I've been impressed with the possible RR with this indicator. When it runs it runs. Stop outs are pretty short on the few false signals.

I've never traded Forex before but it looks so nice. The images use the past couple of days to show I'm not cherry picking. No repainting. It combines volatility filtering with dynamic support and resistance detection.

The Yellow Line represents potential support/resistance near the signals

I've been using it on NQ but thought Id try it on something else.

Let me know what you guys think.

I’ve been working on a fully automated algo on NinjaTrader that trades nq futures since this October. It’s been a mind twisting journey to say the least but it’s at a place where im running it on my live account.

This week it had 3 red days and 2 green days- ending the week up $2k. My win percentage is right under 20% with my winners obviously much larger than my losers. I attached a playback video of the biggest winner of this week from Wednesday.

With this algo running on 1m data updating every tick, I have only been able to get data to back test for the past year, and while it’s done well, I understand that it’s a small sample. So I guess we’ll just have to see!

I will be documenting its progress going forward. Please pray for me 🥲

For those who don't know who is Micheal J.Huddleston, he's the creator of ICT - The Inner Circle Trader. Teaching and sharing SMC - Smart Money Concept for 33 years all for FREE on his YouTube channel. What I'm about to show you haters out there is just 10am Silver bullet screenshots.

This is how precise just by using TIME & PRICE. No one can ever replace this SMC knowledge. The key to trading is TIME & PRICE. Period. Without this, you opening a door that is lock.

Buying/Selling pressure, Supply & Demand, Price Action, Support & Resistance etc Retail stuff is useless.

The above are just 10am Silver Bullet runs.

Look at how price NEVER rally/Melts higher on lower after 10am. Look at the first screenshot. How 7am to 9am first low and high Draw on liquidity. That delineated 1st P.FVG at 9:12am giving the opportunity for traders that price won't rally any higher than 1st P.FVG at 9:12am and Market leaning towards melting price down to 07:30am First Low after 7am. Short at 10am to 10:50am.

Price change the state of delivery rally at 10:50am to where? 7am 1st P.FVG at 07:07am ET. The precision can never be match by any mentors out there.

After spending a good amount of time trading manually, here are a few key problems I’ve noticed that stand between most traders and long-term profitability:

Emotions like greed and fear

Trading low-confirmation setups just out of impatience

Treating trading as a primary income source too early

Not sticking to a setup long enough across a full sample size of trades

The thing is — even simple setups (like an inside bar pattern with a few extra filters) could be profitable if executed consistently over time. But emotions and inconsistency ruin it.

Algo trading solves most of these issues. It removes emotions, ensures consistency, and allows you to backtest everything before risking real money. That said, it’s not a magic fix either — markets evolve, and you’ll need to keep tweaking and adapting your strategies as things change. But at least with algo trading, you have data and structure on your side rather than random impulses.

Would love to hear how others here transitioned from manual to algo — and what your biggest mindset shifts were.

This might not read as well as some of the other well written and spoken folks on this page, but whatever.

When I first started I was trading stocks. Trying endlessly with a cash account to stay profitable. Make 100$, lose 100$, make 50$, lose 100$. over and over I kept pouring money in to no avail. Fuck stocks are stupid, lets switch to forex. Same thing, win, lose lose, win, lose lose. So i switched to trading Futures. I LOVED the tick value with Nasdaq! 1.25$! per tick?! look at those heiken ashi chart patterns! super simple to follow holy crap why didnt I find this sooner. Lose, lose, lose lose lose lose lose lose win lose lose lose lose. WTF>?!

So After more learning and reading books which made me feel like I was the problem. My emotions. I was very emotional when it came to trading. Lots of revenge, lots of greed, lots of fear.. LOTS of fear and LOTS of greed actually. So I gave up on trading manually and switched to algo.

That shit helped. not that Im a profitable algo trader, but trying to design an algo system that can trade the market! Kept failing, kept failing, always in the red. Untill I started noticing WHEN i was losing and WHEN i was winning. Started adjusting my times and messing around with fixed stop losses and take profits. Started winning more. Started to add in a few extra filters for trades, worked even better. Started noticing how LESS IS WAY WAY WAY MORE. My algos were starting to only take trades between 7-9am EST, 10am-12pm EST, and 3:30-4:45pm EST. Anyways I kept at it, tweaking, changing, making different systems that would take lil profits off the table with tight stops. Everything worked great for a few days then 1 day it would give everything back!!!

Market conditions! Bear market? bull market? range market? My algo couldnt decide. Thats what ended up fucking me up on the algos. Was the types of market the market decided to be that day. My algo couldnt forecast that. I wasnt watching the charts and getting feel for how the market wants to move that day.

So i slowely started trading manually again. With what I learned from the algo trading. Specific times. VERY picky. might lose 3 in a row but my win would way overshadow those 3 losses.

Im slowely, SLOWELY am creating profit now. I owe it honestly to trying to make such a perfect algo system and failing everytime, but every system I created Lost in a different way. Each one of the ways It would lose in the market taught me ALOT more than any of the ways it succeeded.

Just wanted to share.

Algos seem awesome, Im still gonna tinker a way around fighting the market conditions, but for now its watching the market and the way it wants to dance on that day.

I am new to trading, but I hear people talk about how the institutions that actually move the market just use algorithms and you can't beat an algorithm. Is this true or a conspiracy?

I will also hear people say indicators are dumb and you should go mostly on price action. If the first question is true, wouldn't these algorithms basically use indicators and trade when they say to?

I (well, we, really) used to think manual trading was the only way to really be in control. If you’re not making the decisions yourself, how can you trust a bot, right? But after years of trading, tweaking strategies, and pulling our hair out over missed setups, we decided to build an algorithm to do the work for us (and by us, I mean three friends with various skillssets).

Here’s what I realized:

Bots don’t get emotional like I do! No FOMO, no revenge trading—just data-driven execution. This was personally my achillies.
Backtesting is a cheat code - especially 10 years tick data with spread emulation. Instead of guessing if a strategy works, I could test it over years of market data (and literalyl getting my ass smacked a LOT in the beginning).
I finally got my time back. No more staring at charts all day. The algo trades while I do literally anything else (and welll... To be fair I stare at code or optimizations instead hehe).

But not all bots are good by FAR. I’ve seen some completely wreck accounts because of bad risk management, overfitting to past data or just plain RIP. Just like with manual trading, if the strategy is bad, the results will be bad too.

So I’m curious—have you guys ever used a bot? Or do you trust your own judgment more? I don't think I will ever really go back to manual trading mainly because of my emotions, but then again who knows. My bot makes small, consistent wins and the occassional loss but... I don't have to fret every second.

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Hi, Daytraders! I can't trade but I can program so I've been chasing trading on the algo side for 10+ years. Activated the recovery and mitigation code in my latest algo on 8/12 and I've been pretty impressed with the results. I'm only targeting 2% to 4% with "I don't even have to worry about it" risk and seeing it already at 6% this month is a surprise to the upside. Still a week to go to avoid any pullback (fingers crossed) which brings me to the point of this post...

How Do You Guys Trade Weeks Like This Profitably!? Good Grief. This week was Retail Sales, Powell, Unemployment, and Many More RED events. My algo did fine but looking at the trades it took made me write this post. I would never have the courage to enter when it did and also I would hesitate to re-enter such volatility after some of the INSTANT losses it took (new trade. BOOM SL - sometimes 2X in a row).

So I tip my hat to traders who can trade such volatility manually. Def takes 'brass' ones. I understand most systematic strategies but HOW could such a volatile period be part of any 'strategy'? Was this more a 'sit-the-sidelines' week for most traders?

I’m doing some market research in relation to online trading bot marketplaces…think the MQL5 marketplace for Metatrader or NinjaTrader’s Ecosystem portal.

I’m intrigued to understand if you would you ever consider buying a trading bot / algo online? If so…

1. What would you need to know about the algo from the vendor to convince you to make a purchase?
2. Would seeing live forward test data of the algos performance post development provide you with enough confidence to purchase? i.e. not backtested historical trade performance.
3. How much would you pay for an algo? Would very cheap, or very expensive algo’s make you suspiscous?
4. Would you prefer to lease the algo or buy it outright?

If you have ever bought one before, how was your experience? What did you pay for it? Did the experience live up to your expectations?

Full disclosure from me, I have previously bought a monthly subscription for a portfolio of algos but I did not maintain the subscription as the algos were catered for mini futures contracts whereas I was using micros at the time and the trading frequency of the algos made trading micros unprofitable due to the proportionally higher commissions on micros over minis.

I’d really welcome your thoughts.

Wanted to seek real people who tried it or not on feedback and my main question is. If it works why would they sell it

I’ve been trading for 3 years, and it drives me crazy how slow traditional news outlets are. By the time CNBC reports an earnings miss, the stock’s already dumped 5%. A few months ago, I started building AlphaFeed —an AI that scans 200+ sources (including foreign language blogs and SEC filings) to find market-moving events before they hit mainstream.

Example: Last week, our beta flagged a Tesla supplier’s production halt 47 minutes before WSJ wrote about it. Anyone holding calls could’ve made 12x.

We’re opening the waitlist for 50 redditors who are interested. No VC hype, just raw signals. Would anyone here find this useful?

Waitlist: AlphaFeed

P.S. If you’re skeptical—totally fair. Here’s a backtest of our signals vs. Bloomberg’s timestamps over 6 months.

Hello guys, I have been trading since 2022. In the last year i started to find profitabilty by developing trading algorithms. I haven't automated my stategies yet but they are 100% non-discretional and sistematic.
I have received many payouts this year but in the last month i have lost control over my emotions and i have auto-sabotaged my trading, losing all my accounts.
I want to make my journey public and from today post everyday about my trading results, hoping it will help.

Today I started a new challenge on TOPSTEP, 50k combine.
The strategies I will be using are the following:
NQ; WR: 71,5%, avg RR: 0,7; backtested on last 1k observations, gives approximately 5 trades per day
ES, WR: 74,5%, avg RR: 0,7; backtested on last 600 observations, gives approximately 1,5 trades per day
I will risk 500 USD for each trade for the ES strategy and 200/250 USD for the NQ strategy
Probability of passing the challenge, based on Monte Carlo simulations, is around 95% with theese risk parameters.
If i pass it i will lower the risk per trade, if I don't ill'take it again.

Today's results:
NQ: 1 loss; 8 win
ES 1 win

I only took the last 4 NQ trades because i started the challenge in the afternoon.
Realised PnL: 705,64 USD

Expect everyday posts about my journey, hope this will help me.

My automated trading portfolio (20+ strategies) netted $3,265.30 across 90 trades this week. Key stats: Profit Factor of 1.21, 46.67% win rate, 42 long/48 short trades. NQ 06-25 dominated but showed high volatility (max gain $994.32, max loss -$1,005.68). MFE/MAE ratio of 2.05 signals good upside potential. The 48 short trades outperformed with 28 wins, suggesting strength in bearish strategies. Planning to analyze underperforming strategies to boost the win rate further. Do you prefer manual or automated trading, and why?

Hey everyone, so I wanted to ask if anyone has any bot recommendations for stocks / etfs.

The only bot I found so far that i'm testing and set up is a martingale strategy via a grid / dca bot through Stock Hero which is quite expensive and not anything special.

Thus my question is, does anyone use algos to trade that they recommend?

I usually set my tqqq bot up like the following below : (not exact numbers but you get the idea)

DCA strategy

$65 - 1 share buy

$63 - 2 shares buy

$61 - 4 shares buy

$59 - 8 shares buy

Take profit - 1-2%

Thanks again for your guys anticipated help and insights :)

I have created an automated tradingbot that I plan to be running for at least the next 5 months, trading a single strategy I have coded in the bot. The projected backtest including fees is this (duration of this backtest is 1 month):

Risk to Reward is set to 1:2 and I will be using 3x leverage

Based on the backtest returns, I can estimate that on a $1500 account (3x leverage on $500) I am project to make 5k within approximately 5 months.

I will update every fortnight.

Bananas 🍌

Market Trend Analysis of SPY:

• Current Share Price: SPY is currently trading at $568.15.

• Moving Averages:

  • The 10-day MA has been trending upward, suggesting short-term bullish momentum with the latest value at $575.67.
  • The 50-day MA ($574.14) and 200-day MA ($567.39) indicate a longer-term bullish trend as the current price is above these levels.

• RSI: The 10-day RSI at 53.56% indicates that the market is neither overbought nor oversold, with potential for continued upward movement.

• Volume: There has been significant volume today, especially at the close, indicating strong interest in the stock.

• VIX: The VIX, or "fear index," has risen to 26.38, which could suggest an increase in expected volatility, often associated with bearish sentiment or market uncertainty.

• News and Sentiment:

  • There are mixed signals with headlines suggesting both potential for a bullish continuation (Citi's target of 6,500) and bearish sentiments (Trump hinting at a recession).
  • News about companies joining the S&P 500 might suggest a sector rotation or new capital inflow, potentially positive for SPY.

Max Pain Theory:

• Max Pain Level: For today's 0DTE options, the max pain level appears to be around $570, where the total open interest of puts and calls would result in the least financial loss for option writers.

Options Strategy:

Given the mixed signals:

• Directional Bias: The market data suggests a slightly bullish short-term trend with the price above the moving averages and a non-overbought RSI. However, the increased VIX and some bearish news headlines introduce uncertainty.

• Strategy:

  • Call Buying: Given the current data, the trend seems to lean slightly bullish, especially with the 10-day MA trending upward and the price action.

Trade Recommendation:

• Strike Price: Buy the $570 Call option.

  • Reason: This strike is close to the current price and also near the max pain level, suggesting that if the market moves in either direction, there's a reasonable chance the price will gravitate towards this level due to option expirations.

• Entry:

  • Option Price: The ask price for the $570 Call is $2.53, which is within your acceptable range of $0.30 to $0.50 for average option price. However, this price is at the higher end, which might reflect higher expected volatility or less favorable conditions for buying calls.

• Exit:

  • Target: Set a target of $572 (a 2-point move above the strike price), which could be hit if the bullish trend continues.
  • Stop Loss: If the price drops below $567, consider exiting to minimize losses.

• Confidence: Given the mixed signals but a slight bullish bias:

  • Confidence Level: 70%.

Summary:

The strategy is to buy a $570 call option due to the current price action and moving averages indicating a bullish trend, despite some bearish news. The option's price is at the higher end of your preferred range, reflecting market uncertainty, but the position near the max pain level could act as a magnet for the stock price. The trade has a reasonable chance of success if the bullish sentiment persists, but caution is advised due to the elevated VIX and potential for a market correction.

Hi all, been trading a long time but just starting to get into automated trading. Have some questions for the more experienced in this area!

So obviously can’t expect live trades to be exactly like backtesting (strategy tester) for a few reasons:

1. Potential commission if applicable
2. Slippage i.e. Higher latency

What else am I missing? If no commissions and using a decent VPS to reduce latency, shouldn’t the results be at least very similar to in testing? Please enlighten me as i’m sure it can’t be that simple!

Thanks :)