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Daytrading ES & NQ

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 kazbek966 
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I guess we will leave to owner of this thread @Rcap to deal with this in the way owner sees it fit.

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20231004 post market

  • we opened 200P higher compared to the eth low
  • The central question for me was: Do we continue covering or do we roll over to short?
  • I waited until the news were out (good)
  • For me it looked twice as if it would roll over. ES was also weak
  • I would take these shorts again as they were great asymmetric opportunities (risk/reward) and they were executed good (not too early)
  • Before midtime i had an unnecessary exit (it is normal to spend some time there) (i sometimes think that it must work faster)
  • This made me emotional which resulted in poor entries in scalping long inside the established move. Location was ok but execution was bad
  • I was very convinced that the path of least resistance is more covering
  • Market spent two hours balancing at the top
  • What is the rhythm?
  • Where can i be sure to be on board and still have risk/reward? Answer: Not possible
  • Finally you do what you operating system (your believes) make you do
  • I work on my believes regularly and have to do it even more
  • It is a 24h market, that is slippy, very speculative, dominated by market makers and as a consequence operates in a 2-way-auction
  • The most expensive phrase is: This time its different

Congrats @Rcap with having a last laugh.
It was very difficult psychologically-wise day and this focussed move starting at 13:30 CST was a bit mystifying to me.
Even now it would be difficult to decipher it.

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I guess we will leave to owner of this thread @Rcap to deal with this in the way owner sees it fit.

Actually, no. The thread starter has no ability to directly police his thread.

However, the moderators do, and the user who made a promotional post has been banned, and the post (and the others she made) have been deleted.

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 kazbek966 
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I hate to be a prophet.
Projected and actual unemployment claims are quite close to each other, 207 vs 211 K. 1.8% difference.
I guess we are free to explore our luck.

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 Rcap 
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20231005 pre market


  • the numbers caused no movement
  • the overnight session traded in the upper part of y, mostly within in the spike
  • oni is mixed, we open in the lower third of the on range
  • I see no reason to trade early & offensive
  • wait and let the market show what it wants to do

  • the market is in a 10 day balance
  • It is very indecisive (colours of the daily change every day)
  • The market is waiting for more information before it makes its next directional move
  • Excpect more of the same until proven otherwise

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10 day balance composite



Do not get chopped in the fat part of the profile

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overnight profiles



Balanced overnight profiles can be an indication for more balance

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 kazbek966 
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MORNING MUSINGS on 06.10.2023
  • I think VWAP is the name of the game
  • Every time price deviated from it it was pushed back
  • For some reason higher time frame players, smart money, proverbial Wyckoff operator or whichever way we can call them are comfortable at VWAP
  • This is in stark contrast with late Spring, Summer when price could not see weekly/monthly VWAP with binoculars
  • My interpretations that appetite for risky plays is low
  • Or smart money players are immediately cashing in whatever profits they acquired
  • That being said price oscillations became smaller and smaller
  • We still have a bit of employment related news to digest and ...
  • Somebody from FOMC would like to entertain us at 11:00 CST

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Lower volumes today on US and German indices after Eurex Open to Cash Opens. Everything is a bit sideways. Possible Cave Fills on ES & NQ if it breaks lower, which tend to be slow and steady moves. Everything seems happy rotating around early Asian Lows.
Certainly been more selling/momentum on the down side but it hasn't achieved a great deal... Is that a positive ??

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20231005 post market


trades 10 5


  • The market simply is in BALANCE
  • See how it compresses on the daily
  • On friday (today) we have nfp which can be a market mover
  • As a multiple day BALANCE has much stored "energy" we sooner or later should get a breakout

  • I did not trade early as we opened totally in VALUE of the multi day balance
  • I traded a continuations scalp short relatively late in the move. Idea was that the intraday low was very poor and there could be a repair before we see the contra auction
  • As we saw some change and acceptance back in developing value (blue area) i scalped long near vwap SD-1. That worked nicely
  • Finished the day early as i did not expect much in that context of being in the middleof BALANCE and having important numbers coming


I am working on a mindset shift from "searching opportunity" to "avoiding stupidity"

New belief:

My most important trade is: No trade

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