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I figure the whole market would be all about ai given how much attention its been getting but it seems that the rotation happened a long time ago already
nasdaq compared to other indices like spy, Russell, and dow is very thin and not at all extended and crowded compared to the others
i dont know if thats a good or bad thing. should be bullish as a whole because theres plenty of room left for buyers. bad news if its empty for a reason and people are just smart enough to avoid certain overextended names.
looks like small caps (RTY, IWM) is where the real party is at right now

Why does IWM hate 300 so much?

IWM going sideways for a month is a robbery no mask..

Thank you for the comment!
I think the 20–40% degradation point is probably the right way for me to think about it.
I’m not expecting the live version to match the backtest perfectly. The real question for me is whether the degradation is within a normal range or whether something is fundamentally not translating.
Right now I’m trying to separate the issues into different buckets. If the signal quality is still there but the average winner is shrinking or the average loser is growing, then that points more toward execution, slippage, spread, or exit handling. If the win rate itself starts falling outside the tested range, then that feels more like the setup is not appearing live the way it did in replay.
I’m also trying not to judge the four bots only as one combined number. SPY, QQQ, IWM, and DIA each need to stand on their own first. The combined book is helpful, but it could hide one weak bot being carried by another.
Since making my post, I’ve been tightening the live execution side: tracking spread at signal, actual fill versus expected fill, time to fill, rejected/canceled orders, exit reason, and whether the live trade matches the replayed trade. I also added more conservative buy no-fill/reprice handling and emergency exit protections so I can better identify whether a bad result is a valid strategy loss or an execution issue.
I agree that 60–100 live trades per bot is probably a better sample before making any strong conclusion about edge .
Thank you for your help i really appreciate it!

Week 28 Outlook: SPX Leads, NQX Repairs, Gold Still Needs Proof
Week 28 starts with a broad-risk equity bias, but not a clean risk-on environment.
The strongest expression remains the S&P 500. Breadth is holding better than tech leadership, RSP and IWM are still supporting broad participation, and volatility remains contained. That keeps SPX as the preferred long market, but the setup is not risk-free. Price is pressing into upper resistance while yields, DXY, and Fed-event risk remain active.
For SPX, the key resistance is 7,550–7,600.
A clean break and hold above that zone would support continuation toward 7,620. But if price rejects there, the better long setup would likely come from a controlled pullback or reclaim rather than chasing the highs.
SPX support:
7,420–7,450 first support and warning zone.
7,300–7,350 deeper invalidation zone.
As long as SPX holds above 7,420–7,450, the broad-risk long thesis remains intact. A deeper break below 7,300–7,350, especially with weaker breadth, credit pressure, or VIX back above 20, would damage the weekly outlook.
NQX / NASDAQ is still long only, but secondary.
The issue is that NASDAQ has not fully repaired the major 30,150–30,250 authority zone, and QQQ / SMH leadership is mixed. That does not make NASDAQ bearish, but it does make it less clean than SPX this week.
NASDAQ resistance:
29,650–29,800 immediate decision zone.
30,150–30,250 major reclaim zone.
30,650–30,800 upper supply.
NASDAQ support:
29,200–29,300.
28,900–29,020.
28,400–28,600 deeper support.
NASDAQ becomes more interesting if it reclaims and holds 30,150–30,250 with QQQ and SMH confirmation. Until then, it remains a secondary long idea, not the main expression. Chasing tech without leadership confirmation is lower quality.
Gold is watchlist only.
Gold has repaired some short-term structure, but the driver stack is still not clean. Yields remain elevated, DXY is restrictive, TLT is weak, and Silver is not leading. That means Gold is not yet a primary trade idea.
Gold resistance:
4,180–4,200 immediate resistance.
4,320–4,350 larger recovery zone.
4,450–4,520 major upper supply.
Gold support:
4,080–4,100.
4,000–4,020.
3,975–4,000 deeper support.
Gold needs acceptance above 4,180–4,200 with better confirmation from yields, DXY, TLT, and Silver before it becomes a cleaner long candidate. A loss of 4,080–4,100 would weaken the short-term repair.
The main risk this week is the rates and Fed sequence.
The 10Y auction, FOMC Minutes, jobless claims, 30Y auction, and Fed policy report can all affect yields, DXY, credit, volatility, and equity appetite. That is why the outlook supports participation, but not aggression.
Preferred hierarchy:
SPX long setups first.
NQX long setups second.
Gold watchlist only.
Cash if rates, DXY, credit, or volatility turn hostile.
The cleanest plan is patience: wait for SPX to prove acceptance above resistance or pull back into support, let NASDAQ reclaim authority before treating it as leadership again, and do not force Gold until the drivers confirm.
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why tf is IWM dumping, please go to 300

It is an ETF which fits my current trading plan/strategy (time of day to trade, account size, 0dte, etc). Nothing personal to IWM. I can switch to SPY/QQQ doing same thing or even futures (I prefer options) with same technical strategy but my overall trading plan is using IWM. Too many people try to follow others and jump on what most is promoting online instead of see if the ticker fits their trading plan (their current life, goals, technical strategy etc)- See my comments below or on my previous posts for more detailed answer.
- free tip, trading another ticker may looks nice but with a small account and using a stop loss (I do not use one), any wick will hit your SL first and get burnt badly, very badly each time. In futures, this also means you blow your account. So, prop firms are always winners 😅

why only IWM?

I don't decide which ticker to trade. It is part of my trading plan/strategy. I stick to one for some time. IWM happens to fit my trading plan (time of day, 0dte, account size etc). It maybe different for you as a beginner. I only doing IWM 0dte since Jan of this year if you check my older comments.
Choosing strike/expiry is all based on your trading plan. I am a bit aggressive this year with the growth, so went for 0dte. As a beginner, most will get burnt and this is why so many tell you long calls/puts are gambling.
Never follow alerts if you do not know the strategy, you need to know what is happening on a chart and the alert may only give you some confirmation. It is your money, your decisions. I don't post before I get in. I focus on my trade. I work full time. I trade on my phone. I don't sit in front of the desk watching screens. People should be able to trade independently. I am also automating partly my trades and will post on my blog.
I was trading SPY/QQQ and you can see 2 videos, only 2 vids I have so far on my youtube channel from 12 months ago. It shows my P&L from TrastyTrade.
I also update the links in my profile to have my website/blog. I don't really reply to direct message as there is a lot of spams

I’ve been building and live-testing a small family of intraday options bots and wanted to post a high-level summary to get feedback from people who have actually dealt with these.
I’m not selling anything, and I’m very aware that backtests can lie. I’m mostly interested in how other algo traders think about live validation, edge decay, sample size, and when to kill or modify a strategy.
The system is currently four separate bots, each focused on one liquid index ETF:
\* SPY bot
\* QQQ bot
\* IWM bot
\* DIA bot
They are all intraday directional options scalpers. They trade long calls/puts only — no spreads, no short premium, and no overnight holds. The basic idea is to catch short intraday directional continuation setups using a combination of trend, momentum, moving-average behavior, volatility, and price-location filters.
Broadly the bots look at things like:
\* short-term trend alignment
\* price relationship to moving averages/VWAP
\* momentum confirmation
\* volatility-adjusted distance from the signal area
\* directional confirmation
\* spread/liquidity checks
\* time-of-day filters
\* daily trade caps
\* ATR-based risk management
\* profit-locking / trailing logic
\* dead-trade timers
\* forced end-of-day flat
The options are short-dated but not 0DTE. The goal is to avoid the most extreme 0DTE gamma/theta behavior while still getting enough movement for intraday scalping. Each bot trades only its own ETF and has its own slightly different configuration. The bots are related, but they are not simply one strategy copied four times.
The current research set covers roughly two years of historical replay across SPY, QQQ, IWM, and DIA.
Spy - Backtested 509 trades. \~$9,424 | PF \~2.04
QQQ - Backtested 316 trades. \~$11,174 | PF 2.18
IWM - Backtested 379 trades \~ $5,893 | \~2.08
DIA - Backtested 154 trades (much more selective) \~$6,223 | PF \~2.55
Combined across all four research profiles:
\* 1,358 total trades
\* approximately $32,715 net P&L
\* all four individual bots had PF above 2.0 in the backtest/replay
\* the systems are designed to be flat by the end of the day
The live results are mixed, which is exactly why I’m posting.
Some pieces are encouraging:
\* order handling is working
\* spread checks are working
\* protective exits are working
\* the bots are not randomly overtrading
\* the better systems are taking trades that look consistent with the backtest
\* profit locks and dead-trade exits are doing what they are supposed to do
\* live logs are detailed enough to compare signal quality, execution quality, and exit quality
For those of you who run systematic strategies live:
1. How many live trades would you want before judging whether a strategy is failing to translate?
2. How do you separate bad sequencing from a broken edge?
3. How do you handle cases where the backtest has a good profit factor, but early live trades show worse win/loss distribution?
4. How much degradation from backtest to live do you consider normal for short-dated options strategies?
5. At what point do you stop giving a bot the benefit of the doubt?
Curious how others think about this. TIA. AI helped me write this post, but i've reviewed and the thoughts are mine.

IWM tanks , I bought put spreads at the top. Somehow my spreads are down like 50%, its just straight up fraud, deception and cheating bro. If I were to try to sell these they literally wouldn't even fill them either.

$QQQ $SPY $IWM $IGV $SMH
Too Big to Fail ?
When bubble burst, how many Trillion market cap wipeout?

IWM please 299 please please please

- make a trading plan/strategy around your life with real daily profits which are real. You can ask AI to help with the trading plan/strategy. Most people skip this and then start crying that they blow up everything
- Practice your strategy, start small which you can afford to lose
- practice for at least 2-3 months before you use real money
- don't be greedy, stick to your targets
I day trade options once a day on ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. I do long puts/calls, not selling options. I post my entry/exit since the last 10 weeks, you can see all the posts on the sub reddit if you click on my profile Growing $300 to $60k in 6 months

IBM & IWM looking good

IWM eod? Swings are sooo cheap rn

Day 1, Week 10. Green. It is not a challenge, doing normal trades as all of you 🙂
On IWM 300 is risky psychological number, just human nature. It could reject and dump or break it and get rejected again. Today, it got rejected again. So be it, no need to guess, who cares. Just watch the chart and wait.
As I write this at 10.10 ET, I am done for today.
Yep, my name DreamfulTrader, you can laugh about the irony I am dreaming. Just following my dream 😬
I did 15 contracts as I got in a bit early and I was not in the mood to go for more contracts but the greed to get squeeze it for more profit got me once I got it. Yeah, I will blame myself if I ever blew my profits and make a loss 🤷🏻‍♂️
I got in at 9.56 and 9 min later, I was already out. I don't last long and it feels good. Nothing to prove to anyone who tell you to last longer 😬 I was greedy today.
People say you should not trade on Mondays, Fridays or whatever days, stop believing in this. The chart and the market makets don't know about this, neither should you. Just do what the chart, your inidcators and checklist tell you to do. You don't wake up and say, I will not go to work on Monday as it is always busy or whatever. You show up.
I never use R ratio in any of my calculations, it works for some people, but this maths does not work for small accounts and also for day trading options or futures if you want to be profitable consistenly from what I see.
No fancy options strategy like iron condor, selling etc. Using simple EMAs, VWAP etc to see the trends and levels.
One and done: 15 contracts = $420 total profit.
Total options cost = $1,080
39 % profit
Time in Trade : 9 min. Not bad morning glory trade 🤤
You can get high with 420 ;)
Life is short. You do not need many trading days to grow an account. It is the same if you do options or futures, start small. If you shit in your pants after the first trade and lose in second trade on same day, stop being silly and only do one trade or take a break of 15min before trying second trade.
If I start doing 2 trades a day, I can grow my account much faster, however for this plan, I need to stick to it. When I will grow again a small account next time on options or futures, I will target to a shorter amount of time, maybe 3 months.
Start small, money you can afford to lose, then grow your account.
It is not a shame to trade with 1 contract. Shame or pride does not give you profits.
If you are learning by yourself, give it 2-3 months to see how you are progressing.
If you believe I am lucky every day with the trades and posts 🤷🏻‍♂️ so be it. I believe I have no choice, to put in the effort and keep doing, any loss is my loss as it is me executing my own trades and money.
Started with $300, just 3 contracts, 9 weeks ago, and growing it to $60,000 with 1 trade a day in 6 months target. If you were also trading, even $10 per contract per day, you will have progressed a lot.
My trading plan and strategy is trading one trade a day, 2-5 times a week depending on availability.
I only day trade options on ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. Timestamp on the broker is UK time. So, entry time of 2.56 is 9.56 ET.
I trade on my samsung s10e. I will say goodbye to it soon. Screenshot is from TastyTrade.

IWM calls here

Calls on IWM , idk how this useless pile of shit has such absolute retard strength but its not going down with the other stuff.