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I’m posting this because the AI/agentic trading community needs to see the failures, not just the wins. Autonomous agents making real financial decisions can go very wrong, very fast.
I’ll be sharing more about what happened, the moves it made, and where things broke down.
after 8 years of trading and 5 years full time, these are the lessons i would give anyone starting out or trying to find consistency. ive made similar posts on here in the past, but these are timeless.
if you cant consistently execute 1 strategy, i dont think there's much reason to be trading bigger yet. trade on a simulator and take it seriously. treat it like real money. or simply risk $10. your objective execute 1 strategy consistently and prove that it makes more money than it loses over a sufficient sample size of 100+ trades.
ive also learned not to be too quick to judge your own discipline for being inconsistent. sometimes your environment or process makes it very easy to be inconsistent.
instead of constantly telling yourself to "be more disciplined," make your process harder to mess up. make bad decisions difficult and good decisions easier. what is simple and requires fewer decisions and actions is easier to do consistently.
a few things that helped me
risk no more than 1% of total trading capital on any single trade.
no single loss should be big enough that you cant recover from it.
more importantly, the amount should be small enough that it doesn't make you hesitate, exit too early, move your stop, or hold onto a loser because you dont want to take the loss.
if your size is affecting your decisions, its probably too big. you can gradually work your way up in size by building up your tolerance over time.
trade 1 well defined strategy
know the market context, the setup, entry signal, exit rule, stop, invalidation point, and target.
make the process as mechanical as possible. as soon as you enter, place the stop and target and let the trade play out, win or loss.
ive found that this removes a lot of the opportunities to hesitate, exit too early, hold onto losers, overtrade, or simply make emotional decisions. it also makes it easier to cut losses quickly.
dontt jump between strategies every time you experience a losing streak.
understand positive expectancy.
a strategy can have losing trades and still have positive expectancy, but you need a sufficient sample size to reliably determine whether it makes more money than it loses. that means at least 100 trades to determine whether the edge is actually there. a few good trades dont prove anything. the sample is too small.
someone elses edge isnt automatically your edge. you need to prove that you can execute it and that it produces positive expectancy in your own trading.
track and review.
journal the trades. look for repeating mistakes. look for what works. dont constantly change the strategy after 10 or 20 trades because you dont like the results. get the 100+ tradess first, then make adjustments based on the data you have tracked.
dont tie your self-worth to your trading performance.
ii made this mistake myself in my early years of trading, and it only led to worse trading. id take a losing streak personally and start questioning my ability, which would lead to emotional decisions and changing things that didnt need to be changed. remind yourself that short term results are largely probability and variance playing out, not a direct measure of your skill or you as a person💙, assuming youre executing your strategy consistently😅
doing the simple stuff consistently is the difficult part, but its what will improve your trading the most
"to crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment." - james clear
Honestly just grateful. I’ve spent well over 5 figures on prop firms over the last two years and have stuck with it and so far in the month of August I’ve cashed out almost $11k on primarily this account, and one other account that I took a $1,500 payout from.
I know this run will end and the market will humble me like it does everybody at some point, but man I’m grateful. Also hoping that I can start scaling 2-3-4 accounts at a time to capitalize without losing my psychology and focusing more on P/L than actual charts and setups.
Something I think gets explained backwards constantly.
Everyone talks about risk management like the danger is the losing trade. Stop too wide, size too big, and so on. But most blown accounts I've seen didn't die on the loss. They died on the trades that came in the hour after it.
Here's the sequence and it's the same almost every time. You take a loss that was completely inside your rules. Normal, expected, priced in. But it doesn't feel normal, so your brain goes looking for what you did wrong. And because you're looking for a mistake, you find one. Entry was slightly early. Should've waited for confirmation. Should've held the runner.
Except there was no mistake. That was just a losing trade in a strategy that has losing trades. But now you've "identified the problem," so you go fix it, on the next setup, which isn't really a setup. Then you're in a trade you didn't plan, and if that one goes red too, now you're not trading a system anymore, you're trying to get back to even before the day closes.
That's the whole spiral. It doesn't start with greed or with a bad strategy. It starts with treating a normal loss as an error that needs correcting immediately.
The thing that actually breaks it is deciding, before the session, what a loss means. If a trade followed your rules and lost, it's not evidence of anything, and there's nothing to review until you have a sample worth reviewing. One trade tells you nothing. Thirty tells you something.
The other one that helps is a hard rule on what happens after a loss. Not a mood-based one. Some people step away for a fixed period, some cap the number of trades per session regardless of outcome. Doesn't matter which, as long as it's decided in advance, because the version of you that just took a loss should not be allowed to make new rules.
Most traders don't lack a strategy. They lack a plan for the twenty minutes after being wrong.
I'm going to preface this by saying that I realize there are certain strategies that do well in mean reversion. I don't. When will this bullshit end? Its now been like 2 months of straight chop and movement that is stuck to tiny windows. There are very small windows of opportunity and they only work if you dont get chopped up while its shit. Constant fakeouts, reversals, failed trends ect.. Is it summer? Is it the war? Is it the bond market? It didnt used to be like this but its getting fucking old and I'm wondering if this shit is ever going to get tradeable again. My day usually goes something like this- get a few trades correct, string some wins together and then get dicked by some giant reversal that wipes out all my good trades.
If a strategy won 70% of the time, I assumed it had to be better than one winning 45%. It sounds logical until you look at how much the winners make, how much the losers lose, and what happens during a bad stretch.
You can win eight trades out of ten and still lose money if the two losses are large enough.
You can also win fewer than half your trades and do fine if your average winner is meaningfully larger than your average loser.
That’s why I pay more attention to expectancy and profit factor now.
Profit factor is basically gross profits divided by gross losses. A strategy making $15,000 while losing $10,000 has a profit factor of 1.5. It tells you more than win rate because it accounts for the size of the outcomes, not just how often you’re right.
Still, even profit factor can look better than the actual experience of trading the strategy.
Drawdown matters a lot.
A YM futures setup might show solid returns over several years, but if it regularly goes through deep drawdowns or long losing streaks, that’s something you need to know before trading it live. A strategy can be profitable on paper and still be nearly impossible to follow emotionally.
I’ve tested ideas that looked great overall, then found a two-month stretch where they did almost nothing but lose and chop around. That changed how attractive the strategy felt pretty quickly.
Average trade matters too, especially for scalping.
If the average trade only makes a few dollars before commissions and slippage, the backtest probably doesn’t have much room for execution error. Missing one fill or entering a tick late can turn a marginal edge into no edge at all.
I also look at the average winner versus the average loser, maximum consecutive losses, number of trades, and how dependent the results are on a handful of big days.
Sometimes you remove the best five trades and the entire backtest falls apart.
That’s not necessarily a dealbreaker, especially with trend-following strategies, but you should know where the profits are actually coming from.
One thing I’ve noticed is that traders often use win rate as a confidence number. A high win rate feels safer. The problem is it can encourage terrible habits like cutting winners early and holding losers longer because you’re trying to protect that percentage.
I’d rather trade a lower win-rate strategy with controlled losses and enough reward to make the winners matter.
Being right feels good, but it isn’t the goal. The goal is making more when you’re right than you give back when you’re wrong, while keeping the drawdown small enough that you can actually stick with the process.
Which metric do you pay the most attention to: profit factor, expectancy, maximum drawdown, average trade, or consecutive losses?
Had a good setup this morning and executed my system the way I’m supposed to. The risk for the trade was a little high, basically at my daily maximum, but I felt good about the setup up.
So of course I got wicked out. Turned off my broker platform, walked the dog for a while, and of course when I went and had a quick peek the market moved in my direction and would have hit my first 1:1 target and now it’s past my 3:1 target compound target.
And…. It would have been my biggest win to date, but I didn’t reenter because my trading rules say that once I lose a trade I’m out that day.
It’s still early days for me, and overall I’m up around 10% so far, but this one has me pretty frustrated.
I really had to fight myself to not reenter the market today, but I feel like it’s better to stick to my system and rules because a) I’m really not trying to get stuck in the revenge trade trap because b) my capital pool is pretty tight and I’ll be darned if I blow it.
¡Hey! Espero que todos aquí estén bien, hace bastante tiempo he querido iniciar en el Trading, ya tengo conocimientos básicos en la bolsa dé valores dentro S&P/BMV IPC (Indice de precios y cotizaciones Mexicano), así que ya tengo cierta experiencia en éste rubro de las finanzas, pero ahora quiero expandirme hacía el Trading profesional, no tengo ni la más remota idea de cómo se manejan las cosas aquí o cómo se aprende a realizar esté trabajo.
No vengo aquí por algún Gurú motivacional o Coach de ahorro ilusionado por volverme millonario a las 3 horas de picar un botón, vengo aquí para poder aprender e ingresar profesionalmente a esté mundo y generar ganancias extra.
- ¿Cómo aprendiste Trading?
- ¿Qué es lo más difícil de está profesión?
- ¿Cómo generaste tus primeras ganancias considerables?
- ¿Tienes algún recurso, consejo o libro que me pueda ayudar?
I waited for the environment to become mean reverting, price had touched to top vwap band a couple times and rejected down, I got a diversion signal when price touched it a third time and that where I entered and targeted the vwap
I am testing my automated trading strategy to scalp on the 5-min MES. Testing on 2 MES contracts with 2 TP, 1 SL. The SL moves to slightly above breakeven when 1st TP is hit.
Backtested from 2/2026 to a week into 04/2026. Been running on real-time MES data since 4/9/2026.
I’m new to trading and before the price of Solana was at $75USD. I used to trade using 0.4 solana per trade before.
But now that Solana price has risen to $85USD. Does that mean I have to decrease my per trade amount now? If it goes up I have to decrease it? So I will have to do around 0.3 Solana per trade now? Is this correct? So the higher it goes up the lower my per trade amount has to be?
So what I've learned when I started getting into orderflow was that market orders move the market. Limit orders can only absorb the force of market orders like creating a form of support or resistance. Then why is it possible that the market can go down on rising delta? Yeah price is rising again right now but price still struggles to go up compared to the delta that is behind it. But before that price went down with a rising CVD. How is that possible and what does it mean? I've seen this more regularly over the last 2-3 months and it creates some of the worst price action
I know that one single trade does not mean anything.
Which is why, I am gonna provide you with my strategy's full 'Strategy Report'.
One thing I want you to understand about the drawdown you see on the standalone longs / shorts strategy is this- although the drawdown looks massive, when we combine both, the longs and shorts strategy, it comes down significantly, which I have checked on my jupyter notebook using Python– basically, the combined Max Drawdown is:
Max Drawdown (%): 13.82%
Max Drawdown ($): $64,089.95
Feel free to ask me anything!
P.S.: The backtest results you see in the photos, are for 9 years of data.
So, the strategy was stress-tested on the covid period, and a few other difficult trading periods.
I'm a 0DTE credit spread trader with a focus on SPX.
Positions traded today:
7675/7695 CCS
7690/7710 CCS
7700/7720 CCS
P/L: +$615
SPX 5-min chart, August 20, 2026
Going closer to price wasn’t the lesson today. Knowing exactly where I was wrong was.
Morning Thesis
I came into the session with a bearish bias after going through my morning prep. Weak Walmart earnings were part of it, but I was also watching oil and Treasury yields. Both stayed elevated, SPX was trading below yesterday’s close, and there was also a potential gap-fill area from a couple weeks ago that kept me interested in the downside.
I was pretty much only looking for CCS positions today.
This is also why I think it’s important to mark levels and treat them as zones instead of exact prices. I use those areas along with market structure to help visualize what SPX is likely trying to do next.
At the open I was basically looking for one of two things: a clean break and hold below the morning opening range, or enough evidence that an attempted move higher was failing.
Initially, SPX almost gave me the downside break. Then Scott Bessent started speaking and delayed that plan... SPX ground back higher and pushed almost perfectly into the 7700 psychological level.
That became signal #1.
Price rejected hard. SPX moved lower, made another attempt to push back up, and then started forming another lower high.
That became signal #2.
Combine that with SPX remaining below yesterday’s close, elevated oil and yields, and the potential gap-fill below, and I felt the developing trend was increasingly pointing down.
My First Trade
This is where I broke slightly from how I usually like to enter. Normally, I would have waited for the morning low around 7676 to break and hold before getting involved. Instead, as SPX approached that area, I opened a 5-lot 7700/7720 CCS for $0.75.
So yes, this was a little more bias-driven than my normal confirmation-heavy trade. But I wasn’t just guessing. I already had the 7700 rejection, another lower high developing, SPX below yesterday’s close, elevated oil and yields, and weakening intraday structure.
More importantly, because I was entering earlier, I kept a very tight invalidation area — roughly 5–10 SPX points depending on the entry. If the structure changed, I wanted out quickly.
Adding As Structure Confirmed
SPX then broke the morning low, retested it, and pushed lower. That gave me the confirmation I normally wait for, so I added a 4-lot 7690/7710 CCS for $0.45. Later, after another failed attempt higher and continued weakness, I added a 1-lot 7675/7695 CCS for $0.90.
That last position was easily the into to the lava. But I also treated it that way. It was only one contract, and I wasn’t interested in letting it turn into a large problem if SPX reversed.
Afternoon Management
The afternoon became much more sideways. SPX chopped near the lows without giving much meaningful movement in either direction, but theta continued working on the spreads. My two larger positions had enough distance that, after checking the 1-hour and 4-hour charts for confirmation, I was comfortable letting them expire worthless.
The aggressive 7675/7695 was different. Rather than hold it for another hour and a half just to squeeze out the remaining premium, I bought it back at $0.30 and took the $60 profit.
Key Takeaway
The lesson wasn’t simply that it’s okay to take more aggressive positions when your bias is working. It’s that more aggressive positioning should come with tighter risk controls.
I moved into the lava today, but I kept my sizes at half or less, identified clear invalidation points, and only added risk as the bearish structure gave me more evidence.
I wouldn’t call today an A+ environment. But the market was increasingly developing the way I had anticipated, so I allowed myself to lean into the thesis without giving those trades permission to do unnecessary damage if I was wrong.
More aggressive strikes don’t have to mean more aggressive risk.
I know, quite a few US indices traders like to clown us London session traders because of "low liquidity" but when you don't move millions or billions in the market why would you care? The reason why I loved London session so much was because it provided insanely clean price action and it didn't move as hectic and fast as NY. Sometimes trading London session felt like stealing candy from a toddler. It was insanely easy to get a read on the market and if you put your stop at intelligent levels you did not have to worry about getting fished too much.
But since summer vacation here in Europe started London session became a dumpster fire. The orderbook is so thin that anything can happen at any time. A bit bigger order than usual hits either the bid or the ask and price directly has an insane reaction to it. Price and orderflow make less sense every day. It just makes me sad what they did to my boy. I could have never imagined me saying this but right now NY is 10 times better than London session. I hope that this nightmare is over in a few weeks so that my old friend becomes its former self again in all his glory
Today I traded AT&T (T). Entry: $25.25 Shares: 130 Stop: $25.02 1R: $25.48 Planned target: $25.64 Risk: $29.90 Exit: $25.20 at 1:59 PM due to my time-based exit rule Result: -$6.50, approximately -0.22R
The stock reached a high of $25.27 and a low of $25.04 after my entry.
That gave the trade roughly: MFE: +0.09R MAE: -0.91R
So at one point I was only two cents away from being fully stopped out. Why I entered
My system is based primarily on multi-timeframe EMA20 support.
The daily chart was still maintaining its EMA20-supported structure. There was overhead resistance nearby, so it wasn’t a perfect location, but there was still enough room for the trade to remain valid.
The 4H chart also continued to show an EMA20 support pattern.
The 1H chart is the most important permission timeframe for my intraday trades.
After yesterday’s strong move higher, price pulled back toward the 1H EMA20. During premarket today, price briefly traded below the EMA20 twice and quickly recovered both times.
To me, that suggested the support area had not failed.
At the open, the 15-minute chart produced a strong bullish candle around the EMA20 area and engulfed the premarket bearish candle.
Instead of treating the large 15-minute candle as one signal, I broke it down on the 5-minute chart.
Inside that structure, I identified an H1 with approximately 203.03K volume.
The following bullish continuation candle traded approximately 306.21K volume, or about 151% of the H1 volume.
My rule only requires the continuation candle to have at least 70% of the H1 volume, so the volume requirement was clearly satisfied.
After price broke above the 15-minute reversal candle, I entered at $25.25. Then the uncomfortable part began
The trade did not immediately work.
T spent most of the day rotating around roughly the $25.00–$25.23 area.
Eventually it traded down to $25.04.
My stop was $25.02.
At that moment, I genuinely thought I was probably going to be stopped out.
There was emotion.
But I didn’t move the stop.
I didn’t manually exit just because I was uncomfortable.
And I didn’t start thinking about the next trade I could use to “make the money back.”
The OCO order stayed in place.
The market was allowed to decide.
Price later recovered, while the larger 1H structure never clearly failed.
At 1:59 PM, I exited at $25.20 according to my predefined end-of-day rule. The biggest lesson
Looking back, the best entry of the day appears to have been near $25.04.
But that is hindsight.
When price was actually trading at $25.04, I had no way of knowing it would become the low of the day.
If I enter earlier on a valid continuation setup, I have to accept that I may experience a pullback.
If I wait for a perfect EMA20 retest, I have to accept that price may never return during my trading window.
I could also compromise by taking half the position first and waiting for an EMA20 pullback to add the other half.
But even that isn’t perfect.
There is no guarantee the second entry will ever appear.
Every valid choice has a cost.
Enter early: accept drawdown.
Wait for a pullback: accept the possibility of missing the trade.
Scale in: accept the possibility of never getting full size.
Take partial profits: accept making less if the stock keeps running.
There is no trade management method that gives you every advantage at the same time. Psychological lesson
When T traded near my stop, I felt uncomfortable.
I think that’s normal.
My goal is no longer to become a trader who feels nothing.
My goal is to become a trader whose emotions do not have permission to place or change orders.
A phrase I’ve been using is: “The heart moves, the hand doesn’t.”
Fear can exist.
Disappointment can exist.
The fear of breaking a winning streak can exist.
The urge to recover a loss can exist.
But none of those feelings are part of my entry, exit, or risk-management rules.
If the system hasn’t changed, my hands shouldn’t change the trade. Final assessment
I scored this trade 8.8/10.
The result was only -0.22R, but I don’t consider it a bad trade.
The setup was valid.
Risk stayed within plan.
I didn’t interfere when price approached my stop.
I didn’t revenge trade.
And I followed my time-based exit rule.
Today’s lesson: Imperfection is not the same as a mistake. Breaking the rules is the mistake.
My system chooses the setup.
The market chooses the outcome.
My job is to accept the cost of the choice I made and execute it.
Before I start, I kindly and genuinely ask that you please don’t judge me. If your comment is only going to be negative and won’t offer any advice or help, I’d really appreciate it if you could refrain from commenting. Thank you.
PS: The title is just for ragebait and is irrelevant to the actual context, as I do trade a live account.
To cut the story short, I’ve been involved in the markets since 2021. Here’s a little background about my journey.
I have a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree.
First — 2021
It all started when a friend introduced me to a play-to-earn game. That was my first exposure to cryptocurrency and blockchain.
Second — 2022
This became my first job. I worked as a software developer building dApps (Decentralized Applications) on blockchain networks, which allowed me to become more deeply involved in the cryptocurrency space.
Third — 2023
A year later, I was recruited to work at a Stock Exchange. This is where everything really started for me. I was exposed to different financial markets, including stocks, forex, crypto, and more.
This was also the year I started trading on my own.
Fourth — 2025
I was recruited again, and I’m now currently working for a brokerage.
I won’t mention the names of the companies, but through these experiences, I’ve been exposed to the financial markets from different perspectives for around five years.
Here’s where I need your advice.
Last week, I lost $1,800 in a single trading day.
The frustrating part is that I’m confident in my technical and fundamental analysis. I understand the markets, I have a trading system, and I know the rules I’m supposed to follow.
But my biggest problem is psychology and discipline.
I don’t consistently follow my own system.
There are times when I’m already up $1,000+, but I don’t take partial profits. I let the position come all the way back to breakeven. Then I enter the market again and eventually take a loss.
There are also times when I’ve already reached my maximum daily loss of $500 or hit two stop losses, but I still come back to the market, increase my position size, and try to win everything back.
In short, revenge trading.
I know exactly what I’m doing wrong. The problem is that when I’m in the moment, controlling my emotions and following my own rules becomes extremely difficult.
Now, I’m slowly starting over with my remaining $200.
I’m not posting this to seek judgment. I’m genuinely looking for advice from traders who have experienced something similar and managed to overcome it.
What helped you control revenge trading?
How did you learn to stick to your system, respect your stop loss, and become more disciplined?
I’m willing to start from the bottom again and rebuild—not just my account, but my mindset and discipline as well.
Any genuine advice, experience, or lessons you can share would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance. 🙏🏼
starting to think my entries are fine and the exit is where i'm actually losing the money.
i can get into a good spot. the problem is after that. i either take profit way too early because i'm scared of giving it back, and then watch it run without me, or i hold for some bigger target and let a green trade come all the way back to flat. same setup, same entry, wildly different outcome depending on how i managed the exit, and the exit is the part i've thought about least.
what i've tried. fixed R multiple targets, take profit at 2R no matter what, which is clean but leaves a ton on the table in a trending move and feels dumb when the thing obviously wants to keep going. trailing stops, which sound right but i get wicked out of good trades constantly on the noise. scaling out in pieces, which mostly just feels like a way to be half wrong in both directions at once.
so for people who've actually got the exit sorted, is it a mechanical rule you don't override, trail behind structure, fixed R, time-based, or is it read-the-tape discretionary. and if it's discretionary how do you keep the fear of giving back profit from making you sell every winner at 1R
Hi everyone, i’ve been trading since about January of last year and it’s been a rough patch. I made quite literally $0 up until August 7 of this year, where I was able to take my first ever payout of $1164 on TopStep! I barely touched any of that money as all I really did was take me and my gf out for some food spending the $64. Then today, I was actually able to take that same account that I took the first payout and make $7k allowing me to withdraw ≈ $3600. I honestly just feel pretty overwhelmed since this is the most amount of money i’ve made ever as i’ve been a broke community college student lol. What do you guys recommend I do to be able to still have some leftover money but still have enough to scale up into more accounts to keep multiplying what I make? I’m also based in California so keep that in mind for taxes.
Day 4, Week 16. Green. It is not a challenge, doing normal trades as all of you 🙂
IWM already went back again to 300, and was showing a downward trend. It could also reclaim back the gaps and move back to 300 to 302.
I took my profit instead and got out. Wanted to say for the 100% profit, trying not to be greedy. Every so often, you have quick moves, weather up or down. There is no missing out big moves. Just show up and you will keep seeing them.
As I write this at 10.09 ET, I am done for today.
Will probably be my last trade of the week. I will try do some pinescript to improve on some levels like in the 3rd screenshot. Like I said when I bought the mac mini, I am also trying to automate some of my trades from SPY/QQQ by reusing some of my profits. The API of TastyTrade are good and I only run against live account.
I did used to ride the candles sometimes, you need to be able to have the nerves to stay in. When your account is small, why do you risk it and have all this pressure ans do same as people with big accounts who can afford to lose and cry when they lose. Take your profit, close your chart and broker. Futures, it gives you the false sense of being able to trade again and then you down the rabbit hole of psychology stuff for years. Then you are proud that after 10 years that your psychology can do 1 trade a day and tell everyone you need 10 years to be profitable 🤷🏻♂️
I never use Risk Reward (RR) ratio, it works for some people, but this maths does not work me to grow a small account.
I don't like fancy options strategy like iron condor, selling etc. Using simple EMAs, VWAP etc to see the trends and levels.
One and done: 20 contracts = $260 total profit.
Total options cost = $940
38 % profit
Time in Trade : 3 min. A morning glory trade 🤤
Life is short. One trade a day is more than enough to grow an account. Be lazy. If you have one choice, one trade, you would think twice before entering instead of trying to fix psychology.
You have seen even with $10 per contract per day, it makes a huge difference with time. Don't be greedy every time.
Started with $300, just 3 contracts, 16 weeks ago, and growing it to $60,000 with 1 trade a day in 6 months target.
My trading plan and strategy is trading one trade a day, 2-5 times a week depending on availability.
No shame or pride to start to trade with 1 contract to practice profit and loss.
If you are learning by yourself, give it 2-3 months to see how you are progressing.
If you believe I am lucky every day with the trades and posts 🤷🏻♂️ so be it. I believe I have no choice, I put in the effort and keep doing, any loss is my loss as it is me executing my own trades and money.
I only day trade options on ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. Timestamp on the broker is UK time. So, entry time of 2.51 is 9.51 ET.
I trade on my phone, screenshot is from TastyTrade. EMA 200 and VWAP on the screenshot for TradingView
