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Sorry you went through that! I don't trust anyone anywhere to do anything I need anymore. The following will cost nothing, except some of the books might incur a cost if you can't find a free version from the library. I make no money from the below, not even very indirectly. This is what I'm doing to stay safe. Best Wishes!
1. Don't do crypto unless you are working with a licensed day trader from a broker who understands crypto. This broker has to be someone you physically drive to or walk to and is bonded. Crypto is too questionable yet. Yes, people have made money doing Crypto, but it is still too risky for a beginner to get in on, because who is trust worthy and who is not is up for grabs. Plus, because it is stores on devices that are still easily hacked, I'm out. I'd prefer to trust NASDAQ and NYSE and key brokers. I know they have good IT that is trustworthy. They've been in the business for longer than crypto has been alive.
2. There are lots of good books for learning how to invest. Read those by the experts like William O'Neil, John J Murphy's "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets" - thick book, Warren Buffett (Library books or find them at a used book store and skim through it to find some good nuggets, and so on. Also, study candlestick patterns. Learn MACD, EMA, and so on. If you go to your best bookstore that allows you to look at the books and take them to their instore coffee shop, you might be able to take some notes without buying the book at that time. You can then buy the book later, when you can afford to, when you find which books actually work for you and which ones do not. This is how I bought Murphy's book. I read parts of it first at the store and then decided it was good, and bought it the following month, after I got paid again. I am not suggesting to just read and not purchase though. You can also go on Quizlet and find good flashcard sets for learning candlestick patterns.
3. The free stuff: Yes Ross Cameron's Warrior Trading program is good, yes its expensive and probably worth paying for, but you can get his youtube stuff for free. Then what you do is learn as much from him as much as you can that is free. I would also go to [www.cboe.com](http://www.cboe.com) (free again) and learn as much as you can there too. Cboe is The Options Institute.
Practice finding your own news catalyst and stocks that might be worth day trading. You don't want to have to rely on any one list, as sometimes the list might not net you good results that work for your style of day trading, or net you anything you can day trade for that day. The "top 30 list" that is easily found, is not for day trading! I forget what that one was at, and what silly search terms I used, but it was the best top 30 and no, it is not what we'd used for Day trading! That list is for low volatility investors. Lots of lists were meant for not day trading! So, be aware of that, and make sure that they are talking about high volatility stocks. These stocks should be between $5 - $20 about, ideally, have low volume of shares available and high volume of buyers wanting those shares with fewer sellers selling them, with the buyers in control and not weak.
The controversy with Ross is that he charges for a program on his website that is considered the best comprehensive day trading course in 2026 by Investopedia and is 3rd party certified successful. Some of the other trader influencers are jealous! So ignore all the hate videos and click bait videos against him. There are lots of free resources on youtube that is junk. Level 2 training, you want to use Ross's version, as he understands it for real!

4a. Once you have an idea as to what technical analysis notes you want on your charts and what times you want your charts set for, then record the charts on key stocks. Do this for a month so you get plenty of data to use for step 4b.
4b. Go back to those recordings and then pause every 2 - 5 seconds and try to guess where the market is heading. Try to identify candlestick patterns, entrance spots, exit spots, what stop gap you should set, whether the MACD says to get in, whether the volume of outstanding shares is low (we want high demand, low volume of share for day trading). Write out analysis as to why you think the trend went up or down or why you got it wrong. You want to note whether the buyers are in control or if the sellers are in control. You want to know who is in control but weak and where they were weak. You need to identify trend lines, support lines, resistant lines. Use all the information you learned, to write detailed analysis so that you really learn deeply the subject. This will make you a much better trader in the long run, and help you to make less mistakes up front. Yes, this will take time, but it is so worth it! Most new traders lose thousands of dollars up front. They tend to blow up accounts. Step 5 hopes to avoid this.
5. Use a good simulator to practice day trading with. This is how you get good. You want to get beyond beginner's luck, so I'd use simulator for a good 6 months before using real money. You also want to practice getting in and out of Chinese stocks and any really fast moving stocks using a simulator so that you don't blow up your account! With Chinese stocks I would only day trade them, if they are good for day trading, have good volatility, is not moving extremely quickly but is definitely moving, has high demand and low supply, and is a trust worthy stock otherwise. We want the company to be legit, However, I'd get out before the usual exit strategy because I don't trust any of them to not suddenly change to a pump and dump scheme. Rule of thumb I'd use is, if you are wondering if the stock is moving to quickly, just get out. You don't want to be caught holding any stock that had the trading halted because the price was moving upwards to quickly. Until you get good at getting out on the exit strategy we should be using, with the simulator, when using real money, I'd exit a little earlier, on the green candle, just to be sure I took profit. Once you get better, you can take 50% profit and then exit the rest on the exit strategy.
This is what I'm doing currently! I just don't have my notes up right now, as they are on my linux computer, so I can't tell you all the books I'm studying. And no, I am not a student who pays for anything right now. I bought some books and get all the free stuff I can from online as that is enough for now. I do hope to eventually become a student of Ross's during one of his huge sales events. I would only get in during a very good sale, after I've learned as much as I could for free, and proved that I needed more info that I can't get for free. Thus, if you can get in day trading successfully, without buying the course, then go for it!

ADBE long: valid first reaction at the 1H 20 EMA, but no follow-through (-0.32R)

Buy on pullback to key technical levels. Strong stocks in uptrend usually find support at 21d EMA. Wait for confirmation of support before buying

Your idea makes sense directionally, but compare the fill against the market at order arrival, not against a 7-day average spread. That tells you much more about execution quality. I’d measure slippage from the mid/arrival price when the order was submitted, not a 7-day EMA of the spread

Buy calls when it dips to EMA.

50 EMA is the new underwire

I don't use many, just RSI and EMA

Technically just closed above the 12/22 EMA. Could rocket up.

Why does it seem that whenever I mention heat maps, someone is always saying, "Are you selling them?" They work for me. Will they work for you? I have no idea. Of course I like Heat Maps, and I won't mention which one I use. There are many. Pick one. Learn to use it. It is amazing at showing where the resistance can be. And where to get the hell out. I didn't believe the hype either at first, until 2 traders that I respect the hell out of kept talking about them and fully explained to me, who was only using HOD, EMA, PDL, PDC, PDH, etc. exactly how they work and what they show. I've been using them for 4 months and they are right way more than they are wrong. All they really do is show where dealers are hedging. Dealers are the smart money. They don't hedge for no reason with tens and hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

where are you planning to start from?
i’d suggest you look for old, disclosed strategies. it’s very likely the edge has decayed but you want strategies that you can articulate the edge they’re trading
for instance, people put some percentage of their paycheck into retirement accounts. this money flows into mutual funds which are obligated to purchase stocks to utilize that capital. we know that many people get paid on the 15th and 30th of each month. so, you could try and “front run” those trades by buying broad market ETF’s on the 14th and 29th
that’s a strategy that has been effectively arbitraged away and you won’t beat the market trading it. but there may be similar variants that you could trade
you want to find examples, even old ones, of strategies with reasoning behind them. not just “X EMA crosses Y EMA”, that’s not a good foundation
why gold? with so little experience what makes you think you’re likely to find an edge there instead of somewhere else? are there advantages you see or industry insight you have?

If you are a beginner, trade a simple EMA(9) VWAP cross-over on a 15m timeframe, when the crossover is supported by volume and global markets are siding your bias. That's a nice place to start on a paper account.

Why would you need someone to tell you what the trend is?
Slap on VWAP / 200 EMA and you see at a glance whether or not volume / price over the last 200 rolling periods moves up or down.
Thats all a trend is. Direction. If you can't identify a trend... Thats because there is none. Thats what you would call a range bound market.

[Strategy Feedback] Simple 9 EMA + 2-Candle Rejection Setup — Looking for Experienced Traders to Tear It Apart

I do’t hope to see full recap or detailed review of how one or another scalping strategy works best for you, but… can you please share at least some basics of the scalping strategy that is profitable for you, if you, of course, have one.
I personally tried EMA 50, 21 and 9 - seems quite legit one, but maybe there are some more accurate ones that help having a more solid edge? I’d be thankful 🙏🏻

The title kinda summarize it for people who don't wanna read, but for context:
Yesterday mark my one year anniversary of daytrading (practice paper trading july and august 2025, but I don't feel that count). Anyway, in my first... 3-4 months? Sound about right. Anyway, during that time I lost around 1/6 of my account.
Took a step back for two months (would have come back sooner, but after a loss in the family I felt it was better not to jump back into trading with my head not there). When I did come back, I decided to trade with a single share instead to test strategy and get better. Strategy seemed to work about... 6/10 times? Got a run of 9/10 times, followed b y a 3/10 times which shook my confidence a lot. And often I just neither hit stop loss or profit and just exit before market close.
Anyway, decided to start back with a larger amount of shares... and for some reason nothing works. The strategy, I mean. And I don't mean I can't hit profit. I mean I can't even get my *entry point*. Never hit what I'm looking for, or I feel something is fishy (which usually is). It kinda left me dejected and feeling really unsure of myself, which only made trusting alternative entry points worse.
I've noticed recently I've just instead entered at moments of resistance (like candles bouncing back at EMA 5/10/20). I make profit, but I exist extremely fast. I come out with maybe a fifth of what I'd make if I hit a profit. Now, I sadly have the bad habit for my mental health to go see the stocks later on. And at times, I look and go "Yeah, had I stayed, I would have made triple what I did". But I'm just in this mindset of "I just want to make a profit, even a small one" as if trying to prove to myself I *can* do it and didn't waste my day just to not be able to enter a trade.
So yeah, I know psychology is a big part of day trading. I've certainly got tricks to get over the feeling of a bad trade. And honestly, my account an amount of money I can't replace. It's a small acount. Replaced it within two month of work. And as I said, I'm climbing it back up. But failing to *do* a trade still bothers me.
So yeah, I feel like there something in term of the psychology that's clearly not helping me somewhere in all this. Could use some advice from better traders than I am.

Yeah I studied this all last week and created an ETF EMA indicator and it turns out ETFs have not been a great predictor of BTC price historically.
I have found that stablecoin flow has been great at predicting BTC price.

I tend to use anchored vwap in the same way that you use EMA's. I will anchor a vwap to the top or bottom of the current leg and see how price reacts to it. Typically I only trade trend continuation, so if we are in a downtrend, I have vwap anchored to the top of the current trend, I wait for it to retest and reject the AVWAP.
This is a very simplified version of how I enter, but it is the general idea.

Yeah for 1 sec micro pullback, if 1 sec chart stays above 9EMA/20EMA then breaks previous 10 sec candle high, it is likely to push higher since 1 sec chart moves crazy fast but if it can hold EMA support in that chart its likely momentum is that strong. Only use this for between 1st and 2nd big candles on 10 sec chart. If it already pulled away for sometime, it could fail (false break out).

Small allocations are great but I’d wait and see if we bounce here or not before loading up because if we don’t then the next major support is all the way down at the 200 weekly EMA at $40

Hey guys, I recently got into trading and put 20,000 in my account to start with (once i get better with it, i’ll be putting in 10x the amount). When i initially learnt about trading, I was taught to use PSAR, MACD and EMA (9 and 21).
I started out pretty well with small profits, but went on a downward streak for quite a while. I did lose about 250. I understand that that’s not quite a lot to lose compared to the amount I had put in, but it sucked seeing it go down that much.
What other tools can I incorporate to help with my technical analysis and make it stronger so that I don’t lose as much?