Hey there, new trader here.
Was lucky to start just before the March dip, so whatever I bought (mostly semis anyways) went up. In spite of my horrible mistakes (buying SOXL at 45 and selling full lot at 52, buying KORU literally at the bottom and getting at too soon, trying to predict bottoms, trying to consistently short the market because of Iran escalations etc) My account went up 55% in a relatively short period of time but I always knew the results were not because how great a trader/investor I was, it was just that I was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time, didnt have no exit or entry strategy, no plan, no idea what I was doing. Since those trades I mentioned left me a bit annoyed, I just kept holding stuff and saw most of my profits evaporate as the market started chopping sideways and the new trades I entered took the profits down.
That lack of plan and strategy always annoyed me and I gave it an attempt to write my own Quant with Claude. Let him make the research, survivorship-bias free 25 years of backtests on IC computations, Hidden Markov Models for regime detection, 4 year test and 6 months blind test periods for 25 years etc. The signals I wanted to get were just not there. It was either blindly chasing breakouts (which works in bull markets I guess, so that’s why when the HMM says it’s bull, that’s all the signals are about), or trying to predict the bottom which never came (when market is in a correction mode - everyday HOOD was the stock to buy for a month).
AS I kept researching and trying to understand what direction I want to take, given that I have full time commitments on family and work, I immediately realized swing was the method I wanted to follow from the start anyways, so started reading the works of O’Neill, his disciples, Minervini, Livermore, watch YT stuff of Qullamaggie and lately Ariel Hernandez. It’s crazy how all of them talk about the same thing over and over again, makes it look so easy. By now I’d say I am somewhat familiar with concepts like CANSLIM, VCP, EP etc. Familiar is the right word, dont think really successfully executed a trade following those patterns just yet.
Over time my quant project turned into personalized screener, stuff that I cant get from TradingView which is the platform i use for charts (later on figured out about TC2000 but I was already too deep on my screener which didn’t really cost me anything other than my Claude sub which is there anyways). My screeners update from yfinance daily, along with EDGAR data, and gives me the suggestions I want, tries to analyze the chart patterns (tries to find stuff consolidating in a base, cup and handles, high tight flags, double bottoms etc) along with IBD style EPS and RS ratings, Minervini’s trend template, industry strength etc that I have worked on over time. Basically it’s a pep project where I try to put in action what I have been reading about, as I cannot scan the markets and go through Earnings one by one, I try to make that thing do it for me without paying for endless subs on zillions of platforms out there.
So that’s a little about my journey over the last 5 months. I really enjoy the journey more itself, and want to dive deeper into more resources. I am telling all this story to give you a better idea about kind of the lpeople or communities I am looking for, or just wanting to connect with like-minded people.
What I am looking for is not a community of ticker suggestions or anything like that. A community where I can keep learning, an academy of sorts.
If you are a part of a community that you think a person with my background would enjoy, I’d love to hear about it.
If there are any resources that you feel are like a natural follow up of my journey, I would love to hear about them too.
TIA