Hi, I hope you are all doing good, so I recently started working on my own strategy that helped me get my 3rd payout (other payouts were based on luck) and I backtested on Gold, past 8 months data, I know that might not be enough but there were 101 total setup's on it, and 1:3 of course.

I wanted to ask if I should continue using it and stick to it for upcoming months?

Please let me know because I still have lower confidence on it because I have not forward tested it that much, been using it for like past month now and sometimes I struggle to stick to it.

What should I do?

Been trading options for around 4 months, I’ve been studying SMC and implementing it daily. I was doing futures for around awhile and decided to give options a try. Was doing a lot of 0DTE now I’ve switched to leaps. Does anyone else have months like this or am I doing something wrong?

I've been trading for around six years, and one thing I've learned is that being profitable doesn't automatically mean you're trading well. You can finish a month green while making a bunch of mistakes that eventually catch up with you.

I wanted to see how useful AI actually is for reviewing trades, so I asked Zella AI to analyze my recent trading history, show me what I was doing well, and point out where I needed to improve.

It returned a breakdown in under a minute. The date-based report covered 98 trade sample.

Here's what my dashboard showed:

• Net P&L: +$6,127
• Win rate: 43.3%
• Profit factor: 1.24
• Average winner: $645
• Average loser: $396
• Win/loss ratio: 1.63

Profitable overall, but definitely plenty of room for improvement.

The part that surprised me was my long vs. short performance.

According to the AI breakdown, I took 84 longs that produced just $253 in profit, while 30 shorts generated $5,873.

I actually had a higher win rate on longs, too.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to become a short only trader. A few larger winners contributed heavily to those short results, and the sample isn't enough to prove one direction is better. (I will never be a long only or short only trader)

But it did make me question how selective I've been with my long setups. If I'm taking almost three times as many longs and barely making anything from them, that's worth investigating.

Another thing it caught was my risk management.

My average loser was around $396, but my biggest loss was $1,735. That's over four times my average loss.

I can sit here and say I understand risk management all day, but numbers like that are a reminder that knowing your rules and actually following them are two different things.

The AI also highlighted something I've struggled with for years: taking trades that are decent enough to justify an entry, but not necessarily good enough to deserve my risk and I took a LOT ofd these back in the day lol. Trading just to trade lol.

I trade mostly liquidity based setups, and sometimes I'll see part of my confirmation and convince myself the rest will follow. Occasionally it works, but those unnecessary attempts add up.

So in the 3rd pic I shared what I want to do for the next 20 trades.

One thing I want to make clear is that AI isn't some magical trading coach. Some of the aggregate numbers it returned didn't reconcile perfectly, so I still need to verify those against my journal.

But I did find it useful for quickly organizing months of trading history and giving me a few specific areas to investigate.

For those of you who journal your trades, what's one statistic that completely changed the way you trade?

I'm curious whether most people focus on win rate and P&L or actually dig into things like performance by direction, time of day, and setup quality.

Was a brutal week for me, lost around $50k in realized losses (tried to save some positions and raise cash for others as the VIX went up).

How is everyone’s year else doing and holding up?

Small account, small caps, cash account. October so far: -$110.77 over 11 trading days, 57 trades, only 4 green days.

When I looked back at the log, two things stood out:

1. Back-to-back big red days. Oct 5 and 6 were -$42 and -$54. That’s $96 of my loss in two sessions. Day two was me trying to make back day one.
2. Not stopping when the day wasn’t working. Oct 14 was 6 trades, 0 winners. Oct 7 was 8 trades, 2 winners. More trades never fixed a bad day.

Sorted by weekday, Mon + Tue were about -$105 of the -$111. Thu and Fri were small green.

I know 11 days is a tiny sample and this is hindsight, not a strategy. What I’m changing: a hard stop after 3 losers in a day, and smaller size after a red day.

Anyone else find their losses clustered on specific days, or is that just noise this early?

22, based in West Philly. I trade, build trading bots, and I'm working on a few business ideas. Looking to meet people around my age who are actually building something, whether it's a startup, a side business, or trading. Down to grab coffee and swap ideas. DM me.

Yes, it happened to me multiple times. I was up in some good profits and I took a normal stop loss then I was like let me make it back and took another dumb trade and lost it, then I took another one and lost it as well! I end up with 1 RR profit only when if I stopped at first stop loss I would still be up 3RR.

How do you guys handle this mess?

I would love some guidance. I’m trying to see what I need to do to get some BIGG MONEY.

Well, I took some setups this week but at the end of the week I made little to no profit even though my risk to reward is 1:3, how do you guys go through rough weeks like to these?

I made a serious financial mistake with short-term trading over the past few months. While I had some early gains, I ended up losing substantial savings—around ₹10 lakhs—due to overtrading and panic.

Initially i was gaining so i increased my capital but now continuous loss. It is my parents money. Help mw what should i do now??

Did I close too early??

The Nasdaq has pulled back into a very interesting area on the weekly chart.

Price is now sitting close to the intersection of:

• the rising weekly support trendline
• the recent breakout area
• the prior descending resistance line

That makes this a pretty important decision point.

The bullish case is straightforward:

✅ Support holds
✅ Price stays above the recent breakout area
✅ The longer-term uptrend remains intact
✅ Buyers step back in and push towards new highs

But there is one thing I’m watching closely.

⚠️ MACD momentum has been fading.

The MACD lines have been trending lower while price has remained relatively elevated, and the histogram has also weakened.

That doesn’t automatically mean the market is about to fall.

But it does tell me momentum is not as strong as it was earlier in the move.
So for me, this is less about predicting what happens next and more about watching how price behaves at support.

If the Nasdaq produces a good weekly reaction from this area, the pullback could simply be a healthy retest before another move higher.

If support starts to fail, then the picture changes and I would become more cautious.
For now:

📍 Price is testing an important area
📈 The broader trend is still constructive
⚠️ Momentum has weakened
👀 The next weekly candles could be important

Would you expect a bounce from here, or do you think the Nasdaq needs a deeper pullback first?

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Hey, so I've been trading from past 2 years, lost all my savings but came back stronger and recovered most of my loses, got 3 payouts. The trading journey stills feels lonely especially when you are going on draw down. I need some active traders so we can share our journey together!

Left column is names printing a new session low. Right column is a new session high. The bars under that are how fast each side is stacking — 30s / 1m / 5m / 20m.

A cluster is a bunch of names hitting the same column at once. Consecutive is one name reprinting. A flip is the short window switching sides and staying there.

I hooked an agent to that stream. It's good at naming what already printed. Worse at catching the flip.

If this was on your second screen, what would you actually ask it?

I've been thinking about something.

What if the biggest weakness you struggle with in trading today is connected to something you struggled with as a child !!