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12/11/2020 #NDX Sell is over... You sure?We had a strong up day yesterday, after #NDX found support. I was wrong with my direction but my plan painted the correct picture. Price found support above 11714-30 (my blue zone) and rallied from there, and 11920 capped high of day as my plan shows. 11922 will remain a strong R for today. Usually on an up day, my bias zone will be lower for a buy, but today it remains at this 11900-22. Above 11922, we look at 12022 and 12068 for resistance. 12146 should cap high of day. Below 11922, be cautiously bearish, targeting 11834, 11804 and 11726-30 (yesterday's strong support zone) and 11682 is below. 11550 should cap low of day.
OANDA:NAS100USD
by FadeMeIfYouCan
11/11/2020 #NDX looking for further downside#NDX continues to be weak. Consolidation yesterday. Downside risk still exist. Price is now at my orange zone where we can sell from here, but I also factor in a possible deeper pullback to 11672-84 or even 11714-28. These levels aren't far away. You can actually scale in along the way up, if that's your trading style, or watch for reactions off the zones. Downside levels are 11500, 11440-11460 (strong support zone), 11290, 11330 and 11158. If big selloff, 11074 should offer low risk buy level. Above my blue zone, look for 11856 and 11920 for reaction. Not expecting price above that. If 12080 trades today, selling shall be good
OANDA:NAS100USDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
11/11/2020 #SPX Either way. We have a Doji daily close yesterday. In terms of price action, difficult to predict. Either way is possible #NDX weakness will continue to weigh on #SPX though #RTY is strong (staying new highs). Price now in my blue zone 3544-54. Above we have 3573.2-76 and 3600 as resistance. 3614, if we reach there should offer low risk sell level. If 3544 breaks, look for 3520-22 then 3480-88 if yesterday's low are taken out. This is a strong support zone so might have a bounce. 3464 is next level while 3446 should cap the lows of day
OANDA:SPX500USD
by FadeMeIfYouCan
10/11/2020 #XAU #gold flat to minor selling todayMy bias was bearish yesterday. Perfectly hit my resistance and went down 100 dollars to hit my support. Now bouncing up. Watch 1890.48-91.84-96 for possible pullback to this zone for further down. With such a huge swing yesterday, today's action should be more muted. Looking at more sideways to down, but not too much off a sell If it moves upon 1896, it might trade to 1904.64, 1921.22, 1928.12. High of day should be capped at 1935.16. If it pullbacks back from 1890, look for 1847.9 (yesterday's low) to be re-tested, then 1841.16 and 1818.24. 1774.92, if it sells off again, will offer good buy.
OANDA:XAUUSDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
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10/11/2020 #NDX lost all its shine. And things look gloomy aheadInteresting how #DJIA, #RTY, #SPX made ATH yesterday, only for #NDX to crash instead. Price action and other signs points to more down ahead. But 11680 or so need to breech. Take it one step at a time. Inability of #NDX to cross 11920 points to more down ahead, targeting 11714-30, 11632-46, 11532, 11438. 11330 will cap low of day. Just providing even lower levels at 11220 and 11088 if there is any unforeseen movement. We might have, but I think unlikely, a deeper pullback to 12030-56 zone. But it will be zone to look for shorts. 12240 should cap high of day. If yesterday's high trade again, sell!
OANDA:NAS100USDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
10/11/2020 #EURUSD Down bias but 1.1802 needs to break.Eurusd came down as I predicted, based on price action. Price hit a strong support and now up. Short term bias is up, but with yesterday's strong down candle, this is likely a pullback. Price approaching 1.18432-52.Good R:R to go short. If it breeches this zone, be cautiously bullish, targeting 1.1890 and 1.19160. Unlikely price will hit 1.1962. It will present a low risk sell level. Below we need to break 1.1798-802 - strong support. Multiple supports below, just fy - 1.1784-88, 1.1766-702. Trail ur stops if you are short. If these are cleared, 1.17208 should be easy
Short
by FadeMeIfYouCan
10/11/2020 #SPX volatile times aheadYesterday was a volatile day. Made ATH and more but on low volume and it back came down. But RTY didn't came down as much thus this is something to take note of if you think a crash is coming. But bias to the downside below 3584. 3572-84 is the zone to watch, for a pullback and good short. Below targets are 3510,3492.6, 3470-80, 3466, 3452, 3426-35.6. If 3584 breaks, upside resistance will be 3614, 3644 and 3673.4, yesterday's high and R, should cap high of day
OANDA:SPX500USDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
09/11/2020 #NDX #NQ_F Up and up. Till it stopsMarket opened gap up on Biden's win, though the win is probably expected since last week. Price is going higher on momentum. Overextended but it is difficult to call tops and you need skill to short such a market. Price is above 1st resistance at 12270. We should get a pullback before going higher, targets above are 12428, 12502. In the event of FOMO buying, 12742 should cap high of day. If 12158 breaks, look for shorts, targetting 12034, 11922-48 and 11858.11800 will safely cap lows of day
OANDA:NAS100USD
by FadeMeIfYouCan
Proving Your Trading System with BacktestingWouldn’t it be great to see the future? To see where turning points in price will occur with a high degree of accuracy? To see if a trading system that you developed or bought or learned actually works? Well, you can, with a method called BACKTESTING.  Backtesting performs three important functions: 1: It helps you IDENTIFY the reliability / win rate of your trading system over time. 2: It helps develop and reinforce the muscle memory you need to EXECUTE opportunities in your trading strategy 3: It helps you continually REFINE / improve your strategy as you observe it work against price action, ultimately increasing your "hit rate" as a professional trader. The first requirement of a trading system is that it works via RULES. There are no 'hunches' in the market... the market has *specific* behavior patterns and our job as traders is to recognize those patterns and *capitalize* on them. Backtesting has three important requirements: The first requirement is that your trading platform supports backtesting. Can you go back "x" amount of time and look at the timeframe(s) you need to make the decisions you would have made if you were "in the moment" in an efficient manner in order for you to simulate hundreds of trade setups? The second requirement is that *you* are willing to put the energy and work into testing your trading system within an inch of its life before you risk a single penny of your trading capital. You need to know WHEN the system works, WHERE the system fails, and WHY the system worked and failed when it did, and that takes hundreds (if not thousands!) of simulated trades to do so. As you are observing the system in action you will begin to "see" the patterns in a new light. It will become more and more intuitive and you will find opportunities to 'tweak' the system as you go along. You will identify patterns when trades fail and stop trading that pattern. You will see opportunities that got away and you can 'tweak' your system to take advantage of those opportunities. Most importantly, you will see whether the system even works reliably at all and ditch it if it doesn't. It may be frustrating to decide to do so, but the good news is you will not have lost a single penny trading a faulty system to begin with! TRACKING YOUR TRADING SYSTEM To track the accuracy of your trading system you will need to setup a spreadsheet that will record the important variables you want to track. For example, you may want to include the headers, Asset / Date / Time In / Time Out / Long or Short / Reward to Risk Ratio / Gain or Loss / Account Balance The "Reward to Risk Ratio" column is the most important. If you read my previous column, "Trade Like a Pirate" ... ... I discuss that you need to think in terms of Percent Risk per trade ("R") and not Dollars. This will show you how well your strategy works. For Example, if after tracking 100 trades you find out that your system has a 33% success rate, your account will grow by 1% for every three trades if you follow a minimum 3:1 Reward to Risk Ratio (3 -1 -1 = +1). If you find on average 6 trades per day, your account can potentially grow by 2% per day. Under the "Account Balance" column, if you add the trade's win/loss to your previous account balance you can determine how long it would take to get 'x' amount of money from where you started (or how long it will take and inferior system to lose it all as well!) Testing your trading system also shows you how many opportunities present themselves per day / per hour and when the best time is to go 'fishing' for trades. Backtesting might tell you that you need to wake up 2 hours earlier (and go to bed 2 hours earlier) if you want to achieve the goal of replacing your car in 6 months. Or fire your boss in 24 months. Or pay off the mortgage in 3 years. Having a plan to *make* money should also include your plans on how and when you want to *spend* that money - how you will 'pay yourself'. Socrates famously said “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Likewise the unexamined trading system is not worth putting your hard earned money into. The more you backtest your system, the more you will gain (or lose) confidence in the system which will ultimately determine the actions you will take. Another happy by-product is that not only will you be able to refine your trading system, but you yourself will be continually refined in the fire of the market, exercising your mental muscles looking for opportunities that meet your particular trading system. For instance, by analyzing all my losing trades in my first batch of 100, I was able to identity a pattern in the formations common to all failing trades but not winning trades. I then modified my trading system to exclude trades which showed that pattern, increasing my success rate by 30% in the next 100 trades I tested with the new system. Not happy with that, I went through my losing trades from Round 2 and found another common pattern among them. Eliminating those, I modified my system and increased my success rate by yet another 20%. Finding what works is often a product of finding out what doesn't work, and just stop doing that! If you need advice on how to stop a bad habit, just listen to Bob Newhart: www.youtube.com Finally, just as any athlete will you tell you that you should "Warm Up" before performing any strenuous exercise, one thing my backtesting system has taught me is that I need to spend the first 30 minutes of my trading day "warming up" by finding all the opportunities that presented themselves in the Futures market during the overnight session and log them in my spreadsheet. Likewise at the end of the day I look at all opportunities I might have missed so I can reduce the likelihood of missing them again. The original title of this article was "Backtesting to the Future" which reflected this habit: by 'warming up' before actually trading I got my mind prepared to "see the opportunities" for the future day ahead, and I identified these patterns a lot better than I would have if I entered the pool cold and experienced the 'cramp' of a losing trade. Admittedly, backtesting a highly visual concept, so I will be following up this article with a video showing an example of my backtesting strategy and how you can model my system to meet the needs of *your* system. As I love to say, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Likewise, "Good traders copy... Great traders steal." I hope you can steal some of these ideas and have them help improve your trading game! Share your thoughts and success below! As always, I'd love to hear if this has helped you become more confident and profitable in your trading. Like and Follow if you haven't already and you will be alerted to when I post the followup video! Trade hard and trade well!
Education
by ocaptain
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05/11/2020 #SPX #ES_F Bullish yes but pullback will be healthy Yesterday was US Presidential Elections Day. Outcome still not known but seem like Biden is going to win it. Lots of up down in between and fake downs but bulls win it. No doubt price is bullish but based on price action, pullback is possible today. Price now at my 1st R and pullbacked 20pts. See if this level will hold. Bias still up above 3412-22. But in the event that this breaks, look for 3392, 3356 (strong support level) to trade. If 3324 breaks, look for reaction at 3324. In the event 3262 trades today, it will be a low risk buy level.
OANDA:SPX500USDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
04/11/2020 #ES_F #SPX Today decides the next trendAt time of this plan, price has made alot of reaction with my levels, which is a gd sign that such levels still hold during volatile times like this. I have a hunch, yes HUNCH that we are going to sell off by end of day. I am often wrong so #comeandfademe. Upside targets above my blue bias zone (3356-70) are 3402, 3415.2, 3436, each of which have nicely held some advances. Upper resistances are 3480 and 3544. Below short targets are 3322-24 support zone, 3316.6, 3304, 3276, 3242, 3224. In the event of heavy sell off, 3196 should cap low of day. Trade safe
OANDA:SPX500USDShort
by FadeMeIfYouCan
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04/11/2020 #EURUSD #FOREX Elections outcome will decide it allThis is a late post and price has already moved. But my levels are not based on what's past so everything is moving according to levels. From yesterday's strong up candle, we would expect today to continue but as can be seen, it has been whipsawing. My bias zone would be at 1.1712-20; safer to go long above and short below. As the election results is going to come out, it remains anyone's guess as to how the day will pan out. For now, bearish momentum still persist, but as I always say, news can change anything. Upside targets will be 1.1766, 1.1786, with resistance zone at 1.1802-12 capping high of day. Downside targets will be 1.1692, 1.1678, 1.1646, 1.1616-18 and 1.1562-72. In the event of strong selling, I will be looking at 1.15 to cap low of day. Trade safe.
Short
by FadeMeIfYouCan
03/11/2020 #SPX #ES_F Either way is possible Elections day. Market was up yesterday and do look to continue - though on my system it is bearish on both monthly and weekly. But expect some volatility today (or maybe tomorrow) and thus either direction is possible. My bias zone is at 3306-12. Currently price is up, supported by my 3320-24.6 resistance zone. Upside targets are 3345.2-50. 3362-64 should cap high of day. Based on price action, we might have a deeper pullback to 3292-98.6 but still go up. Do nothing between 3298.6-3306. Below 3292, look for shorts, target 3266, 3212-8.6. If 3196 trades, it should cap low of day, presenting low risk buy level.
OANDA:SPX500USD
by FadeMeIfYouCan
03/11/2020 EURUSD - looking for a pullback dayEURUSD is bearish on daily, weekly, monthly timeframe, with 5 days of down candle. But with sell slowing down, looking for a pullback. My blue zone for low risk buy/sell is at 1.1634-40. Admittedly my post came late and we had moved up. Immediate resistance is at 1.1656, 1.1672, 1.1690. 1.1712-22 is a resistance zone and should cap high of day. In the event 1.1634 does not hold, 1.1624, 1.16060, 1.1590, 1.1560-70 are the support/short targets. 1.15020 is very far out. In the unlikely event this level trade today, it will offer a low risk buy level.
Long
by FadeMeIfYouCan
02/11/2020 #SPX Possible Up DayOn monthly, weekly, daily, #SPX is on a downtrend based on my system. But price action wise, with Friday's doji close, we look to go higher. This post is later than my usual, some opportunity might be lost already. Price already pullback to 3251 which was my long/short zone. 3273-77 is the other reaction zone to go long, and price is currently above. Upside resistance will be at 3310-16. 3345-3355 is strong resistance, and it should cap high of day. In the event 3248 breaks, unlikely today IMO, 3195-3204 will be support. 3165-3175 is strong support, and should cap low of day.
OANDA:SPX500USDLong
by FadeMeIfYouCan
30/10/2020 #FTSE Where next?FTSE looks like a bear flag is forming.But with yesterday's reasonable daily close, both sides can be played today. My blue zone - above 5587 for longs, target 5603, 5637, 5685. Be nimble and trail stops. I have a hunch we will see 5685, but hunch are hunch. Trade what you see. Below 5569, be short. 5539 should offer a bounce as it is yesterday's low. We might even bounce here and rally. Below are 5489. 5443 is strong support, should cap low of day.
OANDA:UK100GBP
by FadeMeIfYouCan
30/10/2020 #SPX Cautiously BullishI tweeted on 22 Oct when SPX is at 3422, we will see a down before end of year to 3140, 3062, 2888. I called a possible pullback yesterday (29/10) in #NDX. Pullback occurred. When everyone is bullish, news out. Market tanked 300 pts - just at the hit of my R zone (see my other #TradingView post). So where next? I am bearish longer term but intraday, we MIGHT see price go up today. Yesterday's daily candle was a doji. Price action wise, going up 1st looks more likely. It is not easy to call another up day when a pullback has already happened. But I shall. 3267-73 is support zone. Going long here with a tight stop below 67 offers good R:R, targets are 3295, 3323, 3331, 3355. If some news cause some rally, 3363 should cap high of day. Low risk sell level. If you are conservative, close above 3295 will provide confirmation for a up day. If 67 breaks, target 3249, 3212.5. 3185 should offer strong support to cap down move.
OANDA:SPX500USDLong
by FadeMeIfYouCan