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For example, PTM_202207 contains all sessions for month 7 of year 2022.
Each PTM module contains all sessions from one month.
Each session is about 3 hours long.
Live sessions are conducted over Zoom (or other online meeting tools) and recorded.
Recordings are not edited to give you the same experience as being in the session with everyone else.
Videos show mentor's screen, trading platform, and the electronic whiteboard.
Includes trades charts
About PTM Modules
This is the archived recordings of the Pro Trader live mentoring session for the above date and month.For example, PTM_202207 contains all sessions for month 7 of year 2022.
Each PTM module contains all sessions from one month.
Each session is about 3 hours long.
Live sessions are conducted over Zoom (or other online meeting tools) and recorded.
Recordings are not edited to give you the same experience as being in the session with everyone else.
Videos show mentor's screen, trading platform, and the electronic whiteboard.
Includes trades charts
Topics
Session: 2025-01-05- Algorithmic profit taking using ABR
- Paying attention to the degree of overlap to calculate 1 ABR for profit taking
- The First Attempt Principle
- Principle of Ambiguity
- POC: Point of Clarity
- Why understanding POC helps not getting surprised
- The three zones of every trade
- Principle of cyclical volatility
- Using cyclical volatility in day trading
- Using cyclical volatility in higher time frame trading
- VIX
- How to use VIX to trade the S&P index
- VIX-S&P Convergence - What to expect
- Cyclical volatility: Expected behavior based on day type
- Factors involved in discretionary trading
- Why discretionary trading is difficult even when you know the market behavior principles
- Review of the week
- Review of students' selected trades
- Q&A
- Factors affecting market behavior to change
- Factors that signal a chance in market behavior is coming
- Why a change in market behavior must be a breakout
- State changes from trend to trading range
- The effect of momentum on market behavior changes
- What is a swing?
- How dynamics of the open can affect reliability of the fist swing of the day
- Swing point
- Factors affecting formation of swing points
- What is a graceful swing?
- Expectations based qualities of the swing point reversal bar
- Qualities of a strong reversal signal bar
- Qualities of a strong swing point reversal signal bar
- Support and resistance
- Can an outside bar be a reliable swing point reversal bar
- What leads to a price becoming support or resistance
- Review of the week
- Review of students' selected trades
- Q&A
- Support and Resistance
- Using support/resistance to find accurate limit order entry prices
- How breakouts change the nature of a support or resistance level
- Inter-bar support and resistance levels
- Support and resistance of micro gaps
- What is the FPL of a micro-gap
- Breakouts that are vacuum moves
- Why vacuum breakouts are unreliable for second leg trading
- Situations where the market is in breakout mode but the market cycle is not complete yet
- Corrections
- Depth and duration of corrections
- Having reasonable expectations for when a correction might not reach its test levels based on its general probabilities
- Correction of wedge setups
- The story of my big Iron Condor loss in 2008
- Why a failed breakout of a double top/bottom is a wedge
- The effect of timeframe on expectations for a correction
- Review of the week
- Review of students' selected trades
- Q&A
- Structure of second legs
- Second leg of breakout of pullback of the pullback?
- Market regime strength varies within a range of probabilities
- Market regime switch probabilities
- Deep pullback: probability of trend resumption
- Why deep pullbacks need strong reversals
- Strong double top (DT)
- Strong double bottom (DB)
- Expectations after a strong DT or DM
- When to expect a higher low after a DT
- When to expect a lower high after a DB
- Example: When a Bull breakout is actually just a lower high
- Factors affecting probabilities of strong DT/DB formations
- Review of the week
- Review of students' selected trades
- Q&A
Topics
Session: 2025-02-02- Market Cycle
- One-legged trading range
- Market cycle reset
- Probability of a reset after a leg in trading range
- Comparison between swing trading and scalping
- Why swing trading is actually an expert level skill
- Why beginners should initially focus on scalping, only
- A correction is sometimes a trend resumption attempt
- A correction is sometimes a reversal attempt
- Probabilities of corrections as influenced by the market regime
- Why options trading is not recommended for beginners
- When to expect a two legged pullback vs. one legged
- Why an open profit is not a cushion, but same as the money in your account
- Why scaling out of a trade is generally not a great idea for intraday trade management
- Review of the week
- Review of student's selected trades
- Q&A
- Market cycle (continued)
- Primary structures found in each phase of the market cycle
- Broad channels
- Probabilities of broad channels forming intraday
- Transitions from bull to bear trends
- Transition without a signal bar
- Market control
- Types of market control
- How to measure market control
- Methods for measuring market control
- Measuring inertia and the role of reversals
- The effect of Globex of price action of Monday (big bull breakout)
- How the shift in transition point intraweek affects the expectations for the rest of the week
- Scalping out of a profitable trade when the swing point shifts too much against you
- Review of the week
- Review of student's selected trades
- Q&A
- Symmetry and Proportion
- How to use symmetry and proportion to estimate future price action
- How to research symmetry and proportion to form reasonable expectations
- How momentum affects symmetry and proportion
- Role of time in proportion
- Cycles
- Repeating patterns and their probabilities
- Tempo
- How to use tempo to estimate futures price action
- Energy
- Different components of market energy
- How price patterns form with respect to market energy
- How energy changes volatility
- How to create a "focus-of-the-day" to develop skills in an organized manner
- Review of the week
- Review of student's selected trades
- Q&A
- Energy: Momentum and Acceleration
- How changes in energy results in various pattern formations
- How to use changes in acceleration to find high probability scalps
- Detailed explanation of BSB pattern from acceleration point of view
- How to use acceleration to determine pullback probabilities
- Reversals of high momentum legs
- Effects of momentum and acceleration on day structure
- How to use changes in acceleration to estimate follow on price action
- Traps created by acceleration bars
- How to use acceleration to forecast depth of pullback and test targets
- Finding proper limit order entries based on acceleration traps
- Changes in volatility due to acceleration
- How to use momentum and acceleration to determine whether a strong reversal is minor or major
- Trade frame
- Probability of seeing a small pullback bear trend, intraday
- Review of the week
- Review of student's selected trades
- Q&A
