Day 29: Day trades 2/6 P/L - $37.41, overall - $84.35. Today was another one of the frustrating days where the market moves in a wave and just whips around similar to when it is very low volume except it was extremely high volume today which did not make any sense based on my strategy thus far. I talked about it with ChatGPT and it said this is because of the options market gamma exchange and then explained the total volume is like a hose being turned on but if the market makers aka the options dealers are long gamma then they absorb either the selling or the buying happening from retail making it feel like a frozen range expansion trap is the best way i can explain it. I then watched a financial show with Chris Irons right after stopping trading and he started off talking about the markets being ran by gamma exchange now, that the tail is wagging the dog, and today is the first time i have ever heard of this keyword. Now i do not understand exactly what all this means but i am trying to figure out the scam and see if it is even possible to know when its safer or more risky to trade, otherwise this whole thing feels like everyday could be random without a roadmap. So what do i mean when i say it feels like a frozen market, or a range expansion trap? Todays image shows HOOD end the day at almost the same price it started instead of making any significant move it just kind of oscillates like a wave going up and down around a center point. If you look at the UVOL/DVOL numbers its a huge day for volume well above the 1.5 for good trading and above 3 signaling panic and it was above 4 and 5 most of the day. So something is not right about this picture, you have giant volume that should be pushing the stock either up or down yet it barely moves at all compared from the start to the finish. This is what i call no mans land, what you want is a strong move and the moving average line to look like a ski slope up or down. As far as why i took the trade you have a shooting star in the right place, combined with confirmation of the next candle closing lower, going under the 9 day moving average, MACD ribbon twist, it had plenty of reasons it SHOULD have been an excellent trade but it simply did not play out.

Day 30: Day trades 2/5 P/L -17.34, overall - $101.70. Today i started a free trial of an Options GEX indicator to show the strongest gamma levels from options trading in the charts. It updates multiple times throughout the day and that tripped me up as well as just trying to fully understand yet another layer of complexity. Since i cannot use it in the historical simulator tool i am going to scale down heavily again and use it next week to test. The market overall has invalidated the head and shoulders patterns by moving above and confirming, as well as it went back to bad news is good news which is a regression in the cycle so i closed the large majority of all my swing trades. Now this may very well be the larger timeframe liquidity sweep and spring to start the crash down, but i am not betting my money on it with the market moving up aggressively ahead of the fed rate cut news, which is now most likely because of all the bad job numbers and inflation. Chances are because i am out of the market it will crash next week but its just too dangerous because one of the rules is the biggest moves come from failed moves so if it looked like it was about to crash hard but then reversed that pattern, there is a chance it could squeeze much higher in a short time frame before crashing very hard. Experts are saying because everyone is waiting on the fed to cut rates markets feel locked up, so i am standing aside until something starts making sense again.

Multiple stocks and indexes had this same head and shoulders type pattern which is said to be the most likely to play out, and its also a classic M type shape topping pattern where prices rises into it, combined with rising volume and MACD divergence. Now yesterday price went back to the peak of the head and then today it confirmed a move above which now invalidates the move down, and increases the chance of an explosive move up and then crash back down. Very dangerous with the bad economic news being cheered on by wall street and the fed cutting rates next week.

Day 31: Trades closed today 2/4, P/L - $7.83, overall - $109.53. Today i started using the GEX indicators as a strong guide for trades and because of the complexity i am now trading on the daily chart and sometimes the 1 hour or 30 minutes for clarity on entry or exit, but overall most trades are going to be focused on holding for 2-5 days and sell by end of week. So the 2 bad trades today went completely where i thought they would i just was still figuring out the new tool and set my stop too close thinking the most positive netgex wall was always on the daily if set to 0DTE but it is only on certain stocks like the QQQ most others its weekly, hence the decision to focus on weekly trades for the most part. The other two trades went to the target and closed themselves. The most basic way to explain this is the business that runs the options markets which i call the market makers , has to hedge its positions by buying or selling whatever stocks its customers are betting on to go up or go down. The highest GEX aka gamma exchange is where the market makers would most benefit financially if the price was around there by expiration. So the theory i am using right now is that these market makers will use their large force to move the price towards those areas for their financial benefit. I am still using all the other things i know just adding this in to help judge should i go long, short, or just stay out because its looking frozen. Most of the trades i am in are currently in the money and acting as i would expect based on the total picture i will share one example.

Here is my current trade on KO coca cola. There are a lot of factors here so lets break down the main ones. The price is below the 200 and 9 day moving average, this helps us know in general this is bearish right now. For the GEX indicator there is also an HVL high volatility line close to the 9 day moving average which helps confirm again price is currently in a negative trend. The highest GEX wall is at 65 as of the end of this week on the 19th, so combined with the other factors i entered this trade at 66.65 with an expectation of price moving toward 65 dollars by the end of this week and if at any time it hits that level i will be out of the trade. My stop for this trade was basic on the other side of the 9 moving average or the HVL level. The cool thing here is without this indicator i would have been hesitant to take a trade without a clear goal in mind and that helped me a lot i think here to clearly establish my risk versus reward and an expected timeline for the trade to play out.

Day 32: Trades closed today 4/6, P/L + $107.55, overall - $ 1.97. I have to say i am rather impressed with the new indicator so far, it does take more getting used to but the context it gives i think is helping keep me out of bad trades and to be on the right side more often. I had a trade on OXY that blew up today for an 87 dollar gain and went to the weekly target today so i closed it this afternoon and said thank you very much! That one trade alone paid for the cost of the indicator subscription for over a month so i am getting more confident in it every day. I closed 2 trades today based on the highest gamma wall changing and reversing, no big deal took a couple of 10 dollar losses, and then closed a couple long trades on TSLA and JD that were within 50 cents of the target for about 20 and 10 dollars. I took a day trade on QQQ based off the indicator and will show that one in detail along with OXY. If the week continues anywhere close to how its been so far i will scale back up trade size next week.

Trades of the day: Long on QQQ entry at 591.71 with 10 shares based on the highest gamma call wall being at 593 at expiration of today and the price being above the HVL line signifying a general bullish trend, along with 2 pitchfork candles on the 1 hour chart with lower wicks. In the middle of the day i was checking my open trades for updates and the call wall changed from 593 to 592 and so i decided to double down on the trade and average in so i could get my average price lower since the risk/reward on the trade had skewed against me. I set the target for about 5 cents less than 592 and walked away. Near end of day you can see that my target was hit and then in the next hour it pierced over the target and came back down, all as the indicator would suggest, small trade even with 10 shares i made around 8 dollars but it was a lot of fun. Next up was the blow up on OXY i went long on 50 shares at 45.54 last night in the aftermarket hours based on seeing the price above the HVL signaling bullish, the candle also closed right above the purple line which is the 200 day moving average and a very strong indicator in itself with a decent lower wick signaling buying below that level by the machines. The highest gamma call wall was 47.50 and the price of calls were higher all signaling a coming uptrend was likely. Now i expected this price by the end of the week not by today but it went to to the target and i closed it at 47.28 for 87 dollars today. Really awesome trades with the new indicator guiding my decisions in what would be a really hard week for me to trade without the added context based on the federal reserve meeting keeping markets pretty tight and choppy for the most part. When all the indicators align with technical analysis i can size up on trades like i did with this OXY trade and make some real money trading.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.