Trading is simple when you follow the volume, know your levels and follow your trade plan. I do this day in and day out without even thinking anymore. It's second nature. EURUSD has only been buys so far this week for me. Are they taking prices ...

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Because I feel like it and I guess you can call me nostalgic. I guess I am holding on to those days when this thread was alive and kicking. I remember at first being overwhelmed because VSA seemed so daunting. Over time through the help of a few key ...

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This response deals with how I day trade only and is simple enough really. In the AM when I get up 1hr after LO (or at LO if I happen to be awake) I go through and load my day trading profiles 1 by 1. I have a profile for each item (pair, commodity ...

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GBPUSD - 4950ish is my current key level for the bears. Right now my controlling zone for today is 4940 to 4975 and it is a bear zone. Don't blindly short this zone though as current PA is always king. Remember that zones (the same as support and ...

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Final trade update PA hit as low as 5:1 so my EA trailed the trade to as low as 3:1 and that is where I got stopped out just now on the push up.

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That bar is Asia session and unless I was trading Asia I wouldn't care about that bar. Plus on my charts the volume is a spike for sure but still very low volume compared to yesterday's bar and today's LO bar. Edit - also at NYO we are fully below ...

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I don't understand what your asking. What pair? On both GBPUSD and GBPAUD charts posted today any London zones and zones from yesterday were above PA at NYO so I am not sure what you mean trading back into? GBPAUD I was short biased at LO after ...

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If one prefers the majors well it works on them too. GBPUSD 1 hr chart. Yellow Zone = yesterday's highest volume 1 hour bar White Zone = today's LO (which at the time was today's highest volume 1 hour bar) LO comes we are still within an unproven ...

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When day trading I focus more on high ADR pairs (like GA, GN, EA, EN, GCAD, ECAD etc...) and also what pairs are moving nicely (cleaner PA) that day and how / where they are with respect to yesterday's zone. GA for example has an ADR of over 200 ...

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Got in a bit early and almost got stopped out but fortunately my SL survived and now we've seen a nice push down. Lovely how nicely PA respects the volume levels. Yellow fib = NYO 1 hour zone (highest 1hr volume zone today) White fib = Highest ...

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Short again GBPAUD, reason rejection from the zone noted above. Quite close to the days low but I can get 1:1 even if we bounce a second time. Edit - chart added.

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LO for me occurs at 4AM my time. I get up for work at 5AM and usually check my charts before jumping in the shower to see if I can get into any post LO action. GBPAUD, 5 min chart. First vertical yellow line = LO Second line = Second hour of London ...

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Takes a lot of patience to trade the Daily chart both waiting for set-ups to form and also after they trigger as the play out through the ups and downs but man oh man they are very low stress and very low maintenance.

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Follow up chart.

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Closed out for 3:1 after we got the highest volume of the day 15 minute bar right at the days high, PA closed below the low and printed a 5 minute ND. That was enough short term weakness for me to want to get out. Moved my SL up to 185.25 locking in ...

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Figured I'd revive my long dead journal (from a different time in my trading career) as a quiet place to share a few thoughts and a few charts with whoever cares to stop by. As I trade a mixture of VSA with my own twist that I call VZA I guess here ...

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Your trying to trade a zone that just printed today which is fine but as I said before until the zone H or L is taken out all you can do is trade within the zone but the smaller the zone the tougher that is. Your short was very limited by how close ...

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That is a personal preference on what type of entries do you like and trust. Low volume, high volume or a combination. What ever entry types are in your trade plan can be taken from the levels.

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Closed this trade for 2:1 as PA stalled. Now watching as we return back to the 2.0870 level. This approximate level is shared now by 2 hourly and 1 four hour zone. I will want to see if the bulls hold or fold this level.

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Theoretically yes. However a zone usually doesn't go down without some sort of fight and UHV. That usually will end up giving us a new UHV zone to trade from as the bears take over the bulls or the bulls take over the bears. It's all about effort ...

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