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@Cliffsafari1 @TechCharts ITKY probably the nearest LSE ticker

@TechCharts Hi Aksel, could you please recommend me whats the closest alternative to this traded on the London stock exchange? I love this chart but cant trade it 🥲

Emerging Markets fund managers, Asset Allocators... Are you paying attention? Don't tell me afterwards, woodoo, squigly lines, reading tea leaves etc... This is called a H&S bottom reversal. The longer the base the stronger the breakout and the directional movement. I leave the accompanying fundamental narrative to you. $TUR.

@karaoke_andi They don't appear regularly, usually it's a daily or weekly set up. The gold short being a recent one I did well off. But not been easy of late to be honest as every day brings a new narrative or trump tweet. But eventually the environment will come back in my favour

@Aimlesstrader1 If you can identify that big trade and manage it with size: well done.

One trade per week? Here is my take on it. It's like with fighting. A punching bag doesn't fight back. Only the real thing prepares you. A lot of guys in this space tell you "1 model, 1 trade per week, all you need". I am not saying there is merit in "less is more". I am just telling you that I sometimes fire 10-20 trades per day. Real money on the line. Now I am asking you: who builds the skill faster? The guy who hits the punching bag or the guy who engages in sparring? The guy who takes one trade per week or the guy who puts on multiple trades per day?

@karaoke_andi Same in many European countries that have been taken over by the open border, net zero zealots all pushing the same agenda. The average person in the UK is increasingly financially strained, depressed and so sick of our politicians it will eventually boil over at some point

I left Germany years ago. And I will never return. Maybe to visit- but not to live. As for my reasons - there are too many for a tweet. But if you are interested, here is a young man who argues in a manner that I would mostly agree to. youtu.be/HQvSItqdd5o?is…

@karaoke_andi @TomHougaard Nice one Andi. Will be sure to tune in 👍

Announcement: I haven't really talked about my relationship with @TomHougaard. It didn't feel right use his reach to to boost my comparatively humble social media presence. But we are not only good friends but I was also involved in some of Toms research and other projects. Since Tom has already written a message to his followers on Telegram, I believe I am free to announce this here as well: I will continue to trade live on Wednesdays. On Tom's stream. This way, Tom gets a day off per week and can focus on his own research. Starting maybe already as early as next Wednesday. Toms team first needs to set me up. I will keep you posted. Needless to say: This is a very big honor for me.

@paxtrader777 @Popinnashop9 tradingview.com/script/uQcWEOm…

@Popinnashop9 I don’t know.

The end of the month/quarter is always an interesting trade and one you don't usually want to step in front of. Here is the rotations in ES and NQ. Yesterday we had 7 rotations lower, today we had close to 7 rotations higher. These levels are know and tradable at 8:30:30 CST after the OR is set. This isn't rocket science.

@karaoke_andi I prefer SRS as a continuation such as today. Dax already puking, plenty of chance to get short + add on the SRS or enter if you'd been hesitant. Weds for example, price action was chopping around the opening range so low probability. I watch the 1m for flags to hone entries too

Most of my entries are based on Tom Hougaards research: I trade the SRS and Expresso. Yes, I put my own twist on them and genuinely made them my own. But! At the end of the day, if you trade Tom Hougaard's entries, you need to know that they are neither technical analysis nor fundamental analysis types of setups. Tom calls them "situational analysis". He looks at the 2nd 15 minute bar in the DAX and asks himself "what would have happend if I bought above and sold short below?". He would then go - manually (!) - through months and months worth of charts and and came to a conclusion. Basically those setups are based on past market behavior, backed up by manual backtesting. They are very specific and happen always as breakout-trades over a given time-interval. Why am I talking about this in great depth? Because if you happen to trade Tom's setups, you need to know that. Especially in a news-driven market that we encounter right now with loops of fear (new lows) and heasitation (chop!) you can't always predict what's happening by looking back at what is, most of the time, a "regular" market. You need to adapt to this environment by either assuming a scalping mindset or also consider staying flat. I have been in this game now for a while and I know when to be careful. When in doubt, stay out.

@Borg74 @CrosbyMarc17518 @icooperTrades If everyone understood it there'd be no edge

@CrosbyMarc17518 @icooperTrades Hi Marc, I don’t predict. I follow price. You will never see in a post the word predict from me. I use charts to follow price. I also never invented anything. There is no need to- price is king. Just apply the same techniques that previous market wizards applied. Keep it simple.

@icooperTrades #Silver looks bullish to me. That’s the beauty of charting it’s inherently subjective. Two traders can look at the same chart and draw completely different conclusions. Ian sees it as bearish; I see constructive price action building on the long side. Both views are valid what matters is execution and risk management and ultimately the P/L will be the confirmation.

Closed out three quarters today on the pump, nice little trade and no need to take unnecessary weekend risk. COT shows record shorts. Hopefully goes lower next week to reload with the idea being to try and catch a move up if the shorts unwind

Nice move so far

Shorts on sugar near record levels. Often this occurs near turning points as no one left to sell and you can get a nice bounce as shorts have to unwind. Very good level above to target but as of yet no reason to enter. Worth putting on the watchlist and looking at each day

@LindseyGrahamSC I despise our government but perhaps they are wanting to avoid being led into another disastrous illegal Middle Eastern war? And this time the opponent has the ability to fight back

If it turns out to be true that Britain is denying the United States the ability to use British bases against Iran if there is a necessity for an attack - it would be beyond surprising.  I’ve been a military lawyer most of my adult life. What they’re saying about the status of Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK military base, is a huge question.  The bottom line is the largest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet is the weakest it’s been because the people of Iran have risen up by the millions to end their oppression and the United States and Israel have delivered crushing blows to the regime’s military infrastructure.  To my friends in Britain, sitting this one out puts you on the wrong side of history and is yet another example of how much our alliances throughout Europe have degraded.

@FESX_Fiddler I do appreciate any and all views and opinions though. The only reason I post stuff on here is to learn more about my decision making in real-time, to look back on what I was thinking and improve on it. Some stuff works great, some stuff needs a LOT more work!

@FESX_Fiddler Cheers, that is a good observation. I believe that going into the day with a bearish opinion obscured my thought process. That said, it did run some 50pts in my favour initially, which would've been a nice quick trade, but I held + paid for it. But your thoughts are noted 👍

Dax in this broadening formation, would like to get back in short tomorrow and look for the year's opening range. Inflation data tomorrow could piss all over these bearish ideas so maybe have to get that out of the way first or size small

The anticipated set up occurred from the marked level, offering over 300pts. However as I was busy working I wasn't able to pay any attention to the US session unfortunately

Lovely set up on the Dow. False breakout, would like to retest that solid level from below and target the year's opening range. Looks very nice at the moment

Out for a small loss as wrong

Dax short below previous day's low

Pleased with the exit, round tripped the entire move. Anyway, enough fooking around for tonight. Got solid plans for tomorrow which I posted earlier, let's see what happens

And out for +250. That wasn't a bad trade I don't think, especially after messing up the original idea by dithering over 30 points around my entry. But you need to have some kind of rules of entry even if it means missing a monster move. At least I got in + out on my terms

We're inside this gap on the Nikkei, if price hits the upper level around 57400 I would definitely look to try a short. Whether it gets there or not is another matter