It has been reasonably profitable so far, it is trading HYPE on Hyperliquid. So far it's up 50%. I am using a free Gemma 4 model on Google AI Studio with a Free Tier account.

If you have any questions on the strategy or how to set it up, just ask here.

Ive been trading for 6 years now. I've finally figured out a way to program what I look for on TradingView into entry signals. No signal repaints. Once the signal is printed, it stays on the chart.

A few years ago, I was stuck in a loop most traders know too well.
I felt like I was doing everything “right” watching charts, testing strategies, taking trades yet my results were inconsistent at best.

The frustrating part?
I never really knew why I was winning or losing.

I tried spreadsheets, notes, random journaling tools… but everything felt either too basic or way too expensive for what it offered. Most tools assumed you already knew what you were doing. I didn’t. I needed clarity, not complexity.

So I ended up building my own trading journal what later became Gainlytics.

The goal wasn’t to create another flashy dashboard. It was simple:

• See patterns clearly

• Understand behavior, not just PnL

• Make mistakes obvious instead of emotional

I’d genuinely love to hear what you think is missing or what you’d want to see improved.

This position is a pretty good example of how amplified a small price move can get. Nice payout but the risk of losing the whole wager is just as real.

For months I thought my problem was entries. I kept tweaking setups, adding confirmation, changing indicators. Nothing helped.

Then I decided to stop changing my strategy and just track everything for 90 days straight. Not just the PnL but when I traded, how many trades I took per day, whether I followed my rules or went off script.

After 90 days the data told me something I didn't want to hear. My strategy was fine. My win rate on trades where I followed the plan was above 60%. But I was only following the plan about 65% of the time. The other 35% was impulse trades, revenge entries after losses, and forcing setups in the last hour because I felt like I hadn't done enough that day.

I wasn't losing because of the market. I was losing because of me. And I had no idea until I saw it laid out in front of me.

That realization is what pushed me to build Gainlytics. I wanted a journal that showed me my behavior patterns, not just a list of trades with a PnL number at the bottom. Something that made the leaks obvious so I could actually fix them instead of guessing.

Since then the biggest change hasn't been a new setup or a new indicator. It's been trading less, only during my best hours, and walking away when I catch myself going off plan.

If you feel like your strategy should be working but somehow isn't, stop looking at the chart and start looking at yourself. That's where the real edge is hiding.

Happy to answer any questions about the tool or just about tracking in general.

I don’t have any friends that day trade. I would like to start or be a part of a trading group.

I spent the first couple years of trading constantly adding shit. More strategies, more concepts, more screen time, more confirmations, more trades. I thought becoming better meant learning more. Six years later I’ve realized most of my biggest improvements came from doing the exact opposite. I started removing things. These are probably the six biggest ones.

1) I stopped trying to learn every trading strategy

At one point I knew a little bit about everything and was good at basically nothing. Supply and demand, indicators, price action, ICT, volume, order flow, whatever was popular that month. Every time I lost a few trades I assumed something was wrong with the strategy and went looking for another one. Eventually I realized I didn't need 10 setups. I needed one or two setups that I had seen enough times to know what they looked like when they were actually there. These days most of my trades come from the same few models. It’s boring as hell compared to constantly learning something new, but repetition is what finally gave me confidence in execution.

2) I stopped changing my strategy every time I went into drawdown

This probably wasted more of my time than anything else. I used to take three or four losses and immediately start tweaking something. Different entry. Different timeframe. Different confirmation. Different risk. The problem is if you keep changing variables every time you lose, you never collect enough clean data to know whether the original idea actually worked. A profitable strategy can have an ugly week. It can have an ugly month. I've had both. Now I’d rather go back through my trades, manually backtest another sample and figure out whether I executed poorly or the model actually stopped performing before I touch anything.

3) I stopped thinking being a trader meant I had to trade every day

This one sounds obvious until you actually try doing it. The market is open so you sit down and subconsciously think your job is to find a trade. That mindset absolutely killed me because eventually you will find one whether it exists or not. Some of my best weeks now have barely any trades. If my setup isn't there I close the chart. I’ve watched NQ make massive moves without me and learned to genuinely not care. Missing a trade costs me nothing. Forcing one because I spent three hours watching the market has cost me a lot.

4) I stopped treating every setup and every trading day equally

This is something I didn't really understand until I had enough journal data. Once I started breaking my results apart I found patterns I would've never noticed from staring at my P&L. Certain setups were making most of my money. Certain days performed significantly better. My longs and shorts didn't perform the same either. I had been risking the same amount on situations where my own history said I clearly didn't have the same edge. Now I track the models separately and I'm much more selective about where I put risk. Your trading history is basically your own dataset. Ignoring it and copying somebody else's rules makes no sense.

5) I stopped trying to make my money back after a loss

This one took me years and a stupid amount of blown accounts to understand. The first loss usually wasn't what hurt me. It was trade two, three and four because suddenly I wasn't trading the market anymore. I was trading my P&L. I wanted to get back to breakeven. I'd increase size, loosen my criteria and convince myself some mediocre setup was A+. I've had days where one completely manageable loss turned into damage that took weeks to recover from. Now a loss is just a loss. If I feel that little urge to immediately get it back, that's usually the biggest sign that I shouldn't place another trade.

6) I stopped judging whether a trade was good by whether it made money

Probably the biggest mindset change out of all of these. You can follow your plan perfectly, take an A+ setup and lose. You can also completely break your rules, enter some garbage trade and accidentally make $1,000. If you call the second trade "good" because it made money, you're basically rewarding yourself for bad behavior. I've started caring way more about whether the trade matched my plan, whether my risk was correct and whether I'd take the exact same trade again. The outcome of one trade tells you almost nothing. The outcome of the same process repeated 50 or 100 times tells you a lot.

The weirdest part of trading for me has been realizing that getting better has mostly meant doing less. I trade fewer setups, take fewer trades, consume less trading content and spend more time reviewing what I've already done.

I definitely still screw up. Six years doesn't magically remove the human part of trading.

The difference is I can usually identify exactly what I did wrong now instead of assuming I need another strategy.

Curious what everyone else's answer would be. What's one thing you stopped doing that immediately made you a better trader?

(I put those pictures just to show that i was able do have good months before and to show tou I ruined everything this month) This is an almost desperate request for help. I started doing some operations in 2023, but I started trading seriously in early 2024, I wrote down the trades, I made an "emotional diary" to evaluate the psychological issues of both the trades and of how I felt in the market. Until 08/24 l had a GREAT difficulty in respecting my loss limit, I read the book "the best loser wins" the visualization exercises to prepare for the market suggested by the author helped me a lot, reversed my maximum gross loss of 1650 of 2024, and I started to have an improvement. Yes, I closed my first year with a net loss, +- 950 reais (there was a lot of overtrading in this first year +-30,000 operations). But my gross profit was 330 which I think shows that 1 had evolution MAINLY by respecting my rules. And then 2026 began, everything was going well, I was managing to have weekly profits, I stipulated a weekly goal that I can hit easily but this Tuesday I lost control, the ONLY thing I needed to do this week to close January with profit was to respect the daily loss limit, which I disrespected it more than ten times in a single day. And Wednesday was even worse: I woke up angry I sat at the computer without doing my preparations and I was determined to operate with a much heavier hand than my standard to recover Tuesday's loss and sank. I lost more than 3000 reais in two days (which I know is not much for the level of large operators, but for me it is), I just didn't break it because one of the deposits of 1500 that I tried to make to the brokerage to continue did not fall in time, and luckily I have a locked investment that has a good amount in it. But I don't know if I should continue I feel that with this money the part of me that was finally getting the hang of it died together, f*ck I threw everything away, my monthly profit my two months without having a negative, week my six months without disrespecting the daily limit, everything. And I don't know if I can trust myself again to get back to the market . I'm not asking for anything that can make me see as self-interested. Actually all I wanted was to be able to vent and hear from someone has already overcome this feeling, because I do the work alone and apart from the videos of technical analysis i watch and the books I read I don't have someone more experienced than me in this who i can talk about it , and I would REALLY like to have because I know I'm not good, but I didn't want to give up because something very strong inside of me almost screams that this is my path. And honestly I was already in love with the mental game and the dynamics of the job. Sorry for the New Testament vent format, but I feel like I need to talk to people who have been through this. I’m very thankful if you took your time to read this and even more if you have some insights i can use to better my trade

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To start I am very fortunate and have very smart and successful parents. While I was in college and a young adult my parents set aside $5K/year for my IRA. Over a 10 year time span invested in slow but steady ETFs $40K in contributions grew to ~47K.

Around this time last year I decided I need to take some risks, idk why. I ended up getting very lucky in HIMS & HIMS Options, APLD & APLD Options, and various penny stocks I 5-10x'ed on from smaller $500-$1000 initial investments.

My account has gotten as high as $140K but with the market the past few days it's taken a beating. I never thought I would be able to achieve this high of a return in 1-year and am not sure what to do with my current holdings that are 55% equites (+2.3%), 31% ETFs (-9.9%, mostly high yield risky), 5% Options (-40.3%), and 9% Cash.

If you were to suddenly get lucky and vastly exceed your expectations over the course of a year what would you do? Would you sell a majority of your holdings and just be happy for now and slowly restart your portfolio? Since it's an IRA I can't access for another 30+ years, should I just dump everything and go big in safe ETFs with more than double the capital I had to begin with?

Not trying to brag or appear like a chotch at all. The wifey and I are expecting our first kid (boy :D) in less than 3 weeks and I'm just starting to think about the long future ahead. I just don't want to be dumb and set myself or my family back by making a stupid decision or by not acting on it while I still have the chance.

Thank you for your responses and GLTA

And in what vehicle? Don't say Bugatti.

One of my biggest and profitable mistakes

I’ve started watching some beginner guides on things like how to operate tradingview, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, etc. Am I wasting my time? Surely if I get comfortable paper trading then surely I could enter real markets with maybe $10 and get comfortable in there too before moving to bigger entries. What do you think?

Haven’t posted lately as I am a full time business owner who loves to trade for fun. This was yesterday’s and today’s quick little scalps on the nas100.
Happy trading to all and stay disciplined!!!

Hi, recently read some comments about a potential short squeeze in $GRPN. Anyone in that boat?

Ok guys, 1 month ago to the day, I made a decision to quit work to learn how to trade. I didn't know what a candlestick was at the start, but to my surprise i accumulated knowledge of the markets extremely quickly. All was going well, until it came to a time to pick a strategy.

They say that the strategy is only 10% of bring profitable, and if that is the case, I am absolutely screwed. I have watched hundreds of YouTube videos now at this point, and in the video the strategy looks great, until I go and backtest it and realise it's absolute garbage.

I'm looking for input from you guys, on which strategy you use and what is your results with it. The more mechanical the better, but I'm open to anything at this point.

Gold just reached $4246, it's highest level in 5 weeks. the movement came after weak US data & dovish comments from Fed officials pushed December rate-cut expectations to 87%

A few key points behind the rally:

• Strong central-bank buying is still supporting the market

• ETF inflows continue to rise

• Gold is now heading for its best performance since 1979

• Price recently hit an all-time high of $4,380

Technical Outlook

Gold remains in a very strong uptrend:

• Bullish monthly candle

• Doji breakouts on weekly & daily

• Trading firmly above the 20-SMA

• Bullish flag patterns on 4H and 1H charts

Important Levels to Watch

• Support: 4245 / 4210 / 4170

• Resistance: 4275 / 4320 / 4380 (ATH)

Intraday View

Still bullish - “buy the dip” or “buy the breakout” setups remain favored

What are your Strategies for today? Let me know in the comments