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[hearty rivet]

i had nice shorts on both zones, could be late for a third short but

NQ ES SPDR QQQ all on supply zones

[hearty rivet]

Fantastic work Chud, looking forward to testing it out

[barren lintel]

whattt dont tell me that. I may have to start skipping my early morning gym session

[past jungle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAvhOCxaLrw
Streamed 8 hours ago. really interesting listen. How options activity effects futures price. really good to listen to. Will give you a good picture of today's action as well as probable action going forward this week

ES is the main instrument discussed here (sorry NQ guys)

[random sage]

Red day

[gritty crane]

Pretty much broke even, cannot look at the charts all day. Quite narrow range and chop today

[random sage]

On to the next day, memory like a goldfish

[celest epoch]

try setting the stops at prev swing regardless of R:R

this is the week so far, sticking to optimal trade times and swings for SL

%'s based on 10k account and 5 contract size

[gritty crane]

Nice, thanks for your contributions

[celest epoch]

np, now let's get rich

[barren lintel]

Finally move out of the consolidation zone this morning around 2am.

[rocky fulcrum]

What does everyone think would be the ideal setup for the lexalgo premium to trade NQ1 on the 1m chart?

[hot vale]

May u send me the last version of ur script

[barren lintel]

@celest epoch You entering on every strat entry? Or still waiting for solid candle?

[bitter orchid]

Hi! Can anyone explain whats the difference between the orange abnd red order blocks?

[barren lintel]

Do you have any other indicators on the chart? Ive never seen the orange before and nothing in PAC has an orange color by default.

[bitter orchid]

I have Order Blocks & Breaker Blocks [LuxAlgo] also on

[hearty rivet]

800$ on market open beautiful setup. Demand and chuds signal

[rugged saffron]

Orange: bearish order block
Blue: bullish order block
Red: broken bullish order block
Green: broken bearish order block

[ancient marsh]

What input setting you using for chuds?

[hearty rivet]

default

[ancient marsh]

Chop so far

[hearty rivet]

caught the long

caught the short

thank god

outlook for NQ for today

[night flicker]

@rocky willow asking me where I've been

[hearty rivet]

nice whats that mish

[night flicker]

lol it's -207k

im just building the strat in NT and to test if it enters trades I just made it enter every candle for a long

and thats the backtesting

maybe I'll share the backtesting once I am finished

[hearty rivet]

nice

enter and close next candke?

otherwise entering every candle would require infinite capital xd

[gritty crane]

Missed everything today

[past jungle]

It's early

still

We get more of this upwards momentum, people piling into 0dte calls and we start to get some unwind into the close around 2:30 and we short the close (in a perfect world)

[next cedar]

I like your world, how much for a passport?

[past jungle]

For you, free

SPX has a gap to fill and it looks like it wants to do it today, which leads to a higher ES

[ancient marsh]

Apple news, which of course is huge for tech, which drives nq and es is very tech heavy as well

Im not shorting after opening balance breakout

[past jungle]

What was the apple news

[ancient marsh]

They opened 1st retail store in india

Whether that is the news causing the Apple breakout, i do not know. But Apple is breaking out and brining tech futures with it.

Overnight short sentiment is just adding fuel to the fire

[wind wedge]

hello ! can someone tell me if we have any signs of reverversion in the lux indicators something

[rocky willow]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn99-noice-jake-peralta-andy-samberg-nice-gif-14234819

[vast cargo]

NQ Chart

[barren lintel]

Some consolidation. Buying at the resistance and selling as it comes near support. Only snagging a few points at a time though to keep it quick.

[vast cargo]

This looks familiar. Is it algobox?

[azure shell]

looks like NT

[vast cargo]

yes, true, but i saw this before with some different group showing the stats. they do use NT

[night flicker]

its just NT

nothing special

[night flicker]

dont say that I don't gamble

[vast cargo]

ES chart

[past jungle]

c'mon one more push to highs to get the people more bulled up then pull it back

Delicious

as we approach 2:30 and later we can start to see some unwind into the close

[wraith light]

Hi @celest epoch @nimble vale. I'm a little new to this chat, but I've reading all your comments and trying to learn as much as possible. It's amazing what you're doing and what you're sharing. I'm using the indicator. Can you explain me a little bit how are you using it? Thank you

[rocky willow]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-of-wall-street-pound-gif-5271424

[night flicker]

imagine being more active that now you are above #📈stocks-futures-chat and #💱forex-chat

[ancient marsh]

This would be nice

[ancient marsh]

Anything would be nice, just make a move

[regal hearth]

Hello all new here anyone know where i can get quants indicator?

[regal hearth]

where did you get his indicator??

[past jungle]

The smart trail is pretty good imo

[vast cargo]

yes, its very powerful

I can do whole day scalping using smart trail

[past jungle]

Interesting. Where do you enter the trade? what candle on that chart gives you confluence its rejecting the smart trail? I've struggled with finding entries on it

[vast cargo]

You can see the arrow pointing. You need to see upper wick with the rejection of the smart trail. Enter at next candle if it breaks the wick candle

it's all price action

[celest epoch]

aaallriiiigghhht, 3 minutes till i can trade again

[past jungle]

Gotcha thanks

[celest epoch]

tonight i will be adding a feature to wait for a pullback when the strategy wants you to take extreme RR trades

[vast cargo]

Another rejection:

[past jungle]

I'm waiting for the next strong quant short

[regal hearth]

you know how i can get access pls

[celest epoch]

dm me

[barren lintel]

@regal hearth YOOOO

[regal hearth]

just added you

[regal hearth]

what up bro

[barren lintel]

Welcome to the darkside

[celest epoch]

I think we're going long, or expanding and going short! 😛

[barren lintel]

will see if it goes past monday high

[celest epoch]

alright, even though. i disagree, the strat would like to go long

I told you! Listen to your father QuantStrat!

[past jungle]

I'm still waiting for the short LOL 😁

[celest epoch]

for now, and thhrough next w eek, ive. decided simply to do whatever it says to do. It's been so good this month

[ancient marsh]

This it? Or just another dip opp

[past jungle]

hard to say, didn't see as much call buying as I thought would transpire, I am biased for a sell into the close still

[wind rock]

Unable to dm you... Can you pls accept the Friend's request?

[barren lintel]

id also like to see a nice sell off eod.

[celest epoch]

gimme a minute

well, lost that oe. shocker

[past jungle]

picks up speed below 13185 imo

[barren lintel]

Also what I have marked

[hearty rivet]

i agree

[past jungle]

Really muted action. reducing my position by half into MOC just in case

[celest epoch]

here we go..... maybe

another beautiful snoozefest from 12-3 today. I like my mandatory ps5 time

[hearty rivet]

chud hop on apex

[celest epoch]

whats that

here we go

[past jungle]

ok lets goooo

[barren lintel]

the cross

[ancient marsh]

Here we go

[neat raft]

btw luke how's it going with your indicator?

[hearty rivet]

broke market structure to downside on 1m

[past jungle]

Left a runner

[hearty rivet]

nice 1 con

to keep runner but market close soon

[barren lintel]

in and out.
decent day

[hearty rivet]

very nice

[past jungle]

If we rip on MOC I'm taking another short with profits

[full crow]

what was ur entry/exit?

[ancient marsh]

2.50pm algo may drive it

[barren lintel]

on that trade i got in at 13191 and out at 13176

[hearty rivet]

good man, waiting for dev to finish something

[barren lintel]

My daily pnl should've been much higher, but i caught myself chasing BS earlier during chop. I need to work on my patience.

[past jungle]

sell at 13186 order for me

[celest epoch]

that may be the #1 rule of trading. I suffer from it as well

[hearty rivet]

Chuds indicator is exactly the extra confirmation i wanted

[barren lintel]

Yeah im marking my targets, consolidation zones, etc.. Just need to stick with my rules

[past jungle]

No opportunity, we move on

[hearty rivet]

Btw Chud, to filter out trades. Almost all signals of opposite sides near a supply or demand were false

[ancient marsh]

Weak algo

[hearty rivet]

They work in together very well

[celest epoch]

is that the code you sent me?

I'm out of town next two days but let's integrate them next week iff possible

shit i didnt realize it was s o late

[ancient marsh]

Tesla

Small miss i think

[past jungle]

I wish I left my sell order open 😅

[barren lintel]

but if you did that, it would've flipped. 😄

[ancient marsh]

12-3 eastern time it doesnt work?

[celest epoch]

yeah that's why i have the sessions included

[barren lintel]

You have to adjust it in the indicator settings. By default session 1 is 9 - 12

[celest epoch]

I started my day down ~4-500, ended up $466, If I had only taken strat entries,,,,,

[celest epoch]

that's if you want to trade between 9-3

the default. settings have the highest net profit and win %

[barren lintel]

Yeah was killing it from 10-1

[arctic wolf]

Hi @celest epoch . Hi chud. Could you give me access to your indicator please. Screen name on TV is spondishy. Cheers bud.

[hearty rivet]

yeah

[past jungle]

I have no idea how to read the indicator chud 😆

[hearty rivet]

take longs only at demand, shorts only at supply

ignore the rest of singals

signals that break the market structure or LH, are best for increased size

[barren lintel]

@celest epoch You tried checking it out on the 3m?

Thats just this week

[celest epoch]

I run an optimizer on each ticker and timeframe. I haven't tried any tf outside o f 1m on NQ/ES yet

so those are the same settings as the 1m?

[celest epoch]

go to NQ 1m, settings should be. ADX 2, DI 14, tp1ticks 60, only UseHHLLStop and AllowFlips should be checked

[past jungle]

Thanks, what are the dotted red and green lines? What are the arrows indicating? You're only taking trades when it says "Long" and "short"?

Since I notice there's no candle coloring

[ancient marsh]

You found something about this cross?

[celest epoch]

Yes - "Long" and "Short" is the algo taking a trade. I copy trade the algo
Red = stop
Green = profit
Arrows = entry signal

it's 1 part indicator 1 part strategy. You can copy trade the algo or use the arrows to guide your own trades

[past jungle]

Sweet thanks that helps

[barren lintel]

Nah not 100%. Seems like whenever it crosses, theres a big push. In this case, we were already in a down trend and the cross just gave me more confidence to stick it out

[random sage]

Cross = short time 😈

[hearty rivet]

ADX 2 and DI 14?

[celest epoch]

Yes?

[hearty rivet]

oh damn

ive been using 14 adx and 7 DI

[celest epoch]

welcome to profit town

[random sage]

Mayor… chud575 😂

[hearty rivet]

aha

nice

this makes it many many less signals

[celest epoch]

im going to add a section next week with optimized settings for ES NQ GC and CL. when you load up the chart it will auto-detect and adjust the settings

[hearty rivet]

thats sickk

[hazy pelican]

@celest epoch I was also unable to DM, so I sent a friend request. Hope you don’t mind.

[tired plume]

man, this thing is a BEAST depending on how you optimize it. i have seen some insane stuff as i've been tweaking it. SO appreciate all your work on it! and if we have it installed from you on TV, those updates will automatically push, right?

[austere viper]

Can you send the latest code when you can

[tired plume]

if i had traded with chud's indicator just today, trading /MES with $1000 account (3 contracts per trade), i would have netted over $500, 50% of the account. sheesh.

i have it set for 5 points TP1 and 10 points TP2, so i'm not shooting for the moon. that's my normal management strategy (risk 3 points to make 5, then 10 on /MES), no matter what GET OUT with those profits every time. that discipline has really helped my profitability in general.

[steep tinsel]

whoa, been gone for awhile out of town.. looks like everyone's making moves! Exciting

@celest epoch can you hook me up with the update plz.. pretty plz

@night flicker that's awesome1

[vast cargo]

Looks like, I am late in the game. If possible, can you please share the chart with the confirmation. Like to see what I am missing, and if it will fit my trading style. If you wish, I can DM you.

[vast cargo]

Hello @everyone Question for Ninjatrader user. Regarding real time data subscription, do you subscribe for Level-2 data or level-1 data is good enough. Level-1 subs $12/month, Level-2 subs trading from market depth $41/month

[ancient marsh]

I think you just need level 1 data

Thats all ive had and i trade just fine

[somber fog]

@celest epoch please could you send the updated quant strat, love to try it. Thank you!

sent you a friend request, cheers

[past jungle]

Treasury sec Yellen @ 11am, and Fed speakers at 12pm & 3pm tomorrow. Just a heads up

[stuck anvil]

@celest epoch Could you also please send me the updated quant strat. Would like to try it. Sent you a friend request, Thanks!

[past jungle]

who's ready for a bloody thursday? 📉 🫃

[hot vale]

@celest epoch so did i

[plain dove]

Id take it too. Maybe he should create a PDF and post it here if hes okay with it

[night flicker]

that is what it shows me

is there other plans?

[random sage]

Short season ✍️🫡

[ancient marsh]

News and fed speakers today, be careful

[warm pilot]

What was a special in Philadelphia Fed survey, because everything now go to other side, crypto, dxy, indices etc. I know is very important, unemployment, fomc meeting, fed speak, cpi, ppi but idk what happen now 😛 I should add this event to my list 😄

[ancient marsh]

It was the jobless claims that moved this market, they rose by 5,000

[warm pilot]

o ok 😛 we have an event every week so I thought it wasn't too important

[ancient marsh]

https://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics/calendar

Just check this every morning

[warm pilot]

Yes i have that, but im thinking its not every time all event can move everything to other side 😛 because we have some more jobless claims or something 😛 but good to know

[outer maple]

I personally like www.forexfactory.com or www.econoday.com. It's like my Economic Events for Dummies - color coded or symbols for more impactful events.

[ancient marsh]

Should we exit long?

[barren lintel]

not bad for first 15 minutes of the day

[ancient marsh]

Well done mate

Ive scaled only runners left

[ancient marsh]

Good day guys, 1 trade kind of day

[vast cargo]

This is for their license subscription. It's a mandatory to subscribe their real-time data if you want to use their software which you have to pay additional per month fee

[vast cargo]

Thanks, will test with the level-1 data. I still have to learn about their software and GUI

[night flicker]

I guess Apex are paying that for me(?) lol

[west egret]

On apex if you hit the max drawback, is it best to reset or buy new account

[past jungle]

buying a new account during the sales is cheaper

[barren lintel]

Cross incoming?

lol nope

[past jungle]

what is this "cross" you speak of

[barren lintel]

rsi crossing adx

[past jungle]

Ah got it

[barren lintel]

another 20 pts

25k eval completed, now just gotta focus on the 100k

[wraith light]

Is there a way to get alerts when buy or sell in the indicator?

[vast cargo]

aha, i need to check with Apex. Is it a funding comapny like Topstep? I saw somewhere in this channel, they were offering some great discount.

[full crow]

yea last day for discount is today

[barren lintel]

Yeah exactly. Today is their last day for the sale. 90%. Coupon code: SAVE90

[full crow]

if u wanna sign up, use my link 🙂 https://apextraderfunding.com/member/aff/go/ibevamp

[vast cargo]

Nice. Let me check. i hope they are reliable. I heard there are some funded company kind of running a scam.

[full crow]

apex been around for a while. they're legit

[barren lintel]

Yeah its one of the names i hear/see most often

[full crow]

my buddy has gotta paid by them atleast 5x now. im still in eval 😦 failed a bunch of times

[barren lintel]

Yeah ive failed a bunch as well. But honestly following advice i hear alot as well is to watch higher timeframes for S/R has been helping.
May look like a hot mess, but its been helping. 😄

[vast cargo]

asked my AI friend about funded comapny, and I got the below list: Topstep, Oneup trader, FTMO, Blue Point Trading, Maverick Trading.

I know Topstep is a good one, some of my friend got paid

[full crow]

i saw a good video comparing a bunch of the prop firms

let me tsee if i can find it

[barren lintel]

The APEX sale though is great

[west egret]

Could you share template of the overview would lvoe to see indicators and values u use

[full crow]

u cant beat APEX with their pricing

[vast cargo]

They have a webinar today, I am going to attend the webinar, and decide if it is worth. I have used their demo account, it seemed to be nice. They do teach you a good risk management using their platform.

[barren lintel]

Yeah even the PA account price is good

[full crow]

they have a bootcamp u can sign up for free ... but i duno how good it is, havent watched any of them

i think its free for 1st month and then ugotta pay

i cant find teh video. but heres another one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FoPWAxBNQ

[vast cargo]

Note that the pricing do not matter for the long run if their system is reliable, and the funding is smooth. I have not seen any company offering 90% discount. Why any company would run this big discount.

But thanks for the tips, and advice

[full crow]

there was a reddit thread doing the calcuations of how much they make on eval accounts. TLDR, they make a killing on evals

i passed eval 3x and failed my PA accounts within the week. so its win win for them. if u fail they win, if u win, they win

[random sage]

2/2 today 🔥

[vast cargo]

ES chart

[vast cargo]

ES Chart with my target achieved

[ancient marsh]

Topstep is great

[random sage]

Deadly day today 4/5

[vast cargo]

ES 4170 is a big level. If it breaks we will see 4180.

[ancient marsh]

How did it do yday? I made a few changes so i do not know....

[random sage]

Wonderful, tp2 hit on all of the winners

[ancient marsh]

Great!

[past jungle]

Looking for another long entry before 3pm one more HOD to screw the bears and bring it back down. the same thing thats been happening all week

[nimble vale]

I like this game better than any of the other games down here in Vegas 🤣.

( not a strat trade, can’t reply much until Friday )

[full crow]

jesus christ. nice dude

[past jungle]

MAD LAD! made a casual 80k

[ancient marsh]

GGs

[vast cargo]

Good luck everyone, Done for the day. Will see you tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed my chart.

[ancient marsh]

Did you just top it ?? 😆

[past jungle]

Hahah we will see we will see

strat is on fire today

[ancient marsh]

Nice reversal

[past jungle]

im long here right now

[full crow]

nice

[past jungle]

see if it works, not the strat just trying something 🙏

[full crow]

i was thinking like 59.75 for long but 62.00 is the 50% retracement for me

[barren lintel]

Think im done for the day.
Also see the cross. lol

[full crow]

what wrong u talking about

[past jungle]

Meh didn't work. we were bouncing of VWAP all day, tried it again and it failed

[past jungle]

fricken rithmic is down

[ancient marsh]

Not missing much

Nq wanted yday npoc, then reversed

[barren lintel]

What you talking about? Im able to access

[ancient marsh]

I bought nq here this morning, should i again?

[past jungle]

Can't login, looks like others are having trouble too

[barren lintel]

Interesting. Which Gateway?

[ancient marsh]

Overbought to oversold

[past jungle]

R Trader

Im missing all the fun

[barren lintel]

Yeah idk. Im able to get in

[ancient marsh]

Maybe not

[barren lintel]

oh no. lol maybe it wont let me back ina gain

[past jungle]

Such trashhhh

[barren lintel]

rip @past jungle

[past jungle]

Yeah I noticed my rithmic wasn't moving, so I logged out to log back in and I get the same message

[barren lintel]

meh oh well i was done for the day anyway

[random sage]

6/7 today 🔥

[barren lintel]

Yeah its all over Twitter

[past jungle]

Jeeeezeeeee

[barren lintel]

lol

[past jungle]

So true though

FOMO hits different when you can't even log in

[random sage]

Especially when the trades u woulda took hit 😂😂

[past jungle]

Facts 😭

catching longs into the close would be NICE

But Noooo

[barren lintel]

about to push up

[barren lintel]

Meh, its EOD though so gotta be cautious. Youll kill it tomorrow

Hopefully rithmic fixes their shit

[past jungle]

Yeah pretty for this to happen though. Tomorrow is a new day 💯

[past jungle]

RIP

[ancient marsh]

It hit

Market (nq) only 14pts higher than where we started. Slow day.

[barren lintel]

@past jungle Maybe next time try a different gateway? I def would if i had open positions and wanted to close them

[past jungle]

I saw this tweet I Was actually able to get a trade in at EOD by connecting to europe

Thank you mate

[barren lintel]

lol how many contracts are you doing?

[neat raft]

Hey, i‘m new to futures which platform do you guys trade with?

[celest epoch]

Good numbers from the strat today
$131/contract on MNQ

Everyone who does not have access to the strategy yet will receive it tonight or tomorrow I promise

[full crow]

ninja trader

[full crow]

what is this strategy you speak of sir?

[violet quail]

Nice

[tired plume]

you're amazing, chud. thanks again!

[celest epoch]

I am thinking about renaming it to “a strategy so simple it shouldn’t work. “

I think it’s on a 9 day winning streak

[violet quail]

I’ve seen the updates multiple times where can I find your strategy? I wanna take a look

[celest epoch]

Dm me ty

[neat raft]

thanks

[full crow]

go with ASS

if at all possible i'd like to be added to that list, to take a gander @celest epoch 🙏

[violet quail]

Added and sent a message

[gritty crane]

Nice and thanks

[celest epoch]

12 day winning streak and 12/13 winning days in April

[gritty crane]

Rename this group to Quantthis and Chud575

[celest epoch]

Watch them ban us all 😉

[gritty crane]

Noooo, great group of people here. Have learned a lot from all of you.

[magic cedar]

Hi, could I get a copy of your updated strat? Thanks.

[wraith light]

Hi @celest epoch, Congratulation on that winning streak, 🔥 Could you help me a little bit on how to use the indicator?

[celest epoch]

Ask away @wraith light

Might fall asleep typing. Don’t be mad

[stuck anvil]

awesome..

[random sage]

GREEN day

[ancient marsh]

Thats shows every trade just not the ones you took, correct?

[past jungle]

Tick size $0.50?

[unreal vault]

anybody else still can't connect nt?

[past jungle]

No cause rithmic is down

[unreal vault]

rithmic connects now but can't connect nt

nvm i connected europe not chiago

[barren lintel]

Yeah MNQ is 0.5 per tick.. $2 per pt

[past jungle]

Ah my bad. I'm used to just NQ

[barren lintel]

Yep Rithmic still down. Guessing thats why my summary chart hasn't updated in Apex yet.

[past jungle]

I'm eagerly awaiting Apex to apologize for the inconvenience and extend their 90% off sale for another 9 months

[barren lintel]

Allow for 2 hours.. Its been 5. 😄

[barren lintel]

haha right.. I feel like they are always running some sort of sale though

[past jungle]

I emailed them less than 5 minutes after it went out

[ancient marsh]

Topstep did, last time tradovate messed up they also offered free restarts to those that needed them.

I know Apex is cheaper, but i think some people should look at Topstep, i have never had a problem getting paid from them. Complete stage 2 then youre in the money

[past jungle]

Man their rules are intense though

[ancient marsh]

How are they different?

Its just plain risk management to me

Smart risk management i should say

[past jungle]

If you're not paying attention and you accidentally take a trade during news dont htey just kick you

[ancient marsh]

Before i traded full time i was in sales. Never have i offered 90% off of any product i have sold

[ancient marsh]

Why wouldnt you be paying attention?

And no, i think they did away with that rule

[past jungle]

And then when can you open a trade again? 7:30:01?

[ancient marsh]

Read that, they no longer the requirement to flatten

[past jungle]

Ohh I just assumed they still had their old rule. Hm might reconsider then. You're enjoying it there more than apex?

And you can trade straight from tradingview too right? That must be nice

[ancient marsh]

I been enjoying it

Yep straight from TV

[past jungle]

Epic

Congrats 😎 What account size do you have if you don't mind me asking?

[ancient marsh]

150k

Now we can trade 3, but i have not opened any others yet

Just 1

This was all b4 luxalgo, im enjoying it much better now

Good luck im off for the night

13136 target area for longs overnight

[past jungle]

Cya tomorrow have a good one!

[ancient marsh]

Im in til i fall asleep

[past jungle]

Damn you gotta make 9k for each step? Kinda a drag

[ancient marsh]

11 or 12 days it took me

Its all about risk management

[past jungle]

For both steps combined? Woweee

[ancient marsh]

The OG quant strat is up 4k this week

[random sage]

Probably should incorporate fees and such in there

[ancient marsh]

Find a system and stick to it. Random trades give randon results

[past jungle]

Yep

[random sage]

I feel like it would be like a good chunk of the profits maybe for the week like 200-400?

[ancient marsh]

Still works, no need for that

We never get exact entries for exits anyways, that covers commission

Or entries for that matter

[past jungle]

It's $1.02 commission for a round trip of MNQ on rithmic with apex

[ancient marsh]

Check DM

[random sage]

Oh okay dope

[ancient marsh]

Laterzzzzz

[ancient marsh]

Flat

[past jungle]

its the final day of opex

[next cedar]

the apex offer you mean? extended 'til may 1st (not a surprise)

[past jungle]

No, not apex. I meant opex! a critical time in the third week of the month

Options expire soon

opex is a term for options expiry

[next cedar]

erf oki

so no, the opex is not extended until may 1st 😄

I have vague (as you can tell) notions about options, that's on the to do list for this year (not trading them, but looking at them more)

what's your source of info / data on that?

[past jungle]

it doesn't matter if you trade them or not. they are moving the markets

and it is something to be aware of

[next cedar]

German PMI upcoming

[past jungle]

Omg

I know this whole group is all quant strat but I'm taking 4 mnq's down down down

[next cedar]

omg... options me gusto? I'm careful with your acronyms now

you can do it NQ (pretty please)?

[celest epoch]

I just missed the move argh. Going to miss the morning session cuz I’ll be driving

[past jungle]

Driving? To where?!

[night flicker]

wtf is that?

[next cedar]

what I circled? a naked market profile POC from a few days back, indexes like to revisit those

[past jungle]

I think thats the same algorithm that the Egyptians built the pyramids

[celest epoch]

Parma to Monaco

[past jungle]

chud might be james bond?

[celest epoch]

He’s using a special kind of market profile. I’ve read about it before but never used it

[celest epoch]

My dad. Lol

[night flicker]

lol

I saw someone else use these later once.. it sort of gives you a volume profile or something like that

[next cedar]

yeah sorry for any confusion this has nothing to do with algolux just meant to point to a possible level (but a bit far for London)

this is ninjatrader

[past jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/code-purpose-of-life-matrix-gif-5601363

[celest epoch]

13022 will be interesting

[past jungle]

I'm out for a lil

[night flicker]

yeah all good most of people here aren't use to this kind of trading lol

but I did see people trade it before, it is interesting but not for me atm

[past jungle]

Where are you lads from? @night flicker @rare meteord @next cedar

[next cedar]

France (south west)

[night flicker]

Israel

wby Bengal?

[past jungle]

Just asking because i like to connect

I am just south of Los Angeles

[night flicker]

isn't it late for you atm?

[next cedar]

real traders don't sleep

[past jungle]

What Apri Said

good morning

[night flicker]

lmao

I only trade NYSE

[past jungle]

what time is that for you locally?

[night flicker]

16:30

[past jungle]

I wish that was me

[night flicker]

I do 16:30 - 22:00

I don't trade the last 1 hour of the market

I'm not supposed to trade the first 30 minutes as well but meh

[past jungle]

Market opens for me locally 06:30 and I need coffee immediately

[night flicker]

damn

[next cedar]

09:40am here

[night flicker]

if I drink 2+ espresso i get too much energy for the day lmao

[somber fog]

hey guys, do you use a funded account?

which one is better?

[past jungle]

I like Apex @somber fog

[somber fog]

Thanks B

[next cedar]

yeah Apex pretty much top spot these days, if the not super flexible withdrawal options are OK with you

[somber fog]

any others? just been playing with the quant strat

[past jungle]

I've gotten payouts with FTMO too... All funds are pretty much the same these days

[somber fog]

if this could be automated somehow..

[next cedar]

if you want very flexible withdrawals, Earn2Trade, Blusky

but limited # of accounts (a big plus of Apex is multiple accounts, so you can spread risk)

[somber fog]

great, I will check them out

[next cedar]

blusky probably a bit better, E2T evaluations are 15 days

both provide real live accounts once funded

with apex you stay on sim (until you prove consistency over months)

[past jungle]

false

[next cedar]

lol which part?

[past jungle]

idk

depends what you mean

do you mean with API

[next cedar]

I just mean with apex when you get a "new" funded account you are trading a paper system still

not that it matters that much, as long as they pay

[past jungle]

Ah yes yes agreed

[hearty rivet]

Don’t all funded do that

[next cedar]

no some send you to real live accounts

[past jungle]

So they say

[hearty rivet]

They won’t be profitable if you pay 80$/month and once live you hit your drawdown of 2-3k$

[next cedar]

e.g. Blusky opens an account with Dorman, you get your daily statements etc

don't worry about their profitability; numbers flying around often mention 5% of people get funded; of these, 5% get paid more than once

[hearty rivet]

I know a guy who payout 60j

K

[past jungle]

Whats up with frenchies storming financial districts?

[next cedar]

not sure what you mean?

[past jungle]

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1649106718515920896?s=20

Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom)

Protesters in France have stormed Euronext, the Paris Stock Exchange. Not long ago they stormed the headquarters of BlackRock. The protesters know who’s destroying their country: The rich puppeteers who corrupt politics around the world. Vive la France.

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[next cedar]

oh that

don't worry, rioting is #hobby these days in France

[past jungle]

I'm more of a Macro guy and this environment doesn't make sense... but it will soon.

euro will go poopoo sorry

usd will go poopoo sorry

US gov is already introducing sub prime mortgages

[night flicker]

whys that?

[past jungle]

Have you seen the the movie The Big Short?

[night flicker]

yeah

[next cedar]

of course

[night flicker]

that happened in 2008 right?

the crash

[past jungle]

That's right

[night flicker]

cool

[past jungle]

Ugh

Things are worse than it looks

[night flicker]

whys that?

[past jungle]

look at our president

he can barely walk straight

what do you think

We have Legarde making stuff up, the ECB is failing and french citizens are storming the exchange. American banks are fluffing and latin banks have been failing for years and the markets are rallying

Retail is BUYING. Wall Street is SELLING

Everyone in this group must be aware

[night flicker]

?can you link that up

[past jungle]

what do you mean?

[night flicker]

link where you got that picture from?

[past jungle]

Major banks research

(JPM) but you didn't hear it from me

[night flicker]

lmao thanks I'll look it up

do you have a link for it maybe? can't find it

[past jungle]

No you won't find it publicly

DM me

[barren lintel]

nice rithmic is working again.

[barren lintel]

Apex extended their 90% sale until May 1

[somber fog]

is it 90% off first month or 90%off on every recurring month?

[random sage]

90 % off first month, 80% the rest

[celest epoch]

I think we’re gonna dump hard today

Nq just did a support resistance flip

[barren lintel]

Yeah its looking that way but will see what happens once it gets to 12925

[celest epoch]

Well now it’s regaining 13022 so what do I know

[austere viper]

I have a book on market profile, I looked at it before going into the pit to trade, it shows levels well, it’s very old school

[next cedar]

old skool for the win o/

look at Fibonacci, the famous trader from the years around 1200

[celest epoch]

We’re at the bottom of a huge box so if we get a significant move the upside there’s lots of room to run back up

[barren lintel]

I've already passed the profit required for one of my evals. But I haven't met the minimum trading days yet. Do I just need to do 1 trade on that account per day for the next couple days? Anyone know?

[outer maple]

Apex? If so, yes.

[barren lintel]

Thx

[outer maple]

So not sure of your trading style but they just don't want a trader to hit the target in 1 or 2 days trading large size esp on news events then literally just flipping a micro in/out for the remaining days to meet the min days requirement.

[barren lintel]

I figure ill stick with my normal trading style. I only get into a couple trades per day. On this specific account, just 1 NQ contract

[outer maple]

Right on. That's pretty much exactly what they look for per their consistency rule.

[ancient marsh]

Overnight shorts 🫢

[celest epoch]

looks like we double bottomed at the bottom of the box. wouldn't be surprised to see another test during RTH

[hearty rivet]

supply demand acc thank god

on liquidity entries

news becareful

[ancient marsh]

Chop open

[austere viper]

that liquidity grab on ES was easy 5 handles

[hearty rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1087198795734990848/1098966038160355439/Screenshot_40.png

[nimble vale]

Just leaving Vegas for home! Can’t wait to get back after it with you guys… hope you had a great week!

[ancient marsh]

Safe travels patna

[celest epoch]

cant wait for WSOP this year

[hearty rivet]

gl QT!

[celest epoch]

I bubbled 3 times last t ime i went 2 years ago

[hearty rivet]

3 min till news

[austere viper]

im going in hot holding a position

[gritty crane]

How does everyone trade during the 9:30 to 10 timeframe? I find the swings really difficult and often get chopped

[hearty rivet]

short?

i think it will come in but not sure its worth it

espeically if you are green

[austere viper]

short at 4157.25

[hearty rivet]

great place

[ancient marsh]

Im not shorting nq at this range

[hearty rivet]

just gonna watch it

[austere viper]

I took the displacement for a 100lot, this is just 10, so won;t kill me

[hearty rivet]

jesus

i got 4 contracts at the top

enough for me 😄

[austere viper]

that grab and displacement were perfect

[celest epoch]

@gritty crane you really want to mark up significant levels from London and Asian sessions, then watch how price reacts to that in backtesting. You'll start to see how you can play it

[austere viper]

the 5M supply is from yesterday as it ran higher at close

[hearty rivet]

broke lows broke structure

enjoy the profits if u are in

hoyl shit

50 ticks

100 ticks

get out

or sell half

[austere viper]

lets go

[celest epoch]

ive been shortt NQ waiting for 13015ish

looks like im gonna get it

[hearty rivet]

100 ticks

buyers hold at 13025

size out

and rejected at at 13025

[celest epoch]

come to papa

13018...

Boom

[austere viper]

come on 4146 let me out

out at 4147

[celest epoch]

going short again at 13040-60

[hearty rivet]

we murdered the market today

[ancient marsh]

Good spot

[austere viper]

I really want to short this again but i'm way up sooooo

[ancient marsh]

But i will wait on shorts

[hearty rivet]

see you guys at power hour

[celest epoch]

lol i know that feeling

[hearty rivet]

we are at sellside liquidity

wait for market structure break for longs

[ancient marsh]

I do not like fading opening balance break out

Until back above/below it

[austere viper]

im literally in my office talking myself in and out of the trade 'just wait' 'sell sell sell'!!!!

[celest epoch]

oh man are we gonna crack the box?!

[hearty rivet]

lololol

[austere viper]

man, I knew ES was gunning for the ONLow

[celest epoch]

NQ to 12960

12971, 12957, 12925

[autumn flicker]

Hi @celest epoch sorry for the interuption. I read about your super simple strategy, how can I get access to it? Thanks a lot

[hearty rivet]

imagine holding my 4 contrats all the way down

350 ticks

7k

thank god was able to grab at least %20 of that

[celest epoch]

DM me, pass along your TV username

[austere viper]

ok grabbed that reversal

[hearty rivet]

i would wait for 13025

[austere viper]

On a side note I am trading the eval so I can see what you guys are talking about and I gotta say for me who never really gets emotional about trading this freaking being in profit and not taking it gets me thinking, if I have $500 profit but then take $250, the $250 I did not take is going against me. That's total BS

[hearty rivet]

then retrace back into an fvg then go long

[gritty crane]

thanks

[austere viper]

I start each day doing my own acct and then switch to eval for power hour

[hearty rivet]

i started today aswell to take partial tp's

its the best way

had tp at 50 and tp at 80 and it went up to 150 ticks and i knew it would but i was only in 2 cons

thank god it went well

[hearty rivet]

thats the right way

[austere viper]

Im thinking screw it if they want to do it this way, im taking $100 $100 $100. In my own I'm letting that sucker ride until I think its done

[hearty rivet]

if i had an live acc id trade it on market open, and eval on powerhower

[hearty rivet]

depending on entry, your max tp be can be so high you can ride it out

[west egret]

@celest epoch hey sent you a msg in dm 🙂

[hearty rivet]

but make sure huge liquidity is taken before a reversal so that it can fuel your max tp otherwise go for next swing high to stay safe

[austere viper]

As we watch this reversal in ES, sorry NQ guys I focus on one at a time. Couple people asked me if I knew the Topstep founder Michael Patak, answer is yes but he was not a 'Topstep' trader, he was a bottomstep trader with an IDEM membership, the lowest and cheapest to lease. As I was winding down my time at the CBOT I would stop in the YM pit at times, this is where he was. Now on the flipside John Hoagland is the real deal and was a big trader at the CME

[celest epoch]

back in the box

[autumn flicker]

Done, but it didn't pass

[celest epoch]

one minute

[vast cargo]

ES Chart

wow , could have doubled with my shorts. happy with EQ zone profit

[celest epoch]

oooooh. a breakout

[vast cargo]

Today's PA is choppy

no clear direction

QQQ looks in uptrend

ES need to catch QQQ

[hearty rivet]

we took buyside liquidty

formed MSS, took a FVG above it

but now we are at sellside internal liquidity

with trendline bullish

if we break that

its a nice trade. the sl is way to big for my entry so i arent in. Also this new sellside liquidity makes me want to take a long if we close below it then MSS above it

i have a limit sell at 13077

[acoustic mist]

@celest epoch I can't able to dm please accept the friend request

[vast cargo]

ES 4160 is a big level. If it clears we can see more upside

[full crow]

yep

feeling the same thing

[past jungle]

Look at march 24 action. same exact thing. that was last march's opex

[hearty rivet]

waiting for a short opportunity

we took every equal high and buyside liquidity

but didnt form a shift or change in character yet

[vast cargo]

Wait for the confirmation. We need help from MSFT, and APPL to push higher. AMZN is strong

ES 4160 tough to get through.

[south lodge]

Want to short here hopefully rejects

[vast cargo]

very risky to short here. Wait for the confirmation. It can sweep out the liquidity

ES 4156 to hold

[south lodge]

Thanks @vast cargo

[hearty rivet]

yeah im waiting for my confirmation

i dont see it yet

[vast cargo]

My Upside, and downside target labelled:

[south lodge]

Your on 3 min right?

[vast cargo]

yes. You can check at higher time frame also. 3m is my favorite for day trading

[south lodge]

Thank you appreciate all you do

Yeah I usually do 1 and 3

[barren lintel]

3m has been amazing.

[vast cargo]

yes. agree with proper risk management, and discipline R/R is great for day trading

[south lodge]

Break that box down come on

[vast cargo]

Need to reject 4156 level

[full crow]

u thinking more downside?

[vast cargo]

Right now its trading in the range. If it clears 4160 we see upside. if it breaks 4148-4145 level, we might see more downside to 4142-4137

[barren lintel]

Man i think going forward im not getting into trades until after 10am est

[vast cargo]

Are you trading at the market open ?

[barren lintel]

Ive got into a couple this week and it always feels sketchy. More like gambling.

Once things settle, my trades are more confident.

[vast cargo]

I would highly recommend not to trade first 15- 30 mins. Signals could be flaky due to the volatility. Please try after 30 mins, if you want more reliable signal.

R/R is great, but then it could wipe out your portfolio

[barren lintel]

Yep not worth the risk

[hearty rivet]

trade premarket open

if your setup is good keep it through market open

[vast cargo]

If you are trading NQ or ES. You can also look at APPL/MSFT chart. See how these stocks are trading. This will give you another confluence and edge in your trade. : In this chart, look how both MSFT & AAPL holding the blue cloud. Onece it breaks the cloud then we will see more downside. If its holding then upside.

[azure shell]

too much risk in the open for me i always wait 30 min

[vast cargo]

Did you play the box:

[south lodge]

Yes that was awesome

Thank you again

[vast cargo]

Nice. I am glad

[languid lantern]

Hello new to futures can someone explain why my profit arent going up in $12.50 every tick i am using a paper trade account? and also why cant i buy a s&p 500 contract for $500

[vast cargo]

Please be careful entering around 15 mins to market close. Due to opex day, market might be too volatile. If you don't know what Opex is , please ask our friend google.

[vast cargo]

Please check with the software support team regarding the paper trading account. It should be specific to the software or platform that you use.

[languid lantern]

the broker is ibkr

[languid lantern]

is tradovate better

[vast cargo]

Now tradovate is part of NinjaTrader. Yes, I have seen nice interface with Tradovate, and many friends have been using it. Worth trying

[languid lantern]

thank you do you pay $500 per contract and is every tick = $12.50?

[celest epoch]

does he think youre a broker?

[languid lantern]

no

[vast cargo]

few days ago i opened my account. Tick value differs with different ticker. Like NQ each tick is $5. ES each tick is $12.50. You can check Ninjatrader website or call them they have good customer support

[languid lantern]

ok thank you

[vast cargo]

Look what happened with the rejection of the upper box

[barren lintel]

https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/options-expiration-calendar

Opex Calendar

[vast cargo]

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND EVERYONE. Good day for golfing.

[median glen]

Anyone having success using PAC order blocks with futures?
If so, what timeframe do you set your orderblocks to when trading the 1 minute chart?

[hearty rivet]

Yo

[tired plume]

my strategy uses PAC pretty heavily, along with liquidity swings (adding some amazing additional detail to PAC), and fibonacci retracements. i primarily trade on the 1m, just use both internal and swing OBs (which helps provide some big picture).

have you experimented with higher timeframe OBs? my gut would be to use 15m for that, but you also wanna see where price might react on the same timeframe you’re trading, which is why i’ve never adjusted it.

[median glen]

Yea, my gut was 15 minute as well, but doesn't really produce much for NQ.
I'm really struggling to find a strategy using PAC with NQ on 1 minute.

[tired plume]

ahh cool. i use it on MES, pretty much exclusively. shows lots of structure to trade from, works really well.

[random sage]

Another great week for the strat

[night flicker]

are you TP1 at 60 ticks with SL at 45 ticks and then TP2 at 90 ticks without changing SL?

[random sage]

Correct, once tp1 hits tp2 sl is moved to break even

[autumn thistle]

Have you looked at RTY or CL? I find those pretty good, NQ is more tricky I find

[night flicker]

Why not take 50% at 45 tick and then another 50% at 90 ticks?

Just an idea maybe to help you get a more accurate sl and tp 1/2 is add the maximum profit each trade got to, so lets say you enter a trade and it hits sl but it was at +20 ticks profit, write it down and you can find the pattern slowly (maybe)

I mean.. seems like you don’t need it much because it works already but if you want just an idea

[night flicker]

Never really took a deep dive into anything else than ES and NQ.. might look at them as well

[ancient marsh]

For friday, i see 5 wins 3 losses. Also, are you stopping at 2.30? 3.00pm?

I could be wrong, just reviewing the week.

[celest epoch]

Let me add a "strict entry" setting to the indicator and let's see if we can sync up @random sage 's data

[random sage]

Yea thats a great idea too!

[random sage]

I could miss some, and yea nothing after 3ish ET

[celest epoch]

@random sage so what hours are you logging? 9am-3pm EST?

[celest epoch]

ultimate facepalm 🤦‍♂️

[random sage]

9:30 et - 3:30 et

[past jungle]

https://twitter.com/squeezemetrics/status/1649822208011714561?s=46&t=Cyeej5dJ9aa6VZ1eFXhoYg

SqueezeMetrics (@SqueezeMetrics)

Have heard much consternation about low realized vol.

Fear not: Monthly OpEx just shaved off nearly $300mm per point in SPX dealer gamma exposure. That means index liquidity has lost quite a bit of depth going into next week.

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More volatility coming next week FYI

[gritty crane]

@celest epoch @nimble vale @random sage @night flicker and everyone that I missed. Thanks!!!

[silk igloo]

Hi All, does anyone scalp the Dax30

[next cedar]

Dax40 now, not really scalp for me, more intraday type plays

[silk igloo]

Yes, I’m just use to saying Dax30😂. I usually scalp at the open if I see an opportunity, very volatile and huge moves.

[next cedar]

yup FDAX is better (in my view) than NQ to trade in European mornings; afternoon can be super boring though, volume is desperately low compared to US indexes

it's like NQ on steroids (edit, in European mornings)

not offered by many online prop firms though (if you are in that business), probably because of margin requirements; Apex-Tradovate & Blusky do offer it

[buoyant crane]

May I know what is this white line? Thanks

[hearty rivet]

yo

[gritty crane]

yo yo, everyone resting up for a great week in the markets....

[ancient marsh]

Maybe open red tomorrow

[barren lintel]

Yeah going to be really cautious tomorrow

should be a good week though, which ever way we go

[ancient marsh]

Who knows this early in the night. They could btfd and we break out to the upside

[night flicker]

42% of S&P 500 report earnings this week if I understood correctly… keep that in mind, bug moves will happen

[buoyant crane]

Nice run up on MNQ, using @nimble vale and Lux Algo market structures got in 13036 and ride up and out on 13072. Though only 36 pts but happy as first time trying on futures strategy. Thank you guys for your selfless sharing.

[hearty rivet]

No bias clear on daily chart but looks like it’s bullish

Grab the daily FVG and then go for relative equal low liquidty below on precious 2 day

[hearty rivet]

is it me

or did tradovate made tradingview access 9.99$/month?

it used to be free

[barren lintel]

its been 9.99 for a while. Ive been using them for the past 6 months and it's always had the fee

I was paying it for a while, but then realized there was too much of a delay at times, so just started placing the trades from the site. Now I'm using NinjaTrader

[hearty rivet]

but apex

gives it for free

i been using it for free for past month

its so hard to place tp and sl on tradovate

how do you do it?

when i move chart up it moves it down

doesnt allow me to move the chart up on tradovate to place my tp

unless i use ATM

[barren lintel]

oh idk about with apex then. I was speaking for experience on a personal tradovate account. But yeah, I use ATM for TP/SL

Yeah the auto scrolling is annoying

[hearty rivet]

how to fix the auto sdcrolling

[barren lintel]

Oh wait, i think i just figured out how to turn it off

[hearty rivet]

how

[barren lintel]

Click the chart settings button, then go into Continuous Autofit and turn it off

[hearty rivet]

for tp on a long

do we choose

buy 1 stop

sell 1 limit

its sell 1 limit right? and for sl . sell 1 stop right?

[celest epoch]

if you long:
Buy LMT 5 Contracts @deft horizon
Sell LMT 5 Contracts @spiral sedge
Sell STOP 5 Contracts @hollow wind

looks like accumulation before another push up on. NQ

[hearty rivet]

damn i was 100$ away from getting funded

i just closed my position. its gonna go very much high but

already up $1800

[night flicker]

all these 3 random people getting tagged lol

[hearty rivet]

my acc reached 52945

was 50 away from funded

it dipped a bit closed it at 52700

but its gonna continue up, gonna fill this huge imbalance at 15 min

then continue up to the equal highs buyside liquidity very high above

[hearty rivet]

lolol

[deep quest]

SPY Opening Range Levels
Top: 412.95
Bottom: 411.94
PP: 411.68
For ES (Jun)

Top: 4163.25
Bottom: 4152.75
PP: 4150.00
Path of Least Resistance

SPY - UPSIDE - (Opening Range above Daily Pivot)
ES - UPSIDE - (Opening Range above Daily Pivot)

[frosty oracle]

Do you use apex?

[hearty rivet]

yh

[frosty oracle]

Nice I am trying to get funded at top step… but today was not a good day will try it again tomorrow

[hearty rivet]

ill explain my entry in in abit

right now we are in second step of power 3, the manipulation

we are literally taking out equal high liqudities and forming new ones

[barren lintel]

Done for the day

[hearty rivet]

on my 25k

[barren lintel]

I have 2 more days on my 25k, so just taking minimal trades at this point

[hearty rivet]

you passed?

[barren lintel]

passed the profit requirement 3 days into it

[hearty rivet]

noice noice

[barren lintel]

Yea, then hopefully i get the welcome email, pay the PA account fee and get started

[hearty rivet]

nice

wich country you in

[barren lintel]

US

[hearty rivet]

nice

[west egret]

Any1 know how long it takes for apex to activate a new account

bought a 25k this morning and still nothing in tradovate

[barren lintel]

No idea. I did Rithmic and it took less than 5 minutes

[west egret]

annoying

[barren lintel]

niceee

[hearty rivet]

that was 100 ticks for the 751

tyty

750 more for 25k pass

300 more for 50k pass

2k more for another 50k pass

my short

here is an explaination

[ancient marsh]

OG long setup

[gritty crane]

How many times will NQ test 13,000?

[gritty crane]

and now 13,014 NQ

[hearty rivet]

booked 250 ticks

[ancient marsh]

Another long winner

4 winners today i believe

[barren lintel]

I snagged as well

[barren lintel]

We gonna get an eod sell off?

[barren lintel]

Alright. It's 330. Im done with work and done watching charts. See y'all tomorrow

[random sage]

I just woke from nightshift what i miss lol

[ancient marsh]

Good day for OG stratagy i believe

[night flicker]

https://github.com/gbzenobi/CSharp-NT8-OrderFlowKit

For you who are using NinjaTrader

Finishing my hft soon, will start sharing more in depth strategies when I get free time

[hearty rivet]

my trade yesterday was in a short, i closed it slightly before market close because i have to

and i opened the continuation of it on a paper trade

that was a 400 pip move

tick

[night flicker]

Damnnn nice

[hearty rivet]

ty bro

how was your HFT

[night flicker]

Had to work around NT rejecting me

Still using NT though

[hearty rivet]

there is no bias rn unless we get out of the range

but i still have a short term bearish bias. Waiting for 8:30 am candle then a small rally up take my entry and go down to the equal lows at the 1h tf

[barren lintel]

Good morning everyone

[hearty rivet]

gm

[random sage]

Lets make it rain today

[hearty rivet]

we in a range

price can go for either side

and news today

[next cedar]

and worse, earnings after close (watch yourselves big names today)

[hearty rivet]

yeah earnings too

[ancient marsh]

Could be choppy today

Waiting on earnings

[hearty rivet]

im waiting for small rally above 8:30 am open candle before i take my short

but could go either way

[ancient marsh]

NQ has made lower lows on the daily for 4 days in a row, will the trend continue?

Basically a double bottom with yesterday, i expect we clean that up

[hearty rivet]

the liquidity there

is what can drive the price up

there is tooooo many equal lows down there forming each session. We can sweep them, and how much more will it go down from there? Well open a fib. Probably 1/1.5 or 2 standard deviations

But like i said we are in a range this whole week. Not good idea to trade. Especially this new week. All news

[hearty rivet]

Thank god, god is great

im 9$ away from funded lmao im scared to open a trade lmao

someone help

[celest epoch]

1. go long
2. go short
3. find a better indicator than god?

[hearty rivet]

Nah nothing better than god

and news coming in 10 min

ill wait for power hour

Easy. short bias. 12 am candle went above then dumped, 8:30 am candle went up on it then hardcore drop till the buyside liquidity

[deep quest]

SPY Opening Range Levels
Top: 411.16
Bottom: 410.04
PP: 411.68
For ES (Jun)

Top: 4144.25
Bottom: 4132.75
PP: 4151.75
Path of Least Resistance

SPY - DOWNSIDE - (Opening Range below Daily Pivot)
ES - DOWNSIDE - (Opening Range below Daily Pivot)

ScalpTrader: FRC -- Tempted to play a short-term squeeze here since everyone is getting short following the latest CNBC report. You may want to test out an upside move with a tight stop of maybe 0.20 (11.38 -4.62)

[hearty rivet]

back to studying

[barren lintel]

lol just wait

[hearty rivet]

we built buyside liquidity with equal highs. News probably bearish

[ancient marsh]

Done

[hearty rivet]

ill only take longs if we sweep this liquidty and form a market shift and enter on a fvg it does. otherwise im done for now thank god

[deep quest]

April Consumer Confidence 101.3 vs. 104.1 Briefing.com consenseus; prior revised to 104.0 from 104.2

March New Home Sales 683K vs. 630K Briefing.com consensus; prior revised to 623K from 640K

[austere viper]

Well got my face ripped off but battle back to even so that’s a win.

[celest epoch]

that was me yesterday

[austere viper]

I also took a freaking short in soybeans at 1424.25 it popped, volume came in I took a SL and then the damn thing dropped 10 points ($500) 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[barren lintel]

caught quick 10pt short. But no more shorts for me unless it drops and holds below 12925

[dusty grove]

Stopped out for $400 ✌🏽

[hearty rivet]

finallyyy

the FVG i talked about we will fill

i entered on touch of it

been waiting 2 days for it

closed trade but this can could go for 500-1500 ticks easy

the daily FVG

i feel like this is where we will reverse to uptrend

this was 148 ticks on 1 con

[barren lintel]

@hearty rivet Wheres the FVG on your screenshot? Also are you using FVG from PAC?

[hearty rivet]

Sec

[hearty rivet]

I mentioned it yesterday morning

We can enter at top or anywhere in middle or after or fills. Stop loss won’t be too big and doesn’t have to be below swing low because that’s first Black down candle is an actual order block. Price shouldn’t even break its highs even

To expect how far down the price may go down . Draw fib on previous day candle open and close not wicks

Then add five of 1, 1.5 and 2. These would be your standard deviations. Price usually moves 1.5x-2x standards the size of the range

[barren lintel]

Can you provide your FVG settings? I'm not seeing any thing recent

[hearty rivet]

I draw by my hand

[barren lintel]

ahh okay

[hearty rivet]

But there it is

[barren lintel]

Ok, i just need to draw it over then. It only extended to 4/4

[hearty rivet]

possible reversal

at

12900-12905

[barren lintel]

Gonna go take my dogs for a walk, hopefully nothing exciting happens

😄

[hearty rivet]

we finally broke out of that range tho

[vast cargo]

@everyone My chart post will be minimal, have been busy with my work. When i get time, will try to post.

[barren lintel]

Today's the last day on my eval. just going to stop here

[ancient marsh]

FVG?

[barren lintel]

Fair Value Gap

[pastel sigil]

so looking possibly bullish now

[vast cargo]

Can't say for sure, The trend is still downward. ES needs to breach 4130, 4146 level for upside potential. If Tech ER good, we might see strong upside

[hearty rivet]

Another word for it is imbalance. But FVG is specific way of imbalance, the right and only one that should is used in price action

[hearty rivet]

i think we hit a reversal point

range already almost doubled down

price depends if it wants to fill this whole fvg or just directly continue up. I wouldnt take a long yet. doing so now is high risk high reward but stay on safe side and wait for a shift

[vast cargo]

Did u see what happened. ? Look at my chart with blue box

[past jungle]

front running googl earnings? hmmmm

[vast cargo]

Good luck @everyone. This is my last chart of the day before market close. Trade safe.

[deep quest]

First Republic Bank shares (FRC -40%) sell-off leading to weakness in many bank names (WAL -7% PACW -8% KEY -6% ZION -5% FITB -4.5% TFC -4.5% BANF -3.5% PNC -2%) (9.28 -6.72)

[next cedar]

me likes trends (as long as my P&L trend != today's NQ trend)

Poor low on NQ TPO and a naked POC at 1280x, could go down a bit more

(I plot Asia High / Low as I am a EU based trader)

[hearty rivet]

its filling the FVG

OB+ just below it,

filled it at the decimal dot

[austere viper]

Who said manipulation does not happen???? Algos used points in history to reference, good job @hearty rivet

[hearty rivet]

i have few leeloo accounts i think 10 accounts for $10

i dont trust it so im gambling it on. entered at exactly the end of this reversal

[hearty rivet]

Thanks friend! Algos use fvg as their signatures

ICT spent few hours of my life by talking on that lol

[austere viper]

Group question, since I’m trying out the apex eval so as to better understand what guys are going thru, how do I know my drawdown in an Apex/Tradovate evaluation???? I had loss first day but made it all back each day. How do I know?

[hearty rivet]

i think you go to

rithmic app and it shows there

or wait on apex each specific time it refreshes

[austere viper]

I thought rithmic was if using NT

[thin knoll]

https://support.apextraderfunding.com/hc/en-us/articles/13473713008539-Tradovate-Account-Dashboard-and-Threshold-Drawdown

Think this is what you are after?

[austere viper]

perfect thanks so much,

[nocturne sigil]

You folks banked in here

[ancient marsh]

I guess earning were good, erased most of the selling

[past jungle]

Googl doing a buyback

Msft, googl and visa all beat

[hearty rivet]

One contract nq

On my leeloo eval

[night flicker]

my HFT sitting at 53% wr before adding the calculations that would boost it by 20%.. damn thats nice

[random sage]

good start to the week so far

[hearty rivet]

800 ticks or so i managed to grab 400ish

i had to close because of damn mandatory closing of trades before market closing otherwise fail

[wind rock]

Tech earnings trade 3NQ ..25k eval done

[frosty oracle]

Did you made this with the quant strat?

[random sage]

It follows the quant strat yes

[frosty oracle]

Do you adjust it or deo you use the original one? sorry for my dumb question ^^

[random sage]

Just have a different bracket order

[frosty oracle]

What do you mean with bracket order

[barren lintel]

nice