I looked at a lot of trading styles before I started. Day trading, crypto momentum, options premium selling, value investing. Each one had a pitch. Most of them required sitting at a screen all day or betting on volatility I could not measure. Qullamaggie’s approach stood out because it was boring on purpose. Weekly charts….
I thought discipline meant holding through every drawdown. It does not. It means cutting the trade when the thesis breaks, even when the loss stings. I confused conviction with stubbornness in the early weeks. I thought I needed to trade every week. A blank scanner output felt like failure. Sitting on my hands while the…
I work in IT full time. I also run a systematic swing trading framework with five active systems, a weekly scanner, and a public content brand. People ask how I manage both. The answer is structure, not hustle. Swing trading on weekly bars makes this possible. I am not watching tick charts at lunch. I…
People hear the pirate branding and expect swagger. Swords on charts. A catchphrase in every sentence. That misses the point. Pirates operated on clear rules. Share the loot by a formula. Vote the captain out if he made bad calls. Know the risk before boarding the ship. No one sailed blind and hoped for the…
I spent twenty years making decisions with real money on the line in poker. The stakes were concrete. The feedback was instant. You know within seconds whether a call was right or wrong. So when I started swing trading, skipping paper trading felt like the natural move. I already knew how to manage risk. I…
Building a Trading System as an IT Guy I build systems for a living. Most of my day is spent on uptime, redundancy, and logical flows. When I started trading, I looked for the same things. I did not want a gut feeling or a ‘hunch’ based on a Twitter thread. I wanted a set…
The market update I posted on March 20 was wrong. The scanner returned 0 signals. I posted it. Turns out the scanner had a bug — a filter that was too aggressive in bear regime conditions. I caught it a few days later when I ran the corrected version. Corrected result for March 23: Regime:…
Most traders look at charts after something happens. I’m trying to find them before. The setup I look for is clear on a chart. The EMAs — 5, 10, and 20 period — need to be tight, aligned in order, and starting to rise. When those three conditions line up, a stock is telling you…
Twenty years of poker. Not as a hobby — as income. I got an engineering degree, built a career in automation and IT, but poker stayed. The edge. The extra income. The game I understood better than most people in the room. Poker has a ceiling. The stress, the hours, the variance — you can…