Here at Day Trading Academy (DTA), we provide a weekly review of markets and geopolitical events. Below you will find our most recent updates.
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Dr. Z strikes again. We’ve just come back from a trip to open a handful of accounts from a few of our in house traders that are ready to start trading live. Our plans are moving much faster than anticipated with our new day trading center here in Colombia. Look forward to sharing our in house trader’s progress as they continue to improve and we integrate them into the training program with our master traders. We are also in the middle of […]
I would like to formally introduce Dr. Z which has been absolutely killing the markets as of late. He has started to become one of our Master Traders. Since we always like to incorporate our Master Traders into the program to both improve the strategy and make their own trading better we asked Dr. Z to start sharing his trades with us. He has a unique philosophy that he plans on sharing in more detail called market physics. Look forward to introducing […]
ONE SMALL TRADE…ONE GIANT LEAP IN TRADING FOR ME How’s it going, DTA? Geezy here. I wanted to send in a very simple chart from October 16th. The trade on it is my absolute favorite. The V1 Strike. Nicknamed “strike”, because the entry point for it is right in the strike zone where the FYL Indicator is crossing the Midband. The chart show above shows one trade for +2.25 points, but its significance to me is as big as Neil Armstrong’s footprint […]
An overall great day in the market and a lesson on extracting profit by identifying market trends. Below is a guest post from our resident master trader “Ice Man” on losing your focus and why you must keep it cool to take advantage of market momentum and subsequent opportunities. Enter Ice Man: Had a mid morning skate today so I missed about the first 45 minutes. Probably a good thing I did because I probably would have been expecting a continuation to […]
Today really highlights what we have to learn in order to become a consistently profitable day trader. There are going to be beautiful trending days and other times we are going to have slow-moving and sideways markets. Another one of our traders arrived today in Colombia and he was exposed to some of the ability of how we are able to read the markets. The behavior of the market today was more unusual due to the Columbus Day holiday. The volume was […]
The market has definitely moving exceptionally well the last few days. Whether or not we make a million dollars a day or not is relative. The goal is be able to make money consistently every single day. We always try to put this into perspective for new traders that are excited about making money in the markets. If we are able to read the markets and understand market structure that is when we are going to be able to make money every […]
It only took twelve minutes in the market today to take advantage of the beautiful trending market to the downside. If you compare today’s activity with yesterday we will see that today was the day to allow trades to run and maximize profits. Yesterday was a day to show discipline and restraint in the market. This is one of the concepts that we are going to be speaking about at the International Finance and Economy Symposium at EAFIT University here in Medellin, […]
Full write up coming shortly… see video at bottom of post As traders it is as important to learn when to stay out of the markets as it is when to get in them and make money. The chart above is from the early morning session and the chart below is after the market broke out of the range. We were sending live updates via The Day Trading Academy twitter page. Notice how the market eventually hit our overall target areas (watch […]
Our master trader won’t have time to do a full write up but I asked him to share his chart so we could show what the possibilities were for today. He is an up and coming master trader that has a unique eye for the markets. Excellent job of minimizing his risk (while even making mistakes) and deciding when to quit. He could have still made quite a bit if he continued watching the markets. One thing that many traders realize is […]
You remember the Hit Man don’t you? We recently met up with the Hit Man on his last day of work when he decided to quite his job and become a full time trader. This was the beginning of our Great Master Trader tour where we traveled across four countries to visit with our master traders that were living their dreams. Look forward to sharing more from the Hit Man! I really enjoy coaching and exchanging ideas with fellow traders, but there […]