is there a forum aimed at scalpng rather than "one stop shop"?

[Frederick Foresight]

for the most part i would do good for few days and then there will be one or two trades where i fail to sell at a small loss and end up being stuck(because i dont know how to read charts better yet

I think scalping entails very tight protective stops, by definition. So by holding into a loss, you are exiting scalping mode. The way a bad trade becomes an "investment" is the way a bad scalp becomes a day trade. Just my opinion, of course.

 

[SunTrader]

For greeks, yea you're right, but mega cap implied is always involved. With synthetics, just a basic understanding of replication is what I meant -- that options are a spanning set.
I was thinking more like synthetic futures, i.e. index spreads, or pricing a synthetic index in the cash market. Ex: Sector spread - long/short XLK/XLF or long cap weighted short price weighted (beta ratio spread). Even a basic understanding of RegT vs SPAN is not present in discussions.

(Futures) Scalping is jumping in and out all day long, because you can never know in advance when a scalp might be there. And the point of scalping is to make money when it is available, not when you feel like it or hit a "goal". Market doesn't care about someone's goal. Why should you.

Based on plain old PA & stuff like order book, VWAP (sure), HOD/LOD, Value and Volume Profiles etc.

But the need to know about options is only if one is scalping ... options.

 

[Handle123]

Is scalping mostly day trading on a shorter time frame.

I have few systems automated from 1 tick to one minute, one method can produce multiple signals per minute but had to cut back.

But, have developed scalping method that works on 5 minute bars, I look for patterns that most can't see.

thats a long time lol you must be like 300 years of aging
i suck at longer timeframes also i sabotage myself if given enough time to overthink my trades
for the most part i would do good for few days and then there will be one or two trades where i fail to sell at a small loss and end up being stuck(because i dont know how to read charts better yet i for the most part cant tell whether there is strength to recover or not so i end up giving it more time and giving it more money also and then when i see that it is obviously dead i exit at a bigger loss.)

on average im good at exiting at the top. consistently. even when miss the exit i still feel where the top is usually just fomo sometimes.
i can tell tops but i cant tell difference between a top and possible continuation of up trend. i dont know the small differences to tell if there is strength to push up after a small pullback.

so i would make few 100 bucks over few days consistently and then one or two trades i stay too long because its a gap in my understanding and i cant read a chart and i end up just hodling to see what happens and usually its the wrong times.

problem with swing trading is i consistently enter trades in the wrong times in the trend and it ends up going against me right away i literally buy right before a falling knife almost every time and i cant fiugre out why. something in the chart is faking me out and i cant see it.
thats why i switched to lower and lower timeframe.
i started from holding for weeks and months then slowly decreased my trading timeframes to see where im comfortable and scalping seems to not give me time to overthink.

Instead of trading all day, have a doable goal like net $100, then do size. You can always do two shifts when London opens, make $100 per one lot then when New York opens. Doing 2 shifts, get up to ten lots of ES is a sweet $2 grand a day. Continual getting size up.
Why burn out trading all day.
Am 67 and not 300yo. LOL yea, am old but can still work long hours when I want and ENJOY.

 

[Real Money]

(Futures) Scalping is jumping in and out all day long. But the only need to know about options, is if one is scalping ... options.

Just looking at mega cap model volatility (inverse), it was definitely relevant last week. Looks more like ES is trading around the vol moves and not the other way around.

 

[SunTrader]

Just looking at mega cap model volatility (inverse), it was definitely relevant last week. Looks more like ES is trading around the vol moves and not the other way around.

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Intra-day trading, not scalp trading.

 

[poopy]

this forum has way too many people with too many different ideas and different strategies to be helpful.
every time i ask a question here it gets derailed by random ass people posting their opinions and getting into endless arguments with eachother over who is right.
absolutely not helpful to a new trader who is trying to learn basics.
in addition to big ego know it all trolls who purposely post click bait to get people to argue about a useless point just so they can feel smarter than everyone else here posting unrelated technical essays to back up their claims(when nobody even asked for that)

im trying to find a forum that deals specifically with scalping (maybe even specific to scalping the morning session)
because this forum so far gave me absolutely zero useful information overall net zero.
and alot of bullshit useless bickering with bighead wannabe traders who puked out information that is useless and that neither me or others asked for

This thread is like flies to sht.

Anyone successful doesn't need your chat. It will act as a classifier and weed out the competent. It's a shame that you can't be serviced to your satisfaction. How entitled.

Here's how it plays out... you'll attract ppl like SML and other abject terrors who are literally allergic to money -> you'll start some r/t channel and you'll all go bust before you get billed for the second month of Discord Turbo.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

This thread is like flies to sht.

 

[SimpleMeLike]

I have few systems automated from 1 tick to one minute, one method can produce multiple signals per minute but had to cut back.

But, have developed scalping method that works on 5 minute bars, I look for patterns that most can't see.



Instead of trading all day, have a doable goal like net $100, then do size. You can always do two shifts when London opens, make $100 per one lot then when New York opens. Doing 2 shifts, get up to ten lots of ES is a sweet $2 grand a day. Continual getting size up.
Why burn out trading all day.
Am 67 and not 300yo. LOL yea, am old but can still work long hours when I want and ENJOY.

Hello Handle123,

Good comment.

 

[tomi01]

Definition of Scalping in Trading

Scalping is a trading strategy that involves making numerous small profits through rapid buying and selling of securities over a very short period, often seconds to minutes.

Sorry this is a little off topic but if there was a thread or forum pertinent to scalpers it should be the most important subject right now.

The SEC just increased selling fees almost 4.5 times larger than they were and this happened May 23, last week. What a blow this is going to be (even if it is hopefully short term and will be recinded, but I don't count on that..

How can those using algos or hft even continue to operate? Maybe the hfts that operate at the institutions are able to find a means to overcome this expense or maybe they are able to avoid it? I don't know..

But what this has done to those of us who scalp means we need to adjust our way of taking trades and holding.

 

[trader221]

this forum has way too many people with too many different ideas and different strategies to be helpful.
every time i ask a question here it gets derailed by random ass people posting their opinions and getting into endless arguments with eachother over who is right.
absolutely not helpful to a new trader who is trying to learn basics.
in addition to big ego know it all trolls who purposely post click bait to get people to argue about a useless point just so they can feel smarter than everyone else here posting unrelated technical essays to back up their claims(when nobody even asked for that)

im trying to find a forum that deals specifically with scalping (maybe even specific to scalping the morning session)
because this forum so far gave me absolutely zero useful information overall net zero.
and alot of bullshit useless bickering with bighead wannabe traders who puked out information that is useless and that neither me or others asked for

futurio is the best forum for this thread.

this forum has way too many people with too many different ideas and different strategies to be helpful.
every time i ask a question here it gets derailed by random ass people posting their opinions and getting into endless arguments with eachother over who is right.
absolutely not helpful to a new trader who is trying to learn basics.
in addition to big ego know it all trolls who purposely post click bait to get people to argue about a useless point just so they can feel smarter than everyone else here posting unrelated technical essays to back up their claims(when nobody even asked for that)

im trying to find a forum that deals specifically with scalping (maybe even specific to scalping the morning session)
because this forum so far gave me absolutely zero useful information overall net zero.
and alot of bullshit useless bickering with bighead wannabe traders who puked out information that is useless and that neither me or others asked for

this forum has way too many people with too many different ideas and different strategies to be helpful.
every time i ask a question here it gets derailed by random ass people posting their opinions and getting into endless arguments with eachother over who is right.
absolutely not helpful to a new trader who is trying to learn basics.
in addition to big ego know it all trolls who purposely post click bait to get people to argue about a useless point just so they can feel smarter than everyone else here posting unrelated technical essays to back up their claims(when nobody even asked for that)

im trying to find a forum that deals specifically with scalping (maybe even specific to scalping the morning session)
because this forum so far gave me absolutely zero useful information overall net zero.
and alot of bullshit useless bickering with bighead wannabe traders who puked out information that is useless and that neither me or others asked for

futurio is the best forum for this item