u/MOB_Titan

Quick question.

Does anyone here happen to have any inside information they’re not using?

I’m tired of relying on “research” and “risk management.” I’d much rather know the answer before backtesting. Every time I lose money it feels avoidable, mostly because it is.

I’m a decent trader, but occasionally the market moves against me, which I’ve decided is both inconvenient and frankly unnecessary. I’d prefer to know what the stock is going to do beforehand.

My investment philosophy is simple: I’d rather make money than lose it. Ideally, someone else loses the money instead of me. It much more efficient that way.

Thanks in advance DMs are OPEN.

It starts by having a system, and following that system relentlessly until you find your edge. Once you find your edge and its profitable is when it becomes dangerous. You start to think you can just “wing it” Volume, Level 2, you can just eyeball any stock and freestyle it. Wrong. Thats when you get crushed. “It worked before” doesnt mean “It works now”. Its fun to deviate every now and then, but being profitable means sticking to your system. Trading should be boring. Simple as that

Whats something that youre really good at in trading? You dont need to tell me your strategy but something that you like about yourself in trading? For instance I think my biggest strengths are my entries and not crying over leaving money on the table. I dont mind exiting early for a profit. Youd be surprised how many people let that affect them

If I buy a stock at $8.00 and I sell it for $8.01 am I profitable? Some people think this is a waste of time, but 1¢ is 1¢

Im officially tired of getting made fun of for still using EMA crossovers, RSI, MACD for entry and exit, basically my whole daytrading strategy. Lately the cool kids are using order flow and whatever volume analysis is the latest and greatest trendy strategy, along with journaling, psychology courses, monk-like discipline, risk management etc etc. I watched a vague youtube video on it and would like a little more understanding. Can someone share any good books, or starting points on how to learn and read order flow?

Last year I officially began my trading career and gave up after 2 months bc of 1 bad trade (NXU, delisted piece of shit 👎🏼👎🏼). Prior to that I was I was convicted in all my trades followed my rules, had tight stop losses, exited when appropriate. A pretty good winning streak.

Now it feels like Im starting over and cant do anything right. Im deathly afraid of penny stocks now and just cant seem to time my entries right.

Setup: EMA crossovers on the 1m (I was using the 5 min before) RSI and MACD for confirmation. My biggest strength was using support and resistance for entries and exit. Now I cant tell my ass from my elbow.

The biggest threat back then was SCREENING and I think thats a threat now. The market is going to do what its going to do, but all it takes is trading a POS stock (like NXU) that had large volume, only for it to be a false break out, pump and dump POS, (I also over scaled on that trade as well doubled down during the reversal.

My next point is just that the only good thing that came from that is that I think I can spot reversals a little easier now ( most people would just say “lower lows” and “higher highs”).

Been experimenting with Donchian Channels too and new screening filters, price above 200MA, 50 crossed 200MA, etc.

Just curious anyone go through some thing like this before. I want to stop trading stocks under $1 altogether. Is that unreasonable?

Couldnt post this on r/oil so here it is:

I dont have a bloomberg terminal but I think anyone can see that oil will HAVE to get expensive. There is no way that it doesnt. Oil reserves are being depleted as Im typing this. Infrastructure and supply chains have been permanently destroyed, destabilized, or restructured. Once this fiasco is over 2 months or 2 years from now countries will increase their reserves and demand for oil will skyrocket.

The only reason the world is still continuing like nothing happened is because reserves are being tapped at 100 million per day. Inflation is silently rising with last month being the highest since 2023. The fed will have no choice but to raise interest rates, there is no other viable option. Even if the strait opened today and a peace treaty is signed, demand will still increase. I dont think you need a PhD in Economics to understand this.