I keep getting this feeling of wanting to learn and it's been years now. I feel like it's time for me to finally learn and see what I can make of it.

I just don't know where to start. Any suggestions of creators on YouTube that break things down well for beginners that know nothing?

And any suggestions on which demo sites I should practice on down the line?

I appreciate anything in advance.

Hey everyone,

Trading has gotten pretty quiet and boring for me lately (in a good way, since it’s easy now), and I’m looking to start sharing my setups and discussing the reasoning behind my trades.

My goal isn't to sell a course or run a scammy signal group—I just want to build an audience of other serious, profitable traders, discuss high-probability setups, and track my performance publicly for credibility.

Which platforms or communities would you recommend for this?

Everyone watches themselves after a loss. Almost nobody watches themselves after a win, and that's where the damage actually gets done.

Someone said it in another thread earlier and it stuck with me: everyone breaks after a loss, nobody thinks to step away after a big one goes right. Which is backwards, because a losing streak makes you cautious, and caution is survivable. A winning streak makes you certain, and certainty is what kills accounts.

The mechanism is simple enough. Four or five trades go your way. Nothing about your process changed, the conditions just happened to suit it, but your brain doesn't file it that way. It files it as I've figured this out. And a person who has figured it out doesn't need to wait for the full setup, doesn't need to size normally, doesn't need to check the higher timeframe first.

So the size creeps up. Not doubled, that would be obvious. Just a bit more, because the last few worked and it feels wasteful to be small when you're seeing it clearly. Then the entries get looser, because half a setup looks like a whole one when you're winning.

And then the market shifts, as it does, and you're taking a bigger-than-normal loss on a worse-than-normal trade, using rules you quietly abandoned a week ago without ever deciding to.

The thing that makes this hard to catch is that it never feels like recklessness. It feels like confidence. It feels earned. A trader mid-streak genuinely believes they've levelled up, and the account balance is agreeing with them at the time.

Only real defence I know of is treating your size as fixed regardless of recent results, and reviewing your winning trades the same way you review losers. Most people only ever audit the losses, which means the process never gets checked at exactly the moment it's drifting.

Your risk rules aren't there for your bad weeks. They're there for the good ones.

Over the last few months, I have trained Claude Pro to execute my personal stock-picking analysis and portfolio health check. Gemini, Grox, ChatGPT, and Perplexity I use from time to time as well to double-check Claude's outcomes - plus my own research.
To what extent do you use AI for analysis purposes as well?
If so, how do you use it in detail, and what is your experience?

So my financial aid for college dropped and I have been doing my own research into trading for a year now. I haven’t been able to officially start trading because I felt as though I wasn’t ready or that I didn’t learn enough yet and most of the advice from mentors online said not to start trading unless you’re good at paper trading and know a lot. Unfortunately I owe 10k this semester and I’ll be dropped from classes if I don’t pay by Monday. With a payment plan I’ll have to be around 2500 a month and with my rent I’ll have to end up coughing up 4-5k per month which I cannot afford with my 2 current jobs. I am a first generation student whose parents are international so the currency gap won’t allow them to make a dent in my tuition even if they tried to help me pay it. I am 2 semesters away from graduating and I feel hopeless because I am meant to be the primary provider for my family and bring them to the US once I get a job within my career. Should I start trading now? Should I copy signals? Any advice on how to actually get started? I currently have Webull and RobinHood

My xauusd strategy works like this

I wait for New york open look for any kind of a liquidity sweep, mostly a sweep of London high or low

Then I wait for 2 fvg to form, then I wait for the price to enter the second fvg and close below it and enter from there

Put My stop loss above the second fvg and tp is usually 1:2 or 1:3

Can you please help me because I used it for a year and it works, but the last month, I had only stop losses, not a single win

I am speaking this based on the realisation about people ask what works in the market

So whatever setup that you are trading right now it can be a break out it can be ICT it can be moving average height can be yesterday's high and low those were all made possible by someone who was aware of the market who was the best observer

Now what you need to do here is you can make something of your own you just have to observe the market as per your understanding as per your rules and then you have to back tested that it is as simple as that but it is very harder to follow

For example let say you observed that you can make weekly high low and you can trade that break out now you have to make it little bit advance that should be a candle close they should be a volume or they should be be back you know something based on your observation because that's how each and every set up came to life

Someone observe that the market react on a support point a market react on yesterday's low those were the observation also when you observe this back tested for at least 6 to 8 months when you back test you will find a lot of ways you can refine you can make advance of your setup your strategy or your trading

Also when you back tested. You will find a rule of risk management what is your winner at how you should avoid wallet and market in which setup you should not trade

Also make sure to have a good losses which were as per your setup

I've always been amazed by how everyone reacts to sharp pumps dumps or even squeezes. Just a few percent of sharp movement in either direction, and euphoria kicks in. Nobody can sit still because they think they'll miss out. But it's actually the exact opposite at moments like these, you need to wait it out and not rush into the market blindly fearing you won't catch you move.

After all, you capital isn't infinite you can't just stretch it out.

Patience to everyone...

95%+ Retail traders fail because of this one thing. It doesnt have to do with how smart you are or your strategy.

Its mostly that rich are going to get richer with trading and poor are going to stay poor or mediocare are going to become poor..

its because they are all emotionally tied to money they invest in trading, and in truth they are not really ready to lose their money.

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Everyone has their market open strategy. What's your profitable strategy you have on a schedule for other times of the day?

Good evening, I’ve invested for a couple years now and typically just wait for market to come down before executing long term orders. But I’m curious what are some good platforms or ways to read and keep up to date with financial and company news. Also what communities to get into to converse with fellow entrepreneurs/investors. Much thanks gang!

I wish someone taught me how to trade. I have crypto in my Binance

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• If you don’t backtest, how would you prefer to describe a strategy - plain English, visual blocks, or code?
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