Professional traders react to trading opportunities with full acceptance of all responsibility and all trading results. Professional traders get into that ‘zone’ where they see and they react on almost instinct. That ‘instinct’ comes from repetition and consistency. The first thing this morning is to check the news: 815am EST – We begin our day […]
Continue reading– Risk/Reward Ratio o How much risk per trade? (stop loss) o Compared to how much reward on each trade (profit targets) o Low risk/reward ratio is one of the most aspects for a new trader. o New traders are expected to make mistakes o Low R/R/R will allow you to make those mistake without […]
Continue readingOur first job is to check out the dollar index futures – Narrow trading range – Inside the range from Wednesday (inside day) – Slow speed – Relatively low Average True Range – Begin a holiday we can assume this is due to low volume from fewer people in the market today. 845am est – […]
Continue readingLets take a look what gold and crude oil are doing right now so we can prepare for tomorrows price action. (remember that tomorrow is Veterans Day, markets are open, and so are we) There’s no news tomorrow, so no catalysts to prepare for, lets look at the crude oil chart first. Starting with the […]
Continue readingVeteran’s day on Thursday there is NO NEWS tomorrow, but the markets are open, we are open as well, and all the news for Thursday is now today, Wednesday 815am est Lets start our day with the dollar. – Fundamental correlation – Everything settles in the dollar – World reserve currency – If I buy […]
Continue reading– Trigger Lines and ways to use them to make educated decisions o Trigger lines on every chart that I use o Dynamic, always changing o Use it for many reasons Flat trigger line = no trend / sideways market Slope to trigger line = direction of the trend / moving market Used […]
Continue readingI’m watching gold and crude oil futures on multiple tiimeframes and we have some great trading opportunnities to watch right now. Lets start with gold futures: click to enlage Gold is trading in a slightly bullish channel right now on this 34 range chart. we have two options for this trade; play the breakout or […]
Continue readingThe first thing I want to do is check my news this morning, and avoid trading around the news and looking for opportunities to trade after the reaction to the news. 800am est – Check the dollar index futures to see where we are o New overnight highs breaking the previous highs from FOMC Day […]
Continue readinghey guys, im watching crude oil right now and you can see we’re at the highs of our price channel. my entry short needs to be below 86.00 and im taking 1/2 my trade off at 85.00 and the 2nd half at 84.10. I can see plenty of support at 84.00 and its about […]
Continue reading830am EST – Dollar index is giving us some mixed signals today o Concerned because Low average true range Still in the trading range from FOMC Day Low speed on the POT Indicator o We are excited about: Wide trading range (relatively) Moving market Overhead resistance (support) We’ve […]
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