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  • #1,901
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:02am Apr 24, 2025 9:02am
Quoting Fadhl
{quote} Price is behaving as expected! We got a new HH. Looking for HL to get in. The opening range was also bullish.
NQ is moving up without a retrace! Hope it'll retrace before touching yesterday high; liquidity is sitting there.
  • #1,902
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:02am Apr 24, 2025 9:02am
Quoting LetsGoPitt
Well, I'm fairly bullish again. I'm expecting this scenario. The gap might be left unfilled for a long time to come. Daily chart {image}
Yeah, I'm flip flopping with Trump . Gap was partially filled. So this is on the table again.
  • #1,903
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:09am Apr 24, 2025 9:09am
Waiting for that gap to get filled to jump in.
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  • #1,904
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:09am Apr 24, 2025 9:09am
Quoting LetsGoPitt
{quote} Yeah, I'm flip flopping with Trump . Gap was partially filled. So this is on the table again.
  • #1,905
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:42am Apr 24, 2025 9:42am
Thinking of this as a target area, because there is a confluence of the R2 pivot point and my daily level.


There is an equal high on the 4 hour from April 14th at 19.250,00 & 19.256,00. There could be some resistance there.

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  • #1,906
  • Apr 24, 2025 9:47am Apr 24, 2025 9:47am
We will most likely meet sellers up until 19300. Notice as well, share buy backs are likely to start around now.. late april.
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  • #1,907
  • Apr 24, 2025 10:13am Apr 24, 2025 10:13am
Quoting Fadhl
{quote} NQ is moving up without a retrace! Hope it'll retrace before touching yesterday high; liquidity is sitting there.
No retrace...no trade for me
(I got my money from Gold and Oil)
GL!
  • #1,908
  • Apr 24, 2025 10:50am Apr 24, 2025 10:50am
Quoting Anddmitt
{quote} Okay, I will do that. If you have some other advanced guidances that help understand what happen beyond the charts and that sometimes outperform the technical analysis, because I see you have some knowledge and expertise. Maybe you can help me with some advices. Thanks in advance
Based on my experience, both FA and TA matters and both are inter-connected. But FA is the driver.
What are the key components of FA?
1- State of economy and in comparison to other economies: the current state of economy but way more important is the projection; market always trade the expectations then market deals with the fact.
2- Central Banks (CBs) policies and decisions:
- Interest rate level in comparison to other
- Free money in comparison to other
- How CBs responds with challenges and fulfilling their mandate
3- Country fiscal policy: Debts, Taxes and regulations
Always in comparison to others
4- Risks: e.g., war, pandemic, political uncertainties...
5- Time: The factor time is the one that is very difficult to master. I still fail it miserably!

So you need also to put any economic indicator in perspective and context; a green data does not mean necessarily GOOD and vice-versa.
All of these concepts will be digested and mastered by experience and time; it's not a recipe that you can replicate automatically.

Keep in mind that we're small retailers/fish in this ocean of sharks; we try to grab some peanuts with them.
Hope it's somewhat useful... It's just bla bla bla..
  • #1,909
  • Apr 24, 2025 12:31pm Apr 24, 2025 12:31pm
Nasdaq knows no retrace for today, not trading
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  • #1,910
  • Apr 24, 2025 1:22pm Apr 24, 2025 1:22pm
Watch 19190
We cut the winners short and let the losers run.
  • #1,911
  • Apr 24, 2025 1:37pm Apr 24, 2025 1:37pm
I think that's it for today. Price won't close above the huge daily green candle. We still have few hours/days to conclude this impulsive swing.
In a few we have Google earnings.
I advice that you close your NQ positions if you're in. The knee-jerk move will be wide and there is no reason to risk anything.
Happy good evening/night and see you tomorrow!
  • #1,912
  • Apr 24, 2025 1:41pm Apr 24, 2025 1:41pm
Quoting Ryd3n
Watch 19190
reached

Called my broker to place a short position here
We cut the winners short and let the losers run.
  • #1,913
  • Apr 24, 2025 2:02pm Apr 24, 2025 2:02pm
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We cut the winners short and let the losers run.
  • #1,914
  • Apr 24, 2025 3:43pm Apr 24, 2025 3:43pm
Hey everyone,
Looks like there are some experienced traders here, so I thought I’d reach out for a bit of guidance. I’m pretty new to trading — been taking it seriously for the last 6 months — and unfortunately, I’ve blown several prop firm evaluation accounts during that time.
Right now, I’m scalping NQ on the 1-minute chart with a 10-point take profit. I’m winning about 70% of my trades, but my main struggle is defining and managing risk. My mindset is often, “The price is so close to my TP, it’ll come back,” but then one bad candle wipes out most of my gains. That’s usually when I tilt, make impulsive trades, and end up blowing the account.
It’s a pattern I keep repeating. My brain keeps telling me, “This should work — I win most trades!” But the losses hit way harder than the wins.
My question is: Does scalping work long term? And does my current strategy make sense?
I chose scalping because I honestly don’t have a lot of patience. Funny enough, when I do try to stay patient, I often take bigger losses. But when I’m not patient, the trades tend to go way beyond my original TP.
Also, I haven’t really been able to backtest this strategy because I trade based on how the current candle is printing, and I usually take market orders.
Any advice, feedback, or even tough love would be super appreciated. I really want to succeed in this business. Thanks in advance!
  • #1,915
  • Apr 24, 2025 4:21pm Apr 24, 2025 4:21pm
Quoting satyabotchu
Hey everyone, Looks like there are some experienced traders here, so I thought I’d reach out for a bit of guidance. I’m pretty new to trading — been taking it seriously for the last 6 months — and unfortunately, I’ve blown several prop firm evaluation accounts during that time. Right now, I’m scalping NQ on the 1-minute chart with a 10-point take profit. I’m winning about 70% of my trades, but my main struggle is defining and managing risk. My mindset is often, “The price is so close to my TP, it’ll come back,” but then one bad candle wipes out...
What exactly is your strategy? Patience is key in trading, my motto is, a no trade is always better than a loosing trade
  • #1,916
  • Apr 24, 2025 5:00pm Apr 24, 2025 5:00pm
mostly trade continuation setups. My general approach is to wait for a pullback after a recent high, then look for a Fair Value Gap (FVG) to form. Once there's a sweep of liquidity inside the FVG, I enter on the continuation move.
The challenge is, I tend to enter on the first pullback itself — and while it often works, sometimes the pullback goes much deeper than expected. When that happens and price moves against me, I usually start DCA’ing (dollar-cost averaging) into the position to bring my average entry closer to the current price.
The problem is, I end up using a lot of my available leverage in these trades. If the move keeps going against me, I don’t have any room left to manage the trade — and that’s when I blow the account.
  • #1,917
  • Edited 9:34pm Apr 24, 2025 8:18pm | Edited 9:34pm
Quoting satyabotchu
Hey everyone, Looks like there are some experienced traders here, so I thought I’d reach out for a bit of guidance. I’m pretty new to trading — been taking it seriously for the last 6 months — and unfortunately, I’ve blown several prop firm evaluation accounts during that time. Right now, I’m scalping NQ on the 1-minute chart with a 10-point take profit. I’m winning about 70% of my trades, but my main struggle is defining and managing risk. My mindset is often, “The price is so close to my TP, it’ll come back,” but then one bad candle wipes out...
Just few points: Any strategy might work if you've clear rules that you consistently respect.
1- Your TF is 1min; Your TP=10 points
What is your STP? You seem do not have a STP and when price goes against you, you add positions to your loss.
If this is the case, you will loose.
So if your TP=10 points; hence your STP must be 5 points in order to be winning. Otherwise your losses will be higher than your profits.
2- In NQ, 10 points TP is too tight! Each 1min candle in NQ has at least 10 points! You should revise this.
3- From your second post, you don't wait for confirmation! as soon the price hit your level, you jump in! This is also wrong in particular when your TF is 1 min.
You should wait for at least three CLOSED candles to jump in the beginning of the 4th candle. These first 3 candles must close above your level if you're going long and below your level if you're going short. Also the 3rd candle should close higher than the 1st or the 2nd candle.
4- If you adopt the 3-candle confirmation, you may put your STP just below these 3 candles and your profit should be at least twice your STP.
5- Your objective is not to catch the best entry, but to make some money with the trend.

Wish you good luck!
  • #1,918
  • Apr 25, 2025 6:33am Apr 25, 2025 6:33am
Posible Cup-and-Handle pattern forming right now. also still waiting for that fvg below to get hit
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  • #1,919
  • Apr 25, 2025 7:43am Apr 25, 2025 7:43am
Good day!
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After a full green daily candle that closed just above the Trump 90-day pause green candle, both Asian and European sessions calmed the flow and price retraced up to 23.6-38.2 Fib.
I can see NY session tests yesterday high and continue down up to 50% Fib. Then price will resume the completion of the Impulsive swing of Wave 2.
So for today, it's most likely that we get an inside bar and this wave will be completed next week.
  • #1,920
  • Edited 8:55am Apr 25, 2025 8:22am | Edited 8:55am
Quoting satyabotchu
Hey everyone, Looks like there are some experienced traders here, so I thought I’d reach out for a bit of guidance. I’m pretty new to trading — been taking it seriously for the last 6 months — and unfortunately, I’ve blown several prop firm evaluation accounts during that time. Right now, I’m scalping NQ on the 1-minute chart with a 10-point take profit. I’m winning about 70% of my trades, but my main struggle is defining and managing risk. My mindset is often, “The price is so close to my TP, it’ll come back,” but then one bad candle wipes out...
Does scalping work long term? And does my current strategy make sense?

Hi Satyabotchu

I am a full time scalper of ES / NQ & Gold Futures so I definitely know you can be profitable scalping for small profits..
But you need to raise your Winrate up to 78% min and long term around 83% to survive the scalping game. Also aim to keep your average winning trades larger than your average losing trades - this is what you watch mostly from all your trading data you will be studying every night.

As for stops, 15 Ticks is workable for NQ.
Personally I don't place a stop (I don't trade prop accounts so not answerable to anyone) - Instead I have a mental stop that works like this
I enter a trade and expect it to almost immediately go into profit, if not - get the FUCK OUT after 10 Ticks if the trade just looks WRONG.
I tag my trades inside Tradezella every night and I spend a hour reviewing all my trades to see where I didn't execute my plan. Letting a small loss build into a big loss will kill your dream to become a Full time scalper. It's the hardest part of our game, so you need to know when to fold'n.

The goal is to increase your equity by around 2-4% every trading day as a reasonably achievable target.

As for your strategy, that's up to you. Trading the FVG would work but getting higher than 78% win rate would be hard I feel.
Personally, many professional Scalpers like me prefer to FADE the market, not trade the trend. There is more money in Fading Future Markets with large trade size than trading Trends on small trade size. I was chatting to a trader last week that Fades spikes similar to me with 100 Lots of trading power and it's all used to Fade high volume spikes. These are my BIG DOLLAR WINNERS as well but good luck finding a trading strategy that offers you an edge.

Cheers.

PS - here is an example from my scalping this week looking at my Tradezella scores.
Win rate was 73% - a bit low
Profit factor was 3.10 - again a bit low for me
Tradezella was overall quite happy with my trading except for the most important stat - Average Win amount over Average Loss amount.
It was still positive so I DONE MY JOB OK.
My equity increase for the week was about 20% which is bloody good.
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