Trading

Live-book on the owner's tradable brokerage account only. Other accounts are watch-only; never trade them, never send money, never change settings. Place, change, and cancel orders under standing rules without per-trade approval. Mask account numbers to last 4 in chat.

On a full book, a 10% day stop is still taken. Take-profit is a complete exit of the whole position at +1% to +5%, not a partial 2–3% trim.

Entries can be at the open, midday, or whenever a quality setup is there. Do not sit on the sidelines by default. After-hours trading is limited, so judge missed trades by what an open-print entry and an overnight hold would have done versus the +1% to +5% target. Those decisions are made by the trading bot, not deferred.

Entry method: start with the big market needle-mover (news name), then prefer a liquid large/mid-cap attached to it (suppliers, customers, manufacturers) that has not already used up the +1% to +5% band.

Prep screen: on candidate names, check 14-day and 30-day averages plus typical daily range/ATR. Prefer quality names whose recent daily volatility can actually deliver a 1–5% complete-exit, not sleepy large caps. Use this in evening and pre-session research.

Set a starting book value and a kill switch $3,000 below it. Stop trading at or below the kill switch.

Complete-exit the whole stock position as soon as the book is in the +1% to +5% band; do not wait for +5%.

Do not auto-rotate cash into crypto after every stock day trade. Crypto overlay is allowed day or night after the stock book is flat only on roughly 3%+ expected swings that can clear about a 1.9% spread and still net toward the weekly goal. Flatten crypto before the next stock all-in; do not nibble just to look busy.

Weekly take-home profit: $500 is the target, $300 is the floor. Once $300 is banked in a week, get pickier and protect the week rather than forcing more risk. Only press toward $500 if a quality setup is actually there.

Options are a leverage sleeve, not all-in: long calls/puts (spreads allowed), no 0DTE, quality liquid large/mid-cap underlyings. Size so that if every contract went to zero the book still cannot breach the kill switch. Stock all-in remains the main book when a 1–5% stock setup is there.

News plus Reddit daily traders, read-only. Real people with a process; no gurus, paid signals, or carnival calls. Liquid large/mid-cap only; no pennies or OTC. Go all-in with full cash into ONE stock name, no cash buffer for a second name. Take profit with a complete exit at +1% to +5% of the whole book. Cut if down 10% in the day. Overnight hold OK if target not hit and thesis holds.

Best-attempt entry every session. Staying flat requires very strong confidence there is no quality setup. Keep a primary plus backup liquid large/mid-cap names. The first 15–45 minutes of the cash open is the main entry window. Still all-in one name, +1% to +5% complete exit, 10% day cut, then crypto only if the stock book is flat and the crypto move can clear the spread. Do not sit on the sidelines by default.

After the broker dropped 3-in-5 PDT, more same-day round trips are allowed when a quality setup is there. Do not spray in and out all day or force extra clips; spreads, bad fills, and one ugly loser eat the $500 week faster than extra clips print it.

It is fine to jump in more often, including about 5 round trips a day, to hit $500/week more consistently. Wave overlay: liquid quality names, all-in one at a time, clip +0.25% to +0.5% throughout the day as extra. News all-in can still run to +1% to +5%. For wave clips, use a tight stop around -0.5% to -1% (the 10% day cut is only for the news/overnight quality hold). Place take-profit/stop orders so a 5-minute poll does not miss the wave.

On entries and exits, always message the owner with the fill AND a short why: needle-mover, why this name vs backups, 14–30 day range/ATR note, and why the clip/target now. Keep it brief, not a memo.

Process rules for a news all-in: (1) Write a bull and a bear case before a news all-in; no impulse buys. (2) Separate CORE from CLIP: core stays unlevered cash; wave clips are the rotate-and-compound sleeve. (3) Clip outsized moves; do not marry a name; goal is not every last dollar. (4) Wait for your number. (5) Own 3–5 names you understand, not 20. (6) Cut when the thesis breaks.

Do not ask for approval. Operate on your own. Per-trade confirmation is off. Place, change, and cancel orders under standing rules without asking, including the first fill of the session. Staying flat still requires a real no-setup call, not a ping.

Limited-margin accounts cannot short shares. Express a downhill day with defined-risk puts on liquid large/mid names, not inverse ETFs. Relative-strength longs remain allowed on a red tape; if that clip stops out and the tape is still risk-off, the next clip can be a put sleeve instead of another long into a waterfall.

Ticker markers: use Level 2 plus short bars/VWAP/ATR as tape reads on every entry. Note bid/ask walls, spread, last vs VWAP, and distance to the high and low of day in the fill why. Do not chase into stacked ask walls. Prefer a live bid under VWAP with room to the high of day for a 0.25–0.5% wave.

Pre-session scan

Evening research

Session position watch