ES & EC Futures Analysis

Trading Strategies

< I know I know I really need to get going on completing this section of the site! I’ll hurry up! Promise! >

I made a mistake of trying to read everything ever written when learning trading, and it took me several years to realize that trading comes down the simplest things, and figuring out 2-5 simple high probability trades, most of which will be summarized about a page each in this section of the blog. Figuring out those simple trades is only 5% of the trouble. The remaining 95% of conquering yourself and natural human psychology related to the business of trading.

• About Trading

  • 40 Bits of Trading Wisdom
  • Cycle of Trading Emotions
  • Trading is NOT for everyone
  • Don’t Mess With Trading Gods

• Mental Process

  • Two Evils of Trading Discipline
  • Mark Douglas - Mind Over Market Video Interview
  • Training Yourself to Take Small Losses Quickly
  • Keep Breaking Rules? Take Control of Your Trading!

• Ambush Trade

  • What is an Ambush Trade? - Ambush Trade Basics

• Common Technical Setups

  • Support and Resistance Reversals
  • Box Trade
  • Opening Range
    • Opening Range Notes by Paul - excellent example of a trader using his own “magic sauce” to take advantage of daily Opening Range setups

• Trend Trade

• Market Internals Trades

• Scaling out / Limited Risk Trades

• Gap Fades / Trades

  • Using Opening Range in Trading Gaps
  • Example: Perfect Gap Fill Setup (using A/D, Trendlines and OR)

• Picking Tops & Bottoms

  • Picking Tops and Bottoms via 2B Reversal Pattern

• $Tick Trades

• Various Tips & Tricks

• Multiple Time / Tick / Volume Time Frames

  • Using Multiple Tick and Time Frames
  • ES Emini Futures Tick/Time Frames
  • Gold Futures Tick/Time Frames
  • Euro Fx Futures Tick/Time Frames
  • Currency Tick/Time Frames and Indicators
  • $TICK Time Frames

• Trading Rules

• Keeping a Journal

• Special Days

  • Dates
    • First day of July
  • Other

* - posts that appears under multiple strategies

< I will be posting more info as I go and filling in all of the above strategies over time >

There is no holy grail in trading, at least not one that you will find on a free analysis/trading blog, but there are certainly some useful tools that can supplement your trading:

TradeStation Indicators:

• BB Squeeze (Same concept as TTM Squeeze)
• Heikin Ashi Oscillator
• Binary Heikin Ashi Crossover
• Heikin Ashi Candles (similar to TTM Trend)
• Heikin Ashi Paintbars
• Market Delta

<By the time this section is done it will be a perfect not-too-little-not-too-much trading resource I wish I had when starting out, hopefully you will be able to take something out of this to incorporate into your trading>

Last Update July 22, 2009