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Thanks H&M, I'll look into some of those. For now, foretesting and about to try my scalp strategies in a week or 2 on 1 micro, see how I do.

Posts like this are why you remain my favorite poster on here.

LOL. Can one of you lunatics recommend a reputable 1m NQ chart service?

Who do you buy your data from? I'm trying to get more savvy about this aspect of things, but I'm not great with technology.

This thread is going about as well as I expected.

Makes sense. I'm def guilty of that. Cautious to a fault when it comes to trading still.

What do you mean by front running your analysis?

Yeah, I'm open to that. Can you recommend a good one? All I need is a year or two of 1m NQ charts

LOL this site really needs a laugh react button.

I'm looking to grab 10 to 20 pt moves on NQ whereas before I've targeted more like 40 to 50 pt moves. Problem I'm facing is how do you accurately backtest a strategy that can have you out in a minute? I use Thinkorswim where you can only go back 30 days on 1m candles, so when I backtest scalpy...

Always tough to get substantive convo going on here, I commend you for trying. Number one sign of a trend for me isn't new highs or new lows, those can lie too often and reverse on you fast. I look more for signs the trend is holding when tested: i.e. higher lows or lower highs. The thing I...

Yeah in my case, this wasn't really a live discretion problem. My trades are like 95% systematic at this point with just a couple minor forms of judgment I can apply in the moment. I think this was just an I'm not sized right to survive these wider springs problem. For now, I've just decided to...

Yep. I'm adjusting as we speak. Spent the weekend studying if I can tighten my stops. Looks like I can by about 20%. And I've got an initial balance condition for now that will halt all trading for the day if the first hour is above a certain amount.

Good advice, thanks. I'll look into that option for sure. My system is systematic enough now that I didn't worry about "tilt" as much as I normally would have, but it's funny how the market is like water. It can find the slightest crack. So what ended up happening from the pressure is mechanical...

To put it in context, my interest in markets started March 2020 with the crash, got me intrigued. I was dumb enough to try trading at all as early as June 2020. I got serious by 2022 enough to day trade every day for the past 2 years, serious enough to quit my day job as of a month ago (long...

Yeah it totally threw me, and I'm def still a relative newbie, been daytrading for 2 years. It just out and out kicked my ass this month. So rattled I had 2 dumb fatfingers. Oof! Didn't help that I had coincidentally sized up recently either.

I hadn't thought of it as a time problem, that's interesting. I'll play around with that see what I come up with. How long you been paper trading out of curiosity?

Thanks! I'll check those threads out. It was made even worse by a fatfinger that cost me my best win of the week. Conditions got me rattled I guess. Looking forward to the weekend to clear my head.

Past couple weeks have been nuts and murder on my system. I tried using my usual stops on a few of these days where the initial balance was double or even triple normal size, and it just cuts me to ribbons. The ideas were right, and even a 1.5 sized stop woulda allowed the trades enough...

Interesting. I've played around with level 2 a few times, but I never got the hang of it well enough to trade it. Now I start trading around the time you stop, around 10:30, once that early volatility has tapered off, grabbing 1-2 moves per day, on average about a dollar each.