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ES – scalping trading tips & tricks by Mikhail Lemah
You have the e-mini S&P500 in front of you and 2 scalping sell trades. But you may well have a question as to why there are 2 of them if you could not close the short and then re-send the sell orders 20-30 seconds later on the market. Using this example, I will try to show you one of the tools I use to enter a position more accurately and efficiently. Volume analysis – allows you to determine the moments when the market activity of buyers and sellers is not equal. Observing the crazy flow of trades in Time&Sales – it is possible to fix the point of critical pressure…
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CL – support & resistance [feb23]
Back in early December, the upper bound was set at $80 per barrel of black gold. Oil traders have repeatedly attacked the level, but until now they have failed to extend the range higher. On the slide above: CL [Feb 23]. Tf: Day. Chart: Double Cluster [volume/delta]. Total Hist.: Delta. Note the repeat of the 7 day uptrend and the return to the same prices in 2022. Such repetitions in the stock market are no coincidence. And there are plenty of companies interested in a price hike by the states that produce and sell oil. Today is the 7th day of an uptrend and this will affect buyer confidence and activity. It is…
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Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is always superstitious for traders and many are wary of working on such a day. But for investors and traders who trade on days when companies release quarterly reports, today is a good time. UnitedHealth (UNH). JPMorgan (JPM) Bank of America (BAC) Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) BlackRock (BLK) Citigroup (C) This is a list of banks and financial companies that will release quarterly reports. Almost all of the list will report before the market opens. Keeping an eye on these reports is necessary both for investors and those traders who trade indices that include these companies. For super volatility and directional price reaction as a result…
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What about BTC- and what does CBDC have to do with it
price histogram : total volume & delta tf histogram : total volume & delta The US has begun testing a system for “CBDC” in November 2022. CBDC – central bank digital currency BTC – bitcoin On November 15, 2022, representatives of the US banking community announced the launch of a proof-of-concept test of the Regulated Liability Network (RLN) digital asset settlement platform and the possibility of using the digital dollar. RLN (Regulated Liabilities Network) is a regulated liability network. It is essentially a technology based on the same distributed registry and smart contracts with integrated protocol modules for interfacing with other financial systems. CBDC – controlled by the Central Bank…
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Euro – calm before the storm
price histogram : total volume & delta tf histogram : total volume & delta The first week of the March contract formed a common type of week – a flat. This type is easy to identify, the volume cores of each trading day are on the same price range. Pay attention to the volume filter cells by price, which are highlighted in blue. The total of these volumes forms the current core of volume trades for the week – this range is marked in blue on the scale and signed. This range should be used as a starting point for calculating trading activity for subsequent days. If the price is…
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CL – between the hammer and the anvil
price histogram : total volume & delta tf histogram : total volume & delta There is quite an interesting situation for oil at the moment, worthy of your attention. You can see on the slide, there are two important levels, support 74 – 74.50 and resistance 76.50 – 77.50. The situation is interesting as it is the third day that the oil price is trying to break through the resistance, but all the attempts to do so ended in the pullback. But today, as you can see from the lower histogram, buyers’ activity is not high, but higher than that of the sellers. If you hold the buy, you have…
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Henry Hub Natural Gas – February contract
price histogram : total volume & delta tf histogram : total volume & delta The first target is fulfilled. namely, the recent gap has been closed and aggressive buyers are slowly coming back. If Friday will be traded with outweighing on the side of the buyer – from Monday it will be possible to look for an entry point to buy. A little clarification – now it is relevant to analyze the Henry Hub Natural Gas FEB23 of February. January one is not so interesting for big players. As for the current situation – after the price returns to the 6.50 – 7 level, where the resistance level was formed back in late November.…
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Henry Hub Natural Gas – weather shapes demand
price histogram : total volume & delta tf histogram : total volume & delta For almost a month, the price of Henry Hub Natural Gas futures has not moved out of the 5.8 to 6.4 range. The expected price rallied in November and then a correction that no one expected until 5.4. In three days, buyers happily bought all they could in the 5.3 to 5.8 range. This level is the range of key support. The starting point for this trend has been the volume array, which has been trading for nearly a month since the 20s of October. Buyers dominated from Monday of last week until the current day, which reflected in…
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ES – when buying is scary and selling is even scarier
info #1 price histogram : total volume & delta info #2 tf histogram : total volume & delta In this review, we will look at the December contract of the S&P500 Index, but in terms of volume analysis. The main focus is on the first slide, we will need the second slide with the heat map to identify the trading scenarios. The first 5 days of the futures contract – everyone was placing positions. The price was in a tight range waiting for everyone to decide on the trend. Then a 2 day sharp drop from 3920 to 3680 to wake up the bears of all ranks. After all,…
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British Pound – December contract
The British pound has been very technical in this contract for speculation. There are several versions and speculations as to why the pound has become calmer, but we will not consider them now. Now it is more valuable to determine the important support levels and calculate the probable scenarios for the December contract’s end. The support at 1.185 – 1.2 was formed by the heavy buying in early November. During the week, we saw the “big bulls” making large buy trades on the high of the contract at that time. Most in this range will lock in a buy (short) or open a sell trade – the predicted activity…
