SMA
SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc.
stock NYSE

First of all, really impressive work. I like that the interesting part isn’t just the entry, but how you manage risk, take partials, and let the runner work.
I went through your replies and I think I understand the basic idea. 5m NQ/MNQ, 50 SMA for entries, 9 EMA for exits, VWAP for confluence, partial at TP1, then trailing and reversal protection.
A few things I’m curious about if you don’t mind sharing the logic, not the exact numbers.
What do you mean by VWAP confluence exactly? Just being on the right side of VWAP, or also slope/distance?
What makes a 50 SMA cross valid enough to take, versus one you ignore?
For the 9 EMA exit, is it mainly a candle close through it, or is it part of a bigger reversal rule?
Are your stops and trailing levels fixed in NQ points, or do they adapt to volatility?
And for re entry, do you need a completely new 50 SMA cross, or can you enter again while price stays on the same side?
Really interesting system. Would love to understand the logic behind those parts.

He is literally using SMA and BB while trying to swing trade. No WMA, VWAP or even a log scale. He has Dunning Kruger levels lf confidence.

Hi guys,
After studying how institutional money completely changed market dynamics post-ETFs, we realized traditional retail indicators cause way too many fakeouts. So, we spent the last few weeks coding a TradingView Pine Script.
Instead of just looking at standard price charts, the script aggregates 5 specific inter-market metrics in real-time to find a clean mathematical convergence before calling a macro bottom:
1. **Macro Trend**: Price relative to the 50-Week Moving Average (50 WMA);
2. **BTC Dominance**: Tracking if Bitcoin is actively draining market liquidity (BTC.D > 10 SMA);
3. **Binance Volume Spike**: Monitoring institutional spot buying volume crossing above the 20-day average;
4. **Retail Sentiment**: Monitoring an RSI basket of 5 major altcoins against BTC to spot retail panic-selling;
5. **Stablecoin Inflow**: Tracking the aggregate market cap expansion of USDT + USDC against their 20 SMA to detect institutional dry powder moving onto exchanges.
The script is engineered for extreme selectivity. The signal (Orange Triangle) triggers ONLY when all 5 conditions hit a perfect 5/5 convergence. In the last 5 years of market history, it has triggered only 4 times.
However, the real daily value of the dashboard for a trader is data consolidation. Instead of wasting time opening 5 different charts every single day to check stablecoin caps, volumes, dominance, and retail RSI, you have everything aggregated in one single, clean on-screen table.
Right now, we are currently at 2/5 convergence (NO SIGNAL). Dominance is flat, volume is average, and retail hasn't capitulated yet.
**\*\*\*UPDATE**: We've just opened a public live data feed where we track how these parameters evolve day-by-day so anyone can check the layout in real-time. Since Reddit filters direct links, we've listed the access point directly on my Reddit profile bio for those who want to monitor it. No strings attached — just looking to see how it performs for you.
We’d really love to get the community's perspective on this technical setup:
\- Do you think aggregating these 5 specific metrics into a single dashboard is an efficient way to save time and track the macro buildup?
\- Is the on-screen table layout clean and readable enough for quick daily checks?
\- What other macro or on-chain metric would you consolidate into this stack?
**Thanks in advance for your insights!**

Feedback loop eats it. the idea is fine for one step and then the error \*compounds\*, because day two is built on your own guess about day one and nothing corrects it.
the SMA part is where it really shows. a 200 day average recalculated off predicted closes goes smooth in a way real ones never are, and smooth looks like signal.
worth testing anyway, just measure it at 1 day and 5 days seperately and dont let yourself look at the 20 day chart first. it always looks great

SMA for entries, EMA for exits, VWAP for confluence. Yes, 5 minute timeframe works best.

Yea, the EMA version of that check never really terminates, it just gets quieter every time you push the start back. I ended up **cutting it off where the trade list stopped changing my decisions** rather than where the lists matched, which is a judgment call I wasnt thrilled about. SMA and ATR do settle, so the identical-lists test is honest there.

Even on Dell/HPR the VWMA trend lines are sinking compare to their SMA counterparts. Not even the explosive gains today are being supported by institutional volume

This is the last gasp before the 100 SMA breaks

You're right on the first point. You said "run this," not "this is my system," and I wrote it up as if you'd claimed it. That's on me.
On the second: this post is the original write-up from three weeks ago. A mod removed it by mistake and cleared me to put it back, so it's the same text and it stops where things were on the 24th. It doesn't include what you added after, and I should have said that at the top.
On what you added, the part that's still up: long only, with the SMA slope as a condition. That was specific enough to run and I didn't, because I got stuck on the other questions I'd asked and let it sit. Wrong call. I'll run it. Long only, entry only when the 12-period SMA is rising, two versions of "rising" (over 1 bar and over 3 bars) since that part wasn't specified, same four gates as before. Results go in this thread either way.

Consistent profitability takes time and is a function of how well you educate yourself in the mechanics of stocks and options trading, how you manage your emotions when your stock is falling (learning not to panic but find a fix to recover your capital and sometimes taking losses if the thesis around the stock you bought is broken) .
Take the effort to educate yourself one more time in an organized fashion. The links below can complement what is out there on the internet. Also, here is nothing wrong with stopping to trade for a while and just buy ETFs or mutual funds like VOO index from Vanguard until you have educated yourself again
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 on covered calls , CSPs (plus 12 other strategies) . Each strategy covers;
* What the strategy is and how its payoff actually works
* When the adjustment conversation starts, and the trigger signals that say it is time
* The fixes experienced traders weigh, and the trade-off behind each one
* The story of the Greeks, so you understand why a position moves the way it does
* A worked example with real numbers
* The common traps, and how to avoid them .
A critical part of options trading is picking the right strikes. If you are selling covered calls against the shares you like to own, for longer term, you will try to pick a strike where your shares are not called away. For CSP's , if you are placing a trade for stocks, you want to make sure you have a decent premium, and if you do not want to own the shares (while not recommended, sometimes the trade is done on whim, for short term gain) , you would like to pick a strike such that you do not get assigned the shares.
I have an old post on how I pick strikes based on Volume Profiles/POC/VAL\_HI/VAL\_LOW and Deltas
[https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1u3qbv1/picking\_option\_strikes\_based\_on\_delta\_is\_not/](https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1u3qbv1/picking_option_strikes_based_on_delta_is_not/)
(5) Always trade within your risk tolerance limits and size positions carefully . Have an exit plan in place before you place the trade.
(5) Beyond that , knowing the support and resistance of the stock, MACD, understanding of moving averages (10 day SMA, 20 & 30 day EMAs helps) .. and the last and the most important one is 'TEMPERAMENT' . For technical analysis, you might want to get thinkorswim by schwab or many others . There are lot of tools that might give you alerts when your positions are in trouble but we all should know how to manage the position.
Bottom line - Always have cost basis handy and never sells calls below cost basis. Having an exit plan before placing a trade is essential.. That minimizes losses and produces superior returns.
This post is based on my experiences and can complement youtube videos on options trading, other informative texts shared by other traders. Anybody charging a fee to help you improve is not the right person to go to.

My friend, I am sorry, but if your answer to how you solve this is trusting an API response, that is not an actual solution.
Especially for something as central as supply distribution, and apparently finality. That is not a trustless network, its gossip. You are simply repeating what you were told as if its truth. It would hold less weight than a website that had credibility vouching for the participants. At least for Solar Coin they were actually partnered with SMA an built in to their monitoring platform so so at least you were trusting SMA, not api responses, but even then it is an trusted oracle.
I hope you see my point. I fully support projects working in this direction, but all the other details do not matter. The supply, distribution, what network it runs on, all if that is irrelevant. The only issue that matters is solving how to prove energy was generated in a trustless and distributed manner. Until that can be done, unfrtintaely there is nothing here and its nothing more than a collectible.