Alright back for day number 2 P/L -100. I setup several sleeper holds pre-market REMX, TQQQ, TNA, SOXL, and BIDU. I got nervous in the opening volatility and sold most of them for a small loss or gain and then flipped my positions way too early before the market peak. I was -23 dollars after open and then took positions in SQQQ, SSG, and TZA. Afterwards my original sleeper holds all blew up and did amazing except BIDU and although i picked near the peak for a reversal in my other trades it never did reverse and closed out at the end of day for a small loss.

I learned had i maintained my emotional control i would have been up 200-300 dollars from the pre market trades without any other trading, so my picks were a solid 4/5 i just did not stay in them long enough to realize the gains, then i flipped and went against the market thinking it was still in panic mode like Friday and it was not, just low volume float.

Ok day number 3. Daily P/L +68 , Overall P/L day trading is +61 dollars for 3 days so far. I stayed calm and stuck to the technical analysis today and even though i reduced the amount i was trading with to feel more confident with the risk / reward it was a great day by the numbers. I took 6 sleeper hold trades including REMX, SOXL, SCO, SPXL, TNA, and TQQQ. I took profits on 4 out of the 6 trades within 10:30 and flipped some of the trades near a peak reversal and played it the other direction for some additional small profits. Took one final trade in the afternoon at a peak reversal for TZA and made an additional profit on my last bit of available daily margin. All day 11 trades total, 9 profitable, 2 took a small loss. • TQQQ -2 • TNA +20 • SPXL +1 • SOXL +17 • SMH Short +1 • SCO +9 • REMX -3 • SQQQ +15 • TZA +8 • TQQQ +2 • TZA +6

All of those 100% my own trades and the master traders say they aim for a 70-80% success rate, so i feel much better this is a real artform at this point, although i remain somewhat skeptical i could just be getting lucky or something until the consistent numbers come in.

Here is an example of the last trade of the day on TZA. I saw a narrow body bar at the end of a time count very close to the daily bottom. I was aiming for a double bottom bounce trade but when i saw the narrow body bar and the time count i switched from a 5 minute to a 1 minute and confirmed it was moving up with momentum and took the trade at 11.03 planning to stop out if it dropped to 10.99. I then pulled a fib retracement from the daily high to the low to pick out a target. Of course i wanted to go for the 786 but i saw it weakening by another narrow body bar with a 7 time count so i was watching closely. Then it looked like it was going to roll over so i went ahead and took profit at 11.14 right around the 382 fib retracement. Starting to look like timing the market is not so impossible after all.

Risk reward on that trade ended up being a 3:1 , good odds for a trade. I learned in my class at NYIF even if you only get 50% success rate, but your risk is always less than your reward, you would still end up positive and i had never thought about that before.

May I ask which course you took?

Day 4: daily P/L -30 overall still +31. I am having some technical issues with Fidelity because i have a small account and not all my trades are going on margin which allows automatic stop loss and take profits, so i had some losses that would have been small gains if it was not for that. I had moved some money over to Trade station to test since it is supposed to be faster and better for active trading and like how it connects to trading view, so now i just need to move money around to meet the PDT rule requirement and get started there. Accuracy is still above 50% and I expect to be consistently above 70% when i can automatically set all my stops.

Day 5: daily P/L +9, small amount but a near flawless victory with precision today. I am transferring money so am light on buying power but took five classic sleeper hold trades overnight and ALL FIVE i cashed out for a profit within an hour of open. I stayed away from the index funds overnight because of the high volume and volatility i experienced yesterday, and have been seeing in various areas of the market such as gapping up to start the day and then selling off. Based off the market insiders theory i think we are in the distribution phase of the insiders unloading into retail. Now where i went wrong was i decided to try and catch the bounce on IWM through TNA, which did eventually happen, but i got stopped out three times and then based on the rules of the class i took i then stop with that trade for the day. After three bad trades if you go back in, at that point you are just revenge trading. Will include the trades inside the thread.

Here is a review of a short i took on INTC pre-market when i heard the news of the president talking about the CEO of Intel should resign. I took a buy the rumor sell the news trade at 19.50 below the open with the premise of be first. I went with a small position for several reasons but the day started gapping up and then selling off heavily. I had to decide quickly as the market opened higher, do i want to stop out for a bigger loss, or try to hold down toward a profit. I went to the charts on a 5 minute occasionally entering a 1 minute for detailed confirmation of a trend change or continuation. The first few candles start showing heavy selling pressure and a bear flag type formation, i started pulling a parallel off the highs and lows of the candles in the flag portion. At 10:05 there is a breakdown from support with volume, signifying its a legitimate trend. Next and this is awesome, the candles retrace to the scene of the crime where they broke support and it became resistance then got rejected! Later on the volume goes away and it goes into a low volume float scenario. I pull another parallel channel and watch for a break of the trend to know do i want to stay in or get out. I see the breakout but on very low volume signifying a fakeout from the insiders. Sure enough it breaks down and falls out of the channel entirely right after. Last is a descending triangle where there is a horizontal support level and descending price action. This is showing the trend is still moving downward and to maintain my short position. Still out of the money on this swing trade at this moment, but at this time it is still going down in my direction.

Day 6: daily P/L +44.70, overall 88.70. 3/5 sleeper holds were profitable and 2 i got out with a small loss. Took one additional mean reversion trade to short the SMH for a slight gain by moving my stop loss up even though it jumped back up quickly away from my target price. I improved how i am tracking my trades myself since Fidelity does not calculate it correctly until later if you have traded the same stock before, hopefully trade station will do better. I am excited to scale up the amount about 3-5 times next week i am trading with and set a goal for 100-300 per day. I also had one interview already with Mint Mobile and have put in another dozen applications at what look like good targets. Thanks for the support here on my first week after getting laid off from work, good shabbos.

Day 7: Daily P/L +139.67, overall +$228.37. 3/5 sleeper holds were profitable, but the losses on the 2 were slightly more than the winnings on the others. High points were a trade tip from J Bravo on DEFT so bought it in pre market hours and it did indeed pop nicely for a 40 dollar gain, and i used a very light position on it. Second great trade was following David Green the teacher from NYIF, he gave me a week free in his trading room since i finished his course. Followed him on a classic double top trade on BMNR and got over 100 dollars on that one. Overall accuracy still above 60% and i started increasing the amount i am putting slightly today, plan to continue throughout the week.

Day 8: Daily P/L - $98.90, overall + $129.47. 4/5 Sleeper holds were profitable and i was up over 20 dollars in the morning after closing those out. My big loss was from trying to go long DEFT after the win from yesterday based on it closing above the 9 day moving average, but i did not think enough about it being a penny stock and i think it went through a pump and dump scenario. I had to agree on Fidelity that trading penny stocks was risky and did not properly heed the warning in this case. Exited at the ATR of 30 cents which was a heavy 10% loss, thankfully i did use a light position which minimized the risk and loss in this instance. Since the sleeper holds consistently play out, or have minimal losses when they fail, i am going to focus more on scaling those up for now.

Day 9: Daily P/L + $20.40, overall +$149.87. I increased the spend on sleeper holds by 2x and took twice as long to pick out the best ones i could find. A couple went up right at market open and i cashed out, 2 were going up and down small amounts and i held for a couple of hours as it went my direction and finally cashed out for a decent gain. One went against me pretty badly RDDT and it was -100 at market open, i watched the trend closely and rode it down to take a loss almost half of that later in the day. I also just got my tradingview / tradestation setup working and started some of my aggressive stop loss trades. It does not update reports to next day in detail but overall i am + 2.88 from a handful of trades there. On my swing trading account i got my first margin call yesterday and went over my 10% max account risk and stop levels. I checked the market and swing trades in detail and decided to fund the margin call of a few hundred dollars and wait today to re-evaluate since we are at new all time highs and this may be a short squeeze. Thankfully today the swings are up several hundred and i am back under my 10% stop but if a market reversal does not play out in the next several weeks i may have to start realizing some losses there, and evaluate how to avoid that in the future. Relative volume on the S&P was really low considering it just hit new all time highs, if it was a real breakout there should be volume behind it, based on the insider market theory. Taking the rest of the day to prepare for my second interview with Mint Mobile.

Day 10: Daily P/L + $92.16, overall + $242.03 trade stations documentation also leaves some things to be desired but the experience is much better than Fidelity in general for active trading.

Day 11: Daily P/L - $58.12, overall + $183.91. Today was options expiration day and it did not click in my head until after the opening bell. At the very instant the market opened 4/5 of my trades went entirely the opposite direction to my stops and closed them for a loss then immediately within seconds reversed and played out as expected. I remembered seeing this same type of movement from the insiders last month and heard it during some news analysis and decided to go ahead and stop for the day because of that, as well as mark it on my calendar since it happens the third Friday of every month. No sense trying to revenge trade my way out of a hole and get shaken out by the market movers again throughout the day. I am realizing i need to increase my spend to actually have a chance of hitting my targets while reducing my risk and amount of trades to only the highest quality setups, and if not then just staying out of the shark infested waters. Job hunting in tech has been as bad as i have seen so far but hoping something breaks there soon.

Day 12: Daily P/L - $71.75, overall + $112.16. For the sleeper holds 3/5 played out as expected, but 1 i picked was a medical stock which is not viable for the sleeper hold, i just made a mistake and overlooked it, so that cost me around -50. Another i sold at the wrong time after getting anxious from starting off the morning -120 from the sleeper holds combined. I did the most day trading i have today to fight back and ended the day about 50 dollars better than where i started. Even though it was another down day, i was much stricter about taking double tops and bottoms which are more objective trades that play out more often. I set them all up ahead of time after the highs or lows of the day establish and then leave them alone other than moving up stop losses. I figured out doing this i can have very small risk compared to possible reward on the trade since above the high or low is an established buying or selling zone that previously rejected price at that area.

I saw a video from Bernd Skorupinski that shows Jim Cramer many many years ago talking to a wall street journalist. He says "I can take a stock like RIM, it might cost me something like 15-20 million to knock that down, but it would be fabulous because it would beleaguer all the moron longs who are also keen on Research In Motion." He also talks about literally putting out fake news to then benefit their trading position. This helped verify the insider market theory for me, and explains why technical analysis at best only works 80% of the time or so, because the manipulation from big money managers. I thought some of you may find it interesting as well.

Day 13: Daily P/L - $91.95, overall + $20.21. I finally had a bad break in the win rate for the sleeper hold play, i only took 3 overnight that looked superior and listed out 5 others that i did not like as much to check back on. I missed the chance to take a profit on the one that did play out early on and the other 2 completely just went away from my target. Looking over all the plays less than half would have played out, which i would say is just random chance at this point. It seemed like they were fairly accurate but today has me second guessing that. Worse i took double top and double bottom trades on the 5 minute and my stops got ran about 3/4 times. I remember putting in one stop below a previous days low and the price snapped down to my stop the instant i clicked the button. I talked about it with AI and wanting the highest probability plays, and it suggests not using timeframes below the daily because of false signals, and verify the support or resistance levels i am targeting have a previous move from the big money buying or selling it at those levels. So therefore playing at the highs would be strictly not kosher with this strategy since there is no history there to confirm if big money has bought in or sold at a level in the past. It said i might only get a couple of setups a week doing it this way but they should be more consistent. The only good thing i can say is i managed the risk appropriately and stopped when i had consistent losses which was probably 80% today, i feel like you could have pulled names out of a hat and done better than i did today. Still applying to dozens of jobs i match well, but only have had a couple of interviews with recruiters so far.

I have been watching UNH since it rose on news of Buffet investing in it. The weekly chart shows high volume around this low that goes back to high volume buying around the low in 2020. This should be a high probability play for longer term, but i do not want to get in right after the pop as it has already faded since then. Looking then to the daily i have 4 levels i am looking at to make a decision around entry. Best level which is unlikely would be return to recent low around 234 , next up would be the gap fill from its pop up on news at 271, and then the 50 day moving average at 288 is a decent retracement it may move up from. On the other way if it breaks up higher past its previous big drop into the gap with volume, that is likely to be a good entry with movement upwards around 336.

I've been learning a lot by copying your posts into AI and asking it to ELI5 😁

Day 14: Daily P/L + $1.78 lol, overall + $21.99. I started a new strategy today based off the indicators used and discussed by Chris Vermeulen in his book. So now i have a TOTAL up or down volume indicator added at all times, and what this does is show is the majority of the market buying or selling, as well as based on the ratio if panic selling or buying is kicking in. So i started the day not planning on taking any trades unless i saw something and i looked at the DVOL/UVOL and it was mostly negative and decided okay today and trades need to be sells, no buys, that way i am swimming in the direction of the current. I pull up the QQQ and see price action increasing to the down side with increasing volume confirming this is a genuine move from the insiders. I Took the ORB (Opening range breakout) trade on QQQ at 9:45 and rode down until a reversal where i cashed out for about a 20 dollar gain. Because the total volume was still down i did not take a buy at the reversal just to be as strict as possible. I then later tried a few more reversals at key levels but ended up getting stopped out for small losses as they were lower volume fakeouts i took too quickly. Now i purely set up alerts no automatic trades that way if the volume is not picking up towards the flow of water i just keep watching until it does and if not do not take the trade. The opening trade seemed crystal clear, and i realize the other trades i took just never came in with that kind of volume even though it may have been increasing it was not the insiders trading. I think this total volume is why a high percentage technical trade would not work, if it was against the order flow, so now i only take a double top or bottom IF it matches the total volume order flow.

Day 15: Daily P/L - $21.25 , overall + $.74. Today the volume was mostly even so i was looking through for high value moves and because i am back around break even i was even stricter with my stops, but noticed they would almost always get taken out if they were nearby, way beyond just chance. I then remembered what Jim Cramer was saying in the interview and like Dovid mentioned, i put what he was saying into AI and what my experience was. AI explained the manipulation tactics that big money uses and i think this is what i was perceiving as random but is actually full on manipulation. I believe this is what makes this seem like gambling whenever you day trade. This also reminded me i have been not follow one rule from a lot of my classes, and that was to use 2 times ATR ( average true range ) as the stop loss, i have been much stricter but now i believe i understand why my stops always get taken out, and why i was successful using the sleeper hold without stops originally in Fidelity. This has been puzzling me because in my class at NYIF and in the mainstream world, they proclaim the "balanced market theory" which is that when a new event or news piece comes out the market then balances out based on that, i now realize that is gaslighting and propaganda from the industry as the "market insiders theory" makes way more sense and i actually see play out in more ways than i could explain here. So to move forward i am going to use larger stop loss gaps, but reduce the share size i am trading with to control risk until i can get consistent positive results. I will post some of the AI response in a thread here and the long form video i found of Jim Cramer, definitely worth the full watch if you do any trading yourself.

Full ten minute interview of Jim Cramer from CNBC admitting to and explaining "legal" market manipulation. 2:46 "When you see a guy whos bidding, you wipe out that guy very quickly, what i used to do was called if i want it go higher, take and bid take and bid, and if i want it to go lower, bid and offer, bid and offer." I call this quite simply and plainly price manipulation.

Day 16: Daily P/L + $36.06, overall + $36.80. Baruch Hashem, today i finally feel like i have broken the code, accuracy 100% 9/9 trades cashed out for profit, including all my trades so you all can see the exact numbers first hand. I am still shaking from how successful yet wild and volatile today was, and if it was any other day following the balanced market theory i would have lost big. So i watched a YT video last night about the ORR ( Opening range reversal ) and it was fully based around the fact that insiders manipulate the prices with exact steps to follow to trade it and examples. Basically if an insider wants the price to go higher they manipulate the price down then fade it back up and buy from the people who sold at a lower price, just like Cramer was talking about. The key is waiting for the stop hunting and liquidity sweep to take place and THEN get in after a confirmed sweep and reversal. This is where i was getting destroyed, i was waiting ahead of time with my stop right above a double top for instance, and the insiders already sweep those areas as part of their playbook, so i would almost always get taken out even though i thought i was working hard by having a price set and an order already in waiting. The next big AHA moment was at 10 AM today the Federal reserve meeting notes were released and the market went into a blow off top scenario immediately EVERYWHERE and the EXACT SAME PATTERN played out all over the stock market. I almost couldn't believe what i was seeing , the uvol/dvol number was already in panic territory at +3 but at 10am it immediately rose to +8. I had to look back until 2022 to find a single day with this level of volume which is really odd. So i played out the ORR strategy on multiple different stocks and they were all doing the same thing, i was even shorting against the market flow which you would think would have been a disaster but i recognized when everything pumped it HAD TO BE insiders because retail simply could not cause that reaction. I am going to show one of my plays before 10am hit and then show you 3 different charts that all look exactly the same to prove the market is extremely manipulated. Now to be honest i probably should not have taken 9 trades, i was just overwhelmed as i saw all the patterns line up together. My goal now is to repeat this 100 times with over 80% accuracy so i can say with total confidence i am not gambling and following a specific and repeatable strategy.

Check this out, 3 different charts that should not have a close relation, yet look almost exactly the same overall. QQQ, SMH, and SPY.

Day 17: Daily P/L - $15.25 , overall + $21.55. Even though i was down today 7/11 trades played out for a profit which puts me around the probabilities i am looking for. I was still too aggressive with my stops although i realize from testing on Sunday it is where my biggest problem is now. Only 2 trades went completely against my expectations which was LVS and NVDA. LVS i just misread the signals and was not strict enough on the criteria, and NVDA i shorted not realizing we were at record highs and that is where i lost the money today taking multiple trades on it before i realized. Strategy seems to be working well i just need to work on my patience and give good trades the time to play out. I was at my desk all day except a 10 minute break and although it makes me feel like i am working hard, i definitely sabotaged multiple of my trades by not letting them play out to the target. Play of the day is PLTR , even though i was late on my entry, if i had just been patient i would have been up today a hundred dollars from that trade alone. Signal was shooting star candles around the low of previous day , i moved my stop up too aggressively and made about 20 dollars, then watched it take off the rest of the day.

I still don’t have much to add, but I really appreciate you writing this up and I’m probably not the only one reading :)

Day 18: Daily P/L + $19.24, overall + $40.79. The highlight today was the ORR even though i had a loss on 1/5 all of them played out according to plan 80% on execution for the main strategy today. I moved up my stop too aggressively on a couple that were slower to play out and missed out on significant gains, i would be up over 100 today if i just walked away and let the ORR trades play out. The box trades i took was 1/4 , the 3 losers were just all weak candles and price action i should have stayed out of so took some small losses there. I will show pictures of both a big winner that hit the target V and a big loser i was slightly too early on and got stopped out but later would have hit the target. Lessons learned today is i just have to trust the setup and stop moving up my stop losses unless i have a technical reason to do so. I feel much more in control of what is happening at this point, i think it is just fine tuning the execution of the strategy under pressure and not taking setups that are questionable. The screenshot for MP where i took a big loss first thing in the morning i entered right before the second candle closed that did look like the power towers, but it reversed and then the next 2 candles were the power towers i was looking for. It then hit the target without me. For V it was picture perfect, shooting star at the previous days highs pushed up quickly, entry on close below that candle and it played out within 30 minutes and hit the target.

Day 19: Daily P/L - $25.63, overall $15.16. I took 5 ORR trades in the morning and 3/5 paid off but one only slightly and had 2 losses. I then later took one weak BOX trade with a small size and had a small loss. The afternoon wave reversal never really came like it usually does even though my setups were mostly solid if not slightly late entries on some. I asked AI about it and mentioned NVDA had earnings today after the bell wondering if that would be likely to have an effect. It said definitely that traders and funds will cancel all orders the afternoon before since it is so big, it can move markets either way. That seemed to make sense combined with i heard the size of NVDA is greater than the entire Russel 2000 index, so it seems plausible at least. Even though i think a couple might have played out in my favor if i held them overnight, i strictly closed them at the end of day since stops do not work after hours and i could not calculate the possible loss. I did reduce my trades today so i am not over trading and analyzing what i have better, i also succeeded in staying in until the end of the day and not being too aggressive with my stops, but turns out today i would have done better to planned for everything to play out by mid day or just exit since NVDA had earnings, i could have taken a small gain today had i realized. Play of the day is one of the same as yesterday MP , yesterday it was a short and today it was a buy, right away it puts in a big shooting star candle with enough range to be manipulation, i buy a little late after confirmation of reversal. Later in the day i closed it out after noticing it breaking the up trend and accelerating downwards.