Hello,

I've been trading for a few years now. I've had my ups and downs (mostly downs), but I'm glad to have found this forum. I look forward to learning from each other.

Cheers!

hello every one im new to everything ; trading,this site, dont know to much about trading willing to learn . A little about myself im from western new york 47 years young have a family bout to start truck driving soon. been searching for some type of courses to take no luck yet hopefully this is my one stop to get informed. look forward to hearing from you all thanks for having me

Greetings to the Community!
I'm a complete newbie in futures trading. So far only experience with stocks and ETF's. Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of useful Tutorials for future trading for beginners in the web, contrary to the subject of stocks trading.
Lots of youtube videos on the subject are just long-winded talk with little informational content.

Hello, everyone! I'm glad to be a part of this forum. I am just a newbie in stocks and trading and I still have a lot of questions and a lot to learn so I hope you can help me. Thanks!

Greetings. Starting my journey!

Hey guys, im oringally a small cap trader however recently ive ventured into trading SPY options, I grew my account tremendously trading small caps netting 75K in profits with a 25K account, however I ended up blowing all of that money due to psychological error and not "reading the room" in terms of market conditions, I then risked a big portion of my account in order to try and "make it back" (we know how well that goes) and ended up making around 40K having my best day ever (25K) then immediately blew it all the next day when I realized that trading a new market is going to require me learning alot of lessons about SPY and ES futures trading as well as how options and time decay intersect with these markets. Also a big thing that led to my blowup was not really having an understanding of how to switch biases on a name as ive been 99% long for my extremely short career -1 and a half years-. Im curious if anyone else is scalping SPY options instead of trading the actual futures or SPY itself, specifically if people are "scalping" with a timeframe of around 10-20 minutes. Im typically looking to either fade zones that have held for lower risk to reward 1-3 or looking for those continuation plays that can net a nice 5-10 if timed correctly I do trade with pretty tight stops and have had to widen them when trading these options. I encourage anyone who is doing something similar (or anyone that thinks what im doing is stupid honestly I dont really know many futures traders I only know people who are involved in the small cap markets so any contact would be great) to please reach out to me on the forum and perhaps we can just discuss our experiences with ES.

Hello,

I don't have much experience
I started trading this year, interested in Crypto, Forex and Futures.
My long term goal is to have a steady % of income every month

Hello all,

I hope all is well and that everyone is doing well.

I decided to join FIO as I have read good things about this forum.

So glad I am here.

I have been trading for a few years. I started with stocks, then options and futures.

I have a decent understanding of technical analysis, volume, price action. I have
made many great trades, but I also messed up quite a bit.

The main challenge I am facing now is I CANNOT decide what my focus shall be.

I feel like I'd like to trade too many instruments.

I need to really make up my mind.

I was thinking about switching 100% to E-Mini futures, but I am coming back to stocks.
I actually stopped trading for a while, and was just watching charts day by day.
I thought that by giving myself a time, I can decide the path! I didn't!

This is quite distracting as I still look at E-minis and want to trade them, and look at stocks and want to
trade those, and at the same time, I am looking at long calls, short puts, etc.

What do you all think about it?

I'd appreciate any advice, comments, or suggestions.

Thank you,
ZPro

Hello

I trade for about 25 years on and off, and now I can say I am steady, consistent, and do very well for myself.

Your trying to pick the winner is not easy, but one thing I can tell you, do not to take too many at once. I myself use Micro and Mini Index futures as I found these the easiest of them all. Only 4 chars to look at, getting to know only 4 different lives is easier than trying to scout for 100's different symbols and getting to know them, With time you will see how good you are getting to know your children and how they behave.

So do not take too many is my advice, stick with what you know and stay with it, greed can make you jump through too many hoops at the same time, a steady flow of income is what I achieved with just using 4 and can play tennis at the same time (live, healthy body, etc...)

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hello every one im new to everything ; trading,this site, dont know to much about trading willing to learn . A little about myself im from western new york 47 years young have a family bout to start truck driving soon. been searching for some type of courses to take no luck yet hopefully this is my one stop to get informed. look forward to hearing from you all thanks for having me

i would like to know what and where could i find a one stop shop to buy what i need to start trading and what should i first start studying to learn to trade futures