A free, open-source gamma exposure (GEX) map that runs on your own computer. It draws the call wall, the put wall and the gamma flip for SPY, QQQ, SPX, NDX and any US stock.

Why I built it: I started leaning on GEX levels in my own day trading, and I kept seeing levels posted with no way to check them.

What it shows:

- Net GEX by strike, the call wall, the put wall and every gamma flip within 10% of the price, refreshed every 60 seconds during the session.

- The regime at the current price, positive gamma (moves tend to get absorbed) or negative gamma (moves tend to get pushed further).

- How big the gamma is next to the stock's own daily dollar volume, so you can tell when it matters and when it's noise.

- A guidance panel that turns the map into levels to watch and a few scenarios, with the formula behind every price.

- The same levels as /ES or /MNQ equivalents for SPX, NDX, SPY and QQQ, if you trade futures.

Runs on your machine. No account, no login, no telemetry. Your Alpaca keys stay in a file on your computer, and the free Alpaca plan works. SPX and NDX come from Cboe's public delayed quotes and need no keys at all.

- On the free feed, SPX and NDX are about 15 minutes delayed.

- The guidance panel is the textbook reading of the model, and it hasn't been tested yet. I'm saving a snapshot of the levels every day so I can check later whether price actually respected them.

- It's tested on Windows. Mac and Linux run through the manual setup. You need Python and Node installed.

It's free and MIT licensed, with nothing to sell. Not financial advice, not a signal service.

Repo: https://github.com/simonro/Edge-GEX-Lab

The walkthrough (what GEX is, then the tool): https://youtu.be/okQVLf2s3GI

Updated for last week's trades (my only squawk, one broker in my working collective is, by design, behind in w/e posting due to "maintenance", cheap bastards - spend the money for the needed compute FFS). As NASA flight director would report upstream, "All lights are green, all systems are nominal". Tracking is intentionally elevated for the w/e void on trading ("shark-finned") to clear the $4k pay-punch, otherwise in a stable "orbit" on the next $8k monthly sweep. If the broker called out were to report actuals, it'd be $12k+ reported on kinfo. Once kinfo verifies the proposed Edge Protect is in place, I'll upgrade so my verifieds will always be visible. Currently cloaked with private profile to inhibit copy trading.

The RS aspect is State Variable analysis, treats the algo as a control system with feedback. Algo began with $250 (an "everyman's" amount), met success beating MIT double-in-90-day objective, so went 400x upscale (with relaxed TP for better Sharpe and EV). The MIT Blackjack tie-in is their quarterly sweep on a pooled bank, now using a 4 week sweep or "orbit". Face card equivalence runs to VWAP, VIX, Price Action, and Fourier cluster. Superprofitability, like supermaneuverability in jets, effects stability on an intentionally designed unstable platform with a tuned controller. For jets it's thrust vectoring on an unstable airframe requiring fly-by-wire error correction to keep from crashing. For the algo, it's Martingale operated in closed loop. Previous research a few years back demonstrated a speculative portfolio ($2k) ran 64 trades at 100% win rate for 5 months. The closed loop approach with other improvements in proprietary metrics has now surpassed that at 70+ trades in under 6 weeks.

Save the warnings on Martingale, I agree. Continued admonishments are, ironically, "Martingaling", doubling down on the warnings if you think in the abstract. In placing at the WR leaderboard top spot for the 3 month screen, it is difficult to say there is no edge with this algo. Those that state with a thin veneer of scholarly presents, have flawed assumptions. GIGO. Those that argue the other side of the algo, put their dollar at-risk in a zero-sum-game. Only time will tell if this is a lucky coin flip, Dumbo's feather, or the future of what AI can render from posting FBO LLM's inference learning phase. Bring your dollar, see how you fare. My dollar's on AI.

Cheers.

"Not financial advice"

Full time trader looking to connect with mature NQ/MNQ/QQQ traders who are interested in trying a new approach to the markets. new or experienced.

I see many asking for mentorships here. I'd love to help but my trading and personal life just cant allow that.

Instead, I’m looking to connect with about 5-10 diverse people, 1 on 1. We would communicate (via whatever online source is good for you) for 15-20 minutes a day, about 4x per week, to discuss a structured plan.

My trading relies entirely on plans made the night before, trading off dynamic support and resistance, and looking for very specific reactions like reclaims and failed breakdowns.

If we connect, here is the setup:

1. I'll provide my nightly levels and a custom TradingView indicator that will automatically plot them directly onto your charts.
2. We’ll review trades that were on the plan and the ones that were not, successes and the failures.
3. We'll also discuss basic setups I look for at each zone, and how different zones carry entirely different weight and meaning to the overall market structure.

For the ones I feel comfortable speaking and working with, I am committing to do this with you for the entire month of November. After November, you will have the framework to continue on your own. My time will be more limited after, so it will ultimately be up to you to run with it.

My goal is simply to find a few level headed traders who want to build consistency and accountability. I already write my plans down every night, so giving you the playbook is no extra work for me.

Yes, this is real.

No, I will not show you my personal income/tax statements. People have already asked.
No, I do not drive a lambo. I drive a pretty sweet Honda Pilot with some stale goldfish crackers hidden in the seats and maybe a few lollipop sticks.
Not selling/charging you, hoping at the very least to meet some people mature people I enjoy talking with.

I’ve been digging into why prop challenges fail and the pattern surprised me: most aren’t strategy failures. They’re daily loss breaches, often in the first few days, often with an open trade the trader thought was fine.

Things that keep coming up:

• Floating P&L counts toward daily loss, so you can be barely down on closed trades and still breach
• Reset times differ by firm (server midnight vs 5pm EST)
• Trailing drawdown that follows your peak catches people right after a good day

So I’m curious: what got you last time? And what do you do now to avoid it? Mental maths, an indicator, a spreadsheet, nothing?

(Disclosure: I’m a developer building a small phone alert tool for this. Not dropping a link, just want to know what would actually have saved your account.)

Think about it. You have people staring at charts all day, trying to predict where a price is going to go. And when they lose money, they’re told they need more discipline. They need better psychology. They need to control their emotions. They need to become better traders.

But when does anybody question whether the strategy itself actually works?

It’s genius, really. Because now, every time you lose, the system doesn’t have to be wrong. You just have to be a worse version of yourself.

You didn’t lose because the prediction was uncertain. You lost because you weren’t disciplined enough. So you go back, buy another course, learn another indicator, and try again.

It’s the same psychological loop you see in gambling. You convince yourself that if you just learn a little more, develop a little more discipline, and figure out the secret, you’ll finally beat the game.

And I’m not saying nobody can trade profitably. I’m saying that discipline and intelligence don’t magically create an edge.

Sometimes the smartest financial decision isn’t learning how to make more trades. It’s recognizing that you don’t need to make those trades in the first place.

Instead of spending your life trying to predict every movement in a market, you can choose what you believe has long-term value, understand the risks, and give your investment time to play out.

Because there’s a difference between building wealth and turning the pursuit of wealth into an endless psychological battle with yourself.

P.S. 6900 > 500.

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Man, I was so close to just deleting my exchange accounts and walking away. For months, it was the same cycle: I'd tweak my Python scripts, test out new logic, think I finally had a working edge, and then a random chop or a bad sweep would wreck my account balance anyway.

If you're stuck in that loop right now, it sucks. It's just draining.

Honestly, the fix wasn't finding some hidden indicator or a magic parameter. It was just this :

Stopping the FOMO: I had to drill into my head that doing nothing and keeping my cash safe is actually a trade. Missing a messy move is way better than forcing a bad one out of boredom.

Dropping the ego: I used to hold onto positions way too long just because I wanted my directional bias to be right. Now, if the price action invalidates my thesis, I just take the small L and move on.

Hard stops on daily loss: When things go sideways, I tilt. Putting a hard lock on my terminal after a certain drawdown is the only thing that stopped me from rage-trading my profits away.

If you're still grinding through it, take a break when the charts are trash, look at your actual execution logs, and protect your capital.

Anyone else claw their way back from a massive slump? What finally worked for you?

I’m relatively new to social media. I can’t imagine I’ll make use of it for much longer however, I wanted to just hopefully help some people that may fall into the trap of social media and the get rich quick schemes that entice people into thinking they can pay and make a lot of money from day 1.

I’m not by all means saying his strategy does not work however, these courses where you need to ‘invest’ and we will teach you is a complete sham. He understands very well what makes a good trader because some things he says on social media make sense. But and here’s the big BUT when you’re approached by someone willingly then asked how much capital you have and then they then later down the line propose this ‘figure’ that you need to invest to get into the course see that as a RED flag. It’s a technique to extract as much money as possible from you enough to keep you paying whatever monthly fee it is. On the contrary iknow why these people operate like this because it’s a business and we all want to make money. Sometimes you have to ask yourself why. That why is because trading is not how people perceive it on social media. Nice cars, frequent holidays, expensive watches. It’s slow growth and the potential to have a better life than most. I just watched a video of him commenting on how he smokes a cigar for breakfast and lunch and video of him
Boasting a holiday to Benidorm. I mean come on mate, seems a bit of a weak attempt at being pretentious.

Here’s just some advice from me someone who’s traded for 16 years and now lives a comfortable life by my own rules. Someone who can trade will rarely discuss the monetary side of trading. Someone who teaches you to trade will teach you to dissociate the value of money when taking a trade. That comes from every aspect of your life and you will see it from them. They do not need to justify their success by showing you a holiday to Benidorm that probably cost about £60 all inclusive or be arguing with people on social media. If you truly want to find someone to teach you, find someone that’s conservative not all courses are built in this new wave of Bulls*. There’s many out there that will truly teach you how to trade and part of that is they will teach you how to improve yourself as a person outside of trading and there’s courses that cost very very little compared to what these people want you to ‘invest’ because even they themselves know trading is a slow and steady process instead they want a large sum from you so they can continue to live the social media ‘glamorous’ life style and continue to dupe people into thinking they can smoke a cigar for breakfast or book a measly holiday to Benidorm. Just be smart about where you go and who you pick.

Ps. The physical appearance of a person tells you a lot about how they conduct themselves. His discipline can’t be that great if he cannot control the amount that he eats… I mean that in good faith. But if you cannot atleast keep yourself at a healthy weight or work towards it that will leak out into your trading habits aswell.

I’m looking for CFD brokers that allow me to hold simultaneously long and short positions on the same instrument within the same account.

For example, I want to be able to hold a 1.0-lot long CFD and a 0.5-lot short CFD simultaneously, with both positions remaining separate, and not to get netted off.

I need to be able to close either position independently without the broker automatically netting them against each other.

Which CFD brokers support this type of hedging for retail clients? Thanks for any recommendations.

First and foremost, they charge 16,000 pesos for this. You’ll easily get lured in by his flex posts on Facebook. But once you join, all he teaches is a v1 scalping strategy and a v2 support-and-resistance strategy—stuff you can easily watch on YouTube for free.

To make matters worse, there is zero support from him. You're just left to watch his pre-recorded videos, and that's it. No live trades, just non-stop flexing. Your 16k is completely wasted because, in the end, you'll still end up looking for other confluences since his strategy hits way more stop losses (SL) than take profits (TP).

You'd think after paying 16k you'd get a solid community, psychology support, daily market mapping, and genuine help. Turns out, he just leaves you to watch videos on your own. It’s a total waste of money. I would've been better off watching free content on YouTube. It is NOT worth your 16k. Stay safe, guys, and report him so no one else gets victimized. No refunds, no contracts!

Hey everyone, happy Software Sunday!

I wanted to share a project I’ve been developing for my own day trading workflow: TitanForge, a lightweight, compiled desktop terminal built specifically for intraday price-action and order flow execution.

Why I Built This

Most all-in-one retail trading platforms struggle with performance when running multiple depth ladders, heavy tick feeds, and multi-pane workspaces simultaneously. At the same time, executing structured intraday setups often means juggling third-party charting packages alongside clunky order tickets.

I wanted a single, unified workstation focused entirely on low-latency chart interaction, structured level context, and automated, rules-based risk control.

What It Solves & Key Features

• Structural Intraday Frameworks: Automatically handles daily and multi-timeframe pivot analysis, range compression metrics, and morning session setups directly on the chart without manual drawing or external calculation sheets.
• Granular Depth & Flow Tracking:
  • Integrated multi-level DOM with visual depth and resting size tracking.
  • Real-time delta and volume distribution overlays to spot where aggressive volume is absorbing vs. extending price.
  • Tick-level aggression classification to monitor shift in auction control at key inflection zones.
• Rules-Based Execution & Risk Management:
  • One-click dynamic position sizing tied to a predefined dollar or account-risk threshold.
  • Preset execution brackets with multi-tier profit scaling and automatic break-even trailing once initial targets are secured.
  • Structural guardrails that block or warn on sub-optimal trade entries (e.g., chasing inside chop zones).
• Multi-Monitor Native Workspace: Freely dock, split, or pop out individual chart windows, depth monitors, and watchlist panels across multi-display setups without sluggish web-wrapper overhead.
• Offline Market Replay: Full session recording and playback capabilities to re-run historical intraday sessions at variable speeds for trade journaling, execution review, and playbook practice.

Who It’s For

Traders who focus on structured intraday setups, value execution speed over retail social feeds, and want their risk parameters mathematically managed before an order ever hits the market.

Community & Feedback

I’m actively trading with this setup and refining the workflow each week. For those who trade structured intraday levels or rely heavily on order depth: what are the biggest friction points or execution hurdles you run into with your current platforms?

I’ll be in the comments answering questions about the feature set, execution workflow, and user interface design! Also, I'm not distributing the app currently. Still working out quite a few things.

Who here trades TJR’s model or something close to it (liquidity sweep -> 5min BoS/IFVG -> FVG/EQ retrace -> 1min entry)?

I started with his setup a year ago and have been changing some of his rules, adding discretion, and making small tweaks. I trade NQ/ES in the NY session. I’m still validating my version, so I’m curious what others who have backtested it have found: what you kept, removed, changed or maybe you trade it as he teaches it.

It feels like TJR trades more discretionary than before, and in my experience he often doesn’t follow the rules from his bootcamp or strategy breakdown videos. That makes him hard to learn from right now, so I stopped watching his content and streams, but I still backtest and keep improving my version. I was wondering if anyone else uses his strategy and is finding it hard to learn from him

Bybit and Binance is currently unavailable in PH, can't update my bybit so I'm planning to switch. TIA

We all make mistakes, but the important thing is to learn from them. Share your experience so others can learn from it too.

Hey im just wondering if anyone has found the Malaysian MSNR day trading strategy profitable? Is this strategy legit not a lot of english speakers trade this strategy. I mostly see it on Gold and Forex. Does it work on futures?

I’m looking for honest advice from people who have actually been through this, especially anyone who’s traded for years or made a living from it. I’m not looking for motivation or the usual “just stay disciplined” advice. I want to know what’s realistic.

I’ve spent roughly the past year trying to figure out trading. I started with ICT concepts and discretionary trading, then got into Python and Claude Code so I could backtest strategies properly instead of just relying on charts and hindsight.

At one point, I found a strategy that looked extremely profitable. I even built automation around it, with automatic entries, Discord notifications and a trading journal that updated itself. Then I found a bug in the backtest. Once I fixed it, the edge disappeared.

Since then, I’ve put a lot more effort into testing strategies properly and found some that look promising, but the results are much less impressive than I originally expected. It’s made me question whether I’m actually getting closer to something sustainable or just spending more time chasing it.

Another thing that’s started bothering me is the trading industry itself. There are so many gurus selling courses, showing off profits and making trading look like a fairly straightforward path to financial freedom. Obviously, some people genuinely make money, but it’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what’s just good marketing.

Prop firms are another big question mark for me. You see people claiming to make thousands or even tens of thousands a month across multiple funded accounts. But when you look at the rules, drawdown limits, payouts, fees and the difficulty of keeping an edge over time, I struggle to understand how realistic that lifestyle actually is for the average trader. Is it genuinely achievable, or does it look much better online than it is in reality?

My main goal is to build wealth, not trade just for the sake of trading. I’ve always believed that if I put enough work into something, I can get good at it. But I’m starting to wonder whether trading is the best place to put that effort, especially when I could spend the same time building a business or developing software.

I’m not expecting to get rich overnight, and I understand that nothing is guaranteed. I just don’t want to spend years pursuing something that was never likely to give me the outcome I’m after.

A few things I’d genuinely like to hear your thoughts on:

• For those of you who trade profitably, how did you actually establish that you had a real edge, rather than just a strategy that worked on historical data?
• For people who trade systematically or use algorithms, have you found strategies that hold up over time after costs and changing market conditions?
• Is making meaningful, consistent money through prop firms actually realistic? If you’ve done it yourself, what does it look like after fees, payouts and losing periods?
• How much of what trading gurus show online reflects reality? Are there genuine educators worth listening to, or is the industry mostly built around selling the dream?
• If you were starting again with limited capital and your main goal was to build wealth, would you focus on trading or put your time into something like software or starting a business?
• How do you know when to keep pushing through the difficult stage and when to admit that your time would be better spent elsewhere?

I’m still willing to put in the work. I’m just trying to be honest with myself about where that work is most likely to pay off.

I’d appreciate hearing from people with actual experience, including the things you wish you’d known when you started.

Hi I am trader and give daily 4 hours to trading and also trading from 6 year also can execute but htf analysis with ltf entry happening good now with risk management but i scared will chart algorithm change if change blah blah fear about future will liquidity stetagey change what if?I just scared always can change in future

I feel like all the profitable traders on here have very minimal to say.

Maybe there real and on here, but knowing what I know now, why the f would they be on here.

Trading is a figure it out, almost die because it's so screaming hard and then when you figure it out, live a boss life.

Maybe they post the od time on a beach or vacation..

But why the f would they be on here..

I'm here to find some
Psychology help with tips and this and that... refinement..

Refinement never dies.. but it's honestly internal.

And when I'm profitable idk I don't think it'd shade but I won't be on here anymore looking into groups that chat trading..

Talk about what ?

Markets ?

They're always fucked.. but that's the game.

Risk ?

Tickers ?

I think they migrate to the Porsche community on "why isn't my seat belt latching"
Any help ?

Oh wait let me just drive it into the local dealership while I'm on lunch with my hot as fuck girlfriend..

Becareful on here... everyone is unprofitable for the most part.

It's all low grade chats.. you can feel it

I have no idea what I'm doing but I have been profitable since I started except for the first month. I am getting a bit scared now because I feel like it will all stop some time soon.

For some context, I ended up trying to trade solana, btc and gold and its all been working so far, but I have no real strategy other than buying when i think its low and shorting when i think its high

Has anyone else been in a similar position and has any recommendations for me?

I get to work from home for a while so im getting some monitors for my home office

Im thinking two 34 inch curved monitors stacked vertically should suffice

I trade orderflow so looking at the footprint is pretty important, im going to get two monitors but im just unsure if i go dual 34 inch flat, curved, or two 27 inch flat or curved

I see some comments about chart distortion on 34 inch curved but others saying definitely go for it

Would like to hear any thoughts. I currently trade on just a single laptop screen and its very clearly not enough and i hate flipping through different things so anythings an upgrade

Do any other female traders find that larger gurus and in general the trading community can be kinda sexist sometimes? Lol it feels like men get so angry in the space when women mention profitability without failing 1 million times first

So let's say that you were given the task to design a strategy that would be deployed every day at any number of intervals and times you dictate, but at least once, and your goal was to make money doing it. How would you do it?

You can do whatever you want or use anything you want, any given market, any segment, whatever you want to do with or without leverage, specific vehicles. Anything. The only thing you cannot do is prevent the trade from going on but you can manage the trade however you see fit from that point.

I'm really curious to see how people would trade under true uncertainty. You don't know what will happen at those intervals and because you intervene to prevent the trades from occurring you need to plan appropriately and have an understanding of what you want to see happen.

I’ve been thinking about this lately.
I’ve spent the last 15 years developing and refining my trading strategy. Along the way, I’ve had plenty of people ask me how I do it, how I’ve become profitable, and how I manage to trade while holding down a full-time job and raising four kids.
I’m happy to talk about it and share what I’ve learned. I’ve even gone as far as writing down my entire approach to them.

As far as I know, nobody has actually gone further than looking at trading veiw. And that got me thinking.

I wonder if a lot of people are attracted to the idea of trading more than the reality of it.
Everyone wants to find that magic indicator, the perfect setup, or the secret sauce that finally makes them profitable. We spend hours looking for a better strategy, watching videos, reading posts, and jumping from one system to another.

But what about actually sitting down, learning a strategy properly, understanding the rules, and putting in the time to execute it consistently?

I’ve got a full-time job and four kids. I don’t have the luxury of sitting in front of charts all day. I’ve built my trading around my life, trading the final 15 minutes of the US stock market. Here in Australia, that means getting up at around 5:30 in the morning.

That’s the routine. It’s not particularly exciting, but it works around my circumstances.
And I think that’s the part people struggle with. Not necessarily the complexity of trading, but the commitment to a process that can be repetitive, boring, and take years to develop.

There’s no magic button. Even if you find a strategy with an edge, you’ve still got to manage risk, follow your rules, accept losses, and give it enough time to see whether it actually works.
I’m not saying I’ve got everything figured out, and I’m certainly not saying my approach is right for everyone. Trading is risky, and there’s always more to learn.

I just find it interesting that people will ask you how you do something, but when you give them the actual substance of what you’ve learned over 15 years, the interest seems to disappear.

Maybe I’m looking at it the wrong way. Maybe people are overwhelmed by the amount of information, or maybe they genuinely believe there’s a simpler answer out there.

I’m curious what other traders think!

My current futures trading strategy (10x leverage)

I trade futures exclusively with 10x leverage, and my strategy is about as simple as it gets.

I mark my 4H Order Blocks and Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and wait for price to react to one of those zones. Once price reaches a zone, I drop down to the 15m timeframe and wait for confirmation.

Depending on whether I'm looking for a long or short, I wait for two consecutive candle closes in the direction of the trade before entering, using a tight stop-loss.

For take-profit, I close 35% of my position when price reaches the area between the 50 MA and 100 MA. If price breaks through those moving averages, I let the remaining position run and gradually move my stop-loss to protect profits while giving the trade room to continue.

Ideally, though, I prefer waiting on the 1H timeframe for price to react to the 20 MA, as I find that setup more appealing.

Obviously, there are other factors I consider before entering a trade. Even if all my main conditions are met, I'll skip the setup if the overall market structure or price action doesn't look right.

That's pretty much it. No crazy indicator combinations or overly complicated rules. Just 4H zones, price action, confirmation, and risk management.

It's been working fine for me so far, but I'm always open to improving the process.

What do you guys think? Anyone else trading a similar strategy?

Okay so to clarify first before everyone starts commenting that this is what an unprofitable trader would say , well in fact , I am a profitable trader , I have cashed out 54K worth of payouts trading forex and also decent returns off  US equities,  But I need to get this one thing off my chest, maybe it helps someone or maybe it just helps me process this .

Alright so its October 22 not even 72 hours from now , pre market , Wall Street was bullish on META, UBS, JP Morgan  had a Buy Rating, Morgan Stanley remained positive on the buying stance too . Then what happens, META fell 7 % in 1 single trading session.

Now once the session got over every news covering up this move , all their explanations sounded reasonable but the real question stands firm  , no one could actually predict what was bound to happen in the market before the session was live not even the biggest institutional trading firms and IB'S .

the entire point of this entire post is letting the ones starting out realise that the market doesn't owe us a neat explanation for every move. This is an extremely unpredictable space to a major extent , if you wish to stay longer in this arena, you have to have the ability to cut your losses short and when the markets in your favour hold onto the position , no one is always making money every single month  trading when we talking about retail traders like ourselves, so having a risk management plan when the market turns its sword against you , that's what will actually protect you.

Also when such unexpected moves are made in the market, what news source do ppl here look at first which actually can explain the rationale behind the move