The largest issue from what I've seen for new traders is determining where to enter trades. Most traders get caught chasing or adding in poor areas and then sell for losses. Here's a thread on some areas where you can enter trades for minimal risk and maximum reward:
1. Master trend lines and micro
Enter on confirmation of the master trendline holding with a stop-loss a few cents below the prior wick lows to ensure you don't get wicked out. You can also build smaller micro-trends inside and use those with similar risk/reward.
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2. Pattern breakout retests
There are tons of great patterns you can use retests for confirmation with: flags, descending wedges, ascending triangles, etc. Learn and utilize them
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3. Supply and Demand zones.
Enter with bids inside the zone or after a hammer formation indicating buying is present and the zone is being respected. Note, larger time frames are better (4h, 2h, 1h, etc), but you can use smaller intraday too.
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4. Opening hammer candle
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5. Low volume pullbacks after a rally
These usually lead to a pop. To secure downside, place your stop loss accordingly with support/resistances in mind while also accounting for wicks
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6. Daily / 4 hour support levels.
These are the two best time frames for support/resistances. Move down in time frames as needed with stocks that don't have as much recent data
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7. Bullish candlestick patterns
This one in particular is your bullish engulfing one, but you should look into and learn others: Hammer candle, morning star, three white soldiers, etc.
The larger the time frame, the better
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8. Technical indicators strategies (if you have an effective method)
I use the 9/20 EMA, so I'll add on a 9 ema pullback (blue) with risk below the 20 (purple), or I'll add on the 20 with risk just below it. You can use various time frames and carry the rules
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8. (continued)
50 SMA (white) is a great support add and so can the 200 SMA (green) be. The larger the time frame, the better
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This is one video I really like for patterns, but there are plenty more than this:
There's tons of other great candlestick formations & trend patterns that can be used to enter trades. Take the time to learn them and utilize them instead of slapping anything that spikes. Defining your risk/reward before every trade is how you'll succeed in this game
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Something everyone needs to understand is whether there is artificial volume or real volume on a stock. If institutions are behind a move, zones will be respected because there is real demand. Usually when they’re on a ticker, there’s hundreds of million of volume on the day
If it’s a callout by someone on twitter or a chatroom, it’s not real volume and the zones don’t have any REAL demand. Sometimes callouts and artificial volume can lead to real institutional demand coming in, so you have to look at the average volume of a stock and compare it
with the volume on that day and determine whether it’s catching real traction or not. You’ll get burned otherwise trying to buy what you think is a demand zone dip, when in reality it’s the stock crashing after an artificial push
After hours and premarket trading/algorithms and institutions - some insight. I shared this on MTA voice the other day.
To start, AH and PM trading is wonky as is because traders can manipulate prices to an incredible degree. Most algos and institutional trading turn off during PM and AH, and the volume is MUCH thinner, so larger retail traders can actually drag prices as they wish, to a degree.
How this works is through level 2 - they can set up asks that are incredibly far away from the current market price and smash through all the current asks, while also propping up bids higher and higher. Others pile on and this moves the price up significantly.
Position sizing, risk management, and trading around your core thread:
When you're going into a trade, and this should go without saying but I'll say it anyway, NEVER go full position in one single spot. If your entry is wrong, your exposure is huge and you'll panic sell. Prolonged repetition will also blow up your account. Always, always scale in.
If you properly scale into a trade, even if it goes against you, you can almost always get out with either a paper cut, break-even, or profit. To preface, I don't like playing stocks that run out of nowhere. The R/R isn't there for me, so I prefer adding heavy in demand zones
Why and how 90% of retail traders lose and how you can join the 10% that win. This is by far the most important thread I've made. I truly hope this helps change your lives.
The contents of this thread will go against almost all conventional trading rules/strategies you may have learned through books and videos, but I'm incredibly confident this is how @MrZackMorris and other great traders trade
The concept is simply Supply and Demand. When stocks consolidate in a range, there is an agreement in price and institutional orders are being filled. When it deviates from that range (impulsive), big money orders are left unfilled until the stock reaches that area again
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I get a TON of dms on Twitter and the trading floor in MTA on how I do support/resistance because it's a bit different from most people, so here's a thread explaining that. Also, a huge thank you to @JamesLefaith who gave me the one most important piece for this: reactivity
For starters, I use to try and use every single support and resistance possible, 1 minute, 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute, hourly, 4 hour, daily, etc. and then when I'd add on them, I'd wonder why it never worked. Here's why:
Everything on the intraday is weak. You can scalp off a 5-minute support line you've drawn, but chances are, after a small bounce, it'll come right back down to an actual (weekly/daily) support level. Here's an old example I posted in the MTA discord: