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Scalp Trading & Market Timing

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Today is Wednesday July 20th and the market took a bit of a pause today. Still good trading opportunities to be had and I picked up my share.

Today, I just went into scalp trading mode as I had 6 trades all for gains, but small.  A nice follow through day coming off of yesterdays big day. Small scalp trades are just fine, they add up quickly as long as your market timing is good.

All I have to do is just stay the course and I will see another week of daily gains. I will not put myself under any undue pressure, as I take the days as they come. I have no expectations on what I want and think I should get. Its not up to me to decide. I only need to read what I see and the rest will come out just fine.

The market will only go one of two ways, so it should not be to hard. I say that jokingly. Market timing is so important, it can not be overlooked as it is usually the dividing line between profitability. Good market timing is entering the trade with the least amount of draw down against you while getting the move going in your desired direction. Timing is not much of a problem, as if you have a good trading method to tell you when to enter, you need only follow it and I don’t mean the trading indicators.

Traders need to know why and when prices move apart from the trading indicators that they use or do not use. If you don’t know why, you will  eventually get sucked in to the markets mind games and left for dead. On the other hand, if you do know “why”, that will make all the difference in the world. First know why and then you will know when. Do You Know?

Let me post my trades below for today’s session as this will be a short posting.   Trade well, trade committed.

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Gold & Silver Hit 31 Year Highs

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Today, April 21st 2011, we saw Gold & Silver hit 31 years highs with amazing demand for the metals. Just since January, Silver had pulled back from 31 to 27 per oz, where it took on another massive move higher, to now almost 47 in less than 4 months.

If you compare the high in Silver to the Highs seen in the early 80’s where the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the Silver market, the metal would have to move up to, I believe, $140 an oz just to be at par with where it was back then, because of inflation.

If you ask me, Silver and Gold are just getting started, even though they have been in a long term bull move for more than 10 years. Both of those metals are a very good insurance policy against a paper dollar that has seen its purchasing power dwindle year after year, decade after decade.

Below is today’s turning points in the small T-2 chart for Sniper Day Trading. Most of the days turning points are seen, but there were some very good trades before that not shown on the screen shot.

The Silver market is huge, with contract size being at 5,000 oz, a 1 dollar more in the metal represents $5,000 dollars. With today’s move, over 2 dollars from the previous open, you have a basic windfall for many.

Looking at it another way, scalp trading the metal for .10 to .20 cent moves is $500 – $1,000 dollars per trade. It will work the same against you if you are wrong, so be sure you know what is going on and are well capitalized and trading a precision trading method.

My trading method works the same with Silver as it does with the S&P.  Today’s moves are only an example of what has been happening for months. The moves are very much in line with the trading method and very predictable when seen through the eyes of a Sniper.

Trading this market, you need to be a Sniper, picking the exact area of interest as price gets ready to move out. I have those area’s circles and identified above. Click on the chart and you will see the turning points here just the same way you see them in the S&P.

The Gold and Oil market are two other markets with great interest and plenty of emotion backing them.

The S&P did trade today, but I took the day off. There was no movement, and that I am sure could have frustrated many a trader. It does not pay to try and trade a market that has virtually no trading range at all.

The market will still be here next week and we will again see life coming back into the index’s. Until then, lay low and safe.

Tomorrow is Good Friday and I believe shortened trading session? Be sure you know. I would already know that, but I don’t plan to trade, so don’t need to know . The point, check if you are going to trade. It is no fun seeing the market close on you with contracts still on board, now having to hold over the weekend. I did that once, and only once.

Good Trading !

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Small Scalp Trades Today

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

4-21-11;  Very Strong turn-up in the market with the  major averages flirting with new highs. We sure did see a big bounce as the next move in the plan of action I laid out last Friday. We are not currently in danger of taking out the last major pivot low, the next part in the planed layout.   One day at a time.

In today’s trading I had modest gains with my minimum daily goal met during the New York mid-day session. It was slow, but I found a few pure scalp trades, enough to post some modest gains.

With the market coming up during the night-trading, there was little energy left to make additional gains. The energy level said to play this close. Take what you can, but don’t have huge expectations. Here is were scalp trading can really give you the edge. In a non-trending choppy environment, there are low risk trades, but limited movement. Listening to the beat of the market is possible, by allowing yourself to see and feel the energy or lack of it.

Just being open and aware, of the emotions that are being swung back and forth, all the while utilizing your Sniper Style skills, to pick your mark, spot your target and go for it. Well, today’s trades below before I get carried away, Good Trading

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Scalp Trading a Slow Market – the way to go

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Today’s Trades;

Monday’s Trades;

Today is Tuesday March 22nd and we saw two days back to back that were the slowest days together that I can remember in a long, long time. There was just no movement and what there was didn’t go very far. This is when scalp trading can really come in handy. A person who does not know how or is not willing to take small gains in both directions will get eaten up alive. I can only imagine, that traders across the globe just got killed in this type of market.

This is only one of the benefits of being able and willing to take what the market gives. That is the key. You can not take blood from a turnip. I think we have all heard that before. You also cannot take a trade expecting a trending move when one does not exist.

Being able to read the market and scalp trade your way through it, when the conditions say too, is the way to have a profitable day. When the market is trending, great, we can do that. When the market is choppy and trend-less, that is OK too.  I will admit, I did not like Monday’s or Tuesday’s session at all. It was difficult to sit through the session and wait it out, but I knew that is what had to be done or else, just don’t trade today. Well, I elected to exercise some extra discipline here and there to pick up back to back daily goals to start the week off. I have quiet a long streak going and will try and add to it going forward.

Today, I was a little concerned, with the first two losses in a row.  They were not the worst entries, but they were not the best. I could have taken a little more time to get up to speed with what was going on. I rushed it today, for sure especially on my first trade. Well, I can go back over a bunch of what I did not like, but I can also say what I did like and there was plenty to be grateful for.

Last Friday’s post, I did say that we had a least 15 S&P points left in this move up, and we got about 20 and now two days of pause. For the market to move back and fill the large gap opening would be normal and somewhat expected, but you have to leave the door open for a continuation move up again to another level, it is possible and I will call out the upside numbers.

If we break S&P 1193 on the upside, we could quickly see 1307 or slightly more. (That is just my opinion and not investment advise). In the night trading we are off several points to the downside, but by tomorrow’s opening that could change. If the market has a chance to break out we should recover any night trading sell off by the open tomorrow and quickly be challenging the low 1190″s area to have a shot at the upside breakout.

Be ready for anything. With two days of very quiet trading, the market is just digesting its gains and will have mustered up another big appetite for more or will feel tired because he overate. Be ready for both, because we should see good moves coming out of these doldrums.  Good trading to all.

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Learn to Trade Emini

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

3-8-11;     In today’s trading I would give myself a grade of (B), even though I hit a double daily goal today. I don’t grade the amount of points I make, but the execution of the trades taken. Most were very good, but the last long trade series, I came in very late and put myself at risk. I knew I was doing it and I also adjusted my stop accordingly, but I really did not need to do that. It wasn’t a big enough reason to take that amount of risk. I did think there was a chance for a bigger break up, but only saw modest gains before the market shifted to the short side. I gave it every chance.

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Below, I have a U-Tube Video of the last few days, or for those who want to only see a screen shot of today’s trades that is below it.———————————————————————————————————————–

So, for that, I had to ding myself a full grade. All the other trades were acceptable, even the two small losses were fine and were within the trading method. Trading losses are apart of the game, but if the price does not perform as it should, exiting the trade shows no shame.

I started late today which was to bad, because there was some really cool trades early on. I am sure I would have had my share of those earlier moves as per my trading method. That is the price I had to pay for staying up late.

I traded during the slow period on Wall Street which wasn’t really to bad for me today. Most days I just don’t have the patients to wait for the trades to move and or set up, but I did pretty good in that department today. It is so much nicer to see price movement with trade volume behind it. I would prefer to stay in the market for as little as possible most days, but that is me. Its all about limiting trade risk.

Limiting trade risk can come in many forms. Below, I talk a little about timing and limited your risk by narrowing down your entries to little small windows. In fact in the U-Tube video I did here today, I mark up a few days of these low risk trading windows. Those area’s represent the lowest risk spots on the chart for capturing at least one ES point or more.

These area’s are consistent with my trading method but no means are the method itself. I could not depend on trade indicators to give me insight into the price moves alone. They can help, but are only a reflection of what the price and the building structure speaks too. There is a lot more to understand, but it can be learned. That is why today’s blog title is called “Lean to Trade Emini”.

If you go back through my blog articles, you will see day after day of wining trades, for a days total of 2-4 points per session minimum and some of them will be 4,6 or 8 points total for the day. That does not happen by accident and I show how the timing tools match up with 90% plus of these wining trades. It is the “Sniper Day Trading Method” that I am trading, not following the trade indicators, but they do match with the trade method almost to the tie. Two totally different things, but acting as one.——————————————————————–

Everyone wants to make money on Wall Street, and I can’t say I blame them. With the job market looking weak, uncertainty seems to rule the day. All one has to do is put on the news to see that things are changing.

The thought of working from home would be a dream come true for many people, but its not for everyone. Usually, trading is a very individual thing. Its between you the electronic world as seen through the eye’s of your computer screen. There are literally millions of traders world wide linked together giving everyone an even shot at this dream.

Do you have what it takes to compete?  We all like to think so, as I don’t know of anyone who moves forward thinking they will fail outright before they start, but the fact is that is what happens.

Learning to trade the emini markets is a great way to put leverage on your side of the table, but that trading leverage can work for you and or against you. The key is to narrow your entries down to where the trade does not come back against you, but do that consistently. This is one of the keys to scalp trading successfully. If you put on a trade and risk three points to make one point, you will go broke eventually. It should be the other way around and at the very least a 1 to 1 trade ratio, (profit to loss).

A scalp trader can make money with a 1 to 1 trade ratio, if he hits better than 50% of his trades. When you get a 2 to 1 ratio working for you at times, that can make up for earlier losses. Another key is book your gains before the move comes back against you when scalping. If you stay to long and become greedy, you give it all back and then some. Playing a trending market is a bit different, but booking some gains early on is good idea and can help you stay longer for the full trending move when they occur.

How does one do that on a regular basis?  You need to learn, just like anything else. There is a right way and wrong way, but there are is more than one right way. A trader can learn to trade the emini market with hard work and dedication. It rarely comes easy. Anything worth while always has a sacrifice attached to it, or else it would be easy and everyone would be doing it, and we all know that is not possible.

Putting the odds in your favor only can come by knowing when to enter and when to exit. Trading tools can help, but their is no substitute for the human mind and its ability to identify low risk entries. It is true our minds can play tricks on us and for those who need to lean on the tools a little, while there understanding of market and price structure develops, is OK.  If you want it bad enough, and willing to work hard, it is possible. What do you think?

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Scalp Trading by Positioning

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

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The market was off slightly today, but with a little better volume. The trade volume has been very week and with it the price movement. I know their are a lot of traders having a hard time making money in this kind of market and many of them are going to scalp trading to fill the void.

Many traders find themselves in a position for hours with no progress being made. It is hard to come back once you are down from earlier losses if you can not pin-point low risk entries. That is what scalp trading attempts to do. Traders are in and out before the move or market has a chance to evaporate their gains.

With the leverage that futures trading offers, a scalp trader does not have to hit an overly high point value for the day to come out nicely. A few S&P points will do the trick. The key is do it often and consistent enough to go to the bank with.

The human element of trading is something every trader needs to be able to work through. You might have an excellent trade method or system,  but letting your emotions get the best of you can be a big problem. That is why trading for small blocks of time is best vs trading the whole day. It is hard to keep a high level of concentration up for the whole day, as most traders will find themselves hurting, not helping there account. Looking for trades that are not there, just for the sake of trading is a big one.

Good trades are made up of good trade positioning. Enter to early, and you could find yourself stopped out. Enter to late and the same thing happens, but entering when the market is at its lowest risk and highest reward point can quickly bring you home. Do it a few times and you can be done for the day. That is what “good trade positioning” can do for you. Put it another way, “trade timing”.

Good trade timing and positioning is the key to good scalp trades. Positioning has to do with time, as time passes the price gets into its natural trade position to move up or down, depending on “time and positioning”.

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Above  is my trades for the day of which I was happy about, because my trade timing and positioning were in sync with one another. I don’t like to compensate for bad entries, doing so only tells me my timing is off and I am not in sync with the market and its rhythm. I can not trade the market on my terms, but its terms.

I will be looking for more of the same tomorrow and if I can catch a trend, hope to squeeze out a bit more on at least part of it.    Until then, Good Trading to all !

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Scalp Trading as a Form of Income

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

1-22-11;   Scalp trading, can be defined as picking off small price moves in any trading instrument for profit. It can be in day trading stocks, futures, or in my case the S&P emini futures market.

It is not difficult to participate in this venture, but doing it profitably is another thing. Most traders and or investors have a difficult time pulling money out of the markets on a regular basis. It is not that they don’t have desire, but being profitable on a regular basis has a few key components to those who can.

One of those being, trading discipline. One can only have this kind of discipline if he is informed on what to be disciplined towards. If a trader has no written plan, then he is just flying by the seat of his pants and could never expect to get consistent results based on how he or she feels. You can not trade by feelings. This is different from trader insight as I call it. That would be when after long hours of price analysis, you become tuned in to the markets behavior and get a feel for the rhythm of the market.

This is being in tune with what is, not trying to guess on the next market move. Most often, the market will tell you what it is going to do next. If you are in tune with the unspoken language that it throws off each day, you will be able to time these trading entries with precision.

So, you need a written trading plan first. I have written about this before and it is essential. Then and only then, you would be able to exercise discipline to follow that trading plan. So often, we are anxious about getting what the market has to offer, but that impatience is what clouds our judgment, which creates anxiety and we begin to make rash decisions that we can hardly understand. When we look back, we are in dismay, on how did we ever put that trade on there.

It happens to ever trader, whether they admit it or not. For some it happens all to often. Our job is to keep those times to a bare minimum if we want to become the consistent traders that we aspire.

Scalp trading is an awesome opportunity to profit from the stock market participation, only if we have the discipline to follow a plan, make a reasonable amount of profit and get out for the day. As you get more experience, trading for more or take all the markets gives, can be achieved, but that does take time.

Traders are all to willing to take everything they can right out of the gate, and end up getting nothing. It would be better to tell yourself that you are only going to make two trades today, if the market presents the opportunity. That way, you know you will not be over trading.

If the first one works out, you put yourself in a no loose situation for the session. If you exercise good discipline and wait for the best confirmed entry, you will only add to the days gains and end your session.

Over trading is a big problem for many traders especially the ones who are drawn to scalp trading, like I am. We often times are drawn to the action as day traders place trades, right, so, get in their and trade. That line of thinking will hurt the up and coming  trader and steal any confidence that he had, sending him back to the drawing board. Don’t let that be you. Take steps to prepare yourself and your mind for your challenges.

This part is not easy and is so overlooked it is not funny. Traders fail to plan for the mind challenges that are certain to face them. They only end up reacting to them after it is well under way, as they struggle to try and get even. This mindset ends up working against you. You are focused on the money and it now has a hold of you, to the degree that you often don’t know what to do.

If you plan on taking two trades, you limit all of those possibilities for yourself to blow up, get frustrated, get even, rack up huge commissions against your account and do a number of other destructive things. You could call it, “The One Two”.

If you have a losing trade, you may still be able to have a wining day with your next trade. If you exercise trading discipline and only take a good method trade setup, that has a 2:1 trade ratio or higher, you will still come out slightly ahead for the day.

Tomorrow becomes a new day and you get go again. This type of approach will take longer to achieve the returns of your dreams, but at least you have a chance to attain it. Most traders are going to blow up their account in 30 days or less. Don’t let that happen to you. Scalp trading as a form of income can become a reality, if you have support.

If you don’t know what makes for a great trade and have it crystal clear in your mind, you then are only guessing. I don’t need to tell you what you can expect with that approach. It then boarders on gambling and no one likes to have that label attached to them.

If you trade high percentage trades, you are not gambling. The odds are in your favor for profitable results, only if you stay in control of your trading emotions. Lose it, and you become a statistic. Maintain it, and you can make a living from the markets, which would you rather see.

Let the rush of trading go by you. Fulfill that part of your life some other way that will not affect your finances. Let Scalp trading be what you first thought it could be for you. A profitable way to bring in extra income.

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My trading results for Friday, Thursday, and Wednesday in that order. Wednesday I was sick and traded anyway, you can see I lost my concentration and took many non method trades. The indicators are not my method, by any means, but they are consistent with it. I get all my entries by price action rules of the Sniper Day Trading Method. I did recover that day nicely, but I put myself at great risk by increasing size on my last trade. All three days were profitable with Friday being my best day as far as timing and following method rules.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend to all and see you on Monday’s Post.

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Todays price action in Emini S&P

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

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A video of today’s S&P emini price action. The market gave the early traders a few good entries as shown in the video, but later slowly died. I was only able to pick up a few ticks on the day, as their was just limited opportunity. Just before the close, I had reversed directions but bailed out at break even.  If the trade went against me late in the session, I may have ended the day with a small loss. Trading on the open or much earlier, would fix that. Overall about a 1 point gain, I will take it.

We trade the price first, the trading indicators are second. I don’t show all of my screen, but just a small portion and have most of it hidden, but I can tell you it all fits together like a glove. I use multiple time frames and again, use price action, combined with a unique analysis of support, resistance and price projections not seem anywhere else, or non that I have seen.

If you missed yesterdays article, you may want to check it out. I give some interesting insight on what it takes to be successful at scalp trading the emini market or any market for that fact. If you are struggling with your trading, their is help that can really make a difference.

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Scalp Trading Methods

Monday, January 17th, 2011

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In today’s world of day trading, their is no shortage of traders searching for a successful scalp trading method. To be apart of this group, takes more than most people are willing to invest. Success can mean different things to different people, but to someone who trades, emini futures like the S&P, Dow or NASDAQ, being able to take a few points out of that market on most days, would fit the bill. That is not to say that you won’t have loosing days, it happens, but those losses are small when compared to the overall gains made during the week and months past.

One of the big benefits to being able to trade this way is, limited risk, at all times. Limiting ones risk is really the long term key of making this work. A trader can not let him or herself have a “blow up trading day”. This is when a trader just looses his judgment and makes one mistake after another. The biggest problem is lack of self control. Loosing control is one of, if not the worst mistake a day trader can make, while he is carving out his claim on the investing public.

Loosing control while day trading can be a death blow for your account and for your trading dreams. Traders are forced to face many unseen trading issues far beyond the point of entry and exit. If you do not have a scalp trading method that is in writing, with rules to follow, you can never be assured if you will be able to duplicate your success if you were to ever find it, even if it is temporary success as described above. To often, short term trading success can be very misleading and damaging to the trader who hopes to day trade for a living, if he is not prepared and aware of the unseen dangers.

Short term trading success can give a trader a false sense of security, as they may think they have mastered their trading techniques.  Its only a matter of time, before they start spending the money they made from their trading in their mind. This right here is a real problem. To many traders dwell on the money they can make, writing down figures and sets of figures of all the combination’s and sizes. Their is a place and time for this, but to often, those thoughts turn into unfulfilled dreams. Those unfulfilled dreams then become a problem until itself, because as trading mistakes are made, it only exacerbates the reality that without a well written thought out trading method and accompanying scalp trading techniques, it is never going to happen.

I almost don’t even have to say the rest, because it only gets more painful. The harder you try in the flesh, the worst it gets. Taking action is not the problem, we have all done that, but stepping back and looking in objectively at what the real core issues are, is what is needed. This often never happens, because the work involved is again to steep a price to pay. We may not say that consciously, but subconsciously our minds are working hard, lining up with our dominant thoughts and thinking overall.

If you find yourself saying “I can’t believe I did it again”, you know you have a problem and you need to fix it before you go on. Most traders just ignore this, by trying to justify their actions in some form or another. This is not going to get fixed by itself. You will have to be your own trading coach and really dig deep inside yourself and examine basic thoughts about how you view money and or your lack of it. This gets deep right here, and I would need more time to get into that one, but for the  sake of time, I am will move on.

If you are under-capitalized, this can be adding to the list of issues. It is hard and or nearly impossible to day trade with money you cannot afford to loose. No one likes to think they are going to loose money and no one thinks that it is going to happen to them, until it does. Then, now again, are more issues. You say, “I thought I was ready, I don’t know what happened”.

As mentioned, you likely only had a rough idea in your mind of how you were going to execute your trading strategy, again, with no written plans. If you found success, how are you going to be able to duplicate it going forward, month after month with no blue print to follow. Scalp trading, can be simple, but it is never easy. It can be very rewarding, not only with money, but with time, the time you now have to do other things.

Being able to “Day Trade for a Living” using scalp trading techniques that are proven to be effective over time, no matter the market condition is yet another key. A trending market or a choppy market, it does not matter, because the trader who masters the art of scalp trading is trading a method, not a system.

A trading method allows for changing conditions and a trader can easily adjust for it. A trading system tries to remove the human element from the equation, which it almost rarely ever happens. You become vulnerable to large draw downs and are basically not in control. I could never trade that way. I would be putting my faith in a back tested program that has likely not accounted for all variables. Thus you become a dependent trader instead of a “Independent trader”.

Volumes could be said, just on a few of these topic’s, all of which are so important to making all your trading dreams a reality. In closing, keep your trading dream alive, only by making the hard choices that you know you must take to make it so.

I wish the best for my readers !

Friday’s trades:  Two sets, -1 tick / &  +3 ticks, +7 ticks, +11 ticks  /



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Day Trading Indicators

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Today is Wednesday and the third day of trading on Wall Street for the year, as the Dow was up 31 and the S&P +6.

This market does not want to go down as it popped up after gaping lower on the open. A welcomed sign to all

Tomorrow is the fourth day in a 5 day window as it relates to the January Effect. If the first 5 days are up strongly, it usually spills into a strong year for stocks. Better yet, if the whole month of January is strong, that spills over into a positive year for stocks to the tune of 78% of the time, or something close to that if my memory serves me. Lets watch Thursday and Friday to see how we close out the week. I will also report on the sentiment changes if any tomorrow or in Fridays post. They have been strong as small investors are heavily invested in this market with the public coming in with  Bullish readings of 57-58 %, typically a very high reading.

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Tuesday and Wednesdays S&P emini futures market, with Wednesday being on top.

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Let me shift gears here for a moment. I will start my trading likely this coming Monday, but have done some recent U-Tube Video’s of this weeks price movements as it relates to in part to my trading method. Just a note on that as I will post here the last two I did from yesterday and today. It points out, “Turning Points” as I call them and continuation spots along the way as it relates. These are identified by some custom modified indicators I use to help determine these spots. This is done in an attempt to show those that look on, that there is something to this that can be useful to there trading in some fashion. I do need to say though, the trade indicators are not the trading method and is only a reflection of what is happening to the price.

I teach how to read the price and trade it first. I know I have written about this before, but it bears repeating when I post video’s as such. Their is a solid reason to enter all of these trade area’s as I have them marked as per the trade method, NOT THE INDICATORS.  The thing about it is, that they are in the same spot. Which came first, you know the saying, but this time it is talking about the stock market. Is the indicator before the price or is the price before the indicators?  I think you know the answer to that, and you are right. Price is always first and those who know how to trade the price apart from indicators will likely do better. If you have both and you can trust them to give you insight into the next move of the market, that is all you need.

Traders are usually very visual, but their is a lot more to the trading screen than meets the eye. Their are other ways to look at things, and they are very different than reading candle stick charts and such. Many traders like this form of analysis and I won’t attempt to shoot that down, but that is not what I do as I read the charts apart from indicators.

I mainly trade off of tick charts, attempting to scalp trade 2-4 points a day on the S&P 500 emini futures market. Each point represents $50 dollars per contract traded x the number of contracts can equal a nice sum for a session. Trading three contracts, and landing 3 points, is $450 for the session, with each point being $150 dollars. The minimum margin to day trade the S&P is roughly 1200 per contract assuming you open and close all contracts within the same session.

Trading boils down to good timing. With it, you get in with little draw down as the trade moves in your favor. Knowing when to do that is key and is what traders across the globe struggle with. I can say, their is a way to do that and do it with some degree of consistency. Support and Resistance combined with momentum can lead you to hitting these Sniper Spot area’s. Small windows of opportunity, come and then go. If you are able to hit the hole so to speak, picking up a few points is not that hard to do. Its all about knowing. If you know, you can do it. Does it take work to learn, yes. But what comes to us, that is so rewarding, without work and sacrifice. With it, is the opportunity to expand your empire if you so choose.

I believe, we do have the power to overcome any barrier if we think we can, but you need to know and have a way to get that done. Just thinking it so will not complete the job.

I know their may be those searching for answers to their trading problems and it could be you need a solid trade method, based on trading the price and what it represents first, then any trading indicators to help confirm your findings. This gives you the best of both worlds and is what I do when trading the Sniper Day Trading Method. I don’t want to sound like a commercial, but that is how it is and don’t know of how else to put it. I have helped many traders get over the hump and turn the corner to profitability. If you have questions please feel free to ask. I don’t mind to share some additional info.

Always wishing my readers the very best;

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