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Continue reading →: 🔥 5 Powerful Daily Chart Swing Setups for Smarter Trading 📈
In this blog post, we’ll break down the core lessons and techniques covered in the video “🔥 5 Powerful Daily Chart Swing Setups for Smarter Trading 📈”. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced trader, these insights can help you refine your approach to swing trading using the daily chart.…
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Continue reading →: Learning Price Action with a Weekend Market Update – FTSE 100 and DAX 40Introduction Firstly, here are the weekly reports for the past week and outlook for next week. But I highly recommend traders start their own practice of writing reports and reviewing them. You will learn a lot about the bias / holes / errors there that can improve your performance when…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the Always-In Trading Strategy with a Free Indicator (rEMA)Intro In this article I will review a FREE TRADINGVIEW indicator I made and how you can use it in your trading Designed for traders who have done the Brooks Trading Course and understand how PA traders use the MA Designed for traders who understand what ALWAYS IN means in…
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Continue reading →: Simplify Your Trading With The 6 Trading DecisionsIntro Trading can feel overwhelming when faced with countless decisions every moment, especially on a fast-moving 5-minute chart. But what if you could streamline your process and focus on just six core setups? This post introduces these six trading decisions, explains their progression in complexity, and offers drills to help…
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Continue reading →: How to Scale in to Trades: High 1’s, Trader Agility and 2 Trade ExamplesIntroduction In the video below I review a trade I took and how to scale out breakeven. I then show the way I typically take the trade when I don’t make so many mistakes. I also discuss 2 NT8 indicators I think are very valuable and there are links here…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #6: Breakouts are RareIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. 90% of the time the market is sideways Most traders enter like its always a breakout and panic on the pullback. 90%…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #5: ChannelsIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. Like nature, the market rarely moves straight lines – whether vertical or horizontal. In the first drill we used simple shapes to…
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Continue reading →: Learning Price Action with a Weekend Market Update – FTSE 100 and DAX 40Introduction Firstly, here are the weekly reports for the past week and outlook for next week. But I highly recommend traders start their own practice of writing reports and reviewing them. You will learn a lot about the bias / holes / errors there that can improve your performance when…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #4: Trend – Trading Range – TrendIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. This drill helps a trader see trading ranges as connections between moves. Goal This drill can help you hold longer in swings.…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #3: Lightning Bolt CrossoverIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. The market moves in two legs. Often it is not clear whether this is a two-legged move down or up. Traders are…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #2: Lightning Bolt PullbacksIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. We have started to see the larger more obvious moves as having 2 legs. But the connections between those moves, i.e. the…
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Continue reading →: Simple Day Trading Market Cycle Drills #1: Lightning BoltIntro This is part of a series on learning the MARKET CYCLE. Many traders contacted me asking for ways to improve this part of their price action reading. How rare is a move in one direction in a straight line? Very. So being aware of that we can learn to…
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Continue reading →: High 2 Failures Can Lead to Measured Moves: Two Examples, One Day!So yesterday I posted this video below – which was well timed – and there were 2 failed High 2 setups today! Hope traders watched and benefited from them. I have shot a screenshare and will post below shortly. Original Video The Review in a Video Hang Seng – 18th…
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Continue reading →: Process for Traders to Follow Bull and Bear Breakout SequencesPurpose The purpose of this article is to teach traders how to distinguish between trading a breakout and trading a pullback by understanding bull sequences and bear sequences. You’ll learn about both successful and failed breakout trades and how to identify key setups. Understanding the Basics of Breakout and Pullback…
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Continue reading →: Trading Homework: A Path to Accelerate Your DevelopmentFor traders at all levels, from beginners to intermediates, one of the most overlooked yet transformative practices is trading homework. A structured approach to homework can dramatically improve your understanding, refine your skills, and, ultimately, boost your profitability. This post will guide you through the stages of professionalizing your trading…
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Continue reading →: How to Use Higher Time Frames To Become a Better Trader FasterIntro In this drill you use the higher time frame to understand how your favourite setups work. For example – mine is a High 2. Zoom into your favourite setups to develop new understandings. I spend a lot of time researching how they play out, so I can manage them…
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Continue reading →: Spike and High 2 Pullback EntryIntro Talk about High 2 and how to trade Reverse it all for the BEAR case and a Low 1 Assumed Knowledge Spikes Consecutive bars – indicator Stop entries indicator and video Pullbacks / 2-Legged Pullbacks videos Check out Al Brooks book – Trading Ranges for more details on bar…
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Continue reading →: Avoiding FOMO in Trading: Key InsightsIntro In this post I share how my Daily short bias coming into the session almost lead me to make a big mistake scaling into a losing trade Setup DAX 40 – 13th November, 2024 Daily Chart is a strong sell signal bar below the moving average Pre-Market is up…
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Continue reading →: Taking Pullbacks Further: Strategies for When to Enter and When to Hold Back
Lets take pullbacks a little further and build strategies about which ones to enter and which not to. Previous Video Missed the first part? Catch up here: New Pullback Drills Inspired by Top Trading Mentors These techniques are inspired by insights from three legendary traders: Dr Al Brooks Ali Moin-Afshari…
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Continue reading →: Trade Review Series: Lessons from Bad Scale-in Trades #2
Intro In this series I will review trades sent in by other traders I really appreeciate their courage to do so so we can all improve. Video I made a video on this here: Trade 1: Suggested exercises to practice: Market Cycle: If you break the bear swing stop it…
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Continue reading →: Trade Review Series: Lessons from Successful and Failed Trades #1Intro In this series I will review trades sent in by other traders who have asked for feedback I really appreciate their courage to do so, so we can all improve! Not enough of the trading community do this – I will also review my own good and bad trades.…
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Continue reading →: Daily Open on High / Open on Low – High Probability Trading Strategy
Introduction In the video below I talk about how I traded a great long, only to trap myself out of a great short. I was live in the trading room and it was a mistake to spend too long patting myself on the back while an even better swing set…
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Continue reading →: Mastering the Pullback: Two Drills
Intro Introducing pullbacks and how traders use them This is the first of two videos on pullbacks and how to use them Video I made a video on this here: What is a Pullback?: See the video for the background on pullbacks Drill 1: Pullback Entries Step 1: Arrows for…
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Continue reading →: Unlock Powerful Insights With a New Indicator: Open on High, Open on Low
This helps trade a rare price action occurrence Link https://www.tradingview.com/script/uIYwKaA8-Open-on-High-Open-on-Low/ At Zen Trading Tech, we’re all about simplifying complex trading concepts into easy-to-use tools that help traders spot key opportunities. Our latest TradingView indicator, Zen O=L O=H v1, does just that by visually highlighting important price action moments when a…
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Continue reading →: ⚡ 5 Dynamic Trading Strategies – Which Will Win the Day?Intro I replayed the trading day 5 times each time with a new strategy Using 1 MES Contract – so very accessible to beginners I show all trades and performance The resultst might surprise you Video I made a video on this here: Chart https://www.tradingview.com/x/AkcaD7tV/ Strategy 1: Buy the Close…
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Continue reading →: Mastering Spike and Channels – 5 Key Practice Drills (Spikes Part III)Index In This Post: We will cover new drills to take your understanding of spike and channels to the next level Why Read About Spikes and Channels? In the first spike video we practiced identifying spikes In the second spike video we practiced one way to enter spikes after a…
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Continue reading →: Unlock Swing Trade Potential with 60-Minute Signal BarsWhat You’ll Learn in This Post In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through three key concepts: How a 60-minute signal bar from yesterday impacts today’s price action. How you can use these signals to position yourself for larger swings. A step-by-step daily practice drill you can use…
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Continue reading →: Improve Limit Order Trading with a Limit Order Entry IndicatorIntro This indicator is to help traders gain an introduction to limit-order techniques, useful in non-trending environments including trading ranges Best to start with a foundation of stop-entry orders first! One of the 3 types of orders for trading Buying below strong bull bars Selling above strong bear bars Indicator…







