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Started the day right with a bowl of Cap’n Crunch and cup of coffee. With that great run to the upside I was looking to exploit it every way possible. When it pivoted high and started to test the same highs I started to expect some consolidation before a continuation. In the past I had found myself afraid of jumping in for fear that it might be a sign of slowdown but as I’ve learned you trade with the trend and with […]
It is a contract roll-over Thursday once again… time flies when one is having fun :-). Being a market “Hitman” is in no small part about timing and ruthlessness of execution, but the volatility this fall has been somewhat disappointing. That is why, yesterday’s movement got me almost as excited as my coming trip to Colombia! Having said that, however, I was facing the dilemma of trading a contract roll-over day or missing out on some good follow-through movement. Tricky situation, I […]
It is an exciting day at The Day Trading Academy. We haven’t had the chance to do many updates to the site recently via our market recaps or posts because we have been diligently working on getting our first day trading center started. The vision behind the day trading centers is to have in-house traders assisting in training locals in other countries. We believe so much in our strategy that we are putting our own money on the line. We are giving […]
This recap is by one of our newly minted in house traders going by the formal name of “Comit”. He has recently gone live after only a few months of practice and is starting to build his consistency in a live environment. We will be introducing him soon as well as sharing our plans of the day trading center and day trading army here in Medellin, Colombia. We also have tentatively planned our next seminar which will be on February 15th, 16th, […]
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 […]