Trading Strategies

Trading Strategies

2022 Revamp: Order Flow and Price Action Trading

The order Flow section covers about a dozen techniques used to identify and improve trading opportunities.

Check out the latest automated price action analysis that I (or my systems) will share on Twitter. Mostly looking for certain price action events to see if markets are trading in an area of interest.

VWAP Trading Basics – using vwap as price action clues. Touches and riding the bands

BTC Liquidity Pull – Looking for big buyers to exhaust or pull liquidity to trade in the direction of stuck trader demise.

Esec On Twitter – running summary of me automating some of the trading strategies

< I know I know I 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 to trade, and it took me several years to realize that trading comes down to 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 are 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
  • Multiple Strcuture Fixes – Attacking low tick of the day with weak structure, market internals and leading index
• 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 appear 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, hopefully you will be able to take something out of this to incorporate into your trading>