It's all the market.

For me it's 98%, but I haven't put any more in this year since around February. (Except for my max 401k/Roth/Mega Backdoor Roth/HSA contributions.)

I don't expect that % to change very much for the foreseeable future.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It's all the market.

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Experienced traders never conflate the two. We mentally consider them a part of 2 different worlds.

95% in the market

401k
2 x ROTH
Account with planner
Trading account
Stock grants

My trading account is about 7% of my total investments.

My retirement is about 95% or so in the market. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to do options in my account or I'd be selling calls. Oh well.

Trading account had been running about half. Right now it's less cash as I did some buy/writes on VERU and SAVA the last two weeks as they started up, rotated into further and higher sold calls as they continued up, buying them back as they fell some.

75% in. Large part of that is long term retirement

Did this via your Twitter post as well. 25-35% bracket for me.

Quick Sunday mornin chart before heading for church with my family.

WWR

30k's WWR date with 1.50 achieved.
I'd like to see a move down into the Fib 50 (rough MT), which is also the ATR mean and 21EMA and uptrend line. Yellow arrow.

Loses that and low 140s, 1.32ish next.

irish pete ag06 said:

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Morbid but this is stock discussion. A top advisor's daughter to Putin reportedly has been assassinated. Rumor was it he advisor was the target. I'm sure there will be a response.

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Oh and I meant to add that this event won't have a market response, I do agree with ProgN about that.

I was just observing that this could lead to some pretty escalatory action in the near future that could affect the market.

Got a question for tradingview users...

So I've been attempting to do some volume screening/scanning for small caps getting loaded up. Also trying to find the pump and dumps while they're being front loaded.

So I've been going to some of the Zack Morris and gang pump and dumps, going to the first day on twitter it was mentioned and looking to see what type of buying is happening before the tweeting.

Zack first mentions MOHO on Aug 3.

I just front loaded $MOHO China low float Penny that needs to regain compliance by September. .20 average. We know how silly these can get. $1 is a done deal $3+ if it gets stupid pic.twitter.com/4X5DhCLrZJ

— Zack Morris (@MrZackMorris) August 3, 2022

LOL at Zack being full disclosure now and straight up saying he's front loaded it.





You can see the daily volume on Aug 2 while Zack and others were loading was 37 million.

But when I go back to the hourly chart and add up the volume, it's not even close to 37 million.
The largest bar on the hourly on Aug 2 is 471K


This is just one example, but I've noticed this a bunch when volume scanning for these small caps. The hourly/15min or any other intra day time frame doesn't even come close to total daily volume.

Is this dark pool data being added retroactively?

jj9000 said:

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BREwmaster said:

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long mostly SARK (so I'm short).

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Smart move.

...especially since he was forced to start Ewers.

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LOL, yeah I set myself up for that one!

I agree. I'm just piddling. I have no $ going into any of this stuff I was looking at.

I still don't understand the discrepancy between daily and intra-daily volume on the chart on trading view.

On webull, the volumes on intra-day work out equivalently to the daily.

Weird.

Do you have real time and also all pre/AH trades enabled on your TradingView? As an example there are buys/sells higher and lower using my primary platform IBKR when looking at wicks and volume than there are on TV.

I love TV for charting. MY IBKR platform will give me more granular details.

On Penny stocks:

Lots of people make millions on these. They know how to spot an entry and they know how to take profits on them. Most of you guys aren't reading L2 quotes. Maybe a good policy is you shouldn't trade a stock that you never heard of before the trading day.

Risk management and clear stops are key. Failure to have stops = bag holding.

I also won't trade anything that Zack Morris is even close to.

I'm upgraded to Pro, but not sure if I have that on or not.

Makes sense.

$30,000 Millionaire said:

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I also won't trade anything that Zack Morris is even close to.

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This. Only commonality is if he's bought in after I have.

irish pete ag06 said:

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LOL, I'm not. I was just messing around with volume scanning. Mainly trying to find institutional buying and this led me down a rabbit hole of trying to reverse engineer pump and dumps via volume scanning.

I was using relative volume scanning to see if I could find "goalposts" without looking at hundreds of charts.

This is the dumb stuff I do in the evening in my spare time when everyone else is asleep.

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Keep doing that bro! Going through hundreds of charts and recognizing patterns, TA keys, drawing in SR, flags, etc. is what it takes. TV is so easy to chart with on top of having so many indicators and studies to play around with I find it fun just to see how all those align vs one another.

Love seeing the dedication to your craft.

Left hand chart. Stocks and life.

Reading books gives a life of knowledge. Devil Take the Hindmost is my recently completed audio book and taught me immensely!

FJ43 said:

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If you are new to trading options or trading in general, for the love of all things sane (and your capital) do not trade weeklies or even worse 0DTE (same day expiration). Go out a ways (month+) on expirations to learn.

Weekly and 0DTE IMO should be for experienced traders with solid execution skills. Unless you just like pain…

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Excellent advice. New traders don't fully understand the Greeks. For new traders I would suggest trading micro futures if you are going to day trade. I've stop trading 0 Dte and weekly SPY and only trade MES and I'm finally starting to grow my account. And like you preached before know risk management and honor your stops

If you're ever already in one that he alerts. Congrats.

Sell as soon as possible on the run up.

I trade 0 DTE all the time, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Early futures don't mean much but ran some trend lines and SRs.

Friday broke the uptrend. Early action needs to hold here or corresponding targets to my SPY in play. 2 yellow arrows are downside targets if continuation.

4200 is my core level for down tomorrow.

irish pete ag06 said:

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Where do you trade futures at? I have no clue about that.


I'm obviously the one who's not afraid to ask dumb questions on this thread.

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Don't use TOS

Thanks. I noticed tradovate mentioned on twitter.