[Blueprint] How to Plan and Execute Winning Trades 🎯💰
If you trade Futures, watch my interview on
#FuturesRadio
to learn:
☑ Tools I use for intraday trading
☑ The role of daily preparation
☑ How waiting for price confirmation can ruin your Edge!
[VIDEO] Simple Strategy for Becoming a Consistently Profitable
#Futures
Trader (the Zone Fade setup)
As always, I'd appreciate it if you would Like ❤️ and Share/Repost 🔁 (regardless of how many followers you have).
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I was born in a little town (village) in Pakistan. As a matter of fact, so was my friend who owns the McLaren in this pic. We don’t come from money and had nothing handed to us.
If we can make it, so can you 👊🏻
Have a great weekend! 🙌🏻🙏🏻
#NoExcuses
#BlockTheHaters
If you're a discretionary day trader, regardless of the method, here's how you can simplify your trading:
On the day time-frame, there are really just two big sources of Edge: Trade Location and Momentum. So, every time you take a trade, ask yourself what the source of Edge is?
If you want to learn more about my approach to trading, here are a few free resources:
1. Interview on Futures Radio podcast:
2. Webinar I held for members explaining my methodology:
3. Risk Mgmt Webinar:
The Blueprint for Planning and Executing Winning Trades
My 2nd time on
#FuturesRadio
with
@AnthonyCrudele
-- always a pleasure!
Hope you find our discussion to be helpful to your trading! 🙏
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The idea of making X dollars a day (like $1,000/day) is marketing bullshit peddled by people who don't actually trade. I don't know a single professional trader who thinks that way.
As a trader, your P&L will not be evenly distributed throughout the week/month/year.
That's why
"Initiative vs Responsive" is a critical concept for active traders (share/RT if you find this to be helpful).
Any time the market is opening below the recent range (usually 1-4 day range) or below an important swing low (especially when it's oversold into Support), we need to
I hadn't run stats on $ES_F in quite some time.
@DoubleWideCap
's recent post on Overnight High/Low stats inspired me to run the stats myself (note: just because someone shares stats online doesn't mean you shouldn't run the
#s
; there is benefit in doing the work yourself).
Since
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the EminiPlayer site 🥳
The 1st
#ES_F
Trade Plan was posted for March 29, 2010. Since then, the day’s Trade Plan and Zones have been posted every morning ~30 min before the Open, with the day’s Recap posted after the Close: 5,000+ posts 🤯
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Traders: If you'd like to learn about my trading methodology, check out this webinar recording where I teach the basics of my method and how to best use the EminiPlayer daily analysis to consistently find quality setups in the E-mini S&P: -- Pls RT!
I recently held a Webinar for members to teach the basics of my methodology.
Since then, I've received so many emails from non-members requesting the recording. So, I've decided to make the webinar publicly available "on-demand" here: -- Pls RT, thanks!
Today marks 14 years since the launch of the website!
The 1st post was published on Monday, March 29th 2010, and now here we are with over 7,000 posts in the Archive.
It has been a pleasure! ❤️
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Trading is not for everyone. It requires a lot of effort and perseverance, and the truth is, most aren't willing to put in the effort required. If the allure of "easy money" got you into trading and you don't love the process of figuring out this puzzle, I suggest you quit now.
If this video triggers you, let me add some context that might change your default emotion from ‘hate’ to ‘motivate’
I was born in a small town in Pakistan. We moved to Chicago when I was 4 years old. Started from nothing. Had nothing handed to me. I’ve been working and
Anyone that says making a $100K a year in the market is "as easy as making $400 a day" is someone you should not be listening to. NO successful person, whether it be a profitable trader or a successful business owner, thinks in terms of X dollars a day. NONE.
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#Trading
You're not happy with 1 $ES contract bringing in $3-4K per month? Scale that to 10 and it's $30-40K per month. Scale it to 100 and it's $300-400k per month.
I've looked into options multiple times. Way harder to make big money with options! I'll stick with futures. ❤️ $ES_F
Many would call my trading style ‘boring’ since I only look for 1-3 high quality setups each day (and I’m ok with zero trades if a good opportunity doesn’t present itself).
I don’t trade for thrills. I trade to make 💰— which I then use to get the thrills elsewhere 😅
Print this Tweet as a reminder:
1. You don't need additional reasons to take a Zone Fade.
2. The ZONE itself is enough of a reason to take the trade.
3. Market exhausted into Zone = Automatic Fade
4. It's not about THIS zone working.
5. Trust long-term edge and expectancy.
Free resources to learn about my
#trading
methodology:
1. Interview on
#FuturesRadio
podcast:
2. Webinar explaining my methodology:
3. Simple
#strategy
for profits:
4. Risk Mgmt:
We had a 50 minute Live Recap webinar yesterday going over exactly how to "Execute" the "Trade Plan". Execution is everything!!!
If this tweet gets 100 Likes, I'll post the recording of yesterday's Live Recap and Q&A webinar here for everyone. Happy Friday 🙂
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1. You don't need additional reasons to take a Zone Fade
2. The ZONE itself is enough of a reason to take the trade
3. 1st Test = Highest odds of Response
4. Market exhausted into Zone = Higher odds
5. It's not about THIS zone working. Trust long-term edge & expectancy
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I'm sure you've heard the phrase "f*ck you money" -- a level of wealth/networth where you don't have to answer to anyone and are self-sufficient.
True freedom!
Most people think of this as having tens (or hundreds) of millions in the bank.
But you don't need tens of millions
New "trader": I hate my job that pays $70k. I wanna become a trader and make 6-7 figures from home and even though it took a college degree, student loans and years of experience to get to $70K in my job, I wanna make 6-figures in the markets with zero effort and in my 1st year.
* Be present
* Be objective
* Be prepared, but don't over-predict
* It's OK to have a market view as long as you also know what the market has to do in order to invalidate your view
* Remain flexible
* It's a game of probabilities. Trust your long-term edge
* Always be improving
There are no secrets. I want to teach everything I know so when I do end up retiring, you'll have everything I've learned (at least up until that point)
I want to see the success stories. Knowing I've played a small part in it is enough motivation to keep me going. Lets do this!
Based on my method, there are usually 1-3 clear trade setups every day.
But, based on the questions I get, some traders are dead set on trying to make money in the most difficult way possible. Go for the low hanging fruit people! Why make it more difficult than it needs to be?
If you're a developing trader working on becoming profitable (or even an experienced trader for that matter), instead of over-analyzing the market where it is RIGHT NOW and trying to make a trading decision RIGHT NOW...look 10-20 points out in both directions and Pre-plan trade
Pro tip: if you're following traders who are constantly whining about how difficult this market is...do yourself and your mind a favor and un-follow them. No one needs that negative garbage in their head, especially while trading. I follow very few traders.
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#Trading
Grateful for another fantastic week in the market. Lets close it off with a bang!
Ferrari replacement is en route from Lamborghini Gold Coast (Chicago) to Orange County, California. Decided to go with the 2020 Huracan EVO :)
Have a great weekend all!
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Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 — Gratitude needs to be a daily practice but it’s nice to have a day when we can all be grateful for our blessings, collectively 🙏❤️
Good time to take advantage of no traffic too 😄
Goes without saying but I'll say it anyway: this is based on my personal experience and is my opinion.
I think college is no longer necessary but that only applies to exceptional individuals and self-starters.
If you're 18-22 and have no direction or lack the drive; go to
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and he has a 19-year old son who dropped out of college and is pursuing trading and he asked me for my advice.
Any young guys following who would be interested in what I told him? It's probably not what you think.
Key Zones vs. Key Levels
Got an email asking about why I use Zones and why some Zones are 5 points wide while others might be 3 points wide and yet, some are 10 points wide.
First, if you're someone who prefers to use Key Levels for entries, the easy way to convert a Key Zone
Don’t beat yourself up if you missed the downside move off the open. I missed it too. It happens. It’s just 1 trade and there will be many more opportunities.
Here are a couple of pics of my son to cheer you up (it works for me!) ❤️
It has been a fantastic week!
If you've followed along and have benefited from my real-time posts all week....here's something you can do for me and it will cost you ZERO $
Like ❤️ and Re-post 🔁 my content, regardless of how many followers you have.
Help spread the word! 🙏🏻
I trade for the freedom it provides. No boss. No customers. No one but you and the market.
You don’t need to make millions to experience that. You do need to avoid consumer debt and live within your means.
I’ll take $100K/year from trading over $300K working for someone else.
A tax refund is simply your own money, that you overpaid to the IRS throughout the prior year, being returned to you. You essentially loaned the government your money at 0% interest. Congratulations! :)
The sad reality is, too many traders get involved in trades where there's little to no Edge, just entering/exiting based on their feelings and emotions. By the closing bell, the entire day is a haze that leaves their account smaller than it was at the open. That's unsustainable.
Have U noticed that no new trader or even one with < 5 years of experience says "trading is simple"? IMO, when it comes to the markets, simplicity is found once you have journeyed beyond the complex. Markets are complex! Once you understand the complex, trading can seem simple.
The last 8 minutes of the Oct 24th, 2023 $ES_F Live Recap got rave reviews from
@eminiplayer
members ❤️
Here it is for everyone else. If you're a developing trader, you can only benefit from watching this 💡
Do Share/Re-post if you find this to be helpful 🔁🙏
Clip from the Tuesday, Oct. 3rd End-of-day Live Recap session:
There was now a high probability of Buyers stepping in at Support below and a bounce off the 4225-4234 Zone could easily take $ES_F to 4277 and even 4290-4300 isn't out of the question 🔮
Overnight Low: 4235.50 🚀
I just recently looked into funded trader programs since an
@eminiplayer
member who executes on Vulcan Trader earned a funded account from
@Topstep
For anyone trying to earn a funded account, the metric you want to pay attention to is the Goal:Drawdown ratio.
The Starting
Idea:
EminiPlayer/OpenTrader Hot Seat Webinar where I coach one trader 1-on-1 on a Live Webinar to help resolve that trader’s top trading issue. It would be open to all EminiPlayer members and OpenTrader students to attend. Thoughts? 💡❓
Immigrant work ethic combined with the opportunities America offers! 🙏🏻🇺🇸 ❤️
Politicians (on both sides) are doing their best to fuck this country up. Let’s hope the politicians fail and the next generation has the same (or better) opportunities 🇺🇸
Wanna know the secret to building confidence? ACTION
You can read dozens of books on trading psychology and spend years reading blogs, watching videos, etc etc...None of it will work until you start taking action and executing. Can it be scary? Yes. But there's no other way!!
Grateful for another fantastic week in the market! Have a great weekend all! We get to do it all over again next week! 🙏🏻
Now, let’s kick off the weekend with a blast 🔥
Like I said earlier:
Win, lose or draw: trading is an entrepreneurial path that requires courage and anyone who even tries to go down this path deserves respect!
You owe no explanation to the naysayers and doubters 👊🏻
Always a pleasure chatting with
@AnthonyCrudele
Our discussion on "The Blueprint for Planning and Executing Winning Trades" is set to premier this Wednesday (Feb 7th).
Go here and click the "Notify Me" button so you don't miss it:
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Once you’re in the trade: hands off the mouse! Let the market do its thing and don’t get in the way. You accepted the Risk before you got in. Don’t short-circuit your system by micro managing it 💡
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#Trading
I'm not here to convince anyone to trade futures. If anything, I'd say most people aren't cut out for this.
I'm here to help anyone who has already decided they want to day trade. If you're gonna day trade, futures has so many advantages!
I started with stocks, dabbled in
What's more important; Technical Analysis or Trading Psychology?
BOTH. But at different times.
You need a methodology/framework in order to know what to do.
You need the right mindset and trading psychology/beliefs in order to actually do it, i.e. EXECUTE!
During your
Father’s Day + Baby’s 1st Birthday ❤️🎉🙏🏻
He arrived just in time for last year’s Father’s Day so this is technically my 2nd Father’s Day
#Blessed
indeed 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Personal finance is simple: don’t spend what U don’t have and make more money 💰
‼️Emphasis on “make more money”‼️
No amount of “saving” will get U to your goals, unless it’s coupled with “make more money”.
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