데이 트레이딩 감 잡은 순간은 언제였나요? 🤔

I started doing it with an algo/bot. I coded in C# with the TWS API (IBKR). That was 10 years ago. I never touched a manual trade ever since and I don't know how people can manually trade at all.

Focusing on the higher time frame setups. Even if I'm trading on a 1 minute chart, the name should look good on the daily first. I want the institutional traders, the hedge funds, the swing traders, etc. all looking at the same setup I am. Avoiding stocks that are in no man's land did wonders for my win percentage.

Consistency in day trading often comes from developing a growth mindset, focusing on process over profits, and building emotional resilience through self-reflection, journaling, and continuous learning.

crazy story, and trigger alert for anyone dealing with heavy personal life stuff.

so in 2024, I'd been van lifing as a means to give myself as much time as possible to feel through my personal issues

I had experienced a lot of loss to that point and finally gotten the strength to close doors, I needed closed like ending my relationship with my father

that was February. I finally accepted my family was no good for me and finally moved on and I had hope, for the first time, in yearssss

April comes by and I'm in Southeast Oregon, at a camp ground with hot springs. they were pretty sweet! my dog, Max and I, hung out with a young family, with a young boy and girl, 6 and 8 years old, Dad with leathered skin (from the sun), and mother (unmarried) showed up after a few days.. and it was the first time, in yearssss that I felt the joy of being in a family. this kids loved Max and he, well he loves everyone lol

then one morning, I woke up and like a cruel joke the universe was playing, it yanked that family away.

the father murdered the mother, and then killed himself.

the boy was taken by child protective services and the girl went to the hospital as she was accidentally shot (but non-lethal)

that crushed me. I finally did something so hard, getting rid of the poison in my life, and it was like the universe teased me with something I'm not allowed to have, family.

I drove to the alvord desert and in shock, it clicked.

to be frank, I wanted power. I wanted the power to take care of the people I care about, as I felt utterly powerless to do anything for those precious kids, getting swallowed up by a system that failed me too.

I got to work and built an algorithm that forecasts volatility. specifically I targeted market volatility.

there's a whole other story as to why, but that's a whole other post but tldr I've lived a rather volatile life like struggling with bipolar for a while but it eventually went away, as I studied it through the lens of emotional volatility.

eventually I would take that algo and apply it on single stock names with great results and then wanted to share that "power" with others so I started up Budget's Bananas, "power to the apes" back in late June 2024

it's been a wild ride since.