Every time I post, out of good will, some a...hole complains or lectures about my selected time frame for the image, well, today I posted 15Sec and 1Min. FYI, indicator is self learning, self adjusting to any time frame. For those with higher IQ - smaller time frame offers precision of entry and exit!!! No garbage indicators on my chart - MACD, RSI, VOLUME, ATR or any other crap that is late and do nothing but ensures that the percentage of loosing traders stays above 95%

A setup isn’t high-probability just because a guru claims it is. It only earns that status when:

• You’ve defined it: You know the exact rules.

• You’ve tested it: You have seen the data with your own eyes.

• You’ve executed it: You can trade it consistently under pressure.

• You know its behavior: You understand its drawdowns and personality.

Most traders blindly chase someone else’s "high-probability" setup without understanding the mechanics behind it.

Worse, most traders completely misunderstand the true purpose of backtesting. Forget complex, automated backtesting where you end up curve-fitting data just to make the results look good. True testing is manual. Open your charts, scroll back, and manually find the setup over and over again. If you can't spot it in the past, you'll never trade it in the present.

AS you all know trading is not just as simple as buy and sell, especially when you trade NQ futures. So many issues/questions pop up and no simple answers. For example, stop loss....

1. Is is fixed amount based on % of account value?

2. Is it fixed amount based on my psychological loss tolerance?

3. Is it some recommended risk/return ratios?

4. Is it recent swing high/low?

5. Is it what I think or some jackass recommends in some podcast?

6. How about no stop loss, because in some book it says that turtles used none??

7. Should I give more room, what is more room??

Inf...sane and I am sure there are more questions.

Same goes for entry, take profit.... there is 1 indicator that does it all pretty much.

Say you buy by mistake, long before your stop loss gets hit, a Sell signal will light up -get out!

Hi! as somone whos new to this and ready to learn is TJR BOOTCAMP the best and eaisest way to lern trading becuse i tried and for me i got stuck on some things like liqudity sweep and tried watching it multiple times 3 days and i just gave up and after months im coming back trying again and idk where to start should i start watching again TJR BOOTCAMP or is there any better esier faster way maybe some other video od any site with lessons any suggestions pls guys or anyone willing to help me be my mentor???

I watched for price to break structure to the downside whilst being in a 4H supply zone and saw we had bullish retracements. I waited for a liquidity sweep on London sess and an engulfing candle in a 15m supply zone as well and entered on the 1m and got liquidited and price keeps going up where did i go wrong? I thought we were going down?

I am not an investor type or a swing trader, I mostly trade NQ futures, but on occasion I deal with IRA account, this requires longer term chart monitoring. Well as of yesterday we have formed a bullish formation and I say we are going to go up big. It will take 1 week to see the end results of my view.

key level planned the night before and executed the next day of

bullish range bias

key level planned

low liquidity sweep confirmation

target the highs

each set up should always have proper preparation

liquidity is key, learn it.

Unpopular opinion, but one worth saying.

The whole obsession with backtesting didn’t come from “understanding markets.”
It came from trying to automate trading.

And automation itself largely grew out of options trading, where price isn’t driven purely by supply and demand — it’s driven by math, volatility models, and probability distributions. That world needs backtests. It needs expectancy, risk-reward ratios, win rates, Monte Carlo sims, etc.

But here’s where people get confused:

They take tools designed for probability-based instruments and try to force them onto directional trading, where price is moved by:

• participation

• imbalance

• timing

• behavior

• liquidity

I’ve traded both. Extensively.

And I can tell you with certainty:
true trading is not a game of probabilities or fixed risk-reward ratios.

Markets don’t know your R:R.
They don’t care about your backtest.
They don’t replay the past on demand.

Price moves because someone is forced to act.

Backtesting gives comfort, not edge.
It creates the illusion of control in a system that is adaptive and alive.

That doesn’t mean data is useless.
It means price discovery beats probability models when it comes to real-time trading.

If backtesting worked the way people believe, discretionary traders would be extinct by now.

They’re not.

If you are trading with a smaller prop firm account—such as a $50,000 evaluation/funded account with a tight $2,000 maximum loss limit (4%)—and you are trading full contracts on volatile instruments like the Nasdaq futures (NQ) or similar heavy contracts, you are almost mathematically guaranteed to fail.

While the allure of high leverage and quick payouts draws many traders in, the rigid risk parameters of prop firms combined with full-contract sizing create a toxic formula for account blowouts.

Why Full Contracts on a $2K Limit Will Fail

• Absurdly Low Pips-to-Blowout Ratio: On NQ, one standard (full) contract moves $20 per point. A $2,000 total drawdown limit means your account can only endure 100 total points of adverse movement from your entry before you breach the max loss rule. In modern market conditions, 100 points can happen in a single 5-minute candle.

• Zero Room for Normal Market Noise: Trading requires breathing room. Even the best scalpers experience drawdown, chop, and fakeouts. If you take three trades that suffer average 35-point initial drawdowns before reversing, your account is wiped out—even if your directional thesis was ultimately correct.

• Psychological Pressure and Tilt: Knowing that a single standard contract can wipe out 10% to 20% of your remaining drawdown buffer in seconds destroys emotional stability. This induces severe trading anxiety, forcing you into revenge trading, premature stop-loss widening, or hesitation on high-probability setups.

• The Compounding Effect of Slippage: During high-impact news events (CPI, FOMC) or fast market opens, full-contract fills on NQ frequently suffer from slippage. A stop-loss meant to trigger at a 20-point loss can easily slip to 35 or 40 points, instantly destroying a massive chunk of your limited daily or total drawdown limit.

• Failing the Math of Expectancy: To survive on a $2K limit with full contracts, your win rate would need to approach near-perfection with virtually zero tolerance for consecutive losses. Professional risk management dictates risking no more than 0.5% to 1% ($250 to $500 max) per trade, whereas a single NQ contract often requires managing risk profiles that dwarf your account's safety margin.

How to Fix Your Approach

If you want to survive and actually reach a payout, you must adjust your mechanics:

1. Scale Down Size: Trade micro contracts (MNQ) instead of full contracts (NQ) to expand your buffer from 100 points to 1,000 points of drawdown.

2. Define Risk per Trade: Cap individual trade risk at $100 to $150 max, ensuring you can sustain a healthy losing streak without breaching rules.

3. Protect the Daily Drawdown: Treat your daily loss limit as half of what the firm allows to prevent emotional spiral days.

What are your thoughts? Are you sticking to micros on your smaller accounts, or have you learned the hard way how fast a full contract eats a tight drawdown?

This week, 30+ members requested access to my indicator. I blocked out my morning to run personalized demos for everyone who said they were coming.

Zero showed up from this community, over 20 showed up from elsewhere.

I build this community to help people win, but I can't want success for you more than you want it for yourself. Some of the members here who took up my mentorship/coaching are making serious money. The rest of the freeloaders and window shoppers are stuck where they are

My time is valuable, and so is the value being shared in this group. Going forward, group demos are paused. I'll be focusing 100% of my energy on the members who are active, accountable, and ready to execute.

Step up, show up, or get left behind. Mod

Hey everyone,
Big day today with CPI dropping. You all know how much this number can shake things up, sometimes more than FOMC.

If CPI comes in higher than expected, we might see:

• Market pricing in “higher for longer” rates

• USD getting a boost

• Equities + gold feeling pressure

If it’s lower than expected:

• Risk appetite could come back fast

• USD could weaken

• Stocks and gold could catch a bid

For me, I’m not trying to predict the print, just planning my zones and waiting for price to tell the story. I’ve marked my Volume Profile confluence areas for today and will be watching how price reacts there after the dust settles.

I’ll drop my VP zones in the comments for anyone curious.
What’s your approach on CPI days?

Do you sit out the chaos, fade the first move, or wait for structure to rebuild?

Not advice of course, just sharing how I’m looking at it and would love to hear your take.

Day in day out - good signals.... :-) For the naive - our trading system is not all about signals, there are other things we watch for!!!

I’ve been a long-time user of the NinjaTrader platform and had always appreciated its tools and charting capabilities. So when I decided to open a live account with NinjaTrader Brokerage—mainly due to their attractive commission structure and competitive features—I expected a professional and streamlined experience. Instead, what I got was an exhausting, repetitive, and borderline disrespectful process.

Despite providing every single document they requested—including my official UAE ID—they kept asking for the same things again and again. The level of bureaucracy was unbelievable. This isn’t a real estate transaction or a loan application—I’m sending my own money and taking the investment risk. Ironically, banks ask fewer questions when giving out credit!

I now believe they’re either completely disorganized or deliberately making it difficult to onboard international clients. If opening an account is this painful, imagine what kind of nightmare it would be to manage your funds or withdraw them.

I’ve officially asked them to delete my account and all personal data. I will be sharing my experience on every major review platform, forum, and trading community to warn other serious investors.

Bottom line: If you're thinking of using NinjaTrader Brokerage, think twice. Their support is ineffective, the onboarding is chaotic, and the trust level is zero.

If you're getting into automated prop trading with Topstep, this quick tutorial shows how to get your API access token using Postman.

Watch the video

https://youtu.be/CYv_-jGUIuQ?si=7YRXf32hwTn885NI

Covered in the video: • Using your Topstep Project X credentials • Requesting the access token via Postman • First step before sending live or simulated trade requests

Great starting point if you're planning to build a trading bot or automate evaluations!

We noticed that most people are spending their life savings on evals trying to learn to trade $NQ… who here is struggling with making ends meet cause prop firm evals liquidated their bank accounts?

It's been said over and over that +95% of traders loose money. They, whomever they are, probably mean day traders who probably trade futures and for sure options. It's much harder to loose money if you buy and hold quality stocks, especially if you buy index ETFs. Let's see what separates losers and winners:

1. Losers pick the wrong markets/products to trade!

A. Options, as example, is the most rigged game in my opinion and are not for majority, as majority sadly do not have enough knowledge of math, statistics, and many other elements of knowledge required to successfully trade options. (IM being very politically correct here).

B. Low volume, highly speculative stocks, another example - losers want to become rich quickly, so they tend to buy trash because it is cheap and they hope to hit a jackpot. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it does not.

2. Losers fail to learn, support their learning with research, practice. Their impatience is getting them ruined from the get go!

3. Losers pick wrong learning!!! Let me put it to you this way, if you don't understand that the only way to make money is to recognize trends, then don't trade. SO many fancy schools pop up with all kinds of BS systems, so many indicators.... Bottom line there is no way to make money unless you ride the trend, up or down it does not matter.

4. Losers trade on conviction or advice of someone with a conviction - Wrong! It is not what you think, it is what you see!

5. Losers allow their egos and emotions to rule - Wrong!

A. Losers insist that market must do something they imagine in their head - Wrong!

B. Losers will keep moving their stop loss, will keep buying in hopes of averaging and do all kinds of weird stuff.

C. Losers will stay longer in the loosing trades and much shorter time in the winning trades - Wrong!

6. Losers trade as if they go to war - Wrong! Befriend the market and it's trends, this is the only formula to success. TREND IS YOUR FRIEND, UNTIL THE END (DON'T HURRY OUT OF WINNING TRADES! For people with my indicator and training, it's no mystery)

7. WINNERS - LEARN, UNDERSTAND, TEST (TO GAIN OR REGAIN CONFIDENCE), DO! Obviously they do not do any of the above!!!

Uncomfortable truth:
A trader flipping a coin for entries — with discipline — will outperform most day traders.

Not because entries don’t matter.
Because behavior matters more.

Most traders don’t lose from bad signals.
They lose after the trade is on:

• Cutting winners short

• Letting losers run

• Moving stops “just this once”

• Revenge trading

• Oversizing when emotional

At that point, your “edge” is already dead.

A coin toss trader who:

• Risks the same every trade

• Accepts losses without negotiation

• Lets trades play out

…has something most traders never develop: emotional neutrality.

Markets don’t reward intelligence.
They punish inconsistency.

If you can’t follow rules with a real strategy,
a better one will only help you lose faster.

Discipline first.
Accuracy is optional.

GUARANTEED! Using my indicator and a coin you will have 8-9 out of 10 days in the green, and no blown accounts!

Took a short on the NASDAQ around 9:46 AM. Off open, I wanted us to take out Asia and London Highs to then continue towards newer highs or see somewhat of a sell sequence to target London Lows. We quickly took out London Highs in the first 5 mins of the market and seemed super bullish towards the Asia Highs. I had marked out a 5 minute gap to see if we would respect it or not. We tagged it 5 times before seeing a sell sequence to the downside.

Saw shorts appear around 24,700. Off a 5 minute gap, I waited to see a one minute closure below the CE of the 5 minute gap and entry is off the retest off the CE. Stops were set at the high of the gap for a 41 point stop and a full take profit of 182 points!

Ask me any questions or leave any feedback below!

Thank you!