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Forum: Trading Journals

December 23rd, 2019, 02:29 PM

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Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

Have a Merry Christmas Zach, and I hope you have...

Have a Merry Christmas Zach, and I hope you have a safe, healthy, happy 2020.

John B.

Forum: Trading Journals

December 23rd, 2019, 07:10 AM

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Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

What if:

What if you simplified this "daily grind" and asked yourself, "What's most recent in the Market's memory?"
In addition to checking for "TFC" on the Monthly, Weekly & Daily time frames,

Did price...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 13th, 2019, 04:13 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

A couple of thoughts for you to think about over...

A couple of thoughts for you to think about over the weekend:

First suggestion:
I think you should use a session template that's divided into three (3) sessions (Overnight, RTH & ETH)

Here's...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 11th, 2019, 01:05 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

Yes, sorry for confusion, I live in the Eastern...

Yes, sorry for confusion, I live in the Eastern time zone, plus we were discussing the Micro-ES (not the Mini-ES)

Thanks for confirming what I was saying about things not being in agreement on the...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 11th, 2019, 11:43 AM

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Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

I think you answered your own question when you...

I think you answered your own question when you look back at that "Failure to take out the Overnight High"

https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=281570

Yes it went against the...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 11th, 2019, 09:23 AM

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Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

Or you could lose the tabs on the charts?

Maybe something like this?
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=281555

With your footprint chart behind these charts, so it's only one click away if you want to see it?...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 10th, 2019, 03:48 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

A couple of thoughts on your "Footprint" chart reading

Zachary Standley

I took the liberty of marking up the three screenshots you posted this morning.

I just wanted to point out some of the things that occurred to me when I looked at what you had...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 10th, 2019, 01:15 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

Thought for the day...

The numbers you're using in your review today are all off by 100 points
(Which is understandable given your heightened level of frustration)

Your comment "I checked the 5 minute chart from a...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 9th, 2019, 03:48 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

A couple of thoughts on your entry today.....

What did you see that suggested a long at that level 3140.00 and at that time 14:05 ET might work?

Did you notice the direction the 60 minute chart was trading in at that time?

Were you...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 9th, 2019, 06:36 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

LVN's & HVN's

I asked the question, "Would it be a better place to Exit your trade" twice in my previous post,

I think the logical question to ask yourself now is; Where would you want to enter if that LVN or...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 8th, 2019, 10:27 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

LVN's & HVN's

The idea of LVN's ("Low Volume Nodes or Numbers") and HVN's brings to mind a few thoughts I'd like to share with you,

These LVN's & HVN's are what I was referring to when I mentioned that some of...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 6th, 2019, 05:37 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Criticism is rarely Constructive.....Suggestions can be helpful.

To begin with, let me start by saying I am no expert. I've been trading Futures for just over 10 years now and I still learn something new, almost every time I sit down in front of my screens.

One...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 6th, 2019, 12:42 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

One Possible way to trade NFP Reports - Today's Results

As I said in my previous post, "Let's revisit this at 12:30 Eastern"

As per the previous mark-up, Possible results with suggested protective stop adjustments during the 4 hour window
...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 6th, 2019, 11:25 AM

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Zach's Log

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Posted By Botts

Here's a Thought.....

I stumbled on a write-up about this method about 9 years ago.

You can go back and look at as many NFP Releases as you like,
I think you'll find a relatively high percentage of the time this...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 6th, 2019, 09:54 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

What didn't work out? Daily chart closed...

What didn't work out?

Daily chart closed "Up" Thursday, albeit slightly inside Wednesday's "Inside Day" (the White outlined candlestick),

Today's candle on the Daily chart looks like a...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 2nd, 2019, 05:06 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Keeping track of Economic News

Here's a couple of different options for keeping track of the Economic News you can bookmark in whatever browser you prefer.

https://us.econoday.com/byweek.asp?cust=us
...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 2nd, 2019, 03:02 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Always good to check the Econ News schedule

Not trying to beat up on you here Zach, just wanted to remind you to check the Economic News schedule for the day as part of your "Pretrading work up" in the morning.
...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 2nd, 2019, 02:07 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

LVN's & HVN's

Sorry to hear you had a bad day,

How many days back is that profile you're showing on that 1,000 volume chart?

Using your screenshot, marking what appear to be the obvious LVN's & HVN's
...

Forum: Trading Journals

December 2nd, 2019, 08:15 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Just an "FYI" regarding LVN's & HVN's

Nice to see you focussing on Market Profile and the LVN / HVN areas.

I used to spend time in a room with a fellow who had taken a course offered by J. Peter Steidlmayer (the inventor of the Market...

Forum: Trading Journals

November 26th, 2019, 12:45 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Be careful how you word things......

Thanks for remembering,

Just one thing I'd like to point out.

I called it a "Counter Trend Period" - NOT - a "Trend Reversal Period".

Big difference mentally if you're looking for a...

Forum: Trading Journals

November 26th, 2019, 08:38 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

With the benefit of hindsight

Lots of levels indicated on this screenshot. Mostly highlighting the recent Inside Bars (Solid White candles)

One question comes to mind here for me: "What did the London traders do to their...

Forum: Trading Journals

November 21st, 2019, 07:44 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Review for Thursday November 21, 2019

Hi Zachary,

I like the look of your latest charts, glad to see you've moved away from that 8 Range footprint chart.

I hope you don't mind me posting this on your journal, but it's really a...

Forum: Trading Journals

August 9th, 2019, 09:35 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

Question for you

Zachary Standley

I wanted to ask what your rationale was for choosing to trade off of an 8 Range chart?

Forum: Trading Journals

August 5th, 2019, 10:50 AM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

"I want to be able to execute effectively in my sleep"

I've been following your thread for a few weeks now and given the comment you made on Friday (in quotation marks in the title)

I'd suggest you try to write out a list of the criteria you want to...

Forum: Trading Journals

July 29th, 2019, 04:40 PM

Replies: 413

Zach's Log

Views: 55,231

Posted By Botts

A few thoughts on "Key Times of Day"

Have you ever taken a look at certain "Times of Day" in your analysis?

One time of day that has always jumped out at me as a "Key Time" is known as the "Counter Trend Period".

It typically...

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