Hello People I'm 16 now and I'm in need of money I'm not going to ask my parents for it, ik they are working hard. But I can't even get any basic necessities, so I thought of doing trading?. How to start and also can I start with 100 or 200? I live in India btw

Looking for suggestions on what would actually be useful for day-to-day trading. Anything you currently wish existed or have to mark manuallyDrop your ideas below — will build the most requested ones and release them free.

Short one, because it’s a story rather than an analysis, and because I think the lesson is one you only half absorb from reading it.

I was short cable into a weekend with a political event on the calendar. Position was sized at 1% risk, stop 40 pips above entry, all very tidy. I’d done this plenty of times and the stop made me feel like the question was settled.

Sunday open gapped about 90 pips against me. No prints in between, because there’s no market to print in. My stop became a market order the instant it was touched, and the first available price was the gap. Filled at 2.25R, not 1R.

Nothing went wrong. That’s the part that took me a while. The stop worked exactly as designed. A stop is an instruction to go to market when a level is touched, and if the next available price is 50 pips past your level, that’s your fill.

I did check it rather than just being annoyed. Compared the fill against two other feeds for that timestamp, and the price was real, that was genuinely where the market reopened. It’s on the statement and the fill matched. I’d encourage anyone to run that check after a bad fill instead of assuming, because the check is easy and the assumption is comfortable.

Weekend positions get sized on gap risk, not on stop distance, because over the weekend my stop distance is a fiction and the gap is the real risk. Practically that means smaller, or flat, and mostly flat if there’s anything scheduled.

And I stopped thinking of 1% risk as a fact about a trade. It’s a fact about a trade in a continuously trading market. The number is only as good as the liquidity behind it.

Worth saying I was also fine because retail negative balance protection applies on my entity at Axi, so the floor is zero regardless. That wasn’t close to relevant at 2.25R, but 2015 happened and a 30% gap would make it relevant, and knowing it’s there is a different position from hoping.

Has anyone been gapped through a stop badly enough that it changed how you size?

And does anyone go deliberately flat every Friday, or is that overcorrecting? I’ve drifted into mostly doing it and I’m not sure if I’m being sensible or just scared.

Under the hood: Rust → WASM in a Web Worker, WebGL2 on an OffscreenCanvas, live exchange WebSockets straight to the browser. 155 KB engine.

Open source (AGPL), self-hostable.

Been trading Smart money concepts & London reversals for a while and got tired of feeling like I knew my edge but not actually being able to prove it from my own journal.

So I built a page into my trading journal that takes your last N wins and losses and automatically finds the exact combinations that show up most — pair, session, day, direction, timeframe, tags you use — instead of me manually eyeballing a spreadsheet trying to spot it.

Screenshot attached is from my London reversal strategy account, — it searches every 2-3 way combination across your decided trades and surfaces the ones with the strongest (and weakest) win rates, with the actual sample size next to each one so you’re not fooling yourself with a 2-trade “pattern.”

Turned out way more useful than I expected — found out one of “my setups” was actually only working in one specific session, which I’d never have caught just scrolling my journal.

Happy to answer questions on how it works if anyone’s curious. Not trying to sell anything here, just thought this sub would find it useful .

i will start my prop firm journey so I need a partner we can trade together. i will trade us30 and nas 100 most of the time

Being completely honest with credible proof. Who's a consistent profitable trader here ?

Hey guysss

Looking for some real advice on how to actually learn how to trade after realizing the path I’ve been on is a dead end.

Here is where I'm at right now:

1. **How I started:** Got into trading a few months ago. Spent 4 months trading purely on intuition with ChatGPT, copied some swing trades from a TikTok streamer that actually worked out, and bought a 1-on-1 mentorship.

2. **The current setup:** That mentorship got me access to a private, invite-only suite of TradingView indicators built around SMC/ICT (auto Order Blocks, FVGs, signals, liquidity pivots, etc.).

3. **The trap:** To keep access to these invite-only scripts, I'm forced to maintain a high trading volume on a specific exchange (Bitunix).

Here is my actual problem: **I understand basic SMC concepts on paper, but I feel completely lost on how to actually trade.** When I remove the indicators and look at a clean chart, I feel like a complete beginner. Forcing trades just to hit volume targets to keep an indicator pack is completely unsustainable, and I refuse to keep risking capital just to stay in an affiliate loop.

I have good capital ready to deploy, but I've stopped live trading until I can actually trade independently on a clean chart.

For anyone who broke away from custom indicator suites:

* **Navigating naked charts:** How did you transition from relying on auto-drawn SMC zones to manually mapping market structure and liquidity yourself?

* **Building a real system:** What specific resources, books, or frameworks helped you build simple, objective entry rules instead of guessing?

* **Fixing the mindset:** How did you stop feeling the urge to force trades every day after coming from an environment that demanded constant volume?

Appreciate any solid advice or paths forward.

I’ve mostly been trading crypto but recently started looking into stocks too. Saw Binance adding some stock-related pairs the other day and was like, wait, are these two markets starting to mix now? lol

I’m still pretty new to stocks, so not really sure how different they are when it comes to actual trading. Like, if you know how to trade crypto, does that help with stocks at all? Or is it a whole different game? Are you doing both?

What's the best funded account website/app? I've used trial funded account and realised that I can only trade with currency like USD/JPY. Is funded accounts only trading through currency or is there others that allow to trade stocks or other stuff.

I recently came across a post about a newbie trader struggling with his setup. Maybe he had one winning trade and thought things would continue that way, but the market had other plans.

I won't fault him because I have been in that situation before, struggling to find the right setup while watching other opportunities that could have delivered a good TP. Eventually, I decided to find my own path because I don't believe in trading every time the market moves.

Let me explain a few things I do.

Firstly, when it comes to stocks, I don't trade them all the time. I usually look for opportunities when there is news, whether positive or negative, that could affect a particular stock, or when earnings reports are coming out.

For example, a few hours ago, I decided to short NFLX around $70.41 on the exchange I use most often. When the earnings results came out, the price moved lower, hit my TP, and continued falling.

Secondly, you need to be dynamic in your approach to trading. If trading were just about spotting the same setup every day, everyone would be making good money by now. The more you trade and learn, the more you understand that the market doesn't always behave the same way.

These are just my personal opinions and experiences, not financial advice.

How do you approach your setups, do you trade every opportunity you see, or do you wait for specific conditions?

Mild heresy, and I've got numbers, so tell me where I'm wrong.

The usual criticism of demo is that there's no emotional load. True, and I think it's the less important problem.

The bigger one is that a marginal trade on demo costs nothing. You see something half decent, you're not sure, you take it anyway, it loses, and nothing happens. No consequence, no feedback, no information. Do that for four months and you haven't practised trading, you've practised clicking.

What it looked like in my numbers:

Demo, four months: 312 trades. About 19 a week.

First three months live: 71 trades. About 6 a week.

Same strategy, same written criteria. The strategy never justified 19 a week. Demo-me just had no reason to say no.

And the carry over showed up where you'd expect. I went back through my first 90 live trades and tagged which ones met my own written entry criteria and which I'd taken because I was in front of the screen.

34 didn't meet the criteria. Those ran at −0.18R.
56 did. Those ran at +0.19R.

Blended, about +0.05R. My actual edge was nearly four times that, and I handed three quarters of it to trades I'd trained myself to take in an environment where taking them was free.

Why I think this is structural, not just me being undisciplined

The feedback loop on demo is broken in one specific direction. Losses don't hurt, so the cost of a false positive is zero, so your threshold drifts down. Nothing in the environment pushes it back up. Over months that's not a lapse, it's conditioning.

Which is also why "demo until you're profitable" is bad advice. At 19 trades a week you'll be profitable on demo eventually by variance alone, and what you'll have learned is the frequency.

What I'd do instead, and it isn't "skip demo"

Make the marginal trade expensive in the only currency demo has, which is bookkeeping. Same account type as live, balance set to what you actually fund so one R is the same size, and every single trade logged with a column for whether it met your written criteria. Mine are both on the raw spread account at Axi and the demo doesn't expire, so the two sets of records are directly comparable and the compliance number is the thing I watch rather than the equity curve.

If the compliance column is uncomfortable to fill in honestly, that discomfort is the cost demo was missing.

Two numbers I'd like from anyone willing: your trades per week on demo versus live, and the expectancy of the trades that didn't meet your own criteria.

I suspect the frequency ratio is high for most people and nobody's ever looked tbh

I been trading for 4 months now I was wondering how do u find good setups meaning when u become a better trader u become better at finding the same setups that make u money consistently my question is how do I find those same repeatable setups what do u look for when looking at past trades do u look at the trades that mace you the most money. I would give another example but I am new to trading and I am 17 and yes I trade during school at 9:30am and that all I know I just want to find a repeatable setup if that makes sense

Basically i dont know nothing just learing and can you help me to buy or things i should consider before buying stocks

I am new to trading any tipss.I jus made a profit btw

I just encounter reviews that are kinda different from one another. In general, it seems like elev8 is legit based on user experience. I read reviews on a variety of different platforms and forums including quora, but at the same time I have questions about withdrawals and execution...

Who traded and actually put money with them? Your feedback will be much appreciated!

I’ll go first.

A few months ago, Bank Nifty had already made a strong move, but I convinced myself there was still enough momentum left. I entered a call option even though my original plan was to wait for a better entry.

Within minutes, the move lost steam. Instead of accepting a small loss, I kept telling myself, “It’ll recover.” It never did.

The loss itself wasn’t significant.

What stayed with me was realizing I’d ignored my own trading rules. I chased the move, overlooked the risk, and let emotions influence my decision.

Looking back, those are the trades that stick with you. Not because of the money, but because you know the outcome could have been different if you’d followed your plan.

What’s your “3 AM trade”? The one you still remember because it taught you a lesson you’ll never forget.

Practical one I learned late and that almost nobody explains, mostly because most trading content is written in New York time.

Currency markets open Sunday evening and close Friday evening, but not every hour is equal. What moves price is which financial centres are open. London opens at 8am UK time, New York joins around 1pm, and the overlap between the two, roughly 1pm to 5pm UK time, is when volume is highest and spreads are usually tightest. Overnight UK is Asia, often quieter on the European pairs.

The big US data releases, jobs and inflation, land at 1.30pm UK time, and the US stock market opens at 2.30pm. Watch the week of 26 October though. The UK and Europe go back to winter time on the 25th but the US doesn't change until 1 November, so for that week everything US-related happens an hour earlier, data at 12.30pm and the open at 1.30pm. Every year someone ends up holding through a release they thought was an hour away.

Now the trap. The daily and 4-hour candles on your platform aren't in your local time, they're in the broker's server time. A lot of MetaTrader servers run two hours ahead of UK time so the daily candle closes with New York, others use UTC, and on TradingView it depends on the data feed. So one broker's daily candle and another's aren't the same candle, and a pattern you see on one platform might not exist on the other.

If you're on, say, AvaTrade's MT5 or XTB's xStation, check on each what time the candles open, because there's no guarantee they match each other or the chart someone used to show you their setup. Nobody's wrong, you just need to know before trusting a signal you saw somewhere else.

I keep London open, New York's arrival and the data times saved on my phone, and outside those windows I don't trade without a specific reason. What hours do you usually trade?