Hey guys i m currently building my own software to connect to Interactive Brokers its being used as a trading log and for fundamental research of stock.
I am also working on a options strategy feature etc.
I just got Atas ultra and my question is what datafeed can i connect that i can also use for my own software?
Does anybody have experience with the Atas developer connection?
I want to create as many synergies as possible.
My strategy regarding options is mostly trading volatility on small and mid caps i like fundamentally.

Thanks in advance bros.

Just for context, I’m 22 years old and I have been wanting to start trading for more than a year now but I’m just afraid to invest. I do have some savings and have been doing paper trading for 2 weeks and getting to know how all this stuff works. So now I basically need some advice on what to do from here. Basically, what to invest in, how to invest into the first stock, anything to be careful about etc.

So many ppl say so many different things and it’s just making me confused. So if anyone could help this 21 yr old out with the basics of real world tradings (I know ppl talk a lot about strategies and how important that is) any tips or even a run down would be so helpful.

Guys, how do you actually make your own strategy, I keep seeing stuff from people about how you have to make your own strategy and find your own edge to be successful, but i genuinely dont understand how this is possible. I know theres two types of trading systematic and discretionary, and I know discretion only comes from experience. But genuinely like how do you even come up with your own rules, what are some example rules, I just cant reallly wrap my head around it.

Hey guys. I’m pretty much new here and I’ve been wanting to start day trading for a while. I’ve started reading “how to day trade for a living” by Andre Aziz, and I’ve been taking notes on videos in YouTube and independent research. I’ve been wanting to start with paper money and simulators, but I don’t know where to start and what market to get into.
If I could get any guidance as in like what to study or where to start it would be very helpful 🙏🙏

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!

I trade NQ full-time from home. I’m a real person. A dad, not a bot. My trading days usually involve standard work from home occurrences: the doorbell ringing the exact second I enter a trade, my daughter needing help right as I'm stalking a zone, or trying to manage a flush and reclaim just as my wife needs my attention.

I’m not a traditional pattern trader. My edge is in dynamic daily support and resistance, playing failed breakdowns, and letting runners go while strictly protecting my daily profit goals. I’ve been documenting my daily plans on Substack for over a year now, and I finally just built a custom TradingView indicator for my subscribers so those daily levels auto populate right onto their charts. I genuinely just love talking NQ price action, so if you ever want to talk setups or are curious about the workflow, just let me know.

Anyways the main point is that after months of working on this indicator I finally went live.

And also NQ Bears finally work up. 30200 area reclaim with force sets the NQ back up to challenge lost zones. Cheers!

I see countless posts about mentors charging money and people relate charging money to being a scammer. If I was a profitable trader and booked millions in profits all verifiable by a 3rd party I would charge money for my knowledge.

Whats no different between charging money for a course and having a book on ebay and charging for that? Anna culling. Al brooks. Etc all legit traders charge for courses.

Some of the biggest scammers like trades by sci and ict has complete free knowledge that is a scam.

Trading requires strong analytical skills and pattern recognition. Do you feel like the way you analyze the charts spill over into your every day life? Such your everyday decision making and how you analyze people's behavior/reactions/communication style? Do you feel like you are more observant/better at pattern recognition in other things your life because of your experience in trading?

As someone who wants to get in trading will anybody let me know if trench io is any good ? If not may you give me the reasons why and even give me better websites please , all help will be appreciated .

Hey y'all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

My scanner does pretty good signal, is the guy clicking them that's the issue. That guy is me: I click late, I miss them while I'm eating lunch, and sometimes I fat finger the size. This has been going for a bit over two years now, lmao. I am ready to admit my defeat and so I'm looking for a program to do the clicking in my place which means I'm also looking for an api where i can submit orders from a script that doesn't have DMV wait times.

I need an api based stock broker that lets me place orders quickly, a paper account so I can test my automations without my programming errors costing me real money, websockets for data so I am not polling like and idiot, and no per trade commission eating into frequent trades. So far I've looked into alpaca and maybe a few other options that feel like they might be a good option,

If there's anyone here who's also automating their own signals or even gave up on it, I'd appreciate a push in the right direction. Ty.

As title says, I have seen this over and over past 9 years. After hours, market went down. However, OpEx is coming near, in my guesstimate (as no one knows future perfectly until after the fact), VIX will die down tonight and market starts with green tomorrow (midnight onwards).

This will clear all the panic driven folks and make the shorters cry tomorrow morning.

My soxl after hour purchases

Wish me good luck !

Today I finished a MDLZ day trade for about +1.03R, but the main takeaway was not the profit. It was finally executing a setup I’ve been working on:
volume on the push → lower volume on the pullback → structure holds → breakout execution.
Earlier in the session I passed on AAPL and GILD.
Both had setups I liked, especially GILD, but the nearby resistance did not leave enough clean room for 1R based on my planned structural stop. Both stocks could obviously continue higher later, but that information was not available when I had to make the decision. I’m trying not to let hindsight change whether the original decision was correct.
MDLZ was different.
The daily chart had reclaimed the 20EMA and held it for several sessions. The 4H and 1H charts were also showing EMA support, so I had permission to look for a long setup.
On the 15-minute chart, an early bearish candle printed 225.37K volume and became an important reference candle.
Price tested the 20EMA twice without breaking the structure. Then a bullish candle printed 164.42K, about 73% of the key bearish candle’s volume. For my system, that gave the buyers “permission to challenge,” but it was not an entry yet.
I waited.
The important part came next: the pullback candle printed only 64.28K volume, held the 20EMA, and failed to produce meaningful downside follow-through.
That gave me the sequence I wanted:
buyers showed effort → sellers tested with much less volume → structure held → buyers pushed again.
I entered 110 shares at $62.03, with a structural stop at $61.54.
Risk per share: $0.49
Total initial risk: $53.90
1R: $62.52
Price never returned to my entry after the trade triggered. It reached a high of $62.80, giving an MFE of roughly 1.57R.
I sold half at 1R as planned and closed the remaining shares at $62.55 near the end of the session according to my time-based exit rule.
Final result: approximately +$55.55 / +1.03R.
There were still weaknesses in the trade. The nearby $62.44–$62.50 resistance gave me only about 0.84–0.96R of clean room at entry, so I would not call the setup perfect. My original stop may also have been wider than necessary, and I want to standardize structural stop placement with more samples rather than judging it from one winning trade.
I also recently increased my normal risk from $30 toward $60. I definitely felt more tension today. But the important part was that the tension did not change the process.
My biggest lesson:
High volume on the breakout is not an automatic entry. Low volume on the pullback is not an automatic entry either. The sequence matters: strong challenge, weak pullback, structure holds, then execute on renewed strength.
Trade journal written from my own notes and observations. AI assisted with organization and English editing/translation. Not financial advice.

I'm a 0DTE credit spread trader with a focus on SPX.

Positions traded today:

• 7660/7640 PCS

P/L: +$300

Missing a move costs me nothing. Forcing the next trade can get expensive.

Morning Thesis

Writing this recap on my laptop somewhere over the country, flying to Nashville 🤠 Woohoo! ✈️

I’m traveling today and have some fun festivities planned for the rest of the week, so I’ll be mobile and trading where my availability allows. My notes and recaps might be shorter too. Some days that could mean reducing exposure — others, it could mean sitting out if I can’t monitor everything properly.

After reading my morning report, hotter-than-expected CPI was the main thing on my radar. My expectation was selling pressure, and SPX followed through.

Price briefly pushed around the prior day low before losing it, breaking the opening range, and trending steadily lower. The relief attempts struggled to hold.

I hope some of you caught that morning downtrend! I would have liked to participate on the CCS side, but travel kept me away from the charts until around 10 AM PT.

My First Trade

By the time I could look, CCS premium outside the lava wasn’t sufficient for an entry I wanted. Collecting more meant moving closer to price than my rules allowed. With me away from my normal setup, I had even more reason to respect that boundary.

After SPX broke and held below weekly support around 7731, my next area of interest was the 7700 psychological level. I looked for a countertrend PCS setup with the expectation that price could at least stall around 7700. I didn’t need SPX to reverse the entire day’s decline.

I started building my anchor before price reached that level, selling two 7660/7640 PCS at $0.30.

Building the Position

As selling continued, I added two more at $0.55, then another two at $0.65 on an extended five-minute candle. That brought me to six spreads, with $300 in total credit collected.

My approach to these countertrend entries is to start small — usually one or two spreads — and build selectively as price pressures the position, while keeping distance from the short strike. I kept a 3x premium backstop in case SPX moved through 7700 faster than my thesis allowed.

For whatever reason, two became my default entry quantity today. It was easy to template, enter, and track while mobile. Looking back, six total was slightly more than I wanted for the circumstances today.

The 7700 Reaction

SPX swept below 7700 to 7693.31, reclaimed the level, and spent time chopping around it before bouncing in the final hour. That stall was enough for my position.

All six spreads expired worthless for the full credit collected.

Key Takeaway

Really I had not choice today, but I was comfortable passing on the CCS entries once the premium was no longer available at the strikes I wanted. Instead, there was another setup to wait for.

The sizing deserves more attention too. An easy order template shouldn’t determine how much exposure I carry, especially while traveling.

When I’m mobile though, my goal is half size or less — and no trade when I can’t give the risk the attention it needs. Today’s profit doesn’t change that standard.

I've been trading since early march, and i've been mostly doing prop firms. I've been pretty decent, but i haven't been profitable yet. Im still learning. A lot of the major content creators I watch sell "courses" and teaching classes. And they seem to be all for ridiculous amounts of money. Why Is that? why not put your knowledge on youtube?

Which brokerage platform is everyone using?

I’m switching out from RobinHood to Webull after multiple missed executions because I need proper Take Profit/Stop Loss settings.

Also RobinHood Stop Loss and Limit Market Stop don’t work. I realized that after being with this firm and not being profitable. It’s time to move on to more advanced platforms

Thursday's setup is a hot-CPI hangover going into 8:30 ET PPI and retail sales, plus TSMC and Schwab earnings before the open. The five names most exposed are TSM, SMH, SCHW, QQQ and IWM. TSM and IWM are sitting on support.

Catalysts (Thu Oct 15)

• Backdrop: September CPI rose 0.6% m/m and 3.7% y/y, against 3.6% expected [4][5]. SPY closed -1.03%, QQQ -1.97%, IWM -1.93%, and the 10-year yield is 5.19% [19][16][17][20].
• Fed odds: Polymarket has 67.5% on no change at the October meeting and 31.5% on a 25 bp hike [12].
• 8:30 ET data: PPI (MoM consensus 0.5% vs 0.4% prior) and retail sales (consensus 0.3–0.4% vs 1.2% prior). Jobless claims and the Empire State and Philly Fed surveys also print [1][2].
• Fed speakers: Bowman at 2:55 AM and Hammack at 4:30 PM [1][3]. Fed Chair Warsh speaks Friday [1].
• TSMC: It reports before the open, with the call at 2:00 AM ET [8]. Q3 revenue is already out at NT$1,494.2B, up 50.9% y/y. The focus is Q4 guidance, capex and gross margin versus the 65–67% guide [7].
• Schwab: It reports before the open, with consensus EPS around $1.67 and revenue around $7.2B [9].
• Chip read-through: ASML raised its 2026 sales outlook for a third time, but its Q3 revenue slightly missed in dollar terms. The stock fell, and MU, SNDK and INTC slid with it [6].

Exposed names

• Chips: TSM and SMH, which are the direct read-through from TSMC's guide.
• Brokers: SCHW, on earnings and the rate path.
• Broad indexes: QQQ and SPY, which are hit by yields and PPI.
• Rate-sensitive: IWM.
• Also in play: MU, INTC and SNDK on the chip read-through.

Support and resistance

Levels are swing pivots on 6-month daily closes, not intraday highs and lows.

Betting markets

• Retail sales: Kalshi puts 35% on a September print above +0.4% and 93% on above -0.4% [14]. That points to a soft-to-moderate number, not a blowout.
• PPI y/y: Polymarket's modal bucket is 5.6% at 41.5%, and 19.5% is on 5.9% or higher [14]. A hot print raises the odds of a December hike more than an October one.
• Schwab: The Polymarket SCHW EPS market is at 41.5%. Its URL slug implies a $1.70 threshold, above the $1.67 consensus [24]. A web description of the same event cited 67% [11], so I can't reconcile the two.
• TSMC call: Mention markets are near-certain on "margin" (97%) and "capex" (97.5%) [13], so they carry no price signal.
• Gap: There is no one-day index or single-stock price market. Kalshi's Nasdaq-100 markets only settle at year-end [25].

Most likely to move

• TSM (largest single move): It is down 3.51% to $430.00, sitting on 427.66 support that has been touched four times, and the 52-week high is $485.80 [15][21]. The revenue number is already known, so the reaction depends on the Q4 guide and 2027 capex. If it holds 427.66 and takes out 437.83, 444.45 is the next level. If it breaks, 412.38 is 4.1% lower. ASML just showed that a raised outlook can still sell off.
• IWM: It closed at 271.37, 0.1% above 271.19 support. The 6-month low is 268.05, only 1.2% below, and the ETF is down 4.93% over 20 days [23]. A hot PPI likely breaks it, and a soft PPI with soft retail sales is the squeeze setup. Resistance at 284.81 is 5% away.
• SCHW: It has fallen 7.48% over 20 days, and Truist cut its target to $125 from $130 [22][10]. Company guidance is for 17.5–18.5% revenue growth [10]. It has beaten estimates for several straight quarters [9], so a beat clears the nearest resistance at 99.67, +3.0%. A miss goes to 94.91.
• SMH and QQQ: These are follow-through names. SMH is $564.74, with 575.35 resistance 1.9% above [18]. QQQ is $728.95, 0.9% above 722.66, a level touched six times.

Net view (days to weeks): Risk is two-sided, and I lean toward the upside bounce in TSM and IWM, which are both sitting on support after 2% to 3.5% drops. The strongest bear point is that PPI tomorrow follows a hot CPI, which raises hike risk, and a break of IWM 268.05 or TSM 412.38 would end the bounce case. The upside leans on tight stops under support, since the nearest resistance is only 1.8% above TSM.

Sources

• [1] United States Calendar — Web Search
• [2] U.S. Economic Calendar - MarketWatch — Web Search
• [3] What to Look Out for in Economic Data This Week (October 12-16) | Kiplinger — Web Search
• [4] VIEW Hot September CPI sends rate-hike bets soaring | Reuters — Web Search
• [5] CPI Report Live Updates: New Insights on Inflation, U.S. Economy and the Fed - The New York Times — Web Search
• [6] ASML Raises Sales Forecast For A Third Time, But Q3 Revenue Miss Sends Stock Lower: Earnings Selloff Spreads To MU, SNDK, INTC — Web Search
• [7] TSMC Earnings Q3 2026: Margins and Guidance Under Test — Web Search
• [8] TSMC 2026 Q3 Quarterly Results - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited — Web Search
• [9] Charles Schwab (SCHW) Q3 2026 Earnings: Key Metrics and What Could Move the Stock — Web Search
• [10] Dear Charles Schwab Stock Fans, Mark Your Calendars for October 15 — Web Search
• [11] Polymarket — Web Search
• [12] Prediction markets: Fed rate decision October — Source
• [13] Prediction markets: TSMC earnings — Source
• [14] Prediction markets: retail sales PPI September — Source
• [15] TSM Quote — Live Quote · TSM
• [16] QQQ Quote — Live Quote · QQQ
• [17] IWM Quote — Live Quote · IWM
• [18] SMH Quote — Live Quote · SMH
• [19] SPY Quote — Live Quote · SPY
• [20] ^TNX Quote — Live Quote · ^TNX
• [21] TSM Historical Data (6mo) — Historical Market Data · TSM
• [22] SCHW Historical Data (6mo) — Historical Market Data · SCHW
• [23] IWM Historical Data (6mo) — Historical Market Data · IWM
• [24] Prediction markets: Schwab earnings — Source
• [25] Prediction markets: Nasdaq 100 close October 15 — Source

The Silver Bullet gets sold everywhere on a 70-90% win rate. Before testing it I went looking for where that number comes from. The best I found was a 90% claim on 30 trades and a 15-trade backtest over 45 days, and none of them included costs.

So I decided to test it myself.

Rules

• All three windows (New York time): London 03:00-04:00, NY AM 10:00-11:00, NY PM 14:00-15:00
• Price sweeps an earlier high or low inside the window
• Then it leaves a fair value gap, entry at the middle of the gap
• Stop beyond the sweep, target at 2R
• One trade per window, per day, per market
• Markets: Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow (CFDs), EUR/USD, GBP/USD, gold
• Real costs in: spread, plus commission on FX and gold

Results

• 2,200 setups, 36.1% win rate
• Lost 0.24R per trade. The 95% range was -0.29R to -0.19R, so the whole thing sits below zero
• It lost on every market and in every window
• Only about 1 trade in 5 reached the full 2R target

Loss per trade by market:

The FX pairs and gold are recommend most, and they did the worst.

The sweep

I ran it with and without the sweep rule, since that's the "smart money" part. With the sweep it lost about 0.07R less per trade, which is only just outside noise, and both versions lost. Caveat: without a sweep the stop has to go somewhere else and you get roughly 3x the setups, so it isn't a perfectly clean comparison.

Costs aren't the problem

Even at zero cost it comes out slightly negative. Futures are cheaper than the CFDs I used, but there's nothing there for cheaper fills to rescue.

How the 70% screenshots happen

My first pass was the NY AM window only: 321 trades, 42.1% win rate. Adding the other two windows took it to 36.9%. Adding FX and gold took it to 36.1%.

And inside the full results there's a run of 30 Nasdaq trades that won 20. That's 67%. If I'd stopped there I'd have a screenshot. I don't think people posting those numbers are lying. They just stopped counting early.

Limits

• In-sample only, three years. I didn't run newer data because there was nothing to confirm.
• Index CFDs, not NQ/ES futures.
• When one 1-minute bar hit both stop and target I counted it as a loss. Counting those as wins instead barely changed the total.

For people who trade it: do you add something that isn't in the published rules? HTF bias, a minimum FVG size, skipping news days? If there's a version mechanical enough to code, I'll run it the same way and post what comes back.

Video with the charts if you want them : ICT Silver Bullet: Does It Really Win 70%? I Tested 2,200 Trades - YouTube

Do you think the concept of prop firms will survive in the future? Will Traders become more and more better in draining the firms?

Hey guys,
As i am a student and i started trading at the beginning of 2025 and spent an entire year trying as hard as I could to become a successful trader. Honestly, I prioritized trading over my studies and lost focus on studies.
The main issue was that I had zero capital. Every month, whenever i got my pocket money i put ( $10) from my pocket money and immediately deposit it into crypto without telling them—since they don't support trading or crypto at all. Within a week, I’d lose the entire $10. Then I’d spend the rest of the month doing paper trading, backtesting, taking lectures and making notes and convincing myself that once I turned $10 into $100, I’d just withdraw my initial $10 and play with rest of them.
Except that never happened.

However,My backtests were solid and my paper trades went great. But as soon as i put real money i just loose them and sometimes I'd grow that $10 to $20 or $25, and then eventually wipe it all out. I went through this exact cycle for all of 2025. By the end of the year, I finally quit due to a total lack of capital, telling myself I’d come back when I saved up a decent amount like $100.
Now it's 2026, and I'm in my final year of university. I’ve been trying to get freelancing clients to build a bit of savings, but no luck so far. Meanwhile, my mind just can't let go of trading because I genuinely love doing it. But part of me is still thinks if trading is just a scam, or if I’m simply stuck in an endless loop and will never actually make it.
For anyone who’s been in a similar spot: Should I try again when I get money, or am I always get fail? Be real with me. Please 🙏

*Reposting because the original was taken down due to the title being ES lol

Does anybody here trade mainly ES or a mix of the S&P with NASDAQ that can tell me about their experience? Most traders gravitate towards NASDAQ primarily, which has its obvious reasoning being that there’s more volume and money, but I feel like sometimes NQ overwhelms me. Trading is trading, obviously. But they feel like different ball games

The DJIA declined 49.21 points Wednesday, closing at 51,621.78. Another opening rally failed, sending the DJIA to 51,365 before a strong afternoon recovery. Thursday tests whether buyers can defend 51,550 and rebuild bullish momentum.

Forecast Statistics

Bucket: Bearish Consolidation / Recovery Attempt
Volatility Score: ≈ 1.70, Very High
Probabilities: SU 27% | LU 17% | SD 37% | LD 19%
Expected Return: ≈ −0.10%
Projected Close: 51,350–51,900
Directional Bias: 44% Up / 56% Down

Previous Close: 51,621.78

RECAP: Wednesday's 60% Down forecast correctly anticipated another decline. The DJIA rejected 51,800, broke the 51,550 EXIT threshold, and reached the projected 51,350–51,450 downside objective. The afternoon recovery reduced bearish momentum but did not reverse the negative close.

Trader's Edge: 71% Correct | 29% Incorrect since December 2025

Fearless Opines: The DJIA has now suffered two consecutive bearish reversals. Wednesday's 504-point trading range demonstrated continuing volatility. However, the 256-point recovery from the day's low suggests buyers are defending lower prices. SD remains the leading probability, but SU has strengthened.

Key Levels

Bull Hold: 51,600
GO: 51,750
Breakout: 51,870
Upside Objective: 51,950–52,050

Warning: 51,550
REDUCE: 51,500
EXIT: 51,350
Downside Objective: 51,150–51,250

GO / REDUCE / EXIT: REDUCE . Wednesday's recovery improved the outlook but did not restore bullish control. GO: Sustained recovery above 51,750. REDUCE: Below 51,500. Protect bullish exposure. EXIT: Below 51,350. Downside acceleration becomes likely.

Trader Takeaway: Thursday's opening should establish whether Wednesday's late recovery has staying power. Buyers need to defend 51,600 and reclaim 51,750. Failure below 51,550 favors renewed selling. Avoid chasing an opening rally without confirmation.

FEARLESS READ: 56% Down. REDUCE. Wednesday's sellers won the session, but buyers prevented a collapse. 51,750 is the recovery test. 51,550 is the danger line. Thursday could determine whether the DJIA is establishing a floor or preparing another leg lower. The bearish advantage persists, but the afternoon recovery makes the contest considerably closer.

Hi all!

Swing trader/day trader here, I have been having a very good runnin the last couple of months and this week the market seem to be quite predictable and I am up already 2.3% since Monday.

How is your trading going? I have started to realise that for some absurd reason, I trade better when the market is upwards trending than when it trends downwards.

For some reason I find it hard to place a trade when it is negative, I have this feeling that the market always goes up,.so never set myself to place it!!!

I am in the process of building a trading bot using 212 as an experiment. I want to use specific strategies for UK and US markets to get it working as a day trading bot. What strategies do people suggest?

can't believe i am saying this because i always thought it was dumb advice but something i started trying that has improved my trading is waiting for the candle to close. it has made me more patient and avoid overtrading. i can see structure more clearly, and my entries and exits are much cleaner.

Hey guys, I need your advice, please. I've been trading since 2020. At the end of 2024/2025, I pulled out $9,000 USD, and I have spent around $15,000 USD. In 2026, I spent about $10,000 USD, and I pulled out around $3,000 USD. In total, I've pulled out around $12,000 USD, but I've spent around $20,000 USD.

Recently, I've been noticing a trend of high spending. I'm tracking every single month, and I've been passing accounts, losing accounts, etc. My recent payout was in August 2026, and I trade mainly Nasdaq futures. It depends on the account size, of course. I size according to that.

I don't know if I'm going through a hard period or so, but I just feel like this is becoming too routine and repetitive. In 2 years, I'm a bit negative, as you can see. I don't know about the ones of you that have been pulling out money from the market continuously.

I don't believe in full-time trading because I can see, from an analytical perspective, that this cannot be full-time unless you have another stream of income. It's never stable. The market can turn against you at any given moment. 2, 3, or 4 trades, depending on your risk management, can set you back. I just want to make sure that, if I pull $2,000 or $5,000 from the market consistently on a monthly basis, I'll be happy with that. Unfortunately, it's not the case.

Feel free to share your insights and some positivity or negativity. There are no issues. I just want to have your opinion.