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The transition to Futures trading


Yeah sounds good, similar to myself. Kind of know what I'm looking for and what it looks like anyway, it almost doesn't make much difference I find, if I'm watching it and its looking like turning or some big players are coming in, that's all you need to know, doesn't really matter what point it is in history I don't think, it's how its reacting to it NOW and where it going to go. Seen plenty of "big" supp/res areas get totally demolished in a matter of seconds, all depends who's playing and where they want to do business in the here and now.
 
Here is the test right on time.




SMASH goes support (Local)
 
Time to leave this move although I believe the predominant long term direction is short.

Debtfree
testing of 11800 is highly likely
 

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I was watching it on Big Charts - 15 minute bar and seen the reversal on larger volume. As you said time to leave, don't hope ... just trade what's happening in the now time. Good lesson for me, nice job tonight and thanks for the charts.
 
So its pulled up after massive buying then massive supply.
This is going to consolidate and I thought it would be good to watch the consolidation and see if we cant determine a direction for a trade.



So I'm flavoring long right now but if it becomes a wide pattern and not small and short then I will favor a change of direction to short.

How many bars 15 +
A small continuation pattern is generally less than 7
No mans land in between!
 
Bit of a non event so I'm not going to trade tonight.
I get bored easily!

 


I've been out of the loop for a while. Trying to relearn again.

We had a strong push up on high vol through previous highs.
A much lower vol pullback.
An even lower volume small range up bar.

Any opinions on how this should be read?
If this was at the end of an up trend rather than breaking into new highs, I would have said the very high vol up bar followed by a down bar is selling. Weak up bar says buyers gone.

But this time I thought -
Very high vol up which is expected as it breaks the previous high and takes out the orders up there.
Lower vol down bar indicating not many sellers around to hammer it.
Weak up bar says not enough sellers to take control. Let the up move continue.

Obviously it did sell off. But considering a minor pullback after a break above previous highs, what would I want to see in the pullback to indicate a continuation upwards?
 
This 15 min chart shows lots of effort to push prices higher but
no real result from price moving much higher.
Below is the 1 min chart which shows lots of churning.
I'm currently short but finger on the trigger to reverse if that's what is
the final outcome of the struggle.




 
Grinding ------ Stop at B/E If hit that's enough for me.



Out at old support 12002

Hard work.
Thats it for tonight sorry not more
to see.
 
And now it smashes down. Without me!
Here is the final trade. 30 ticks tonight
Left a lot on the table with the first 2 trades
and now this last one.
Not un happy-----just average trading.



 

TH, this post was really helpful, thanks for the detailed explanation.
 
After reading this entire thread over the last week I'm a little sad to see it has died down. I have gained a lot of insight from everyone's contributions and it has given me a lot to think about in terms of my own trading journey so I thank you all that have contributed. I hope to be able to contribute or at least pick your brains when this thread picks up again. For the moment though I'll keep reading and learning, testing and simming and continue to improve my trading.

Thanks again to everyone who has made this thread what it is.

P.S.
PAV - I hope you're feeling better mate.
 
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