CME futures hit a record 28.1 million contracts in average daily volume in 2025, up 6% year over year. More volume means more noise. And more noise means your indicator choice matters more than ever if you trade ES, NQ, CL, or GC. Picking the best TradingView indicators for futures day trading gets harder once […]
There’s no IRS form that grants trader tax status. No checkbox, no application, no confirmation letter. Instead, the IRS applies a “facts and circumstances” test built from decades of Tax Court rulings, and getting it wrong can cost you thousands in disallowed deductions. That ambiguity is exactly why so many active traders, including the ones
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Supertrend automation delivers 55-65% win rates in trending futures markets. If you trade MNQ or ES and you’re still eyeballing the ATR band to catch a trend flip, you’re already a few ticks late. Automating the flip closes that gap. This guide wires the Supertrend indicator on a TradingView MNQ or ES chart directly into
Quick answer: “Trader Kane” (publicly named by Business Insider as Kane Simons) is an NQ futures day trader and co-founder of The Lab, a trading education community. His system, “The Lab Model,” combines standard ICT/Smart Money concepts (SMT divergence, inversion Fair Value Gaps, premium/discount) with three things that are distinctly his: NQ-only execution with ES
Retail prop trading has grown into a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Pass rates on most evaluations run between 5% and 15%. Do the math and most funded traders pay for more than one challenge before an account ever goes live. That raises a real question every April. Can any of
ORB AI is a free, open-source TradingView indicator that scores every opening range breakout across seven factors and cross-checks it against a self-learning KNN engine — instead of firing on a single range-break condition.
Every algo trader I know pays for the same four things. A VPS so the bot doesn’t die when the laptop sleeps. A Level 2 data feed. A broker platform subscription. And something to bridge alerts to the broker. Add a charting plan and a CPA, and you’re past $5,000 a year before a single
Prop firm consistency rules are the rule set’s hidden landmine. You can hit every profit target, keep your drawdown spotless, and trade for weeks without a single loss, then watch your payout request bounce because one breakout Monday handed you 60% of your account’s total profit. Just 33.3% of funded traders ever receive a payout,
Prop firm taxes surprise a lot of funded traders the first time a payout lands. The check doesn’t come with capital gains treatment. It comes with a 1099-NEC and a 15.3% self-employment tax bill attached. That’s a different tax world than trading your own brokerage account. I’ve had this conversation with more funded traders than
