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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Heat Map Review: The euro futures are NOT considered a moving market personality because we are not above the 0.3%, stay patient and follow that plan! Overnight Highs & Lows: We see higher-lows on the 30-minute chart which is bullish, and the overnight highs were tested, broken, the sellers tried to give us a price-reversal […]
Continue readingHeat Map Review: Mini-Russell is not consider a market personality that is moving. We will stay patient with the trades on the Mini-Russell. Overnight Highs & Lows: The sellers failed at the overnight lows, bullish. The buyers did the same, failing at the overnight highs, however, they appear to be trying to give it another […]
Continue readingHeat Map Review: Crude Oil is not a moving market personality at only 0.1% this morning. This tells me to sit-on-hands and be patient. Overnight Highs & Lows: We saw the sellers fail at the overnight lows and the buyers recently have failed at overnight highs. We call this a range-bound market and it tells […]
Continue reading————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Day Trading Strategies for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— CONSISTENCY PAYS: Professional traders understand that the amount of time we spend watching screens, studying the markets, and reviewing our trades doesn’t matter if we are operating without a consistent plan. Similar to reading a book backwards, if a new trader sits down at their desk and simply WATCHES the […]
Continue readingThis morning we identified range-bound markets in most of our favorite futures contracts, and we used a simple day trading strategy to capitalize on it for over 100 ticks of profit. We began the day knowing that it was a Tuesday that felt like a Monday, and when we noticed there was almost zero news […]
Continue readingHeat Map Review: A 0.2% market personality says this market is NOT moving and we need to be patient. Overnight Highs & Lows: Both the buyers and sellers have failed to make new higher-highs or lower-lows overnight and therefor this is considered a range-bound market. Inside or Outside Day? We are inside the range from […]
Continue readingHeat Map Review: This market on the euro is NOT a moving market personality so we will stay patient and beware the sloppy market personality. Overnight Highs & Lows: We have a range-bound market thanks to the sellers and the buyers failing to make new higher-highs or lower-lows. This also makes sense with the lack […]
Continue readingHeat Map Review: Crude Oil is a moving market at a +0.8% volatility, this means we should be looking for trading opportunities today. Overnight Highs & Lows: Both the buyers and the sellers have failed earlier this morning and this tells us we have a range-bound market. Inside or Outside Day? We JUST broke new […]
Continue reading————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Day Trading Strategies for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— OPPORTUNITY: Every trading day is a new opportunity to improve as a professional trader, and we have the luxury of live price-action to be our teacher. There is a never-ending supply of learning (and earning) opportunities in the marketplace every day we just need to know where […]
Continue readingThis morning we finished up an incredible week with a Non Farm Payroll Friday. We discussed the day trading strategy for NFP-Friday in our Morning Prep, and we were ready for the price-action to get started shortly after 8:00am EST today. We didn’t have to wait long this morning to find some high-percentage-trades on Crude Oil using a […]
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