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I do plan to backtest results in my own trade history, but I'm curious to know what experiences you guys have had with different profit targets for intraday trading. I currently set my profit target depending on the size of moves the stock is making that day. If AMD is generally making .40cent...

Either way, she f'ed over my trades. I'm ready for the market to resume it's steady intraday descending scale size from open to close.

Sounds awesome.

Not that the market needs a reason to randomly move, but there was a noticeable pop up at 11am with high volume, and I didn't notice any news for that time.

Your losses are bigger than wins because you're taking profit sooner rather later. But the result is a higher win rate, which balances that out. If you held for higher profit, many of these trades wouldn't make it all the way, and end up being losses. Either way, it seems to be profitable...

Hedge Funds started out going safe with hedging, but now they do whatever they possibly can to make big returns. Old name that stuck.

I was very much unoffended. I'll check into API.

Is it possible to code a custom hotkey in Lightspeed? I would hire someone.

Trading is not the barometer of your life. I've spoken to traders who made 100's of thousands per year, but had the personality of piece of wood. I have less respect for them than my brother who makes $9 an hour in Israel while studying for college. Because he's much cooler. He is more kind...

I'm trying to see if there's a way to have Lightspeed auto calculate how many shares to buy based on a set risk per trade %.

I use the Fibonacci line tool to mark my entry into pullbacks, it's one of the most important tools for me to have a consistent entry point. Your chart should have a tool where you drag from one spot to another, and it will mark the different percentage points. Depends on your charting software.

"What keeps you motivated?" Why can't the answer be like you said yourself, that there's a hell of a lot more to life than trading. I don't think you're wrong. I see trading as a money maker. But beyond that, it's not worth even as much as one good conversation with loved one or friend to me.

I've actually kept my identity a secret, but it is now time to reveal it.......I'm not George Soros.

This doesn't mean trading isn't hard work. It means that most trading "work" is done during off hours to analyze problems, and develop discipline habits and rules. But I know what you mean. When I'm stuck in a slow trade, Youtube is my friend. No point of stressing over 1 minute price action...

I've been asking myself this question recently. Would trades be more likely to work out as position size increases? Most intraday traders notice quick buying or selling spikes to signify support and resistance. So theoretically, if I got into a position with enough shares to create a...

Has anyone experienced any downsides with putting a system on Collective2? Would this dilute a trading edge? On the flip side, would it enhance profitability by creating more market pressure in the direction of your trade, as the subscriber auto trades are placed in the same direction?

You can generate two excel spreadsheets from your platform, and delete the trades that used the opposite strategies on each respective spreadsheet. Then upload each spreadsheet to separate TraderVue accounts.

Go live small size, and see if the profit continues. If it does scale up, rinse and repeat.

Does anyone have a theory on why the IB margin requirements were so high today for the likes of ROKU and SQ? I didn't notice any big gaps or volatility, and they had a low margin requirement on them last week.

10x leverage on SPY, is this only for PM accounts?