#  @LairdGains LairdTrades LairdTrades posts on X about meter, gold, trade, arm the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::109999136/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +169% - [--] Month [------] +1,750% - [--] Months [------] +146% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::109999136/posts_active)  ### Followers: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::109999136/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +1.60% - [--] Month [---] +55% - [--] Months [---] +41% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::109999136/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [exchanges](/list/exchanges) **Social topic influence** [meter](/topic/meter), [gold](/topic/gold), [trade](/topic/trade), [arm](/topic/arm), [engine](/topic/engine), [the first](/topic/the-first), [trend](/topic/trend), [in the](/topic/in-the), [london](/topic/london), [te](/topic/te) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "MrZinc's concept was fuel for adjusting one of my models testing it with range targets vs pivots. This is how ES responded for the asian session: +28pts cumulative over [--] trades. One trade still in play" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1944619814603092080) 2025-07-14T04:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "This is why I play RTY. It can give you better price delivery and avoid the massive swings that occur on NQ. Breaking the L2 Zone bottom" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1945218357025796143) 2025-07-15T20:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@DisciplineEF365 Tradingview is my charting tool of preference (and for which I wrote my scripts). I trade on ninjatrader tradovate quantower and wealthcharts depending on the firm" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1945587769679773702) 2025-07-16T20:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Double RTY short. Aggressive initial entry on the opening inversion. 2nd trade taken when price failed to hold above that gap. [--] ticks on each" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1946209115715568030) 2025-07-18T14:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Picked up two more shorts @ [--] ticks each which erases that long's [--] tick loss. [---] ticks on the day. Yes this could have been super nice short from the open and in hindsight yeah I would have loved to do that but controlled quick profits work for me. $1.2k+ x [--] accounts" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1946228213799419939) 2025-07-18T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Ok. Now I'm done. RTY has been absolutely amazing to play today. Can be mechanical using adaptive ranges (though I took some larger plays). [--] con ifvg trades risking $150. [--] wins [--] losses. [---] ticks profit. $2.1k+ per account. Exhausted but happy" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1946268735331062113) 2025-07-18T18:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@xel_arjona I have not. I've typically stuck with standard candles and played anywhere from the 30s to 3m chart. After a lot of backtesting with RTY I found the 2m gave me the most profit. And when price is only moving one direction I switch to my trend model which uses heiken ashi" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1946758133554315684) 2025-07-20T02:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@GraceStatusOK Yup. I also picked up a short just the teal line (manual entry to capture some of the drop) and picked up a bit over [--] points.) Didn't even have time to mark it up (took it on Wealthcharts)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1947656330447036907) 2025-07-22T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@1ICK28 @MrZincx This one will depend on where you want to take profits. If you use the Max setting you may find each spacing only around 5-7 points so two levels will only get you 15pts but I don't mind this as I'll target whatever at least gets 1:1RR and you can trail to last level" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1947793419436474539) 2025-07-22T22:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I don't know about anyone else but it's a freaking rush making close to $26k before the first 2m of the NY session. GC and NQ for the win. (GC premarket and NQ opening drop off the ifvg.)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948025374056829039) 2025-07-23T14:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Anyone catch the gold ifvg push I didn't as I was trying to get out of another trade but this would have paid handsomely. ARM" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948388132312998286) 2025-07-24T14:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@FreeAgentLi Check my pinned post - I walk through the Adaptive Range Model. The Trend Engine stuff (heiken ashi with trend band and colored background/candles) is covered in a reply on one these posts along with all the settings (sans fancy colors)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948466567119040866) 2025-07-24T19:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SaltyySniper Oh yeahthat and the grilled mahi-mahi burgers at Paia Fishmarket in KiheiMaui. lol. Yum" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948486845857145340) 2025-07-24T20:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Debating on subscribing to @Tradesyncer so I can stop using multiple platforms with different prop firms (and so I can copytrade 50+ accounts at once using ARM and TE). I typically only use Limit Orders but it looks like they prefer Market Orders. Time for me to scale. Issues" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948585029128651132) 2025-07-25T03:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "One last post to end the week - my systems work for my risk tolerances and profit targets. They may not match yours that's ok. We all have different trading styles. At the end of the day we're all looking for profitability and a specific lifestyle. Master what works" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948768838763642906) 2025-07-25T15:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Let me live vicariously through you - how'd you trade today Got the sleep I so desperately needed but damn if I probably didn't miss out on +$20k or more. YM as an example using TE" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948829827362107493) 2025-07-25T19:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Ccs6Tony Mine doesn't use an ema cross. I have a custom heiken-ashi wave that's hidden and the script evaluates where price is compared to it and then plots both the candles and the background" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1948838271884427430) 2025-07-25T20:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Big week ahead. Who's picking up fresh accounts (and with whom) to play some news and volatility" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1949152917363257531) 2025-07-26T17:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "NQ with ARM - extended zones from Friday 2nd line profit target. Wanna see this hit the 61.8% of the gap and then drop to the 61.8% of the prior swing low ultimately filling the gap. London is gonna be interesting either way. Expecting volatility" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1949623125077098726) 2025-07-28T00:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@MattFrkinKelley Lol. Wasn't planning on selling it. Moreso because I'm looking for a way to catch a momentary bottom or top within a move to allow me to exit and then rebuy when it alerts again. BTW - trying to program ARM. It is not going well" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1949915641546494414) 2025-07-28T19:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gym. Early dinner. NQ: Two plays. 15pt loss and [-----] gain (stopped) but was targeting the L3 Top (blue line). Looks like you could have banked on a short at globex open and then gotten chopped up a bit. If you're trading tomorrow - have fun. NFP" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1951102671173329040) 2025-08-01T02:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Trading_Ilyas Which instruments were you trying to play I know that RTY had a high 2m ATR (high 30's to 60's at one point) which likely could have resulted in stops being hit before a move panning out. In those cases a shift to the 1m chart might work better - though noisier" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1952476668121227555) 2025-08-04T21:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Here's Gold (GC) using ARM today (with a fixed [--] tick space between lines). [--] wins and [--] losses. [---] ticks profit. When in doubt ARM pays. (And no didn't get play most of these due to a power outage and because I've been streaming Trend Engine" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1953159785190441067) 2025-08-06T18:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "LIvestream caught that pump showing a max potential take of 63.25pt NQ 18.75pts ES [--] ticks RTY [---] ticks on YM. YM has been an absolute monster today giving you [---] ticks of opportunity. GC a choppy $1k per account on the day. Meh" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1954942607324525050) 2025-08-11T16:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@mkt_opnr The smart meter is tiny squares but no while they could be used as entries alone my primary model has always been on the chart with my trend engine indicator. I just turned the background off to make screen shots look cleaner" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1955427483630891106) 2025-08-13T00:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Am I sad I missed NQ Not really it's all about choosing. your opportunity. GC ifvg entry on open. I only risked $300 on this entry currently up $1800 per motherfucking con. (Almost got stopped out. Lol)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1961430300602323423) 2025-08-29T14:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "My gold run has endeth" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1961462832962081201) 2025-08-29T16:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Ugly day. It's days like this I swear off trading NQ again (but ultimately I come back to that bastard). Lost [--] Lucid accounts and down $3k on the day across my other accounts. Death by a thousand papercuts is real. Should have just played ANYTHING other than NQ" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1965801807520895094) 2025-09-10T15:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@RancidCapital I'm by no means an expert but how's your sizing What is your trigger for taking entries and equally importantly your exits Do you DCA losing positions Are you watching streamers and taking their plays based on implicit trust Do you trade mechanically or intuitively" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1965806723807248620) 2025-09-10T15:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RancidCapital A few ideas to consider: Based on the instrument being traded make sure the ATR (converted into dollar value) is less than your $100 risk. Change timeframes. Use ema's to guide which direction you take ifvg trades. Adjust the minimum ifvg size you use to take entries" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1965888942391308438) 2025-09-10T21:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Short asian-session for me tonight. IBB Test (NQ 5pt/TP&SL) [--] wins $300 profit TE (GC max risk: [--] ticks) [--] win [--] loss $210 profit Just adding to the stacks" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1968094696485556381) 2025-09-16T23:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@riskOnDaddy Nah. IBB is just an inside bar strategy. You could probably use an ema to stay in trades longer but I wanted to test if this could be 100% mechanical so that it could later be automated and still give profitable results" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1968429886206255554) 2025-09-17T21:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@mkt_opnr Sorry - normally I have my watermark and atr on the chart.For NY Sessions it's NQ 30s (10pt TP&SL). For Asian Sessions it's NQ 30s (5pt TP&SL) though it performed HORRIBLY last night taking the entire suggestion to get back to B/E and then marginal profit" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1968736112148463658) 2025-09-18T17:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@keshaavsingh So the script I wrote only allowed trades with a motherbar that had a maximum height of [--] ticks and was regular trading hours. MB Max height may not be a factor. The 30s chart was an attempt to get in-and-out quickly but hasn't proven significantly better than other timeframes" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1969436864043266175) 2025-09-20T16:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Absolutely-insane Gold session. [--] trades all winners with [--] at partials. It's been moving so fast today I'm on the 30s chart. Using 1MM (@mkt_opnr) and TE. Smart meter in the pic but didn't use that for any trades (though I could have used it for shorts for more $$$)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1978963089107071441) 2025-10-16T23:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "This is just part of the asian session. I've been in some great evening plays on GC before but tonight defies all reason. [--] of these trades are over [---] ticks Playing on the 30s makes it easier/faster to catch the reversals. Insane" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1979059747803324727) 2025-10-17T05:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@mkt_opnr Glad you caught some of this movement There was another ifvg (1m chart) for this current run-up but didn't take it as I didn't want to overtrade but damn if GC isn't paying out some serious coin this evening" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1976097359349284995) 2025-10-09T01:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Tried something a bit different tonight - but wasn't super confident so plotted on NQ but took the trades with micros. [--] of [--]. I should had taken them with minis. Lol" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1978274159751819503) 2025-10-15T01:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@PyrasB My other reply has how I stay in a trade but the trailing is visual trying to protect my exits at [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] [---] ticks. There have been plenty of plays wherein I exited both too early AND too late" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1981394421351637164) 2025-10-23T16:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@btcwealth1729 Lol. No. Just based on an expectation we were gonna gap up due to the news talking about the US/China tariff war looking like they've agreed on a solution" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1982658004727324679) 2025-10-27T03:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "RTY was a rockstar giving me [---] ticks during the 1st phase and choppy-as-fuck during the the 2nd phase with [--] [--] tick losses iand then taking profit for [--] ticks giving the 2nd phase [---] ticks. End of it all: a lowly [--] ticks. Copytraded. Watch it drop [---] ticks now. Lol" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1982817489961570647) 2025-10-27T14:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "RTY using ARM on the 2m chart: [---] ticks ($1130) with [--] trades (7 winners [--] losers [--] breakeven). ARM loves choppy markets. All [--] of my models won today. Kinda neat" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1982915023887577323) 2025-10-27T20:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Threw the 1MM RTY settings on GC. [--] solid trades with [--] wins and [--] loss. Likely grab: [--] ticks [--] ticks [---] ticks and [--] ticks for a net gain of [---] ticks. Playing just one con that's a possible $1430. (These are marked-up after the fact. No real trades this evening.) Neat" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1982939905484550188) 2025-10-27T22:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "1MM is now Phased Breakout Model (PBM). That's how I'll be referencing it going forward" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1983229072261140650) 2025-10-28T17:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@IamGuyBaker @StevenTexas5 And now my cheeky reply. "Why trade NQ/ES when you can make serious coin on GC RTY and YM" 😉" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1983910287880134950) 2025-10-30T14:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I papertraded a system othat placed trigger orders with a stop [--] tick less than the phase's range and the tp at 2x the stop using PBM on NQ. +238pts today. Lots of losses in the mix. Note: this doesn't account for bad TV & ProjectX fills or slippage. Will backtest this weekend" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1984335640444747873) 2025-10-31T19:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Set my ATM at [--] ticks TP [--] ticks Stop. [--] trades $1k. Done for the asian session session. #PBM" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1985124386895286693) 2025-11-02T23:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@z_bergeron Has to tap the green or red line before returned to the yellow. Basically I'm looking for move through the buffer back into the internal range and failing the reversal. As soon as I see it touch the G/R line I put in a limit order back at the yellow line" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1985132841865449885) 2025-11-02T23:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Conversely GC is not treating me kindly this evening" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1985855513054364034) 2025-11-04T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Ok. Turned a profit after entirely too many trades. At one point I was down $1160 and ended at +44 ticks after eeking out some ok trades and completely paper-handing the last short" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1985872765673701722) 2025-11-05T00:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "One of my models just printed +$2900 per con in the last [--] minutes. Another model produced +$1640 per con in the last [--] minutes. This is why fucks are copying my indicators and why I will no longer share my IP until I opt to go commercial with them. If you know you know" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1987695265944670512) 2025-11-10T01:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@ginosiri I trade every trigger. If it loses I wait for an internal re-tap and tap of trigger to play again otherwise I'm looking to trade the opposite trigger if price choses to move the other way and just waiting. Feel free to message me" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/1989213844632412359) 2025-11-14T06:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Trend Engine could have paid $9080 playing [--] NQ with 20pt stops over the course of 1h45m. Pretty insane there were two 200+ point moves and one 100+ point move" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2007196085861904551) 2026-01-02T21:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold sucked ass this morning but gotta cut early for a doctor's appointment. 30sORB: +$90 ARM: +$300 PBM: +$550 Trend Engine: +$680 Smart Meter: +$750 Convergence: +$830 Interlock renamed to Convergence" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2008929305762394591) 2026-01-07T15:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Gold recap ARM: +$-230 (1h) 30sORB: +$680 (17m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1500 (1h) Smart Meter: +$120 (1m/1h) or +$2100 (2m/1hr) Convergence: No valid set-up" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2009290523635290341) 2026-01-08T15:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold recap Convergence: -$380 (1h) 30sORB: -$420 (30m) PBM: +$700 (pre-market 30m) or +$300 (1h) ARM: +$1170 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2005 (1m/1h) or +$2115 (2m/1h) Trend Engine: +$3800 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2009654298079084706) 2026-01-09T15:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "First week of [----] and my models. (All dollar amounts are based on [--] GC per trade but can be scaled down to MGC effectively reducing risk.) 30sORB and PBM are time-based TE and SM are trend-based ARM is fixed TP/SL ifvg-based Convergence is a time-based session hybrid" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2009667260663922748) 2026-01-09T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold recap Convergence: +250 (30m) 30sORB: +$1000 (30m) PBM: +$500 (30m) ARM: -$310 (30m) Smart Meter: +$800 (30m) Trend Engine: +$200 (30m)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2010734064177918106) 2026-01-12T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "My previous recap was the first 30m of the session. Here's the results from the full hour. Convergence: +690 (1h) 30sORB: +$1000 (1h) PBM: +$1500 (1h) ARM: -$720 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2100 (1h) Trend Engine: +$1800 (1h) Models all went up considerably except ARM" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2010842637029273895) 2026-01-12T22:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "GC: [--] models failed today [--] provided no trades and [--] rocked well but had early losses. SM and TE were down substantially in the AM and recovered. Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: -$90 (1h) PBM: -$400 (1h) ARM: -$390 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2700 (1h) Trend Engine: +$2100 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011103256773345764) 2026-01-13T15:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: +300 (1h) PBM: +$1000 (1h) ARM: -$620 (1h) Smart Meter: +$4100 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4500 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011461606685966709) 2026-01-14T15:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "GC. +250 ticks. [--] hour trading. Smart Meter only. [--] tick stops" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011503923971178527) 2026-01-14T18:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Man.switch this over to the 2m and look at that green meter Breaking All Time High" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011514795535843507) 2026-01-14T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Rough morning for Gold. Took a hit on my funded this morning and managed to recover 90% of the loss in the afternoon. Here's NY first hour results: Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: -$660 (1h) PBM: -$700 (1h) ARM: -$180 (1h) Smart Meter: -$400 (1h) Trend Engine: +$990 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011919973061427645) 2026-01-15T21:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Didn't play TE this evening but how it could have played out. [--] ticks single play [--] ticks two plays" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2011951395159605545) 2026-01-15T23:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold with much better performance than pretty much all week. Time stop after [--] hour limited profit potential. Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: +420 (1h) PBM: -$100 (1h) ARM: +$1440 (1h) Smart Meter: +$4900 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4350 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2012195401462436217) 2026-01-16T16:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "TE and SM still the most profitable of the models. ARM which works decently well on YM and RTY struggled all week pushing some serious red until recovering $1440 today. 30sORB Convergence and PBM use fixed entries and stops vs trend following. ARM is an inversion model" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2012198000081158624) 2026-01-16T16:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I think I need to make sure to keep an NQ or MNQ chart up to capture these. Missed out on this epicness" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2012255062710501532) 2026-01-16T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Lots of meter-style indicators out there but I'm particularly proud of mine which I updated and refined this weekend adding new optional Smart Candles. Here's how this baby looks in normal and HA candles (with real active/closed price dot overlay)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2012942335869325820) 2026-01-18T17:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "I left sooooooooo much money on the table Trade 1: Entered at the close of the opening candle and hit my stop nearly instantaneously (30 tick loss). Trade 2: Re-entered based upon Smart Meter/Smart Candle confidence. (160 tick gain) Result: +130 ticks in [--] minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013029245988294977) 2026-01-18T23:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "I would never condone playing this chop especially with market orders with low volume environments but gold's pushed +45k contracts during globex already Anyway all these result in +262 ticks. (Presuming no slippage and perfect fills). Realistically 70% of that" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013064368649613421) 2026-01-19T01:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "No trades for me today as I expected lower volume and larger spreads. I've been posting about SM recently but it's just a different method of finding smart entries. Here it is on NQ this morning vs my Trend Engine model" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013284888632242378) 2026-01-19T16:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "No trades for me today due to volume and spreads. GC (1 con) potential performance with my models in any case. Convergence: +$240 (1h) 30sORB: +660 (1h) PBM: -$420 (1h) ARM: -$300 (1h) Smart Meter: +$550 (1h) Trend Engine: +$400 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013291117874462914) 2026-01-19T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "TE and SM are still my best performing indicators across all assets. Win rates do vary. SM highlights areas where indecision or directional shifts may occur and as a result will generate more trade opportunities. All indicators are currently private" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013333625857810818) 2026-01-19T19:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "NQ with some interesting moves in the asian session. Both my indicators gave some wonderful plays. No indicators We swept a NY morning pivot and inverted a gap. Easy 50pt+ long targeting recent equal highs" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013418741938143246) 2026-01-20T01:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Different ways to skin it. TE: [---] ticks (2 trade) SM: [---] ticks (6 trades) 5m inversion targeting pivot high: [---] ticks (1 trade) and it's still going" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013474037440127453) 2026-01-20T04:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold was simply amazing last night - no wonder the PA was choppy at open and only started moving after my 1h cut-off. Convergence: +$60 (1h) 30sORB: +$1300 (1h) PBM: -$50 (1h) ARM: -$110 (1h) Smart Meter: +$920 (1h) Trend Engine: +$660 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013638374351946105) 2026-01-20T15:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Playing this on a 2m chart would have been better as it would have been one single short trade on this drop. [---] points regardless" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013705864516116898) 2026-01-20T20:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Chop for the first [--] minutes and then 🍆 20pt candle. Asia Gold doing it's thang" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013762732483584091) 2026-01-20T23:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Absolute stunner of an evening trading Gold. Overlaid a measurement which shows had this been played on the 2m chart this would have been a single long trade for 53.2pts.and we're still pumping" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013785461001769008) 2026-01-21T01:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold was moving too perfectly for my models so rather than trading for an hour cut it to 30m. Convergence doesn't start until an hour after open. Convergence: PENDING. 30sORB: +$2120 (30m) PBM: +1200 (30m) ARM: +$930(30m) Smart Meter: +$1240 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1700 (30m)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013992537594220820) 2026-01-21T15:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Convergence: +$180" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2013994732804796537) 2026-01-21T15:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Gold Recap: Convergence: +$180 (30m). 30sORB: +$2120 (30m) PBM: +1200 (30m) ARM: +$930(30m) Smart Meter: +$1240 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1700 (30m) The nasdaq chart looked beautiful for both the epic long and current short on both TE and SM. Wishing I played it" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014021168257262057) 2026-01-21T17:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "When it hits the top of that right-most trade that's an amazing 71.3pts on Gold. Perfect volatility" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014050361859047897) 2026-01-21T19:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Nom nom nom. Trend Engine: +420 Ticks Smart Meter: +474 Ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014170671291470143) 2026-01-22T02:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "1/22 Gold Recap: Convergence: Will Update when/if triggers 30sORB: +$300 (15m) PBM: +500 (15m) RM: +1430 (15m) Smart Meter: +$2100 (15m) Trend Engine: +$1500 (15m) Mechanical models winning again. Minimal time in market today due to other commitments" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014351861843956099) 2026-01-22T14:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Convergence triggered in [--] times and immediately reversed hitting stop. 4th won and ran higher than TP. Result: -$410. Only losing model on the day" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014358728645226905) 2026-01-22T15:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Got asked by a couple people if this works on SI or CL. While I don't trade either instrument here's what they would have looked like via Smart Meter. Green and Red are trade areas. Yellow and Gray are not" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014426838408520034) 2026-01-22T19:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Front-ran the GC long by [--] seconds anticipating it would close green and extend upwards. A few candles later and my snap target hit for [---] ticks. Not too shabby" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014475833961001084) 2026-01-22T23:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "1/23 Gold Recap (Pre-Flash PMI) Convergence: No Valid Entries 30sORB: +$680 (12m) PBM: +500 (12m) ARM: +900 (12m) Smart Meter: +$190 (12m) Trend Engine: +$740 (12m)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014714634113319090) 2026-01-23T14:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Early close to end the week for an extended weekend. Not too bad considering no trades on Monday. GC [--] con per trade results (less than [--] hour trading/day)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2014725855097053478) 2026-01-23T15:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "3 for [--]. +300 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015801716013437279) 2026-01-26T14:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "1/26 Gold Recap Convergence: +$150 (30m) 30sORB: +$680 (30m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) ARM: -$590 (30m) Smart Meter: +$2000 (30m) + $1000 premarket Trend Engine: +$1100 (30m) vs +$2700 Pre+NY" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015806413570990349) 2026-01-26T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "1/26 Gold Recap Convergence: +$150 (30m) 30sORB: +$310 (30m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) ARM: -$590 (30m) Smart Meter: +$2000 (30m) + $1000 premarket Trend Engine: +$1100 (30m) vs +$2700 Pre+NY" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015807451615187228) 2026-01-26T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Chris - here you go buddy. Note I didn't mark up the trades but on TE you take every major flip (red/green arrow). Optionally (but I do) take the yellow re-entry signals. For SM play the candle color flips (green/red) exits on gray/yellow candle. 1st hour golden" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015832416209035453) 2026-01-26T17:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "TE: +170 Ticks SM: +167 Ticks And before this choppy move back up there was a +220 tick TE and +200 tick SM short. Maybe I need to rethink this "trade only the first hour" idea. Lol" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015845884282733048) 2026-01-26T17:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Had a few questions this week I wanted to answer: My indicators are only for Tradingview. I intend to provide set-up and walkthrough videos. Not all indicators provide signals/alerts but do plot relevant reaction levels (with a table of values) to enter limit orders and stops" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022468058263245041) 2026-02-14T00:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Pretty insane. I took +120 ticks at the open and trailed too tightly. If I played it properly and continued until now tonight's a whopping +878 ticks. Crazy volatility. $GC for the win" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2015980119811359064) 2026-01-27T02:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "1/27 Gold Recap Choppy morning for gold with heavy wicking. Convergence: No Valid Trades 30sORB: -$940 (30m) PBM: -$100 (1h) ARM: -$560 (1h) Smart Meter: +$1300 (1h) Trend Engine: +$700 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016173759217205295) 2026-01-27T15:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold with a funky choppy AM and requiring tighter TP's based on how frequent the indecision (yellow) candles and pullbacks are. 2m chart on the climb significantly cleaner staying above the trend band but requiring nearly 9pts drawdown to stay in. Meh" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016187823435743586) 2026-01-27T16:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@I_Am_Tower_Fx Appreciate the comment. I'm risk adverse so I use specific stops as price moves and I'm unwilling to let a profitable trade pull back too far (and that trailing stop often takes me out of a bigger run) but those same stops/limits help me on choppy PA. Shrug" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016306160140431871) 2026-01-28T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Pretty insane to think just this choppy climb on GC is still +538 ticks despite having [--] losses" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016347719032598901) 2026-01-28T03:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Anyone else's Tradovate not working Got up early to trade pre-market but tradovate was frozen restarted like [--] times and see this cleanly on tradingview but not on tradovate. Missed at least a [---] tick play on that short not being able to enter" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016509630474801544) 2026-01-28T13:52Z [---] followers, 13.5K engagements "1/28 Gold Recap No live trades this morning since tradovate was down but this what it would have been: Convergence: +$720 (1h) 30sORB: +$1140 (30m) PBM: +$200 (1h) ARM: +$1020 (1h) Smart Meter: +$3500 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4470 (1h)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016579394631090594) 2026-01-28T18:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "You know you're in for a volatile time trading gold when you look at the [--] second chart and the ATR is [---] ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2016900151319908528) 2026-01-29T15:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Anyone else enjoying gold tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2017037336518025459) 2026-01-30T00:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold running a little flat at the moment but goddamn ATR is [---] ticks on the 30s chart Stops are gonna need to be bigger again. Trade safe. Oh and I had a short at [------] on GC last night and closed for [---] ticks but had a feeling a bigger drop was coming. Paperhanded that" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2017233443663605872) 2026-01-30T13:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Although Convergence did eventually break my $5k/month target I'm moving it to the backburner due to the set-up waiting for [--] hour after open before it monitors that trades for set-up. (Personal choice as I'm still trying to trade just the first hour of NY.)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2017268945309593727) 2026-01-30T16:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "30sORB - Fixed TP and SL Trend Engine - trend/momentum based Smart Meter - trend/momentum based ARM - Fixed TP and SL (ifvg model) Convergence - Fixed TP and SL session hybrid PBM - Fixed TP and SL" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2017270396828127495) 2026-01-30T16:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Smart Meter update: trigger signals and alerts. (Great if you're using a third party system that can auto-enter trades based on tradingview alerts - like PickMyTrade.) Close to commercial subscription release for those that have asked" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2018516457269973418) 2026-02-03T02:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Said I was looking for another [---] ticks. How's about +143 (one additional winner and one loser)" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2018824850442432724) 2026-02-03T23:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Chris_Blagden I use this model and take every signal. Not all win but it visually tells mewhen to stay out of a trade (yellow or gray candles meter not color-aligned). Check through my history - you'll see plenty of losses too" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2019170150227013658) 2026-02-04T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@JblTrading I use one of [--] ATM's when trading gold a 5pt TP 10pt TP or 20pt TP. Choppy PA (with a ton of rejections prior to that trade had me using the 5pt TP ATM.) Also to note I split-screen this on a monitor with a standard candle chart so I can see actual PA" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2019174079149011251) 2026-02-04T22:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@I_Am_Tower_Fx I enter using my ATM and IMMEDIATELY move my stop to the bottom of the bullish trigger candle or the top of a bearish trigger candle. Once in a trade I manually trail" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2019544742531592448) 2026-02-05T22:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "5 Things That Made Me a Better Trader: [--] - I limit my trade window [--] - I don't chase. If I miss the entry I miss the trade [--] - I don't DCA. If I'm wrong I accept the loss [--] - I treat my trade rules as RULES not suggestions [--] - I manage my trades based on my risk tolerance" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2019837810111611173) 2026-02-06T18:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@h44mzaa This is specifically coded for intraday scalpers. I would have to adjust and refine a number of calculations and variables for 5m and higher but here's the 5m 15m and 1h to give you an idea how SM sees $GC" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2021625708943224914) 2026-02-11T16:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I didn't take any trades on NQ but here's what this drop could have looked like playing TE in Aggro mode adding an additional con with each re-entry signal. (Drawdown is a concern BUT total take on this trade could have been +815 pts. Just sayin'" [X Link](https://x.com/LairdGains/status/2021630590194467072) 2026-02-11T17:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +35 ticks Trend Engine: +327 ticks Smart Meter: +209ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: +10 ticks ARM is net negative WTD which is pretty disappointing. TE at +2057 ticks and SM at +1439 ticks WTD" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021970761163084095) 2026-02-12T15:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Choppy GC this morning. Should have moved up to the 30s but the 15s has been my standard when trading use SM. +209 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021973955054334092) 2026-02-12T15:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why do I typically trade the first 30m of the NY session Volatility. I can catch 100+ ticks within that 30m on Gold. * Smart Meter YTD is currently averaging +221 ticks per day on Gold. * When I trade YM/RTY I'm looking for 100+ ticks. Copytraded" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022014605657252120) 2026-02-12T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "For those considering the bundle subscription (all primary indicators accessory indicators current test indicators) do any of you trade the Globex Open Asia Open or London open Which one(s) Looking at building some session-specific fixed TP/SL stuff to add to the arsenal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022140206691074186) 2026-02-13T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "My Phased Breakout Model is an automatic level-generating system with fixed TP/SL that I've set to trade [--] minutes a day. In January it produced $9050 ($452.50/day avg). In February (MTD) it's produced $3800 ($380/day avg). It's not perfect. It doesn't have to be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022745532775698844) 2026-02-14T18:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "My Phased Breakout Model is an automatic level-generating system with fixed TP/SL that I've set to trade [--] minutes a day. In January it produced $9050 ($452.50/day avg). In February (MTD) it's produced $3800 ($380/day avg). It's not perfect. It doesn't have to be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022745532775698844) 2026-02-14T18:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Had a few questions this week I wanted to answer: My indicators are only for Tradingview. I intend to provide set-up and walkthrough videos. Not all indicators provide signals/alerts but do plot relevant reaction levels (with a table of values) to enter limit orders and stops" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022468058263245041) 2026-02-14T00:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why I trade the first 30m in the NY session. Volatility and Paint-by-Numbers. Not always perfect but profitable" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022357847531794676) 2026-02-13T17:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Month-to-Date Data: 30sORB: +469 ticks Trade Engine: +3446 ticks Smart Meter: +2556 ticks ARM: +482 ticks Convergence: +500 ticks PBM: +380 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022338441766404189) 2026-02-13T15:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: [---] ticks Trend Engine: +350 ticks Smart Meter: +248 ticks ARM: +192 ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: [---] ticks Some struggles with 30sORB and PBM this morning. ARM with some clean inversion and +192 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022333587190845944) 2026-02-13T15:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "For those considering the bundle subscription (all primary indicators accessory indicators current test indicators) do any of you trade the Globex Open Asia Open or London open Which one(s) Looking at building some session-specific fixed TP/SL stuff to add to the arsenal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022140206691074186) 2026-02-13T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why do I typically trade the first 30m of the NY session Volatility. I can catch 100+ ticks within that 30m on Gold. * Smart Meter YTD is currently averaging +221 ticks per day on Gold. * When I trade YM/RTY I'm looking for 100+ ticks. Copytraded" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022014605657252120) 2026-02-12T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Scalping this sucker. +120.75pts" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021989272149274825) 2026-02-12T16:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "HOLY SHIT. SM with smart candles giving the perfect entry. Didn't trade it (my NY session typically ends after the first 30m). But goddamn" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021981933799190686) 2026-02-12T16:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Choppy GC this morning. Should have moved up to the 30s but the 15s has been my standard when trading use SM. +209 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021973955054334092) 2026-02-12T15:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +35 ticks Trend Engine: +327 ticks Smart Meter: +209ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: +10 ticks ARM is net negative WTD which is pretty disappointing. TE at +2057 ticks and SM at +1439 ticks WTD" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021970761163084095) 2026-02-12T15:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Ugly ass Price Action. Wicks all over the place Used the low of the entry candle as my initial stop. Some pretty shitty drawdown (67 ticks) at one point" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021958260950233503) 2026-02-12T14:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Nice little 30m on the Globex. Mid-point choppiness got me. Ended with +28.75 points. Yeah. I took profits too early" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021730460649619647) 2026-02-11T23:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +39 ticks Trend Engine: +121 ticks Smart Meter: +120 ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: +54 ticks PBM: +150 Generally weak overall performance. Exception: PBM had [--] trades in [--] minutes on open each hitting it's fixed [--] tick TP" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021622477252882636) 2026-02-11T16:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Gold doing it's gold thang but definitely choppy. All said and done +120 ticks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021617139384492264) 2026-02-11T16:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: [---] ticks Trend Engine: +404 ticks Smart Meter: +434 ticks ARM: +98 ticks Convergence: No valid trades PBM: [---] ticks TE/SM rocked as usual. Both PBM and 30sORB would have been profitable with trailing vs all-or-nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021371154460705187) 2026-02-10T23:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I took a +100 tick opening trade using SM but check this out. Aggro Mode using TE. Initial Entry signal and [--] Re-Entry signals. Combined: [----] pts (753 ticks) If you did this on MGC using [--] micro stacked on each signal that'd be $753 in 15m" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021366198034944015) 2026-02-10T23:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@LairdGains LairdTrades
LairdTrades posts on X about meter, gold, trade, arm the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social Influence
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Social topic influence meter, gold, trade, arm, engine, the first, trend, in the, london, te
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"MrZinc's concept was fuel for adjusting one of my models testing it with range targets vs pivots. This is how ES responded for the asian session: +28pts cumulative over [--] trades. One trade still in play"
X Link 2025-07-14T04:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"This is why I play RTY. It can give you better price delivery and avoid the massive swings that occur on NQ. Breaking the L2 Zone bottom"
X Link 2025-07-15T20:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DisciplineEF365 Tradingview is my charting tool of preference (and for which I wrote my scripts). I trade on ninjatrader tradovate quantower and wealthcharts depending on the firm"
X Link 2025-07-16T20:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Double RTY short. Aggressive initial entry on the opening inversion. 2nd trade taken when price failed to hold above that gap. [--] ticks on each"
X Link 2025-07-18T14:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Picked up two more shorts @ [--] ticks each which erases that long's [--] tick loss. [---] ticks on the day. Yes this could have been super nice short from the open and in hindsight yeah I would have loved to do that but controlled quick profits work for me. $1.2k+ x [--] accounts"
X Link 2025-07-18T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Ok. Now I'm done. RTY has been absolutely amazing to play today. Can be mechanical using adaptive ranges (though I took some larger plays). [--] con ifvg trades risking $150. [--] wins [--] losses. [---] ticks profit. $2.1k+ per account. Exhausted but happy"
X Link 2025-07-18T18:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@xel_arjona I have not. I've typically stuck with standard candles and played anywhere from the 30s to 3m chart. After a lot of backtesting with RTY I found the 2m gave me the most profit. And when price is only moving one direction I switch to my trend model which uses heiken ashi"
X Link 2025-07-20T02:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@GraceStatusOK Yup. I also picked up a short just the teal line (manual entry to capture some of the drop) and picked up a bit over [--] points.) Didn't even have time to mark it up (took it on Wealthcharts)"
X Link 2025-07-22T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@1ICK28 @MrZincx This one will depend on where you want to take profits. If you use the Max setting you may find each spacing only around 5-7 points so two levels will only get you 15pts but I don't mind this as I'll target whatever at least gets 1:1RR and you can trail to last level"
X Link 2025-07-22T22:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I don't know about anyone else but it's a freaking rush making close to $26k before the first 2m of the NY session. GC and NQ for the win. (GC premarket and NQ opening drop off the ifvg.)"
X Link 2025-07-23T14:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Anyone catch the gold ifvg push I didn't as I was trying to get out of another trade but this would have paid handsomely. ARM"
X Link 2025-07-24T14:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@FreeAgentLi Check my pinned post - I walk through the Adaptive Range Model. The Trend Engine stuff (heiken ashi with trend band and colored background/candles) is covered in a reply on one these posts along with all the settings (sans fancy colors)"
X Link 2025-07-24T19:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SaltyySniper Oh yeahthat and the grilled mahi-mahi burgers at Paia Fishmarket in KiheiMaui. lol. Yum"
X Link 2025-07-24T20:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Debating on subscribing to @Tradesyncer so I can stop using multiple platforms with different prop firms (and so I can copytrade 50+ accounts at once using ARM and TE). I typically only use Limit Orders but it looks like they prefer Market Orders. Time for me to scale. Issues"
X Link 2025-07-25T03:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"One last post to end the week - my systems work for my risk tolerances and profit targets. They may not match yours that's ok. We all have different trading styles. At the end of the day we're all looking for profitability and a specific lifestyle. Master what works"
X Link 2025-07-25T15:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Let me live vicariously through you - how'd you trade today Got the sleep I so desperately needed but damn if I probably didn't miss out on +$20k or more. YM as an example using TE"
X Link 2025-07-25T19:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Ccs6Tony Mine doesn't use an ema cross. I have a custom heiken-ashi wave that's hidden and the script evaluates where price is compared to it and then plots both the candles and the background"
X Link 2025-07-25T20:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Big week ahead. Who's picking up fresh accounts (and with whom) to play some news and volatility"
X Link 2025-07-26T17:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"NQ with ARM - extended zones from Friday 2nd line profit target. Wanna see this hit the 61.8% of the gap and then drop to the 61.8% of the prior swing low ultimately filling the gap. London is gonna be interesting either way. Expecting volatility"
X Link 2025-07-28T00:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MattFrkinKelley Lol. Wasn't planning on selling it. Moreso because I'm looking for a way to catch a momentary bottom or top within a move to allow me to exit and then rebuy when it alerts again. BTW - trying to program ARM. It is not going well"
X Link 2025-07-28T19:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gym. Early dinner. NQ: Two plays. 15pt loss and [-----] gain (stopped) but was targeting the L3 Top (blue line). Looks like you could have banked on a short at globex open and then gotten chopped up a bit. If you're trading tomorrow - have fun. NFP"
X Link 2025-08-01T02:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Trading_Ilyas Which instruments were you trying to play I know that RTY had a high 2m ATR (high 30's to 60's at one point) which likely could have resulted in stops being hit before a move panning out. In those cases a shift to the 1m chart might work better - though noisier"
X Link 2025-08-04T21:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Here's Gold (GC) using ARM today (with a fixed [--] tick space between lines). [--] wins and [--] losses. [---] ticks profit. When in doubt ARM pays. (And no didn't get play most of these due to a power outage and because I've been streaming Trend Engine"
X Link 2025-08-06T18:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"LIvestream caught that pump showing a max potential take of 63.25pt NQ 18.75pts ES [--] ticks RTY [---] ticks on YM. YM has been an absolute monster today giving you [---] ticks of opportunity. GC a choppy $1k per account on the day. Meh"
X Link 2025-08-11T16:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@mkt_opnr The smart meter is tiny squares but no while they could be used as entries alone my primary model has always been on the chart with my trend engine indicator. I just turned the background off to make screen shots look cleaner"
X Link 2025-08-13T00:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Am I sad I missed NQ Not really it's all about choosing. your opportunity. GC ifvg entry on open. I only risked $300 on this entry currently up $1800 per motherfucking con. (Almost got stopped out. Lol)"
X Link 2025-08-29T14:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"My gold run has endeth"
X Link 2025-08-29T16:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Ugly day. It's days like this I swear off trading NQ again (but ultimately I come back to that bastard). Lost [--] Lucid accounts and down $3k on the day across my other accounts. Death by a thousand papercuts is real. Should have just played ANYTHING other than NQ"
X Link 2025-09-10T15:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RancidCapital I'm by no means an expert but how's your sizing What is your trigger for taking entries and equally importantly your exits Do you DCA losing positions Are you watching streamers and taking their plays based on implicit trust Do you trade mechanically or intuitively"
X Link 2025-09-10T15:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RancidCapital A few ideas to consider: Based on the instrument being traded make sure the ATR (converted into dollar value) is less than your $100 risk. Change timeframes. Use ema's to guide which direction you take ifvg trades. Adjust the minimum ifvg size you use to take entries"
X Link 2025-09-10T21:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Short asian-session for me tonight. IBB Test (NQ 5pt/TP&SL) [--] wins $300 profit TE (GC max risk: [--] ticks) [--] win [--] loss $210 profit Just adding to the stacks"
X Link 2025-09-16T23:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@riskOnDaddy Nah. IBB is just an inside bar strategy. You could probably use an ema to stay in trades longer but I wanted to test if this could be 100% mechanical so that it could later be automated and still give profitable results"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mkt_opnr Sorry - normally I have my watermark and atr on the chart.For NY Sessions it's NQ 30s (10pt TP&SL). For Asian Sessions it's NQ 30s (5pt TP&SL) though it performed HORRIBLY last night taking the entire suggestion to get back to B/E and then marginal profit"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@keshaavsingh So the script I wrote only allowed trades with a motherbar that had a maximum height of [--] ticks and was regular trading hours. MB Max height may not be a factor. The 30s chart was an attempt to get in-and-out quickly but hasn't proven significantly better than other timeframes"
X Link 2025-09-20T16:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Absolutely-insane Gold session. [--] trades all winners with [--] at partials. It's been moving so fast today I'm on the 30s chart. Using 1MM (@mkt_opnr) and TE. Smart meter in the pic but didn't use that for any trades (though I could have used it for shorts for more $$$)"
X Link 2025-10-16T23:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"This is just part of the asian session. I've been in some great evening plays on GC before but tonight defies all reason. [--] of these trades are over [---] ticks Playing on the 30s makes it easier/faster to catch the reversals. Insane"
X Link 2025-10-17T05:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mkt_opnr Glad you caught some of this movement There was another ifvg (1m chart) for this current run-up but didn't take it as I didn't want to overtrade but damn if GC isn't paying out some serious coin this evening"
X Link 2025-10-09T01:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Tried something a bit different tonight - but wasn't super confident so plotted on NQ but took the trades with micros. [--] of [--]. I should had taken them with minis. Lol"
X Link 2025-10-15T01:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PyrasB My other reply has how I stay in a trade but the trailing is visual trying to protect my exits at [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] [---] ticks. There have been plenty of plays wherein I exited both too early AND too late"
X Link 2025-10-23T16:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@btcwealth1729 Lol. No. Just based on an expectation we were gonna gap up due to the news talking about the US/China tariff war looking like they've agreed on a solution"
X Link 2025-10-27T03:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RTY was a rockstar giving me [---] ticks during the 1st phase and choppy-as-fuck during the the 2nd phase with [--] [--] tick losses iand then taking profit for [--] ticks giving the 2nd phase [---] ticks. End of it all: a lowly [--] ticks. Copytraded. Watch it drop [---] ticks now. Lol"
X Link 2025-10-27T14:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"RTY using ARM on the 2m chart: [---] ticks ($1130) with [--] trades (7 winners [--] losers [--] breakeven). ARM loves choppy markets. All [--] of my models won today. Kinda neat"
X Link 2025-10-27T20:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Threw the 1MM RTY settings on GC. [--] solid trades with [--] wins and [--] loss. Likely grab: [--] ticks [--] ticks [---] ticks and [--] ticks for a net gain of [---] ticks. Playing just one con that's a possible $1430. (These are marked-up after the fact. No real trades this evening.) Neat"
X Link 2025-10-27T22:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"1MM is now Phased Breakout Model (PBM). That's how I'll be referencing it going forward"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@IamGuyBaker @StevenTexas5 And now my cheeky reply. "Why trade NQ/ES when you can make serious coin on GC RTY and YM" 😉"
X Link 2025-10-30T14:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I papertraded a system othat placed trigger orders with a stop [--] tick less than the phase's range and the tp at 2x the stop using PBM on NQ. +238pts today. Lots of losses in the mix. Note: this doesn't account for bad TV & ProjectX fills or slippage. Will backtest this weekend"
X Link 2025-10-31T19:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Set my ATM at [--] ticks TP [--] ticks Stop. [--] trades $1k. Done for the asian session session. #PBM"
X Link 2025-11-02T23:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@z_bergeron Has to tap the green or red line before returned to the yellow. Basically I'm looking for move through the buffer back into the internal range and failing the reversal. As soon as I see it touch the G/R line I put in a limit order back at the yellow line"
X Link 2025-11-02T23:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Conversely GC is not treating me kindly this evening"
X Link 2025-11-04T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Ok. Turned a profit after entirely too many trades. At one point I was down $1160 and ended at +44 ticks after eeking out some ok trades and completely paper-handing the last short"
X Link 2025-11-05T00:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"One of my models just printed +$2900 per con in the last [--] minutes. Another model produced +$1640 per con in the last [--] minutes. This is why fucks are copying my indicators and why I will no longer share my IP until I opt to go commercial with them. If you know you know"
X Link 2025-11-10T01:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@ginosiri I trade every trigger. If it loses I wait for an internal re-tap and tap of trigger to play again otherwise I'm looking to trade the opposite trigger if price choses to move the other way and just waiting. Feel free to message me"
X Link 2025-11-14T06:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Trend Engine could have paid $9080 playing [--] NQ with 20pt stops over the course of 1h45m. Pretty insane there were two 200+ point moves and one 100+ point move"
X Link 2026-01-02T21:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold sucked ass this morning but gotta cut early for a doctor's appointment. 30sORB: +$90 ARM: +$300 PBM: +$550 Trend Engine: +$680 Smart Meter: +$750 Convergence: +$830 Interlock renamed to Convergence"
X Link 2026-01-07T15:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Gold recap ARM: +$-230 (1h) 30sORB: +$680 (17m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1500 (1h) Smart Meter: +$120 (1m/1h) or +$2100 (2m/1hr) Convergence: No valid set-up"
X Link 2026-01-08T15:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold recap Convergence: -$380 (1h) 30sORB: -$420 (30m) PBM: +$700 (pre-market 30m) or +$300 (1h) ARM: +$1170 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2005 (1m/1h) or +$2115 (2m/1h) Trend Engine: +$3800 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-09T15:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"First week of [----] and my models. (All dollar amounts are based on [--] GC per trade but can be scaled down to MGC effectively reducing risk.) 30sORB and PBM are time-based TE and SM are trend-based ARM is fixed TP/SL ifvg-based Convergence is a time-based session hybrid"
X Link 2026-01-09T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold recap Convergence: +250 (30m) 30sORB: +$1000 (30m) PBM: +$500 (30m) ARM: -$310 (30m) Smart Meter: +$800 (30m) Trend Engine: +$200 (30m)"
X Link 2026-01-12T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"My previous recap was the first 30m of the session. Here's the results from the full hour. Convergence: +690 (1h) 30sORB: +$1000 (1h) PBM: +$1500 (1h) ARM: -$720 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2100 (1h) Trend Engine: +$1800 (1h) Models all went up considerably except ARM"
X Link 2026-01-12T22:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"GC: [--] models failed today [--] provided no trades and [--] rocked well but had early losses. SM and TE were down substantially in the AM and recovered. Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: -$90 (1h) PBM: -$400 (1h) ARM: -$390 (1h) Smart Meter: +$2700 (1h) Trend Engine: +$2100 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-13T15:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: +300 (1h) PBM: +$1000 (1h) ARM: -$620 (1h) Smart Meter: +$4100 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4500 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-14T15:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"GC. +250 ticks. [--] hour trading. Smart Meter only. [--] tick stops"
X Link 2026-01-14T18:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Man.switch this over to the 2m and look at that green meter Breaking All Time High"
X Link 2026-01-14T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Rough morning for Gold. Took a hit on my funded this morning and managed to recover 90% of the loss in the afternoon. Here's NY first hour results: Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: -$660 (1h) PBM: -$700 (1h) ARM: -$180 (1h) Smart Meter: -$400 (1h) Trend Engine: +$990 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-15T21:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Didn't play TE this evening but how it could have played out. [--] ticks single play [--] ticks two plays"
X Link 2026-01-15T23:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold with much better performance than pretty much all week. Time stop after [--] hour limited profit potential. Convergence: No valid trades 30sORB: +420 (1h) PBM: -$100 (1h) ARM: +$1440 (1h) Smart Meter: +$4900 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4350 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"TE and SM still the most profitable of the models. ARM which works decently well on YM and RTY struggled all week pushing some serious red until recovering $1440 today. 30sORB Convergence and PBM use fixed entries and stops vs trend following. ARM is an inversion model"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I think I need to make sure to keep an NQ or MNQ chart up to capture these. Missed out on this epicness"
X Link 2026-01-16T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Lots of meter-style indicators out there but I'm particularly proud of mine which I updated and refined this weekend adding new optional Smart Candles. Here's how this baby looks in normal and HA candles (with real active/closed price dot overlay)"
X Link 2026-01-18T17:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"I left sooooooooo much money on the table Trade 1: Entered at the close of the opening candle and hit my stop nearly instantaneously (30 tick loss). Trade 2: Re-entered based upon Smart Meter/Smart Candle confidence. (160 tick gain) Result: +130 ticks in [--] minutes"
X Link 2026-01-18T23:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"I would never condone playing this chop especially with market orders with low volume environments but gold's pushed +45k contracts during globex already Anyway all these result in +262 ticks. (Presuming no slippage and perfect fills). Realistically 70% of that"
X Link 2026-01-19T01:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"No trades for me today as I expected lower volume and larger spreads. I've been posting about SM recently but it's just a different method of finding smart entries. Here it is on NQ this morning vs my Trend Engine model"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"No trades for me today due to volume and spreads. GC (1 con) potential performance with my models in any case. Convergence: +$240 (1h) 30sORB: +660 (1h) PBM: -$420 (1h) ARM: -$300 (1h) Smart Meter: +$550 (1h) Trend Engine: +$400 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"TE and SM are still my best performing indicators across all assets. Win rates do vary. SM highlights areas where indecision or directional shifts may occur and as a result will generate more trade opportunities. All indicators are currently private"
X Link 2026-01-19T19:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"NQ with some interesting moves in the asian session. Both my indicators gave some wonderful plays. No indicators We swept a NY morning pivot and inverted a gap. Easy 50pt+ long targeting recent equal highs"
X Link 2026-01-20T01:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Different ways to skin it. TE: [---] ticks (2 trade) SM: [---] ticks (6 trades) 5m inversion targeting pivot high: [---] ticks (1 trade) and it's still going"
X Link 2026-01-20T04:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold was simply amazing last night - no wonder the PA was choppy at open and only started moving after my 1h cut-off. Convergence: +$60 (1h) 30sORB: +$1300 (1h) PBM: -$50 (1h) ARM: -$110 (1h) Smart Meter: +$920 (1h) Trend Engine: +$660 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-20T15:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Playing this on a 2m chart would have been better as it would have been one single short trade on this drop. [---] points regardless"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Chop for the first [--] minutes and then 🍆 20pt candle. Asia Gold doing it's thang"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Absolute stunner of an evening trading Gold. Overlaid a measurement which shows had this been played on the 2m chart this would have been a single long trade for 53.2pts.and we're still pumping"
X Link 2026-01-21T01:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold was moving too perfectly for my models so rather than trading for an hour cut it to 30m. Convergence doesn't start until an hour after open. Convergence: PENDING. 30sORB: +$2120 (30m) PBM: +1200 (30m) ARM: +$930(30m) Smart Meter: +$1240 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1700 (30m)"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Convergence: +$180"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Gold Recap: Convergence: +$180 (30m). 30sORB: +$2120 (30m) PBM: +1200 (30m) ARM: +$930(30m) Smart Meter: +$1240 (30m) Trend Engine: +$1700 (30m) The nasdaq chart looked beautiful for both the epic long and current short on both TE and SM. Wishing I played it"
X Link 2026-01-21T17:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"When it hits the top of that right-most trade that's an amazing 71.3pts on Gold. Perfect volatility"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Nom nom nom. Trend Engine: +420 Ticks Smart Meter: +474 Ticks"
X Link 2026-01-22T02:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"1/22 Gold Recap: Convergence: Will Update when/if triggers 30sORB: +$300 (15m) PBM: +500 (15m) RM: +1430 (15m) Smart Meter: +$2100 (15m) Trend Engine: +$1500 (15m) Mechanical models winning again. Minimal time in market today due to other commitments"
X Link 2026-01-22T14:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Convergence triggered in [--] times and immediately reversed hitting stop. 4th won and ran higher than TP. Result: -$410. Only losing model on the day"
X Link 2026-01-22T15:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Got asked by a couple people if this works on SI or CL. While I don't trade either instrument here's what they would have looked like via Smart Meter. Green and Red are trade areas. Yellow and Gray are not"
X Link 2026-01-22T19:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Front-ran the GC long by [--] seconds anticipating it would close green and extend upwards. A few candles later and my snap target hit for [---] ticks. Not too shabby"
X Link 2026-01-22T23:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"1/23 Gold Recap (Pre-Flash PMI) Convergence: No Valid Entries 30sORB: +$680 (12m) PBM: +500 (12m) ARM: +900 (12m) Smart Meter: +$190 (12m) Trend Engine: +$740 (12m)"
X Link 2026-01-23T14:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Early close to end the week for an extended weekend. Not too bad considering no trades on Monday. GC [--] con per trade results (less than [--] hour trading/day)"
X Link 2026-01-23T15:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"3 for [--]. +300 ticks"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"1/26 Gold Recap Convergence: +$150 (30m) 30sORB: +$680 (30m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) ARM: -$590 (30m) Smart Meter: +$2000 (30m) + $1000 premarket Trend Engine: +$1100 (30m) vs +$2700 Pre+NY"
X Link 2026-01-26T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1/26 Gold Recap Convergence: +$150 (30m) 30sORB: +$310 (30m) PBM: +$1000 (30m) ARM: -$590 (30m) Smart Meter: +$2000 (30m) + $1000 premarket Trend Engine: +$1100 (30m) vs +$2700 Pre+NY"
X Link 2026-01-26T15:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Chris - here you go buddy. Note I didn't mark up the trades but on TE you take every major flip (red/green arrow). Optionally (but I do) take the yellow re-entry signals. For SM play the candle color flips (green/red) exits on gray/yellow candle. 1st hour golden"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"TE: +170 Ticks SM: +167 Ticks And before this choppy move back up there was a +220 tick TE and +200 tick SM short. Maybe I need to rethink this "trade only the first hour" idea. Lol"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Had a few questions this week I wanted to answer: My indicators are only for Tradingview. I intend to provide set-up and walkthrough videos. Not all indicators provide signals/alerts but do plot relevant reaction levels (with a table of values) to enter limit orders and stops"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty insane. I took +120 ticks at the open and trailed too tightly. If I played it properly and continued until now tonight's a whopping +878 ticks. Crazy volatility. $GC for the win"
X Link 2026-01-27T02:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"1/27 Gold Recap Choppy morning for gold with heavy wicking. Convergence: No Valid Trades 30sORB: -$940 (30m) PBM: -$100 (1h) ARM: -$560 (1h) Smart Meter: +$1300 (1h) Trend Engine: +$700 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold with a funky choppy AM and requiring tighter TP's based on how frequent the indecision (yellow) candles and pullbacks are. 2m chart on the climb significantly cleaner staying above the trend band but requiring nearly 9pts drawdown to stay in. Meh"
X Link 2026-01-27T16:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@I_Am_Tower_Fx Appreciate the comment. I'm risk adverse so I use specific stops as price moves and I'm unwilling to let a profitable trade pull back too far (and that trailing stop often takes me out of a bigger run) but those same stops/limits help me on choppy PA. Shrug"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Pretty insane to think just this choppy climb on GC is still +538 ticks despite having [--] losses"
X Link 2026-01-28T03:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Anyone else's Tradovate not working Got up early to trade pre-market but tradovate was frozen restarted like [--] times and see this cleanly on tradingview but not on tradovate. Missed at least a [---] tick play on that short not being able to enter"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:52Z [---] followers, 13.5K engagements
"1/28 Gold Recap No live trades this morning since tradovate was down but this what it would have been: Convergence: +$720 (1h) 30sORB: +$1140 (30m) PBM: +$200 (1h) ARM: +$1020 (1h) Smart Meter: +$3500 (1h) Trend Engine: +$4470 (1h)"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"You know you're in for a volatile time trading gold when you look at the [--] second chart and the ATR is [---] ticks"
X Link 2026-01-29T15:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Anyone else enjoying gold tonight"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold running a little flat at the moment but goddamn ATR is [---] ticks on the 30s chart Stops are gonna need to be bigger again. Trade safe. Oh and I had a short at [------] on GC last night and closed for [---] ticks but had a feeling a bigger drop was coming. Paperhanded that"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Although Convergence did eventually break my $5k/month target I'm moving it to the backburner due to the set-up waiting for [--] hour after open before it monitors that trades for set-up. (Personal choice as I'm still trying to trade just the first hour of NY.)"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"30sORB - Fixed TP and SL Trend Engine - trend/momentum based Smart Meter - trend/momentum based ARM - Fixed TP and SL (ifvg model) Convergence - Fixed TP and SL session hybrid PBM - Fixed TP and SL"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Smart Meter update: trigger signals and alerts. (Great if you're using a third party system that can auto-enter trades based on tradingview alerts - like PickMyTrade.) Close to commercial subscription release for those that have asked"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Said I was looking for another [---] ticks. How's about +143 (one additional winner and one loser)"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Chris_Blagden I use this model and take every signal. Not all win but it visually tells mewhen to stay out of a trade (yellow or gray candles meter not color-aligned). Check through my history - you'll see plenty of losses too"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@JblTrading I use one of [--] ATM's when trading gold a 5pt TP 10pt TP or 20pt TP. Choppy PA (with a ton of rejections prior to that trade had me using the 5pt TP ATM.) Also to note I split-screen this on a monitor with a standard candle chart so I can see actual PA"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@I_Am_Tower_Fx I enter using my ATM and IMMEDIATELY move my stop to the bottom of the bullish trigger candle or the top of a bearish trigger candle. Once in a trade I manually trail"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"5 Things That Made Me a Better Trader: [--] - I limit my trade window [--] - I don't chase. If I miss the entry I miss the trade [--] - I don't DCA. If I'm wrong I accept the loss [--] - I treat my trade rules as RULES not suggestions [--] - I manage my trades based on my risk tolerance"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@h44mzaa This is specifically coded for intraday scalpers. I would have to adjust and refine a number of calculations and variables for 5m and higher but here's the 5m 15m and 1h to give you an idea how SM sees $GC"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I didn't take any trades on NQ but here's what this drop could have looked like playing TE in Aggro mode adding an additional con with each re-entry signal. (Drawdown is a concern BUT total take on this trade could have been +815 pts. Just sayin'"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +35 ticks Trend Engine: +327 ticks Smart Meter: +209ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: +10 ticks ARM is net negative WTD which is pretty disappointing. TE at +2057 ticks and SM at +1439 ticks WTD"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Choppy GC this morning. Should have moved up to the 30s but the 15s has been my standard when trading use SM. +209 ticks"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why do I typically trade the first 30m of the NY session Volatility. I can catch 100+ ticks within that 30m on Gold. * Smart Meter YTD is currently averaging +221 ticks per day on Gold. * When I trade YM/RTY I'm looking for 100+ ticks. Copytraded"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"For those considering the bundle subscription (all primary indicators accessory indicators current test indicators) do any of you trade the Globex Open Asia Open or London open Which one(s) Looking at building some session-specific fixed TP/SL stuff to add to the arsenal"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"My Phased Breakout Model is an automatic level-generating system with fixed TP/SL that I've set to trade [--] minutes a day. In January it produced $9050 ($452.50/day avg). In February (MTD) it's produced $3800 ($380/day avg). It's not perfect. It doesn't have to be"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"My Phased Breakout Model is an automatic level-generating system with fixed TP/SL that I've set to trade [--] minutes a day. In January it produced $9050 ($452.50/day avg). In February (MTD) it's produced $3800 ($380/day avg). It's not perfect. It doesn't have to be"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Had a few questions this week I wanted to answer: My indicators are only for Tradingview. I intend to provide set-up and walkthrough videos. Not all indicators provide signals/alerts but do plot relevant reaction levels (with a table of values) to enter limit orders and stops"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why I trade the first 30m in the NY session. Volatility and Paint-by-Numbers. Not always perfect but profitable"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Month-to-Date Data: 30sORB: +469 ticks Trade Engine: +3446 ticks Smart Meter: +2556 ticks ARM: +482 ticks Convergence: +500 ticks PBM: +380 ticks"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: [---] ticks Trend Engine: +350 ticks Smart Meter: +248 ticks ARM: +192 ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: [---] ticks Some struggles with 30sORB and PBM this morning. ARM with some clean inversion and +192 ticks"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"For those considering the bundle subscription (all primary indicators accessory indicators current test indicators) do any of you trade the Globex Open Asia Open or London open Which one(s) Looking at building some session-specific fixed TP/SL stuff to add to the arsenal"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why do I typically trade the first 30m of the NY session Volatility. I can catch 100+ ticks within that 30m on Gold. * Smart Meter YTD is currently averaging +221 ticks per day on Gold. * When I trade YM/RTY I'm looking for 100+ ticks. Copytraded"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Scalping this sucker. +120.75pts"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"HOLY SHIT. SM with smart candles giving the perfect entry. Didn't trade it (my NY session typically ends after the first 30m). But goddamn"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Choppy GC this morning. Should have moved up to the 30s but the 15s has been my standard when trading use SM. +209 ticks"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +35 ticks Trend Engine: +327 ticks Smart Meter: +209ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: No Valid Trades PBM: +10 ticks ARM is net negative WTD which is pretty disappointing. TE at +2057 ticks and SM at +1439 ticks WTD"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Ugly ass Price Action. Wicks all over the place Used the low of the entry candle as my initial stop. Some pretty shitty drawdown (67 ticks) at one point"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Nice little 30m on the Globex. Mid-point choppiness got me. Ended with +28.75 points. Yeah. I took profits too early"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: +39 ticks Trend Engine: +121 ticks Smart Meter: +120 ticks ARM: [---] ticks Convergence: +54 ticks PBM: +150 Generally weak overall performance. Exception: PBM had [--] trades in [--] minutes on open each hitting it's fixed [--] tick TP"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold doing it's gold thang but definitely choppy. All said and done +120 ticks"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Feb [--] - Gold Recap (30m NY session) 30sORB: [---] ticks Trend Engine: +404 ticks Smart Meter: +434 ticks ARM: +98 ticks Convergence: No valid trades PBM: [---] ticks TE/SM rocked as usual. Both PBM and 30sORB would have been profitable with trailing vs all-or-nothing"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I took a +100 tick opening trade using SM but check this out. Aggro Mode using TE. Initial Entry signal and [--] Re-Entry signals. Combined: [----] pts (753 ticks) If you did this on MGC using [--] micro stacked on each signal that'd be $753 in 15m"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
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