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No. I just unsuccessfully scalped all day. Finally realized I wasn't waiting for the best setups and did a little better than break even the rest of the afternoon.

Maybe my writing was bad. I don't use mean reversion for the QQQ. I only use alert based mean reversion for stocks.

I just saw the Joe R podcast with Sam Altman. I'm not at all a tech guy, but I'm still fascinated. And they're saying GPT4 will be a little less than 1000x the power of GPT3? This absurdly cool, and a little frightening at the same time. I also just used chat GPT for the first time the other...

So as some of you know, I primarily focus on mean reversion in stocks. I've done very well (in part because of some of the P/L thread crew helping me out back in the early 2000's. Automation helped as well. 100% manual now). But I got the itch to try trading QQQ after seeing so many...

I have a post it note in front of me at all times (well, when I'm at my desk) that says "Wait for the perfect pitch. Just wait until it's comfortable". My mean reversion trading is a different story. I'm on auto pilot for those trades. But since I started trading the QQQ, I just wait until...

I got extremely bored within 6 minutes. I guess that's why I'll never be a coder.

Believe it or not, not all of us on this site are computer scientists. The OP said nothing about being a programmer. And what the hell is data scraping?

I've been at this 27 years, and I was just feeling this way yesterday morning. So I took my usual medicine, which is walking the hills in the pasture for about a half hour while talking through my issues out loud to myself. (The cows are in the barn for the winter already, otherwise I would've...

I always had a box of milk bones with me. :-)

Negative. I was a seasonal driver in 2013 and became friends with some full timers. Back then, it took 3 years to get to the top hourly rate which was 35/hr, which is 70k/year if they only worked 40 per week. It's more like 45/hr now, and they ALWAYS work at least 40/wk during slow times, and...

This is so true. This is why it's important for me to work out in the morning. And after putting a lot of thought into this, as well as reviewing stats, I'm going to set an alarm for 11:00am (central, which might actually be a little late). After that, I won't trade until the last hour of the...

I still find this interesting.

Ouch. 23 is still a ton of experience. -Side question... Were you like me when I wasn't profitable for years, but crazy enough to stick with it because I knew I'd eventually get it? I'm thinking complacency is a big part of it, at least for me. I follow a fighter pilot on youtube, and he...

Working out also helps me, but I've been doing it after the close lately. I've never (well, rarely) been stupid after a high intensity work out before the open. It really clears the head and gives me a natural energy boost, rather than slamming coffee all morning. I'll also start breaking up...

Anybody else with 25+ years of experience still trade like a total dumb ass once in awhile? I can imagine a scene in a movie called Top Trader when Goose says to Maverick, "The stock exchange regrets to inform you your son is broke because he was stupid." I'm only down a couple hundred bucks...

Old debate. Who cares what it's called. Just do well at it.

Still crabby about those hungover Hessians letting you down in Trenton?

Haven't had much luck. Now I'm happy just trading actively in my pro account and averaging in and out of ETFs in my Roth.

I remember when a system like this was proposed on Shark Tank. They were laughed out of the room. When are you idiots going to realize traders do not fall for shit like this. If it worked, you wouldn't sell it. Go back to selling Kirby vacuum cleaners.

Ok, I'll bite. Why the hell would you do this? First, it's called shorting the box, and we used it to avoid the uptick rule back in the day before it became illegal. Second, there's no uptick rule in futures so it's not necessary, but it's still illegal. Third, it's illegal. Fourth, if...