Liquidity determines pattern. Especially liquidity from retail. You need to know how retail positions themselves short AND long. What patterns do they trade? Where do they risk? Where do they take profits? Once u see it plays like $PALI / $PYXS make a lot more sense. Blows my mind how most short sellers couldn't even point out what an ideal flag looks like. Or how many longs couldn't anticipate a clearout/fbo to save their lives. Forever stuck in the same framework while ignoring the other side of the trade.

Sometimes, you gotta ask yourself, what would HC Wainwright do? lol

1. Insane amount of warrants?
2. Premarket weakness?
3. Massive high volume dumps right at market open?

SOUNDS LIKE A LONG TO ME Ok but for real the thinking behind this long is:
1. HC Wainwright gonna HC Wainwright
2. SSR
3. Stock stalls at $1.44 support, shorts cant hit the bid, everyone waiting for the crack

So when I saw those $1.45 offers on the ask get taken out I went long. Also biotechs are hot

$SERA longest, slowest under vwap paint job of our lives here

Wild to have an actual professional respond to us microcap daytraders!

I would highly recommend listening to the interview and checking out @crossbordercap. There's a reason why the types of moves in the past 2 months are similar to 2020/2021 (although not quite the same lvl)

https://twitter.com/crossbordercap/status/1623257381600649216

Liquidity drives our market. And liquidity determines pattern. There's a reason why I've been posting more longs lately. While large gapping % produces good short opportunities, it's also a sign of strength in the market and will also give you the best long opportunities.

Straight up close-mindedness, ego-stroking, and dick-measuring will only hinder your performance and increase your losses.

At this point whatever content you post, whatever system you trade, whatever market you trade in, I'm down to listen and see what I can use for myself. You post pnl? You post charts? You post lambos? You long? You short? Crazy risk management? Insane profit targets? Run a chatroom? Sure thing. Whatever. Just give me details. I’ll use my own judgment to decide what’s valuable.

$GNS heard you guys like charts. Here are some notes on some trades I took on this today. Really trying to improve on my profit taking lol. And I mentioned before, on the SUPER strong plays the IDEAL shorts are not things like clearouts. They are BIG AGGRESSIVE PUSHES that stall BELOW HoD. $BIAF, $GNS, $LYT, $DCFC

$GNS look at me I long now, nice flag here! Damn I am currently up.... 26R on my long! If only I had the conviction to use the same size on my longs as on my shorts. Shoutout to w/e meme stock bs pumped this so hard. I guess I finally get to post these emojis 🚀🚀🚀💎💎💎

Damn for the first time in a while I just looked at my pending DMs and twitter replies and noticed something VERY fucking WEIRD. Before, the only people who’d send me a DM or reply to my tweets were people who liked my content. But now it seems I have a small % of followers who, despite literally following me, HATE my content, and actively tell me in DMs and replies.

$SMMT Alright thread time. Here is a stupidly bullish lvl 2 signal that maybe happens once per month. Anyone who follows manipulation knows riggers paint lower highs then initiate a squeeze. Sometimes they do this by having HUGE asks or hidden sellers at key levels. But think, do you think anyone is legit trying to sell 900k shares and showing it on the lvl 2 for everyone to see? Fuck no, especially on clearly rigged/strong stocks. They are just trying to build enough short stop losses and shake out enough scared longs before the squeeze.

I mostly use moving averages as a guide on strong/rigged stocks. You don't need to use them if you don't want. Plenty of successful traders don't. When shorting I find it most useful for profit taking partials. The only short setup I sometimes use it for are bid props. $AGRI on 3/10/2022 - here's an example of all 3 uses. Crazy strong commodity stock up the 3m9/3m20 in the morning. Starts bid propping on the 3m50ema midday. Struggles to push, cracks the ema, fades to final price target 3m200ema.

$DBGI oh man nasty lvl 2 trap. Put a 45k ask at $8.40 all the way back at 10am, was still there at 10:20am, pulled it back to support and when the stock was market ordered back to $8.40 it was gone, massive HoD squeeze. $DBGI Some lower low fade manip, possible push coming, hopefully get a nice long trap out of it. Missed the failed rotation at 10:45. Took a small trade after the support soak didn't push at 10:50. Wish my avg was near $9.15 once it broke that range.

$TBLA not microcap trash despite its price point and gapping %. $TBLA Should mention, never said you couldn't short this. I'm just saying it's not microcap trash. High IO gappers can give good short patterns like clearouts and props, they just tend to fade less. Rarely get an institutional dump like $RIDE on 11/8/2022, but possible.

You know I need a new pinned tweet. So I'm gonna post all my favorite @team3dstocks threads that have personally shaped my thinking. These tweets are based from my 637 page, 106,909 word document I put together during my early years and pretty much made me profitable. How to short parabolic moves

https://twitter.com/team3dstocks/status/1261415228274692096?s=20&t=MgbECRJCLht8Ig9qX9Ca4g

On super strong stocks in strong markets - you can get good short patterns with fades. But they often fade, soak midday, then push afternoon. On manipulated backside fades, higher lows are often weak, and lower lows are often strong. This can help set your expectations. Should mention there there is a behavior change in the afternoon where, after a strong, manipulated stock has faded far enough, it sets it's lower lows, then starts grinding up with higher lows midday/afternoon for the big squeeze. Usually bounces of a key moving average.

Also wanna post my "The Hardest of Rules" notepad that I literally keep on my screen at all times. In relation to $MOTS today I pointed out some rules that came in handy today on the fade. Risk was $2.32, clearly manipulated but weak market/low liquidity. Rules likely to work. Btw a lot of these rules exist because of my trading personality. I'm the type of person who has risk too tight and takes profits too early. I need to create hard rules to follow to make up for my bad habits formed by my personality.

$MOTS fat bid prop in a weaker market. have some doubts this can reach HoD. Going on 40 minutes which is nice. $MOTS nice prop - as I said before. The longer a long takes the less likely it is to work. Also said in some notes somewhere, in strong markets tickers set short traps that push. In weak markets, tickers set long traps that fade. Soaky boy tho but hoping it breaks this floor.

$LASE on a longer time frame basis the 15m9ema is clean right now. $LASE well at least this is working out, took my first partial on that MA but the liquidity in this is super thin

$VRAX imagine NOT longing amirite

jk knowing this market this is coming straight back down. They got the whole tiny float locked in this range so we'll see. Market hasn't exactly been hot lately tho. $VRAX helpful to know what support levels are and why they're support levels. 5 minute EMAs were very clean on this manip and the 50ema tends to be decent "final" support. It's also helpful that intraday LoD was right above it, making a wash and reclaim quite strong.

$SNTI jeez what a clearout, all happened in less than a second too $SNTI the good news is if this keeps zero vol soaking at support it has a good chance of coming back up. Especially looking for $2.45+

As @jetsolomon pointed out the $CMRA day 1 replication on $BEAT. Painted HoD without breaking, only to bring it up later. Really clean charts on the 5m with a HARD 1m200 soak after forming a floor for 30+ minutes. Tiny float is locked for sure. $BEAT lol guess not

Remember, pattern replication shorts tends to happen on STRONG stocks making MULTIPLE pushes on BIG volume. It's all a liquidity game. Someone is soaking millions of shares and moving the stock, they need someone to dump those shares into. When you short strong a stocks, you shouldn't be thinking "this looks weak" - you should be thinking "how is this guy gonna exit his huge position at the highest possible price?"