Everything on Zen Trading Tech, sorted by topic. New here? Start with the Research Kits. Each one takes a commonly quoted trading statistic and lets you check it yourself, with free data and one prompt.
Research Kits · Day Types, Legs & Swings · Research & Stats · Trading the Open · Indicators · Price Action Skills · Drills, Homework & Reviews · Mindset & Risk · Resources & Live Room
Research Kits
My First Trading Edges. Free data, the rules, one prompt and a Python script for each. In order:
- Research Kit #1: Daily Range Distribution
- Research Kit #2: The DAX Pre-Market Stat That Changed How I Trade the Euro Open
- Research Kit #3: 29 Years of ES Bull Streaks
- Research Kit #4: Last Week’s Close, How Often Does ES Trade Back to It?
- Research Kit #5: Bar 1 Is the High or Low of the Day
- Research Kit #6: The High or Low of the Day Comes Early (1st 90 min)
- Research Kit #7: The Day Session Breaks the Globex High or Low
- Research Kit #8: Price Touches the 20 EMA
Day Types, Legs & Swings
What kind of day is it, and what is it made of?
- Does a Big Gap Mean a Trading Range Day?
- Legs, Swings and Day Type
- What is a Trend Day?
- Not Another Post on Leg Counting!
See all Day Types, Legs & Swings posts
Research & Stats
Other data studies: gaps, streaks, big days, stats snacks.
- Is a Scalp Worth Taking on This Timeframe?
- Does the Market Always Go Up on September 11th? Friday Stats-Snack
- Do Thursday’s Sell off on DAX?
- DAX Post-FOMC Reaction Day: How Should We Trade It?
- Nikkei: What Happens After a Historic Gap-Down Open?
- Researching How to Trade a Measured Move of Yesterday’s Range
- Big Gap Up on the Weekly Chart
- Streaks Above and Below the Moving Average: MA Research
- Researching CME Settlement vs RTH Close (E-mini S&P 500 Futures) and its Effect on Swing Targets
- Big ES Days – What follows?
- ES Trading Stats for Day Traders: Bookmark This!
- Consecutive Bars Research
- From Idea to Edge: One Trader’s Process for Setup Research
See all Research & Stats posts
Trading the Open
The first bars, yesterday’s levels and the opening range.
- Consecutive 60 Min Bars on the Open – Researching How We Can Trade it
- Shaved Opens Revisited: Open on High, Open on Low
- ES Swing Trading and the 18-Bar Range
- 🔍 Researching the RTH Open: Consecutive Bull/Bear Bars
- Daily Open on High / Open on Low – High Probability Trading Strategy
- Trader Skills #28: Is YD a Good Signal Bar?
- Trading The Open: Open in YD range?
- Trading Skills #25: 60m targets on the Open
- Day Trader Skills #2: Open – Testing Yesterday’s OHLC Magnets
- Day Trader Skills #1: The Opening Range
See all Trading the Open posts
Indicators
Free TradingView and NinjaTrader tools, and how I use them.
- Boost Your Trading with Free Opening Spike Analysis Indicator
- Free Risk/Reward Ruler for NinjaTrader 8
- Zen Trading Toolkit Indicator — Three Research Modules, One Indicator
- Mapping “The Dip”: A Visual Tool for Long-Term Investors
- Always-In Indicator for TradingView
- How to Research Bar Range Dynamics Using an Indicator
- 🕓 Globex H/L Breaks: A Simple Tool for RTH Session Awareness
- 📊 Inside/Outside Bars — What They Really Tell Us About Daily Breakouts
- 🔍 A Simple Visual Tool for Spotting Spikes, Second Legs — and Now, Counter-Trend Reversals!
- 18-Bar Range: A Simple Tool for Traders Studying the Open of the Day
- German Futures FDAX Session Indicator – Mark the Active Hours
- Micro-Gap Reversal– Youtube Video is up!
- The First Three Bars: A Simple Tool for Deep Research
- Mastering Urgency in Trading with Shaved Bar Indicator
- Mastering Scalping with ABR Levels – A Simple Risk Management Tool
- Zen R Targets – The Ultimate 2R Calculation Tool for Traders
- The Live Gap Indicator: Seeing the Market’s Magnetic Forces in Real-Time
- Understanding the Always-In Trading Strategy with a Free Indicator (rEMA)
- Enhance Your Trading with the Zen Inside Bar Indicator
- Unlock Powerful Insights With a New Indicator: Open on High, Open on Low
- Improve Limit Order Trading with a Limit Order Entry Indicator
- Zen ABR Target – Precision Scalping Indicator with Average Bar Range
- Master Scalping with Zen Bar Range: A Powerful Free Indicator for TradingView
- Unlock Breakout Potential with an Indicator for Stop Order Entries
- Indicator: Breakout and FT: Close > Prior High
- Indicator – Bar Count
- Indicator – Breakout Overlap
- Indicator – Spike Breaks
- Indicator: Session Time Bar Counting / Highlighting
- Indicator: Outside Bars and Inside Bars
- Indicator: Bar Counting
- Indicator: Z Bars (Big Bars)
- Indicator: Gaps
- Indicator: Reversal and FT
- Indicator: Microgap Reversals (MIG Reversal)
- Indicator: rEMA (Rainbow EMA)
- Indicator: 3 Consecutive Bars
- Indicator: Trading the Open – Consecutive bars
Price Action Skills
Breakouts, spikes, channels, trading ranges, pullbacks and reversals.
- Failure of a Failure: When the Test Target Fails Too (Part 2)
- When High Probability Trades Fail: How Losses Become Setups (Part 1)
- Everything Can Get a Second Leg. Even a Second Leg!
- The Art of the Retest: Refining My Trendline Strategies
- Cash Indices and Higher Time Frame Pullbacks
- Trading in Trading Ranges: 1/2R -> 1R
- 📊 The #1 Trading Mistake: Confusing Setup with Signal
- The Micro-Gap Reversal– A Simple and High Probability Pattern
- Effective Trading Strategies: Unlocking the Power of Shaved Bars
- 10 Powerful Strategies for Trading Channels
- Trading in a Trading Range: Hot Zones and Stop Hunting
- How to Become a Better Swing Trader
- Simple Process for Determining Context When Trading Price Action
- Learning High 1 and High 2 Entries – Question From a Trader
- Low 1 Fade / Weak Reversal Fade
- 🔥 5 Powerful Daily Chart Swing Setups for Smarter Trading 📈
- High 2 Failures Can Lead to Measured Moves: Two Examples, One Day!
- Process for Traders to Follow Bull and Bear Breakout Sequences
- How to Use Higher Time Frames To Become a Better Trader Faster
- Spike and High 2 Pullback Entry
- 📈Breakout Trading Strategy: Mastering the Inside Bar to Maximise Profits🚀
- Taking Pullbacks Further: Strategies for When to Enter and When to Hold Back
- Unlock Swing Trade Potential with 60-Minute Signal Bars
- Essential Trading Skills: Using Spikes and Stop-Order Entries
- Mastering Time Frame Analysis in Trading: HTF -> LTF (Part 2)
- Effective Trading Techniques: Higher vs. Lower Time Frames (Part 1)
- Stop-Order Entries
- How to Identify Spike Patterns in Trading
- Mastering Trendline Breaks for Effective Trading
- Trading Skills #31: Breakout H1 / L1
- Trader Skills #30: Wedges – 3 Push Patterns
- Trader Skills #27: 60m Bars – What did traders do?
- Trader Skills #26 : Leg Counting
- Trader Skills #24: Weak SB Good FT | Strong SB Bad FT
- Trader Skills #23: Trading Ranges Second Entries
- Trader Skills #22: Pullbacks after 5 – 6 bars
- Trading Skills #21: Spikes – H1/H2, L1/L2 and Failure
- Trader Skills #20: Trading Ranges: Failed BO + FT
- Trader Skills #16: Trading Ranges – RIP A once good trader lies here…
- Trader Skills #15: Breakout trading
- Trader Skills #14: Doubles (DT and DB)
- Trader Skills #12: The Bear Channel
- Trader Skills #11: The Escape Hatch – 2nd Chance Exits
- Trader Skills #8: 1st Reversal Likely Minor
- Trader Skills #7 : Channels
- Trader Skills #6: Micro Timeframe (LTF)
- Trader Skills #4: Two Attempts
- Trader Skills #5: The 80% Rule
- Trader Skills #3: Traps and Escape Hatch
- Trader Skills #2: Urgency – Big Bars
See all Price Action Skills posts
Drills, Homework & Reviews
Practice drills, homework and trade reviews.
- How I Review My Trades Using Second Leg Concepts
- 📈⛩️🗡️Trade Like a Samurai Scroll IV: Always In
- 📈⛩️🗡️ Trade Like a Samurai Scroll III: What Happens When Swing Points Break?
- 📈⛩️🗡️Trade Like a Samurai Scroll II: HTF Swing Points
- 📈⛩️🗡️Trade Like a Samurai Scroll I: Swing Points
- 7 Common Trade Mistakes and How to Fix Them
- Practice Drills for Trading Ranges: Relief Bars, S/R and Gaps
- Trading Range Day – Interesting Practice Drills
- 🧠 Study Trade Failures: Obsess Over Exits
- 🎯 Same Trade, Two Outcomes – What That Really Means
- How to Use 15-Min Charts to Confirm 5-Min Trade Setups: Trade Review Drill
- 📈 1:1 Review Drill: Are You Always on the Wrong Side?
- 🧠 Build Your Own Trading Encyclopaedia – Part 1
- Build Your Edge Before the Market Opens: Why I Use Flashcards to Train
- Trading Price Action in Motion: Watch These ES Futures Trades Play Out!
- The Power of Homework to Improve Your Trading: Next Day Repeat
- The Magnificent Seven Trading Drills – Sharpen Your Price Action Skills
- Simplify Your Trading With The 6 Trading Decisions
- How to Scale in to Trades: High 1’s, Trader Agility and 2 Trade Examples
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #6: Breakouts are Rare
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #5: Channels
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #4: Trend – Trading Range – Trend
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #3: Lightning Bolt Crossover
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #2: Lightning Bolt Pullbacks
- Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #1: Lightning Bolt
- Trading Homework: A Path to Accelerate Your Development
- Trade Review Series: Lessons from Bad Scale-in Trades #2
- Trade Review Series: Lessons from Successful and Failed Trades #1
- Mastering the Pullback: Two Drills
- ⚡ 5 Dynamic Trading Strategies – Which Will Win the Day?
- Mastering Spike and Channels – 5 Key Practice Drills (Spikes Part III)
- Practice Drills #2
- Practice Drills #1:
- Trader Skills #10: Testing Everything
- Trader Skills #1: Drill List
See all Drills, Homework & Reviews posts
Mindset & Risk
Psychology, risk, sizing and mistakes.
- Trading Like a Grandmaster: What Chess Teaches Us About Price Action Mastery
- Why Do I Keep Blowing My Account?
- Master Your Trading Edge: The Continuous Improvement Loop
- Four Contradictions That Hold Traders Back
- Can We Breathe Our Way to Better Trading? 6 Methods For You to Try
- How to Reset Your Trading Mindset
- Trading With Active Patience: How to Change Your Emotions Through Action
- The Trader’s Equation: How Stops and Exits Shape Your Edge
- Breaking the Mistake Chain: How Traders Can Use Lessons from High-Risk Professions
- Avoiding FOMO in Trading: Key Insights
- Trader Skills #29: Doing Good Work
- Letting Go
- Trader Skills #27: Emotional Training in Trading
- Trader Skills #19: Explorations in 2R
- Trading Skills #9: Experience
Resources & Live Room
GitHub, the encyclopedia, workshops and the live trading room.
- Zen Trading Tech on GitHub — Indicators, Data, Research
- Understanding Brokers and Platforms for DAX and Gold Trading
- Brooks Price Action Seminar – Workbook
- Orlando Workshop: Back to Basics – Docs & Replay
- The Brooks Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns — Now Searchable with Updated Index v3
- Brooks Trading Course – European Trading Room Trial
- Join My European Session Live Trading Room – May 20 & 22, 2025
- Learning Price Action with a Weekend Market Update – FTSE 100 and DAX 40
- Learning Price Action with a Weekend Market Update – FTSE 100 and DAX 40
- How To Use Al Brooks Encyclopedia
- What is Zen?
See all Resources & Live Room posts
Happy trading!
Tim
Zen Trading Tech
