Idealized Trades for December 2013
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Each day includes a description of some of the lessons and concepts discussed as well as the trade set-ups or examples that occurred that day.
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December 2, 2013 Download December 2 2013
Surprises for Bulls and Bears, “Failure Trade” outcomes into Reversals (great lesson), Stick Save into Popped Stops Play
December 3, 2013 Download December 3 2013
FINALLY a T3 Trend Day DOWN into support target. Bear flags and intraday reversal (divergence plus kick-off)
December 4, 2013 Download December 4 2013
Volatile Day, Traps for Both Sides (dual reversals), breakdown into first reaction play, another end-of-day buy program reversal
December 5, 2013 Download December 5 2013
Semi-Repeat Day – Traps, weak downtrend, failed bullish reversal
December 6, 2013 Download December 6 2013
Jobs Report, T3 Trend Day, Power Rally, Failed support trade after divergences into end-of-day stick save (don’t fight a trend day!)
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December 9, 2013 Download December 9 2013
Upward Bias confirmed, upside gap, bullish morning action, range afternoon, aggressive ‘fade’ trade discussion/example
December 10, 2013 Download December 10 2013
Downside/stall bias confirmed, downside gap, bearish morning plays, range and failed reversal afternoon (similar to yesterday… but in bearish terms)
December 11, 2013 Download December 11 2013
Downside bias confirmed, bearish morning plays, STRONG T3 Trend Day, pro-trend trades with two breakdowns
December 12, 2013 Download December 12 2013
V-Spike Intraday Reversal, pro-trend retracements into a breakout then first reaction/cradle trade
December 13, 2013 Download December 13 2013
Interesting, difficult to trade Range Day. Discussion on identifying/adapting to changes in Day Structure. Successful “breakout into first reaction” two-step trade.
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December 16, 2013 Download December 16 2013
Trend Day into flat Range Day (dominant thesis correct; real time profit difficult), support/retracement trades
December 17, 2013 Download December 17 2013
Rounded Reversal/V-Spike Intraday Reversal, Bearish Morning, divergence plus Kick-off mid-day reversal, breakout into first reaction
December 18, 2013 Download December 18 2013
BIG Fed Day, Taper announced (for January; not immediately), two bear-flag retracement morning trades, three 1-min chart power-trend retracements (lesson in volatility)
December 19, 2013 Download December 19 2013
Range Day (rising trend), Dominant Thesis achieved (consolidation into the highs), flag/retracement trades (like a Trend Day)
December 20, 2013 Download December 20 2013
Alternate Thesis breakout (popped stops/short-squeeze), GDP Growth 4.1%, retracement/flag trades
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December 23, 2013 Download December 23 2013
Dominant Thesis “popped stops” trend continuity (breakout), pro-trend (day) retracement trade, reversal set-up into failed reversal (trend continued despite reversal potential)
December 26, 2013 Download December 26 2013
Post-holiday session, continuing the “dominant thesis popped stops plays” from December 24 and 25 (this upward drift is EXACTLY what should be happening – bull flag intraday trades ONLY allowed – nothing else)
December 27, 2013 Download December 27 2013
Range Day, “Rounding Arc” of multi-day intraday pattern, breakdowns and ‘fade/reversal’ trades in a low volatility session
December 30, 2013 Download December 30 2013
Range Day, Holiday (low volatility) Session, “Fade” Trades, “Big Three” indicators for Range Day Fade Trades (review)
December 31, 2013 Download December 31 2013
“Surprise” Alternate Thesis, Discussion on importance of Alternate Thesis, morning ‘flag’ trades (via Alternate Thesis), afternoon breakdown into stick-save rally