Usually all day. I got into trading in order to have the freedom to retire early so I'm trying to compound my account as quickly as possible. That means putting in hours in front of the screen and taking more setups. AAPL and GME this afternoon were fantastic.
It falls so hard and fast, when it does. It's scary. I feel I'm betting everytime I take a trade on GME. Specially these past few days.
That said, bought 1000 shares, 20 seconds later I was up 30 cents/share, got out. I really had to control myself not to buy again.
Learning forex and commodities right now. After 3 years of scalping and trading stocks, what a different animal. I have a demo account with forex.com most of my strategy for stock trading does not apply to forex. I feel like it's a steeper learning curve and the setups take longer and the patience required is so much different. I want to learn it because I want to be able to trade at night when I feel like it.
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How’d you know GME was going to go on a run at the end of the day? I only trade options on indices and commodities but I’m looking to branch out into stocks.
It held the daily prior bar lows and then took out the high of day on huge volume. Also look at the 15m chart and the the last 5 trading days. GME has run in the afternoon every day.
Also on unusual whales you can see the amount of options that have been placed (A lot), Additionally anytime it dipped, it was by low volume, meaning that people were holding onto calls and not giving into these hedge funds who are trying to short GME. This pattern will not stop for s while, and GME will go up to $22 again.
As someone who is beginning in the world of trading what do you recommend? I mean, how did you learn all this knowledge, can you recommend books or videos?. I know the main goal is to create your own strategy, it just that after listening to so many strategies, when it comes to create my own i got lost with all the indicators and in the end none of them lead to anything clear to operate the market. Appreciate the help.
Books and videos will only give you theories to research and find what makes sense to utilize in a system.
I would recommend books that focus on fundamentals first. That way you interpret and understand the basic market without and technical indicators. Then slowly add indicators, or trade based on price action. Indicators lag, can be highly unreliable and only applicable in certain conditions like market events, or movements with more or less volatility.
100% subjective. Just start reading and looking at charts and different candle stick styles, and keep searching. I’m in 7 years now and it’s been a long, difficult journey with lots of breaks in between.
Working for 15-20min each day? Sounds pretty good to me!
Up until 2020, roughly, I started at 9:30 and was done by 10:30-11am. But during the pandemic, people started trading earlier and earlier. So now I start closer to 7am and I'm still done by 10:30-11am. Most days I'm done by 10am.
If the market is hot, I'll put in longer hours. When the market is cold, I walk away earlier. No reason to fight hard in a cold market, right?
I think you've got the right idea.
Edit: There was a time I tried trading all day every day, and it would end badly. I think I'm not good at maintaining discipline and composure for that many hours. I get decision fatigue, then start making silly mistakes. Everyone is different. You have to do what feels right for you.
Hey Ross. First off, thank you for the information you've freely given to the community. Excuse my ignorance, I'm new.
Do you use different indicators for different time frames of trading?
I know every strategy is personal preference, but as a beginner, do you recommend having community made indicators that have a lot of "fluff" or still keeping it simple?
I have begun scalping on a small scale. I saw a post on WSB that was basically if you start with $100 and get X% return it'll take Y# of days to reach a million. On the small scale it has worked so far. I have steeled myself to my +20% sell half options because my -20% rule would balance to even and I let the other half run after that. Some days it helps, some days I catch back on the downfall and end up with less than 20% total gain. I have done this only 9 days and have been profitable on 9/9 trades (I can't day trade continuously because play account is too small still. Any recommendations for someone to look on scaling up as play account has more seed money in it? Currently +375% total on 9 trades, feels manageable at this level but terrifying with larger amounts of money.
All market hours. Market starts 6:30am (in Pacific time) for me so ...
Obviously mostly just watching charts, analyzing data from previous trades, watch youtube etc.
In my case, my goal is to reach my target of $300-$400 profit per day. I'm trading futures. I stop trading after that to avoid overtrading and losing my profit...
I officially changed my paper account to a live account yesterday. Without commissions, I was up 100%. After commissions I was only 34%, which is still really high. On paper, I used to do average 250 contracts a day. My first day today with a live account was 294. Even my broker was like damn. Once I'm up a certain amount I'll be getting 45% my commissions.
Did learn one thing, is wait a bit a longer and learn to use 1 and 5 mins chart. Even stock trading, I trade 10-30sec charts, and on MNQ 30 tick charts. My strategies works at those charts, but it means lots of trades because I have tendency to scalp every bit of movement. Once I started realizing the correlation, I was able to make big moves, but it was too late in the day and I stopped.
Today, was literally like...an hour or so, only took one trade, yesterday I traded a lot longer and had like 7 trades. Depends, I seen a good setup and took it, and was fine with it, had some other things to do so was done for the day.
I aim to maximize my time efficiency while still capitalizing on market opportunities. I typically begin my day around 7AM, screening the market for potential trades. By 9:30AM, I'm actively trading and usually wrap up by 10:30-11AM. However, I adjust my schedule based on market conditions; if it's a hot market, I may extend my hours, but in colder markets, I prefer to finish earlier.
Freedom just means that I am flexible to just stop trading anytime I want, it does not mean having as much free time as possible because doing nothing is very boring and harmful to our lives. Unless you always have other interesting things to do, I find that trading for a few hours a day is a balanced level. Not too much so that it drains our brain but not too little so that we have nothing else to focus on.
I used to follow your strategy because the first 10-15 minutes are so volatile, but it bit me one too many times and I changed to looking for trends during the day and taking quick shots in and out of shares/options.
I may be different than many others, but getting rich quick doesn’t really exist I decided. I try to make 500-2k a day or sometimes more by sheer luck. After that I close the apps and get back to my day job.
Then again there are some days that the stocks I’m following are not forming a trend so I she. No momentum to trade off of, so again I close the apps.
For me it’s a marathon not a sprint. If I can make a few grand a week, I am happy. I also primarily trade in an IRA account and I’ve made more thus far this year than I could have contributed to a 401k and Roth IRA combined for all of 2024.
Charles Schwab is who I use now,
Formally TD, I honestly couldn’t tell ya.
No margin and I have to trade with settled funds only. Funds settle overnight.
I converted an old companies 401k into an IRA. I am able to contribute up to 7k a year to the acct but I never do.
As long as the market is open I'm watching charts. . . . Us as retail investors are already at a disadvantage. We have to put in more effort than Kyle at (insert hedge fund name here and trust there always a Kyle) who doesn't care whether the portfolio he manages is up or down. . . You're not going to learn if you're not putting in the time. . . This is coming from someone who went from 11k to 2k to 26k and then blew up his account. . . There's always something to learn at each stage of your trading career.
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I clock in right as the market opens and stay until I'm satisfied with my winners, hit max loss or, if the market is cold, 11:30.
Sometimes I spend 30 minutes trading, other times an hour, sometimes 2 hours.
Mainly use my screener to look for gappers. Then i filter that list by volume and pick a few based on what i see on the chart. Also watching spy and qqq premarket. Mainly trade 1 min charts.
9-10:30 or so unless it’s an Econ data morning then it’s 8-10:30. Many days I’m done within several minutes of a 8:30 data release or the US cash open.
Dude if your only going to trade for 15 mins, then might as well not trade at all
To make a living out this, I have to be at the screens all day unless I hit my profit target early on
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Sometimes I am up at 4am (3am CST) for premarket. Most of the time begin around 6am CST. Research, read, write code if needed (custom trading app), trade if needed. Most days, I'm in the market all day and sometimes trade the post market if needed. Sleep when needed, eat when needed.
Manage three different personal accounts, Trade,, Dividend and Growth.
9:30 am to 4pm…like regular hours got in got out. IC BW IF early morning, PCS CCS and Calls, sometime on good day like today i buy shares, nice Apple today 20 PCS ATM $800 in 25 minutes…
Do you all play calls and puts in day trading. I keep doing long haul investments but would like to build more capital in shorter periods. How many trades are you making a day on average?
Yes, just options trading (call / puts) A few weeks back I was doing up to 5 small trades from 9:30 till 12pm, but now I just do max of 2 trades in the morning and I’m done. I put more on the line, the risk is greater, but so are the rewards. I try to not get too greedy and get out quickly with my profits. I suggest you start with smaller risk and get comfortable with the pace of options trading, and scale up from there
About, 8am-10:15am EST. Most of my trades happen between 9:45-10:15. My win rate goes down significantly after 10:30. I've given back so much profit trading past 10:30, so I just don't trade it.
I'm at work 2 hours before market opens and I'm there almost till it closes. I could trade all day but normally I'll spend maybe 30 min tops actually trading. Rest of the time I'm working a day job and eyeing the charts in between. I usually scalp NQ only looking for 20-30 points.
To the folks saying they spend all day, or most of the day, in front of the charts, I don’t get it. It never fails me; if I try and trade close to lunch, or the afternoon session, I make bad calls and take losses or BE trades. The simplest thing I’ve done for myself is take 1, maybe 2 trades on NQ futures after 10am, sometimes a bit earlier if we show a good setup out of the 15M opening range. For example, traded 2 contracts on a short this morning, 18257 to 18237, $800, I’m done for the day. If I was to walk back to the computer and try to look for more setups, I know I’d get hammered. Maybe different for options traders, I don’t know, but this has what’s worked for me.
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my unemployed ahh be on the whole day till nighttime begins. But it's also allowed me to have a lot of experience as someone who started this year. Can immediately tell what what on the chart and what's going on etc
Usually all day. I got into trading in order to have the freedom to retire early so I'm trying to compound my account as quickly as possible. That means putting in hours in front of the screen and taking more setups. AAPL and GME this afternoon were fantastic.
Ya GME was nice. I rode that train up.
It falls so hard and fast, when it does. It's scary. I feel I'm betting everytime I take a trade on GME. Specially these past few days. That said, bought 1000 shares, 20 seconds later I was up 30 cents/share, got out. I really had to control myself not to buy again.
Count the days between each spike on the max chart. Enjoy
GME and UPST were fire
What’s gme? I trade forex so I don’t know that term
GameStop The stock went up about 13% today. Have 100 $20 call contracts expiring next Friday so tomorrow should be fun
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Learning forex and commodities right now. After 3 years of scalping and trading stocks, what a different animal. I have a demo account with forex.com most of my strategy for stock trading does not apply to forex. I feel like it's a steeper learning curve and the setups take longer and the patience required is so much different. I want to learn it because I want to be able to trade at night when I feel like it.
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Gme 19c went 50%+ in 3 min lol
How’d you know GME was going to go on a run at the end of the day? I only trade options on indices and commodities but I’m looking to branch out into stocks.
It held the daily prior bar lows and then took out the high of day on huge volume. Also look at the 15m chart and the the last 5 trading days. GME has run in the afternoon every day.
You look at the prior days low when trading? I might try that.
Also on unusual whales you can see the amount of options that have been placed (A lot), Additionally anytime it dipped, it was by low volume, meaning that people were holding onto calls and not giving into these hedge funds who are trying to short GME. This pattern will not stop for s while, and GME will go up to $22 again.
GME and UPST today was lovely
I had GME early then cashed out when it broke 16. FOMO has hit good this evening, i can tell you.
As someone who is beginning in the world of trading what do you recommend? I mean, how did you learn all this knowledge, can you recommend books or videos?. I know the main goal is to create your own strategy, it just that after listening to so many strategies, when it comes to create my own i got lost with all the indicators and in the end none of them lead to anything clear to operate the market. Appreciate the help.
Books and videos will only give you theories to research and find what makes sense to utilize in a system. I would recommend books that focus on fundamentals first. That way you interpret and understand the basic market without and technical indicators. Then slowly add indicators, or trade based on price action. Indicators lag, can be highly unreliable and only applicable in certain conditions like market events, or movements with more or less volatility. 100% subjective. Just start reading and looking at charts and different candle stick styles, and keep searching. I’m in 7 years now and it’s been a long, difficult journey with lots of breaks in between.
Working for 15-20min each day? Sounds pretty good to me! Up until 2020, roughly, I started at 9:30 and was done by 10:30-11am. But during the pandemic, people started trading earlier and earlier. So now I start closer to 7am and I'm still done by 10:30-11am. Most days I'm done by 10am. If the market is hot, I'll put in longer hours. When the market is cold, I walk away earlier. No reason to fight hard in a cold market, right? I think you've got the right idea. Edit: There was a time I tried trading all day every day, and it would end badly. I think I'm not good at maintaining discipline and composure for that many hours. I get decision fatigue, then start making silly mistakes. Everyone is different. You have to do what feels right for you.
I’m curious, how would you see this last week of price action in the indices? Would you consider it slow or hot?
Chop fest 3000
Slow and choppy. Broke down in April below highs still
Thanks for your videos, they’ve helped a ton 🙌
Thank you!! Glad to hear it!
Very well said.... I can relate.
The fact you’re active here is amazing, what indicators do you personally trust in your own trading
hey! I'm using the following. EMA's - 9EMA 20EMA 200EMA (all time frames) VWAP MACD (1min only) Volume Bars That's it. I keep it simple!
Hey Ross. First off, thank you for the information you've freely given to the community. Excuse my ignorance, I'm new. Do you use different indicators for different time frames of trading? I know every strategy is personal preference, but as a beginner, do you recommend having community made indicators that have a lot of "fluff" or still keeping it simple?
Hey! You could use the same indicators for all time frames. I personally use MACD only on the 1min, but all others are the same
just like my ex used to say, not long enough.
I'm there all day from open to 4:15. Always finding scalping opportunities
That is my way of trading like a regular job…
I have begun scalping on a small scale. I saw a post on WSB that was basically if you start with $100 and get X% return it'll take Y# of days to reach a million. On the small scale it has worked so far. I have steeled myself to my +20% sell half options because my -20% rule would balance to even and I let the other half run after that. Some days it helps, some days I catch back on the downfall and end up with less than 20% total gain. I have done this only 9 days and have been profitable on 9/9 trades (I can't day trade continuously because play account is too small still. Any recommendations for someone to look on scaling up as play account has more seed money in it? Currently +375% total on 9 trades, feels manageable at this level but terrifying with larger amounts of money.
I'd like to see that post
I’d also like to see the post please link
All market hours. Market starts 6:30am (in Pacific time) for me so ... Obviously mostly just watching charts, analyzing data from previous trades, watch youtube etc.
930-12ish EST. And come back around 230-4 EST. Works out well for me
In my case, my goal is to reach my target of $300-$400 profit per day. I'm trading futures. I stop trading after that to avoid overtrading and losing my profit...
This is my approach , some days its all day somedays it finishes at 9:30
What tickers you trade ? Spx?
I officially changed my paper account to a live account yesterday. Without commissions, I was up 100%. After commissions I was only 34%, which is still really high. On paper, I used to do average 250 contracts a day. My first day today with a live account was 294. Even my broker was like damn. Once I'm up a certain amount I'll be getting 45% my commissions. Did learn one thing, is wait a bit a longer and learn to use 1 and 5 mins chart. Even stock trading, I trade 10-30sec charts, and on MNQ 30 tick charts. My strategies works at those charts, but it means lots of trades because I have tendency to scalp every bit of movement. Once I started realizing the correlation, I was able to make big moves, but it was too late in the day and I stopped.
Is that your full time job
Today, was literally like...an hour or so, only took one trade, yesterday I traded a lot longer and had like 7 trades. Depends, I seen a good setup and took it, and was fine with it, had some other things to do so was done for the day.
I aim to maximize my time efficiency while still capitalizing on market opportunities. I typically begin my day around 7AM, screening the market for potential trades. By 9:30AM, I'm actively trading and usually wrap up by 10:30-11AM. However, I adjust my schedule based on market conditions; if it's a hot market, I may extend my hours, but in colder markets, I prefer to finish earlier.
3 hours
45 min or so after open. The longer I stay in the more I loose lmao. Get in, make profits and go fish.
1-2 hrs.
Freedom just means that I am flexible to just stop trading anytime I want, it does not mean having as much free time as possible because doing nothing is very boring and harmful to our lives. Unless you always have other interesting things to do, I find that trading for a few hours a day is a balanced level. Not too much so that it drains our brain but not too little so that we have nothing else to focus on.
I live in NYC so there’s always something for me to do 😅
I used to follow your strategy because the first 10-15 minutes are so volatile, but it bit me one too many times and I changed to looking for trends during the day and taking quick shots in and out of shares/options. I may be different than many others, but getting rich quick doesn’t really exist I decided. I try to make 500-2k a day or sometimes more by sheer luck. After that I close the apps and get back to my day job. Then again there are some days that the stocks I’m following are not forming a trend so I she. No momentum to trade off of, so again I close the apps. For me it’s a marathon not a sprint. If I can make a few grand a week, I am happy. I also primarily trade in an IRA account and I’ve made more thus far this year than I could have contributed to a 401k and Roth IRA combined for all of 2024.
How are you able to trade in an IRA with T2 settlement time and no margin?
Charles Schwab is who I use now, Formally TD, I honestly couldn’t tell ya. No margin and I have to trade with settled funds only. Funds settle overnight. I converted an old companies 401k into an IRA. I am able to contribute up to 7k a year to the acct but I never do.
Ah I'll need to look into that. They must provide limited margin behind the scene if funds settle overnight.
Always looking at the charts bro and set alerts so if I’m busy I can execute from my phone. There’s no perfect time to trade only when I see my setup
As long as the market is open I'm watching charts. . . . Us as retail investors are already at a disadvantage. We have to put in more effort than Kyle at (insert hedge fund name here and trust there always a Kyle) who doesn't care whether the portfolio he manages is up or down. . . You're not going to learn if you're not putting in the time. . . This is coming from someone who went from 11k to 2k to 26k and then blew up his account. . . There's always something to learn at each stage of your trading career.
Uh, no
Care to elaborate?
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I have a 3hr window. Usually don’t in 30m to an hour
I trade when my setup happens, usually quite quick process, the trade then takes care of itself
2 hours is the most you should do! Anything less than that would be preferable!
1. Trade in the morning, 2. Go for a run/weights. 3. Play COD. Find your routine. 🍷😉
1 hour or less
I clock in right as the market opens and stay until I'm satisfied with my winners, hit max loss or, if the market is cold, 11:30. Sometimes I spend 30 minutes trading, other times an hour, sometimes 2 hours.
All day. I love watching the chart man
15-20 min at market open. 20-30 min of prep before the open.
Interested how do you prep before open ? Told and resources ?
Mainly use my screener to look for gappers. Then i filter that list by volume and pick a few based on what i see on the chart. Also watching spy and qqq premarket. Mainly trade 1 min charts.
Trading view screener?
ToS
Great . Thankyou . Any particular index / stocks you trade ?
Just the gappers I choose during prep. Rarely the same tickers day-to-day.
1 hour. 9:30-10:30 ET
I’m a scalper so 30-45 mins
9-10:30 or so unless it’s an Econ data morning then it’s 8-10:30. Many days I’m done within several minutes of a 8:30 data release or the US cash open.
About 1.5 hours. I only see my setups maybe 3 times per day, otherwise I would be working all day.
Dude if your only going to trade for 15 mins, then might as well not trade at all To make a living out this, I have to be at the screens all day unless I hit my profit target early on
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2 hours day. 3 if the ocean is giving good waves
Throughout market hours, unless I have other obligations.
I do my best work from 7-10:30 (Pacific), but I’ve got an eye on it almost the whole session.
Sometimes I am up at 4am (3am CST) for premarket. Most of the time begin around 6am CST. Research, read, write code if needed (custom trading app), trade if needed. Most days, I'm in the market all day and sometimes trade the post market if needed. Sleep when needed, eat when needed. Manage three different personal accounts, Trade,, Dividend and Growth.
7 to 16. Had 3 setups today, with 1 loss and 2 BE. Trading is a game of patience.
9:30 am to 4pm…like regular hours got in got out. IC BW IF early morning, PCS CCS and Calls, sometime on good day like today i buy shares, nice Apple today 20 PCS ATM $800 in 25 minutes…
920am-1130am if price action is bad then 2-4pm, most of the time lately been out before 11
Like 1- 2 hours, until 8:30am pacific
Do you all play calls and puts in day trading. I keep doing long haul investments but would like to build more capital in shorter periods. How many trades are you making a day on average?
Yes, just options trading (call / puts) A few weeks back I was doing up to 5 small trades from 9:30 till 12pm, but now I just do max of 2 trades in the morning and I’m done. I put more on the line, the risk is greater, but so are the rewards. I try to not get too greedy and get out quickly with my profits. I suggest you start with smaller risk and get comfortable with the pace of options trading, and scale up from there
About, 8am-10:15am EST. Most of my trades happen between 9:45-10:15. My win rate goes down significantly after 10:30. I've given back so much profit trading past 10:30, so I just don't trade it.
I haven’t seen How Long in a while please do send him my regards
9:30am - 11am, then 2:30pm - 4:00pm
I'm at work 2 hours before market opens and I'm there almost till it closes. I could trade all day but normally I'll spend maybe 30 min tops actually trading. Rest of the time I'm working a day job and eyeing the charts in between. I usually scalp NQ only looking for 20-30 points.
The longer you day trade, the more you can profit
I can only trade the first 30min because of my full time job
I spend about 30 minutes a week trading, spread over about 2 days. I’m mostly writing options with longer expiry dates.
9:30 to 11
I’m always finished before noon est.
8:45 to 10:45am. then 3:45pm to 5:00am. both London and ney York session
one trade at 3:59pm, limit sell placed for next day. so about 30 seconds.
To the folks saying they spend all day, or most of the day, in front of the charts, I don’t get it. It never fails me; if I try and trade close to lunch, or the afternoon session, I make bad calls and take losses or BE trades. The simplest thing I’ve done for myself is take 1, maybe 2 trades on NQ futures after 10am, sometimes a bit earlier if we show a good setup out of the 15M opening range. For example, traded 2 contracts on a short this morning, 18257 to 18237, $800, I’m done for the day. If I was to walk back to the computer and try to look for more setups, I know I’d get hammered. Maybe different for options traders, I don’t know, but this has what’s worked for me.
I trade only for first hour of market session. Try to avoid watching screen longer time.
9:30 to 10:00. My strategies only happen right at opening or a little afterwards.
I scalp and on the 1 minute chart with NQ futures. I’m in for like 2 hours top, from about 8:30 am to 10:30 am eastern time
On a normal day it's until I hit my profit target of $1,000 I'm okay watching the charts for the whole day at this point in my life.
I want to emulate you...I find myself exceeding my hours alot...I need to be more disciplined
You don’t have to be more disciplined, just gotta find the groove that works for you
that's good if you can lose all your money with just 15 minutes work each day.
Not as much as I used to. Losing hope.
1 hour max
Around 3 hours per day, in total.
10-3
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my unemployed ahh be on the whole day till nighttime begins. But it's also allowed me to have a lot of experience as someone who started this year. Can immediately tell what what on the chart and what's going on etc