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Day review: YM 08 Jan 2015

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EOD YM 08 Jan 2015
EOD YM 08 Jan 2015

There were a couple of entry setups formed during Asian session (if you even watched this market during that hours), otherwise, YM was grinding up in the RTH morning, patience was required to wait for entry opportunity (well, at least for my type of trading).

Looking at the context in hourly chart on the left, the movement during pre-market/Asian session, was the first leg of buying, and with the tight range followed. I expected another leg up during RTH before considering fading this move. So, I was looking for long all morning.

The retest of uptrend line, and also, the day’s developing Value High (not visible in the EOD chart), which was around 17785 provided a long entry with target around 17825.

A potential short which appeared near the end of RTH was around 17827, an Over-and-Under formed at the break of intraday uptrend line. This setup was ignored due to the time of day. (I don’t hold overnight position).

That’s it for me in this pre NFP Thursday session.

Have a safe trading day.

Filed Under: Dummy 3.0, headline post, Trading Journal Tagged With: Dummy Trading Mini Dow, Trading Journal

Day review: YM 07 Jan 2015

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Here is a quick review of YM for the past day. Since the principle of these trades are closed to Dummy trading , which is “To limit risk by better market timing”, I categorize this series of post under Dummy Collection.

EOD YM 07 Jan 2015
EOD YM 07 Jan 2015

Looking at the context, the hourly chart at the right,  downtrend is clearly observed.  One interesting point is the V-shaped reversal from 17200. I expect the high/source of previous supply 17502 to be tested. I don’t immediately fade these supply , demand zone, instead, I prefer to see price trade into them and decide the next step of action.

There were a couple of trading opportunities appeared in yesterday’s session.

First one was the break and retest of the uptrend line, which was around 17433. This is a mean reversion trade for me. YM traded above current day’s developing value area, and auctioned back into value area of the day. I expected the day’s developing value (VWAP, not shown in the chart) around 17398 to be tested, in other words, I expect YM to, at least, trade into VWAP from here.

Second setup was when YM went back up to yesterday’s RTH high.  A break of uptrend line with over-and-under pattern (credit to Steve W from NoBrainerTrades for this concept) form at this point. A short at the retest 17502, with target back into the day’s developing value area, confluence with 1.618 measured move target around 17460.

Those were two obvious trade opportunities I found yesterday in between ADP release and FOMC meeting minutes.

Have a good day.

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Christmas, A season of giving

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stuffthebuss

This is a non trading blog post.

It is December, and Christmas is around the corner. If you haven’t done so, it is a good time to share, and to help brighten the Christmas season. If you had a great trading year, make it better by giving more! If you had a challenging one, trust me, giving makes you feel better.

There are ways to help, to donate. Your local churches, charity organisations etc. In case you are in Australia, and need a suggestion, here is a great one.  Stuff the bus.

Stuff The Bus is our annual Christmas Appeal to help families going through a tough season. It is a time where we invite everyone to jump on board and “Stuff the Bus” with BRAND NEW unwrapped Toys, Gifts and Food hamper items. We deliver the toys unwrapped to empower parents to give gifts to their children and food hampers so individuals and families can celebrate around a Christmas meal.

You can visit your local Hillsong Church, or if you wish, you can do it online at www.stuffthebus.org.au

So, let’s brighten this Christmas!

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My Weekend reading list: Saturday ,6th December 2014

by Gav

coffee_reading_list

Here are the articles, webinars I have collected for this weekend’s reading.

Three Simple Steps to Improve Cognitive Performance: 2) Power Naps – Sleep is a restorative. Although sleeping on the job has a negative connotation, research finds that power naps improve creativity, memory, energy level, and general cognitive functioning. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/three-simple-steps-to-improve-cognitive.html

Goals, strategy and tactics for change: The Goal: Who are you trying to change? What observable actions will let you know you’ve succeeded? – by Seth Godin – Tags: traders development – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/12/goals-strategy-and-tactics-for-change.html

Two Key Questions to Ask When Trading the Day Time Frame: When trading the day time frame in the stock indexes, two questions are important: 1) Who is in the market? 2) How are they positioning themselves in the market? At the most basic level, I want to generate an estimate–as early in the day as possible–whether the day is shaping up as a potential – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/two-key-questions-to-ask-when-trading.html

Best Practices: Using Music as Inspiration: I want to thank those who sent best practices to be included in the new book. I will be in touch shortly. One of my best practices is to conduct my work–market analysis, writing–accompanied by inspiring music. I find that the right kinds of music keep me positively focused and help the work flow. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/best-practices-using-music-as.html

How To Be Successful: 6 New Shortcuts Backed By Research: We all want success. And we’d like it fast. But we can only work so long and so hard. The more-more-more ethos only goes so far. What to do? Shane’s the bestselling author of Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. – by Eric Barker – Tags: traders development – http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/11/how-to-be-successful/

Investors: Managing Risk Means Knowing Yourself: Each day, active investors are tasked with digesting and analyzing the market landscape. We do this as a means for managing risk within our portfolios and prospects. – by Andrew Nyquist – Tags: traders development – http://www.seeitmarket.com/investors-managing-risk-means-knowning-yourself-13517/

What’s the best way to trade? ~ The Thalesians: Boston is to America what Cambridge and Oxford are to Britain. Indeed, the neighbouring town to Boston, Cambridge is named after its English predecessor and has within it both Harvard and MIT. – by The Thalesians – Tags: traders development – http://thalesians.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/whats-best-way-to-trade.html

The Cost of Continuously Checking Email: Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the store. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on gas? What would happen to your productivity? – by Ron Friedman – Tags: traders development – https://hbr.org/2014/07/the-cost-of-continuously-checking-email/

How to Combat Overtrading: For European and overseas traders we have slotted this session at a more convenient time. The Market Profile is a powerful tool to guide your trading decisions. Jim Dalton will discuss various Market Profile observations that he uses that can have a profound impact in your trade decision-making. – by J Dalton Trading – Tags: traders development – http://www.jdaltontrading.com/starting-immediately-after-european-close-how-to-combat-overtrading/

A Creative Cure for Overtrading: The world would be a far less beautiful place without the artistry of creativity. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/a-creative-cure-for-overtrading.html

Enjoy, and have a good weekend.

Keep Learning, Keep Trading.

Gav

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My Weekend reading list: Saturday ,29 November 2014

by Gav

Happy ThanksGiving weekend.

Here is my reading list for this long weekend.

 

Gartley Patterns part 1: Video lesson by Nictrade — Gartley Patterns part 1 – Tags: traders development – http://screencast.com/t/fCzMf5eVQ

Gartley Patterns Part 2: Video lesson by Nictrade — Gartley Patterns part 2 – Tags: traders development – http://screencast.com/t/O3P4msLmuo

Chasing success: I talk to numerous people through email every week who are struggling to be successful at trading. And, I find two common traits in most of them: 1.) They trade too much – most of the people struggling make multiple trades daily, some as many as 10+ round trips. 2.) They have a lack of focus. – by Trader-X – Tags: traders development – http://traderx.blogspot.com.au/2006/09/chasing-success_16.html

The Three P’s of Excellent Trade Execution: One of the best ways to gauge a trader’s state of mind is by tracking his or her entry and exit execution. Two traders can have the exact same idea and either make or lose money depending upon how they get into and out of the market. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/the-three-ps-of-excellent-trade.html

The Big Trader’s Secret for Small Traders: Let’s be honest, everyone begins trading with the hopes of making a lot of money through their trades, maybe even enough money that they can quit their jobs and trade for a living. – by Erich Senft – Tags: traders development – http://traderkingdom.com/trading-futures-education-topics/trading-futures-basics/2959-the-big-traders-secret-for-small-traders

Learning to Become a Successful Trader: The following was posted as a comment by Ziad in reply to a post on Michael Brenke’s Blog, but I’m posting it here (with Ziad’s permission) because I believe it contains extremely valuable and genuine insights coming from a very disciplined and successful trader. – by Ziad – Tags: traders development – http://www.eminiplayer.com/2009/06/learning-to-become-successful-trader.html

Another quote from Michael Marcus: Michael Marcus mentioned some wisdoms about life of a trader in Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders. If trading is your life , it is a torturous kind of excitement. But if you are keeping your life in balance, then it is fun. – by Gav – Tags: traders development – https://tradergav.com/another-quote-from-michael-marcus/

How to Build Discipline and Conscientiousness: The recent post highlighted why conscientiousness is the single personality trait most consistently associated with life success. We commonly hear traders extol their passion for their work. Desire alone, however, is only half the success equation. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/how-to-build-discipline-and.html

Ep. 62 Tony Robbins: Money is Just A Game: James lands an interview with arguably the ultimate “Choose Yourselfer “and greatest modern-day motivational speaker, Tony Robbins. Tony talks with James about his soon-to-be-released book MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom. This might be his best book yet. – Tags: traders development – http://podbay.fm/show/794030859/e/1416321787

Turning Your Best Practices Into Best Processes: When I began working at a counseling center years ago, waiting lists for services were the norm–both at that center and across similar centers. In many cases, people had to wait weeks to begin meeting with a counselor. From my perspective, waiting lists were an accident waiting to happen. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/turning-your-best-practices-into-best.html

The Night Trader: Bryan Wiener on Trading Sacrifices and Reinventing Himself (Again): It’s 12:07am on a Friday, and I’m sitting at my desk writing this while I attend MIT. Well, kinda. I’m reinventing myself for the 4th time in my trading career. From 7pm-7am Sunday through Thursday (Friday morning really), I am watching the X Algo Project trade and kill it. – by Bryan Wiener – Tags: traders development – http://www.sanglucci.com/the-night-trader-bryan-wiener-on-trading-sacrifices-and-reinventing-himself-again/

Expanding Our Trading by Imposing Constraints: When we create new constraints, we force ourselves to adapt. This, in turn, exercises skills that otherwise might never be tapped. When I supervised interns at a Chicago proprietary trading firm, I found software that replayed the day’s market action at twice normal speed. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/expanding-our-trading-by-imposing.html

Wire Your Brain For Gratitude In 30 Seconds: At Thanksgiving many of us reflect on what we are grateful for… and what’s for dinner. While a client was discussing gratitude with me, they asked if gratitude and altruism stemmed from social constructs alone or if one’s brain could be hardwired towards feeling more gratitude. – by Christine Comaford – Tags: traders development – http://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecomaford/2014/11/24/wire-your-brain-for-gratitude-in-30-seconds/

26 charts and maps to be thankful for: The press — and humans in general — have a strong negativity bias. Bad economic news gets more coverage than good news. Negative experiences affect people more, and for longer, than positive ones. – by Dylan Matthews – Tags: traders development – http://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/charts-thankful

Enjoy, and have a good weekend.

Keep Learning, Keep Trading.

Gav

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My Weekend reading list: Saturday ,22 November 2014

by Gav

coffee_reading_list

I have “weekend blue”, because, weekend to me, is all about driving around, sending kiddo to different enhancement classes. So the term TGIF means nothing to me. Anyway, on the bright side, the driving-waiting period is also a good time for me to clear my reading backlog.

Here are the articles I have collected this week, I thought might be valuable for traders’ development.

 

Trend Continuation, or Failure? An Analytic Roadmap.: A couple of weeks ago, I posted up a few quick notes in regards to some trend following rules in order to get this blog moving again. Today, I am literally writing a response to a question I received in the comments. Like most questions I get, they are not easily answered in one or two sentences. – Tags: traders development – http://www.nobrainertrades.com/2014/11/trend-continuation-failure.html

GET OVER IT!: Depending on how long you have been trading the markets, you have experienced or will experience all of the following scenarios.  In fact, if you can hold on to your hard earned savings long enough, you will experience them numerous times.  You will not know when these may occur or on which trade. – by David – Tags: traders development – http://www.thecrosshairstrader.com/2014/11/get-over-it/

Quote from Felix Dennis: Quote from an interesting article If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly, and even catastrophically, you stand little chance of ever getting rich. If you care what the neighbours think, you will never get rich. – by Gav – Tags: traders development – https://tradergav.com/quote-from-felix-dennis/

How to Make Better Decisions BBC Documentary – Tags: traders development – https://www.youtube.com/watch

Challenging Yourself and Changing Yourself: This brings us back to the issue of the dangers of having impotent goals. A potent goal is a visionary one; it raises us to a new level, challenges us, and excites us. Visionary goals are inherently idealistic: not in the sense of pie-in-the-sky, but in the sense of speaking to our ideals. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/challenging-yourself-and-changing.html

5 Trend Following Rules That Have Bailed Me Out of Trading Purgatory: In an effort to keep this site moving along I wanted to dig a little more into the trend following category today. There are few explanations I have ever read that leave me truly satisfied in terms of how to trade a trend properly. – Tags: traders development – http://www.nobrainertrades.com/2014/10/5-trend-following-rules-bailed-trading-purgatory.html

Why You Should Be a Risk-Taker: Since you can’t really avoid risk, you might as well take control of the situation. Pick Your Poison
Risk is ever-present. You might think you’re avoiding risk by sticking with safer (that is, less volatile) investments, such as bonds. – by Jason Stipp – Tags: traders development – http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx

The First Hour of Trade : How Important is It?: Please download the following reports to supplement Jim’s presentation: S&P Morning Report for November 19, 2014Download it here S&P Recap and Preparation Report for November 20, 2014Download it here S&P Morning Report for November 20, 2014Download it here – by J Dalton Trading – Tags: traders development – http://www.jdaltontrading.com/the-first-hour-of-trade-how-important-is-it/

7 Deadly Trading Sins, And a Rat: Welcome to the Wednesday edition of FutureSource.com’s FastBreakTM. Today’s author is Ryan Jones, who is considered one of the trading industries “most complete traders”. Starting his trading career at the early age of 16, he had traded nearly every major market and strategy by the age of 21. – Tags: traders development – http://view.exacttarget.com/

The Personality Trait Most Important to Cultivate for Success: If, indeed, success is traversed by staircase and not elevator, what would be the best predictor of success? It might be quite simple: the propensity to take the next step. That propensity is part of what is known in psychology research as conscientiousness. – by Brett Steenbarger – Tags: traders development – http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/the-personality-trait-most-important-to.html

Crabs and Deep Crabs part 1 – EliteJets’s library: – Tags: traders development – http://screencast.com/t/wVRxfrxLc

The Market Profile: Trading Value versus Price – by J Dalton Trading – Tags: traders development – http://www.jdaltontrading.com/the-market-profile-trading-value-not-price/

Enjoy, and have a good weekend.

Keep Learning, Keep Trading.

Gav

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