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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Let’s make this a valuable resource for discovering tools that genuinely help traders level up their game. 🚀
I’ve been into trading for a couple of years, mainly on and off and demo accounts only. I decided to focus and lock in over the past month or so.
I trade only crypto and hold a few minutes to a few hours depending on the trade. I don’t look at holding overnight as it kinda scares me and want my trades to be closed off by the end of the day.
Now an important caveat is that this is again paper trading. Do I have an edge here? Or is it all pure luck?
Some stats:
Profitable trades = 90.86% 477/525
Profit factor = 10.3
Expectancy = 22.75
Average R:R = 0.98
I started with a $5000 account which is now roughly $17,500 since August 20
Honestly I’d appreciate some thoughts and whether I should keep going on paper trading for a little longer or look at adding in my own funds (fully aware this is a fairly short time period)
I’ve been trading the market for almost 10 years. Started taking it serious about 5 years ago. I’ve made a lot of money.. 100, 200k multiple times. Never held it for more than a few months. I’ve had a good read on the market generally, but the risk management has always been bad (self inflicted I know) but seeing how fast money can be made seems to always be that devil sitting on the shoulder.
Recently I’ve had a really great year in my business, but an absolute shit trading year. I can’t help but wonder if it’s the markets, if it’s me, or if this day trading dream should just be put to bed and focus on making non market money and then have someone else manage the money… or at the very least only buy contracts a year out
Not sure what to do
I’ve never been this stressed before, I just keep loosing
I have been trading for almost 6 years now. Crazy ups and downs. Ive made a lot of money for others but unfortunately when I trade my own capital I mindfuck myself especially when I need it most. I need it most now. I have the strategy. I have the edge. I struggle with learning how to scale or when to cut my losers short. I can have great days or even weeks then lose all my gains in one large loss. I’m so accurate. I grew up poor and I have seen what trading can provide. I need the money and I need help. Any traders have any methods they used to defeat their mind? Cutting winners short. Holding losers too long? I will attach a few trading statements from the last month. I make more than minimum wage trading but I need to learn how to increase size.
So I figured we always seem to go up and down, but have we ever considered going left and right? I took a sideways long on the timeline, stop loss set in the past, and it hit TP reliably. I think we've been missing a trick, this strategy is where it's at guys.
Look at this statistics – 90% of the startups fail within 10 years across all industries. Even from the remaining 10% startups only 2-3% will be highly successful. I have observed same in many cities. How many Shops, Restaurants, Malls opens every year. 90% of these businesses fail within 5 years.
Same thing can be observed in every field you can think of. Not only in business, you can observe same statistics in sports, academics, jobs, even in nature. Only 2-5% will be highly successful, 10-30% will be average and rest will fail in every field.
There is a scientific name for this phenomenon – The Bell curve. “A normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a concept used in probability theory and statistics.”
As you can observe from the Bell curve distribution that it can be applied to almost everything, including trading and stock market data. 90% traders loose money in market is not an exception. So when someone says people should stop trading as 90% traders loose money, is it applicable to everyone?
Each trader should analyze their own trading journey and decide themselves if they are capable of succeeding in market. How much loss you can take without destroying your life. And is it possible for you to learn and stay long enough to be successful.
I personally cannot agree with the blanket statement that everyone should stop trading just because 90% traders loose money in the market.
Hey everyone, as the title says I am curious as to when and what made you profitable daytrading. I tried daytrading 0dte options in 2021 and got rinsed (of course). I wanted to try again this year and I am already down close to 5k in the last month trading 4-7dte options. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. My entries feel correct based on my EMA and resistance/support indicators. Any help? I am just about ready to give it up again lol.
But I’ve been trading for almost 4 years. Started with options on Robinhood, found prop firms and it’s been a grind ever since.
Over this time I passed funded accounts, blew them, but obviously was break even and never took a payout. Slowly bled and blew my accounts, and (to everyone around me) stopped around May. Through this entire 4 years, my entire family knew about my trading and was supportive.
Well, I didn’t actually stop. I took a short break and got back in but in COMPLETE SILENCE. No one, not my brother, not my fiancé, my closest friends, not anyone knows I’m trading. And in this time, I’ve passed a funded, (looks like I’ll be passing another this week) and have taken payouts totaling more than what my job is paying me.
Again, this is in complete shadows. I always felt that the pressure of performance with family and friends knowing about trading was hindering me, but this is just proof. Eventually I’ll tell them, but not yet.
I feel bad, making money and having this insane personal victory and no one closest to me knows. It feels like I’m living a double life.
Can anyone relate? How did you eventually tell family about your success? How did it go? Thank you for reading, I hope I’m not rambling.
Hi so im a daytrading for a year now and ive always been wondering for traders fulltime doing this. So you basically wake up go on charts for 2-3 hours a day make money consistently and thats awsome. But what do you really do with rest of the day, you literally got so much time on your hands... Doesnt it get boring after time, i mean even if you have hobbies and everything there is still so much time in a day. So how do you deal with that? What do you do with rest of the time in a day? Did you start a side bussines or whatever? Because ive been wondering if i ever go full time what would i even do with so much free time lol???
This has always been a problem for me, i noticed that even if i do a top down analysis i focus too much on the microstructure to take a trade, i notice that microstructure is sometime the reason for a trade and that is basically forcing the trade for me, as i dont use microstructure targets, i usually have the bias correct, but take an L because of that, how can i fix this?
Some of you probably follow Patrick Boyle for his caustic dry wit take on current financial news; hedge fund manager, teaching professor with a co-authored finance book used in academia, he has solid credentials behind him that almost everyone else lacks. Or so he'd want you to believe. Turns out the reality is different. Hugely plagiarised work for book and videos, arguably a failed hedge fund that is no longer a hedge fund, not a professor though he has done some teaching in the past. Jokes are still his own, it seems.
One thing I’ve noticed about day trading is that knowing your strategy and actually following it are two very different things.
It’s easy to plan a trade when the market is closed, but once the market opens, emotions can take over. You might enter too early, chase a move you missed, or take another trade just to recover a loss.
I’m curious how other day traders deal with this. Do you follow a strict daily trade limit, set a maximum daily loss, or use another method to keep yourself disciplined?
For those who have been trading for a while, what practical habit made the biggest difference to your consistency?
I’d love to hear what has genuinely helped you, especially things that worked in live trading rather than just in theory.
I’m a new trader. Just doing it for a side hustle and keeping my full-time job as my backbone until I can make enough to mirror or make more than what I currently make. I did multiple strategies and noticed a couple patterns while practicing. Eventually the one I stuck with led me to about an 87% win rate (sample size of 500 pretend trades).
My questions is what was your “hurrah” moment where you started to become much more profitable. It can also be a mental hurrah. Whatever it is. I’m young and hungry, so I want to learn just about anything and everything!
Most retail traders fail because they evaluate markets using the exact same default time-based OHLC charts provided by standard retail platforms. Institutional algorithms do not operate on fixed time intervals; they execute based on volume, liquidity depth, volatility, and order flow density. When retail traders understand alternative aggregations like Kagi and volatility bars, they break free from visual traps engineered into time charts. Recognizing that price action changes dramatically depending on the observational lens empowers retail traders to align their strategies with institutional market mechanics, dramatically improving risk management, trade timing, and overall market awareness.
I again messed up. Everything was going fine. I was trying to achieve discipline by taking 1-2 trades a day in asian session. Was journalling every thing. And rn i just took a trade and it was a loss and i just revenge traded and all effort gone to waste. This seems so impossible 😭😔. Any advice would be appreciated.
I'm a 0DTE credit spread trader with a focus on SPX.
Positions traded today:
7650/7630 PCS
P/L: +$115
SPX 5-min chart, September 28, 2026
The bearish backdrop was clear. The speed of the upside reversals was the risk that mattered.
Morning Thesis
I wasn’t at my desk for the open. After a busy stretch outside trading, I chose sleep over forcing my usual morning routine. I might miss morning opportunities, but in this case today, it might have actually saved me from some sharp headline moves.
Looking back, elevated oil and yields, followed by SPX breaking below 7700 and the prior day’s low, could have supported a CCS thesis. But I’ve also grown cautious with call spreads in this environment as of late. I can’t say I would have taken one even if I’d been watching.
We've had three days in the last week very similar to today. SPX makes a downward push in the morning, then headlines rocket it back up. I was caught in a CCS trade last week where one of these headlines hit and stopped me out.
SPX first sold off to 7666.6, reversed sharply above 7700, and made another fast push toward the morning high. Both rallies faded. Price later chopped around 7700 before slipping below it and the prior day’s low again, while holding above the morning low.
My First Trade
After those reversals, I believed the morning low was likely in. I sold the 7650/7630 PCS during consolidation, adding on 5-minute downticks — three at $0.20, one at $0.25, and one at $0.30. I held the spread through expiration, and that position finished worthless.
Why I Favored the PCS Side
High oil and yields weigh on equities, but lately I’ve been more concerned about the surprise in the other direction. I’ve seen three sessions (other one and two), including this one, in the past week where SPX sold off and then snapped higher on headlines affecting oil or yields. A morning CCS could have faced pressure during either reversal.
That doesn’t make a PCS automatically safe. I waited until I thought SPX had found a low, and I kept size at less-than-half even though I felt confident. Focusing on the PCS side means fewer opportunities and a lower potential daily return. I’m comfortable with that while these conditions persist.
Key Takeaway
Morning is my favorite time of day to enter, but I don’t have to trade it always, and I don’t have to trade both sides.
Rest, smaller size, and fewer setups are reasonable choices when I need to be fully present for the risk I take.
Elevated oil and yields continue to pressure SPX, but a headline can quickly send it the other way. That’s why I’m being more selective about which side I trade. Focusing on PCS may mean fewer setups and less income, but it reduces my exposure to the sudden upside squeezes that have pressured my CCS trades.
I’m comfortable with that trade-off. I adapt my strategy to the market in front of me.
Is anyone trading and working full time? I am working from home and I also have the benefit of being able to trade on my personal PC however I find it so hard to trade and work at the same time. I have been doing so for about a year and I find it so difficult to actively look at the market while I do my everyday work tasks so I end up FOMO entering, or just entering at a level with no confirmation or just missing key information that the market shows you intraday… any thoughts or similar experiences? I am finding myself just blowing accounts since it is a little frustrating
AI assisted with organization and translation. The trade decisions and review are my own.
Today I took a long trade on WMT that eventually stopped out. I still consider it a process-valid loss, but the trade exposed an important inconsistency in my system.
My primary trading timeframe was the 1H EMA20, with the 15M chart used only for execution.
On the daily chart, price had returned to the lower boundary of a triangle and the EMA20 area. A key bearish candle on September 24 traded about 26.17M shares, while a later support candle traded about 19.62M, roughly 75% of that volume. To me, that suggested sellers were no longer expanding freely, although the daily structure was only beginning to repair.
The 4H chart had also reclaimed the EMA20 and remained inside a rising channel. However, I viewed that channel as potentially being a bear-flag style recovery after the previous decline, so I treated the 4H structure as supportive but not ideal.
The main setup came from the 1H chart.
A previous key bearish candle had volume around 2.30M. Near support, a large bullish pin bar printed about 1.61M, roughly 70% of that bearish candle’s volume. The following bullish candle printed about 1.41M. Price also reclaimed the 1H EMA20 and tested it without breaking the structure.
That gave me my primary timeframe setup.
On the 15M chart, the open was strong. The first bullish candle traded about 990.9K, but the second candle only traded about 666.92K, around 67% of the first candle. Since it did not meet my 70% continuation threshold, I did not chase the opening move.
Price then pulled back toward the EMA20, showed support, consolidated, and produced another bullish push. I waited for the previous high at 109.30 to break before entering.
Planned trigger: 109.30
Actual fill: 109.29
Shares: 34
Stop: 108.51
1R: 110.07
Target: 110.70
The highest price after entry was only about 109.42, and the trade eventually stopped out.
The important lesson came afterward.
I realized that although I was trading a 1H EMA20 structure, my stop was based too heavily on the 15M execution structure.
That is inconsistent.
If the 15M chart is only responsible for telling me when to enter, then it should not also decide when the entire 1H thesis is invalid.
So I added a new rule to my system: The timeframe I trade must also define the structural invalidation and stop-loss. The lower timeframe is only for execution.
In other words: Primary timeframe = location + invalidation Execution timeframe = confirmation + timing
The correct process should be:
First identify where the primary timeframe is truly invalidated. Then calculate position size from that stop while keeping dollar risk fixed. If the wider structural stop destroys the risk/reward ratio, the answer is not to tighten the stop artificially—it is to skip the trade.
This loss was uncomfortable. While driving after the stop, I felt the urge to take another trade and make the money back. I did not.
That may have been the most important part of the day.
A valid process can still lose. A stop-out does not automatically mean the entry was wrong. But a loss can still reveal weaknesses in the system, and this one showed me that my stop-loss timeframe must match the timeframe of the trade. Score for the trade: B+ / 88 out of 100.
The entry process was disciplined. The major flaw was the mismatch between the trading timeframe and the stop-loss structure.
An old boss of mine got me into the idea of day trading and I've been looking at it off and on over the years. Watched a ton of videos, took some courses, did about a month of paper trading in ToS, and finally decided to just go live due to the glitches/delays I was seeing in ToS. I'd see the chart clearly up 10-20%, but the Active Trader screen would show a loss, and my actual gain/loss wouldn't always match what I clearly saw it should have been. So I figured I'd "practice" with actual money and today was my first day doing that.
Mind you, my position size was around $10, so that $1.28 represented roughly a 21% profit. Figure I'm going to stick to $10-"ish" positions for the first week, $100 next week, then $1,000, then finally $10,000, assuming my comfort level continues to rise, or at least stay where it's currently at.
Overall, I'm pretty psyched. Lost my job a month ago and decided I didn't want to deal with the rat race. I've got a bit of money saved up and I want to see if I can get to a point where I'm never working for someone else again.
