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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/16/2025, 8:37 PM
    Please let me know if you all have any specific stocks or etfs to review, happy to look at anything and if you all want to try this out for yourself there is a free version that works for a handful of regularly traded stocks like AAPL for instance its called GEX profile lite on trading view.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/17/2025, 9:02 PM
    Day 33: Trades closed today 3/6 , P/L - $12.47, overall - $14.44. Today was very volatile from the fed meeting and interest rate cuts but that was totally expected. I trimmed some trades that flipped to negative and got some good wins to the target on others. I had one mistake on SLV where that is a larger size for investment and set a daily stop less as i was preparing for an interview midday and got taken out for a large stop there by accident, i did not intend to have any stops on that one was just my mistake. Overall i feel like i am doing better with the indicator than i would have otherwise trading right now and still in like with several plays to hopefully hit weekly targets by Friday.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/17/2025, 9:12 PM
    Here is a really cool trade i took Monday morning based off this new indicator in part, this is CSCO and i have it on the 1 hour chart going over 3 days. My entry was 66.86 with an alignment for the RSI MACD ribbon i use from J Bravo. and the target was originally 68 but later shifted down to 67.5 based on the options calculations. I left it alone and closed it right below the target at 67.23 happy to see it went my way and then it burst up through the target to 67.75 lol.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/18/2025, 8:41 PM
    Day 34: Day trades 4/5, Swing trades 2/5, P/L - $82.98, overall - $97.42. So the big loss today came from a swing long on AMD that dropped 10 dollars overnight and i was down over 150 dollars on it before market open. I put a tight stop after the first clear reversal as the technicals of the trade were completely different from when i entered at this point and i thought from a strict opinion it was best to not risk losing more when i never planned for that to begin with. Now this turned out to be the wrong decision in this case and i took a 145 dollar loss instead of holding throughout the day and then closing it for near break even but i was trying to be strict about it and made the best decision i thought in the moment, probably should have tried to trail my stop more loosely and rode it back up. Other than that bad trade i would have been up over 70 dollars today. I had several really fun day trade scalps for smaller amounts and closed a couple of swings around their first targets. I had three trades on the QQQ intra day fading the bursts up back into the gamma walls on the 2 minute, it was awesome. I definitely still need to refine how i am trading with the GEX indicator guidance but it does seem to be worth paying for a month subscription and re-evaluating after another 30 days. I also got a response from the maker of the indicator reviewing some trades i posted in his discord and he commented that i was using it well but weeks with big news like this would cause the gamma walls to fluctuate more than usual, so i am hoping to get even better results in the weeks ahead.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/18/2025, 8:55 PM
    Here is a review of the AMD swing trade this week. I entered Monday around 160 with a target price of 165 by Friday based on the price being above the 9 day moving average on the daily and above the HVL line for the GEX indicator, plan was to start scaling out at 162.50. Averaged in on Tuesday because everything still looked positive. This morning it had dropped dramatically far beyond my original stop of 158 dollars and 20 something dollar stop loss. I did wait until after market open to see if it would bounce strongly because i looked and saw the drop was already multiple times the ATR which is a setup for a reversal trade, but again i wanted to be strict because i have been expecting a market crash at any moment and thought well this could be it and 150 could become 200 in minutes and i never planned for any of that. So i waited for the first bounce and then put my stop under that and it took it out of course and then regained almost the entire price lost by the end of the day. I could have closed end of day for a loss around 20 dollars. This was a classic snap and trap move from the insiders and i should have given this one a little more rope.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/18/2025, 9:12 PM
    Here is a review of my day trades on QQQ today that i had so much fun on. So the first trade setup was a clear burst above all the gamma walls and entered at 597.34 short. Within 30 minutes i hit the first target slightly above 596 wall exiting at 596.45. Price then pushed back up above 597 so i shorted it again! I went in light for the second hit and then averaged in once the drop confirmed and took a quick profit on the other side of the 9 moving average thinking the play could have been done for the day. Well i was watching near market close and it started moving so i went to the 2 minute to see what was happening and it was dropping and trailing the 9 moving average so i got in for another couple of scalps down to the main gamma wall, and then price closed below the gamma wall just as the market makers would want for them to make the maximum profit off the unsuspecting public, wow! First chart is on the 15 minute to show the whole days spread and then i will show the 2 minute where all the action was at end of day.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/19/2025, 8:11 PM
    Day 35: Day trades 7/8, Swing trades 6/9 closed for profit. P/L + $93.97, overall - $3.45. This week has been pretty good using the new indicator as an extra guide, it definitely cannot be used alone but combined with technical analysis, along with an understanding of liquidity sweeps at the tops and bottom of ranges by the market makers i actually feel above 70% confident in trades for the first time. Today was triple witching options expiration and combined with the difficulty from the fed decision this was probably one of the hardest days and weeks to trade and make money. I was profitable overall this week about 100 dollars even with a couple of medium sized losses. I also hit over 1 million dollars traded today after transferring to a new account with trade station a week or so into day trading here. I won't be trading all of next week but the strategy is mostly the same as this week with some adjustments from what i learned with the gamma walls and the difference in swing trading. I have stopped using the 5 minute all together and now start with a daily chart for macro analysis, then switch between 15 and 30 minute and the 1 hour for most of the week, and i will use the 2 minute now for day trade scalps. Actually saves me a lot of time too, now i check for updates about 4 or 5 times a day but do not have to watch the charts all day long. Let me know if anyone has questions or anything i can help with or explain, this was all alien to me until i got deeply involved and even now i still do not fully understand the GEX stuff.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/19/2025, 8:29 PM
    Trade of the week: I am going to go over the result from the KO coca cola trade i showed earlier this week. My initial entry on Monday was 10 shares short at 66.65 with an expected target of 65 dollars very realistic target for a week just to start with. On the daily i show the price is under the main moving averages and show the pick up in volume as it is making a bear flag signaling more downside with reduction in momentum and rsi. On Tuesday everything looked the same so i averaged into the trade with 5 more shares. On Wednesday the targets updated and shifted from the highest gamma being 65 dollars to 66 dollars, now i was actually in a bit of trouble at this point because my average cost was already close to 66 dollars, so i realized i needed to average in at highs around 67 doubling down to have enough room for the trade to still hit the target. Thursday it moved in my direction and got in the money. Today i was watching as it got within cents of the target and i closed 30 shares at 66.12 for around a 25 dollar profit. This was not a really exciting trade, much the opposite, but it was pretty typical of the average trade i have had over the week i would say. First chart is on the daily and the second is on the 1 hour so you can see the macro and micro picture as i went through the trade for the week.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/22/2025, 8:21 PM
    Day 36: Day trades 1/2, P/L -$8.87, overall - $12.32. I chose not to open any swing trades so the trades are not on my mind during Rosh Hashanah. I made one short trade on SPY and lost another on the QQQ, i keep expecting the market to drop but i need to remember to play what is there and not what i am expecting or hoping for. I am all cash right now since the market seems totally over priced but about to start buying the dips on gold through GLD and silver through SLV , then getting into some no or low debt miners for an investment for the coming years once i decide how much i want to invest, what areas, and what percentages. On other news i finally got a short term contract job offer today! It is only expected to be a month or so but i am grateful all the same. Once i get started there i will turn this into a weekly report and keep the data going to show is active trading a gamble or not with the right knowledge and toolset.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/25/2025, 8:45 PM
    Day 37: Day trades 1/2, P/L - $6.35, overall - $18.67. I only took two quick trades this morning with tight stops as i am wrapping up some other things and before i start a new job as well as evaluating the broader market in general for longer term swing and position trading while i have work. Right now i have started my first position on IBIT which represents movement in bitcoin with a 1% starter position, my full position will be at 5% of my overall account. I am going to average in at lows buying weakness since i believe it is going up in the long term over 1-3 months is my current target at 125k-130k bitcoin price, my stop target will be to exit at confirmation below 100k most likely at this time because if it went below that it could likely go much further before rebounding. My next two positions will be GLD and SLV at 25% and 10% position sizes starting in the same way as IBIT but at pullbacks right now they are right near all time highs and i do not like to buy at a premium. Other than that i plan on finding one mining stock at 5% and one energy stock at 5% but i have not decided on all of that yet.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    09/25/2025, 8:48 PM
    Analysis for bitcoin: It looks like we are at the bottom of a parallel channel with two further supports around 105 being the 200 day moving average and 100 being a second significant support from previous price action. Target is between 125-130 in 1-3 months at this time while averaging in at lows. Stop is confirmation below 95-100k.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/01/2025, 9:06 PM
    Week 9: Weekly trades 1/1, P/L + $20.14, overall + $1.47. Took profit on IBIT representing Bitcoin at first target of 67, still holding 1/5 position to full target of 70. I still plan on entering gold and silver for position trades but have not seen a good entry yet, it is so volatile i am concerned it is going to drop as soon as i buy at an all time high, but at some point it may be better to just get and average in if it does drop. I am trying to let this week pass with the seasonal window dressing from quarterly results, and the government shutdown is likely to increase the chances of a crash i would think if it were to happen in October. If there is no major 10-20% drawdown this month then i am leaning on just entering my long term positions for several months and ignoring the short term fluctuations.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/03/2025, 9:17 PM
    Week 9: Weekly trades 2/2, P/L + $14.03, overall + $15.50. IBIT hit my final target profit of 70 dollars today and that was it, great trade i just never had a chance to average in with a larger amount to get more than 30 dollars out of it, but still an excellent trade that played out much faster than i expected. Still looking for the right opportunity on metals just like with this trade here, i would rather wait for a pullback than have more risk of catching a falling knife. No trades open right now will evaluate everything on Sunday evening to see what opportunities may be there to enter for next week.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/13/2025, 10:04 PM
    Week 10-11: Trade wins 3/6, P/L + $90.61, overall + $106.11. I finally found a dip to buy everything on my longer term investment list last Thursday, i entered GLD, SLV, IBIT, REMX, and B along with a discretionary trade on GME. I don't know how i happened to pick the day right before a pullback, which is my main fear when buying near highs , but i did and there was a massive pullback from a Trump tweet about tariffs on China. Well one of my picks was REMX and it dropped a lot and so i sold it because i did not want to hold through the weekend having no idea what would be likely to happen so i lost 25 dollars there, along with a 17 dollar loss on GME i went ahead and took everything else i held. Today on Monday Trump says "Don't worry about China, it will all be fine." That surged everything higher for the most part and i was up 70 dollars each on silver and gold with a small loss on IBIT. I set some stops for SLV and GLD as they started to come back down and got kicked out, so i will look to get back into GLD, SLV, and B on pullbacks, and i will be taking my profits frequently because i am quite concerned we are on the edge of something. Why? My gold and silver personal investments I've only been holding for less than 2 years has doubled in value and that is not normal price movement. I have not sold my physical and do not intend to any time soon.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/13/2025, 10:05 PM
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/29/2025, 2:41 PM
    Week 11-12: Trade wins 2/4, P/L - $202, overall - $95.89. Last week i had a 10 dollar gain from a long on Costco, a 10 dollar loss from a short on QQQ, and then a decent sized loss of 230 from GLD and SLV when it crashed, as i was worried it would. Now the good thing is i set my stop at either 2 or 3 times the ATR and so i got knocked out of the trade before it took the really big dip down, which would have had me down over a thousand dollars had i stayed in. I then made another trade on GLD this week buying the dip as it turned around yesterday for a 28 dollar gain, and i am back in GLD right now with a target of 380, from about 369 where i am in now. At this point watching the VIX spike up and crash back down, along with a lot of the tariff dates coming to a close here this week on November 1, it seems like the crash is less likely in the cards at this point. Now i am going to start looking for a good pullback on VTI since i think based on the past November and December are typically positive unless something else major happens. I have noticed some stocks like COST (Costco) are actually BELOW their value from the April 1st tariff market crash, so once it starts moving up confidently again i will likely re-enter COST for a longer term trade.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    10/29/2025, 2:49 PM
    I saw a video of Jay Clayton who is the U.S. Attorney General over the southern district of New York and the hosts on CNBC as well as Jay say openly that the market is manipulated and it is like an unsaid secret on wall street. Jay confirms this is happening, they know about, and have open investigations. He said "We can't have markets that retail folks access, where their are forces that are defrauding them on a systemic basis, systematic fraud against a retail person, that is bad." Another confirmation agreeing with @mysterious-tomato-10057 that active trading is closer to gambling because of these insider market scams, and anyone that is not very prepared to monitor trades and manage their risk should just stay out of it. Baruch Hashem my contract for my new job has already been extended from doing good consistent work, and I am not paying as much attention to trading right now, aiming for either looking at trades at the beginning and end of the week, or the month not sure which timeline i prefer yet but still trading a little here and there.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQ7aL3mEEk&t=150s▾

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    sparse-rocket-23724

    10/30/2025, 3:26 AM
    opinion on this?

    https://youtu.be/-j9kVKPULko?si=_u2Kr0UY-TLJbdVw▾

    https://hyperfoundation.org
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    sparse-rocket-23724

    10/30/2025, 3:33 AM
    The last few days I’ve been selling a 0DTE SPY straddle, positioned one strike out-of-the-money on both the call and the put, and buying very cheap wings (~$0.05) for protection. The buying power required has been about $1,200 per trade. I’ve been entering the trade between 930–945 AM and closing before 11:00 AM. My profit target has been $0.50, but if 11:00 arrives first, I close the position at whatever profit is available. So far, my smallest win has been $0.37, and I haven’t had a losing day yet. Today was an exception—because of the FOMC press conference, I didn’t expect much decay before 2:30 PM. So I held longer and closed after 3:30 PM for a $0.70 gain. I’m trying to determine whether this is a sound long-term strategy. Specifically, I’m unsure what the optimal approach is on days when 11:00 arrives and the position is still not near break-even. Should I be taking a small loss at that point, or holding until later in the day to see if theta decay brings it back toward break-even, and if necessary, rolling the position?
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    sparse-artist-42524

    11/02/2025, 11:43 PM
    Week 12: 2/2 trades, + $25.50, overall - $70.39. I got in and out of GLD for a 15 dollar gain and quick long on JOBY for 10 dollars following the gamma numbers for price targets, or exit signals. I am waiting for the betting market on GLD to flip back toward 395, right now it is at 369 for 11/07 and that is pretty much where price is so no expected big move this week, however if you change the expiration to 2 weeks then 395 is the highest gamma number. So i do not want to jump right in but once it starts trending above 370 i will jump in somewhere in there with a plan to ride to at least 390 or so and re-evaluate week to week. I also started a position on VTI Friday and plan on staying in as long as it stays above the 20 day moving average, if it starts trending below it for any reason i will likely exit and re-evaluate based on broader market conditions.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    11/13/2025, 3:57 PM
    Week 13: 4/5 trades, + $220, overall + $149.61. My main good trades were 2 longs on GLD as i waited for a pullback, the stabilization, and resumption of the upward trend. I had one bad short on HOOD and then 2 good shorts on PLTR and CRWV, with 2 large wins on GLD from using 2500-10k on position sizes. I have also increased my general trade size from 250 to between 500-1000 as i have found the GEX Profile indicator to be very useful after using it for a while and getting used to what it is saying about the trade. Still in GLD right now at about 386 with a target of 395 by tomorrow based on the GEX numbers. I am also finding shorts are starting to play out when before they almost always just popped up when i tried, so i am joining The Big Short investor in shorting PLTR, NVDA, CRWV, IONQ, and ASTS when the trade lines up with the betting market numbers. Currently shorting IONQ average cost of 48.50 with a target of 42.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    11/13/2025, 4:00 PM
    Currently short IONQ as a hot trade in the AI bubble, its below the 9 day moving average blue line significantly, and trending down. The GEX numbers say the betting market is basically expecting it is most likely to end this week at 42 dollars. Because its already deep into negative territory and the distance to the expected target i felt confident taking out a short on this in combination with the news finally reporting the ai is in a bubble and they are doing shady things to get the numbers they report. Also note the price of CALLS at the bottom are much more expensive than puts, meaning most people are betting its going to go down. I have moved up my stop to get 40 dollars even if it snapped back all of a sudden, my favorite type of trade.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    11/14/2025, 6:36 PM
    Week 13: 8/11 trades profitable, + $405, overall + $555. This week was my first awesome week, i had been waiting patiently for shorts around AI as well as a proper pullback in GLD and got both. I Closed IONQ short this morning pre-market for 165 dollar gain as well as ASTS for 160. They went to target before the market ever even opened and then bounced so i knew when to take the money and run knowing it was likely to bounce at least a little. GLD was a wild ride, after pulling out profits earlier in the week i had went back in yesterday with a pretty sizeable position around 10k because i was a little overconfident in its ability. This morning it dropped massively and i was down nearly 500 dollars and i averaged in several times as i watched for the bounce until i was 50k deep in the trade and i set my stop right below the recent low in case it got any worse. Thankfully the bounce played out just like in the AI stocks and i rode it back up to realize a 50 dollar gain instead of that 500 dollar loss. Follow up screenshot on IONQ i posted yesterday for anyone who cares to review the chart before and after. Out of all trades right now except an investment position on GLD, i got stopped out of VTI the very next day and never saw a good reason to get back in yet. Now we might rally back dramatically from here or this could be the start of a larger rollover but I'm waiting until i get more signals to know which way to trade.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    12/12/2025, 7:35 PM
    Month 5: 10/18 trades profitable, + $162, overall + $717. Changing to a weekly trade time frame along with the daily chart has definitely helped my trading be more consistent, combined with the GEX indicators i can see the difference clearly from straight up day trading and a more 50/50 outcome. I stay mostly focused on GLD and B for mining , taking profits at reasonable weekly levels, and watch AI stocks and indexes for more strongly indicated moves. The market still looks pretty choppy and unsure, but leaning towards a slight rally through the end of the month with next year the likelier point for any bigger drops. I have continued to hear about 2026-2027 being the year that the government revalues gold to 20,000 per ounce to partially back the currency along with bitcoin and possibly silver. If this is to happen it would likely have several laws passed or events happen to continue to signal this and thats where i will mostly be focused GLD, B, and AEM.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    12/30/2025, 4:56 PM
    Month 5: 7/9 trades profitable, + $137, overall + $854. Trades were one loss going long on GLD, a small gain from long on B, a moderate gain long on PLTR with a small loss as well, a small gain long on QQQ, a moderate gain long on COST, and 3 trades long on SLV. I am still mostly focused on precious metals and miners, but keeping an eye on AI and defense related stocks due to the government pumping money in those areas. My trading is much improved with the GEX levels indicator and i use that as my primary indicator now on a daily chart with a weekly timeframe for trades. Other than precious metals i do see some high grade stocks at a discount right now, as compared to the drop in April. COST is one of my triple A plays right now i expect to hold longer term. Price is currently around April lows and is down around 15% from peak. I shop at Costco and think its an actual good company with a lot of value in the long run. I also watched an episode of Kosher Money that had a lot of good basic investment and trading advice for those unfamiliar, and one particular thing he mentioned was that he thinks it is ok for people to take 5% of their money and put into a "cowboy account" as he calls it to trade freely with actively if you feel so inclined. This is the same principle i use and my max loss at anytime is 5%. If i hit that i would stop actively trading completely, and when i have got close i slowed down my trades and minimized money in trades to keep from hitting that number. Here is the whole video for anyone interested although its very similar to what is advised here.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwFZlDm_jM&t=4192s▾

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    sparse-artist-42524

    03/13/2026, 4:33 PM
    Month 8: Profitable trades - around 25%, - $763, overall + $192. February was by far my worst month, i think the main indexes are mostly moving sideways and even starting to decline now signaling distribution from the market makers. It is also a very bad time to trade in these sideways consolidation phases as the trend is not really established and it is very hard to say where it is going to go from one week to the next. Some stocks have shown sharp moves, but they all happened pretty quickly and you were either pre-positioned or mostly missed out, examples are oil, consumer staples, volatility like VIX, and utilities like Verizon or ATT. I am moving down my trade size again to 1000 and mainly sitting on the sidelines until i see a clear trend emerging. It looks like the VTI which looks a lot like the SPY is finally breaking down just like it did last year before the liberation day tariffs. I have been out of VTI since it went under the dark blue 50 day moving average, and will probably short it once it goes below the light blue 200 day moving average. Then i will be looking for it to cross the 50 day moving average again to go long just like what happened last year if it all plays out with some similarity. In this chart you can notice how it is doing similar price action to last year, and i circle the big lower bars which is volume showing large spikes in the red sell bars which is why i think we are in a distribution phase right before a trend down starts. Especially with the Iran war going on now, this is very likely to increase inflation and make everything start accelerating up in price again, from food to gold with some unknown delay of course. There are some stocks that look undervalued but i am not interested until the larger market decides a direction because if we have a crash scenario everything goes down most of the time and correlation becomes near 1:1. Whenever it hits the 200 day moving average it generally goes under it more times than it just bounces off of it when you look back in history so i would exercise extreme caution right now.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    04/06/2026, 6:03 PM
    Month 9: Profitable trades 7/8 - 88% , + $428, overall + $620. March really restored my confidence that i have figured out significant strategies when i clearly identify the trend. I added a new strategy from Trade ATS on youtube which is based around three phases at any given time starting with a contracting price action, this is where you determine a fair value gap in the middle of that range, then you wait for the next step which is an expansion led by the big money outside the previous range that you play toward the long term trend such as the daily. The third phase being the trend phase where everyone makes money at and then tend to lose back in phase one once a contraction starts. So i used this combined with my standard technical trading i follow from Chris Vermeulen primarily and the betting markets positions i have discussed called net gex or gamma exchange as well. So all that is a setup to say when the overall trend proved to be down in the markets i then started shorting at the smaller time frame moves up, betting that the overall down trend would continue, i use a 30 minute time frame for the actual taking of the trade, with a daily chart determining the overall direction of am i betting up or down, led by the gamma betting market numbers to help establish is the trend likely still up or down. I have to say i feel pretty confident that while the overall market went down 10% i was able to make money, i feel like i am starting to understand the game better. So what am i trading? My only loss was betting GLD would go up, everything else since then has been a short on SPY, QQQ, or SMH. Another trick i have found that is if you try to short a stock and it will not allow you to, 9/10 times it then goes exactly that direction with force. So for example i went to short SMH earlier and it said it was hard to borrow, so this i take as the big money pre-positioning before the big drop they are all betting on. I then bought SOXS which is a triple short stock for SMH more or less, now it is leveraged so i plan on getting out of it asap but that is how i have found to get around and use the "hard to borrow" issue as an advantage. Overall what to expect? At this exact moment it still seems like a down trend to me, but i think the turn around could come fast and furious when it happens. I have no desire to pick the bottom since you can only tell it is the bottom later, my main focus now is evaluating each week where the trend is going and then setting up really strong risk/reward trades based on long term trend direction. As soon as we have a move up above the 50 day moving average i am going heavily into VTI and possibly going leveraged with TQQQ. The most obvious level is around 6000 for the S&P , if we get there the likelihood of that being the bounce area is very high and if we hit that then moved above the 50 day average that would signify the long term trend up has returned and focus will be back on going long for a sustained rally.
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    sparse-artist-42524

    04/06/2026, 6:07 PM
    Long term chart showing the previous highs before the last correction with a white line showing the expected best case bounce area. The volume on the bottom left shows when the turnaround happened there was clearly more buying in the big green bars than red bars selling. Right now we are still not seeing that so i do not think we have hit the bottom yet and i could see another 10% or slightly more downside. Now we wont know for sure on the index if it is back in an up trend and ready to buy until it crosses back above the moving average to be safe, but if we get to around 6000 i expect to look for certain high value single stocks like MSFT, HOOD, or COST, that are down higher from their peaks with more room for upside and less room for downside than the index. Feeling good about trading this year!
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    sparse-artist-42524

    04/06/2026, 6:15 PM
    Short term chart showing a few key things. First is the highest amount of betting of where SPY will end this week is 640, you can also see the red bars and quite a bit larger than the green showing many more people are betting SPY will fall than go up. Also notice the actual price of buying a PUT ,betting it will go down, is significantly higher showing a bias because the market makers charge more for what is seen as a sure thing, while wild bets that are likely to fail have cheaper fees. Third point that is interested is the future projections show a huge red bar for the end of next week, showing people are putting there money on another large move to the downside. You can see i am locked in short 3 shares, not using a large position size since the turnaround could happen any day now.
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    04/14/2026, 9:09 PM
    I bought a small position on VTI on Monday. It is above the 50 day moving average so the technical trend is now up again as long as it stays above 330 or so for VTI right now, so i will go back to buy the dip instead of shorting the rip. I will say it seems like a strangely huge jump back up to all time highs and the volume does not match the movement in price, meaning it kind of looks manipulated to me but that is why i am in a smaller position instead of all in like i was hoping to be if we had a bigger drop that made the value proposition make more sense. Now we are back up to expensive territory so i am cautious that another big drop can happen until there is more clarity.