I had already known that my schedule would not allow me to trade Monday and Tuesday of this coming week. It now looks like Wednesday and possibly Thursday I'll be out as well. I will still review the charts in the afternoon or evening and post the ...

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I feel this about trading and learning the craft image

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

green circle with black outline = profitable long red circle with black outline - profitable short green circle with red outline = losing long red circle with solid red outline = losing short green circle with dotted red outline = breakeven long (+5 ...

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oochie was a very quick, no-brainer add to my ignore list.

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Related very much to what I was speaking about earlier today when I mentioned the low VIX and the narrowing of the daily ranges of the indices. ES/MES/US500 will narrow more than NQ/Tech100 and YM/US30 So for futures traders trading the intraday ...

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I tried to get in on this HOLO long but I noticed it too late. I placed a limit order to buy at 5290.25 but price never came back to let me in. image

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I studied Al Brooks trading course and his course provided me with a way of understanding the price action on a five minute chart that really helps me on a day to day basis. image

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I did not trade after the one +5 tick win. Here are my set up notes for today. The red "X"s mark price action that looks like a set up but which I would not have taken under the circumstances of that particular set up. green circle with black ...

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Moved stop to 95.75 when price stalled at 97.75. SPX looks like a little lower high double top, a type of bear flaag, at the 50% retracement of the high to low swing of today's range. Net is 2 ticks after commish and fees and the loss from the first ...

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One more thought to record for the day: With the decrease in volatility, the NQ has also been affected, of course. It has always been a better day trading index than the ES during times of low vol, imo. However, it has slowed a bit. I may be ...

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I think I am done here for the day. I'll finish later by updating the final disposition of the MES HOLO long. I outlined above where and when and under what conditions I will be adjusting my stop loss so anyone following along at home should be able ...

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That would have been a +60 tick profit had I entered as I usually do using the bar status tool to alert me to the proper buy stop level. image

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If price trades 5298.25 again, I will move my stop loss to +20 ticks There is just over 15 minutes left to the current 60 minute candle. If I haven't been stopped out of this trade before this candle closes, I will move my stop loss to somewhere ...

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S&P bears making a move and trying to use that wedge to their advantage.

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I've seen traders in other parts of FF recenlty talk about how the MES/ES isn't moving with the same volatility it had been for the past several years. With the VIX back in the low teens, the S&P won't be moving 50 to 100 points per day on a regular ...

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S&P 500 five minute chart. I've mentioned these three push patterns before. Al Brooks, Stacey Burke, and Tom Hougaard refer to them as wedges I think. That's what I call them and I Must have gotten it from somewhere. Probably one of those guys lol. ...

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Adjusted the take profit and stop loss on the HOLO long. Take profit is now at 5304.50, which is 1 tick below the high tail during my trading window, and the stop loss is 5289.25, which is 2 ticks below the low of day. image

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MES a new HOLO long at 5290.50 image

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Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures