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Entering The Day With An Idea As I have previously posted, it is very important to enter the day with an idea for your early trading. Following is Charles Cochran's idea going into Thursday, 6/19. [6:54] Charles Cochran: Yesterday’s buying may have been satisfied in the OVN session...

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Market Profile Recap of 6/18 Here is a Market Profile look at 6/18 and an early heads-up for Thursday 6/19. F2 Comments: The market was dead until D period when the last 4 day’s buying/lack of selling kicked in and eventually took the market to 113-095. The structure and profile...

How You Can Be Wrong And Still Be Right In a hedge market, like the Bonds, high and low volume areas are both support and resistance, and should be traded as such. The early call was to short 112.15/19. When 112.175 was hit at 8:33 EST it retraced to 112.11, or 6/32nds tradeable. When price...

6/17 Market Commentary I was done early, as noted in my post on page 39, thanks to the news day trade. Unfortunately, there is no news of note on Wednesday. Here are Charles Cochran's comments on the 6/17 trading, and some prepatory comments for 6/18. F2 Comments: The market is in a...

Yes, when one bar closes they can move to the next bar.

Indicators The blue and pink boxes are the strongest indicators. They represent buying or selling deceleration. Once a bar is closed they are fixed. The S/B, indicating sell or buy, and the triangles, indicating a possible rotational high or low can shift from one bar to the next. The dot...

Chart Types The Market Profile charts that I post are the standard 30 minutes per TPO charts. The F3 charts are either 5 minute charts or 2500v charts. The F3 is the chart that shows the volume traded at each price level. The F4 charts are usually 5 minute charts. The F4 is the volumetric...

6/17 News Day Trade Here is another example of a news day trade. The market rallied after the PPI release this morning and pulled back 11/32nds. Remember, we like to see a 8 to 12/32nd pullback, but you can only count on 6/32nds. You can see in the histogram that the shorts are beginning...

6/16/08 Second Morning Trade After the release of the Empire State Mfg. number volume spiked up at 9:05EST to 112.17. This was 2/32nds shy of our second sell level, but look at the bar where the spike occurred. The close was 1 tick off the low. And look at the volume histogram under the...

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First Morning Trade 6/16 Here is a quick follow-up to the trade recommendation Charles Cochran posted on Friday after the market close. The recommended sell zone was 112.07/11. The area marked on the attached chart has a high of 112.115 and a low of 112.04. The 112.04 was hit just before...

Friday 6/13 Comments and Early Set-Up for Monday, 6/16 F2 Comments: A lot of bad news was built into Bond prices as the market awaited the release of the CPI figures. The numbers were close enough that the Bond rallied off of the release. This EOW buying and day trade longs took the market to...

Moving Indicators All the Trademaven indicators are real time and, as such, can come and go as a bar is being formed.. The S or B can move from bar to bar, as can the triangle, as the next bar is being formed. The most important indicator, though, is the deceleration square. The decel...

Trading The News You could make a decent living just trading news events, so why do so many traders avoid news trades like the plague. It's the uncertainty and risk involved. Here are three ways you can trade the news, listed from most agressive to least agressive: 1. Place a buy stop...

The Reality of the Situation ZAL the reality is that in just over 3 weeks, we've had just shy of 19,000 views of this thread with exceptionally positive responses. We also have a handful of serial complainers who add nothing to the general discussion about trading. They clearly delight in...

Recap for ZB on 6/10/08 Following are Charles Cochran's comments about the Bond trading on 6/10 and what to look for early on 6/11. F2 Comments: The market did hit our recommended sell zones and sold for the rest of the day. ES directional uncertainty held the market in a range until it...

Clarification Reaver let's clarify two points. First, I did not delete any of your posts or ask that any of your posts be deleted. If that was done, it was without my knowledge. Second, I posted Charles Cochran's bio in the full disclosure part of this thread. I have copied it here for...

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TraderNik, I recommend that you read the Market Profile thread and the entire 3-2-1- thread in this forum for the answer to your questions. We don't offer a system, we offer a methodology. Proper interpretation of the Market Profile chart will reveal where the really big institutional...