wen
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CL -1R. Missed the longs i wanted and ended up trying a bit of an aggressive fade from the balance top.
Stopped near high tick on this. Likely not re entering, this isnt the market to try to keep selling over and over
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@OflowTrading @JL474848 In replay it’s not 100% like live though, right (because of the data feed rate)? I’m assuming it’s close enough though to live conditions.
Thanks for any clarification - planning on checking your DOM out.
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@JL474848 Yes, OflowDOM works with NinjaTrader's Market Replay
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Passive orders sit and wait. Aggressive orders cross the spread and move price. When aggressive buyers overwhelm passive sellers, price goes up. That's all price movement is. Supply and demand in real time.
oflowtrading.com
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my dumbass really thought I was gonna get that supreme margiela collab
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As always, will keep it 100 with everyone. This week was tough. Was small green on the week coming into today. I tried 2 longs @ 24,720 and got stopped. What shouldve been a normal loss, was much bigger due to me sizing up heavy on re entry. Fridays are historically my worst days
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@LeoTheTiger @TradovateProp lol add this to live too (instead of the current setting a $ limit for lockout)
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Ninja Lockout is available now on NinjaProp and TradovateProp accounts.
If you’re done for the day, lockout on Tradovate or Ninja web apps or login to NinjaMobile and do it from your phone.
Don’t let your cat or kids trade on your behalf anymore 🤣
@TradovateProp
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#es_f 3.8.26:
Ultimately since January, value has been migrating downward. Sellers have slowly been driving value lower per the weekly profile.
Downside value migration has been clearly visible over the last week or two. Last Tuesday we visited prices we hadn't seen since November, rallied higher, made a lower high, and revisited the lows again.
Last week we saw that rejection back to the lows and Friday even closed below VAL.
We're below previous week's VAL, previous month's VAL, and previous month's low. It's clear we're in bearish territory. The question going into next week is whether buyers will step in and defend these lows as they have done repeatedly over the past several months or if sellers continue with control.
My plan going into next week is simply evaluating downside continuation. Closing and accepting below all of these value areas shows buyers aren't interested in transacting at higher prices. Will be paying close attention to the seller absorption that was near the close on Friday(Circled in orange). Price acceptance below that seller delta and I'd be expecting more downside.
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I started this account with 3k around January 27th, focused on only trading roughly 1 to 2 micros. Sometimes I got a little too confident and went with 5 MNQ, but I decided to size back down.
My win rate is around 44%.
During all of this, my mentality for trading has shifted immensely, in a good way.
Trading minis and somehow, I say somehow as if I do not know the answer, always blowing prop accounts does quite a bit of damage to your mental if you are actually trying to trade and not yolo 5 cons to “game the system”. The truth is trading a mini or more on a prop account is not sustainable at all (for me right now), unless of course you are just swinging for the fences, which I hardly do. Especially if you have a win rate like me.
I wanted to take a step back, fund a live account, and trade extremely light so I could gather actual data and reflect on a question: who am I as a trader? What is my style?
January 27 to now is not a large sample size by any means, but it has proven to myself that sizing down, accepting losses, and letting winners run shows that blowing prop accounts left and right was not necessarily a strategy issue, but more so a sizing issue, risk issue, and psychology issue.
While trading a live account, I am content with making small profits on the day because it is not fake money. I am not spending money on props, and I am slowly growing my equity curve. I am not worried about prop wars, rule changes, etc. Sure, trading prop accounts can feel like real money, but for whatever reason my mental is not the same between prop accounts and a live account. There is a sense of needing to rush a prop account. Or if I lose on a day, the next day’s profits are capped to remain within consistency rules or something.
My mentality has shifted from rushing prop accounts to meet a payout eligibility timeline to just slowly and surely building an equity curve. Not failing an eval, or even passing an eval then failing a funded account, only to restart all over again.
Prop firms are great. But for me, I have gotten more pleasure building this account from 3k to 8k than I ever did taking 20k+ payouts from Topstep with a month. Maybe someday I will go back to trading a prop account and do it slowly. But as of right now, I think my goal is not spending a dime on a prop firm account and sticking with live funds.
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Four years of chasing different strategies taught me one thing. I was the variable that needed to change. That realization came late, but it's the only one that matters now. Either I address it or I'm done.
My most recent switch was to orderflow, and that's where I'm staying. But this time is different. Instead of relying on memorization and pattern recognition, I'm doing what I've avoided for years. Actually putting in the work to understand what I'm trading and why. The actual theory behind it.
Back in November I decided to hunker down. I picked up Mind Over Markets. I forced myself to watch those multi-hour auction theory videos that I used to tap out of after five minutes. I cancelled my prop firm subscriptions, stopped trading, and started focusing on learning. I overhauled my Sierra charts, got rid of the noise and simplified my chartbooks.
I've never front tested and journaled without trading. And if I had a bad day I found myself not wanting to journal out of embarrassment, or I would say to myself "I won't take a trade like that again so there's no need to journal it"
2026 is going to be different. It's the year I finally get my shit together. I refuse to let all of these years be for nothing.
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I used to walk pass here daily to get Jennie’s 💀. Straight out of a GTA lobby now
Landon@landon20s
Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence
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Cool little side project I've been building on @NinjaTrader since I wanted a more custom DOM.
Best part is that you can have the DOM set to $ES_F to watch the flow, but trade $MES_F off of it.
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