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I've been doing a prop firm evaluation with TradeDay (hereafter TD) but put it on hold last week and traded my own account. This week, I'm going to trade the HOLO CL trades in the TradeDay account. I am also going to attempt an evaluation with ...

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HOLO CL chart: The yellow lines are each labeled as LO, "Lowest Open" as each marks the level of subsequently lower and lower H1 opens. Price action gave three opportunities to go long at LO1, 2 of which were +50 tick profits, and one would have ...

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NQ 21 brick renko with Heiken-Ashi applied showing swing lengths yesterday between 9:30 AM NYSE to 11:30 AM NYSE time. The swings are measured in points. To conver the swing into ticks you must divide by .25. For example, a 36.75 point swing is 147 ...

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CL HOLO second bit of the apple for 2 successful HOLO longs. Shouldawouldacoulda ... but today was not the day. My shoes are on and I am heading out the door. On a regular day where I had the whole morning to trade, I would have taken this second ...

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I was not trading the account I Use for the oil HOLO trades this morning as I was 100% focused on the NQ and the reaction post NFP. However, oil did give another HOLO long entry and it did go for what would have been a +50 tick profit. I continue to ...

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Going to call it a week here for me. Post NFP my first trade was 8:31:14 so a bit more than a minute after the news. I pyramided as price went higher. Then a few smaller scalps. Total net +185 ticks based on one contract per entry. I may trade ...

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NFP today so no trades for me until the news comes out and price action settles into a groove from signals may be taken, which usually takes 1 to 15 minutes after NFP. I never take a position before the news and the initial reaction. However, ...

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Thank you for reading the journal. I started working with the method in June 2022. It has taken almost two years for me to get to this point. Every day is a learning day for me. I have invested many, many hours of watching price during the live open ...

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HOLO short good for +50 ticks. It occurred outside of my personal trading window and I did not take it. Had it set up an hour earlier I'd have shorted CL at 79.27 or 79.36 on the second failed breakout to a new daily high. image

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Yellow dotted lines = highest open and lowest open thin dotted green line = low of day previous to new lowest open thin red line = high of day heavy dashed green line = today's open Close to a HOLO short but price failed to trade through both the ...

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+ 50 tick take profit target has been filled. HOLO strikes again. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you have been trading for a while, bouncing from system to system without becoming consistently profitable, then choose you favorite ...

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CL the 8ema is now above the 21 ema, so I will now trail the stop loss one tick below the five minute candles. image

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Oil made an initial push high to $78.55. It then pulled back below the Lowest Open, and made a slightly higher high at $78.57. My stop is now moved up to +1 tick as there is the possibility that the second high, which has been quickly sold, is a ...

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Oil (CL futures contract) HOLO long trade. image

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Oil is now testing the low of day AND yesterday's low. So a rally through the new Lowest Open at $78.32 will trigger a long trade with a +50 tick target. image

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NQ, 21 renko Heiken-Ashi with a study of the 34 ema and price interactions at that level. I am not implying anything "magical" about this ema. The ema is where it is at any moment because of where price has already been moments before. Indicators to ...

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HOLO Oil chart: There was a HOLO long trade this morning right around the time the 7AM Eatsern hourly candle opened. I try to be at my desk for Oil by 7 AM but today I was over an hour late. Needless to say I missed that trade. It went +49 ticks and ...

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