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Skill Session: Stop Placement
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One of our Skill Enhancement Sessions. Traders often say we could help them by giving insight into entry and stop management. It's…
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Skill Session: Debriefing Trades
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One of our Skill Enhancement Sessions. To gain consistency in your trading, one of the most useful tools any developing trader can…
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Another Volatile Week Ahead in Markets
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Another week and we are already lock limit down in Index futures early Sunday evening as the Fed has made a surprise…
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Q&A: Earnings, AAPL, TSLA, MSFT, AMZN, ES, NQ
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we took a look at a number of products from stocks, futures,…
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Q&A: Rules based execution, “If this, then that”, Crude, ES, Gold, NQ
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we took a look at a number of products from stocks, futures,…
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Q&A: CL responsive trade, NQ open drive, ES, ZB, RTY, Sim vs Live, Sizing risk to opportunity
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we took a look at a number of products from stocks, futures,…
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Q&A: EUR/USD, BABA, GOOG, AAPL, CL, GC, ES, NQ
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we took a look at a number of products from stocks, futures,…
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2020 Annual Outlook Video
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Whether you trade intraday or look for multi-session opportunities, looking at the much wider timeframe is a good start for any approach…
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Q&A: Tariffs, Year End, & 2020
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at the impact of tariffs. We reviewed…
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Q&A: NFP, FOMC, Practice
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at the impact of news releases like…
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Q&A: Trading News Events, CL, NQ, ES, ZB, LE
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at how we incorporate news events into…
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Q&A: 4 Questions, CL, NQ failed Long, Sugar, Acceptance, Process
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at 4 questions to ask and answer…
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Q&A: Post NFP, ZS, CL, ES, NQ, ZB, Initial Balance Breakouts, & Platforms
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at some opportunities after Non-farm payrolls. Then…
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Q&A: Earnings impact on Index futures, CL, NQ, ES, AMZN, AMD, MSFT, & Orderflow
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at some opportunities in NQ, ES and…
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[Q&A]: ES, CL, NQ, ZS, NG, Orderflow Spikes, Fractal Rotations, Being Trapped, Excess
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at some opportunities in NQ, ZS and…
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[Q&A]: Crude short; NQ & ES gaps & LT picture; Gold; Natty Gas; Reviewing tradeplans; unfinished business
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a look at some opportunities in NQ, ES and…
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[Q&A]: CL, ES, BTC, Assessing performance, Over-trading, Cumulative Delta, 50pt NQ live trade
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a discussion on our plan for the session and…
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[Q&A]: NQ fade, Crude, ES, DAX, Using index relative strength
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a discussion on a “fade” trade we took in…
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IB EXT FADE example in Crude oil
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One of the anchor playbook set-ups we encourage developing traders to look for is called an IB EXT FADE (initial balance extension…
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[Q&A]: Patience, “Postures”, Bonds, Notes, GS, Crude, Nasdaq, ES
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a discussion with an important level for the day's…
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[Q&A]: 2976.5
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a discussion with an important level for the day's…
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[Q&A]: Profiling overview, Global Trade Turmoil, Volatility, Setting Stops
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Part of our regular Q&A series. In this Q&A session, we began with a discussion with an overview of both Market Profile…
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[Q&A]: Trading Fed information
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. The Federal Reserve, aka "the Fed", or the United States Central Bank is an entity whose…
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[Q&A]: Why the first hour still matters
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began with a discussion about why the range of the opening range still matters, how…
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[Q&A]: FOMC trade, price action and what we look for in the profile
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began with a discussion reviewing trade on days like FOMC, how we use price action…
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Mapping human behavior in the auction
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Profiling is the core of our trading approach and analysis because it captures how all market participants (institutions, hedge funds, retails, etc)…
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[Q&A]: “2nd Move”, bias, and determining support zones
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began with a discussion regarding the "2nd Move" trade…
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[Q&A]: Nasdaq & Crude open gaps
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at some opening gaps in Crude and Nasdaq futures. …
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[Q&A]: Glossary of terms, Nasdaq & Crude open fades
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Part of our weekly Q&A series. We began the discussion with a look at some opening "fade" or "responsive" trades in Crude…
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[Q&A]: Morning Routine, Option Trades, & Session Volume v. Orderflow Delta
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Knowing where you are in the auction can help you stay present to potential bias shifts and opportunities to come. Don't be…
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