Trading for me is all about the metagame. My aim while looking at price action is NOT to find patterns in the traditional manner, but rather to look at that price information from the perspective of the other traders. What are they thinking? Where are they trading? What happens if they're wrong? It's orderflow…
For the last year or so my trading computer has been on a desk just to the left of my work computer. This has been fine except during quiet periods of price movement, when I've often found myself tempted by the work computer. All I have to do is turn to the right and…
Last Friday we looked at a couple of examples of Market Structure journal entries, one of which involved a weak emini Dow open in the vicinity of the prior day’s low. Let’s quickly review this example, and the lesson it offered. If you want to review the whole sequence you can see it here:…
After every trading session, find something you can learn from. Perhaps a market structure feature. Perhaps an interesting sequence of price action. Perhaps a trade management insight. Whatever you find to be of most value! Document it. Store it in your journal. Review your journal as often as possible. Two examples… 1. A…
