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[Q&A]: Morning Routine, Option Trades, & Session Volume v. Orderflow Delta

May 20, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at our morning routine, how to build option trades …

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[Q&A]: Joining the breakout

May 15, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. Breakout trades! Breakout trades occur when we take a trade in the direction of range extension. …

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Buying a house above value

April 17, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Resources

Take a look at this pre-market chart of Nasdaq futures: NQ (Nasdaq futures) are gapping (A gap is where we open completely …

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[Q&A]: Using triggers to reduce trade entry risk

April 6, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. Triggers. Triggers are short time frame price action arrangement patterns we use to help us minimize …

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[Q&A]: Using the profile to help you find patience in the trade

April 1, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. Patience. Patience in trading is an edge. The challenge is in knowing what you are being …

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[Q&A]: What is auction context and how can it help you?

March 9, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Essentials, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to determine the …

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[Q&A]: What is a bias and how can it help your decision making?

March 4, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Resources, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to set a …

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[Q&A]: What is the initial balance and how can this help you generate trade ideas?

February 22, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Essentials, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the initial balance to help …

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[Q&A]: How to pick better price targets

February 18, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to pick better …

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[Q&A]: Using the profile to confirm or negate a directional move

February 4, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Resources, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to confirm or …

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[Q&A]: Using the profile to prepare for the next move

January 27, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Resources, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to prepare for …

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[Q&A]: Using the profile to see and find value

January 20, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Resources, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to see “value” …

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[Q&A]: Discerning auction direction and quality

January 13, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to discern auction …

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[Q&A]: Picking better auction times to be active

January 5, 2019

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to find better times of the trading …

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[Q&A]: Building an expectation for the session based on how it opens

December 15, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Essentials, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how we use “OPEN types” to determine the …

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[Q&A]: How to use the profile with short term triggers to minimize risk

December 8, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile along with short …

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[Q&A]: How to use the profile to establish context

November 30, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to quickly identify …

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[Q&A]: How to use the profile to determine a bias for the coming session

November 11, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to determine a …

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[Q&A]: Figuring out who is controlling the auction, so that you can go with them

November 2, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to help figure …

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[Q&A]: Gaining confidence in directional entries using orderflow along with the profile

November 1, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use orderflow along with the profile to …

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[Q&A]: Expected vs. unexpected behavior in the auction

October 24, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to discern unexpected …

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[Q&A]: Should you go with the move?

October 16, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to decide if you should go with …

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[Q&A]: How to use the profile to anticipate the next move

October 10, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at how to use the profile to anticipate a …

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Trading after a binary event

October 2, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video

Binary events occur when a news or econ release is expected during the trading session. It creates one of 2 responses, higher …

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What happens when a profile reference doesn’t hold?

July 6, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video

Profilers are taught to observe certain structural reference points in the profile graphic and expected certain behaviors when the auction comes toward …

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How to return to the market and find the plot

June 28, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video

Whether you’ve been away from markets for a bit and coming back, or if you want to be able to get away …

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TRADE IDEA: Avoiding the squeeze

June 27, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video

You may have heard of traders being “squeezed” in an auction. What does it mean? How can you see it, or better …

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AUCTION THEORY: Expected v. Unexpected Behavior

May 24, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video

A mark of trading competence is being able to discern expected and unexpected auction behavior. For the novice, the example auction provided …

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TRADE IDEA: Gap rules

May 15, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Tips for Newbies, Video

A gap is a move measured from the RTH (real-time hours) range of one session to another. This is a mark of …

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TRADE IDEA: How to find opportunities in balance

May 15, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Webinars

An auction in “balance” is an auction at rest. The next move is preparing to come and it will initiate from this …

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TRADE IDEA: Looking for “responsive” activity

May 8, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Video

Not all times during the session offer the same opportunity. During different periods of the trading session we look for different types …

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TRADE IDEA: Using Decision Zones and accumulated intraday inventory

May 4, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Resources, Video

Not all prices or activity in the auction are the same. So, to keep from being lulled into every bit of the …

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TRADE IDEA: Net short or long inventory rebalance on the open

April 11, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Video

Looking for a quick trade on the open? This is a great set-up to look for on the open in a trading …

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Seminar: Using the Profile to Adapt to Volatility

February 9, 2018

Market Profile Examples, Video, Webinars

Markets go through cycles of volatility which can be damaging to the account of a new trader. In this seminar, we describe …

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There is no such thing as overbought or oversold in the auction

January 19, 2018

Tips for Newbies

I had the opportunity to catch up with Dave Toth, Market Insights Senior Analyst with RJO’Brien (Dave has served as a technical analyst …

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Trading Trend Days

December 18, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Resources, Video

When making trading decisions, we remove some of the randomness of markets by identifying “open types” and “day types” to help give …

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Identifying zones of interest and letting the trade come to you

December 14, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Resources, Video

When making trading decisions, we remove some of the randomness of markets by identifying zones that we are interested in participating. Then, …

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Making trading decisions by leaning on value across multiple timeframes

October 6, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Execution, Resources, Video

When making trading decisions, we always make them with respect to where we are in the “posture” of the market and that …

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Seminar: How to get started with Market Profile

October 6, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Profiling Essentials, Tips for Newbies, Video, Webinars

Maybe you’ve heard about Market Profiling before, but not sure if it’s worth the hype. In this seminar, we guide you through …

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The only thing certain in trading is that it is uncertain

January 22, 2017

Profiling Essentials, Profiling Execution, Resources, Tips for Newbies

You may have heard us say at some point that there is no such thing as a trading holy grail. What we mean …

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Do fundamentals matter in trading?

January 13, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Video

The short answer? yes, and no…..see below: Eventually market prices do sync with fundamental data (company finances for stocks, economic data for …

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Knowing where you are in the auction can save you headaches

January 10, 2017

Market Profile Examples, Video

Knowing where you are in the auction can help you stay present to potential bias shifts and opportunities to come. Don’t …

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