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I confirm with order flow, and I am also willing to enter with a very tight stop, knowing I might get stopped out a few times before catching the move, in exchange for a better RR and lower risk. 

For all bookmap users, i wonder how yall trade on it. What are your confirmations, timing, RR, WR, trade on news?
I'm very curious

George RR Martin is never going to finish his damn book because he's to busy getting inspiration from the daily. It's true. I talked to him yesterday about it.

To identify Aggression, you need to look for Stacked Imbalances in tick data rather than waiting for a candle close. Aggression is market orders hitting the tape with speed. Exhaustion, on the other hand, is best identified via Delta Divergence: price makes a new high, but Delta is decreasing or turning negative, signaling that buyers are no longer willing to hit the ask. For exits, instead of a fixed RR, use Unfinished Auctions (zero volume at the extreme of a footprint) to see where the market has truly run out of participants

Honestly, 8 months of backtesting gold at 1:1 and still questioning it tells me you've already answered your own question, you just don't want to admit it yet. Here's the uncomfortable truth: capping RR at 1:1 because "high winrate avoids drawdown" is the fastest way to slowly bleed into a black hole. You're trading away the asymmetric payoff that actually makes trading profitable.
Gold on 1-minute is a beast because it gaps, spikes, and runs through levels with zero regard for your stop. A 1:3 on 1-minute gold means you're trying to catch a sustained directional move in one of the most whippy pairs on the planet. The winrate is going to be abysmal, and more importantly, the drawdown during losing streaks will absolutely destroy your psychology. That's why you capped it — your subconscious knew it was wrong.
The indices (DAX especially) are much more structured on lower timeframes because they have clearer sessions, less random noise, and respect support/resistance levels better. Gold respects them too, but it respects spikes more. If you want a higher RR on gold, go to at least 5-minute or 15-minute and look for the sustained moves after a liquidity sweep — those are the ones that actually run.
What was your winrate on gold at 1:1? And more importantly, what was the profit factor, not just the win rate?

I don’t trade gold (I trade Forex), but I prefer using 1:1.5 risk:reward because it’s basically the perfect middle ground balance point. It can have a high win rate (mine is around 60%), but wins are still larger than losses.
Plus, the higher win rate also means that my risk per trade can safely be larger than it could for a high RR system. This means it can make far more profit than an equivalent high RR system without making it any less safe.

Gold suitable for a high RR strategy on the 1 minute time frame?

Just had my 3rd payout of 2900 usd rejected. I trade 1% risk, minimum RR 1:2. 1-2 trades a day. No over-leveraging or any nonsense. Got my account terminated for a load of made up nonsense. Wish I hadn’t wasted months on that Jewish firm..

I confirm with order flow, and I am also willing to enter with a very tight stop, knowing I might get stopped out a few times before catching the move, in exchange for a better RR and lower risk. 

For all bookmap users, i wonder how yall trade on it. What are your confirmations, timing, RR, WR, trade on news?
I'm very curious

George RR Martin is never going to finish his damn book because he's to busy getting inspiration from the daily. It's true. I talked to him yesterday about it.

To identify Aggression, you need to look for Stacked Imbalances in tick data rather than waiting for a candle close. Aggression is market orders hitting the tape with speed. Exhaustion, on the other hand, is best identified via Delta Divergence: price makes a new high, but Delta is decreasing or turning negative, signaling that buyers are no longer willing to hit the ask. For exits, instead of a fixed RR, use Unfinished Auctions (zero volume at the extreme of a footprint) to see where the market has truly run out of participants

Honestly, 8 months of backtesting gold at 1:1 and still questioning it tells me you've already answered your own question, you just don't want to admit it yet. Here's the uncomfortable truth: capping RR at 1:1 because "high winrate avoids drawdown" is the fastest way to slowly bleed into a black hole. You're trading away the asymmetric payoff that actually makes trading profitable.
Gold on 1-minute is a beast because it gaps, spikes, and runs through levels with zero regard for your stop. A 1:3 on 1-minute gold means you're trying to catch a sustained directional move in one of the most whippy pairs on the planet. The winrate is going to be abysmal, and more importantly, the drawdown during losing streaks will absolutely destroy your psychology. That's why you capped it — your subconscious knew it was wrong.
The indices (DAX especially) are much more structured on lower timeframes because they have clearer sessions, less random noise, and respect support/resistance levels better. Gold respects them too, but it respects spikes more. If you want a higher RR on gold, go to at least 5-minute or 15-minute and look for the sustained moves after a liquidity sweep — those are the ones that actually run.
What was your winrate on gold at 1:1? And more importantly, what was the profit factor, not just the win rate?

I don’t trade gold (I trade Forex), but I prefer using 1:1.5 risk:reward because it’s basically the perfect middle ground balance point. It can have a high win rate (mine is around 60%), but wins are still larger than losses.
Plus, the higher win rate also means that my risk per trade can safely be larger than it could for a high RR system. This means it can make far more profit than an equivalent high RR system without making it any less safe.

Gold suitable for a high RR strategy on the 1 minute time frame?

Just had my 3rd payout of 2900 usd rejected. I trade 1% risk, minimum RR 1:2. 1-2 trades a day. No over-leveraging or any nonsense. Got my account terminated for a load of made up nonsense. Wish I hadn’t wasted months on that Jewish firm..

Hello all.
I've been thinking about getting into day trading for quite a while now and have recently taken the steps to get started. Last week was my first week with a live account, and I ended up profitable for the week on 3 trades.
Here's my story:
I started researching and taking notes over the winter. What are my goals? What am I willing to lose? What instrument do I want to trade? What platform? What is my risk tolerance? What system should I use?
I've been a working stiff all my life. Mostly in the service industry. I have a master's degree, but after I got into my field after graduation, I decided it really wasn't for me. The rat race of the corporate world and I are like oil and water. It was an expensive mistake, but through it I was exposed to enough business...stuff... to have a decent idea of what I'm possibly getting myself into here.
Honestly my goal is to try and supplement my day job income to give myself some breathing room financially and get my Roth fully funded each year. If this eventually becomes my primary source of income, great. If not, that's ok too. I have a good job with growth potential and good benefits that isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I decided on day trading MES because of the low intraday margin requirements and possible leverage. I am starting with a pretty low account size, but that's honestly going to help me with risk and not getting too big for my britches. It also fits around my day job schedule.
I decided against using any prop firms. I just don't think they're for me. I'm also more inclined to using my own money because during my paper trading it just didn't feel real enough to me to stop me from making dumb moves. I tried to simulate what my IRL situation would be, but it just didn't feel real enough to me, although I was able to refine my system from it. I know myself enough to know that using a prop firm would likely lead to the same issues, which means failed evals, blown accounts, and money risked with no great upside for myself. That said, if prop firms are your way, more power to you. It's just not for me.
So, I went for Ninjatrader. The interface made sense to me, and there are plenty of tutorial videos out there to help get started. I did about 6 weeks of paper trading to dial in a system that makes sense to me and seems to have a pretty decent win rate and enough RR value to make me happy. Once I got comfortable with my system and was mostly able to keep myself out of bad trades I went live.
After sorting through all of the "I make a zillion bucks with this system, you could too" YouTube noise and strategy reels I've settled on a CRT based system with the following rules:
1. Higher and Lower Time frame trend alignment.

2. 4h or 1h CRT setups aligning with trend. 30m if strong trend.

3. Entry in on above 50% of first candle range for bulls, and below for bears.

4. 5m timeframe for entries.

5. Overlapping iFVG and FVG (balanced market) on lower timeframe within 15m or
30m (or higher) timeframe iFVG or FVG.

6. Enter on retest of balanced market with stop loss above higher timeframe
(i)FVG with 2:1 or 3:1 RR, depending on distance from other end of initial
candle range.

7. Can use a Fib Retracement as secondary indicator to verify an entry.

8. $30-$50 risk per trade (roughly 3-5%). If stop loss is too wide, oh well.
Last week was my first live week. I made 3 trades with 100% success and total profit of just under $200, around 1.4:1 RR. This will undoubtedly change but definitely made for a satisfying first week.
On my first trade the market was a bit choppy, but still showed trend agreement, so I set 2:1 RR. I trailed my stop and got stopped out by an institutional liquidity sweep for about 1.3:1 RR. Would have been 2:1 if I trusted my setup as the sweep wouldn't have stopped me out, but I was nervous for my first live trade.
Second trade I was very confident of the setup because of the strong downtrend after the CPI coming in under expectation but over 3%, plus the news about the AI selloff earlier in the day. Was nervous because it was at the top of my risk tolerance and ended up with 1:1 RR after futzing with my stops too much. Could have been 3:1.
Third trade I just set it up and once I was in literally walked away and let it ride for 2:1 RR TP within just a few minutes - and my biggest $$ of the week.
Here are some screen shots of the 3rd trade.
[Entry Setup. Red line above is 4h CRT high. White line is 50% Confident this was good entry because of strong downtrend that day, but Lower High formed by preceding manipulation after accumulation and Lower High. 5m FVG was within 30m IFVG and 1m iFVG \(not shown\), and was in golden pocket of Fib Retracement \(not shown\).](https://preview.redd.it/sybkhcwuqaeh1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=0374359864ed1b69cdea60fa5c2c8f21211c11f6)
[TP hit in \~14 minutes. Nice.](https://preview.redd.it/8ro0pp3hraeh1.png?width=1590&format=png&auto=webp&s=780a3c096d9d7434f738d6caf61004548ead8730)
Overall, it was a great first week. Got some jitters out and trusted my system besides the futzing with my stops. Obviously this feels like an outlier for a first week, and obviously it's early days so there will be losses to come. But this week taught me to trust my system. I put in a ton of hours to figure out what works best for me right now and had success paper trading when I refined it and stuck to it.
I'm excited to continue this week. I even looked before I started writing and there was a possible setup. But the trends didn't align and there seemed to be a resistance zone between my entry and TP, so I didn't take the trade. It's tough to know that it would have been a win, but it didn't fit the check list, so I didn't take it. That was hard, but I have to be ok with it, so I turned it off and wrote this instead to fight off the bit of FOMO I was feeling.
Will try again in the morning.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers!
\-R

I think they're great for 1:1s here and there but I'm not a fan of them, I prefer pure price action, more RR that way imo.

In general and long run. I’ve had a super hard time finding a positive rr pattern. Thats works longterm in backtesting But found it relatively easy in comparison to find negative RR patterns. Im unsure if it’s because how my brain perceives the market or is it because no one trade negative RR so it’s less competition . I can say it does fit my personality way more i dont mind losing a lot on 1 trade but I do hate long losing streaks. I can’t imagine losing 9 trades in a row, and over a 100 trades with a 50% winrate there’s a 9 percent chance to see that occurring. Just shows you how important position sizing. What I come to realize is the higher your winrate the more you can risk per trade, that is a statistically fact!!!

Made the jump to trading my own capital not too long ago. Started small on purpose, $2k, just to let my head adjust to having real skin in the game before I size up.
Still running a couple prop accounts alongside it. Honestly feels way lighter over there, easier to stay confident when it's not my own money on the line each setup.
Keeping it simple on risk: 1% per trade, never below 1:2 RR. Closed today at around +6.2% overall.
What I want to work on now is taking more trades without wrecking my win rate. Quality vs frequency kind of deal.
Anyone here with real screen time behind them, would appreciate hearing how you dealt with this.