Intraday Momentum Scalping Strategy | Walk-Through | Nov. 30Sharing my daily overview of how to apply my SIMPLE intra-day momentum scalping strategy for beginners and advanced traders.
The instruments I'm trading are Gold, S&P500, EUR/USD, and GBP/JPY.
Everyday is the same process:
Identify an intraday directional bias
Identify the key levels
Identify trade entry triggers
Manage the trade with attention to "Actual Risk"
Simplestrategy
Simple Strategy with Good R&R (Works bullish or bearish)
1. identify the trend ; whether up (bullish) or down (bearish) .
2. Identify an impulse move to the up or down side.
3. Watch for a correction from the impulse, then wait for a retest and or bounce of the 800-day ema.
4. Wait for a bullish order block (OB) that closes above the 800-day ema. Then enter on the retest of the 800-day ema and go long or short accordingly.
5. stop loss below the corrections lowest low and take profit at the impulses highest high.
This works on all types of assets from AMEX:SPY to FX:EURUSD to BINANCE:BTCUSDT and even CME_MINI:ES1! .
USDCAD Long trade plan✅ Potential long opportunity at the break above 1.26 major level.
❌ Long bias invalidated when price trading below 1.2570.
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The real reason why no one makes money day tradingWhy don't we ever hear of successful day traders? Why does no one make money with this activity that is advertised as easy and profitable?
Simple. As Kenny father would say: "They took our jobs!" or "Dy-tk-urr-joo!". It is very general, it goes far beyond just finance.
First of all magical robots are not going to take everyone job! These calls are more sci-fi pseudoscience nonsense.
If you take the bottom 15% that do not, or hardly get any job it's nothing new.
The "job losing" is not something new. Just like alarmists screaming the world will end, everyone will lose their jobs, it's nothing new!
Thousands of years ago:
Arabia traders used donkeys for carrying stuff. Camels too I guess. And now they use trucks. Hey actually technology CREATED NEW JOBS.
Farmers very quickly used cows or horses to plow the land rather than farmhands! They lost their jobs thousands of years ago.
How did egyptians build giant pyramids? "Machines" and elephants? Sure weren't slaves picking up 10 ton blocks on their shoulders.
In the early era of the industrial revolution people did not lose their jobs, they got more of it. 80 hours week. Crazy!
Even kids were put to work. It required people to work on these machines.
And know what? Even with this very high demand for workers, the bottom people still had no jobs.
So what did the people at the bottom do historically?
Under the roman republic and empire they were often beggars and had something called "free bread", this is the reason why roman currency was constantly getting devalued, and it contributed to the collapse but it's not the only reason.
During middle age what jobs did they do if they had no jobs? Well primarily they simply died, of natural selection.
The few that survived had a form of welfare given by the church (alm/handout) or taken from islam 2.5% tax (zakat) for the needy (note it doesn't say "the lazy").
And often, or always, the few that did survive were either beggars or "village idiots" with kids throwing tomatoes and them, and the whole village making him their victim, making jokes about him, tricking him into believing a girl likes him, throwing him in the mud and spitting on him, convincing him to walk behind the cow's butt when she's about to...
Middle ages were hard times! Especially for the people at the bottom.
We can also note that the tax preconised in islam is of 2.5%, we are far from the social welfare of demagogues, in France they go as high as 30% of GDP.
It's simply insanity. Obviously it is unsustainable in the long term. Average citizen do not understand that, and it goes slowly, like in the boiling frog story.
Most of the government welfare of France is taking from workers (via their employer so they don't see it), and then give it back to them.
The USA have decided to go even further than the world leader I just mentioned, and are now throwing stimies and benefits around.
Just like Rome where people stopped working, until Julius Caesar put his foot down, many americans have stopped working. They make more sitting at home.
To get back to day trading and other simple trading strategies, I want to remind that while beign quite simple it is not simple to the point a trained dog can do it.
A donkey can carry heavy stuff, but it couldn't operate a cashier machine, or be a day trader.
Just like to be a cashier which is very simple you do need some basic abilities, managing numbers, recognizing different buttons on the machine (or patterns for the day trader), not everyone can do it. As always, the bottom 15% can't do any of this. Society (any society) has nothing it can possibly get them to do.
Day trading, like floor trading, like market making, like basic trend following, like scalping, is all simple (enough) and repetitive average people can do it.
And they all lost their jobs 20 years ago! In some cases 10 years ago. Only the best bank traders kept their jobs after 2008 if I am correct.
Institutions need people with brains, and all the simple entry jobs vanished. Don't worry about the people at the top, they'll always have a job.
It's the "hit a nail and repeat" jobs that go away, AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE I REPEAT IT.
Martin Schwartz is a famous day trader from the 80s. He quit about 20 years ago and today is into ... horse races. Day gamblers...
It "stopped working". Back in the 90s there was a famous group called the SOES bandits, they abused Nasdaq market makers.
As Nasdaq fixed the issue, automating much of the repetitive no-brain process, the "edge" disappeared. Not sure we can call what they did legal.
Richard Dennis was a trader from the 80s, known for his "turtle" trend following strategy. A very dumb, very simple strategy, that made him insane returns when applied to commodities markets like sugar in the era where the saudis & soviets kept buying it, he probably didn't even know why the price was going up.
He really thought he discovered a holy grail (Dunning-Kruger bias), lost a lot of money and quit more than 20 years ago. Now he sells courses.
Most of his "fans" from the time, that did what he did, quit, a few adapted and made it.
You can find some old documentaries, and more recent interviews, of John "Rambo" Moulton. He is a typical (ok, maybe not typical) floor trader that made money screaming "BUY" when he heard George Soros was taking a large position, I think he also did some live stat-arb, which I would not call average and accessible to anyone. He explains he cannot possibly compete with the algos anymore, and could have tried to make money speculating but decided to simply retire as most of his career was behind him.
Sure, at some time people of average intelligence could, with regular 8 hour days, and as long as they "managed their emotions", make money with day trading, scalping, basic trend following, and more. But it has not been the case for at least 20 years. Now the only people making money these ways that we hear about are selling trading signals or courses. Please.
All simple repetitive jobs are destined to disappear. That's the way it is.
And why do so many people absolutely want to go in the dumbest trading job there is, even if it worked? Talk about a lack of ambition. I think it's rather their great ignorance, and being gullible, somehow they think a dumb repetitive job is going to make tons more money than the more difficult jobs, AND big firms won't be running algos that eat all their profits away. "As long as I use indicators and control my emotions" lmao like it's their super power, this idiotic argument that crooks throw at them to justify something that makes absolutely no sense. Like "infinite productivity because it's virtual" during the dotcom bubble, or "but it's a pile of sh*t" "ah but it has sprinkles on it".
I have an explanation. Smart people do not fall for daytrading. It's not 90% of just any group that fall for daygambling.
It is possible (even very likely) that smart people know to stay away, and the people that get attracted in the first place are gambling addicts and average or dumb people.
As if 90% of people that answer scam mails end up scammed, but the people answering the mail in the first place are already not very bright so it's really not 90% of the general population.
Just do what works... 90% of retail traders want to be a hipster. Often even if they do try they don't have the balls to hold their winners and cut their losses.
It goes their way, then comes back against them, and all of a sudden they are sweating and their head turns all red then they explode they can't help but close.
It goes against them they hold and say they are "diamond hands" and feel intense relief when it comes back to breakeven (disgusting noobs).
If you don't have the qualities required like being able to hold winners, go away, shoo shoo.
If you struggle with numbers, aren't intellectually gifted, wtf are you doing? This looks like manual labor to you? The snake oil salesman saying it's simple as long as "eMoTiOnS" just wants your money, shoo shoo.
You are allowed to invest, but go invest in low risk mutal portfolios and diversified index funds, don't aim for the hardest job in the world.
Other than that well welcome to the jungle, and good luck.
I could be much more harsh, I'm just dishing out the truth so please, day traders, no death threats.
Ford: Simple strategy says buy.Updating my recent analysis, Simple Strategy says that Ford is now a buy. The MACD is above the signal and above 0, the top BB is pointed up, and the RSI is above 70. Of course, all that said, today is earnings day, so if they miss the mark there, all of the technical analysis is for naught.
I am long F, and I am not a financial advisor. Just a smooth brain ape trying to make a buck playing with green strips of paper. Don't listen to anything I say.
Ford: Almost time to buy in.If you follow Heitkoetter's Simple Strategy, Ford is nearing a buy opportunity. The upper Bollinger band points up, and the MACD has crossed the signal and is about to move positive. Barely. That said, the RSI is low, sitting in the mid 50s.
The MACD is ONLY BARELY past the signal, and the RSI is low. If you already have Ford stock (and I have for over a decade), continue to hodl. If you want to enter, you could, but I would say that the Simple Strategy would tell you to look for other investments. Of course, the market hasn't opened yet, and I am not giving you financial advice. I am just reading the bones, and you should not listen to me.
Simple Strategy says hold off on Ford, but be ready.I am long on Ford, and I just like the stock. I've held F since the early 2000's, so... take this with a grain of salt.
If you follows Markus Heitkoetter's Simple Strategy, the charts say don't buy yet, but get ready. I expect the MACD and Signal MACD to cross in the near future.
EURNZD and Sell Area (9/7/2020)Sell limit
1.73655
SL at 1.74570
TP1 at 1.72910
TP2 at 1.72060
TP3 at 1.71170
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EURJPY and Sell Area (13/7/2020)Sell limit
121.070
SL at 121.460
TP1 at 120.680
TP2 at 120.330
TP3 at 119.900
TP4 at 119.500
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AUDJPY and Sell Area (13/7/2020)Sell limit
74.515
SL at 74.730
TP1 at 74.315
TP2 at 74.115
TP3 at 73.930
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GBPJPY and Sell Area (13/7/2020)Sell limit
135.170
SL at 135.465
TP1 at 134.830
TP2 at 134.450
TP3 at 133.860
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GBPCAD and Buy Area (9/7/2020)Buy limit
1.69905
SL at 1.69445
TP1 at 1.70230
TP2 at 1.70470
TP3 at 1.70830
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USDCHF and Sell Area (9/7/2020)Sell limit
0.94100
SL at 0.94265
TP1 at 0.93945
TP2 at 0.93855
TP3 at 0.93740
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GBPAUD and Buy Area (9/7/2020)Buy limit
1.79995
SL at 1.79563
TP1 at 1.80320
TP2 at 1.80525
TP3 at 1.80860
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USDJPY and Sell Area (9/7/2020)Sell limit
107.390
SL at 107.480
TP1 at 107.310
TP2 at 107.230
TP3 at 107.160
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GBPUSD and Buy Area (8/7/2020)Buy limit
1.25275
SL at 1.25100
TP1 at 1.25440
TP2 at 1.25615
TP3 at 1.25770
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GBPCAD and Buy Area (8/7/2020)Buy limit
1.70112
SL at 1.69865
TP1 at 1.70340
TP2 at 1.70595
TP3 at 1.70870
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GBPCHF and Buy Area (8/7/2020)Buy limit
1.18020
SL at 1.17875
TP1 at 1.18165
TP2 at 1.18285
TP3 at 1.18430
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EURNZD and Sell Area (7/7/2020)Sell limit
1.73735
SL at 1.74185
TP1 at 1.73330
TP2 at 1.72890
TP3 at 1.72440
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EURCAD and Buy Area (7/7/2020)Buy limit
1.52925
SL at 1.52725
TP1 at 1.53125
TP2 at 1.53310
TP3 at 1.53500
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EURUSD and Buy Area (7/7/2020)Buy limit
1.12840
SL at 1.12650
TP1 at 1.13005
TP2 at 1.13170
TP3 at 1.13350
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