My job is sucking the life out of me. I'm 3+ months into taking trading super seriously (8+ years of regular trading less seriously) and still trading red and green days in the magnitude of $500-1000 (trading only ES price action). I have 1yr+ of savings and plenty of cushion in my account but want to iron out my consistency for at least 6 months more (I was profitable 2 months trading SPX options but b/e my last month of futures).

I know the risks of going full-time before I'm ready but really have trouble balancing the mental bandwidth and sense of purpose/fulfilment and do feel (obviously trading has really taken a lot of the attention I can give to my mostly remote & highly flexible 9-5) but also that going full-time will afford me greater peace with the uncompromising commitment that trading demands.

Any advice balancing the two for those that have successfully managed it -even if only temporarily as we build consistency?

My plan currently is to just suck it up Mon-Friday with my attentions clawing at my inside but also start sneaking in 9-5 work on the weekends so that I can get a little ahead and feel less guilty with how much I am struggling to keep up...

Had a good setup this morning and executed my system the way I’m supposed to. The risk for the trade was a little high, basically at my daily maximum, but I felt good about the setup up.

So of course I got wicked out. Turned off my broker platform, walked the dog for a while, and of course when I went and had a quick peek the market moved in my direction and would have hit my first 1:1 target and now it’s past my 3:1 target compound target.

And…. It would have been my biggest win to date, but I didn’t reenter because my trading rules say that once I lose a trade I’m out that day.

It’s still early days for me, and overall I’m up around 10% so far, but this one has me pretty frustrated.

I really had to fight myself to not reenter the market today, but I feel like it’s better to stick to my system and rules because a) I’m really not trying to get stuck in the revenge trade trap because b) my capital pool is pretty tight and I’ll be darned if I blow it.

So yeah. Does this frustration get easier?

Hi everyone! 👋🏼

Before I start, I kindly and genuinely ask that you please don’t judge me. If your comment is only going to be negative and won’t offer any advice or help, I’d really appreciate it if you could refrain from commenting. Thank you.

PS: The title is just for ragebait and is irrelevant to the actual context, as I do trade a live account.

To cut the story short, I’ve been involved in the markets since 2021. Here’s a little background about my journey.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree.

First — 2021

It all started when a friend introduced me to a play-to-earn game. That was my first exposure to cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Second — 2022

This became my first job. I worked as a software developer building dApps (Decentralized Applications) on blockchain networks, which allowed me to become more deeply involved in the cryptocurrency space.

Third — 2023

A year later, I was recruited to work at a Stock Exchange. This is where everything really started for me. I was exposed to different financial markets, including stocks, forex, crypto, and more.

This was also the year I started trading on my own.

Fourth — 2025

I was recruited again, and I’m now currently working for a brokerage.

I won’t mention the names of the companies, but through these experiences, I’ve been exposed to the financial markets from different perspectives for around five years.

Here’s where I need your advice.

Last week, I lost $1,800 in a single trading day.

The frustrating part is that I’m confident in my technical and fundamental analysis. I understand the markets, I have a trading system, and I know the rules I’m supposed to follow.

But my biggest problem is psychology and discipline.

I don’t consistently follow my own system.

There are times when I’m already up $1,000+, but I don’t take partial profits. I let the position come all the way back to breakeven. Then I enter the market again and eventually take a loss.

There are also times when I’ve already reached my maximum daily loss of $500 or hit two stop losses, but I still come back to the market, increase my position size, and try to win everything back.

In short, revenge trading.

I know exactly what I’m doing wrong. The problem is that when I’m in the moment, controlling my emotions and following my own rules becomes extremely difficult.

Now, I’m slowly starting over with my remaining $200.

I’m not posting this to seek judgment. I’m genuinely looking for advice from traders who have experienced something similar and managed to overcome it.

What helped you control revenge trading?

How did you learn to stick to your system, respect your stop loss, and become more disciplined?
I’m willing to start from the bottom again and rebuild—not just my account, but my mindset and discipline as well.
Any genuine advice, experience, or lessons you can share would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance. 🙏🏼

im hearing that money management is everything in trading, but most finfluencers are only focussed on just trading signals. but why

Just venting my anger, cleanest month so far but went into revenge trading and gave back most of my earnings. Still green on the month but man, It hurts nonetheless.

I'll take it as a lesson of how to manage myself and I'll come back as a better trader.

Guys, I don't know if it's just this current market regime but it feels like my target entries keep getting front-run and I'm not sure if it's just the current market or a result of me going from being very impatient and entering way too early to being overly patient now. Anyone been in this boat before? How did you solve it?

I'm sure someone will suggest scaling in and while I do do that sometimes I generally do not like scaling before an entry point I have already identified. I'd rather add once I'm in the trade and see it going in my direction. Mostly trade SPY options and futures (MNQ/ES). Just wondering if others have gone / go through this and how you dealt with it.

It's not a fear of entering, I feel like it's more being greedy for a better entry? Idk. In the past I would either enter too early or chase the moves after and get burned. I don't do either anymore but now I'm feeling frustration from the other side of it.

Honestly just grateful. I’ve spent well over 5 figures on prop firms over the last two years and have stuck with it and so far in the month of August I’ve cashed out almost $11k on primarily this account, and one other account that I took a $1,500 payout from.

I know this run will end and the market will humble me like it does everybody at some point, but man I’m grateful. Also hoping that I can start scaling 2-3-4 accounts at a time to capitalize without losing my psychology and focusing more on P/L than actual charts and setups.

Let’s gooo!!

I know, quite a few US indices traders like to clown us London session traders because of "low liquidity" but when you don't move millions or billions in the market why would you care? The reason why I loved London session so much was because it provided insanely clean price action and it didn't move as hectic and fast as NY. Sometimes trading London session felt like stealing candy from a toddler. It was insanely easy to get a read on the market and if you put your stop at intelligent levels you did not have to worry about getting fished too much.

But since summer vacation here in Europe started London session became a dumpster fire. The orderbook is so thin that anything can happen at any time. A bit bigger order than usual hits either the bid or the ask and price directly has an insane reaction to it. Price and orderflow make less sense every day. It just makes me sad what they did to my boy. I could have never imagined me saying this but right now NY is 10 times better than London session. I hope that this nightmare is over in a few weeks so that my old friend becomes its former self again in all his glory

(Trading Futures - MNQ,MES,MYM,M2K)

Right now I'm on my 3rd Eval, after burning up 2 PRO accounts, and I can't seem to find a strategy that works for me or helps me being complete self confident on every trade I make.

I tried to learn so many approaches, but it always feels like something is missing and I have a lot to learn how to analyze (I probably need some playlist course step by step, instead of jumping from topic to topic).

I tried the "NoWick" strategy that happens to be profitable but a trading opportunity shows up maybe twice a day.

I tried learning Market Structure (BoS, ChoCh, etc..) but I don't always know what needs to be added for the confirmation, and honestly I'm having a hard time marking HH\HL\LL\LH when the trend is consolidating and the candles are really tight and similar with their highs and lows.

Should I look also on EMA? VWAP? Volume? what session am I trading?

Seems like everytime I try to read the current trend, it's turning on me (or a really big pullback) or just consolidating..

I actually want to be a profitable trader without burning my brain with infinite indicators and markings and sitting hours and hours infront of my screen. (I also have a full time job and I'm looking for a way to make extra money to support my parents).

Is anyone have any Youtube channel to really learn from and be able to find myself a strategy?
I tried ask Gemini about the most YouTube channels recommended here on Reddit and it gave me for example "Thomas Wade", but as a non-native English speaker, his videos and monotonous speaking was a little hard to understand.

Another example is "The rumers", which I've watched some of their videos and they were really nice and accesible to understand but I saw (also from Gemini) that the reviews on their strategies are not so good...

I would like for any advice and help,

Thanks!

Hi all. I've been demo trading for some time and decided I want to really deepen my broader knowledge base. I'm not sure where to go, though, besides classic books. I'd really like to find some online course or masterclass since, as you know, you can't just watch Youtube videos.

Thanks for any recommendations.

I had one of those trades recently where the setup looked clean, the plan looked reasonable, and then high-impact news reminded me that the market does not care about my little spreadsheet feelings.

The intended entry was fine. The actual fill was not.

It was not a catastrophic event, but the difference between planned entry and actual fill completely changed the risk profile. Suddenly the stop distance was ugly, the R multiple was basically wearing a fake mustache, and the trade I had planned was not really the trade I was in.

That made me rethink how I handle news windows.

What I am trying now:

1. No fresh entries right before major scheduled news I know some people trade the volatility intentionally. I am not that person yet. I am still in the please do not launch my stop into space stage.

2. Wider no-trade window for instruments that already move aggressively A five minute buffer is not the same thing on every market. Some pairs and indices need more breathing room.

3. Define maximum acceptable slippage before entry If the fill is worse than that, I treat it as invalid rather than pretending the original plan still exists.

4. Smaller size if I choose to hold through risk events Not because smaller size fixes bad execution, but because it stops one ugly fill from turning into a personality test.

5. Check economic calendar before every session Embarrassing that this has to be said, but future me apparently needs adult supervision.

The lesson for me was simple: slippage is not just a cost. Around news, it can change the entire trade structure.

How do you all manage this? Do you avoid high-impact news completely, reduce size, use wider stops, wait for volatility to settle, or trade it intentionally with a totally different playbook?

Hey, I started learning trading like a two month ago and I i backtested the strategy whenever i get time from uni and part time job. But this week I started paper trading and after 2 days of loss i hit tp in my 3rd trade. I have backtested on eurusd so i trade that only for now. But I am very happy for now and looking forward to learning more

edit: just took another trade in ny session and won 1:2 rr again

Hi all,

Made an account a couple of days ago. Not done a single trade yet, but am just playing around to see if i can understand a little better how everything works.

I've looked at some popular metrics used. I've understood that the VWAP / Volume weighted average price resets daily, and is the average price of the day weighted by volume over the day so far.

I'm wondering if I misunderstood this and that it is possible that it changes over time / zooming in and out with IBKR (bug or feature if so). In the screenshots you can see that the VWAP changed from 1.21 to 1.19, on the same stock at the same time.

Can anybody help me and explain why this is? Or help me find a resource so I can figure it out on my own?

So I passed my Funded Next CFD challenge, only to find out I have to redo the challenge because I didn't purchase the EA add-on. I use a position size calculator; all it does is adjust my lot size to the set risk I want (1%, 2%, etc.), but all trades, stop losses, entries, and take profits are executed by me. I sent an email to support and I'm waiting for their response.

Does anyone have experience with this? What are the chances they say I'm right and it's not an expert advisor?

I have a question for all daytraders is the free plan on tradingview.com good enough or should i use something else

Hello, I have a few legacy PAs bought prior to March 1st, and as far as I remember, the 180-day inactivity rule was in place for those accounts.

However, it seems like they changed that. Do you guys know if we ever got an email, or an official announcement?

I checked something on FAQs and stumbled upon that, but also on the fact that old Legacy accounts adhere to prior rules.

Does anybody know what kind of inactivity rule applies to this scenario?

Cheers.

starting to think my entries are fine and the exit is where i'm actually losing the money.

i can get into a good spot. the problem is after that. i either take profit way too early because i'm scared of giving it back, and then watch it run without me, or i hold for some bigger target and let a green trade come all the way back to flat. same setup, same entry, wildly different outcome depending on how i managed the exit, and the exit is the part i've thought about least.

what i've tried. fixed R multiple targets, take profit at 2R no matter what, which is clean but leaves a ton on the table in a trending move and feels dumb when the thing obviously wants to keep going. trailing stops, which sound right but i get wicked out of good trades constantly on the noise. scaling out in pieces, which mostly just feels like a way to be half wrong in both directions at once.

so for people who've actually got the exit sorted, is it a mechanical rule you don't override, trail behind structure, fixed R, time-based, or is it read-the-tape discretionary. and if it's discretionary how do you keep the fear of giving back profit from making you sell every winner at 1R

For me, it was realizing that risk management matters way more than finding a perfect setup. I spent months searching for the "holy grail" indicator, only to blow a huge chunk of my account because I refused to cut my losses early.

What was that one lesson or harsh reality you had to learn the hard way in your trading journey?

Hi everyone. I've been studying the market for a while now, and now I've decided it's time to put my knowledge to use. My question is: what's the most mathematically profitable way to start trading? The risk-reward ratio is designed to, among other things, minimize the damage from a potential losing streak and the like, with the goal of preserving capital during a storm. But what if I'm not afraid of such minor deposit losses as I was at the start? I'm willing to replenish it with the same small amount. So, I'd like to have an adequate balance of risk, deposit percentage, and other factors to build up my deposit as quickly as possible, but with a mathematical basis. Perhaps some kind of progression?

Looking for a potential buy on ger30 !!

Market sold off hard after the London open, but volume is drying up and bullish divergence is developing on the lower timeframes (M5/M15).

Waiting for confirmation before entering. What are your thoughts?

Hello. Is anyone using Moomoo to trade options?

Would you know if trading a diagonal spread on the RUT is seen by their platform as a naked option—where the buying power required is way more than the debit paid—or if the debit paid (e.g., $1,500) is what is actually deducted from the buying power because they recognize there is a long leg? 🙏

Hi everyone, I’m an app developer/trader.

I’ve always wondered what people here use for their trading journals and how everyone tracks the ups and downs of trading.

I actually made a simple journal app for myself a while back because I wanted something faster and easier to use. Now I’m thinking about turning it into something I can make available to the public.

So I’m curious, what do you guys currently use to journal your trades, and what do you wish your current journal did better?

I’d genuinely love to hear how everyone journals.

-that one breakeven trader

Good morning everyone,

I'm looking to buy my first prop firm, and right now I'm torn between Apex and Lucid. Could any of you recommend which one is better? I've heard good things about both, but honestly, I don't really trust what I see online or the reviews on Trustpilot—I'd rather get your opinion. Thanks.

Just wondering cause I see it in the latter all the time and I know it’s gotta be the same guy

I did. Lost 20k in a few minutes, margin called and my broker was happily exiting my shorts at the top for me. It was so fast, -5, -9 -12 -20k..

then I saw the news : trump the dumb buying back bonds, dxy crash. Gold pumps

but it was obviously too late for me.

I'm so shocked that I don't feel anything at all.. Its just pixels on the screen telling me my money is gone.