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Up vol and down vol. That's too much thinking for me, Vis. I'd never put on a trade if I contemplated that too much (I do contemplate it after hours, LOL!) BTW, do not look at a chart of crude oil or you'll be turned to stone immediately. :eek:

I'm looking at Dec. Ammo has the uvol/dvol, but looks heavy on the down. VWAP's flat (78.50) and price is creeping toward it. UTL of channel around 79.50.

That was my thought, too. Two weeks out is very tricky except when there's a strong trend setup. I did very well on those, but dreadful on all the others.

There's previous R becomes S around 1773-1774 (old breakout highs on the daily), but not a lot of volume on the defense here.

50-day EMA currently at 1762; if that fails there's huge airspace to the downside.

The Importance Of The Close There is an old saying that the “amateurs open the market, and the professionals close it”. This means that most amateurs are rushing in their orders at the opening bell, and most professionals are placing their orders in the last hour of trade. And that...

Wait, before I go for my run, I want to share a t-shirt I saw yesterday that I couldn't stop laughing over. There are only two types of people in the world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

He asked for an assessment of the spoos. I gave a real-time call. My bad. I never stated "You have to be long." My convo with TJ was : I don't trade news, I trade price. The symmetrical triangle broke out upside but did not result in any follow through during RTH. For a day trader...

Someone told me there are still market makers for crude oil futures. I'd love to know how they deal with the crazy volatility of that instrument.

I trade NQ and/or ES about 2-3 times a week. I only trade it after the CL pit closes. He asked for a trade while the ES was at 88 and I saw his request just before 2:45 while the ES was at 88.50 bid and I offered my call - it was SHORT right there with a stop at 90. Is everyone else...

The triangle breakout wasn't a call! It was a long-after-the-fact reply to TJ's question about why people would be buying at that time. My reply to you was made in real time as you requested. A live intraday market call as to my assessment of the spoos at the moment when I read your request ...

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to you, Mav. Maybe you misconstrued my intraday call and my swing trade non-call as one and the same. Intraday, I'd be short as called, but if I was looking for an entry for a swing position (that would be to hold for more than a day), I would not...

Please do enlighten us on how to properly fulfill your request to: "give us your assessment right here at 1788 on the spoos". I read your request, I told you my assessment by way of a real time call, I included a stop loss, and I even offered a profit target zone around 1777. I'm...

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I called the trade at 2:45 when I saw 1788.50 bid/1788.75 ask. And I clearly stated that I would not be initiating a swing trade at that moment. I was asked to make a live call.

BTW, looks like my intraday real time short call was 4 ticks from the turn and my 2 pt stop held nicely. What's the R:R, TJ? :cool:

You quoted me, so you had my stop price right there.

Hope you're making money off my live call, Mav :)

I already posted in ES journal this morning that if the 20day EMA broke (it was around 1792 at the time), the range low of 1777-ish was in play. At this point right now, as an intraday scalper, I'd be short with a stop at 1790. If swinging for the range low, I'd be short from earlier, wouldn't...

This is why I'm all in/all out. I can't figure out how to make the R:R work well for me. I've even had detailed lessons (with full illustrations) from an ET-er regarding scaling/adding to winners and I wasn't comfy with it. I like to just ring the cash register often and cut the losses quickly :p