This approach became more structured with a huge update, and I'm now on multiple payouts from prop firms :) - czcams.com/video/gvuSYdGox0s/video.html Get all the updated information ranking the top prop firms - www.imantrading.org/prop-firms Or, skip that and just go with the cheapest AND easiest firm to get funded with - myfundedfutures.com/?ref=4140 (coupon code Iman is ALWAYS the highest discount) TradeDay for their 1:1 10k and 25k accounts - members.tradeday.com/?aff=iman (coupon code Iman is ALWAYS the highest discount) Just make sure you follow the scalping policies if you're using firms. More information on this strategy (all free) - www.imantrading.org/howimantrades Remember that all strategies and systems are just different perspectives to learn one thing, and that’s price action. All strategies are just as valid as they are invalid, because they require discretion to work IF it’s not a fully-automated algorithm. Do not start using prop firms until you're ready, otherwise you will lose money. Using my links supports me at no extra cost to you.
I enjoy your videos, and I admire your bravery to document your journey of many failures. If I may offer suggestions: My favorite resource for learning price action on YT is Thomas Wade. Thomas does an amazing job almost every day EOD reviewing the chart and talking about the important concepts we are training ourselves to see in real time. Another resource goes by VWilson on YT, he records his trades and publishes them at the end of the day, takes notes on the chart telling what he sees as he sees it. Great resources for training yourself to see price action setups in real time.
Hey Iman, glad that you found a strategy that is working for you. Im gonna assume youre profitable with this strategy otherwise you probably wouldnt trade like that anymore but im asking myself how costly this method actually is. Since youre scalping literal micro movements, smaller than "usual" scalps your position size has to be quite big to make any meaningful profits. So my question is how does the spread effect your trading? I dont know how much you have to pay for futures but if I was trading like that with my cfd broker i dont think i would make any meaningful profits just because of the spread im paying (even though its already pretty small for indices).
TLDR: Watch an asset trade, literally every buy and sell order that goes through, every candle and chart in different time frames, become one with the asset, and you will be able to trade it profitably regardless of your preferred strategy, but it cannot be a quantified strategy that fits into some rigid "this indicator says this and that indicator says that" box... your absolutely incredibly POWERFUL supercomputer indicator trading bot of a brain will do it for you. The rest is down to finding enough zen and meaning in your life as to maintain this... if you have relationship issues, money issues, depression issues, and so on - consider how it may affect your trading because trust me, if you cannot turn your brain off and let the reptilian side of it do the calculations it needs to while your conscious does the justifying and quantifying, you will have a hard time. Zen + hours of price action and order flow + decent idea of macro/micro-economic catalysts + meh-idea of probable trend direction + RSI = decent enough odds to succeed near constantly. Also, I enjoy this trading strategy albeit I don't use it (at least yet) and haven't truly tried it before - I have, however, tried it in my brain when watching price action for hours and hours staring at charts and L2 and market orders going through... it taught me this ebb and flow... after a while it becomes almost intuitive and then suddenly the charts start to make sense and you can totally tell where something is going next, it almost feels like you can call the market on it's BS as if it is trying to lie to you and you can see through the lie... like if something breaks out and you can feel it with your butt that it is a false breakout while noobs are buying because the candle-sticks show a very clear bull flag patter but you see something completely different and you realize in that moment that there isn't enough strength to support it which means experienced traders who bought the breakout are going to get out when they don't see continuation and buying pressure follow through which will send it back down and then stop the noobs out and shorts hopping on will send it lower than where it was before and so on, things like that, you get to see through the candles into the real ebb and flow of it, the ying and yang, the up and down, the rubber band, the high pitched buying and low pitched selling pressure, almost as if you're watching waves on the beach, one little wave, large wave, little wave, medium wave, and so on, it becomes like this meditation almost, after a while nothing is surprising, and suddenly you realize if you know what happens next even to a 60% degree which is barely above random you can be profitable with proper risk management, and suddenly every stupid super-uber indicator ad that get recommended by algorithm seems so hilarious because it's always like "tired of your chart patterns not working? Well boy oh boy do I have an indicator for you!" 😂 it almost makes me feel bad because back when I didn't know what I know now I would fall for this BS that is plastered all over the internet and every single course ever, and I mean, it is kind of important because it doesn't hurt to know what a bull flag is because it does affect the price action to some extent when traders all see the same thing but it's by no means profitable to trade off of without seeing the actual ebb and flow of the price action and what is causing it because I cannot count how many times I blew up my account as a noob thinking "bull flag means profit" when in reality it was just a tiny poopy dangling off a larger shit called the whole entire chart in the future, then I would go back and try to rationalize why the bull flag turned into some complete failure and stopped me out for the nth loss in a row... So I super agree with you that price action is absolutely the epitome of trading as without truly internalizing it and learning it and syncing up with it the chart's history only shows maybe 1/4 of th epicture and is not predictive on its own, one must have those lazer eyes into the buying and selling happening within the candles and have the intuitive AI-like sense of "this is bad it's going down after this up-tick" or "this breakdown won't last, I'm getting in here" and be confident in that judgment... especially if you also pay attention to the macro-economic catalysts (ie. "the times" one is trading in to get a sense for how reckless the market is going to be at any point and understanding the time of day or week one is trading relative to said macro-catalysts). So I think the only way to trade this strategy profitably (at least in my world) is to not trade it at all for the first while but rather just to become hyper-syncronized with the price action of the asset (as you've mentioned in one of your videos - sit there and watch the thing trade for hours), and then paper-trading it until you become proficient enough with the trading software and/or hotkeys to place orders very quickly, train your brain "bad brain! wrong!" and "good brain! right!" until it knows exactly what to do with a small margin for error, and almost by second hand nature... this gives you the ability to sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit snipe, clench buttcheeks, exit, feel like the dankest human to ever have been born, celebrate with epic southern rap music and imagining luxury brand automobiles with half naked women but wait I have a girlfriend she's cool too, take sip of coffee, remind yourself that you are complete scum of the earth, absolute nobody, a pissed on stinky walking garbage dumpster, feel confidently calm and collected, rehypersync with price action, sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit snipe, clench butt cheeks, move profit target after confirmation of trade idea, move stop loss, sit sit sit, exit, feel like god and jesus simultaneously, remind yourself you are a walking garbage dumpster, complete scum of the earth, check P/L for the day, tell yourself to walk away while you can, walk away from computer, go watch some CZcams for a while, end the day watching more price action... and watching market pretty much the entire time, remind yourself that even one good trade per year and being profitable is better than a thousand bad ones and blowing up one's account so stay calm you don't need to trade everything all the time, then chilling and munching out on some food, chatting with friends, listening to scientists on podcasts, nerding out to some physics channels, etc. That is how I trade... I currently don't do the in/out 20X times per day as I haven't learned how to see the micro-movements (I mean, I did but not in a way that I can confidently execute on them - I have to feel a move to trade it, it's gotta vibe correctly with me before I jump in but when I do 9/10 times I am right about it) but I have learned how to see the larger 10-30 minute movements very well so I do the same sniping but much slower than you seem to do it. - to add to this, after a long enough time focusing on just watching the buying and selling, orders going through, price action and charts in various time frames, macro and micro economic catalysts "the times", I found that as long as I am patient and sit on my hands for long enough and don't "try" to trade, when I see a truly home-run trade opportunity my body won't allow me to not get in, and that is when I know I found a really great trade because the stars align, the catalysts are right, the times are just where I want them, the chart looks good and justifies the trade idea, there is adequate volatility, it is the right time of the day and week, I have the exact idea mapped out in my brain, and then the magic happens - my body just trades for me with no fear or greed, it just executes with confidence, and those are my best winners... nowadays I cant count how many trades I've had recently where I will call the bottom and top of a large move down to the cent and enter/exit with perfection just with my butt cheeks guiding me because they see what my subconscious sees and that is the price action I've been watching for days on any given asset... this is something I would recommend every beginner to try (simply watching something trade closely and almost imagining the sound each tick up or down would make if it were audible like buying is high pitch, selling low pitch, and just sit there thinking deeply about that rubber-band-like up down up down up up down up down down up up down up down down down down up, and so on... you can see it's literally become a part of my brain now lmao... I even write it in my comments... it becomes a part of you and allows you to use your powerful animal brain almost like ice skating or driving like an algorithm plus patience). Once you get good enough at controlling your emotions and sitting out watching the thing trade whether good or bad knowing you're missing trades, when you are ready to start trading your body won't allow you not to take profitable home runs because you will see the opportunity so clearly it will blind you to all noise. You will become a hyperfocused patient sniper of volatility and it will feel absolutely amazing. Anyways... holy shit balls this post got away from me. But maybe some noob will read it out of boredom and find something they can use to save themselves a bunch of losses. I wish I saw this video, your channel, and this comment when I was a rookie because it would have at least given me a different perspective to trading than "this EMA and VWAP has to alight with this thingy here, and that thingy there, and if this thingy over here crosses that thingy, that means this candle will go there" only to be absolutely REKD 60% of the time and trying everything the so called "gurus" teach that is literally every course ever with their bunch of dog shit indicator and chart lingerie. Peace! Happy trading and price action, because luck is for gamblers at the casino!
@@Luke13387 I doubt it affects it very much because (1) fututres are highly liquid so little to no slippage on large size (no slippage if small account, can always enter or exit using bid/ask rather than market order if the trade allows for it, albeit difficult with scalpting like he does, so I see that he gets in with a limit buy from ask, and exits with a market bid sell if it goes wrong and takes profit by selling on the ask, so he only pays for the full spread if it goes wrong or half the spread when buying if it goes right, essentially), and (2) the spread is relatively small at 1 tick between bit and ask but can be different depending on the asset and contract (so that's essentially the answer, depends on asset/contract/size - but I'd say it's similar to buying and selling a blue-chip stock - it's not terrible/a deal-breaker). Granted you trade CFD you probably know this but futures can be highly leveraged so even with a relatively small account one can make or lose a whole lot depending on contract and position size. It pretty much comes down to the contract and volatility... if you micro-scalp a volatile candle for a bunch of points you can tripple your equity in a single trade... or lose it and get liquidated of course... or you could manage risk properly and play things much more safely and slowly, do it in a tame manner such that you open positions in a micro-scalping manner, but as soon as your larger trade idea or momentum or direction of the market is validated, you can sit on the trade a bit longer and move the profit target up along with the stop loss such that you can almost hit a huge run just by opening it in micro-scalping manner as to stop out very quickly if you mess up and guess wrong, but if you guess right, it's down to whatever the price action does after you jump in... if it remains attractive towards the side you are trading, you can simply stay in for longer or take profits and run to the bank. Idk if that makes much sense but if it does I suppose that's how I would personally explain it/trade it.
No worries. I'm just an 'old guy' that's been trading for 30 - 35+/- years .... My edge is in my head. Naked chart, not even a volume indicator needed or wanted. I like to skip around youtube to see what's up with the younger guys/gals .... keep up the good work.
I just want to say thank you so much for being real when it comes to scalping and day trading. Transitioned from simulations to real trading a few months back and this is typically the strategy I use (sort of). Never really understood how people come up with these super elaborate set ups when most of it comes to intuition, discipline, and time.
I personally came back to scalp trading after trying other stuff, as shown in my previous videos. But after coming to strict scalp and then finding a similar edge to your super scalp (yes using the 20 sec chart), it’s been a big difference and I have been green since. I love this style of trading the MOST. 🙏 great videos Iman, I love watching them!
I trade the same way, but using the DOM and tape. High win rate and market making indices, treasuries, and crude oil. No fixed stops, just cutting by hand often by a few ticks. Don’t listen to the herd lol. They don’t even know what they don’t know. The fact that you are doing this only with charts is even more impressive. Congrats bro.
This works..I've made thousands.. don't know why people are crying saying it doesn't work.. trading is gambling anyways with the option to cut your loss and try again. Playing within candles is the best way..easier to know what a candle is gonna do within the minute vs +5min.. keep at it bro
yes. my god, this is what is in my mind exactly. i just found out, even though i'm so noob in trading (just a few days have been learning this shit), i'm really enjoying watching the movements of candlesticks in seconds or in minutes. i think there must be something there.
most comments i see on these videos are people telling you you're wrong in one way or another but i think it's inspirational you've come this far with something that's allegedly "wrong". i think trading is inherently random and everyone who stays on this journey long enough will eventually find something that works, whether it is textbook or something completely different. I myself am still toying with trading methods. I hope you continue making these videos and not be swayed by a right way to interpret the market
Ultimately, the only way to succeed in trading is to enter & exit when the institutions that control most of the market moves always do. To do otherwise would be like betting against a fight, game or horserace that has been "fixed" because, in truth, the markets are predominantly fixed by those institutions. The problem is that, mostly, the moves of those institutions are hard to identify. The other thing to avoid is placing too much weight on the assumption that you can predeict future from past price action. Like flips of a coint, there is a limit to the "memory" of the market.
Long time listener and first time commenter. I really enjoy the realism of your comments, errors in script, sense of humour and effort in trying to help others. I too am a cracked out MNQ trader and am pumped to watch your live trading video. Thank you for sharing and hope you continue creating these videos.
Kudos to you. I really appreciate your honesty and candor. You’re also funny as hell! Thanks for the belly laughs. I was shocked that you’re only 23 years old. It took me many years to develop the same wisdom and perspective. I appreciate the fact you truly are out to help people. Keep up the awesome work!
I’ve been learning psychology in regards to trading for months and changing how I view the market and emotionally respond to it and now I’ve been trying super scalping - I’m cleaning up every day thanks to you!
Your broker will be very happy with this strategy haha. I have done this before too, didn't work for me and I really didn't want to be doing it. Hopefully you like it and I hope it works for you.
Just a warning for anybody using NinjaTrader. -TLDR- fine print somewhere I’m sure, but accounts will auto liquidate before actually at zero. Adjust your risk margins accordingly. I had $60 remaining after the SL was hit and they decided it safer to just keep then let me figure out how to proceed with the remaining $60 which keep in mind was over 25% of my account. I had $200 in an account I was fine with losing. I was trading micros with the super scalping concept which I have learned can snowball in either direction at the smallest loss of focus. My mistake, and I learned. Experimented a bit with moving my SL into profit and yada yada, I was down $70. I set up one last trade that would either wipe the rest or set my account even. Consolidation traded in the middle so 50/50 chance. I’ll bring the moral of the story to the top -
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking and thinking what no one has thought. Find yourself, dont listen to the naysayers. Trade whatever fits you most. I discovered a system recently that fits me perfectly, and i wont teach anybody. Lots of books and so called gurus have condemned systems related to it, but i made it the Holy Grail for me alone. There is more to life than meets the charts. Nice effort Iman
Respectfully, this isn't a strategy it's just guessing without much thought of probability. Nearly every new trader tries this 'strategy' (including me) and ends up proving they cannot do it sustainably (hopefully on the sim). Usually, this 'rapid scalping is a steppingstone for a new trader that comes post-frustration of not finding a strategy that works for their personality type or they haven't practiced a strategy enough to become skilled, so they just start taking random entries playing a form of high low roulette. In this situation you don't have time to consider probability whereas the algo you are likely trading against already knows it therefore putting you at an instant disadvantage. I appreciate your videos and sharing your journey. If you can do it on a live account, day in and day out, and show consistent profit, then by all means keep going and report back how it's going in a few months. Thank you again for bravely sharing your ideas even if I disagree with it. =)
(They removed the comment this comment was referring to) The very first sentence of this video is me saying I’ve called it super-scalping because I’ve never seen anyone trade like this, which means exactly what it means. Kind of hard to name if it if I don’t know what its name is. Also, you’re right; I guess we’ll see in a few months ;)
agreed, you cant trade like this and find consistency. this is how a algo trades cause an algo can find it's edge in nano seconds. Don't try to trade like an algo, trade like a human else create an algo to trade for you.
@@HaloEraser 1:10 and 24:41 Also, this is not trading "nano seconds." A trading strategy that is too fast for you doesn't mean it's too fast for everyone else.
@@ImanTrading stay on either side of the of the bell curve (be it the ‘popular time frame bell curve,’ the ‘iq bell curve,’ or otherwise) to find the least resistance. Take it or leave it. 😉 Great progress you’ve made.
I just started super scalping not knowing about this video before hand. It’s been a great change for me and works well with the way my brain works. I’m glad this guy is explaining it for others to grasp the concept 😊.
This is my trading style. I follow the trend and jump in when it makes sense and get out quick. I need to be more disciplined in getting out when a trade goes against me.
Eyo! Appreciate you sharing this, I tried it out and i've been enjoying the quick ins and outs. If you hadn't shared it i probably wouldn't have thought it was worthwhile trading! Thanks again!
never thought to find a video like this.... this is like.. almost, very close, exactly how i trade. except im more agressive gridding. how cool! im only trading the us market open tho, us30, great volatility with volume. gotta love it. what im trying to improve on, get into flow, increase risk, lose flow decrease risk, like a cycle.
I can see some scammers have attacked your comments section. Nice video. I've been in gold for the past 3 years... and now i can trade gold.. scalp it... i don't know how.. but i have been profitable for the past 8 months on XAU
"asking too much of price" is really insightful. In a range, we all kn ow how statistically unlikely it is that we've caught the breakout...but we all trade like it (at some point)- your comment is a really concise reminder.
Probably watched 3-4 hrs of your videos. I'm in!!! Futures market time! I'm quitting trading cards, thats been real fun, but looking for a new game. Its hard finding people to trust, glad I found another. You guys are tough to find :) Keep up the amazing effort
Bro your strategy is very powerful and intense, I've watched a lot if videos, your videos also recently among these, I found as you always say that indicators fail most of the time, and what works are ATR and moving averages on day trading only on high liquidity hours or on 4h/1d chart( but only with right settings and trailing stop), market structure trading (Higher highs/Lows significant price levels, breakes of recent supp/resistance) grid trading techniques (auto/manual with or without martingale) and just investing long term on SP500 without leverage, or compound investing on it (like selling when it's up 10% and reinvest the initial capital+gains immediately after or when price drops a little, also when there is a heavy drop on S&P you can either just hold or add more capital, so when it will be raising again you will get good gains)
Every traders flaw is thinking their is a right way. Trading is the most subjective thing in the world. 10 people could have entirely different plays reading the same chart based on THEIR strategy. I'll enjoy the new perspective. My thought would be if you are "super scalping" (I might have missed if you said this) have you tried a tick chart as opposed to a minute chart?
Absolutely. And yes, I’ve tried it, but my current outlook on that is to just pick one or the other and stick with it. Who knows which one is better, but it’s probably just more important to stick with 1 and always use it. Appreciate the comment.
I play rocket league SSL level while playing podcasts too and i am still perfecting my own strategy that actually looks a lot like your super-scalping. Every time i watcha video from you i feel like we have a lot more in common than possible haha. Therefor alone i'll watch all your videos from first to last because i really feel like we have the same mind(set), it's actually a bit scary if i think about this haha. But great video, like all the others i've watched from you
I do something similarly. I don’t know exactly how to explain I just know. I’ll see a very good set up for me. Instead of going in 1 contract like I used to trying to hit 20+% trades I go heavily on contracts and take profit around 5-10% makes my RR much better imo and this strat has been consistent for me. In 2 weeks I grew 2k into 7k using this strat.
wow that was amazing!!! Had to pause the video a few times, just to re-listen to key points. You are smart beyond your years. Everything you said makes perfect sense :)
i finally managed to listen to this whole video, and I also have a similar issue with my attention doling, it makes watching longer videos like this quite taxing. I do agree that /ES doesn't have as large of a volume for this style of trading, it takes a decent amount of time for any reasonable point movement
Listen to albums on Spotify all day while I watch shit like this on CZcams and when my mind burns switch from CZcams to reading and then yeah.... Gonna watch this again.
The middle of candles isn't as important as the wicks. They can open and close anywhere and it often doesn't matter. One of the reasons to use bars instead of candles.
This is how i have been trading for a month now, but my greediness to catching big moves is the only problem I have. I don't set my take profits and I try to stay focus. If market is moving to my direction, I just adjust my stop loss, but it doesn't go well all the time cause I might get stopped out and market will keep moving to my direction without me being in the move... That sucks.. If I could control my greediness, I think I will be comfortable with super scalping...
I’ve found some success recently with this type of trade! Just going for 2 points on NQ within a 1min candle, 5 contracts, couple hundred $ per trade. 3 of those a day and done. Seems so much less stressful than trying trade reversals or larger moves…you can be finished with your day within 10mins. Perfect!
A friend of mine trades in blocks of 3-5 contracts to layer into a 30-100 contract position. Any more than 3-5, he says, and you'll get slippage and Algo stop hunting.
just found your channels, very well done!! Lots of great stuff here, so thank you! re; "trading consolidation" can you do a video that explains a bit more about your entry / exists? can see the trades, but not what you're basing the trade on. Thanks! Keep it up!!
So what you’re doing is pretty much what pro traders do. Buying low and selling high in ranges and trading with the trend. It’s pretty straightforward and simple. Like anything that works in trading it’s straightforward. Everything else is just BS IMHO. Sorry I am ranting. I’ve tried all those strategies and now realise that they are just good ways to sound intelligent and make money off people who are looking for shortcuts. Well done that you’ve swallowed the blue pill and seen that trading isn’t as complicated as people make it.
@ImanTrading I use %bollenger bands width from a bit higher time frame. for scalping sub 1min take 1m, for 1min take 5min. It gives you volatility range for the past 14 periods. you can adjust this depending on how crazy the day is.
Kudos! like that you keep it real keep up the good work! Been trying super scalping and i can see how its like a video game. I agree, ATR is probably one of the most under rated tools in trading.
This method fits your style of unconscious competence. Like playing the piano. The player is not reading every note but they understand what sound should be coming through. I am working on something similar….30 sec chart supported by 5 sec chart. Once I see the direction I go. No analysis, just I see it when I see it. With “it” being the start or stop point of that event. I just wait untilI see it again. If the event is 5 point, fine. If it is 35, then fine. I go when I see it and take what it gives me.
Omg. Can't believe you made a video about something i've been doing for years. "Scalping the Box" --- at least that's what I call it. Just fade the ones that "Pop" up or down that are 'out of the box' -- Note: I need a box that provides at least 4-5 points end-to-end on ES. Happy Hunting!
When you say box what do you mean? I basically watch NQ and when I get a candle that pops up down very fast I enter in the opposite direction. Wondering if this is the same or not.
This helped me thank you! Especially able to do this on the weekends is a plus. Unlike regular stocks it's closed weekends and after closing hours which sucks. Yes I used this on crypto and it helped me thank you! 24/7 trading rocks.
I find it intriguing that for someone who is learning psychology, that you would go off and build a trading strategy from scratch rather than copy or emulate a successful trader/strategy. I see 9 months later the battle continues, best of luck to you mate.
You can take this like i do and then add choc and the 123 pattern. Ill draw the line grid out a line at every minor and major support and res. Then on the 4hr or 1 hr check the main trend. Knowing that i then go to the 5 min or 15 min and wait for the next choc on the macro scale trend on a pull back or the end of a pullback thats resuming the main trend. Once the choc happens the price is trying to make a new hh or new LL depending on trend direction. This gives every pattern and breakout pattern a heavy bias if you call it correctly it works almost flawlessly all but the outliers the market just spun on news. Then a step further for entry wait for the first macro pullback after a choc and play the break on the direction of then new hh or LL price is headed for using the 123 break out pattern
I trade the forex market this way but i trade US30 and Nas100. Im funded 300k and have been trading for 2 years. I do not use ATR and may implement this.
just caught this video. I've been involved in trading since 1990S basically stocks swing trading and options last few years. I only started trading future daily since i retired, lOl. Its new to me and I've tried learning about footprints and book map and volume profile, lol seems like all noise to me. This trading you do is what i feel most comfortable with because bad things happen when your in the trade too long. Yet although the experts seem to favor 1 - 3 good trades a day, perfect setups, lol. I liken it to sitting in boat all day then casting out lure at the one moment you think is ideal to catch fish. But wait you get nothing. well another day wasted, lol. I'm with you on this style and your I'm a kindred spirit to everything being too slow for you including your restless legs .I'm with you and the tidbit about ATR is one I was missing. Thanks
I like this type of trading and actually am pretty good at scalping. I've been trading forex. The problem I have is I like trading on a 5 minute chart. The moves are so small for so much of the day, I can't trade it because my wins get eaten by commission.
High Speed Heads or Tails but if its working for you then great. I did go through the process of trying this on a demo account, lost 25% of it before I gave up and decided I was not lucky enough to make money this way.
I do something similar on 1 minute chart, but with moving averages, sometimes mean reversion trade (price too far from MA's). Takes a lot of practice. Trade microlots to stay in the game longer!
Been trading for a year, huge losses. Have been watching your other videos also. I literally just started a similar strategy this week, and have been getting more green/breakeven trades than red, and then I chanced upon your video. It's a sign!
I'm probably being really dim here but I don't understand the point of having a R:R - doesnt it make more sense to use trailing stops so you cash in on the bigger moves?
Iman a other question thats going around my mind. When you enter 2 trades, on one you bet that the price is going up and on the other you betting going down. When you have this st up you have two stop losses where one of this trades gets cut of but the other goes through and you make a little bit of profit. I think that can work sometimes, but it also can happen that the two stop losses gets cut of and then you have two big losers and you were a big way way from profit. Your opinion would be nice, I hop you understand this. :)
It’s called OCO orders. One cancels the other. You place orders on two opposite sides, mainly on the top and bottom of bracket. When price goes which ever way the other order gets cancelled. But this works only on trending days when price either shoot’s up or down from market start. most times as price tends to range or go back and forth, hunting stop losses.
@@tyeshi8225 ok thangs. i think mathematical its even more likly that it hits both stop loss then one win and one loss. But Im not really sure about it.
💪 Following right in your footsteps ironically. Tried all the indicator cross bs. But you have to be constantly tweaking indicator settings. This is the way for me atleast.
Actually i do fast scalping but not entering randomly at every candle formation. I read the candles and have started developing a set of criteria that should be respected plus my previous strategy and i can see that it's giving good results. Instead of waiting for long runs with my strategy i can take only quarter from the whole move and get as twice profits.
I like this style. Your broker makes it awesome too. My broker can't do it like that. I wish I could do stops and stuff on chart like that. I trade fast too.
Please explain why ninjatrader commissions are weird. Trading 3 contracts on MNQ with stoploss 8/8 when i win it takes of 6 times contract commissions but when i loose it takes of 8 contract commissions. Why doesnt it take of 3 contract commissions as i am trading with 3 contracts? Anybody help!?
Not quite sure if I understood you but it seems to me that you're not taking into consideration the exits, the commissions are based on route entries, meaning that you pay let's say 0.72 for the entry and the exit, so that'd be a route entry commission of $1.44 times the number of contracts you're trading
That's funny to see that video from the CZcams feed, as I just moved into futures scalping and I do that with YM (US30) instead of NQ on 15 seconds charts. And I agree like you I feel much better doing Super/Hyper scalping than doing intraday on CFDs like I used to do for months and months (and losing btw lmao). Great insights, thank you for the video mate!
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I enjoy your videos, and I admire your bravery to document your journey of many failures. If I may offer suggestions:
My favorite resource for learning price action on YT is Thomas Wade. Thomas does an amazing job almost every day EOD reviewing the chart and talking about the important concepts we are training ourselves to see in real time. Another resource goes by VWilson on YT, he records his trades and publishes them at the end of the day, takes notes on the chart telling what he sees as he sees it. Great resources for training yourself to see price action setups in real time.
Hey Iman, glad that you found a strategy that is working for you. Im gonna assume youre profitable with this strategy otherwise you probably wouldnt trade like that anymore but im asking myself how costly this method actually is. Since youre scalping literal micro movements, smaller than "usual" scalps your position size has to be quite big to make any meaningful profits. So my question is how does the spread effect your trading? I dont know how much you have to pay for futures but if I was trading like that with my cfd broker i dont think i would make any meaningful profits just because of the spread im paying (even though its already pretty small for indices).
TLDR: Watch an asset trade, literally every buy and sell order that goes through, every candle and chart in different time frames, become one with the asset, and you will be able to trade it profitably regardless of your preferred strategy, but it cannot be a quantified strategy that fits into some rigid "this indicator says this and that indicator says that" box... your absolutely incredibly POWERFUL supercomputer indicator trading bot of a brain will do it for you. The rest is down to finding enough zen and meaning in your life as to maintain this... if you have relationship issues, money issues, depression issues, and so on - consider how it may affect your trading because trust me, if you cannot turn your brain off and let the reptilian side of it do the calculations it needs to while your conscious does the justifying and quantifying, you will have a hard time. Zen + hours of price action and order flow + decent idea of macro/micro-economic catalysts + meh-idea of probable trend direction + RSI = decent enough odds to succeed near constantly.
Also, I enjoy this trading strategy albeit I don't use it (at least yet) and haven't truly tried it before - I have, however, tried it in my brain when watching price action for hours and hours staring at charts and L2 and market orders going through... it taught me this ebb and flow... after a while it becomes almost intuitive and then suddenly the charts start to make sense and you can totally tell where something is going next, it almost feels like you can call the market on it's BS as if it is trying to lie to you and you can see through the lie... like if something breaks out and you can feel it with your butt that it is a false breakout while noobs are buying because the candle-sticks show a very clear bull flag patter but you see something completely different and you realize in that moment that there isn't enough strength to support it which means experienced traders who bought the breakout are going to get out when they don't see continuation and buying pressure follow through which will send it back down and then stop the noobs out and shorts hopping on will send it lower than where it was before and so on, things like that, you get to see through the candles into the real ebb and flow of it, the ying and yang, the up and down, the rubber band, the high pitched buying and low pitched selling pressure, almost as if you're watching waves on the beach, one little wave, large wave, little wave, medium wave, and so on, it becomes like this meditation almost, after a while nothing is surprising, and suddenly you realize if you know what happens next even to a 60% degree which is barely above random you can be profitable with proper risk management, and suddenly every stupid super-uber indicator ad that get recommended by algorithm seems so hilarious because it's always like "tired of your chart patterns not working? Well boy oh boy do I have an indicator for you!" 😂 it almost makes me feel bad because back when I didn't know what I know now I would fall for this BS that is plastered all over the internet and every single course ever, and I mean, it is kind of important because it doesn't hurt to know what a bull flag is because it does affect the price action to some extent when traders all see the same thing but it's by no means profitable to trade off of without seeing the actual ebb and flow of the price action and what is causing it because I cannot count how many times I blew up my account as a noob thinking "bull flag means profit" when in reality it was just a tiny poopy dangling off a larger shit called the whole entire chart in the future, then I would go back and try to rationalize why the bull flag turned into some complete failure and stopped me out for the nth loss in a row... So I super agree with you that price action is absolutely the epitome of trading as without truly internalizing it and learning it and syncing up with it the chart's history only shows maybe 1/4 of th epicture and is not predictive on its own, one must have those lazer eyes into the buying and selling happening within the candles and have the intuitive AI-like sense of "this is bad it's going down after this up-tick" or "this breakdown won't last, I'm getting in here" and be confident in that judgment... especially if you also pay attention to the macro-economic catalysts (ie. "the times" one is trading in to get a sense for how reckless the market is going to be at any point and understanding the time of day or week one is trading relative to said macro-catalysts). So I think the only way to trade this strategy profitably (at least in my world) is to not trade it at all for the first while but rather just to become hyper-syncronized with the price action of the asset (as you've mentioned in one of your videos - sit there and watch the thing trade for hours), and then paper-trading it until you become proficient enough with the trading software and/or hotkeys to place orders very quickly, train your brain "bad brain! wrong!" and "good brain! right!" until it knows exactly what to do with a small margin for error, and almost by second hand nature... this gives you the ability to sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit snipe, clench buttcheeks, exit, feel like the dankest human to ever have been born, celebrate with epic southern rap music and imagining luxury brand automobiles with half naked women but wait I have a girlfriend she's cool too, take sip of coffee, remind yourself that you are complete scum of the earth, absolute nobody, a pissed on stinky walking garbage dumpster, feel confidently calm and collected, rehypersync with price action, sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit snipe, clench butt cheeks, move profit target after confirmation of trade idea, move stop loss, sit sit sit, exit, feel like god and jesus simultaneously, remind yourself you are a walking garbage dumpster, complete scum of the earth, check P/L for the day, tell yourself to walk away while you can, walk away from computer, go watch some CZcams for a while, end the day watching more price action... and watching market pretty much the entire time, remind yourself that even one good trade per year and being profitable is better than a thousand bad ones and blowing up one's account so stay calm you don't need to trade everything all the time, then chilling and munching out on some food, chatting with friends, listening to scientists on podcasts, nerding out to some physics channels, etc. That is how I trade... I currently don't do the in/out 20X times per day as I haven't learned how to see the micro-movements (I mean, I did but not in a way that I can confidently execute on them - I have to feel a move to trade it, it's gotta vibe correctly with me before I jump in but when I do 9/10 times I am right about it) but I have learned how to see the larger 10-30 minute movements very well so I do the same sniping but much slower than you seem to do it. - to add to this, after a long enough time focusing on just watching the buying and selling, orders going through, price action and charts in various time frames, macro and micro economic catalysts "the times", I found that as long as I am patient and sit on my hands for long enough and don't "try" to trade, when I see a truly home-run trade opportunity my body won't allow me to not get in, and that is when I know I found a really great trade because the stars align, the catalysts are right, the times are just where I want them, the chart looks good and justifies the trade idea, there is adequate volatility, it is the right time of the day and week, I have the exact idea mapped out in my brain, and then the magic happens - my body just trades for me with no fear or greed, it just executes with confidence, and those are my best winners... nowadays I cant count how many trades I've had recently where I will call the bottom and top of a large move down to the cent and enter/exit with perfection just with my butt cheeks guiding me because they see what my subconscious sees and that is the price action I've been watching for days on any given asset... this is something I would recommend every beginner to try (simply watching something trade closely and almost imagining the sound each tick up or down would make if it were audible like buying is high pitch, selling low pitch, and just sit there thinking deeply about that rubber-band-like up down up down up up down up down down up up down up down down down down up, and so on... you can see it's literally become a part of my brain now lmao... I even write it in my comments... it becomes a part of you and allows you to use your powerful animal brain almost like ice skating or driving like an algorithm plus patience). Once you get good enough at controlling your emotions and sitting out watching the thing trade whether good or bad knowing you're missing trades, when you are ready to start trading your body won't allow you not to take profitable home runs because you will see the opportunity so clearly it will blind you to all noise. You will become a hyperfocused patient sniper of volatility and it will feel absolutely amazing.
Anyways... holy shit balls this post got away from me. But maybe some noob will read it out of boredom and find something they can use to save themselves a bunch of losses. I wish I saw this video, your channel, and this comment when I was a rookie because it would have at least given me a different perspective to trading than "this EMA and VWAP has to alight with this thingy here, and that thingy there, and if this thingy over here crosses that thingy, that means this candle will go there" only to be absolutely REKD 60% of the time and trying everything the so called "gurus" teach that is literally every course ever with their bunch of dog shit indicator and chart lingerie.
Peace! Happy trading and price action, because luck is for gamblers at the casino!
@@Luke13387 I doubt it affects it very much because (1) fututres are highly liquid so little to no slippage on large size (no slippage if small account, can always enter or exit using bid/ask rather than market order if the trade allows for it, albeit difficult with scalpting like he does, so I see that he gets in with a limit buy from ask, and exits with a market bid sell if it goes wrong and takes profit by selling on the ask, so he only pays for the full spread if it goes wrong or half the spread when buying if it goes right, essentially), and (2) the spread is relatively small at 1 tick between bit and ask but can be different depending on the asset and contract (so that's essentially the answer, depends on asset/contract/size - but I'd say it's similar to buying and selling a blue-chip stock - it's not terrible/a deal-breaker). Granted you trade CFD you probably know this but futures can be highly leveraged so even with a relatively small account one can make or lose a whole lot depending on contract and position size. It pretty much comes down to the contract and volatility... if you micro-scalp a volatile candle for a bunch of points you can tripple your equity in a single trade... or lose it and get liquidated of course... or you could manage risk properly and play things much more safely and slowly, do it in a tame manner such that you open positions in a micro-scalping manner, but as soon as your larger trade idea or momentum or direction of the market is validated, you can sit on the trade a bit longer and move the profit target up along with the stop loss such that you can almost hit a huge run just by opening it in micro-scalping manner as to stop out very quickly if you mess up and guess wrong, but if you guess right, it's down to whatever the price action does after you jump in... if it remains attractive towards the side you are trading, you can simply stay in for longer or take profits and run to the bank. Idk if that makes much sense but if it does I suppose that's how I would personally explain it/trade it.
No worries. I'm just an 'old guy' that's been trading for 30 - 35+/- years .... My edge is in my head. Naked chart, not even a volume indicator needed or wanted. I like to skip around youtube to see what's up with the younger guys/gals .... keep up the good work.
I just want to say thank you so much for being real when it comes to scalping and day trading. Transitioned from simulations to real trading a few months back and this is typically the strategy I use (sort of). Never really understood how people come up with these super elaborate set ups when most of it comes to intuition, discipline, and time.
how its going for you brother?
This is what we call "pure" or "raw" price action; and due to the fractal nature of the markets it can actually work on any time frame.
I personally came back to scalp trading after trying other stuff, as shown in my previous videos. But after coming to strict scalp and then finding a similar edge to your super scalp (yes using the 20 sec chart), it’s been a big difference and I have been green since. I love this style of trading the MOST. 🙏 great videos Iman, I love watching them!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you
Jess, do you find 20-sec TF better than 1-min or 2-min? What do you like the most about it?
Do You still use this process ?? Gald to hear from You
I trade the same way, but using the DOM and tape. High win rate and market making indices, treasuries, and crude oil. No fixed stops, just cutting by hand often by a few ticks. Don’t listen to the herd lol. They don’t even know what they don’t know. The fact that you are doing this only with charts is even more impressive. Congrats bro.
What do you look for on the tape to help confirm trades?
This works..I've made thousands.. don't know why people are crying saying it doesn't work.. trading is gambling anyways with the option to cut your loss and try again. Playing within candles is the best way..easier to know what a candle is gonna do within the minute vs +5min.. keep at it bro
I am glad you mentioned Gambling! To me, it's sort of informed gambling.
yes. my god, this is what is in my mind exactly. i just found out, even though i'm so noob in trading (just a few days have been learning this shit), i'm really enjoying watching the movements of candlesticks in seconds or in minutes. i think there must be something there.
the rush is in the movements in every second.
most comments i see on these videos are people telling you you're wrong in one way or another but i think it's inspirational you've come this far with something that's allegedly "wrong". i think trading is inherently random and everyone who stays on this journey long enough will eventually find something that works, whether it is textbook or something completely different. I myself am still toying with trading methods. I hope you continue making these videos and not be swayed by a right way to interpret the market
A very refreshing comment to read. Thank you.
Wrong is right if wrong makes money, right? :D
💯💯
@@ImanTrading this is very much not wrong, dont let anyone tell you otherwise! the market moves like this, fundamentally
Ultimately, the only way to succeed in trading is to enter & exit when the institutions that control most of the market moves always do. To do otherwise would be like betting against a fight, game or horserace that has been "fixed" because, in truth, the markets are predominantly fixed by those institutions. The problem is that, mostly, the moves of those institutions are hard to identify. The other thing to avoid is placing too much weight on the assumption that you can predeict future from past price action. Like flips of a coint, there is a limit to the "memory" of the market.
But what about the Dinosaur Pattern 🤷♂
Not much of use after the asteroid pattern came around
Long time listener and first time commenter. I really enjoy the realism of your comments, errors in script, sense of humour and effort in trying to help others. I too am a cracked out MNQ trader and am pumped to watch your live trading video. Thank you for sharing and hope you continue creating these videos.
Thank you very much, I appreciate that! Haha I’ll see you on MNQ
Why not NQ?
@@rombusworkmoney22
cause dat shit expensive
Kudos to you. I really appreciate your honesty and candor. You’re also funny as hell! Thanks for the belly laughs. I was shocked that you’re only 23 years old. It took me many years to develop the same wisdom and perspective. I appreciate the fact you truly are out to help people. Keep up the awesome work!
Happy you found something that works for you. May many profits be with you!
I’ve been learning psychology in regards to trading for months and changing how I view the market and emotionally respond to it and now I’ve been trying super scalping - I’m cleaning up every day thanks to you!
Your broker will be very happy with this strategy haha. I have done this before too, didn't work for me and I really didn't want to be doing it. Hopefully you like it and I hope it works for you.
Bro you look like you still wear nappies 😂😂
Lololol strategy.. He will definitely be the first to ever make money with this epileptic "strategy"! 💯
Just a warning for anybody using NinjaTrader. -TLDR- fine print somewhere I’m sure, but accounts will auto liquidate before actually at zero. Adjust your risk margins accordingly. I had $60 remaining after the SL was hit and they decided it safer to just keep then let me figure out how to proceed with the remaining $60 which keep in mind was over 25% of my account.
I had $200 in an account I was fine with losing. I was trading micros with the super scalping concept which I have learned can snowball in either direction at the smallest loss of focus. My mistake, and I learned. Experimented a bit with moving my SL into profit and yada yada, I was down $70. I set up one last trade that would either wipe the rest or set my account even. Consolidation traded in the middle so 50/50 chance. I’ll bring the moral of the story to the top -
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking and thinking what no one has thought. Find yourself, dont listen to the naysayers. Trade whatever fits you most. I discovered a system recently that fits me perfectly, and i wont teach anybody. Lots of books and so called gurus have condemned systems related to it, but i made it the Holy Grail for me alone. There is more to life than meets the charts. Nice effort Iman
So you must be broke
I’ve never seen anybody else trade like this. Thank you.
ur a smart man dont listen to anyone else, ur gonna make it to where u want one day
Respectfully, this isn't a strategy it's just guessing without much thought of probability. Nearly every new trader tries this 'strategy' (including me) and ends up proving they cannot do it sustainably (hopefully on the sim). Usually, this 'rapid scalping is a steppingstone for a new trader that comes post-frustration of not finding a strategy that works for their personality type or they haven't practiced a strategy enough to become skilled, so they just start taking random entries playing a form of high low roulette.
In this situation you don't have time to consider probability whereas the algo you are likely trading against already knows it therefore putting you at an instant disadvantage. I appreciate your videos and sharing your journey. If you can do it on a live account, day in and day out, and show consistent profit, then by all means keep going and report back how it's going in a few months.
Thank you again for bravely sharing your ideas even if I disagree with it. =)
(They removed the comment this comment was referring to) The very first sentence of this video is me saying I’ve called it super-scalping because I’ve never seen anyone trade like this, which means exactly what it means. Kind of hard to name if it if I don’t know what its name is.
Also, you’re right; I guess we’ll see in a few months ;)
agreed, you cant trade like this and find consistency. this is how a algo trades cause an algo can find it's edge in nano seconds. Don't try to trade like an algo, trade like a human else create an algo to trade for you.
@@HaloEraser 1:10 and 24:41
Also, this is not trading "nano seconds." A trading strategy that is too fast for you doesn't mean it's too fast for everyone else.
If you have a plan, it's a strategy.
@@ImanTrading stay on either side of the of the bell curve (be it the ‘popular time frame bell curve,’ the ‘iq bell curve,’ or otherwise) to find the least resistance. Take it or leave it. 😉
Great progress you’ve made.
I just started super scalping not knowing about this video before hand. It’s been a great change for me and works well with the way my brain works. I’m glad this guy is explaining it for others to grasp the concept 😊.
This is my trading style. I follow the trend and jump in when it makes sense and get out quick. I need to be more disciplined in getting out when a trade goes against me.
Me to. I'm getting over it by reassuring myself I can always get back in
This looks like trading without ego while also being in flow. Not wanting to be right just getting in and out irregardless of PnL. Nice work
Eyo! Appreciate you sharing this, I tried it out and i've been enjoying the quick ins and outs. If you hadn't shared it i probably wouldn't have thought it was worthwhile trading! Thanks again!
I’m very happy to hear that! Best of luck to you and I hope it works out!
this is brilliant. the best part... . price revisiting a place it was before. It does that a lot.
Best of luck. The truth all the strategies work. They all work. Just pick one stick with it for a few years and perfect it.
never thought to find a video like this.... this is like.. almost, very close, exactly how i trade. except im more agressive gridding. how cool! im only trading the us market open tho, us30, great volatility with volume. gotta love it. what im trying to improve on, get into flow, increase risk, lose flow decrease risk, like a cycle.
I can see some scammers have attacked your comments section. Nice video. I've been in gold for the past 3 years... and now i can trade gold.. scalp it... i don't know how.. but i have been profitable for the past 8 months on XAU
"asking too much of price" is really insightful.
In a range, we all kn ow how statistically unlikely it is that we've caught the breakout...but we all trade like it (at some point)- your comment is a really concise reminder.
Probably watched 3-4 hrs of your videos. I'm in!!! Futures market time! I'm quitting trading cards, thats been real fun, but looking for a new game. Its hard finding people to trust, glad I found another. You guys are tough to find :) Keep up the amazing effort
Can you mention some people that i can trust to study
@@Jewel-or6ru Tom houggard is the king imo 👍 👌
Best of luck
I've found trading to be much simpler if you just trade in the direction of the price movement.
😂
you could trade this way with a directional bias? only take those trades in the direction you see
no fucking shit sherlock
Exactly, only buy when it's going up and only sell when it's going down!
Same bro, I scalp the 1m & 5m . Get in and get out. Have a mental stop loss, check yourself and you good 😮💨 keeping it simple and it’s working
Bro your strategy is very powerful and intense, I've watched a lot if videos, your videos also recently among these, I found as you always say that indicators fail most of the time, and what works are ATR and moving averages on day trading only on high liquidity hours or on 4h/1d chart( but only with right settings and trailing stop), market structure trading (Higher highs/Lows significant price levels, breakes of recent supp/resistance) grid trading techniques (auto/manual with or without martingale) and just investing long term on SP500 without leverage, or compound investing on it (like selling when it's up 10% and reinvest the initial capital+gains immediately after or when price drops a little, also when there is a heavy drop on S&P you can either just hold or add more capital, so when it will be raising again you will get good gains)
Every traders flaw is thinking their is a right way. Trading is the most subjective thing in the world. 10 people could have entirely different plays reading the same chart based on THEIR strategy.
I'll enjoy the new perspective.
My thought would be if you are "super scalping" (I might have missed if you said this) have you tried a tick chart as opposed to a minute chart?
**thinking there is**
Absolutely. And yes, I’ve tried it, but my current outlook on that is to just pick one or the other and stick with it. Who knows which one is better, but it’s probably just more important to stick with 1 and always use it. Appreciate the comment.
@@ImanTrading yes sir! Whatever works the best for you makes the most sense!
I play rocket league SSL level while playing podcasts too and i am still perfecting my own strategy that actually looks a lot like your super-scalping. Every time i watcha video from you i feel like we have a lot more in common than possible haha. Therefor alone i'll watch all your videos from first to last because i really feel like we have the same mind(set), it's actually a bit scary if i think about this haha.
But great video, like all the others i've watched from you
Damn I'm a champ, and come from options trading, futures seem to be next for me lol
@@andrewthag so hows "future"
I really love your channel man. It's everything I've ever wanted to do. Thanks for the videos.
I do something similarly. I don’t know exactly how to explain I just know. I’ll see a very good set up for me. Instead of going in 1 contract like I used to trying to hit 20+% trades I go heavily on contracts and take profit around 5-10% makes my RR much better imo and this strat has been consistent for me. In 2 weeks I grew 2k into 7k using this strat.
Can you please explain the strat and exactly how you do it? I would really appreciate it
wow that was amazing!!! Had to pause the video a few times, just to re-listen to key points. You are smart beyond your years. Everything you said makes perfect sense :)
i finally managed to listen to this whole video, and I also have a similar issue with my attention doling, it makes watching longer videos like this quite taxing. I do agree that /ES doesn't have as large of a volume for this style of trading, it takes a decent amount of time for any reasonable point movement
Listen to albums on Spotify all day while I watch shit like this on CZcams and when my mind burns switch from CZcams to reading and then yeah....
Gonna watch this again.
The middle of candles isn't as important as the wicks. They can open and close anywhere and it often doesn't matter. One of the reasons to use bars instead of candles.
OMG! This is exactly how I trade, and it works!
This is how i have been trading for a month now, but my greediness to catching big moves is the only problem I have. I don't set my take profits and I try to stay focus. If market is moving to my direction, I just adjust my stop loss, but it doesn't go well all the time cause I might get stopped out and market will keep moving to my direction without me being in the move... That sucks.. If I could control my greediness, I think I will be comfortable with super scalping...
I’ve found some success recently with this type of trade! Just going for 2 points on NQ within a 1min candle, 5 contracts, couple hundred $ per trade. 3 of those a day and done. Seems so much less stressful than trying trade reversals or larger moves…you can be finished with your day within 10mins. Perfect!
Thanks for this! Your hard work is much appreciated and you give me confidence that anyone can learn to trade 💪🏻
A friend of mine trades in blocks of 3-5 contracts to layer into a 30-100 contract position. Any more than 3-5, he says, and you'll get slippage and Algo stop hunting.
just found your channels, very well done!! Lots of great stuff here, so thank you! re; "trading consolidation" can you do a video that explains a bit more about your entry / exists? can see the trades, but not what you're basing the trade on. Thanks! Keep it up!!
So what you’re doing is pretty much what pro traders do. Buying low and selling high in ranges and trading with the trend. It’s pretty straightforward and simple. Like anything that works in trading it’s straightforward. Everything else is just BS IMHO. Sorry I am ranting. I’ve tried all those strategies and now realise that they are just good ways to sound intelligent and make money off people who are looking for shortcuts. Well done that you’ve swallowed the blue pill and seen that trading isn’t as complicated as people make it.
I do the same things but on a 5 and 15 min chart, larger move and also more time for you to make a decision
@ImanTrading I use %bollenger bands width from a bit higher time frame. for scalping sub 1min take 1m, for 1min take 5min. It gives you volatility range for the past 14 periods. you can adjust this depending on how crazy the day is.
Cool vid
You are definitely in the rare category of traders Al Brooks described, you must be an elite scalper
Kudos! like that you keep it real keep up the good work! Been trying super scalping and i can see how its like a video game. I agree, ATR is probably one of the most under rated tools in trading.
This method fits your style of unconscious competence. Like playing the piano. The player is not reading every note but they understand what sound should be coming through. I am working on something similar….30 sec chart supported by 5 sec chart. Once I see the direction I go. No analysis, just I see it when I see it. With “it” being the start or stop point of that event. I just wait untilI see it again. If the event is 5 point, fine. If it is 35, then fine. I go when I see it and take what it gives me.
Omg. Can't believe you made a video about something i've been doing for years. "Scalping the Box" --- at least that's what I call it. Just fade the ones that "Pop" up or down that are 'out of the box' -- Note: I need a box that provides at least 4-5 points end-to-end on ES. Happy Hunting!
When you say box what do you mean? I basically watch NQ and when I get a candle that pops up down very fast I enter in the opposite direction. Wondering if this is the same or not.
I like your fresh approach; this style of trading looks to be a lot like trading on a DOM over a high volume node of the volume profile
Beautiful methadone on sound bro.
This helped me thank you! Especially able to do this on the weekends is a plus. Unlike regular stocks it's closed weekends and after closing hours which sucks. Yes I used this on crypto and it helped me thank you! 24/7 trading rocks.
Thank you so much Iman. You did a job. I’ve learned a lots in your videos.
I find it intriguing that for someone who is learning psychology, that you would go off and build a trading strategy from scratch rather than copy or emulate a successful trader/strategy. I see 9 months later the battle continues, best of luck to you mate.
You can take this like i do and then add choc and the 123 pattern. Ill draw the line grid out a line at every minor and major support and res. Then on the 4hr or 1 hr check the main trend. Knowing that i then go to the 5 min or 15 min and wait for the next choc on the macro scale trend on a pull back or the end of a pullback thats resuming the main trend. Once the choc happens the price is trying to make a new hh or new LL depending on trend direction. This gives every pattern and breakout pattern a heavy bias if you call it correctly it works almost flawlessly all but the outliers the market just spun on news. Then a step further for entry wait for the first macro pullback after a choc and play the break on the direction of then new hh or LL price is headed for using the 123 break out pattern
I trade this style. I just don't like holding for more than a few seconds/ minutes.
Only issue is my commissions are about 25% of my profits.
sounds like you need to find a lower cost platform? in the UK we can utilise buy-sell spreads of 1pt Dow and 0.14 SP500 during RTH
teadovate es mini 2 units (cost $1,000), 1 pt = $100 cost would be $6 commission
I trade the forex market this way but i trade US30 and Nas100. Im funded 300k and have been trading for 2 years. I do not use ATR and may implement this.
the same strategy as his?
@@Silkroadclips no, its my own. But same concept.
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Great video literally this has been my conclusion as well RBI > HOMERUN
You are on the right path, just add fractal nature of price action and mean reversion concept to it. Think cycles in Z.
just caught this video. I've been involved in trading since 1990S basically stocks swing trading and options last few years. I only started trading future daily since i retired, lOl. Its new to me and I've tried learning about footprints and book map and volume profile, lol seems like all noise to me. This trading you do is what i feel most comfortable with because bad things happen when your in the trade too long. Yet although the experts seem to favor 1 - 3 good trades a day, perfect setups, lol. I liken it to sitting in boat all day then casting out lure at the one moment you think is ideal to catch fish. But wait you get nothing. well another day wasted, lol. I'm with you on this style and your I'm a kindred spirit to everything being too slow for you including your restless legs .I'm
with you and the tidbit about ATR is one I was missing. Thanks
1:13 in & I"m dying..... "don't be dumb" 🤣🤣 You are Hilarious Brother, Love it!
I like this type of trading and actually am pretty good at scalping. I've been trading forex. The problem I have is I like trading on a 5 minute chart. The moves are so small for so much of the day, I can't trade it because my wins get eaten by commission.
How many trades are you making using this strategy. Do the fees wipe out the profits?
Amazing that you don't revenge trade with this strategy
So this is a dynamic strategy. A fair trading style that if you’ve found success in, it works for you.
This reminds me a lot of what I know about Tom Hougaads style of trading
High Speed Heads or Tails but if its working for you then great. I did go through the process of trying this on a demo account, lost 25% of it before I gave up and decided I was not lucky enough to make money this way.
my loosing strategy is the opposite of your consolidation strategy, now I know how to be profitable!
Really insteresting style. Make sure you try ticks if you haven't.
I trade in a very similar fashion.
ATR changed the way I traded. This is awesome
Shout out tall my ADHD Homies
21:52 haha Bro you are hilarious. Love the little stuff you say like that. haha
I do something similar on 1 minute chart, but with moving averages, sometimes mean reversion trade (price too far from MA's). Takes a lot of practice. Trade microlots to stay in the game longer!
Been trading for a year, huge losses. Have been watching your other videos also. I literally just started a similar strategy this week, and have been getting more green/breakeven trades than red, and then I chanced upon your video. It's a sign!
any update?
Truly helpful and highly entertaining. Thank you.
I'm probably being really dim here but I don't understand the point of having a R:R - doesnt it make more sense to use trailing stops so you cash in on the bigger moves?
Dude, You described me to a 't'. I find myself doing my best when my back is up against the wall.
I like this guy.
BRO THIS IS GNARLY HARD!
Iman a other question thats going around my mind. When you enter 2 trades, on one you bet that the price is going up and on the other you betting going down. When you have this st up you have two stop losses where one of this trades gets cut of but the other goes through and you make a little bit of profit. I think that can work sometimes, but it also can happen that the two stop losses gets cut of and then you have two big losers and you were a big way way from profit. Your opinion would be nice, I hop you understand this. :)
It’s called OCO orders. One cancels the other. You place orders on two opposite sides, mainly on the top and bottom of bracket. When price goes which ever way the other order gets cancelled. But this works only on trending days when price either shoot’s up or down from market start. most times as price tends to range or go back and forth, hunting stop losses.
@@tyeshi8225 ok thangs. i think mathematical its even more likly that it hits both stop loss then one win and one loss. But Im not really sure about it.
💪 Following right in your footsteps ironically. Tried all the indicator cross bs. But you have to be constantly tweaking indicator settings. This is the way for me atleast.
I'm going to try this out on larger Time frames.
I don't see why this wouldn't work with 5 minute candles... or even hourly time-frames.
Indeed. With the fractal nature of the markets the only think which creates a difference is the psychology.
Have you considered using volume (vertical) to improve your price movement prediction accuracy?
Actually i do fast scalping but not entering randomly at every candle formation. I read the candles and have started developing a set of criteria that should be respected plus my previous strategy and i can see that it's giving good results. Instead of waiting for long runs with my strategy i can take only quarter from the whole move and get as twice profits.
good luck with your scalping
Do you get double the profits because you win more frequently (because of shorter trades)?
I like you approach to trading very interesting
I like this style. Your broker makes it awesome too. My broker can't do it like that. I wish I could do stops and stuff on chart like that. I trade fast too.
Please explain why ninjatrader commissions are weird. Trading 3 contracts on MNQ with stoploss 8/8 when i win it takes of 6 times contract commissions but when i loose it takes of 8 contract commissions. Why doesnt it take of 3 contract commissions as i am trading with 3 contracts? Anybody help!?
Not quite sure if I understood you but it seems to me that you're not taking into consideration the exits, the commissions are based on route entries, meaning that you pay let's say 0.72 for the entry and the exit, so that'd be a route entry commission of $1.44 times the number of contracts you're trading
Your videos are fantastic..keep it up
Seems Good for binary options
I think there was a guy on reddit that traded like this. I believe he secured a million in the first year lol
That's funny to see that video from the CZcams feed, as I just moved into futures scalping and I do that with YM (US30) instead of NQ on 15 seconds charts.
And I agree like you I feel much better doing Super/Hyper scalping than doing intraday on CFDs like I used to do for months and months (and losing btw lmao).
Great insights, thank you for the video mate!
Why did you choose to trade YM instead of NQ or ES?
Is there enough liquidity on YM?
I appreciate your videos -- thanks.
Typo on "What to Trade" slide, FYI.
I wish I could see more on where to put stop loss and take profit, with the ATR and volatility? some examples maybe?
How close to gambling is the "intuition, discipline, time" strategy
I also found that Works for me.. 1 trade a day.. Just sit and watch.. And you will see the trade automatically
thx for your work . lov ya bro