Personally, don't really care about the first hour of trading that much in terms of looking for a trade. Initial balance is pretty weak these days vs 5+ years ago. I like globex. Still in this NQ trade from Sunday atm.

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NQ is firing

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XAUUSD is spot gold traded in USD, typically via OTC contracts through brokers which can result prices varying by brokers. It's not traded on a centralized market like NYSE or CME— it's an OTC market meaning it operates between parties directly. Its ...

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I was reading what it was at the time of my post, and that was before NY opened

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theres the shorts on gold, real shorts

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The weekly might be turning into an upthrust. I was saying last week how we could've been seeing climatic activity. Up 3% yesterday to down 3% today.

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We don't have that philosophy in the institutions. The beauty of the market is trading the correct side of it. That's it.

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The weekly is green and is potentially turning into the 10th straight green week. Already 115 range too, I'm just waiting dont like to get in the middle I like the edges

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Im waiting to go long again. The follow through after Friday selling didn't happen and now we have an inside bar, two bar reversal pattern on the daily

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Volume is important but I also use other tools as well

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just made a g Note on that gap up, starting the week with another 1 pound in the account

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Speaking of VSA, look at weekly of NQ and ES. Volume increasing on an inside bar/harami set up. Looks like shes about to blow. Held these into the weekend

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9 consecutive up weeks, it doesnt get easier than that

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Did you even read my comment? I just said this is the climatic activity that would constitute potential sell set ups. This is the FIRST day of this entire week that it would be time to short. Just look at the daily.

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Bro Ill put you onto some strong tools right now for volatility: VIX and ATR And you dont need tick volume. You can just use range as a proxy. No need for thank yous. Enjoy.

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This is the climatic activity that I mentioned yesterday at which you would start to look for shorts

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Tick volume is for small charts but the book I mentioned does cover Wyckoff methods with tick volume scenarios. I don't concern myself with small charts because the guys moving the markets are using the daily and up. If you want VSA to have real ...

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