No need to collude to manipulate the markets. They all run the same models. Price is manipulated all day everyday. Also realise there is no actual physical asset such as EURUSD.

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image Choose the correct contract that expires today in either the weeklies or monthly expiry.

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Agree it is critical to understand the motivations behind a move. This is the problem with the vast majority of retail traders they do not know. All they see is chart patterns and do not know how to calculate value. In addition most do not know how ...

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Not in significant quantities to take note of. Fridays are the most important.

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Every Friday (and wednesday) there are options that expire. The market makers do not want those options to expire in the money. The max pain level is the level that of price that will cause the most traders to loose money at the close. Today that ...

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Lol, ok perhaps that was a bit simplistic. But if you understand why that picture is true you understand the market makers model.

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Did any of you take note of this post? MMs are going to defend the 12300 level today as long as they have value.

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This is what most traders do not understand... image

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Max Pain for todays options expiry is 12350 on futures. Market maker till try take it back up there for the close.

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EURUSD and the USD Index are very highly inversely correlated. You could say the EURUSD is the USD Index . You just need to analyse one of them. image

The Swamp

To buy into the wick area you need to build a narrative consisting of the following elements -Fundamentals -Intrinsic value (The actual value of the instrument you are trading. 99.9% of retail traders do not know how to calculate this value. The ...

1% to 3% Per Day? All things are Possible

I wasn't talking about you and your strategy , I specifically used terms to reference typical retail trader. I have no idea how you trade what your strategy is etc etc. The fact remains that waiting for confirmation is what limits the retail traders ...

1% to 3% Per Day? All things are Possible

This is why retail traders struggle to make good returns - Always waiting for confirmation. When a trader does this the stop size needs to be larger and therefore the % returns are reduced. Typical Retail vs Institutional trade: Price is going down ...

1% to 3% Per Day? All things are Possible

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Confluence of Institutional Programme levels from 2340 - 2334

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Price is going to stay up because its above VWAP? You dont know how institutional traders are paid...

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A version of it, they over complicate it. Its an issue when you dont know how to calculate value. But if you combine simple volume analysis along with cumulative deltas it can be a very powerful technical tool. Chart below is 6E on a one minute, ...

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The buyers that came in the box do so to make a successful auction. A successful auction is when price makes a higher high in an uptrend or a lower low in a downtrend. Their first target would be the highs then then there are certain measurements ...

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When you find a bunch of buyers at a top edge who didnt get paid and where trapped in their position when price returns to that level its a pretty safe trade. See all the buyers in the green box. They where buying to at least clear the top edge, ...

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