In the trading community we hear and repeat many things that are widely accepted as fact, without anyone really challenging the view.

Here’s an example:

”Markets stay in balance 80% of the time and trend 20%” of the time"

Lets talk about it... I certainly believed that too and I have seen this repeated and repeated it myself over the many years I have been trading. In fact I designed most of my trading approach around this simple idea that I should be “fading the edges” and trading from “extreme to back to the middle (balance)”. I also know that many of you do the same.

Single Prints

A simple market profile concept you can utilize without being a market profile purest.

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#NQ_F #ES_F #futurestrading 2/ Market profile AKA TPO charts are essentially a 30 minute candle chart organized by using letter sequences that represent each 30 minute period. For example the RTH open would start with the letter A then 30 minutes later the letter B so on and so forth.

Knife Catching Ends with Bloody Hands

My favorite method to avoid catching the knife, reduce FOMO, and find better R:R trades.

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#Trading #WeekendStudy I know that everyone on FinTwit always buys the exact bottom and top, how do I know this? Well it’s simple, they always brag about those 0 MAE trades :)

1/ Trading with Delta contd..

#FuturesTrading #Trading $ES_f $NQ_f $RTY_f $SPX $NDX

Last week a wrote a thread about how I use delta in day trading futures markets. Here's a few thoughts and chartbooks. 2/ NQ - I use a 1-10 Point and Figure with tick size of 2

1/ Trading with Delta and finding Liquidity Zones

Delta is a simple measurement of ask volume minus bid volume, many traders use various forms of delta to infer who is the most aggressive participant in the current auction. 2/ Today I’ll walk you through how I use Delta to identify a very simple trade setup which I will refer to as a liquidity zone.