Options Trader / Daytrade. Swing / TTM Squeeze + GEX trader / Structure. Risk. Discipline / I don't chase trades, I get in early / Live trade ideas + Education
Indianapolis, IN 🇺🇸
Joined December 2020
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📢 TRADARA UPDATE:
I stopped building the dashboard and started proving the engine.
2 months of backtesting, killing what didn't work, keeping only what the numbers proved. No hype — just the unsexy work nobody posts about.
TRADARA is still the vision — "Catch the Squeeze before the crowd" — but I paused the platform to fix the engine underneath it. Pretty dashboards don't matter if the signals aren't proven.
The TTM Squeeze is still the heart of everything. It's what the whole system was built on, and it's still doing the heavy lifting — reading squeeze states across every timeframe, confirming momentum before any signal fires.
Here's what survived rigorous backtesting alongside it:
🔶 ORB (Opening Range Breakout) — 83% win rate
🔷 ICT Order Blocks — 73% win rate, highest profit per trade
📈 Momentum scalps — 76% win rate
All daytrading strategies. All intraday — no overnight holds, every position closed by end of day.
Everything else got killed. 12 strategies tested, 3 survived.
Starting Monday: 3 weeks of paper trading, fully automated. Every signal, every entry, every exit tracked — hard stops at -50%, profit targets at +100%, 2-hour max holds. No emotions, no overrides.
Then I go live with $200. Yes, $200. Pennies2Riches isn't just a name.
I'll share where that $200 stands after a month of live trading — wins AND losses. If the system fails, you'll see it fail. If it works, TRADARA gets the engine it deserves.
TEST. MEASURE. KEEP WHAT WORKS. 📊
#TRADARA #daytrading #OptionsTrading #P2RTRADING #Pennies2Riches
$SPY
$NVDA
$TSLA
⏳ To be clear:
The swing side isn't dead. TTM squeeze flips on the swing timeframes are running 68% wins with a 2.2 profit factor — real edge there.
But I'm focusing on daytrades first for one reason: feedback speed. I get 3 weeks of daytrade data in 3 weeks. Swing data takes months to prove out.
Nail the intraday game, build the capital, then let the swing engine loose with real size behind it. One thing at a time. 📊
📢 TRADARA UPDATE:
I stopped building the dashboard and started proving the engine.
2 months of backtesting, killing what didn't work, keeping only what the numbers proved. No hype — just the unsexy work nobody posts about.
TRADARA is still the vision — "Catch the Squeeze before the crowd" — but I paused the platform to fix the engine underneath it. Pretty dashboards don't matter if the signals aren't proven.
The TTM Squeeze is still the heart of everything. It's what the whole system was built on, and it's still doing the heavy lifting — reading squeeze states across every timeframe, confirming momentum before any signal fires.
Here's what survived rigorous backtesting alongside it:
🔶 ORB (Opening Range Breakout) — 83% win rate
🔷 ICT Order Blocks — 73% win rate, highest profit per trade
📈 Momentum scalps — 76% win rate
All daytrading strategies. All intraday — no overnight holds, every position closed by end of day.
Everything else got killed. 12 strategies tested, 3 survived.
Starting Monday: 3 weeks of paper trading, fully automated. Every signal, every entry, every exit tracked — hard stops at -50%, profit targets at +100%, 2-hour max holds. No emotions, no overrides.
Then I go live with $200. Yes, $200. Pennies2Riches isn't just a name.
I'll share where that $200 stands after a month of live trading — wins AND losses. If the system fails, you'll see it fail. If it works, TRADARA gets the engine it deserves.
TEST. MEASURE. KEEP WHAT WORKS. 📊
#TRADARA #daytrading #OptionsTrading #P2RTRADING #Pennies2Riches
$SPY
$NVDA
$TSLA
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Real talk: two weeks since my last update.
In my last post on August 8th, I told you I was waiting on a crucial piece of the puzzle—that live data pipeline approval.
It cleared. But instead of rushing alerts out to everyone right away, I spent the last fortnight locking down the infrastructure so TRADARA operates like a true institutional platform.
Here is how TRADARA identifies high-conviction daytrades and swing setups under the hood:
• Institutional Structure & Liquidity Sweeps: The scanner tracks market regime, relative strength, and dual-timeframe Fair Value Gaps (4H HTF narrative anchors + 15m LTF triggers). For swings, it maps multi-week liquidity pools; for daytrades, it hunts Weekly High/Low sweeps. It only flags setups when structural liquidity is tapped—not on generic price moves.
• Smart Money Flow & GEX Confluence: It doesn't rely on lagging indicators. Live Schwab option tape parsing evaluates real-time Ask/Bid aggression (≥65% execution side) and volume surges (>2.5x 20MA), cross-referencing live Gamma Exposure (GEX) levels to confirm true institutional backing.
• Rigorous Bar-by-Bar Backtesting: Every setup model is battle-tested against months of tick data—separated strictly by daytrade vs. swing regimes. We simulate exact bar-by-bar performance, tracking net P&L, win rate, Profit Factor, and time-in-trade to eliminate hindsight bias.
• Underlying-First Risk Sizing: Position sizing auto-adjusts based on contract Delta and risk points. Crucially, stop invalidations are tied directly to price action structure on the underlying asset—never option IV crush or theta decay.
• Zero-Crash Data Engine: Sub-second streaming with automated watchdog monitoring and self-healing reconnects so the feed stays rock solid.
Where things stand right now: The platform is fully built and backtested, but before I push live alerts out, I am personally live-testing execution on my own trades during market hours to verify every signal, entry, and stop triggers 100% cleanly in real time.
Quality over hype. Always.
TEST. MEASURE. KEEP WHAT WORKS.
Appreciate everyone who’s been riding with me. Updates on my live test results coming soon. Let's get to work. 📈
#TRADARA #daytrading #OptionsTrading #SwingTrading #P2RTRADING $SPY $NVDA
Real talk: last post was July 28th. Before that I was in here almost every day with setups. 11 days of silence isn't like me, so here's the actual why.
My son comes first, always — I'm raising him on my own. On top of that I've been building a second business in land/home buying. Whatever time was left after those two went into TRADARA — and it needed it.
What I've actually been doing: rebuilt the scanner's core signal engine after finding real bugs in how it read squeeze data. Backtested everything against months of real history instead of trusting it looked right — daytrade and swing, separately. Added market-regime awareness and relative-strength tracking so setups carry real context, not just a price move.
One piece left out of my control — a data connection I'm waiting on approval for. The second that clears, live setups resume. Not going to promise a date I can't guarantee, but I'm right there.
TEST. MEASURE. KEEP WHAT WORKS. — that's what these 11 days actually were. Appreciate everyone who stuck around.
📢 Update is live — 2 months of rebuilding later, here's where things stand 👇
📢 TRADARA UPDATE:
I stopped building the dashboard and started proving the engine.
2 months of backtesting, killing what didn't work, keeping only what the numbers proved. No hype — just the unsexy work nobody posts about.
TRADARA is still the vision — "Catch the Squeeze before the crowd" — but I paused the platform to fix the engine underneath it. Pretty dashboards don't matter if the signals aren't proven.
The TTM Squeeze is still the heart of everything. It's what the whole system was built on, and it's still doing the heavy lifting — reading squeeze states across every timeframe, confirming momentum before any signal fires.
Here's what survived rigorous backtesting alongside it:
🔶 ORB (Opening Range Breakout) — 83% win rate
🔷 ICT Order Blocks — 73% win rate, highest profit per trade
📈 Momentum scalps — 76% win rate
All daytrading strategies. All intraday — no overnight holds, every position closed by end of day.
Everything else got killed. 12 strategies tested, 3 survived.
Starting Monday: 3 weeks of paper trading, fully automated. Every signal, every entry, every exit tracked — hard stops at -50%, profit targets at +100%, 2-hour max holds. No emotions, no overrides.
Then I go live with $200. Yes, $200. Pennies2Riches isn't just a name.
I'll share where that $200 stands after a month of live trading — wins AND losses. If the system fails, you'll see it fail. If it works, TRADARA gets the engine it deserves.
TEST. MEASURE. KEEP WHAT WORKS. 📊
#TRADARA #daytrading #OptionsTrading #P2RTRADING #Pennies2Riches
$SPY
$NVDA
$TSLA
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Don't forget that Trump bought $MCD at around $270. It's around $235 now with the 4 hr TTM flipping green on Friday. Before Friday the 4 hr was red for weeks. Keep watch.
📊 $MSFT Pre-Earnings Drift
Last 8 earnings cycles:
• 10 days before: +3.3% avg, 7/8 green (88%)
• 5 days before: +2.6% avg
• Worst window: -0.6%
Closed Friday at $535.07. Sitting right under the $537.22 recent high — a break above that is the first confirmation.
Targets on the drift: ~$553 (+3.3% avg move), stretch ~$560 if the final-week acceleration overshoots.
The run-up typically starts ~Oct 14 and accelerates into the Oct 28 report. Over half the gains land in the final 5 days.
**How I'd swing it:**
1. Wait for a daily close above $537.22 — no blind buys. Historically this fires around Oct 14, but if it breaks early, take it.
2. Let it pull back and enter when buyers step back in (buy the dip, don't chase the breakout)
3. Stop below $526 (Friday's low) — if the thesis is right you won't need more room
4. Scale out into $553, exit fully before Oct 28 — don't hold through earnings
5. If it's already up 3%+ from the breakout level, the move is priced in — skip it
#SwingTrading #TRADARA #OptionsTrading #DayTrading
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Is it possible I called the bottom on $TLT then exited my calls today? 🤣
Maybe I should have held them. Ha
Only time will tell... 🙄
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📋 My current positions:
🟢 CALLS -
$VALE Nov20 $14C @ .78
$VALE Oct16 $14C @ .40
$SPCX Oct16 $200C @ .65
$SPY Oct9 $790C @ .48
🔴 PUTS -
$UBER Oct9 $68P @ .43
#TRADARA #OptionsTrading #SwingTrading #P2RTrading
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$SPY - Bull and bear targets
Bullish - 784-785
Bearish - 774-775
Which way do we go? 🤔
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📋 My current positions:
🟢 CALLS -
$VALE Nov20 $14C @ .78
$VALE Oct16 $14C @ .40
$SPCX Oct16 $200C @ .65
$SPY Oct9 $790C @ .48
🔴 PUTS -
$UBER Oct9 $68P @ .43
#TRADARA #OptionsTrading #SwingTrading #P2RTrading
