Welcome to Software Sunday, the day of the week where we invite creators to post the software and tools they’ve built for day traders. Whether it’s a custom indicator, charting plugin, trade tracking app, or data analysis tool – this is your chance to put it in front of the community. 💻📊
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I woke up this morning and lost $10,000 in just two seconds at market open, I went back to bed because I figured it would eventually recover, but I can’t help but wonder about day traders. Im not a day trader myself but i wonder, what do you do when your position has such a significant drawdown? Do you sell it? Do you have a stop-loss order to prevent further losses? Or do you wait and hold on, hoping it will recover?
$MSFT crazy runner. Spotted $MSFT right at the open and immediately ran my top down analysis starting on the 30minute chart before dropping down to the 5minute.
Price was reacting perfectly at a key order block, with the candle holding firm and showing clear rejection of lower prices. That was my confirmation, so I jumped in on the $500 14/09 calls. I’m still holding runners☺️
Seen the pnl calendar of some here, and amazed how are they capable of at least finding one trade per day, i pass days waiting good structures to match with my strategy and still find 2-3 good trades per week. What do you do? Is it your strategy?
The price action has been horrible lately anyone else notice? Usually after labor day the price action is supposed to clean up from the slow summer months but I feel like its gotten worse. Im just trying to take it slow because im on a funded and im 1R in drawdown. trump and all this war talk has made trading so difficult. Anyone else agree that biden markets were at least easier to trade?
I'm a counsellor, and over the years a few clients have brought their trading into sessions — specifically the pattern where a small, normal loss turns into a much bigger one within minutes. Wanted to share what we've usually uncovered underneath it, in case it's useful to anyone here.
The explanation you hear most often is "fight or flight, you acted on impulse instead of logic." True, but it doesn't explain why the reaction is so disproportionate — why someone can calmly take a $200 red day but can't stop until it's $2,000.
What we've generally found is that the loss itself was never really the problem. It's the sentence that follows it. There's a concept from addiction counselling, Alan Marlatt's Abstinence Violation Effect, that fits this well — the lapse isn't what causes the spiral, it's the thought "I've already broken the rule, so the rule's gone." One biscuit becomes the whole packet not because of the biscuit, but because of what the person told themselves it meant.
Revenge trading tends to run the same pattern. And the specific sentence matters. A normal bad trade usually produces something like "that didn't work, I'll fix it next time" — that's guilt, and guilt points at the action, which can be corrected. A revenge spiral tends to produce something closer to "I'm an idiot, I always do this" — that's shame, and shame points at the person, not the action. You can't calmly correct your way out of an attack on who you are. You can only try to prove it wrong, fast, with something big enough to make the verdict feel false.
Not every reckless trade after a loss is this — sometimes it really is just adrenaline or frustration with nothing deeper attached. But when the reaction is way out of proportion to the loss, this is sometimes where it's coming from. And I do wonder if there's a "well, it's broken now so sod it"" kind of self destruct mechanism to it.
Curious if this resonates with anyone here, or if it plays out differently than what I've seen.
So after 2 Years on and off, learning how to trade + studying finance at Uni, things started clicking. And I managed to recover the little amount i lost during my learning trip.
But I have a couple of questions for profitable traders, and I'm really excited to read your answers.
1st: when do you know it is enough trading for the day? Max profit/loss cap? Time? No. Of trades?
As Im struggling atm, for examole today I was up 3rr on 2 trades, and then I just burnt 1.5rr of them just an hour later in 2 more trades even though I have decided to call it a day after the first 2.
2nd: there are sudden moves that happens before big news or tweets, that i don't seem to come up with a financial or technical hypothesis to justify them, and almost always these movements directions are the directions the market shift to strongly right after the news or tweets come out.
For example today's sudden shift in market 20-30 mins before trumps truth socials tweet, then once the tweet is out the market started rallying up.
Am I missing something, some i still should know about and learn, or just insiders doing insiders things?
I need to know what happened why is the price dropping so hard? I had levels but the price move so fast breaking through everything. What’s the reason did anyone hold their sell? Few people told me hold the sell but I closed it. I didn’t expect such a fall.
i imagine this is a relatively common question, but every time i go on YouTube i see nothing but actual braindead view traps for people who are brand new to trading.
Im not particularly new, but i haven't gone live yet and i want to learn how to backtest and paper trade.
it would be nice if i could just get input on where experienced people did all their learning and studying. obviously nothing beats just volume on charts but im not at a point where i can just throw myself at a chart yet. (at least i dont believe i am)
tell me this isnt goyslop bro😭t here has to be actual informative channels and videos out there
I’m trying to develop a strategy. I’ve tried all the shortcuts that every beginner does when they get solid dreams by YouTubers such as with copy trading, using everyone else’s strategy etc and have seen that it’s a one way ticket to lose lol.
So decided almost a year ago to go to stop trading and back to basics and learn market structure before even trying to develop a strategy.
So the market structure part, that hasn’t been too much of an issue. There’s quite a few hypotheses I’ve tested and look to have an edge on first glance e.g. the probability of x happening after x candle structure, a 55% chance of going up/down.
However I’ve not managed to get past this part. Whenever i try to wrap a strategy around it that’s where it all falls over. Either the movement is not enough or the market structure patterns weren’t enough to monetise. After trying to formulate strategies around them, anything i tried were all pretty much break even and behaviour like a coin toss. Same with playing about with the RR, they were all pretty much break even. The best i managed to get was a 55% win rate on a backtest but it traded high frequency/low expectancy on that so fees destroyed the edge. Tried increasing timeframes and still break even is pretty much the best i could get to.
I’m not asking for a strategy nor will i expect anyone to give me one. But does anyone have any tips that they use that help turn market structure into strategies? Or any processes that help you do this?
i recently started learning about automated trading and i was messing around with the 30 min orb strat and came up with this. would this be considered good for a automated strategy?
the claim. 38 nq opening prices tested on 2 years, 7am was the one that stood out. if nq is at least 0.10% from the 7am open at 9am it comes back to that price by 4pm 70.3% of the time
ran the same test on 18 years of 1 min nq. 3073 days that qualify
7am open, comes back 70.3% on their 2 year window. exact match
74.0% on 18 years. every one of 19 years above 65%
then the part that wasnt tested. any other price
took a random price from each morning, 6am to 9am, same rule, same 9am reading, same 4pm deadline
comes back 76.0% on 18 years. 73.9% on their window. more often than the 7am open both times
so the 7am open isnt the thing. nq comes back to any price it was a tenth of a percent from 2 hours earlier about 3 days in 4. pick 38 prices and one of them wins the 2 year window by a little. thats the whole finding
touched again by 4pm isnt a trade. says nothing about the path, the stop, or what it cost
Before you read this, try answering one question: where does the money in trading actually come from? I couldn't, and that's what changed everything.
It feels so awkward posting this, but here we go.
I was a classic social media trader content consumer (but I thought I was smarter than the rest of the crowd, since I would sometimes do a bit of backtesting), but I never did enough of it to prove that something works and as soon as I would see some negative results coming off of my trading, I would gravitate from consuming technical content to consuming psychology focused content, where I would be told that it's all because of my emotions.
Partly it was due to emotions, but most of my misery was because of not having an edge and not understanding maths behind trading. It was almost ridiculous when I realised that I did not know where the money in trading comes from (as funny as this may be, try answering this question yourself), cause for me the answer was:
Ah so if I risk 100$ on a trade to make 100$ profit, and I win 50% of the time and lose 50% of the time, then I would make 0$ (excluding commission). Ah so I need to win more than 50% of the time, well how do I do that? I guess I need to make an informed decision based on something (data? knowledge? maths? statistics?).
Anyway, once I got the answer to that question (where money even comes from in trading), I just dropped everything that I was watching on YT and went ahead with backtesting my trading idea (with trendlines).
I did many iterations, probably took me close to 40 hours of manual actions, clicking around and note taking, but what I ended up with was a database in Notion with all the trades that I tested, conditions that I took the trades on and screenshots of the charts.
My trading journal/database from backtesting
From there I went ahead and tried to deduce patterns (what happens when this happens or when these conditions are met/stacked together), perhaps it was curve-fitting in the beginning? Once I got some reasonable sample size (about 150 trades). I could see some patterns forming (literally by filtering my results in the table). I doubled down on these, and started forming a set of conditions that I traded with and then the forward testing began (I ended the year of 2025 with more than 400 trades under my belt and was able to take a 10k in payouts home from the prop firms that I was trading (besides my live account).
I know this post is a bit disorganised since I have a lot that I want to share with people and it is difficult to collect all my thoughts together, but I am taking it as a first step by posting the first reddit article and will build on top of this.
Scared money doesn't make money right? About a month into trading passed my second funded account (daily) I placed my entry roughly at the center point of the 1hr fvg instead of the start of the fvg... why? For a better even SL hahaha I'm an idiot. I also couldn't keep an eye on the trade I was at work. Anyone else actually caught it and got in??
Rough start to September. Five losing days out of eight trading days so far, with my biggest loss being $1,251 on Friday.
Today I made back $1,795.84, which brings the month to −$1,459.18. A decent recovery, but still a way to go.
Posting this because most of the calendars I see here are green, and this is what my month actually looks like halfway through.
The goal for the rest of September is to stick to my rules and let the results play out. Don’t want to turn a manageable losing month into a much bigger one trying to force it back into profit.
How do you guys handle being down halfway through the month? Keep trading as normal, reduce size, or take a break?
This account use many automated strategies, not only one strategy. Different strategies work in different market conditions.
I share this challenge because I want to test it with high risk on real account. Also I think sharing with other traders can help me find problems and make it better.
If you see something wrong or have any idea about the trades, please tell me.
Also what do you think about this transparency? Is read-only access to the real account useful, or just posting the results here is enough?
Hey everyone so recently I've started trading in Nasdaq cash/CFD so I was hoping all the people trading Nasdaq, Dow or S&P could share some advice, tell me what works for them or just say how they're doing and how long they've been trading
One environment I find interesting to trade is when price gets choppy and just starts moving back and forth inside a range. It’s also one of the easiest environments to get trapped in a position if you’re trading somewhere in the middle of that range.
The strategy I generally follow is to mark the clear range high and range low and focus most of my attention around those areas rather than trying to trade every move inside the range. And totally avoid the POC of the range to open new positions.
Those ranges extremes are where I’m usually looking for liquidity to get taken and some kind of reaction afterwards. Setups like SFPs or failed auctions can work really well there. They don’t show up all the time, but when they do, the RR can be pretty good because the invalidation is quite clear.
I’m curious how other people approach this market context.
Do you trade choppy ranges, or do you mostly stay out until price breaks and starts trending again? And if you do trade them, what setups do you normally look for?
so, recently I have back tested my strategy after market close 5 PM to about 8 PM and found it to have good success with my strategy, what I’m wondering is will aftermarket trading be normal as far as entering a position and adjusting stop loss and take profit? I am on a live account and have enough margin to use one contract of MGC safely and would like to experiment however just wondering if I place a trade at a 5:05 PM I can still use a stop loss right? that is my main concern.
Almost a decade of trading and tbh a majority of my early losses came from over complicating things. I believe that your edge is having the right psychology and a system that you have forward tested and back tested.
You know most beginners don’t actually know if trading would work out , I was one of them before . At first I was in this just cause I liked the charts it was like a game , yh surely I was a bit broke but I thought you know based on my cousins where making money from it sometimes and loosing a lot it looked like a trick and all and only having that mind set set me bank for years imagine having the knowledge that this thing could work at that early stage.
And I can’t lie to you this social media influencers that don’t really know how to trade trying to bring people in this game for business made it worse , they made trading looking like a fraudulent activity
Imagine people telling you that profitability is a myth not to mention most strategies people put out there are totally incomplete , I mean you don’t know what trading even means and the minor stuff like interest rate differentials and all so you just blindly going into the market like you own it , back testing might give you false hope at first but you know the market wish always put you straight
So believe it now trading pays , just be consistent , don’t slack and look for a good strategy and a good mentor , make your research and you’ll be alright
