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I'd like to start this topic in order to try to get some guidance to start trading ES for living. I`m planning to try this in the future, but I really don`t know how to start. There are a lot of content in the internet, some rich and some very poor. Unfortunately I have only 2 hours/day to study so I want to study with quality. I had a basic course once, I started to operate with some simple tape reading strategies and I really want to specialize myself, at least know "how to do" and define my own strategies. I'm also a developer, I know a little bit of development on Ninja Trader and I want to create some automation.
What do you suggest to start this journey?
Please advise.
Thank you in advance,
Best regards.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Start by watching the market every day... and develop your own trading strategies based on price behavior tendencies that you notice.
Alternatively, you could use the techniques of others as your starting point.... and develop your own trading methodology from there.
Happy Trading!
You are never in the wrong place... but sometimes you are in the right place looking at things in the wrong way.
There are very basic concepts that if you can wrap your head around them will save you a lot of heartache.
Think of the market like being any other market. If you approach it as you would when you consider buying a new car, TV, toaster, pair of shoes, etc., then you acknowledge that there are prices that are at retail levels, and prices at wholesale or sale levels. So you wait, probably, to buy on sale, or at wholesale prices. Not retail. It's the same in the market. You want to buy at wholesale and sell at retail. That's what the institutions are doing.
But in that process, they have to find liquidity if they hope to do business. That then brings us to approaches that are more like how the market really works. It's not indicator driven. The price will move up and down in search of places where the big boys want to do business. If you can understand how they do that, then you are more than halfway there. Support and resistance levels or zones are vital for you to understand.
The best thing you can do is watch for a week or so. Just watch. The es is a good example. Look at where the price stops and turns around. Look at where it tends to stall out. It will generally hit an area rather than an exact price point, although that will happen as well. It's all about liquidity at certain levels, and the volume there. If they don't find the volume they need, they move price elsewhere in their search. A great indicator to display this is the profile indicator -- for volume and for price. Just look up profile trading, along with some kind of indication of order flow.
That's a place to start.
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