I saw a retest of EMA 50. 2) oil production were record high during Biden 3) they are talking a lot about more drilling, but there’s already excessive supply, hence I think it was a good short

Technicals supported that as well

[surreal dust]

I dont follow that market is that normal?

120?

[agile jasper]

that was around 160 on the ask

[surreal dust]

seems huge for that

haha fill buddies 😄

[urban flint]

It was down to 200 ema on 4H I had in mind

Seems like it is heading there

[agile jasper]

big earnings tonight as well

ES just doesn't want to break the range

[urban flint]

Right. And yeah, that was sort of in line with what I expected.👆

[agile jasper]

yeah CL took a dumpster

[urban flint]

I guess we don’t need Greenland lol

Nq falling

[surreal dust]

FMOC short on NQ

still if I get killed or filled 😅 🤦‍♂️

[urban flint]

I mean Powell always deliver

[surreal dust]

better do I picked my direction lol

[agile jasper]

he does

[agile jasper]

[surreal dust]

we should have a daily Powell hour 😄

[plain jetty]

wtf was that dump

[agile jasper]

no idea what that was

[surreal dust]

money

😄

all the m7 are crawling into a hole right now

Powell probably walked on stage early 😂

[agile jasper]

but i took that

[surreal dust]

nice you caught it too?

[agile jasper]

locked out after being in the hole and out all day

should've could've

[surreal dust]

I will be following you shortly tbh lol

i am in that short on all my accounts

[agile jasper]

market can do anything it wants now

[surreal dust]

and we are about to hit my trps

who needs news

[surreal dust]

https://tenor.com/view/lazy-lazy-employee-lazy-worker-lazy-coworker-i-dont-care-gif-12348398

[agile jasper]

a very slow day but green is green

[surreal dust]

i love that movie

[plain jetty]

did powell reveal what tie color he is wearing or sum?

[surreal dust]

I need to watch that again

[plain jetty]

must be red

[agile jasper]

hahaha

[surreal dust]

oh God

can you imagine

if he did

or does he

I never watch him

lol

[agile jasper]

nearly 150 points drop in a few seconds

[plain jetty]

its recovering nicely

[agile jasper]

must be this

🤔

well thanks trump for that

https://tenor.com/view/i-did-it-done-did-it-now-gif-22160339

some trader on topstep had $6k in slippage last night on 15 contracts jesus

[surreal dust]

for real?

https://tenor.com/view/no-nooo-nope-eat-fingerwag-gif-12358308896192153975

[agile jasper]

yeah he got rekt at this candle

i think it was some microchips earnings that pumped both NQ and ES in the middle of the night

[surreal dust]

oh God

that is unlucky

full 15 at once?

very agressive

[agile jasper]

full 15 clip

[tribal sapphire]

turned against me took a loss.

[agile jasper]

i took so many today 😢

[tribal sapphire]

i should be away from it for today

[agile jasper]

i also regret not closing early. i got chopped the whole day after being in nice profits

the latest candle turned it around

[tribal sapphire]

i should have closed at the end of that first 5M candle

i will stay still untill another news in afternoon today

lets see what that brings.

[tribal sapphire]

i was closing on that bottom and thought of holding.

wrong decision

[surreal dust]

the balls

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-19494180

[agile jasper]

i did some 5 on the clip today not gonna lie

[surreal dust]

I am not man enough for 15 contracts lol

[tribal sapphire]

😅

[surreal dust]

oh i thought I heard you walking earlier 😉

[agile jasper]

😂

tight SL though

[surreal dust]

lose points for that

man up Caca

[agile jasper]

tight Sl = mental SL

i don't have SL on my charts

[surreal dust]

Now we are talking 🥳

[agile jasper]

😂

[surreal dust]

https://tenor.com/view/ragnarskol-gif-5767211263634995623

[nocturne sigil]

YES

Great series

https://tenor.com/view/vikings-history-valhalla-shieldwall-gif-5110690

[surreal dust]

Who doesn't love a shield wall!

[nocturne sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/maidenshield-shieldwall-vikings-lagertha-gif-26198387

[surreal dust]

I mean i dont think I would like to be in one.... but I would watch 😂

[nocturne sigil]

Hell no, im not made to be one of the wall pieces

[surreal dust]

can't be fun !!!

[agile jasper]

NY's vwap here at 21502

[nocturne sigil]

30minutes

[surreal dust]

going to be fun to see the news even though it is going to be as expected

i hope he doesn't talk too long 😂 unless I am in a position going the right direction

[nocturne sigil]

everyone go do your bathroom breaks now....

https://tenor.com/view/jerome-powell-fed-jpow-gif-4024490437338895401

[surreal dust]

i brought tissues too

[tribal sapphire]

[nocturne sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/elon-ready-ready-to-go-ready-spaghetti-elon-musk-gif-27108276

[indigo timber]

What happened

[surreal dust]

Elon took Mars and planted a US flag 😄

[indigo timber]

Good for Crypto or not...fomo news

[surreal dust]

both depending on what the market markers have planned for today 😅

[tribal sapphire]

😆

exactly

[agile jasper]

T minus 22

[surreal dust]

Microsoft and Meta earnings tonight

anyone else?

[tribal sapphire]

they are expecting something surprising. dont know wtf going on.

It is expected to be a cut

[agile jasper]

Meta MSFT IBM TSLA

this might be bigger than powell

[surreal dust]

ohhhh bonnza

yup that is going to rock the market

overnight session Asia will be fun

[agile jasper]

not touching it

i will lock out until tomorrow AM as soon as the current lockout expires

[tribal sapphire]

i am eating cookies now might not like a dessert later,

[surreal dust]

what happen to 5 contract , brass ball knocking .... kick the SL out the window guy !!!!!

[surreal dust]

very smart mate

[agile jasper]

I canny

[nocturne sigil]

NVDA

[surreal dust]

Nvdia? is today?

[agile jasper]

not today

FOMC 20k

[surreal dust]

Good thing it wasn't monday lol

can you imagine.... and it was a bad earnings too

stock would have died 😂

[agile jasper]

should be no surprise now in 13 minutes

but the commentary will bring some volume

[surreal dust]

I am ready to be man handled by the market makers

https://tenor.com/view/benjammins-oil-up-lather-tiktok-meme-oil-change-gif-12846878189749823269

[agile jasper]

you trading it?

[surreal dust]

i was going to

[agile jasper]

oh boy

[surreal dust]

but this was the last place

i wanted the PA to be at

lol

so I have absolutely no idea today

[quiet turret]

VWAP 532

[surreal dust]

although the big buy up from the low...... makes me think higher tbh

no idea

[agile jasper]

NY's vwap here at 500

[surreal dust]

20500 was my bearish target 😄

but that is way too far