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Intro
0:00[Music]
0:01in today's episode I'm going to teach
0:03you how to start day trading and I'm
0:04going to share with you a trading
0:06strategy that you can Implement in your
0:08own trading starting today this is a
0:10strategy that I think is one of the best
0:12for beginner Traders and the reason is
0:14because the rules of this strategy that
0:17dictates the type of stocks to trade
0:19where to buy where to sell and how to
0:21manage your risk these rules are simple
0:24and easy to understand so here's my goal
0:26for you today through this class you
0:28will learn all the basics of how to
0:30start trading how to perform technical
0:32analysis how to find strong stocks to
0:34trade and at the end of the class you
0:37will walk away with a strategy you can
0:39Implement in your own trading starting
0:41today I ask you one thing to practice
0:44this new strategy you're learning in a
0:46simulated environment a stock market
0:48simulator that way you can test yourself
0:50and see if you can actually trade it
0:52profitably before putting real money on
0:55the line and don't worry I will show you
0:57not only how to use a stock market
0:59simulator I will give you a couple
Day Trading Quiz
1:01suggestions of ones that you can use
1:02some that are free others that you pay
1:04for depending on what works best for you
1:06so let's start this class by jumping
1:08into the slide deck I've got a
1:10whiteboard we've got a slide deck and
1:12we've got a lot to cover and I want to
1:14begin with a little quiz to set the
1:16stage and kind of see where you're at at
1:18the beginning of this class we will do
1:20another quiz at the end of the class so
1:22you can see how much you've learned here
1:24today so here's the question should I
1:26buy this stock right now now you may
1:29look at this and already feel a little
1:31over your head and don't worry I'll fill
1:32in all the blanks of what's going on in
1:34this chart but let's just see where
1:36you're at so we have a stock right now
1:38this clearly moved up quite a bit we've
1:40got some nice big green candlesticks
1:42then it pulled back it rallied up again
1:44and now it's pulled back again so what
1:46do you think it's going to do The
1:48Logical answer probably is that it's
1:50going to Rally up one more time oh boy
1:53you're dead wrong no that's not what's
1:55going to happen here hey look that's
1:57okay that's why you're in class so this
2:00chart actually gave me a signal that
2:03told me it was not going to go higher
2:05that signal was very subtle but it was
2:08clear as day on the chart for me and it
2:10was this indicator right here Crossing
2:13into the negative when that blue line
2:14crossed right there that told me this
2:17stock most likely was not going to move
2:20higher and in fact it did not it sold
2:23off so something that I find really
2:25interesting is that there was a clear
2:28sell signal there you didn't see it yet
2:31because your eye probably hasn't been
2:34trained to to pick up on those subtle
2:36cues this is the language of the
2:39financial Market is the language of
2:41technical analysis and as you immerse
2:43yourself in a community like here on
2:45YouTube of people that are speaking this
2:47language you will learn it it takes time
2:50just like reading any other language or
2:51learning another language but to me it's
2:53fascinating and the reward for learning
2:55it is tremendous if you can really get
2:57it dialed in because something you're
2:58going to learn is that the trade traders
3:00who make the most money are the traders
3:01who are able to nearly see into the
3:04future they can predict what's going to
3:06happen next on the chart so let's look
3:08at this well now I I bet you know the
3:11answer probably the first thing you
3:12checked was right down here and you see
3:14that this is negative good job all right
3:17so if you answered this is going to fail
3:19you were correct let's look at another
3:21example so now you're probably saying oh
3:23this is going to work look the macd is
3:24open wow wrong again okay all right no
3:28look it's okay it's okay this we all
3:30earned somewhere so so here I tricked
3:32you and I did this because I want you to
3:34know that there's another indicator that
3:36we have to check and it's the volume
3:38right here so this had a different
3:40warning signal the warning signal was
3:43that there was high volume selling on
3:45these red candles and that means in
3:47total there were more people that were
3:49selling the stock than were buying the
3:51stock these are two of the of the
3:53indicators that I look at before I take
3:55any trade and if just one of them say no
3:57I don't take the trade they both have to
4:00say yes for me to take a trade so the
4:02volume said no even though the macd
4:05which is an indicator you'll learn more
4:06about through this class said yes so the
4:08answer was no one no means no now here's
4:12another example this one I think you can
4:14already guess the answer the macd is
4:16coming down it's still positive but it's
4:18coming down but the volume is going to
4:20tell us go and that's correct now let's
4:22look at this finally we've got something
4:24to work with or do we is there is this
4:26another trick well let's see let's look
4:29we've got high volume and the volume is
4:30on green candles the macd is positive is
4:33there anything telling me
4:35no I don't think so this is a good entry
4:38I should buy right here and therefore
4:41look at that squeeze right we get that
4:42nice squeeze these indicators were
4:44giving us positive signals they weren't
4:46saying no we had light volume selling
4:48the macd was positive and the entry is
4:51right here as that first candle makes a
4:54new High versus the high of the last one
4:56that's the setup I'm going to teach you
4:57as we go through this class now what
5:00about this uh this chart here so this
5:03one uh to me is a pretty clear no the
5:07issue is the mati is flat and there's a
5:09hide candle so this is not a good setup
5:11we wouldn't take that trade one of the
5:13reasons a lot of beginner Traders lose
5:14money is because number one they don't
5:16have a strategy they're following so
5:18they're just shooting from the hip and
5:19number two they're not trading the right
5:21stock so they get themselves sidetracked
5:23trading stocks that don't have enough
5:24volume they don't have enough volatility
5:26and they just get chopped up trading
5:27stocks in the wrong places let's look at
5:30this one here should I buy here well
5:32macd is positive I don't see any warning
5:34on the volume uh bars here so the answer
5:37would be yes this is a trade that I
5:39should take every trade carries risk and
5:41what we're trying to do is we're trying
5:42to manage our risk where we can take a
5:44position where the amount that we're
5:46risking is as little as possible the
5:48amount we can make is more than what
5:50we're risking and where we feel where
5:53we've got an 80% chance of this working
5:56even the perfect setup occasionally will
5:59not work
6:00so I'm going to tell you right now
6:01there's no such thing as a strategy that
6:03works 100% of the time but if you have a
6:05strategy that over the course of 100
6:06trades is giving you profit 60% of the
6:09time 70% of the time that can be enough
6:12to be a very profitable Trader as long
6:16as you learn to cut your losses quickly
6:19I'll teach you how to do that today all
6:21right so now you've looked at a couple
6:22examples of a few different chart
6:23patterns this is also going to be a yes
6:25we've got a nice volume profile macd is
6:28open so everything about this looks good
6:30all right so what are the topics that
6:31we're going to cover today we've got 10
6:33big topics we're going to cover and this
6:35I sort of picture this as helping lay
6:39the foundation so because I want to keep
6:42this class concise and make sure I give
6:44you as much value as I can for your time
6:47I'm not going to go into a huge amount
6:49of depth on each one of these topics but
6:51they're pillars of the foundation this
6:54is your starting point and as you learn
6:56all of these Concepts what we can do in
6:59additional classes that you can watch
7:00here on YouTube and or you could uh
7:02watch it where you're trading is we will
7:04fill in more depth around these so
7:07you're going to learn that this each one
7:09of these topics can be expanded upon
7:12with a lot more depth but of course
7:14rather than starting with a tremendous
7:16amount of depth and overwhelming you I
7:18want to start with laying a solid
7:20foundation of making sure you understand
7:22the basic concepts necessary to be a
7:25Trader okay so let's go ahead and you
7:28know what I I want want to start by just
7:31saying one thing there's a lot of people
7:33out there on YouTube and on social media
7:35who talk a big game and I want to thank
7:37you for tuning in to this episode right
7:39here but you may be wondering what does
7:41this guy know about trading in a small
7:44account what does this guy know about
7:45growing a small account and so I'm going
7:47to show you in
7:482017 I funded an account with
7:52$583 15 with the goal of seeing how
7:55quickly I could grow that account to
7:57100,000 bucks at the time I thought it
8:00might take me a full year in fact I did
8:02it in just 45 days and so since I
8:05achieved the goal so quickly it was only
8:07March I decided to just keep trading in
8:09that account by December I had grown the
8:11account to
8:13$335,000 the next year I made almost
8:16half a million dollars the year after
8:17that I crossed over a million dollars
8:19and during the pandemic the stock market
8:22boomed and I ended up crossing over $10
8:25million in fully verified trading
8:28profits now I'm one of the few Traders
8:30out there that's actually had all of my
8:32trading profits subjected to an
8:35independent third-party accountants
8:37audit so I'll show you the audit results
8:39in just a second but for those of you
8:41guys who are considering trading in a
8:42small account I want you to know that
8:45I've put my money where my mouth is I
8:47actually traded the strategy that I'm
8:49going to share with you with a small
8:51account and this is the small account
8:52challenge I'm best known for but I've
8:54done more small account challenges than
8:56I can count I just set up an account
8:58with 500 bucks or a th000 bucks I'll
9:00grow it spend a month doing it you know
9:03it's a fun Challenge and then I'll do it
9:04again 6 months later whatever the case
9:06is so you'll notice if you look at the
9:08calendar that each one of these days I
9:09only took two trades two trades two
9:12trades two trades two trades I keep it
9:14focused and this was just the first uh
9:16the first month the first month of uh
9:18first maybe first 20 days so these are
9:21the audit results right here uh this
9:23verifies that I started with $583 15 and
9:26by the end of December in 2023 my
9:29account was at
9:3210,719 th000 now 2024 it's been a
9:35fantastic year the account is currently
9:37sitting at just over $ 12.3 million of
9:41verified trading profits the 2024 uh
9:44trading year will be audited in early
9:46January of 2025 so if you want to learn
9:50how to trade what I'm telling you is
9:52that you've come to the right place not
9:54only do I know how to day trade I know
9:56specifically how to grow a really small
9:59account so as we begin this class I'm
10:01going to give you some PDFs that you
10:03guys can download you can print them out
10:05you can put them on your desk you can
10:06use them in your own trading and you can
10:08follow along through this class with
10:09these PDFs so I will have a link it'll
10:12be pinned at the top of the comments and
10:13Linked In the description where you can
10:15download my small account worksheet so
10:18it's my small account strategy worksheet
10:20and where you can download my trading
10:22plan this is the plan that I want you to
10:24implement in your own trading but in a
10:27simulated environment to prove that you
10:29you have what it takes to trade my
10:31strategy here's something I'm going to
10:33tell you I will share my strategy with
10:35you I have no problem doing that I'll
10:36put it all on the table but success will
10:40only come from traders who have the
10:42discipline to follow the rules of the
10:45strategy so that's where the ball is in
10:48your court all right so this is very
10:50important now I'll teach you some tips
10:51and tricks to being a more disciplined
10:53Trader all right so hopefully you guys
10:55have already downloaded these PDFs these
10:57worksheets there'll be a selection in uh
10:59the download so I'm going to give a
The Best Brokers for Day Trading
11:01bunch of them to you for free and you
11:03can utilize them and Implement them in
11:05your own trading and follow along
11:06through this class with those
11:11PDFs all right so topic number one your
11:14choice of platform there are literally
11:16dozens and dozens of different trading
11:18platforms out there and it can make it a
11:20little overwhelming for a beginner
11:21Trader to know which one to use now one
11:24of the things that I said early on is
11:26that I want you to trade in a simulator
11:28before you put real money on the line so
11:31that means first you need to figure out
11:33which simulator you're going to use now
11:36if you set that as sort of your first
11:37goal what is ultimately going to happen
11:40is you're going to eliminate another a
11:42number of these Brokers because they
11:43don't even offer simulated trading so
11:46for instance Robin Hood they don't offer
11:48a simulator so boom they're off the list
11:51now to me you might think it's crazy why
11:54don't these Brokers offer a stock market
11:57simulator so their clients can practice
11:59practice the market and of course if
12:00they practice they're probably more
12:02likely to be successful long term and
12:04therefore be successful clients who are
12:07then making the broker a lot of money
12:10the answer lies in asking the question
12:13of how do the Brokers actually make
12:15money in the first place and the way
12:17commission-free Brokers make money is by
12:20selling your order flow to institutional
12:23trading firms so the institutional
12:25trading firm actually buys all of the
12:28order flow from that broker and what
12:31they do is they they essentially scalp
12:34every trade that the clients place for a
12:37fraction of a penny just a fraction of a
12:39penny and so what happens is you're able
12:42to get free commissions because you're
12:44losing a fraction of a penny to that
12:46institutional trading firm on every
12:47single trade that you take and the
12:50broker they get a cut of that and this
12:52is to the tune of billions of dollars
12:56per year but here's the problem if
12:58you're trading in a simulator there's no
13:00order flow to sell so they make no money
13:05if you're trading in the simulator so
13:06when you're in the simulator you're
13:07using real-time Market data which costs
13:09them money you're using their platform
13:11which has server loads and everything
13:13else you might even be emailing customer
13:15support they're making no money off of
13:17you so a lot of Brokers just simply
13:19don't offer simulated trading but you
13:22know what's even more annoying is the
13:24Brokers that do offer simulated trading
13:27a lot of them don't include include the
13:29same features that are offered when you
13:31trade with real money man that is
13:33annoying so let's talk about what to
13:35look for in a broker high level if
13:38you're going to trade the strategy that
13:39I trade every single day which is a
13:41momentum trading strategy meaning I'm
13:43looking for stocks moving higher I like
13:45to buy those pullbacks and sell as they
13:48squeeze up to the next level what I need
13:50is a reliable trading platform that is
13:52fast and I think it's great if it's
13:55popular among Big Money traders because
13:58I like to see that other Traders out
14:00there six figure seven figure maybe even
14:02eight figure Traders are showing that
14:04this is a platform that they like and
14:06that they're comfortable using to make
14:09good money so if you look at an obscure
14:11platform and you don't know of anyone
14:13else that's using it that by itself
14:15itself kind of makes me question whether
14:16or not that's the right platform to use
14:18so a trading platform that's reliable
14:20and is popular among Big Money traders
14:22number one number two you need a
14:24platform that has fast order execution
14:27which is the time between where you
14:29press the buy button and when you get
14:31your shares filled now in this day and
14:33age with highspeed internet it should be
14:37almost instantaneous and it is for a
14:40number of Brokers but there are other
14:42Brokers that for various reasons for the
14:44way they've set up their platform and
14:46this and that their order routing is
14:49slower and unfortunately that means
14:51you'll be slower to buy and you'll be
14:53slower to sell and that's not an
14:55advantage when you're trading so we've
14:57got to make sure you're choosing a
14:58broker that has fast order execution
15:01you're also going to need full level two
15:03Market data you may not know what that
15:04is yet but you're going to learn about
15:06that in today's class you're also going
15:08to need a broker that offers hot keys
15:10for Rapid entries and exits hot keys are
15:13when with the Press of a button shift
15:15one shift two you can buy 100 shares or
15:18buy 200 shares this is an old keyboard
15:20that I've used and you can see it's
15:21gotten used quite a bit and the way I
15:23trade is by pressing shift 1 shift two
15:26and then if I want to get out of a trade
15:27I press contrl z contr x contr C I've
15:30pressed that one a lot contrl C is to
15:32sell a quarter of my position so these
15:35hot keys are incredibly important
15:37because they allow you to move into the
15:39market just like that you don't have to
15:42point and click you don't have to type
15:44in the share amount or the numbers or
15:46the price you just press a button and
15:48your order is in or it's out easy and
15:51you want it to be easy number five you
15:54really want a platform that allows Sim
15:55trading so you can practice before going
15:58live when you're learning how to drive
16:00you want to learn how to drive on the
16:01car that you're going to take your
16:02driving test on if you can right now if
16:05you take your test on a car that's
16:07totally different from what you're
16:08training on the day you're taking the
16:09test and you've got a parallel park
16:11imagine you learn how to tra or you
16:13learn how to drive on a tiny little car
16:15and then you take your driver's test in
16:17a full length SUV parallel parking it's
16:20completely different so why go through
16:22that transition with trading that's
16:24unnecessary learn to trade in the same
16:27software that you're going to use
16:29with real money that way it'll translate
16:32right that's the right way to approach
16:33this so that means it's really important
16:35that we choose a broker that does allow
16:37simulated trading a stock market
16:39simulator okay so I'm going to narrow it
16:41down to what I think right now are the
16:43three best stock market simulators
16:46thinker swim Weeble and Warrior trading
16:48Warrior trading does have a simulator
16:50now you're going to think I'm biased and
16:52I I am a little bit on this but for my
16:54strategy I really think it's a great
16:55platform but thinker swim and Weeble are
16:57pretty good as well but here's the thing
17:00that I find really interesting about
17:03both thinker swim and
17:05Weeble at so so right now the Market
17:08opens at 4:00 a.m. and it closes at 8:00
17:11p.m. that's the full trading day but at
17:13think or Swim their simulator doesn't
17:15work before 9:30 a.m. it only works
17:18starting at 9:30 and that's a problem
17:20because there's a lot of stocks that are
17:22moving early in the morning 7: a.m. 8:
17:24a.m. 9:00 a.m. you can't trade them in
17:27their simulator why I have no idea and
17:30then Weeble on the other hand their
17:32simulator doesn't allow you to use hot
17:35Keys you can use hotkeys with real money
17:37but not in the simulator why I have no
17:40idea and what makes matters worse is
17:42that both platforms and I've tested them
17:45both side by side when I press the buy
17:48button in Weeble I have to wait one two
17:51I'm just waiting and waiting and waiting
17:54until finally the order fills I did the
17:57same thing at thinker swim I I open the
17:59platform I press the buy button and
18:01waiting and waiting until it finally
18:04fills so if you want to use either
18:07thinker swim or Weeble there is a
18:10workaround both of these platforms are
18:13commission free which means if you fund
18:16an account even just with a couple
18:18hundred dollars you could trade with one
18:21share you're trading low price stocks
18:23that are $2 $3 a share so you could take
18:25tons of Trades one share per trade and
18:28ENT ually you are simulated you're doing
18:31simulated trading you're doing it with
18:32real money but you're only doing it with
18:34one share now the broker likes that cuz
18:36now they get to sell your order flow but
18:38they're not going to make much money on
18:39you when you're only trading with one
18:40share but they unlock the instant
18:43execution both Weeble and thinker swim
18:45your execution is a lot faster when
18:47you're with real money you don't have to
18:48sit and wait it's it's like night and
18:50day their simulator is slow and then
18:52real money is fast so thinker swim and
18:55Weeble you can use them with to you can
18:58Sim do simulate trading there quote but
19:01it's really you have to fund an account
19:03with a couple hundred dollar and trade
19:05with one share if you do that with
19:07thinker swim then you'll be able to
19:09trade extended hours so let's look at
19:11these seven kind of bullet points of of
19:13my comparison and I'll hide my video
19:15here for you for a second so uh so the
19:18first question is is the platform better
19:20with real money and the qu the answer is
19:22yes it is with thinker swim yes it is
19:24with Weeble and Warrior trading we're
19:26not a broker dealer so we don't have a
19:29real money platform which so by the way
19:32we don't have payment for orderflow the
19:34way the big Brokers do because we don't
19:36we're not a broker dealer so the only
19:38way that we make money on the simulator
19:40is by selling it as a software selling
19:42it as a service so we do have our
19:44simulator that we sell but it's not free
19:46because we don't make money on the
19:47payment for orderflow the other Brokers
19:49do so just as a heads up on that but
19:51thinker swim um is better with real
19:53money and so is Weeble extended hours no
19:56with the simulator on thinker Swift but
19:59yes with with the real money account and
20:01Weeble does offer the simulator uh in in
20:06extended hours but it's still better to
20:08use real money there in my opinion all
20:10three offer level two
20:12data uh only Weeble and Warrior trading
20:16offer Advanced hotkeys and again with
20:19Weeble you only get those Advanced
20:21hotkeys asteris when you fund a real
20:22money account now thinker swim does not
20:25offer Advanced hot Keys even with real
20:27money halt lels you're going to learn
20:29about HAL level halt levels today and
20:31thinker swim does not display them but
20:33Weeble does with real money and the
20:36warrior trading Sim does as well
20:37resumption quotes you won't get those
20:39with thinker swim but you can with
20:40Weeble and you can with Warrior trading
20:42trading metrics you don't get them
20:44either at thinker swim or Weeble but
20:47Warrior trading does have them now in
20:49terms of price The Thinker swim uh
20:51simulator is totally free and if you
20:53fund it with real money it's also free
20:56you just have to put you know a couple
20:57hundred dollars in so you could take one
20:59trade uh one share of every trade you
21:01take Weeble cost $10 a month and that's
21:04a sort of a discounted rate but it is
21:07$10 a month the warrior trading Sim is
21:10uh free for 90 days for warrior Pro
21:12members which we think is enough time
21:13for you to use it but then after that
21:15it's $100 a month so we have to cover
21:17our Market data costs our server costs
21:19and all of that stuff because we don't
21:21have the commissions and pay for order
21:22flow that would make up for it uh
21:24however if you wanted metrics you'd have
21:26to pay $50 a month uh at with thinker
21:29swim or Weeble and you would be using
21:31the platform right over here that I use
21:33which is Trader viiew so this platform
21:35is $50 a month however at the warrior
21:38trading Sim we integrate that type of
21:41data and Reporting inside our platform
21:44so it's included so at the end of the
21:46day I think your best bet if you're on a
21:48budget is going to be Weeble right down
21:50here and you really need your metrics
21:52and I'll explain why as we go through
21:53this class but this is going to be your
21:55best bet so you're about $60 a month the
21:57warrior Trading s it's going to be $100
21:59a month but free for the first 90 days
22:01so it's up to you if you trade in it
22:03longer than that but I do want you to
22:05make the commitment to sim trade only
22:09and with the asterisk that if you trade
22:11with one share of real money I would
22:13consider that the equivalent of sim
22:15trading and it would be acceptable so I
22:17want you to do simulated trading only
22:20until you've proven that you can be a
22:22profitable Trader now as we go through
22:24this course I'm going to show you
22:26examples of students at Warrior Trading
22:29who have followed the trading plan that
22:30I'm going to share with you then sent me
22:32their p&l of their calendar showing sort
22:35of like how they performed in those that
22:37first month of following the plan and I
22:39think that that'll be inspiring for you
22:41to see so I really want to encourage you
22:43not to put real money on the line until
22:45you've proven you can make money in the
22:50Sim how much money do I need to start
22:53with so most retail Brokers at this
22:56point do not have minimum deposit
22:58requirements could fund an account Robin
Cash Accounts vs Margin Accounts
23:00Hood or Weeble with a 100 bucks a 10
23:02bucks doesn't matter but here's the
23:04thing if you're trying to grow an
23:06account you have to be realistic with
23:08the amount of money you're starting with
23:11so I'm going to what I'm going to do is
23:12kind of talk about profit goals and how
23:15that relates to how much money I would
23:18start trading with in my experience in a
23:21cash only
23:23account I can realistically grow the
23:25account by 10% on a on a really good day
23:29so that means if I had an account with
23:30100 bucks in it I could grow the account
23:32by $10 on a really good day although
23:35most days would probably be in the range
23:37of $3 to5 now some of you will say Ross
23:40$3 to5 obviously not enough to cover my
23:43cost of living and I get it but one
23:45thing that I'll tell you is that one of
23:46my students his name is Danny I recently
23:49did an interview with him and that
23:50interview is published here on YouTube
23:52he traded um for about 6 months with a
23:55daily goal of $10 but what he knew was
23:58is that if he could consistently make
24:00$10 a day with small share size that the
24:04only difference between $10 a day and
24:05$20 a day was increasing his share size
24:08but he wouldn't do it until he first had
24:10proven that he had a track record of
24:12being consistent of being able to trade
24:14profitably so he was able to scale his
24:16trading from what was initially a daily
24:18goal of $10 a day he's scaled up and
24:21he's now at about
24:22$350,000 on the year that's incredible
24:25and it started with a $10 daily goal so
24:27I don't want you to be too um you know
24:30dismissive of oh $3 to5 a day is not
24:33good because if if that's your proof of
24:36concept and it's part of the plan that
24:38you're following then I think that
24:39that's fantastic now realistically
24:42starting with a $100 account is is a
24:45very small amount of money while you
24:47could do it you would have to be content
24:48with making very small progress so
24:51naturally if I start with you know
24:52$1,000 or 10,000 my daily goals would
24:55scale up but I also would caution
24:57against saying oh well I'll just start
24:59with
24:59$100,000 because that's too much money
25:01to start with you start with a lot of
25:03money like that and what's going to
25:05happen is you're not going to believe
25:07the emotional response you're going to
25:09have to having both big Winners but
25:11certainly big losers and that emotional
25:14response can sort of send you into a
25:16spiral where if you take a big loss next
25:18thing you know you're feeling anger
25:21frustration disappointment and that
25:23feeling is so strong that you seek to
25:26get rid of it as quickly as possible and
25:28so the action that you take to to make
25:31that emotion go away is to take another
25:33trade because your your mind is thinking
25:36if I take another trade and I can make
25:37back what I just lost I don't have to
25:39feel terrible anymore unfortunately as a
25:41beginner Trader when you get into that
25:43place of being desperate you go into a
25:45downward spiral so it's always better to
25:47start with a small account and build it
25:49up slowly as your track record supports
25:53so if you start with $1,000 and you
25:54trade in that account for a few months
25:56and then you're doing well it's like
25:58okay okay I'm going to add a couple more
25:59,000 I'm going to go up to $3,000 I'm
26:01going to go up to$ 5,000 and of course
26:03you're making a little bit of profit
26:04along the way and then you make your way
26:05up to$ 10,000 to 15,000 and we'll talk
26:08about different account types uh that
26:10you can use for this challenge so I
26:12would start with a small account I think
26:14that that's the best way even if you
26:15have a lot of money I think it's better
26:16to start with a small account okay so
26:19the account types include cash uh only
26:22accounts which are probably going to be
26:24the most popular accounts for most of
26:26you guys tuning in uh to this episode
26:28when you open a brokerage account there
26:30are two types that you can open it's a
26:32cash account or a margin account a cash
26:35account will allow you to trade with the
26:37cash that you've deposited but once
26:40you've traded all the available cash you
26:42have to wait until the trade settle
26:45before taking additional trades and
26:47trades don't settle until overnight so
26:50that means if you deposit into your
26:52account let's just say for the sake of
26:54argument you have $100 in there and then
26:57you take you you trade a $1 stock um so
27:00it's a $1 stock and you buy one share of
27:03it so you could do that times a 100 you
27:05could take a 100 trades in one day
27:07you've used up your $100 and so now
27:10you've got $ Z available that's left but
27:12you had 100 trades And1 $100 worth of
27:15trading the next day that'll reset to
27:18100 and it'll be plus or minus your
27:20profit or loss so the nice thing about a
27:23cash account is that you can day trade
27:25in it but you will run out of of of cash
27:29eventually so if you're going to try to
27:31day trade and make a lot of money and
27:33use big positions you probably wouldn't
27:35want to use a cash account but as a
27:38beginner getting started I think a cash
27:39account is terrific now the big thing
27:41that changed this was within the last
27:44year um we had a change in the
27:46settlement time to being overnight it
27:49used to be three days so if you traded
27:51on Monday you couldn't trade again until
27:53um Thursday and then they changed it to
27:55two days so it was Wednesday and now
27:57it's just changed to one day so it's
27:59Tuesday so now it's fantastic because
28:01you could trade every single day but
28:03when you run out of cash you're locked
28:04up until the next day now the margin
28:07account is is what I use at this point
28:10and most traders who have accounts that
28:12are larger will use margin accounts so a
28:15margin account uh allows unlimited
28:17trading you don't run out of cash you
28:19could just keep trading and trading and
28:20Tra you could trade a million times in
28:21one day if you want to but there's a
28:23rule that you have to have at least
28:26$25,000 in the account that has to be
28:28your minimum cash balance now it can be
28:30a combination of stock Holdings and cash
28:32but you have to have at least 25,000 in
28:35your account now this is only for us
28:37broker dealers International Brokers do
28:40not enforce this minimum balance
28:42requirement so it's only for us Brokers
28:45and US residents so if a US resident
28:49opens an international broker account
28:52which would be some do it's kind of a
28:54workaround but if let's say you had
28:57$110,000 say I'm going to go open an
28:59account with a broker in the Bahamas and
29:02there's a bunch of these offshore
29:03Brokers that cater to us Traders you
29:05could actually have margin uh even
29:07though you're under
29:0925,000 so some people will do that and
29:12and that's fine it's a it's kind of a
29:13risk reward ratio decision for you does
29:16this make sense for me to open this
29:18account do I need that additional
29:21ability to buy and trade more frequently
29:23and I think you do if your metrics
29:25support it but if you're a beginner
29:27that's not the right place to start at
29:29this point thanks to the T1 settlement
29:31time so at this point it makes more
29:33sense just to fund an account with a US
29:35broker if you're us resident and just
29:38focus on a cash account and growing it
29:40slowly through proof of concept and just
29:42slowly grow that account that's the
29:43right way to set to sort of lay a solid
29:46foundation if you're an international
29:48Trader opening an international account
29:50yes you would be able to trade more
29:52frequently but that's not necessarily a
29:53good thing I think it's good to take it
29:55slow okay so the minimum amount of money
29:58you need to start an account to open an
30:00account I mean it the fact is there's
30:03really no minimum it's just the most
30:05that you can kind of put in and feel
30:07comfortable with because you know
30:08trading is of course risky and making
30:11sure that you do have enough buying
30:12power where you could trade every day
30:15all right so now um number two so the
30:18real goal here is focusing on
30:20consistency prove that you can be
30:22consistently profitable in a simulator
30:24again whether it's trade uh thinker swim
30:26or uh Weeble and you're using just one
30:28share or you're using the warrior
30:30trading simulator that's fine as well
30:32but you want to focus on this being your
30:34proof of concept period it's not about
30:37making a lot of money you don't need a
30:38lot of money in the account just build
30:40your track record that's what's
30:42important right now so this is how I
30:44analyze performance for uh for Traders
30:47for certainly a student Warrior trading
30:49and and certainly for myself I use this
30:51software Trader view where I can
30:53actually import all of my trades now if
30:55you're using the warrior trading Sim all
30:57of your we aggregate your data for you
30:58so you can see similar reports but if
31:00you were using Weeble or thinker swim
31:02then you would want to import your
31:03trades um into a platform like this or
31:06in fact Trader viiew itself now I'll
31:08just say I don't have by the way any
31:09affiliate relationship with Weeble
31:11thinker swim or Trader viiew so if you
31:12use them use them if you want if you
31:14don't want to it doesn't make any
31:15difference for me I I don't need the
31:17money to have an affiliate relationship
31:18with these platforms so I just am
31:20sharing with you what I think really are
31:23pretty much the best uh tools out there
31:25and Brokers that are available right now
31:27for the Strat that I'm trading now I
31:29will also say that uh the broker that I
31:31use on a day-to-day basis is Light Speed
31:34trading which is a broker in New York
31:36and it checks all of the boxes with the
31:39exception that they charge Commission on
31:42every trade you take they're not a
31:44commission-free broker and so for that
31:46reason it's not appealing for beginner
31:49traders who are wanting to take one
31:51trade a day or you know one trade with
31:53one share because you're going to you're
31:54going to lose money in commission so
31:56it's it doesn't really make sense for
31:58beginners but it can make sense after
32:01you've traded for 6 months or a year
32:02with a commission free broker and you
32:04want to unlock some of the features that
32:07come with a a bit of a more professional
32:10platform like light speed okay so when
32:13it comes to analyzing metrics what I
32:16focus on for anyone that's going through
32:19the trading plan that you're going to be
32:20following is first and foremost what is
32:23your net profit now the reason we look
32:26at net profit even with one sh I want to
32:28see that you're green so if you're not
32:31green then that by itself tells me all
32:33right you got to keep studying you got
32:34to keep getting experience so we look at
32:36your net profit what's your profit right
32:38up here the next thing I look at is the
32:40relationship of your average winners and
32:43your average losers you can see that
32:45mine are about even they're within like
32:47$19 $18 of each other so $1,300 average
32:51winners $1,300 average losers and that
32:54means that I have to be right 50% of the
32:57time in in order to break even so now I
33:00want to check to see what your accuracy
33:01is and right here my accuracy is showing
33:03at 66% which is why I'm up $12.3 million
33:07If I Only Had 50% accuracy this wouldn't
33:09be there if I had 75% accuracy or 80%
33:12accuracy that number would probably be
33:14bigger but nonetheless it is what it is
33:16so I look at these metrics because these
33:19tell a story they paint a picture of
33:21what you're trading so first we look at
33:23the total profit your average winners
33:26your average losers and your accuracy
33:28that's the first tier the next level
33:31down is getting dialed in at what's the
33:33price of the stocks that you're trading
33:36what is the time of day that you're
33:37trading and are there some patterns or
33:40hints or clues that we can gleam that
33:42would tell us what we could do to to be
33:45even better so let me show you an
33:47example of a month that I didn't trade
33:48very well so this was um March let's see
33:52so we'll do the the whole month of March
33:54here I'm going to go apply so this was a
33:56month where only only made 10,000 bucks
33:58this was not a great month for me you
34:00can see my average winners were $10,000
34:03sorry um my average winers were $700 my
34:05average losers were $11,000 my accuracy
34:07was
34:0861% and when I looked at um price and
34:12volume I noticed that I was losing money
34:14on stocks I was trading above $10 now
34:17that's not typically the case for me but
34:19it was the case during this period so
34:22what do you think I did in April in
34:25April I said all right based on this
34:26data right here I need to to make a
34:28change I need to change the price that
34:30I'm focusing on and so going into the
34:31month of April I told myself focus on
34:34stocks between 2 and 10 that's where
34:36you've been doing better so in April I
34:38made
34:39$36,000 it was a better month and look
34:42at the profitability it's all on stocks
34:44between 2 and 10 I traded a couple of
34:46stocks that were more expensive but not
34:48much I really stayed focused on the
34:49price range where I knew I was doing
34:52better so if you're a beginner Trader
34:54and you maybe have been trading for some
34:56time and you don't know your own metrics
35:00that to me is a huge mistake you've got
35:01to learn your metrics because there will
35:03be hints and clues in those metrics at
35:05what you're doing that works and what
35:07doesn't work now let me tell you a story
35:09when I was learning how to trade I went
35:10through this long process where I didn't
35:12have someone like me that I was able to
35:14learn from I was in Vermont I'm
35:16self-taught so I had to figure out
35:18everything the hard way now this was
35:20also in a period of time where the
35:22accessibility for Education like this
35:24just wasn't the same as what it is today
35:26so it is what it is but that was the
35:28situation that I was in so I spent my
35:30first year learning how to trade
35:32experiencing a little bit of beginner's
35:33luck and maybe it was the market maybe I
35:35don't know what it was but I made some
35:37money in my first year it was remember
35:38it was 25,000 or 30,000 it was right in
35:41that area which was not bad and then
35:43what happened in the second year was I
35:45lost that amount of money I went down
35:47$30,000 so I had made 2530 and then I
35:50gave it right back in the second year
35:52and in August of that second year I had
35:56this this this terrible experience where
36:00I on the first week of the new month I
36:03lost $5,000 and that put my account
36:06where I couldn't take any more trades
36:08unless I added more money into it and I
36:10was devastated this was a time in my
36:12life where I was broke I didn't have
36:14another job I I needed to make money
36:16from Trading to pay my bills and so I
36:19was so devastated I was so frustrated I
36:22I couldn't trade and I I remember at
36:24first I just went outside and I was
36:26chopping wood I had this wood shed had a
36:28wood stove in my house and I was just
36:30like so frustrated but I got some energy
36:32out and then I came back inside and I
36:36said there has to be something here if
36:38you've seen that movie Apollo 13 there's
36:41a scene when they realize down at
36:44Command Center okay we got to figure out
36:46how we're going to save these astronauts
36:48and they said this is what we have we've
36:49got to just figure it out and they start
36:51trying to figure out you know how to get
36:53the oxygen working again quiet down
36:55let's work the problem people let's not
36:58make things worse by guessing and I kind
37:00of did something similar where I went up
37:03into my little area where I was trading
37:06my little desk and I looked at all my
37:08trading records and I printed them out
37:10and one thing that I had been really
37:11good about was I wasn't using software
37:13like this back then I was using an
37:15actual um Excel sheet so in Excel I was
37:18tracking each trade I was taking but I
37:20did that and so I printed out and then I
37:22started on the computer sorting the data
37:24by biggest winners biggest losers and I
37:26was trying to find a Rel relationship
37:28you know something like a hint of what
37:30might help me get out of this funk and
37:32get back into the right direction and I
37:35actually discovered that all of my big
37:37Winners had a common denominator they
37:40were on a very specific type of stock
37:43and these losers I was taking these
37:44outlier losses the these were just
37:47unnecessary trades that were outside
37:50that kind of core of what was really
37:52working for me and I realized well you
37:54know actually over the last 18 months if
37:57if I had eliminated all of these
37:59outliers I'd actually would have been
38:00doing really well so then I thought well
38:03what if I can do that starting today and
38:05moving forward so I then began the
38:07process of selling stuff in my barn to
38:10fund my account so I could trade in it
38:12again and then when I had the account
38:15back up and running I was so disciplined
38:17that I would only trade these setups and
38:20ultimately the setup that I'm going to
38:22share with you today is that setup that
38:25was my turning point it was that big
38:27that even now all these years later I
38:29still trade it so been collecting my
38:33metrics I wouldn't have been able to
38:35figure out what was actually working for
38:38me I just would have been overwhelmed
38:40with the losses and had nowhere to look
38:43so that's why it's so important for you
38:44to track your metrics and and it's it's
38:46worth the $50 a month to do
38:52it number three let's talk about how to
38:54manage risk we know that trading is
38:56risky and it's especially risk risky
38:58because anyone can open an account and
38:59begin trading the barrier to entry is
Risk Management in Trading
39:01very low but just because you can open
39:04an account doesn't mean you have the
39:06skill or strategy to produce consistent
39:08profits as we well know most Traders
39:10come into the market they fund an
39:12account with real money and the
39:13inevitable happens what is that they
39:15take a big loss they don't know what
39:17they're doing they lose money and the
39:19loss of money creates emotion so now
39:22they're emo they're all upset and that
39:24creates desperation which actually
39:27increases the quantity of bad trades and
39:30what does that result in losing more
39:33money and when they lose more money they
39:35get more emotional and then they trade
39:37even more you can see where we're going
39:38here this is a death spiral and this is
39:41what happens to a lot of beginner
39:42Traders they go into this downward
39:44spiral they come into the market and
39:46then they are quickly escorted right out
39:49and you know what's sad is that a lot of
39:50those Traders might have had the
39:52potential to actually become successful
39:54If Only They had slowed down and
39:57approach this the right way so let's
40:00learn from the mistakes that these other
40:02Traders have made before us and for you
40:04right now set a commitment that I'm
40:07going to focus on learning this and
40:09learning to do this the right way and
40:11that means learning a strategy and
40:13trading it in a Sim before you put real
40:14money on the line so that's the first
40:17step to managing your risk of course but
40:19um so we trade in simulator until proven
40:22profitable and and I always ask what is
40:24my exit price on this trade so if I'm
40:26going to take take a trade if I don't
40:29know what I stand to lose then in my
40:31opinion that's a gamble that's not a
40:33trade the only way it becomes a trade is
40:35if you're managing your risk against
40:38your reward so the way I like to trade
40:41is that I'll risk
40:43$100 to make a reward which is a risk to
40:47reward ratio of 200 oops whatever 200 so
40:51risk to reward 200 uh 100 200 which
40:54would give us a ratio of a profit to
40:57loss profit to loss ratio of 2: one and
41:01this is this is important because if you
41:02have a 2:1 profit loss ratio you
41:04actually only need to be right 33% of
41:06the time in order to be break even one
41:08to one is 50% so I would like you to
41:11look at a trade and say all right this
41:13is how much I'm going to risk and the
41:14amount that I stand to gain is at least
41:172x what I'm risking and if you could do
41:19that on every trade then you're thinking
41:21about risk and reward the right way as a
41:23beginner your intuition is going to be p
41:27because you you're new and that's okay
41:29it's to be expected that means your
41:30accuracy is going to be lower so you're
41:31going to take trades and you're going to
41:32have losers but you're looking at the
41:34right things and asking the right
41:36questions when it comes to profit and
41:38loss ratio and risk versus reward so
41:41you've got to monitor your metrics and
41:43understand your average winners and your
41:45average losers in dollar amount and
41:47you've got to monitor your accuracy so
41:49you know what percentage of the time
41:51you're successful you have to analyze
41:53your metrics to begin to understand the
41:55type of stocks you trade the best and
41:57the worst and at that point you focus on
41:59the winning stocks and you avoid the
42:01type you lose on so this ties into the
42:03importance of having this uh these
42:06metrics the downward spiral of many
42:09beginner Traders begins with poor
42:12accuracy poor accuracy creates a poor
42:15track record which creates poor
42:17self-confidence and increased losses and
42:19it just keeps going so how do you break
42:24this downward spiral now hopefully none
42:26of you are in this downward spiral but
42:28let's just let's just say maybe maybe
42:30one of you right now is in this downward
42:31spiral how do we break out of that
42:33downward spiral we break out of it by
42:36understanding that the cause of this
42:38downward spiral is an emotional response
42:42and that in fact one of the most
42:44important keys to success in trading is
42:48having the right mindset mindset is so
42:52important so how do you cultivate the
42:56mindset of success especially if you're
42:59a beginner Trader who is not yet
43:01successful well first of all we bring
43:04the stakes down big time by trading in a
43:06simulator that way if you lose money in
43:09a simulator it doesn't trigger an
43:11emotional spiral that's important so
43:14number one trading in a simulator number
43:16two we focus on accuracy that's how we
43:19break that negative feedback loop so
43:22what it means is that by focusing on
43:24accuracy you're Trading high quality
43:28stocks now remember today I'm going to
43:30share with you the five pillars of stock
43:32selection the five pillars of stock
43:33selection are also in the collection of
43:36PDF resources that hopefully you guys
43:38have already downloaded but if not the
43:39link is pinned at the top of the
43:40comments and in the description so you
43:43have to trade a quality setups by
43:45trading a quality setups you won't
43:47eliminate your losers but you will
43:48reduce the losers because you're trading
43:50the right type of stocks so a quality
43:54setups increases accuracy
43:57accuracy going up will improve your
44:00profit to loss ratio because a poor
44:03profit to loss ratio is typically caused
44:05by a few outlier trades that are huge
44:08losses that drag down your entire profit
44:11loss ratio and it's devastating but
44:13that's the reality so by increasing
44:16accuracy you'll increase your profit
44:18loss ratio and that then leads into
44:21consistency more green days more green
44:24weeks now you have more green days more
44:25green weeks what does that mean
44:27now you're building a strong track
44:29record a strong track record increases
44:32self-confidence increased
44:33self-confidence means you're going to
44:34increase the total number of Trades
44:36you're taking you're going to feel
44:37confident increasing your share size and
44:39that means increasing profitability and
44:41now you're on a positive feedback loop
44:45this is the right way to start so let me
44:47tell you this if you've already traded
44:49with real money if you've already been
44:50on the negative feedback loop I was
44:53there too and I was able to break that
44:55cycle it is not easy you have to be
44:58incredibly disciplined so the step to
45:00Breaking the cycle is putting yourself
45:02into what I call Trader rehab Trader
45:05rehab is when you bring your share size
45:07all the way down so you're trading at a
45:09level that does not trigger emotional
45:12response when you lose you bring it way
45:14down now if you have to go in a
45:15simulator that's fine or if you're
45:17trading with real money you go down to
45:19one share or 10 shares or whatever
45:21basically is is right at the point where
45:23you're not feeling an emotional response
45:25but you also are treating it like real
45:27money and and taking it seriously you
45:29focus on doing that for a minimum of 10
45:32days 10 days that's two weeks two
45:35trading weeks right so you do that for
45:36two weeks and I'm telling you if you
45:38could do that for two weeks you will
45:40feel like a different person at the end
45:42of it even if at the end of it you're
45:45green only four of the
45:47days all of a sudden you're going to
45:49feel this weight off your shoulder like
45:51wow I brought the temperature down so
45:53much and now when the temperature comes
45:55down you're able just to focus on
45:58building your strategy building your
46:01experience taking the highest quality
46:03setups and everything else kind of Fades
46:05it's it's incredible how much those
46:08emotions stay with us like if you have a
46:11big loss today then tomorrow the next
46:14day the next day like it just it takes a
46:16week it could take two weeks for it to
46:18kind of go to the Wayside but it needs
46:20to so you can reset your brain and get
46:23focused on building that positive
46:25feedback loop it begins with accuracy
46:27highest quality setups improve profit
46:29loss ratio improv consistency improve
46:32confidence and that's where it
46:37begins you've got to be thinking well
The Best Stocks for Day Trading
46:40gosh Ross how do I find the right stocks
46:41to trade let's get let's get into it
46:43right so I'm going to teach you how to
46:45set up scanners because stock scanners
46:48are one of the most valuable tools that
46:50Traders use this software searches the
46:53market in real time for stocks that meet
46:56certain sets of criteria now you choose
46:59the criteria and you tell the scanner to
47:01look for it most Brokers offer some
47:04basic scanning technology a simple
47:07scanner such as the leading percentage
47:09Gainer on the day we'll give you a list
47:11of the stocks that are up the most on
47:13the day and in fact I get these
47:15notifications all the time from Brokers
47:17telling me which stocks are up the most
47:19today why are they doing that why are
47:21they pushing these stocks because they
47:24want you to have little fomo they want
47:25you to trade them because they make
47:27money when you trade the payment for
47:29orderflow model so now the stocks are up
47:32the most each day they do get a lot of
47:34attention they have a lot of people
47:35paying attention looking at the charts
47:37and trading them and that gives them
47:38more volume which can be a good thing so
47:40I'm going to give you my scanner
47:42criteria and this this is going to
47:45introduce the concept of supply and
47:48demand as it pertains to active trading
47:51so what we look for is an imbalance
47:54between supply and demand that's what
47:56allows a stock to go up 50% 75% 100% in
48:00one day I mean these can be absolutely
48:02incredible moves now let me show you
48:04just as an example here um I've got a
48:07stock here that is up uh about
48:10139% right now so it's 139% that's a
48:14huge move it's impressive and so how did
48:17this stock go up that much now this is
48:20my platform here we haven't we haven't
48:21really gotten into charts too much yet
48:23except for the very beginning but you
48:24can clearly see that this is a stock
48:26that's up a lot so what happened with
48:28this company was they put out breaking
48:30news this morning it was right down here
48:33they put out this breaking news headline
48:35the news came out that they were
48:36launching a satellite with SpaceX and
48:39immediately the stock went from 350 all
48:41the way up to six bucks it pulled back
48:43and then it rallied up to eight it
48:45pulled back and it rallied up to just
48:47under nine so this company put out news
48:50that was so strong every Trader that saw
48:53it more or less was like I want to get a
48:56piece of this AC
48:57and so what happened was it began with
49:00number three which was a news Catalyst
49:03there was a news event that the company
49:06put out and that immediately brought in
49:10volume so the way it starts is the news
49:13comes out early traders who subscribe to
49:16data feeds that give them the news and
49:18I'm one of those Traders see it and
49:20immediately read it and are like wow
49:22this is strong and the stock almost
49:25instantaneously when the news comes out
49:27the news comes out and the stock almost
49:29immediately starts squeezing up right
49:31here so as it pops up right here it
49:34begins triggering my alerts that my
49:37scanners use so all of a sudden the
49:39stock is up 10% let's just say in 5
49:42minutes so my scanner is telling me hey
49:45Ross even if I haven't seen the news yet
49:47my scanner is going to tell me hey Ross
49:49there's a stock right now up 10% in 5
49:51minutes you should check you should
49:53check it out pay attention to it es and
49:55that's going to be especially true if
49:56the stock is between the prices of 2 and
50:0020 now we know 2 and 10 is a little bit
50:02better but 2 and 20 so if it's in that
50:05range and it's spiking up my scanners
50:07are going to tell me with an audio alert
50:09bing bing bing bing bing and they're
50:10going to show me the stock and I'm going
50:11to pull it up I'm going to see the news
50:13and I'm going to realize this is why the
50:15stock is moving higher so that that's
50:18how we find these stocks so what I know
50:21is that when a stock has a news event
50:23when it's priced between approximately
50:25$2 $320
50:27that it's already up 30% on the day that
50:30it has five times higher volume than
50:33average that these are the common
50:35denominators among my biggest winning
50:39trades so this is the profile of the
50:42type of stocks I make money on and
50:43that's not just opinion that I I think
50:46that I actually know that I know that in
50:50my data this is over $12 million of
50:53trading profit well no not right here
50:54we've got to filter it we were in just a
50:56month of April but we'll go back to the
50:58total so um so right here we'll go to um
51:02so we know the price uh we can go to
51:05instrument and this is loading a lot
51:07there's thousands and thousands of
51:09trades in here um but this is going to
51:10show me that I make more money on stocks
51:12that have higher volume that I do better
51:14when the stock has five times relative
51:16volume now why would a stock have five
51:18times higher volume today than what is
51:20average for that stock it's the news
51:23catalyst so all of these um these items
51:27in green here are indicators of high
51:29demand a stock between three and 20 is
51:31going to have higher demand than a stock
51:33at $300 a share it just is it's more
51:36affordable more people are going to
51:37trade it a stock with news event is
51:38going to be more uh in demand a stock
51:40already up 30% people are going to be
51:42attracted to it I know it's up a lot but
51:44people are like it could go higher and
51:45we've certainly seen that a stock with
51:47high relative volume has got high demand
51:49so these are all of the elements and
51:51characteristics of demand but what about
51:55Supply so there's only one element of
51:58supply and that is the float the float
52:01is a term that means the number of
52:03shares available to trade so when a
52:06company does an initial public offering
52:08they do an IPO they sell shares onto the
52:11open market so let's just say a company
52:13decides to sell 10 million shares they
52:16sell 10 million shares as an in their
52:18IPO and the IPO is just priced at let's
52:21say $8 a share so at $8 a share I'm
52:23going to change my marker here they're
52:25going to raise how much money 10 * 8 $80
52:27million it's a lot of money all right so
52:29they're raising $80 million in their IPO
52:32and from that point forward the stock
52:35begins trading at $8 and they have 10
52:37million shares that are available to
52:38trade that equals the float and so when
52:42we see a stock that has 10 million
52:44shares available to trade we know that
52:47the amount of shares is relatively
52:49limited so to give you context a company
52:51like Bank of America has a float of I
52:53think it's 10 billion shares 10 billion
52:57shares why have they sold so many shares
52:59they had to sell shares in order to
53:00build out the company in order to build
53:02all of the banks all the locations in
53:04order to have the capital to do all the
53:06lending they needed that money and so
53:08they sold the shares in order to raise
53:09that money smaller companies will sell
53:12fewer shares to raise money they don't
53:13need billions of dollars and they
53:15wouldn't be able to raise that money
53:16even if they wanted to because investors
53:18would be like wait what do you need all
53:20that money for what are you going to do
53:21with it the it just wouldn't make sense
53:23to value a tiny company at the amount of
53:26money to raise you know that kind of
53:28that kind of cash and so what ends up
53:30being the case is that most of the
53:31stocks between 2 and 20 not all of them
53:33but a lot of them between 2 and2 the
53:35lower price stocks also have relatively
53:37lower floats the number of shares
53:39available at trade is limited and so
53:41when we have the initial public offering
53:43that's the IPO these are the shares that
53:45are available from that point forward
53:47that's the shares that are available to
53:49trade unless a couple of things happen
53:52one is a
53:54buyback so sometimes a company will do a
53:56a buyback and they'll say you know what
53:58we're going to buy back 2 million shares
54:00so if they did that their float's going
54:01to go to 8 million or they could do
54:04what's called a um a secondary offering
54:07so a secondary offering will sell more
54:10shares onto the market so a secondary
54:13offering this is an initial public
54:15offering this is a secondary offering so
54:18here they sell another let's say 5
54:20million shares and that would bring
54:22their float up to 15 million and that's
54:24not uncommon they would raise that 5
54:26million uh sell that 5 million shares
54:28and maybe they sell it $8 the same as
54:30their IPO maybe they sell it for Less
54:32depends on what the current market is
54:33for the company but they would sell
54:34those shares they would raise more money
54:36and then it would bring the total
54:37Capital raise to the new dollar amount
54:40and of course the hope would be that
54:41they take that money they invest in in
54:43in the company and are able to make the
54:44company worth more that's not always the
54:46case with low price stocks they're
54:48usually lower price because they're
54:50underperforming um Market expectations
54:52in one way or another but that can also
54:55present an opportunity where you got
54:56something that's been really beaten up
54:58it's lower priced and then when they
54:59come out with some great news you could
55:02have the stock that goes you know 300%
55:04off the lows from $3 to $9 or $10 or 12
55:08or 15 I mean we've seen it I I'll show
55:10you an example right here of a stock uh
55:12this was just a couple weeks ago where
55:15we had a stock that literally came out
55:16with news and I can't remember what the
55:19Catalyst was on this but I want to say
55:21it was um a catalyst with Nvidia um but
55:26but I could be wrong in any case this
55:28this stock went in a matter of I mean it
55:31happened so fast it went from $6 a share
55:33to $50 a share in like 15 minutes now it
55:36came back down a lot but this was like
55:39an unbelievable move off the lows um
55:42this is another stock drug that we um
55:45that I traded this year this one went up
55:49um couple
55:51th% from about $2 a share all the way to
55:53$80 it's still holding at 40 $40 a share
55:57it's incredible these are huge moves so
55:59these are companies it's got a 6.9
56:01million share float so the number of
56:03shares available to trade is is pretty
56:04limited the company put out news it's a
56:06biotech company it was good news well
56:09received by the market and you know off
56:10it goes so now what I've done is I've
56:14taken the data that again is not opinion
56:17but it's fact about the type of stocks I
56:19make the most money on and I have
56:22programmed that into my scanners so I
56:24created a custombuilt scanner to help
56:27give me an edge in the market this
56:29scanner uses the data from more than a
56:31decade of my own trading history to
56:33search for the type of stocks I
56:34statistically make the most money on
56:37when a stock hits my scanner I
56:39immediately analyze the news headline
56:41and begin performing a combination of
56:43fundamental and technical analysis and
56:46so this software right here is what I'm
56:49using this is called day trade Dash and
56:51I actually hired a development team to
56:53build out this software for me I use it
56:55in my own trading every single day
56:57exclusively and members at Warrior
56:59trading my warrior Pro students they
57:02have access to it as well now people can
57:04also subscribe to it just on our website
57:06but this is a software that I use to
57:08search for stocks that are moving what I
57:10love about the software is that our goal
57:12was to create a UniFi dashboard that had
57:14the charts the scanners the news feed
57:17the chat room everything in one place so
57:19you don't have to go toggling between
57:22four or five different platforms so we
57:24tried to make it pretty easy I think
57:25we've done a pretty good job of that so
57:27I don't need that up so all right now
57:29let's go ahead and um jump in here to oh
57:33well let me show you this so when I have
57:35the scanners um coming up each stock
57:38that hits the scanner right here this is
57:41my top gainers scan so I'll just do it
57:43on here it's a little bit more clear so
57:46this top gainers scanner is showing me
57:48the top leading percentage gainers in
57:50the entire market and the flame is
57:52telling me if it has news a red flame is
57:55hot hot hot that means the news was in
57:57within the last 2 hours the orange flame
57:59the news is uh between 2 and 12 hours
58:02and the yellow flame is between 12 and
58:0324 hours so I like to see stocks with
58:06red and orange Flames which means I'm
58:08hopefully trading the very beginning of
58:11a breaking news squeeze and I'm I'm in
58:13it on the early side now in real time
58:17this scanner called the small cap highay
58:19momentum scanner will trigger audio
58:22alerts when a stock meets the criteria
58:25that I've trained the scanner to search
58:27for so it's almost like radar in real
58:29time going bing bing bing this stock
58:31meets the criteria and what I get is the
58:33time of the alert the ticker for the
58:36stock the price the the amount of volume
58:39the stock is traded today the float the
58:41number of shares available trade the
58:43relative volume the stock is currently
58:44experiencing so wkey had relative volume
58:48of
58:4996 that one traded 96 Times Higher
58:52volume today than its average which is
58:55huge
58:56um and then we also it tells us how much
58:58the stock was gapping up and how much it
How to Read Candlestick Charts for Day Trading
59:00was up from the previous day's close
59:02which was um 66% actually has Peak and
59:06the these are the names of the different
59:07scanners that I have and then I can set
59:09the audio alerts to which scanner I want
59:12to trigger the Bell that way I only hear
59:14the scanners that I really like and the
59:16running up scanners the similar uh scans
59:18slight variation of that so this is the
59:21tool that I used to find the best stocks
59:23to trade and in the PDF handout of the
59:26Five Pillars of stock selection you will
59:28have um you will have access to each of
59:30those criteria and some expanded uh
59:33definitions and and um details about
59:40that let's talk about how to set up your
59:42charts once you found a stock you like
59:45on the scanners you need to know how to
59:47analyze that chart so we have a stock
59:50and we'll just use the example of wkey
59:52it hits the scanner boom there it is on
59:55the scanner so now we're pulling up our
59:57charts all right so I click on the stock
59:59it'll update the charts it'll update the
1:00:00news feed and everything else so now
1:00:02we're looking at the charts and this is
1:00:04where we're getting into the language of
1:00:06technical analysis which is the
1:00:08universal language of the financial
1:00:10markets all right so you found a stock
1:00:12on scanner that you like how do we
1:00:14analyze it let's go ahead and jump in
1:00:15here this is the basics of candlesticks
1:00:18now some of you may already be familiar
1:00:20with this and this will just be a quick
1:00:21brush up but for others this is brand
1:00:22new so the candlesticks are uh the type
1:00:26of chart that we use and if we look at
1:00:29um the the actual trading software up
1:00:31here or the day trade Dash platform you
1:00:34can see that each one of these charts
1:00:36has these shapes and these are called
1:00:38candlesticks and these are therefore
1:00:39called candlestick charts Candlestick
1:00:42charts have been around for uh well over
1:00:44a century they were developed um in
1:00:48Japan to trade rice Futures and they've
1:00:51become widely uh adopted and used by
1:00:53Traders of all different markets and
1:00:55they're the most popular type of chart
1:00:57today in the financial market so
1:01:00Candlestick charts are the type of chart
1:01:02that we use to view historical price
1:01:05action and that's really what the stock
1:01:07chart is it's showing us what has
1:01:10already happened and then we use that
1:01:12information to try to make a prediction
1:01:14of what we think is going to happen next
1:01:17so stock charts create context for us to
1:01:20help us better understand the current
1:01:22price because if you said hey this stock
1:01:24is currently at $5
1:01:26it it's like well what's that relative
1:01:29to is that a good thing or a bad thing
1:01:31you know it's a good thing if the stock
1:01:33was down here and it's come up it's a
1:01:34bad thing if the stock was up here so
1:01:36the chart creates the context to help us
1:01:38better understand current price all
1:01:40right so the individual candlesticks
1:01:42that create these charts are very
1:01:45important these are the building blocks
1:01:47for this language of the financial
1:01:49Market each individual Candlestick has
1:01:53four pieces of information it
1:01:56communicates the open price the Clos
1:01:58price the high price and the low price
1:02:01for that period of time so when we're
1:02:04looking at a chart each one of the
1:02:06charts represent for me a different time
1:02:08period so this chart right here says
1:02:121D and that means it's a daily chart so
1:02:16each one of these candles represents one
1:02:18full day of time and so if a candle
1:02:22represents one day of time and it
1:02:23communicates four pieces of information
1:02:25we have the open price which was the
1:02:27bottom of this candle and this also
1:02:29happens to be the low so the open and
1:02:32the low share the same price it open and
1:02:34it never went down it just went straight
1:02:35up so that's the open and then the top
1:02:38of the body is the close and that's the
1:02:41high of day so although there's only
1:02:43three different prices that create this
1:02:45candle it's actually four different
1:02:47pieces of information the open the low
1:02:50the high and the close the open yeah
1:02:52sorry the high the low the open and the
1:02:54close all right so now if we jump back
1:02:56onto our uh slide deck a green candle
1:03:01opens low and closes high and that's why
1:03:04it needs to be colored differently so
1:03:06you can understand which direction it
1:03:08went a red candle opens high and closes
1:03:11low so that we color it red so we
1:03:14understand that the price went down the
1:03:17upper line here is called a wick a
1:03:20candle wick so it's candle wicks also
1:03:23sometimes called Shadows an upper lower
1:03:25shadow I like to call them candle wicks
1:03:27generally so these are upper and lower
1:03:29candle wicks so a stock that has um
1:03:32let's say looks like this would have a
1:03:35large uh bottoming tail or a lower
1:03:38candle wick the same shape with the
1:03:41candle wick on the top we would
1:03:43sometimes call that a topping tail and
1:03:45in the certain a certain context we
1:03:47might even call that a shooting star
1:03:48candle I'll show you what that looks
1:03:49like in a second so the each individual
1:03:54candlestick communicat Ates information
1:03:57to us the way I think about it is that
1:03:59each Candlestick shape is like a
1:04:02different letter in the alphabet so we
1:04:05have these different shapes and then
1:04:06when you have just like letters you have
1:04:08multiple letters together they form a
1:04:09word and the words that we're looking
1:04:11for is buy and sell all right the these
1:04:14are the very key words that we're trying
1:04:16to pick up from the chart and we
1:04:18actually can get that so the first
1:04:20candle that I want to teach you about is
1:04:21called a dogee a dogee candle is a
1:04:25candle CLE where the open and the close
1:04:28are more or less at the same price and
1:04:30so here we see a stock that moved up and
1:04:33at the very top has this funny shaped
1:04:35candle that's a dogee the open and the
1:04:37close are at the same price which is why
1:04:39there's a flat line right down there but
1:04:41it has an upper candle wick so the four
1:04:45pieces of information here the open the
1:04:47close and the low all are the same and
1:04:50the only one that's different is the
1:04:52high so that's an unusual candle but
1:04:54that that can happen now this is called
1:04:56a gravestone dogee and the reason is
1:04:59because if you have a stock that's been
1:05:01very strong showing large green candles
1:05:04and then at the top of that run this
1:05:07candle forms it's an indicator of a
1:05:09potential reversal why is that well
1:05:12let's think about how that candle was
1:05:14actually created so we had green candle
1:05:17green candle green candle and then this
1:05:20final one right here so the price opened
1:05:23and usually the open is more or less at
1:05:25the same price is the previous close
1:05:27sometimes they Gap up but usually it it
1:05:28closes and then the next one opens
1:05:30closes and then the next one opens so it
1:05:32closes and the next one opens and it
1:05:35starts moving higher so we're like okay
1:05:37this is looking great and in this moment
1:05:39it would actually have been a green
1:05:40candle so wouldn't have just had the
1:05:42line it would have actually been a green
1:05:44candle at that second and then all of a
1:05:47sudden sellers came in and push the
1:05:50price back down and so the price dropped
1:05:53down so then we had the high which was
1:05:56this candle wick but the body was
1:05:58getting lower and lower and lower until
1:06:01finally at the close of that period
1:06:04again doesn't matter if it's a one
1:06:05minute chart or it's a f minute chart or
1:06:08it's a daily chart by the end of that
1:06:10period all we had was this little body
1:06:12right here and so what this tells us is
1:06:15that there was weakness the stock
1:06:18squeezed up but ultimately sellers were
1:06:20stronger and they pulled the price all
1:06:23the way back down in fact this could
1:06:26even occur where the candle ends up
1:06:29closing red they were so strong that the
1:06:32whole candle goes red and it's got a
1:06:34small body and I'll show you that's
1:06:37there's a a specific name for that
1:06:38candle but right now we'll just stay
1:06:40focused on this being a doy so the open
1:06:42and the close are the same and in this
1:06:44case the low is also the same so that is
1:06:48a candle of indecision it means the
1:06:50reversal has already begun and the next
1:06:52candle is likely to go red and continue
1:06:55the pullback no one who really
1:06:57understands the language of the markets
1:06:59would buy directly following that candle
1:07:02because this is a very clear cell signal
1:07:04so you learn it's a sell signal in this
1:07:07context now if this wasn't occurred in
1:07:09the context like this where you had just
1:07:13a bunch of small kind of little dogee
1:07:16candles like this maybe one like this
1:07:18and they're kind of gaing a little bit
1:07:20what would this tell us this would tell
1:07:22us that this is a stock that more or
1:07:24less is just going side sideways and if
1:07:26a stock is going sideways it's already
1:07:29exhibiting indecisiveness so there's not
1:07:32really anything significant communicated
1:07:34by a candle that has a topping tail the
1:07:37Stock's already indecisive it's already
1:07:38going sideways it's only when a stock is
1:07:40showing a strong Trend and then shows
1:07:43this indecisive candle that you worry
1:07:46that whoa we might be about to see a
1:07:48change in Trend so a gravestone dogee is
1:07:51a bearish candle bearish means going
1:07:55down bullish means going up the next
1:07:58candle is a dragonfly dogee now
1:08:02dragonfly dogee is a candle that occurs
1:08:04at the bottom of a selloff so you've got
1:08:07you know a few red candles doesn't have
1:08:09to be three it could be more it could be
1:08:10less but the bottom of a
1:08:12selloff you have a candle that opens and
1:08:15closes at the same price dips down but
1:08:17then comes back up so this is the exact
1:08:19inverse of this and so would this be
1:08:22bearish or
1:08:23bullish the answer is that this is a
1:08:25bullish pattern because the candle shows
1:08:28that the buyers came in and pulled the
1:08:30price back up and that the reversal may
1:08:32already be starting it then is confirmed
1:08:35as the next candle is green and moves
1:08:38higher so when you look at a chart like
1:08:39this you're always like well clearly
1:08:41that was the low yep and then so when
1:08:43it's happening in real time as you're
1:08:45seeing that bottom form with that
1:08:47bottoming tail or you're seeing that
1:08:48topping tail form you learn to recognize
1:08:51here we go it's happening right now and
1:08:53this is where it gets pretty cool
1:08:55because the better you get at this
1:08:57you're actually starting to visualize in
1:08:59your mind what's going to happen next so
1:09:01it's like you're you're seeing in the
1:09:02future but you're visualizing okay I've
1:09:04seen this pattern this many times when
1:09:06this happens this follows right that's
1:09:08the relationship and the pattern
1:09:10recognition that we're working on here
1:09:11so you're learning the language we've
1:09:13got the gravestone dogee we've got the
1:09:15dragonfly dogee and now we've got the
1:09:16long-legged
1:09:17dogee a long-legged dogee is just simply
1:09:20a dogee where you've got a long upper
1:09:23Wick and a long lower Wick it's not it's
1:09:27it it's still indecisive whether it
1:09:29occurs at the top or the bottom of move
1:09:30it's still showing indecision it often
1:09:32leads to a temporary correction and so
1:09:35it's maybe not quite as ominous as a
1:09:38gravestone dogee it's not quite as
1:09:40strong as a dragonfly dogee it just
1:09:42shows that there's a real tug of-war
1:09:44going on up here between buyers and
1:09:46sellers okay so these are three types of
1:09:49dogee candles that are important to be
1:09:51aware of and you may not always refer to
1:09:53them as a gravestone dragonfly
1:09:55long-legged dogee you could refer to all
1:09:57three of them as a dogee and and no one
1:09:59would give you a hard time for that so
1:10:01now a Candlestick that occurs
1:10:03specifically at the bottom of a selloff
1:10:06can be called a bottoming tail so this
1:10:09is a stock that has sold off again
1:10:11doesn't have to be three candles it
1:10:12could be more it could be less and at
1:10:14the bottom you had a candle that
1:10:16bottomed out and then the buyers came in
1:10:18and it sent it back up and it actually
1:10:20closed green which indicates the
1:10:22reversal has already begun this C handle
1:10:25is also called a hammer it's hammering
1:10:29out the base so this is the base the low
1:10:34is the base that becomes support as long
1:10:36as a stock can hold above support this
1:10:38is confirmed to be the base and the low
1:10:41so what often happens here if this is a
1:10:43red candle it still communicates a
1:10:46reversal is likely starting but when
1:10:48it's a green candle it confirms the
1:10:50reversal has already begun and then the
1:10:52next candle continuing green confirms
1:10:54that even further so usually when people
1:10:57take a trade in this area they're going
1:10:59to be buying not the first candle
1:11:02they'll buy the second candle here as it
1:11:05confirms the trend by continuing to move
1:11:07higher so that would be the same in
1:11:09these examples here where if you were
1:11:11selling it your final exit would be when
1:11:13this candle second one goes red if
1:11:15you're buying your entry would be on
1:11:17this candle here as it goes green and if
1:11:19you were selling here your exit would be
1:11:21down here all right so this is a
1:11:24bottoming tail also sometimes called a
1:11:27hammer this is a topping tail so now
1:11:30I've got stock that's been squeezing up
1:11:32and instead of forming the dragonfly
1:11:33dogee it actually has or sorry the
1:11:35gravestone dogee it actually has a body
1:11:37here um however that topping tail is
1:11:40ominous it indicates that although there
1:11:42were buyers the sellers were stronger by
1:11:44the end of the candle and brought the
1:11:45price back down this could also be
1:11:48called an inverted hammer or a more
1:11:51appropriate name is a shooting star a
1:11:54shooting star comes back down to earth
1:11:57so when you have a shooting star up high
1:11:59it indicates the price is likely going
Technical Indicators for Day Trading
1:12:01to come back down and so the exit on
1:12:03this would have been on this candle here
1:12:05when it confirmed by going red and
1:12:07breaking to a new low so you notice
1:12:09these candles keep making new highs
1:12:11they're sort of stair stepping up and as
1:12:14soon as we have a stock that makes a
1:12:15step down that's the exit indicator now
1:12:18a step up Step Up step up sometimes
1:12:21we'll go down to flat and then come up
1:12:23again and that's okay but when we make
1:12:26the full two sort of steps down that we
1:12:28have to get out so it's basically when
1:12:30you have two candles that go lower and
1:12:32lower that we get
1:12:33out so when I'm looking at my charts I
1:12:36do use technical indicators and at the
1:12:38beginning of this episode we looked at
1:12:39the macd the macd is one of my one of my
1:12:43favorite indicators and I didn't use it
1:12:44for a long time um however during the
1:12:47bare Market of 2022 I began using it and
1:12:50I found it really helpful um in in
1:12:53helping me avoid false breakouts so let
1:12:56me share with you the indicators that I
1:12:58use I'm a big believer in keeping your
1:13:00charts simple you can over complicate
1:13:03them by adding dozens and dozens of
1:13:05technical indicators and unfortunately
1:13:07what some Traders will do is they'll add
1:13:09a lot of indicators hoping to find the
1:13:12perfect combination where the indicators
1:13:15will tell them where to buy and where to
1:13:17sell and they will never lose money and
1:13:19that desire to find that comes from a
1:13:22deep fear of loss a deep aversion to L
1:13:25and I understand not wanting to lose
1:13:26money nobody wants to lose money but
1:13:29this is trading you will lose money
1:13:32being a successful Trader doesn't mean
1:13:33not losing it means being good at losing
1:13:36which is cutting your losses quickly and
1:13:38then focusing on winning trades adding
1:13:40to Winners not to losers you'll learn
1:13:42about that more as we continue on with
1:13:43this class so in an effort to keep it
1:13:46simple this is what my charts look like
1:13:49I have moving averages on my charts and
1:13:51a moving average is the average price of
1:13:54the stock over a set period of time
1:13:57there are two types of moving averages
1:13:59exponential and simple I use exponential
1:14:03because they move a little bit faster so
1:14:05they adjust faster to the price and I
1:14:07use the 9 the 20 and the 200 so over on
1:14:11my charts here and whether you use um
1:14:14you could use any platform you want I
1:14:16mean you could use think or Swim you
1:14:17could use U day trade Dash you could use
1:14:20Weeble it doesn't matter what you use
1:14:22I'll pull up my Weeble account here just
1:14:24um I think I have my thinker swim
1:14:26account up as well um well I can log in
1:14:28but in any case doesn't matter which
1:14:30platform you use you can set up your
1:14:31technical indicators on your charts now
1:14:33this is the Weeble kind of light layout
1:14:36um but let's just change this to um wkey
1:14:39so we're looking at the same stock so on
1:14:43Weeble right now I've got a moving
1:14:45average on here that I don't even think
1:14:47I added because I don't really this is
1:14:48sort of you know I have it set up for
1:14:50doing demos and stuff like that little
1:14:53small account challenges but I don't use
1:14:54this on a daily basis for me uh but over
1:14:57in uh our platform what you can do is um
1:15:01you can click the FX button and the FX
1:15:04then you type in moving average and I do
1:15:07the exponential moving average I click
1:15:09that it'll then add to the chart and
1:15:12then I can actually hover over it and
1:15:14either double click it and it'll pull up
1:15:16the data about it and when I double
1:15:18click it I can change uh some
1:15:21information about it so let's see so
1:15:23this is the 9 EMA
1:15:25uh it's based on the close price which
1:15:27is correct there's no offset it's an EMA
1:15:30and then under style I can change the
1:15:32color I could make it Bolder I could
1:15:34make it less bold I could change the
1:15:36color so I have my 9 EMA in Gray I have
1:15:40my 20 EMA in blue and I have my 200 EMA
1:15:44in purple or magenta and I think that
1:15:46that for me works just great so I've
1:15:48kept it that way for years and years and
1:15:50years so I always know what that looks
1:15:52like and I use the same exact act
1:15:55indicators on my 1 minute my 5 minute my
1:15:58daily chart and even my 10-second chart
1:16:01so these are different time frames but
1:16:03they're the same exact indicators now
1:16:05over on um thinker swim I recently did a
1:16:08think or swim challenge and on thinker
1:16:09swim I kept my charts very simple uh but
1:16:12you can go into studies you could do add
1:16:13a study you can go down to um moving
1:16:16average oops moving average and then you
1:16:19go to um let's see where is it moving
1:16:23average exponential right there there it
1:16:26adds it right there I can click on it I
1:16:28can it's currently the nine I'll change
1:16:30that from that cyan color to my gray
1:16:33color that I prefer and um I think that
1:16:37that's fine just like that so I'll click
1:16:38apply and then I would just do the same
1:16:40thing I would go to studies I would add
1:16:42another study I would add the next
1:16:43moving average which is the the 20 and
1:16:46so on so forth once you've done that
1:16:48then you can save your chart you can
1:16:50save your layout and then you can
1:16:52duplicate that for a 1 minute and a 5
1:16:55minute uh and a daily or the 10-second
1:16:58depending on how many charts you want to
1:16:59set up so I use these three moving
1:17:02averages the 9 the 20 and the 200 and
1:17:05then I also use the volume weighted
1:17:07average price you can see that's this
1:17:09orange line right here the volume
1:17:12weighted average price is like a moving
1:17:14average except it also factors in the
1:17:18amount of shares traded and so in other
1:17:21words if you had a stock that traded
1:17:25let's just say um just for the sake of
1:17:27argument those would be sort of odd
1:17:28numbers but let's just say it traded at
1:17:30$1 a share and it traded a 100 shares
1:17:34and then it traded at $10 a share and it
1:17:37traded um a th000 shares a simple moving
1:17:41average would show the average price of
1:17:43five it would just say it's five it's
1:17:44right in between uh an exponential
1:17:46moving average would also just show the
1:17:48price is right in between but the volume
1:17:50weight average price would say well wait
1:17:52a second there was 10 times more volume
1:17:54up here at 10 so the vwap would actually
1:17:57price it way up here closer to probably
1:17:599 something so the volume weight average
1:18:03price tells us the average price of the
1:18:06stock
1:18:07today including all of the volume that
1:18:10was traded at each of the different
1:18:12prices and so what it gives us is the
1:18:15true kind of equilibrium of this is the
1:18:18most average price of the day so if the
1:18:20stock is trading above it it's bullish
1:18:23if it's trading below it average it's
1:18:25bearish and generally I like to trade
1:18:28stocks that are trading above the volume
1:18:31weight average price certainly a stock
1:18:34like wkey for most of the day was
1:18:37trading above vwap it did dip down below
1:18:40it just for a moment um at a couple
1:18:42points but certainly in the afternoon it
1:18:44was trading well above vwap so it was
1:18:46definitely bullish definitely strong if
1:18:48it came back down to vwap was below it
1:18:51and held below it I would feel that the
1:18:53stock was in control by
1:18:55uh the Bears or perhaps the sellers
1:18:58right because it's clearly not holding
1:19:00this level that is important now the
1:19:02next indicator and I'll just go based on
1:19:05the chart here is the volume so the
1:19:08volume is communicating the number of
1:19:11shares that traded in that period and so
1:19:14it just Auto scales where the highest
1:19:17volume candle will be the the top of
1:19:19this sort of panel here and so then you
1:19:22get a sense of okay was this a high
1:19:24volume candle relative to the others
1:19:26it's colored based on whether the actual
1:19:28candle was green or red right so whether
1:19:32the actual candle went up or down the
1:19:34volume will be colored to match now
1:19:36there are some ways that you can uh
1:19:38change this to to attempt to show the
1:19:42actual number of orders that went
1:19:45through that were buy orders versus sell
1:19:47orders but I don't find that to be
1:19:49particularly helpful this is the style
1:19:52that I've always used for volume and and
1:19:54so that's I've kept it now the last
1:19:57indicator is the macd the macd is the
1:20:00moving average convergence Divergence
1:20:03indicator and we've got to get on the
1:20:04Whiteboard for me to explain this one
1:20:06because this is an important one so we
1:20:08have a stock that has been um generally
1:20:11strong so let's say it squeezed up and
1:20:14then I'll just keep this in green even
1:20:15though this would be red pullback it
1:20:16moved higher and then pulled back and
1:20:20then it moved higher and then pulled
1:20:22back and then right here it's kind of
1:20:25going sideways all right so if we had
1:20:29the 9 EMA here the 9 EMA and let's just
1:20:34say this um you know had already made a
1:20:37move up here and then pulled back again
1:20:39before that move so our 9 EMA is always
1:20:42the average price of the last nine
1:20:44candles so it goes nine candles back so
1:20:46you know 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine so the
1:20:49average price is somewhere like here so
1:20:51we're just going to kind of draw this
1:20:53like this now that's the 9 EMA the 9 EMA
1:20:58so now and I should well it's fine so
1:21:00we'll do the 20 EMA in brown it's not
1:21:02what I typically would do but it's fine
1:21:04so the 20 EMA the average price over the
1:21:07last 20 candles is actually going to be
1:21:09lower because it's including candles
1:21:11from further back where the price was
1:21:13lower so what ends up happening is the
1:21:1620 EMA is a little slower to catch up it
1:21:20does move but it's a little bit slower
1:21:23and so what ends up happening is when a
1:21:25stock starts moving quickly you have
1:21:28these periods where the moving averages
1:21:30are diverging they're moving apart and
1:21:34when they're moving apart quickly that
1:21:36tells us the price is going up they only
1:21:38they only move apart because the price
1:21:40is going up but when the moving averages
1:21:42begin converging coming back together
1:21:45here it tells us that the price is
1:21:47compressing we're going into an area
1:21:49where the price is kind of going into a
1:21:51tighter range and what I have found in
1:21:54my Trad and this was very consistent
1:21:56especially during the bare Market was
1:21:59that when these moving averages when the
1:22:02macd actually crosses right here that
1:22:06signifies the end of the front side of
1:22:10this move and more times than not any
1:22:13attempt to break out will reject and the
1:22:16price will end up selling off the very
1:22:19fact that the stock went sideways for
1:22:22this long going sideways for this long
1:22:25unfortunately it just sort of killed the
1:22:27chart it it the Traders gave up on it
1:22:30this is a stretch where it had strong
1:22:32momentum it's moving quickly but then it
1:22:35kind of goes into this range where
1:22:36people are no longer as enthusiastic and
1:22:39so the trend is ending the strong trend
1:22:42of momentum so this is the place here
1:22:44where you have to be really careful and
1:22:47during the bare Market I kept finding
1:22:48myself buying some of these trades and
1:22:50then catching this reversal which is
1:22:52when I started to say you know what I
1:22:53got to pay more attention the moving
1:22:55average convergence Divergence indicator
1:22:56the macd because this is telling me
1:22:59right here that it's a it's a very clear
1:23:01signal that I should wait this out so
1:23:04those are the five well the four
1:23:07indicators that I'm using the moving
1:23:08averages the vwap the macd and the
1:23:11volume bars on Candlestick charts and
1:23:13that's it I really keep my charts super
1:23:16simple and so the way I do it um is I
1:23:19have um I well so and I'll go over this
1:23:22in a second but I have four charts for
1:23:24one stock so each of these charts are a
1:23:27different time frame so we've got the
1:23:29daily chart down at the bottom and I
1:23:32keep that the smallest because once I've
1:23:34looked at the daily chart I'll expand it
1:23:36I'll look at it I'll see oh okay yeah so
1:23:39recently so this was a level back here
1:23:41where it came up to 1045 all right so I
1:23:43Mark that level out I just do a trend
1:23:46line I click on that trend line tool I
1:23:49click on the chart and if I press my
1:23:50control button it'll actually do a
1:23:52magnet to the top of the candle and I
1:23:54just click that and then I might look to
1:23:56the left and up and say oh well is there
1:23:59any other nearby resistance so I look
1:24:02left and then up oh low of that candle
1:24:04there all right so what was that that
1:24:06was 12 and I kind of look to the left
1:24:08and up and oh there's a couple candles
1:24:10there so what was that 1640 I'll sort of
1:24:12Mark out a couple of those levels so
1:24:14then once I've done that the levels are
1:24:17marked and they're on my chart and I
1:24:18don't really need to sort of look at it
1:24:20anymore so now at that point I've
1:24:23analyzed my daily chart for areas of
1:24:25support and resistance and now I'm
1:24:27getting into focusing on my 5minute
1:24:29chart if the 5-minute chart looks good
1:24:32meaning the price is above vwap you know
1:24:34I'm not seeing any big exit indicators
1:24:36or any big issue then I get focused on
1:24:38the one minute and on the one minute is
1:24:40where I actually use the macd I don't
1:24:42use the macd on my five minute or my
1:24:44daily chart I don't find the signal to
1:24:46be as helpful but I do use it on the one
1:24:48minute and then the 10-second chart I
1:24:51usually use more as a teaching tool to
1:24:53show people sort of in very tight ranges
1:24:56what I was seeing uh it's a little fast
1:24:58for trading but you can use it if you'd
1:25:00like to the macd on the one on the 10c
1:25:03is too fast so I don't use it down there
1:25:06either so I have basically four time
1:25:10frames all for the same stock these are
1:25:13C four different Candlestick charts but
1:25:14they're all for the same stock but of
1:25:16course the 10c is just a essentially
1:25:20like a zoom in of the one minute the one
1:25:22minute is zoom in of the five minute the
1:25:235 minutes is a zoom in of of the daily
1:25:25so it's sort of like just you can look
1:25:27for the patterns on multiple time frames
1:25:29and in fact we often will you'll look
1:25:32for a pattern on the five minute and
1:25:34then you look for the corresponding
1:25:35pattern on the one minute and the best
1:25:37the best trades are when multiple time
1:25:40frames are aligning and giving you
1:25:42positive signals to buy that that's kind
1:25:45of like the best case scenario that
1:25:46doesn't always happen I will take trades
1:25:48that don't have multi-time Frame
1:25:50Alignment but it's nice when you get it
1:25:53now when it comes to important in
1:25:54resistance most stocks will have support
1:25:57at the volume weighted average price so
1:25:59when the price comes down to the vwap
Support and Resistance
1:26:01most stocks will will show support there
1:26:04at least for a moment now if there's a
1:26:05lot of selling they might break through
1:26:07that level but the stock will usually at
1:26:09least try to bounce the vwap they also
1:26:11usually have support at the moving
1:26:13averages the 9 the 20 and the 200 and
1:26:17this is true on all time frames the 200
1:26:19moving average is a great level of
1:26:21support on the daily chart and then we
1:26:24often draw trend lines and draw lines
1:26:27around previous prices as I did on this
1:26:30daily chart on wkey to sort of help
1:26:33understand context right so okay there
1:26:36was a little bit of resistance at the
1:26:37high of those candles so that c now if
1:26:40it gets above that level and holds above
1:26:42it we might say that that actually is
1:26:43going to become support and that's very
1:26:45common that prior resistance once the
1:26:48stock can break above it becomes
1:26:51support and then when a stock is below
1:26:53any of these levels it has resistance
1:26:55coming back up into them so when I do my
1:26:58f length classes on technical analysis
1:27:01and how to read Candlestick charts we go
1:27:03into a lot more depth of analyzing all
1:27:06of the different chart patterns that I
1:27:08trade the very specific ways to draw
1:27:11ascending and descending support and
1:27:13resistance trend lines how certain
1:27:15levels on the daily chart are are
1:27:17particularly uh well respected and so
1:27:20there's a lot more depth that we can go
1:27:21into it but as I kind of said at the
1:27:23beginning of this class I want to lay a
1:27:25foundation of the key Concepts that you
1:27:27need to understand and then when we come
1:27:29back to it if you continue taking
1:27:31classes watching either here on YouTube
1:27:33or taking classes at where you're
1:27:34trading you'll you'll like you'll get
1:27:36okay right we already covered on that
1:27:37and now that I understand that we can
1:27:40take it sort of a step further it's kind
1:27:43of I mean it is like learning a language
1:27:44you got the 101 then the 2011 the 301 we
1:27:47kind of keep progressing higher and
1:27:49higher but we need to First lay that
1:27:52solid
1:27:53foundation and at the end of the day as
1:27:56active Traders we're focusing on pattern
1:27:58recognition that's what we're doing so
1:28:00we start to learn when this happens this
1:28:02happens when this happens this happens
1:28:05when this happens this happens so the
1:28:08better you get at developing your own
1:28:11internal database of patterns the better
1:28:15you will be at trading so what I want to
1:28:17do now is I want to teach you what is my
1:28:21favorite pattern and this is the pattern
1:28:23that I would encourage you to practice
1:28:25trading of course in the simulator as
1:28:27you're following the trading plan that
1:28:29I've laid out for you well the the
1:28:31trading plan has been laid out for you
1:28:32in the PDFs which hopefully you've
1:28:33already downloaded but we're going to
1:28:35we're going to I'm going to go through
1:28:36that uh in uh in just a moment okay so
1:28:40this is the chart pattern so we're still
1:28:41on we're still on chapter five here part
1:28:43five on how to set up your charts so
1:28:45this is this is my favorite pattern but
1:28:48this is how it looks when it's forming
1:28:50so the stock starts squeezing up it
1:28:53moves a little higher on the next candle
1:28:55so in these moments the stock would be
1:28:57hitting what it'd be hitting our
1:28:58scanners we'd be getting the audio
1:29:00alerts ding ding ding stock is moving
1:29:02higher that would give us the chance to
1:29:03pull up the chart to look for the news
1:29:05to try to figure out why is this thing
1:29:07moving up what's it doing and then once
1:29:09we figure out why it's moving and what
1:29:11it's doing at that point I'm watching
1:29:13the chart and I'm waiting for a
1:29:16pullback one of my favorite ways to buy
1:29:19a strong stock is to wait for a pullback
1:29:21because here's the problem if I bought
1:29:23this right here what would be my Max
1:29:26loss well I typically would say my Max
1:29:29loss is where the stock just came from
1:29:32so it just came from down here so my Max
1:29:34loss is really far away how much my
1:29:37profit Target have to be two times that
1:29:40that's that's kind of unrealistic and so
1:29:42it's better for me to wait for the stock
1:29:44to pull back and and I always say look
1:29:47there'll be another train that comes
1:29:48around don't worry about missing this
1:29:49train or jumping on while it's leaving
1:29:51the station just wait for the next one
1:29:52so this starts pulling back we get our
1:29:55first red candle we get our second red
1:29:57candle so now we've got a confirmed
1:29:58reversal which is fine and I'm not
1:30:02factoring in right now volume or the
1:30:04macd we're just going to focus on the
1:30:06candlesticks so let's just assume the
1:30:08volume and the macd are favorable we
1:30:10have this pullback here and then we
1:30:12begin to bounce right here right so now
1:30:15we have kind of a double bottom so this
1:30:17becomes our new low so if I bought right
1:30:20here my stop would be the low of this
1:30:22pullback now this this is a more
1:30:24manageable level of risk this could be
1:30:26$100 of risk and then this up here is a
1:30:29$100 of profit 200 of profit 300 of
1:30:31profit you know maybe 400 or higher If
1:30:33It Moves if it moves further and so what
1:30:36we're looking for is that first candle
1:30:38to make a new high so our entry is right
1:30:40there at that cross this is the place
1:30:42where we're buying as that first candle
1:30:44makes a new High versus the high of the
1:30:46previous candle that's our entry spot
1:30:48the low is our Max loss our profit
1:30:51Target is a retest a high a day so we
1:30:53always want to retest a high a day so
1:30:55when I'm asking myself what I'm risking
1:30:57I know my stop is the low of this candle
1:30:59when I'm asking myself how much I stand
1:31:01to gain my target is high of day because
1:31:04when this setup works it goes to the
1:31:05high of day now sometimes it hits the
1:31:08high of day and then pulls back so I
1:31:10want to make sure just to high of day
1:31:12without breaking is enough profit for me
1:31:14to justify the risk of taking the trade
1:31:17all right so now we're back on a little
1:31:19bit of a quiz here all right so now I'm
1:31:20going to back this one out and I'm going
1:31:22to let's see I'm going to do this one a
1:31:24little bit differently I'm going to move
1:31:25this to the left and right so we're on a
1:31:28pullback pattern we've got a stock
1:31:30that's made a nice rally up my question
1:31:32for you right here is what do you think
1:31:34is going to happen
1:31:35next well if we look at this chart right
1:31:38now we've got how many green candles in
1:31:40a row we've got 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 15
1:31:44green candles in a row we're pretty
1:31:46extended and this candle has a little
1:31:49bit of a dogee it's got a a bit of a
1:31:51bottoming tail a small topping tail so
1:31:54clearly it's extended and it's starting
1:31:55to show some of that indecision can we
1:31:58buy here the answer is no we have to
1:32:00wait for a pullback is a pullback coming
1:32:02it might be and let's see we start to
1:32:04get the pullback fine all right so we
1:32:06get a pullback and we get another red
1:32:07candle that forms but notice here now we
1:32:10have a bottoming tail right so when I
1:32:14see this pattern with light volume
1:32:16selling relative to the green and the
1:32:18macd being open I know it's compressed
1:32:21and kind of hard to see but it is open I
1:32:23would say this is now a spot we should
1:32:24be looking for an entry Max loss is low
1:32:26of this pullback profit Target initially
1:32:28is right here in truth this is probably
1:32:31close to a one to one profit to loss
1:32:33ratio but this ends up making a pretty
1:32:36big move now if we look at this stock
1:32:38here the price was 460 so this went from
1:32:40about a low of$ 340 up to
1:32:42$495 this is a really big range when you
1:32:45have a stock that has big ranges like
1:32:48this I will sometimes take the risk of
1:32:50taking a trade even if it doesn't offer
1:32:52The Perfect 2 to1 profit to loss RTI
1:32:53ratio but still nonetheless the pattern
1:32:56there looks pretty good all right so now
1:32:57let's look at another one all right so
1:32:59here we've got BNF this stocks um
1:33:03actually wait is this no just this very
1:33:05similar um no looks like did I grab the
1:33:08same pattern twice um oh this is why so
1:33:13wow it just kept going higher oh my
1:33:14goodness it went all the way from four
1:33:17all the way up to five to six to seven
1:33:19to eight to nine to 10 and so the the
1:33:21caption here if I cap my losers not my
1:33:23winners
1:33:24I want to cut my losers quickly so if it
1:33:26goes down to that Max loss point I get
1:33:29out I sell I don't hold I don't hope
1:33:31this is a big mistake a lot of beginner
1:33:32Traders make but we've got to just cut
1:33:34our losses we've got to get out so I get
1:33:36out I bail on the trade but when I'm in
1:33:38a winner I want to hold as long as I can
1:33:41so that means I don't want to sell
1:33:44ultimately until I see an exit indicator
1:33:48SO waiting to sell until you get an exit
1:33:50indicator can be very difficult for a
1:33:52beginner Trader but it is super
1:33:55important so what does an exit indicator
1:33:58look on a like on a Candlestick chart on
1:34:01a Candlestick chart the exit indicator
1:34:04will be either let's go on the
1:34:08Whiteboard so exit
1:34:11indicators on a Candlestick chart
1:34:13specifically because there are other
1:34:14indicators that we'll get um from
1:34:16another place I I'll teach you about in
1:34:18just a moment so the first is high
1:34:21volume red candle
1:34:24right if we have a high volume red
1:34:25candle we know that's a reversal
1:34:27indicator and an exit indicator if we
1:34:29have um Mac D
1:34:33crossover now if we have a macd
1:34:35crossover or a high volume red candle
1:34:37the reversal is in a way already begun
1:34:39like this is not great that we're still
1:34:41in but it's definitely at this point an
1:34:43exit indicator that we've got to be
1:34:44getting out number three
1:34:47topping tail a topping tail candle and
1:34:52you know slash ad doe a do certainly
1:34:54topping tail and doe would indicate a
1:34:57possible time to exit so these are the
1:34:59most obvious number four certainly break
1:35:04of vwap going
1:35:07down and number five
1:35:10break of 9 EMA again going
1:35:15down okay so now let's look at the next
1:35:17one all right so here we've got a stock
1:35:20that is popped up right we've got a nice
1:35:22little pop a little pull back and we're
1:35:24looking for that first candle to make a
1:35:26new high first candle makes a new high
1:35:28boom we got to squeeze back up to the
1:35:29high now we're going to wait for another
1:35:31pullback all right so if you took that
1:35:33first trade right here if you took this
1:35:35trade at this um white arrow that was a
1:35:38great trade and then if you missed it
1:35:40you look for the next setup so the next
1:35:42setup boom we get another pullback and
1:35:44what's often the case is that these
1:35:46stocks will give us multiple
1:35:48opportunities it'll give us that first
1:35:50pullback it'll give us a second it might
1:35:51even give us a third my rule of thumb is
1:35:54I always like to trade the first and the
1:35:56second pullback and if the stock keeps
1:35:59going higher I'm very cautious continue
1:36:01and trade it third and fourth pullback
1:36:03it can be a little too risky so as a
1:36:05beginner I think it's a good idea to
1:36:06focus on the first two pullbacks now I
1:36:08have a book here called thinking in bets
1:36:10by Annie Duke she wrote this book about
1:36:13her experience as a professional poker
1:36:15player and she talks about learning to
1:36:16play poker from her brother and he told
1:36:19her that when you're learning to play he
1:36:22gave her a a sort of a set of these are
1:36:24the hands that you should play he said
1:36:25don't play anything else just play these
1:36:27and she said well I don't understand cuz
1:36:29I'm seeing other people playing other
1:36:31hands that you're not that are not on
1:36:33your approved list so what's the deal
1:36:34with that and he said yeah they've been
1:36:36doing it for a while you're a beginner
1:36:38you need to trade the basic setups and I
1:36:40think that's kind of the same with
1:36:42trading right take the setups that are
1:36:44the bread and butter that have the
1:36:45highest probability of success so that's
1:36:47first pullback and second pullback don't
1:36:50overstay your welcome so this is a set
1:36:53up that I call the micro pullback so
1:36:56inside that re that P that Suite of PDFs
1:36:59that I gave you that's in the the link
1:37:01that's in the in the description and
1:37:03pinned to the top of the comments one of
1:37:04the downloads in there is that micro
1:37:06pullback strategy PDF and this documents
1:37:09this exact setup it's one that I trade
1:37:11pretty much every single day and it is
1:37:13the strategy that the it's the
1:37:16individual setup I would have you focus
1:37:18on trading if I were getting started
1:37:20that's what I would do it's I would
1:37:22focus on trading this pattern on stocks
1:37:24that meet all five pillars of stock
1:37:26selection and this is where we're kind
1:37:28of
1:37:29combining all of the different concepts
1:37:31that we've already learned so far now
1:37:33we've we're only on uh step five here
1:37:36but we're combining stock selection
1:37:38understanding how to manage risk and
1:37:40making sure we're trading the setups
1:37:41that have the highest probability of
1:37:43working the reason these setups work is
1:37:45because we have a stock that's moving up
1:37:48quickly with a catalyst and other
1:37:50Traders see it moving they're getting
1:37:52notifications from their Brokers that
1:37:54this stock is moving higher the broker
1:37:55wants them to start trading it and
1:37:57they're they're thinking themselves
1:37:58where can I buy this stock where I'm
1:38:00taking the least amount of risk possible
1:38:02and the answer is by waiting for a
1:38:03pullback so it pulls back and then as it
1:38:06rallies higher you get that extension
1:38:08into the move as Traders continue to buy
1:38:11a stock that it's just moving super fast
1:38:14all right so let's look at another one
1:38:16here uh in this example we've got high
1:38:18volume green candles nice we've got a
1:38:21red candle what do we think is going to
1:38:22happen next probably a little bit of a
1:38:23pullback right so we get a little
1:38:25pullback here we dip down light volume
1:38:27pullback and then it rallies back up
1:38:29this is a nice looking trade there's
1:38:31nothing to complain about here this is a
1:38:33trade that I want to take every single
1:38:35day and this is a trade that's going to
1:38:37work the best when it's occurring on a
1:38:40stock that meets all five criteria for
1:38:42stock selection stocks that are obvious
1:38:45are the ones that trade the best so if
1:38:47we look at um wkey and this is a stock
1:38:51that I did trade and did quite well on I
1:38:53finished the day up about
1:38:55$116,000 um it's a stock that is the
1:38:58number one leading percentage gainer in
1:39:00the entire Market it is the most obvious
1:39:04stock so the days I do the best are when
1:39:07we have a stock like this that is super
1:39:10obvious it's got a ton of volume
1:39:13everyone's focused on it and there's a
1:39:15ton of exuberance people are just
1:39:16excited this thing is strong it's got
1:39:19great news and it just keeps going
1:39:20higher and I mean I've seen stocks go up
1:39:23a th% in one day it's it's insane how
1:39:26high they can go when you've got a
1:39:28really good Catalyst and you've got that
1:39:30imbalance between supply and demand
1:39:32which comes from a good Catalyst with on
1:39:35a stock that has a relatively low float
1:39:38all right so let's see um so when it
1:39:40comes to finding the trades I'm using
1:39:42the scanners to find the stock that's
1:39:44moving higher right and then I'm doing
1:39:47my D diligence pulling up the chart to
1:39:49perform my technical analysis and it's
1:39:51really it like I don't want to make it
1:39:54like oversimplified but at the same time
1:39:56keeping it simple is important trade the
1:39:58right stocks and trade just the patterns
Where to Buy & Sell as a Day Trader
1:40:01that have the highest probability of
1:40:07working so now you've got to know where
1:40:09to actually buy and sell and and how to
1:40:11execute that trade so I want to show you
1:40:14using um this platform right here how I
1:40:17actually set up my orders and take trade
1:40:20this is a day where I made
1:40:2298,6 $54.39 and if I haven't said it
1:40:26already I want you to know that my
1:40:27results are not typical I have been
1:40:29doing this for a very long time I don't
1:40:31show this to you because I want you to
1:40:32assume that you're going to be able to
1:40:34do the same thing it's important that
1:40:35you know that I'm credible and that this
1:40:37is real money but but more important for
1:40:41you is that you focus on building your
1:40:44own track record and that you know that
1:40:47this is a strategy that other people are
1:40:50trading it's a real strategy it does
1:40:52work for other people it's not a
1:40:53guarantee it's going to work for you
1:40:55I'll give you the rules of the strategy
1:40:56but remember you've got to follow the
1:40:59rules right that's the most important
1:41:00thing all right so let me show you how I
1:41:03actually execute these trades and
1:41:05whether you're using thinker swim or
1:41:06you're using Weeble you're using the
1:41:08warrior trading Sim or perhaps you're
1:41:09using a different broker this is going
1:41:11to translate to pretty much all of them
1:41:13because the the buttons are more or less
1:41:15the same the they might be located
1:41:16slightly different places but the
1:41:18features are the same so number one um
1:41:22there are different types of orders that
1:41:23you can use to buy and sell stocks so we
1:41:27have Market orders and a market order
1:41:30only works from 9:30 a.m. to 400 p.m. a
1:41:33market order is when you tell your
1:41:35broker I want to buy this stock and this
1:41:38number of shares and I don't care what
1:41:41price I get filled at now you know what
1:41:43the price is so if you looked at a stock
1:41:46like this one right here you would see
1:41:47it's trading at$ 891 by 903 that's the
1:41:51current market for this stock so the
1:41:53last last price went through at $9 so
1:41:55it's $9 a share so if you press the buy
1:41:57button for a market order you would
1:41:59probably fill well not at 9 You'
1:42:01probably fill maybe at 9903 which is the
1:42:04current lowest price seller and and
1:42:06that's called the ask I'm going to show
1:42:07you how that works just a second uh but
1:42:11with a market order the problem is
1:42:13you're not telling the broker the most
1:42:15you're willing to pay and so the broker
1:42:17can take advantage of that a little bit
1:42:19so I instead like to use limit orders
1:42:22and you can use it from pre-market all
1:42:24the way through regular hours and into
1:42:26after hours with a limit order you're
1:42:28telling the broker I want to buy this
1:42:30stock but this is the most I'm willing
1:42:32to pay and so I could put a limit order
1:42:34to buy this stock at 905 and they'll get
1:42:37me shares and they'll probably get me my
1:42:38full order uh but if it goes higher than
1:42:40905 I won't pay anything higher than
1:42:42that price so I'm not going to be
1:42:44surprised to suddenly be filled at like
1:42:46947 or something kind of crazy my order
1:42:50just wouldn't fill because the price
1:42:51went above my limit so limit order is
1:42:54something that active Traders use to
1:42:57manage risk and to control how much they
1:43:00pay for a stock they're buying or how
1:43:02much they're willing to sell a stock
1:43:04that they're
1:43:04selling now between 9:30 a.m. and 400
1:43:08p.m. which is regular trading hours we
1:43:11have Market orders and we also have stop
1:43:14orders a stop order is an order that you
1:43:18put in and it will trigger if a certain
1:43:21price is hit so the way it works is if
1:43:24you were if you owned a stock let's say
1:43:26you own this at
1:43:28$920 and you put a stop order at
1:43:32$8.75 if the stock comes down to$ 875
1:43:36the second it it trades at 875 your stop
1:43:40order will execute because the price of
1:43:43your stop order was hit and what that
1:43:45will do is it'll immediately sell your
1:43:47full position it's gone you're you're
1:43:50out and Traders like to use stock orders
1:43:53to manage their risk so you can get into
1:43:55a trade and say I'm going to buy at $9
1:43:57and set my stop at 975 or whatever price
1:43:59you want and then if the price goes down
1:44:01to that level you're out of the trade
1:44:03just like that and while that that's
1:44:05nice there is a problem Brokers can see
1:44:09where your stop orders are and it is
1:44:12known well known that Brokers will
1:44:14engage and market makers will engage in
1:44:16stop hunting where they'll actually try
1:44:18to move the stock price down to get
1:44:21people to stop out so they can buy their
1:44:23shares at a low price and then let the
1:44:25stock rally back up that is frustrating
1:44:29and that feels unfair but these big
1:44:31institutions can subscribe to that level
1:44:34of data we as retail Traders cannot so I
1:44:37can't see where other people's stop
1:44:39orders are but the market makers can now
1:44:42currently you can't use stop orders
1:44:44pre-market and you can't use them after
1:44:46hours and I actually do a lot of trading
1:44:48during the pre-market session so let's
1:44:51jump onto the Whiteboard here and and
1:44:53just make sure we're all on the same
1:44:55page about the hours of trading SO
1:44:58trading begins at 4:00 a.m. eastern
1:45:01standard time it's then pre-market until
1:45:059:30 a.m. which is when uh the official
1:45:09Bell Rings 400 p.m. is the closing bell
1:45:12and then 800 p.m. is the end of after
1:45:16hours trading extended hours now there
1:45:18are some Brokers that allow 24-hour
1:45:20trading in certain securities butr
1:45:22currently 24-hour trading is not
1:45:24particularly popular for momentum
1:45:27Traders because volatility is limited in
1:45:29fact they don't allow trading on stocks
1:45:32that exceed certain volatility
1:45:33parameters so most Traders right now
1:45:36would not trade during the 24-hour
1:45:38market we're only trading during um from
1:45:41as early as pre-market until as late as
1:45:43800m but within this
1:45:46window most retail Brokers like thinker
1:45:49swim don't allow trading before 7 a.m.
1:45:52so what we see with volume is there's a
1:45:54little volume early and then all of a
1:45:57sudden at 7:00 a.m. there's a lot of
1:45:58volume and then at 9:30 there's even
1:46:01more volume and then it kind of goes
1:46:03down and then at 400 p.m. there can be a
1:46:06little burst if there's a stock that
1:46:08maybe has breaking news after hours
1:46:10which sometimes happens and then it just
1:46:12kind of dwindles until 800m so the
1:46:15windows right now that I find the safest
1:46:17to trade is actually right in here so I
1:46:20kind of trade from 7:00 a.m. until about
1:46:2310: a.m. and that's where I can
1:46:25capitalize on what is Peak volatility
1:46:27and Peak liquidity I can get in and out
1:46:30easily there's good volume in the market
1:46:32now when I am in Europe and I I do
1:46:34travel quite a bit I will sometimes
1:46:36start at 4:00 a.m. because I just will
1:46:39sit down it's early in the day there and
1:46:41I I can but I don't do that when I'm on
1:46:43the East Coast um when I'm on the west
1:46:47coast I just wake up early I don't trade
1:46:50later in the day I don't find that that
1:46:52is particularly profitable for me so the
1:46:54worst time zone for me is being in like
1:46:56Hawaii or uh Japan just because of the
1:47:00the time zone but I know that there's a
1:47:02lot of traders that are on those time
1:47:03zones and they they make it work so um
1:47:06so that's that so that's sort of our
1:47:09Market hours now the reason I brought
1:47:10that up was to make sure number one
1:47:12we're all on the same page with Market
1:47:13hours but number two um so that you know
1:47:17that from 9:30 a.m. till 400 p.m. we
1:47:20have what um stop orders so we have stop
1:47:23orders we have Market
1:47:26orders and we have
1:47:28halts so at the beginning earlier in the
1:47:30class I mentioned circuit breaker halts
1:47:33so I'm going to talk about this for a
1:47:34second we don't have um circuit breaker
1:47:37halts before 9:30 we don't have them
1:47:39after so that's this window so that
1:47:41means between 4:00 a.m. and 9:30 and 400
1:47:44p.m. and 8:00 p.m. limit orders only so
1:47:48limit only no
1:47:51stops and no halts
1:47:54and also no options there's no options
1:47:57trading early and no options trading so
1:47:59now you have options and I'm not trading
1:48:01options but then and then this is the
1:48:03same as here so just double that okay so
1:48:06what are halts so in order to prevent
1:48:09flash crashes in the market we have
1:48:12these mechanisms called circuit breaker
1:48:14halts and what a circuit breaker halt
1:48:16will do is it'll pause trading in a
1:48:18security that trades outside a standard
1:48:21deviation there's a range that it can
1:48:23trade and that's fine it can be volatile
1:48:26but if it trades outside that range all
1:48:28trading is paused for 5 minutes and no
1:48:30one can buy and no one can sell this
1:48:32happened a lot in 2021 when Gamestop
1:48:35went up like you know all the way to
1:48:36$500 a share it kept getting halted and
1:48:39people were saying why is the you know
1:48:41why are The Regulators doing this is
1:48:43this the big funds what are they doing
1:48:44that they're cheating the system and
1:48:46these halts are a mechanism that have
1:48:48been around for a long time it was
1:48:50nothing that someone was doing like they
1:48:51weren't pressing a button the stock was
1:48:54exceeding a certain standard deviation
1:48:56and was automatically getting Frozen
1:48:58from trading for five minutes so this is
1:49:00the way these halts work and they are
1:49:02important to know about because they
1:49:04slow down trading during regular Market
1:49:06hours because these stocks will start
1:49:08getting halted but it doesn't exist
1:49:10pre-market it doesn't exist after hours
1:49:12which means right now we actually see
1:49:15the biggest moves between 4:00 a.m. and
1:49:199:30 and then between 4 P p.m. and 8:00
1:49:21p.m. generally there are some exceptions
1:49:23to that but typically that's what we're
1:49:25seeing so the way these halt levels work
1:49:28and actually we'll just we'll do it on
1:49:29this page or this side because I want to
1:49:31do something else on that one in a
1:49:33second so the way these halt levels work
1:49:36um is they're called circuit breaker
1:49:39halts and they're also called L LD which
1:49:41is stands for Limit Up limit down and so
1:49:45if you have a so the way it works is we
1:49:47look at the prior close so the prior
1:49:50close and let's just say um is below
1:49:5475 between 75 cents and $3 or above $3
1:49:59these are our three tiers so a stock
Circuit Breaker Halts
1:50:03that had a prior close yesterday below
1:50:0575 cents the
1:50:08bands will be uh 15 cents in all
1:50:13practical there is another threshold
1:50:15here but that doesn't generally apply so
1:50:1715 cents and then the bands here for a
1:50:20stock between 75 cents and $3 are 20%
1:50:24and the bans for stocks above $3
1:50:2610% from the RP what's the RP reference
1:50:31price so if this stock goes up 15 cents
1:50:35from the reference price then it'll be
1:50:37halted for a period of a minimum of 5
1:50:40minutes so the reference price is
1:50:43calculated
1:50:44as RP equals average
1:50:50price over 5 5 minutes and it updates
1:50:54approximately every 30 seconds so if
1:50:57over the course of 5 minutes you had a
1:50:59stock that you know went from a dollar
1:51:02to A110
1:51:04a5120 you know well it whatever whatever
1:51:08however much it moves doesn't really
1:51:09matter the average price over the last
1:51:12five minutes is let's say a125 so in
1:51:15that case if the stock was above 75
1:51:18cents on the prior day's close it's
1:51:21going to Halt if it goes up 20% % so
1:51:25a125 plus 20% is uh 24 25 so that means
1:51:31its halt level up would be a $150 so if
1:51:34it went up to
1:51:36a150 basically instantly within like 30
1:51:39seconds or a minute it would get halted
1:51:41because if it went to $150 slowly then
1:51:44by the time it got to $150 the reference
1:51:47price will have changed right because
1:51:48the reference price will include the
1:51:50average of the last couple minutes and
1:51:51so the reference price will keep
1:51:52climbing higher and so at all times
1:51:56beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 400
1:51:58p.m. all stocks have a band around them
1:52:02and it's constantly moving up and down
1:52:05based on their reference price of the
1:52:06last five minutes and if the stock very
1:52:09quickly squeezes up to the top of that
1:52:10band trading will be paused for five
1:52:12minutes you can't buy you can't sell if
1:52:14it quickly drops to the bottom of that
1:52:15band and stays at that level it'll be
1:52:18paused for 5 minutes so it has to go to
1:52:21the bottom or top of the band hand and
1:52:23actually stay at that price for at least
1:52:2515 seconds in order for trading to be
1:52:28paused so once trading is paused nobody
1:52:31can buy and nobody can sell now I have
1:52:33scanners that will alert me when a stock
1:52:36has been halted so I can pull it up
1:52:38because often it means something just
1:52:40happened and that's actually exactly
1:52:42what happened on wkey so wkey was halted
1:52:46on um basically on on a volatility
1:52:50trading pause where the stock pretty
1:52:52much instantaneously we can look at the
1:52:5410-second chart went up um enough that
1:52:57it it was at the top of that threshold
1:52:59so this is a stock that was trading
1:53:01above $3 the previous day so the halt
1:53:04level was 10% so the average price must
1:53:07have been you know around 330 uh 340 and
1:53:11it went straight up to 370 and was
1:53:13halted so it went up about 30 cents is
1:53:16was halted at 370 I saw it was halted I
1:53:19pulled up the scans to try to figure out
1:53:21what the story was I saw that there was
1:53:24news with SpaceX and as soon as it
1:53:25resumed trading it squeezed up here to
1:53:27520 and then it halted a second time but
1:53:30you might look at this chart and say
1:53:31wait a second I thought when a candle
1:53:34closes it usually opens at the same
1:53:35price and then goes and you're right
1:53:38that is typically what happens but when
1:53:40a stock halts and stops trading while
1:53:43the stock is halted you know what's
1:53:45happening behind the scenes there's an
1:53:47auction going on and so behind the
1:53:50scenes while the stock is halted there
1:53:51are people saying I want to buy this and
1:53:54there's other people saying I want to
1:53:55sell this so the stock halted initially
1:53:58at 370 but while it was halted people
1:54:01who had a sell order at 375 and you know
1:54:04390 and 415 whatever they realized wait
1:54:09a second this stock is halted and it's
1:54:11on good news I'm canceling my sell order
1:54:14and there were people that had buy
1:54:15orders at 370 and they're like oh shoot
1:54:17I didn't get in I'll put the order at 4
1:54:19screw it I I'll get in you know what 4
1:54:2145 425 I don't care someone else is
1:54:24saying I'll put it higher I'm going to
1:54:26jump above you I'm going to put it at
1:54:27455 I'm going to put mine at 485 and all
1:54:30of a sudden there's people clamoring to
1:54:32buy and so behind the scenes during the
1:54:34halt there's an auction going on where
1:54:37buyers are lining up and sellers are
1:54:39lining up and if a stock is halted going
1:54:42up and the news is good then typically
1:54:44it opens at a higher price so it ended
1:54:47up opening all the way up at um $4 and
1:54:5285 cent no
1:54:54$465 it dipped down for a moment and
1:54:56then ripped up to five now I saw the
1:54:59news and I actually bought it at 497 uh
1:55:02I knew the news was good and I liked the
1:55:04trade and I took the risk and bought it
1:55:06at 497 this is a little bit more of a
1:55:07complex trade uh like Annie Duke's
1:55:10brother might have said not a trade for
1:55:12beginners but a trade that I would have
1:55:14been comfortable with with my level of
1:55:15experience so it ends up opening going
1:55:17up to a high of 640 so it halts and then
1:55:20during the same thing happens again
1:55:21you've got a halt and during during the
1:55:22time it's halted there's an auction
1:55:24people are buying it pressing the buy
1:55:26button to get in and it opens at a
1:55:28higher price so the thing is if this
1:55:32news had come out pre-market there
1:55:34wouldn't have been any halts these just
1:55:35would have been green candles so you
1:55:37could have continued to trade maybe
1:55:38there would have been a pull back here
1:55:39and then another green candle higher and
1:55:42so what I've generally found is that the
1:55:45price action is typically cleaner when
1:55:48the move occurs pre-market and so we
1:55:51could look at a stock that um had a
1:55:53decent move pre-market let's see um
1:55:56wasn't perfect but it was it was decent
1:56:00so this stock here um went from 540 up
1:56:03to 596 pulled back went up to 650 so
1:56:08that's certainly far more than 10% and
1:56:11there was no halts because it was
1:56:13pre-market so not a perfect chart but
1:56:15just as an example so pre-market we
1:56:18don't have any halts and that does make
1:56:20it appealing what's also appealing about
1:56:22trading premarket is that as a
1:56:25volatility Trader and a momentum Trader
1:56:27which I am and probably you will be as
1:56:29well as well if you look around at the
1:56:31other traders who are really profitable
1:56:32in the market this is more or less the
1:56:34way they
1:56:35trade stocks and companies put out
1:56:38breaking news during pre-market they
1:56:40don't usually put out news during
1:56:41regular trading hours it's kind of a
1:56:42thing where you're not really supposed
1:56:44to pre-markets okay after hours is okay
1:56:47but not so much during regular trading
1:56:48hours now that one company was an
1:56:50exception but we don't see that very
1:56:52often often so news typically comes out
1:56:55pre-market and that's when we see these
1:56:56big moves now in order to trade
1:56:59pre-market you do have to change your
1:57:01time in force on your orders so at
1:57:05thinker swim right here your day order
1:57:08has to switch to extended hours you
1:57:11could you could press the buy button for
1:57:12a day order nothing's going to happen
1:57:14it's just going to sit there so you have
1:57:15to actually switch it to extended hours
1:57:17same thing over at Weeble uh if you go
1:57:20into Weeble and you set up your hot keys
1:57:23so I go to uh hot keys right here we'll
1:57:26go to hot keys and then go to settings I
1:57:29have my hot Keys here to buy for trading
1:57:33and let's see um buy ask 5,000 shares so
1:57:39just for example so on this one um and
1:57:41actually I should change the title it's
1:57:42thousand but nonetheless the the time
1:57:45and force here you can have as good till
1:57:47cancel or day and extended hours you can
1:57:50say yes or no so you turn on extended
1:57:53hours and you actually leave it as a day
1:57:54order I know that's inconsistent with
1:57:57thinker swim but that's that's the way
1:57:58it works there and actually that's also
1:58:01true over at the platform that I use
1:58:03generally on a day-to-day basis a day
1:58:05order here does work pre-market so
1:58:08anyways um we're going to use limit
1:58:11orders I'm not going to use stop orders
1:58:13because the market makers can see them
1:58:14so I'm going to use limit orders no
1:58:16Market orders just limit orders
1:58:18pre-market primarily trading with
1:58:20extended hours turned on if necessary
1:58:22depending on your platform and um then
1:58:24the market we can actually choose our
1:58:26destination with some platforms with um
1:58:30with thinker swim you cannot choose your
1:58:32destination because remember they route
1:58:34your order to The Venue that gives them
1:58:37the payment for order flow same thing
1:58:38with Weeble you can't choose your
1:58:40destination but at light speed you can
1:58:43so at light speed I could choose to send
1:58:45my order to NASDAQ or I could choose to
1:58:48send it to a different Market maker now
1:58:51it doesn't really matter which one I
1:58:52send it to the fact that I'm not passing
1:58:56my order through an institution who's
1:58:58going to scalp a fraction of a penny off
1:59:00my order is going to be better for me
1:59:03it's better when you're trading with
1:59:05larger size which I do when you trade
1:59:07with smaller size during your proof of
1:59:09concept phase it it doesn't make a
1:59:11difference but when you start trading
1:59:12bigger size it'll make a bigger
1:59:14difference so I choose my symbol I enter
1:59:17the shares I can choose the price I
1:59:19could choose the market it's a limit
1:59:21order
1:59:22um this you don't really have to worry
1:59:24about right now certainly a small size
1:59:26um the time and force and then I can
1:59:28just click the buy button or click the
1:59:29sell button now of course if I want to
1:59:32take that a step further I will actually
1:59:35create a hotkey to do that but I'll
1:59:36teach you how to do that in just a
1:59:38moment so the first depth of the market
1:59:41is called level one of Market data level
1:59:43one market data is the first row right
1:59:46here that's in green so this tells you
1:59:49the bid on the left which are the B
1:59:52buyers these are the people bidding on
1:59:53the stock they want to buy but they're
1:59:56only willing to pay up to the highest
1:59:58price so the highest price bidder right
2:00:00now is 8.91 and the lowest price seller
2:00:03on the offer they're on the offer
2:00:06they're offering shares for sale or
2:00:08they're asking shares for the sale price
2:00:11so they're on the offer also called the
2:00:12ask is
2:00:14903 now if you wanted to buy right now
2:00:18you could just buy from this person
2:00:19selling at 903 and that's typically what
2:00:21I do I say I want to buy right now and
2:00:23I'm just going to go ahead and buy from
2:00:24the person that's selling or if I want
2:00:26to sell I just sell to the person who's
2:00:28buying but other Traders might put their
2:00:30orders here and let it sit and that's
2:00:33fine but that's not typically what I'm
2:00:34going to do especially during a time of
2:00:36peak volatility because if I wait and
2:00:38wait and wait I just won't get filled on
2:00:40my order at all and then that's not
2:00:41going to work so we've got the bid we've
2:00:44got the ask and the spread is the
2:00:46difference between the two prices so
2:00:48right now we've got a 12 cent spread
2:00:508.91 to 903
2:00:52ARA bats edx NASDAQ these are the broke
2:00:55these are the actual market makers or
2:00:58the ecn that are on that are uh that are
2:01:01sending the order to the market so this
2:01:04is kind of like an island and each one
2:01:06of these different um institutions are
2:01:08the ones that are actually um sending
2:01:12the order to the market sort of on
2:01:14behalf of the client that's the number
2:01:16of shares that are being bought or sold
2:01:18or offered or to or to buy and and you
2:01:22always add two zeros so instead of
2:01:23saying um 20 shares it's actually 2,000
2:01:27shares they just abbreviate it just to
2:01:29make it easier to read so one is not one
2:01:31share it's 100 shares and that's level
2:01:34one market data now what I use is level
2:01:37two Market data which is why you can see
2:01:39all this extra data so this is level two
2:01:42data and level two shows you the depth
2:01:44of the market what's helpful here is
2:01:46that you can see if there's a big seller
2:01:49lined up on the offer if there's a big
2:01:51seller you could see the big seller you
2:01:53could see like 100,000 shares you could
2:01:55see it right there if there was a big
2:01:57buyer you could see there's a big buyer
2:01:59so you could see it as plain as day big
2:02:00buyers and big Sellers and I find that
2:02:02really helpful and what you can also see
2:02:04is the L Limit Up limit down price now
2:02:10let's go back to let's just jump back
2:02:12one
2:02:13second all the way so we're on slide 99
2:02:16so we're going to go all the way back up
2:02:18here to this slide 65
2:02:22do you remember when I said halt levels
2:02:24halt levels thinker swim does not
2:02:26display that lld quote Weeble will
2:02:30display it but not on the simulator only
2:02:33when you pay the N9 $9.99 and are
2:02:36trading with the real money Warrior
2:02:39trading Sim does display it and the
2:02:41resumption quotes thinker swim does not
2:02:43display it but Weeble does and Warrior
2:02:45trading does so remember when we talked
2:02:47about how this stock was halted at 370
2:02:50but resumed it it was 365 or sorry
2:02:53465 so while it was halted at thinker
2:02:56swim you just saw 370 as the the last
2:02:58price traded but what I saw was that the
2:03:01current bidding the current market is
2:03:04pricing a 465 resumption that's the
2:03:08resumption price wouldn't it be
2:03:09important to have that data I think it
2:03:12is I think it's critically important to
2:03:13have that data and that's why the
2:03:15Thinker swim uh platform as a simulator
2:03:17isn't really great and even for real
2:03:19money it's kind of lacking the data that
2:03:21I think is important for retail Traders
2:03:23especially if you're trying to trade the
2:03:24way I'm trading so Weeble is okay um
2:03:27except you have to fund an account with
2:03:28real money and the warrior trading Sim
2:03:31is good as well some people will use the
2:03:33warrior trading SIM for data but they'll
2:03:36trade on thinker swim so I mean that's
2:03:39fine if you want to do that um it's how
2:03:41you know whatever works for you is fine
2:03:43so what's helpful about the level two is
2:03:46when I first pull up a stock I can see
2:03:48how many buyers there are I can see how
2:03:51close they are to the current price
2:03:53sometimes they're 1 cent away we have
2:03:558.91 890 but then it goes down to 886
2:03:588862
How to Read Level 2
2:04:00856 sometimes they are spread out like
2:04:02that a little bit more same on the ask
2:04:04side 9003 9004 then 911 917 920 947 so
2:04:09now you could see if 10,000 shares of
2:04:11volume went through this might actually
2:04:12go all the way up to 947 because there's
2:04:14not a lot of sellers here so this is a
2:04:16stock that could potentially move fairly
2:04:19quickly and so I can understand how fast
2:04:22a stock will move in part by looking at
2:04:26the actual chart because that gives me
2:04:28the historical context right so if we
2:04:30see this pullback forming I could think
2:04:32okay we're looking for the first candle
2:04:34to make a new high and a retest a high a
2:04:35day but then I can also look at the
2:04:37level two and recognize oh you know this
2:04:40is a stock that is more thinly traded
2:04:43and a more thinly traded stock can move
2:04:46very quickly so then that gets me a
2:04:48little more
2:04:48excited right next to the level two is
2:04:51this little window here which is the
2:04:53time and sales the time and sales is a
2:04:56record of every transaction that has
2:04:58been placed green are orders that occur
2:05:01at the ask price red are orders that
2:05:04occur at the bid price and white are
2:05:07orders that occur in between the spread
2:05:11and so I constantly am looking at the
2:05:13level two and the time in sales to watch
2:05:15the order flow and this is called tape
2:05:18reading I usually have my eye right here
2:05:20on the ask I glance at the bid to see
2:05:23how big the spread is and to see if
2:05:24there's any big buyers I glance at the
2:05:27off at the time in sales to see the
2:05:29burst of green or the burst of red but I
2:05:31mostly Focus right here on the ask price
2:05:34that's where my eye tends to be now I
2:05:36don't take a trade without first looking
2:05:38at the chart but if I first pull up the
2:05:41chart and I like the chart then I'm
2:05:43looking for my entry and once I take my
2:05:45entry from that point I glance at the
2:05:48chart but I'm really looking at the
2:05:50level two remember the the chart is
2:05:53formed from orders that go through so
2:05:56the orders that are going through are
2:05:58right here the orders that are about to
2:05:59go through are showing right here they
2:06:02haven't gone through yet but they're
2:06:03sitting there on the market so if I'm
2:06:06looking at a chart and I think it has
2:06:07the potential to make a big move but
2:06:10based on the chart pattern right we see
2:06:12our our picture perfect chart pattern
2:06:15and just to reiterate it's going to be a
2:06:17pattern where we've got that first green
2:06:20candle second green candle third green
2:06:22candle we had a little red candle a
2:06:23little red candle and now right here
2:06:25we're at this moment we're looking for
2:06:27that first candle to make a new high and
2:06:28then a move higher but we pull up the
2:06:31level two and what do we see right here
2:06:33is a
2:06:35250,000 share sell order so now this is
2:06:40kind of interesting even though the
2:06:41chart may have said the pattern looks
2:06:43good when I actually look at the real
2:06:46orders they're sitting on the book
2:06:49there's such a large sell order that I
2:06:52now know that that chart will never do
2:06:54what I thought it might have done that
2:06:56data is telling me it's not going to
2:06:58happen so I need to see that data
2:07:00because that can help me make my
2:07:01prediction of where this stock is going
2:07:03to go now when it comes to actually
2:07:06taking the trade I can point and click
2:07:08which is what most people would do at
2:07:10think or swim at think or Swim because
2:07:11they have very limited um hot Keys
2:07:14available you mostly buy through point
2:07:16and click Buy Ask sell bid that's it but
2:07:20you have to type in the the shares that
2:07:22you want to buy manually so if you buy
2:07:24twice you buy 50 shares and then 50
2:07:26shares you want to sell 100 you've got
2:07:27to come in here and change it to 100 or
2:07:30sell 50 twice so they do have some hot
2:07:34keys under application settings but
2:07:35they're very basic and and they to me
2:07:39are not adequate uh Weeble is better
2:07:42Weeble does have really nice hotkeys
2:07:44that you can set up pretty much the same
2:07:46with thinker swim and with Weeble you
2:07:48can also um use buttons so you can go on
2:07:51under even if you're under paper trading
2:07:53but un real money too you can use these
2:07:56buttons so you can click a button buy
2:07:57market sell bid and that's fine um
2:08:01there's nothing wrong with that what I
2:08:02tend to do is this is not moving what I
2:08:07tend to do is I like to I like to enter
2:08:11my orders to buy down here in my order
2:08:13entry window so I type in the shares I
2:08:16type in the price I'm willing to pay and
2:08:18then I keep my hand my mouse right here
2:08:20and then I just click the buy button the
2:08:22moment that I kind of feel like I'm
2:08:24ready to buy and usually I buy just
2:08:27after I see a big buy order go through
2:08:30on the time in sales because that tells
2:08:32me someone else is starting to to jump
2:08:34so I kind of wait for someone else to
2:08:35jump and then I I follow usually I'm
2:08:37sort of like I I wait to see like are
2:08:40other people liking this and then if I
2:08:41see buying I'm like okay people like it
2:08:44I thought so and I'm now I'm sure of it
2:08:46I don't like to usually be the first
2:08:47because maybe I'm wrong it depends on
2:08:49how confident I am on the stock but
2:08:50anyways
2:08:52so I like to enter my order in this
2:08:53order entry window and then just click
2:08:55the buy button and I might click it two
2:08:56or three times to go up to you know a
2:08:59starter position up to a half size and
2:09:01then up to full size but I don't like to
2:09:03sell right here I find it too clumsy to
2:09:06come over here and sell and so what I
2:09:08like to do for selling is I like to use
2:09:09my hotkeys so that's where in a platform
2:09:13like Weeble or like light speed or like
2:09:15the warrior trading Sim you can actually
2:09:17go in and you can create your own custom
2:09:20hotkeys so under um go to settings under
2:09:23hotkeys here for trading you can go
2:09:26hotkey settings and then you can create
2:09:28click the plus button right here to
2:09:30create your own hotkey so you could say
2:09:33buy 2,000 shares we had to do this
2:09:35anyways so it's going to be a buy button
2:09:37going to create it's going to be a
2:09:38single order a limit order it's going to
2:09:41be quantity 2,000 shares based on I'm
2:09:44going to do ask price and I'm going to
2:09:46give it a little offset I'm going to say
2:09:48I'm willing to pay 10 cents above the
2:09:50ask if the stock is moving nicely time
2:09:53and force it's a day order that's fine
2:09:55extended hours yep turn it on hotkey
2:09:57let's make it shift two I've already
2:09:59used something on shift two let's
2:10:01replace it boom shift two is done all
2:10:03right we just created a hot key now all
2:10:05I have to do is press shift two on my
2:10:07keyboard and we're done shift two and
2:10:10I'm in the trade just like that 2,000
2:10:12shares instant now I may want to go and
2:10:15turn off my uh notifications so I'd have
2:10:18to turn off my order canceled order
2:10:20modified not notifications and I think
2:10:23they have a confirmation here um that I
2:10:25have to turn off as well order
2:10:27preferences so I turn off the order
2:10:29confirmations and then with that turned
2:10:31off I can be jumping in and out of
2:10:33stocks with the click of a button buying
2:10:36and selling I want to be a little
2:10:37complicated I want to do an order to
2:10:39sell half so we go into the hot Keys we
2:10:42go into the settings again we say New
2:10:44Order we're going to do a sell half at
2:10:48the ask price let's be a little
2:10:49aggressive sell half at the ask price so
2:10:53I'm going to change the quantity to
2:10:55percentage I'm going to change it to
2:10:5750% ask price no offset yes extended
2:11:01hours script it to a hotkey and then
2:11:03just like that you're done so now you
2:11:05can easily create these hotkeys and the
2:11:07only ones that I think are really
2:11:08necessary for a beginner is the buy um
2:11:11the sell and the cancel orders so this
2:11:13is what I do uh and this is what I did
2:11:16when I was getting started I took a
2:11:18little note little sticky pad just like
2:11:20this
2:11:22and I said all right so this is going to
2:11:24be um
2:11:281K so this is going to be a buy order
2:11:30for 1,000 shares I cut it kind of like
2:11:32that I use scissors you know make it
2:11:34look nice take a little piece of tape
2:11:36it's already sticky but I'll put a
2:11:37little Scotch tape over it and that's my
2:11:391,000 share button to buy and maybe I'd
2:11:42make it with a green sticky note and
2:11:43then this is um sell half so then I got
2:11:48a button for selling half so we're going
2:11:50to take that and we're going to put that
2:11:51over here now you could put it wherever
2:11:53you want I put mine over here just easy
2:11:56and then you do a button for cancel so
2:12:00the Q button will be cancel all cancel
2:12:03all orders so now I put a couple of
2:12:06these on my keyboard shift one buying
2:12:09control um control is always selling so
2:12:12contrl z contrl x contrl c sell sell
2:12:15sell half full quarter sell half full
2:12:19quarter on the ask control Q cancel all
2:12:23orders right all of a sudden now I'm
2:12:25empowered that as quickly as I could
2:12:27type I could pull up a symbol and I
2:12:29could shift one shift two shift three
2:12:30boom I'm in out of a stock so that is
2:12:33what I absolutely love you can't do it
2:12:35with um with thinker swim unless you use
2:12:37a third party integration there's a
2:12:40platform kind of like Weeble that you
2:12:42can subscribe to that's about $175 a
2:12:45month and you can link it to your
2:12:46thinker swim account it's called Das
2:12:49Trader Das uh t r a d r so DH Trader is
2:12:54software that people will use to execute
2:12:55orders through Charles Schwab so they
2:12:57don't even have to use thinker swim but
2:12:59$175 a month so Weeble you don't have to
2:13:02pay the 175 a month you just the
2:13:04platform works so I kind of like Weeble
2:13:07versus thinker swim for that reason um
2:13:10and our Warrior trading Sim gives you
2:13:11the same hotkey
2:13:13functionality okay so now you're
2:13:15prepared to move in and out pretty darn
2:13:18quickly so I like to buy that first
2:13:21screen candle after a pullback we get
2:13:23the squeeze up we get the dip I can
2:13:25enter my order in the order entry window
2:13:27or I can just press shift one and jump
2:13:29in the second I'm seeing that first
2:13:31candle going green okay so now let's
2:13:34talk about kind of the combination of
2:13:37combining charting with order entry all
2:13:41right since I know I want to buy the
2:13:43first green candle I can look at the
2:13:45high of the previous candle and let's
2:13:47say it's
2:13:4995 and then I pull up the level two on
2:13:52my order entry window I get my order
2:13:54ready if I want to and I look to see is
2:13:57there a big seller here and I watch how
2:14:00the price reacts as it's approaching
2:14:02this critical level is it thinning out
2:14:04does it look like we're going to squeeze
2:14:06or is there a big seller holding it back
2:14:09if it's looking good I'm going to punch
2:14:11it I'm going to go ahead and jump right
2:14:13in so the way I have my computer set up
2:14:16here and you can kind of see this better
2:14:18uh on the camera is this this is
2:14:20actually all powered by a desktop I've
2:14:22got nine monitors here um well this is a
2:14:25laptop it's actually just its own
2:14:26computer but anyways um I have this set
2:14:30up so one monitor is my trading screen
2:14:33and that's this monitor right here it's
2:14:35my main monitor almost like my laptop
2:14:38screen so that's my trading screen where
2:14:40I've got my level two windows and my
2:14:42order entry windows and I usually have
2:14:44them up for four stocks so I can watch
2:14:47up to four stocks at the same time I
2:14:49then have my warrior trading chat room
2:14:51room right here with one scanner from
2:14:53day trade Dash and then up on my first
2:14:57monitor here I have two stocks that I'm
2:14:59watching one and two remember that
2:15:02there's four charts because each stock
2:15:04has a 10sec 1 minute 5 minute and daily
2:15:07chart so stock number one is right here
2:15:09stock number two is right here or you
2:15:11could do it vice versa doesn't matter
2:15:14and then this is the monitor that you
2:15:15guys can see when I'm uh screen sharing
2:15:17for warrior Pro members you see my p&l
2:15:20windows you can always see what
2:15:21positions I'm in and you can see the
2:15:23chart where I'm doing my technical
2:15:24analysis and dictating kind of talking
2:15:26like all right guys this is what I'm
2:15:27looking at give you my commentary um of
2:15:30the the stock I'm currently trading so
2:15:32this is the stock I'm focusing on that
2:15:34one's kind of zoomed in I've got the
2:15:35news feed I've got my scanners here and
2:15:38then I've got my my layout so for me
2:15:40three monitors is kind of the the the
2:15:43the perfect number um obviously I have
2:15:46more monitors right here I do sort of
2:15:48stretch out when I'm at home I've got a
2:15:51fourth one right here so this has I've
2:15:53got uh one two stocks and then three
2:15:56four so I can watch a couple more right
2:15:58up here um and then over here I have
2:16:00YouTube uh these are monitors you can't
2:16:02see from this view but I have my the
2:16:04YouTube channel up here so I can check
2:16:05comments and then I've got emails here
2:16:07and then I've got my streaming settings
2:16:09and my um audio video mixer like right
2:16:11here so these are more kind of like
2:16:13other stuff but this is more my trading
2:16:16area and then this one up here when I'm
2:16:18doing a Weeble challenge or a thinker
2:16:20swim challenge you know I'll have that
2:16:22platform up there and kind of jump up
2:16:24and down between the two so this is to
2:16:27me an ideal setup and look I mean it
2:16:30cost some money to set this up but
2:16:34there's some tax benefits that you can
2:16:35get here this is all equipment this is
2:16:38your overhead these are reasonable and
2:16:40necessary purchases that you made in
2:16:43order to make money as a Trader because
2:16:44day trading can be a small business
2:16:50all right step seven Max loss and profit
2:16:53targets it is critical for Traders from
2:16:55beginner to experience to cap losses
2:16:58while still allowing the winning trades
2:17:01to reach their full potential so setting
2:17:03a Max loss on each trade and on each day
2:17:06is mandatory profit targets are
2:17:09calculated as two times the amount that
2:17:11was at risk and the amount that is at
2:17:13risk is the difference between the entry
2:17:15to the max loss so just to be clear if
2:17:18you buy a stock at $3 share some people
2:17:21would say all right I'm in at $3 a share
2:17:25times 1,000 shares equals
2:17:29$3,000 and some would say okay I've got
2:17:31$3,000 at risk that means I need to make
2:17:336,000 on this trade needs to go up to $6
2:17:36no that's not realistic you're not
2:17:38really risking 3,000 yes you're putting
2:17:41$33,000 of capital into this trade but
2:17:43you now own a stock at $3 a share so
2:17:46what you're really risking is the
2:17:47difference between your entry and where
2:17:48you would sell it for a loss let's let's
2:17:51say that's $275 that's minus
2:17:53$250 so that's how much you're actually
2:17:56risking can you make now a move up to
2:17:59350 that would be your 2:1 profit to
2:18:02loss ratio and even that's you know
2:18:04that's kind of a big stop for a lower
2:18:06price stock but just as a better example
2:18:09this is the way I think of risk and
2:18:10reward and this is the way most Traders
2:18:12think of it now I know traders who do
2:18:15option trading and are buying you know
2:18:17the stock the options that are expiring
2:18:19today will think of it more in total
2:18:22Capital put into the position because
2:18:24that position can expire worthless but
2:18:26that's not the case with trading small
2:18:28cap stocks I mean yes they can go down
2:18:29of course they can be volatile but you
2:18:32there's no logic in I'm going to hold
2:18:34this until it goes to zero so it
2:18:36wouldn't make sense to use your entire
2:18:38uh cost basis as your your risk on the
2:18:42trade so the way I think about it is
2:18:46when I look at the chart my stop is the
2:18:49low of the pullback right so that's what
2:18:52we know we're looking for a stock and
2:18:53this is going to be you know I just want
2:18:55to make sure we're 100% we let it pull
2:18:58back it moves back up stop is always the
2:19:00low of the pullback entry is first
2:19:02candle to make a new high profit Target
2:19:04is high of day maybe we get an extension
2:19:07higher that's obviously ideal that we
2:19:08would so this is 1x this is 1x this is
2:19:112x this would be 3x and 4x so we want to
2:19:15make sure we're keeping relatively tight
2:19:17stops right down by getting in close to
2:19:20a pullback
2:19:21instead of chasing a stock as it's
2:19:23extending away because then we're in too
2:19:25high and we can't manage our risk if we
2:19:27get in that high now I'll tell you
2:19:29something um so so there's two things as
2:19:33a beginner Trader as you as we continue
2:19:36through this class as I teach you my
2:19:38strategy and continue to learn more
2:19:39you're going to start wanting to trade
2:19:41this strategy in a simulator and you're
2:19:43going to wonder how much should I trade
2:19:45should I do be you know taking just like
2:19:47one trade a day or like should I trade a
2:19:49lot and this is what I'm going to tell
2:19:51you as a beginner Trader trade as much
2:19:53as you can because you need the
2:19:54experience you need the experience
2:19:56getting into trades getting out of them
2:19:57testing your hot Keys getting a feel for
2:20:00the relationship between level two and
2:20:02the chart and how they they work
2:20:04together so you want to trade a lot and
2:20:07during that time it's not about making
2:20:08money it's just about getting getting
2:20:10experience learning the ropes so then
2:20:14after a period of time once you start to
2:20:15feel like you're getting a little bit of
2:20:17a feel for it which could be a few a
2:20:20week it could be two weeks could be a
2:20:21couple months whatever feels right for
2:20:23you where you're like okay I'm starting
2:20:24to catch some winners this is starting
2:20:26to like click then what I'll do is I'll
2:20:29put you on a trading plan that you will
2:20:31follow and when you follow that trading
2:20:34plan the number of Trades you take and
2:20:36the strategy for When to Walk Away each
2:20:38day is going to be totally different
2:20:40from that first phase where you're just
2:20:42trying to gain a lot of experience so I
2:20:44just want you to be aware of that right
2:20:46now you don't have if you're trading in
2:20:48a simulator you don't have to follow a
2:20:50Max loss if you're trading with one
2:20:51share you just trade as much as you can
2:20:54just gain experience you're trading with
2:20:56one share we're not talking about big
2:20:57money but once you transition to making
2:21:01an attempt to go live and prove that you
2:21:04can actually be profitable in the
2:21:05simulator to justify going live that's
2:21:07when you've got to tighten it up and get
2:21:09focused on really keeping tight losses
2:21:12on trades and a Max loss on the day but
2:21:16no doubt even with one share you can
2:21:18know what your max loss is on a trade
2:21:20and you can cut that loss and you
2:21:21certainly should do that so that's
2:21:23really important just to understand that
2:21:25we're working within a context of always
2:21:28having the potential to make twice
2:21:31whatever we're risking and that means if
2:21:33we're right even just 33% of time we can
2:21:35be profitable Traders and that's awesome
2:21:37we're setting the bar in that way
2:21:38relatively
2:21:42low okay number eight let's talk about
2:21:44creating that trading plan so again if
2:21:46you have not already downloaded my small
2:21:49account Trading uh my small account
2:21:51worksheet my small account strategy
2:21:53worksheet or my trading plan the links
2:21:55are posted in the top of the comments
2:21:56and in the description so you can
2:21:57download that that will give you
2:21:59something you can print out you can take
Simple Day Trading Plan
2:22:00away today you can start implementing
2:22:02that in your trading and again always in
2:22:04the simulator first so this is the
2:22:06overview of a trading plan it has to
2:22:08have a detailed description of the
2:22:09strategy the time of day you'll trade
2:22:12the type of stocks you'll trade the
2:22:14technical setups you'll trade and the
2:22:16daily Max risk and daily profit targets
2:22:19so this is going to be all outlined for
2:22:21you based on the strategy that you're
2:22:23focusing on so if you're focusing on
2:22:25trading my strategy then you put in the
2:22:27details of my momentum strategy right in
2:22:30here so you would say I'm trading
2:22:31momentum I'm looking for stocks moving
2:22:33fast that meet the five pillars of stock
2:22:35selection between the hours of 7: a.m.
2:22:38and 10: a.m. I'm trading uh the first
2:22:41pullback and the second pullback I've
2:22:43got a daily Max loss of x a profit
2:22:45Target of X and you establish that now
2:22:48as a beginner Trader if you're trading
2:22:50in the simulator with one share then
2:22:52your daily Max loss and daily profit
2:22:54targets at that phase are not as are not
2:22:57as important those are going to come
2:22:58into play as I said when you're getting
2:23:00ready to to transition from SIM to real
2:23:03money when you're getting ready to kind
2:23:04of step it up a little bit more okay so
2:23:07this is going to be a simple trading
2:23:10plan all right so we're focusing on
2:23:12trading momentum between maybe you
2:23:15refine to the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 10:
2:23:16a.m. which is a fine sweet spot but you
2:23:18kind of choose the time that you feel
2:23:20like work well for you the type of stock
2:23:22price between 1 and 10 float of under 10
2:23:25million shares stock has to be up 25%
2:23:28with news relative volume of 10x that's
2:23:31awesome finding stocks using the
2:23:33scanners the stop stock has to be in the
2:23:35top three leading percentage gainers
2:23:37that means it's obvious and other people
2:23:38are watching it too that's important the
2:23:41setup is buying the first pullback on a
2:23:43bull flag potentially when the macd is
2:23:45positive daily Max loss and profit
2:23:48Target daily Max loss 25 bucks daily
2:23:51profit Target 25 bucks let's just say
2:23:53and this would be if you were trading
2:23:55with 100 shares with 100 shares that
2:23:59would be how I would set it your daily
2:24:00profit Target's $25 now I wouldn't say
2:24:03you should stop trading if you hit it or
2:24:04stop trading if you hit your max loss
2:24:06because the first phase is just gaining
2:24:08lots of experience but this this would
2:24:10be a sample plan and you could trade
2:24:12this way with real money and that would
2:24:13be fine too if you've already proven
2:24:15you've done it in a Sim with good
2:24:16metrics so share size would be starting
2:24:19with 50 shares and then scaling up to um
2:24:22100 shares once I'm already up over $10
2:24:25so this is a strategy that I've
2:24:27implemented where um on my first trade I
2:24:31use generally um half or quarter of full
2:24:37size on the first trade so first trade
2:24:40of the day and so now we have let's say
2:24:43first trade is winner so if the first
2:24:45trade is a winner then what I probably
2:24:48have done is made approximately
2:24:5115 to 20 cents per share with quarter
2:24:54size if it's a loser then I've lost 15
2:24:58to 20 cents with quarter size so let's
2:25:01say we're doing um we're doing the 50
2:25:03share starter so that means 50 shares
2:25:06here I would be down um $5 $10 so I'd be
2:25:09down sorry it be up $10 if it was a
2:25:11winner I'd be down $10 if it's a loser
2:25:14now because my daily goal is $25 $25 is
2:25:18a daily goal if I I made 10 on the first
2:25:23trade then on trade two I would go to
2:25:26full size because now I would say I've
2:25:28got a cushion on the day and I'm moving
2:25:30in the right direction but if I had a
2:25:32loser then on trade two I would stay at
2:25:36the same half or quarter size so
2:25:38essentially that means that I could have
2:25:40a maximum of three losers in a row and
2:25:44then I would be done for the day at you
2:25:45know $25 to $30 in the red and three
2:25:48losers in a row follows the same
2:25:50philosophy of three strikes you're out
2:25:53all right so you've got three strikes
2:25:54you're out try again it is what it is
2:25:57you had a bad day your accuracy was poor
2:25:59now if you're in the Sim then you keep
2:26:01practicing you keep gting experience but
2:26:02with real money you would say three
2:26:04strikes I'm out that's it I hit my Max
2:26:06loss I'm done I'll try again tomorrow
2:26:08and that would be the right decision if
2:26:10you have a winner on the first trade and
2:26:12then you have a winner on the second
2:26:13trade then pretty quickly you're coming
2:26:17up within the first three to four trades
2:26:19up to your daily goal
2:26:20and then you can begin to scale down to
2:26:23protect this profit and not risk giving
2:26:25it back if on the second trade you have
2:26:28a loss then because you've dipped back
2:26:31to below $10 on the day you go back down
2:26:34to quarter size so this is kind of and I
2:26:37still want to keep that so I'll just
2:26:38erase this so this is a strategy that
2:26:40I've used to help me determine whether
2:26:43or not today is going to be a red day
2:26:45and if it's going to be a red day to
2:26:47keep my size small what a lot of Traders
2:26:49do is the exact opposite they have a
2:26:52loss on their first trade and they went
2:26:53in with full size and now because
2:26:55they've taken a big loss on the second
2:26:57trade they take even bigger size to try
2:26:59to recoup the loss but the very fact
2:27:02that they had a loser on the first trade
2:27:04indicates their accuracy is a little off
2:27:05something's not right today and often
2:27:07they have two losses in a row now
2:27:08they're deep in the red they start to
2:27:10get emotional they start to get
2:27:12desperate and a third big loss and then
2:27:15they have a big red day and it's like oh
2:27:16my gosh how could I have done this
2:27:19differently and so I'm a big believer in
2:27:22kind of testing the water with that
2:27:23first trade to see if I can just get
2:27:26green can I build a cushion am I moving
2:27:28in the right direction how's my accuracy
2:27:29today how's the market today so if that
2:27:31first trade was smaller Siz as green I
2:27:34build a little cushion and then now I
2:27:36feel confident can take a second trade
2:27:38with a little more risk I'm moveing the
2:27:39right direction it's usually a winner
2:27:41right now again sometimes a loser and if
2:27:43that's the case I just bring my share
2:27:44size right back down if I can't get
2:27:47myself up towards my daily goal within
2:27:49the first few trades that by itself
2:27:52indicates today's a difficult day
2:27:53because usually within my first few
2:27:54trades I'm able to hit my daily goal and
2:27:56I'm and I'm in great shape so that's
2:27:58like the best case scenario so this is a
2:28:01strategy um of scaling into the day that
2:28:05is designed to help keep the red days
2:28:09smaller that's what it's really about is
2:28:11keeping the red days smaller now I have
2:28:13to say it's very important when you're
2:28:15getting started that you have guard
2:28:16rails on your trading um guard rails are
2:28:19kind of like TR training wheels and no
2:28:21one's going to win the Tor France with
2:28:22training wheels on but I want you to
2:28:25learn how to trade in a safe environment
2:28:27where you can prevent getting wrecked
2:28:29and so to protect yourself these guard
2:28:32rails these training wheels are very
2:28:34important so guard rails are basically
2:28:38these are your cues to walk away there's
2:28:41another book that I have here um also by
2:28:43Annie Duke called quit the power of
2:28:46knowing when to walk away and both of
2:28:48these books by her thinking in bets and
2:28:49quit are are a good read for an aspiring
2:28:51Trader because it really does help you
2:28:53think about risk and reward in in a in a
2:28:56good way so some of the guard rails that
2:28:59I think could be really helpful for a
2:29:00beginner Trader is certainly if you hit
2:29:02your max loss walking away again this is
2:29:05going to be depending on what phase
2:29:07you're in so phase
2:29:09one phase one is Sim and it's all about
2:29:14experience
2:29:16trade a lot so so just trade as much as
2:29:19you can
2:29:20phase
2:29:22two is Sim um and it's um it's like the
2:29:29trial for real money and then phase
2:29:36three is real money oops real money and
2:29:40this is where you repeat the trial that
2:29:43you just did in the Sim except with
2:29:45small size with real money so this is
2:29:48where you're doing typically 100 shares
2:29:50and then you're going to do the same 100
2:29:51shares here here you might still do 100
2:29:53shares and again if you're using thinker
2:29:55swimmer Weeble and you're just doing one
2:29:56share then that's fine you're doing one
2:29:58share and then one share but you you
2:30:00just do the same shares but here in this
2:30:02phase phase one you're just gaining a
2:30:05lot of experience so when I'm talking
2:30:06about these guard rails these are really
2:30:08for the phase two period where you're
2:30:09actually and certainly phase three where
2:30:11you're actually trying to make an effort
2:30:12at going live and making this thing work
2:30:14so if I have three losses um of x amount
2:30:17or bigger or three losses in a row I'm
2:30:19done for the day
2:30:20if I give back half of my profit on the
2:30:22day after being up more than x amount I
2:30:25walk away so if I'm like at my daily
2:30:28goal or close to it and then I give back
2:30:30half I need to walk away I just need to
2:30:32preserve the profit I want to be
2:30:34aggressive on the front side and then
2:30:36completely abandon a stock and and leave
2:30:38it alone when it fails to keep going up
2:30:40this is so important you've got to be
2:30:42just totally ruthless about saying nope
2:30:44I'm done I'm not going to look at that
2:30:46stock anymore I'm going to wait for the
2:30:47next one you've got to be able to make
2:30:50honest assessments of the market
2:30:52sentiment and an honest assessment of
2:30:54your emot emotional disposition today
2:30:57you've got to try to hold a piece until
2:30:59that Final Exit indicator and remember
2:31:01to survive till you thrive because small
2:31:03green days are good now I want to go
2:31:07back here to these exit indicators
2:31:09because um the ones that I wanted to add
2:31:12here was um number six level
2:31:16two big seller that was the one that I
2:31:20wanted to add level two big seller or
2:31:23burst of red on the time and
2:31:27sales so these are these are this is
2:31:29just one additional one that is an exit
2:31:32indicator that is not derived from the
2:31:34chart but comes on the level two but is
2:31:37just as valid um and it's very important
2:31:40to keep an eye on so I just wanted to
2:31:41make sure we add that before we forget
2:31:44all right so with your guard rails in
2:31:47place um it's important that you
2:31:50approach trading with a track record
2:31:53that you have a business plan so in
2:31:55order to be a successful Trader you
2:31:57treat it like a business and you don't
2:31:59trade real money until you've got that
2:32:01track record so this is that this is
2:32:04where in the simulator you build your
2:32:06track record and you create that proof
2:32:08of concept so phase one is about gaining
2:32:11as much experience as possible and just
2:32:12trading as much as you have time for all
2:32:15right phase two is the proof of concept
2:32:17phase so in phase two this is what I'll
2:32:20have you do I want you to take one trade
2:32:22a day for 10 days and the goal is that
2:32:25by focusing on just taking one trade a
2:32:27day you're going to focus on the highest
2:32:29quality setup remember we're going back
2:32:31to the beginning of that positive
2:32:33feedback loop which started with what
2:32:36accuracy right so focus on the best
2:32:38setup high accuracy I want to see that
2:32:41in turn create a good profit loss ratio
2:32:43and create nice calendar of consistency
2:32:46so over those 10 trades those 10 days
2:32:48what I would want to see is that that
2:32:49you're green on at least five out of out
2:32:52of five of them five out of 10 of them
2:32:54now ideally you could be higher like six
2:32:56or seven but five is okay as long as
2:32:58you've got a good profit loss ratio
2:33:00where your losers are small and your
2:33:02winners are bigger you'll be profitable
2:33:04I would then look at your metrics at
2:33:06what total profitability your average
2:33:08winners your average losers and your um
2:33:12uh let's see so and your accuracy sorry
2:33:14so and your accuracy these are the key
2:33:16metrics I would look at on those 10
2:33:19trades and then could also get dialed in
2:33:21on the actual price of the stocks you
2:33:22trading time a day and things like that
2:33:25so the reason to focus on one trade a
2:33:28day for these first 10 days is because
2:33:31so many beginner Traders when they go
2:33:33live they end up having a loss and then
2:33:36overtrading and I want to prevent that
2:33:38from happening so we prevent it from
2:33:41happening by only allowing you to take
2:33:42one trade a day and so you do this phase
2:33:45two and this is all in the simulator
2:33:46taking one trade a day the positive
2:33:49result six winners or more that's great
2:33:51accuracy 60% net profit from those 10
2:33:54trades good profit loss ratio a negative
2:33:57result would be you know four five I
2:33:59mean again like I said it it a negative
2:34:02profit loss ratio is going to be a
2:34:04problem that's the biggest one lower
2:34:05accuracy not ideal and if you're n
2:34:08negative if you're negative then clearly
2:34:09what you're doing is not working so if
2:34:12you have a good result on phase two
2:34:14proof of concept you have 10 days where
2:34:17you create a 10-day streak you have
2:34:19profit over those 10 days then you go
2:34:22into phase three these are students who
2:34:24sent me their calendar of doing the
2:34:25phase one uh one trade to-day Challenge
2:34:28and this is what I want to see you don't
2:34:29have to trade every day but I want to
2:34:31see you try to get 10 10 trades and if
2:34:34it's you have a couple Green Day a
2:34:35couple red days that's okay but I want
2:34:37generally to see that you're pretty
2:34:39consistent so some traders who trade a
2:34:41little bit less that's okay you want to
2:34:43try to find at least one trade a day
2:34:46this is good this person did take a
2:34:49little bit of
2:34:50um you know artistic license and traded
2:34:53a two day two trades three trades a
2:34:55little bit more frequently which U this
2:34:57one this student was a little bit more
2:34:58disciplined with one trade a day for
2:35:00most days so this is generally what I
2:35:03would want to see a calendar like this
2:35:0510 days and if you do it for 20 days
2:35:07that's fine too that would be a full
2:35:09month there's five five trading days in
2:35:10a week so 20 trading days in a month you
2:35:12could do it for at least two weeks but
2:35:14for a month it's fine and prove that you
2:35:16know what you're doing that you can
2:35:17produce good metrics if you can do this
2:35:20it's time to transition to real money
2:35:22and phase three is just repeating phase
2:35:25two except with real money you do the
2:35:28same share size you do the same type of
2:35:30setups you change nothing you make the
2:35:32transition as seamless and POS as
2:35:34possible you almost try to trick
2:35:35yourself as if you haven't done anything
2:35:37differently you just stay exactly
2:35:39focused on what you've been doing if you
2:35:41do that successfully for 10 days now you
2:35:44are ready to begin scaling up
2:35:51so step nine when to scale up if you've
2:35:54been following this trading plan you've
2:35:56gone through phase one phase two phase
2:35:58three then you're trading with real
Scaling Up Your Trading Strategy
2:36:00money now you're at a place where you're
2:36:02like building confidence you're feeling
2:36:04good you've done it with 100 shares now
2:36:07you're going to 150 you go you do that
2:36:09for 10 days you go to uh 200 you do that
2:36:11for 10 days you go to 250 you go to 300
2:36:14and there will be a point where you'll
2:36:16have to make a decision of do I keep
2:36:19increasing share size or do I stay at
2:36:23this share size and now go to two trades
2:36:25a day and I go to three trades a day and
2:36:28so there's different ways that you can
2:36:30slice it my feeling is that because it's
2:36:32such a slippery slope from taking one
2:36:35trade a day to suddenly taking 20 trades
2:36:38on a red day and just spiraling it's
2:36:40better to build that early track record
2:36:43of consistency with one trade a day and
2:36:46here's the way I would do it I would
2:36:47trade one trade a day
2:36:50so one trade a day slowly slowly slowly
2:36:53you start here with 100 shares then
2:36:54eventually go to 200 you go to 300 you
2:36:57know you get to 600 you get to a th000
2:36:59you get to 2,000 so you start getting a
2:37:01little bit more profit but at some point
2:37:03in here you are going to have a a little
2:37:05bit of a a red streak you're going to
2:37:08have some losses and so when you have
2:37:09that first loss period and then you
2:37:12recover from it and you make new highs
2:37:16that loss and Recovery is such a pivotal
2:37:19moment that's when you know that you've
2:37:22got it all you have to do now is stay
2:37:24focused you've proven that you can go
2:37:26through a draw down and recover and
2:37:28here's the thing when you go through
2:37:29this draw down you know what's different
2:37:30between you right here and every other
2:37:32beginner Trader who goes through a draw
2:37:34down you have a track record of
2:37:36consistency you have it that began in
2:37:38the Sim and that was what gave you the
2:37:40confidence to go live with real money in
2:37:42the first place so if you went live with
2:37:44real money and you struggled you would
2:37:46look at your track rate and you say well
2:37:47I am making money in the SIM do know
2:37:49what I'm doing I just need to either go
2:37:51back to the Sim and gain a little more
2:37:53experience or continue to stick it out
2:37:56with small size with real money because
2:37:57I know what I'm doing I just had you
2:37:59know these first 10 days were tough so
2:38:01you keep yourself in that really safe
2:38:03area of small size once you prove
2:38:05consistency you slowly scale up because
2:38:08when you have a loss the first thing we
2:38:10ask ourselves is was all of that just
2:38:12beginner's luck what what's going to
2:38:15happen next for me and so when you
2:38:16realize that I can have a loss and then
2:38:19I can recover then that's when you know
2:38:21you've really got it so then from that
2:38:24point increasing to two trades a day and
2:38:27then increasing next to three trades a
2:38:29day so I I would cap yourself at two
2:38:31trades a day for a stretch and it could
2:38:33be weeks or it could be months based on
2:38:35your comfort level and then I would cap
2:38:36yourself at three trades a day for a
2:38:38stretch and then once you've again gone
2:38:41through a draw down and a recovery with
2:38:44these quantities at that point you could
2:38:46take the that final guard rail off and
2:38:48go to Trading more frequently but what
2:38:50you have to know is that you will
2:38:51eventually have a day where you succumb
2:38:53to emotion you overtrade you get
2:38:56overconfident you make these mistakes
2:38:58and you're going to be sitting there
2:39:00with with a with a bigger loss and so at
2:39:03that first setback it's important to
2:39:07immediately reduce share size to avoid
2:39:09spiraling I cut share size usually down
2:39:11to a quarter of full size after a big
2:39:14loss and continue trading with that
2:39:16small size until I've recouped 50% of
2:39:18the loss so that means if I had this
2:39:20rally and then I had a big loss here cut
2:39:23my share size down to one quarter and
2:39:25slowly recoup losses until I've made
2:39:28back about half of the loss here and
2:39:30then I go back to full size the reason I
2:39:33don't keep trading full size after the
2:39:34loss is because I don't want to have
2:39:35another loss like this I don't want to
2:39:37make it bigger so I want to just cut
2:39:40have it stop right there and go with
2:39:42small size because if I go with small
2:39:44size but I continue to lose well at
2:39:46least the loss is smaller before it
2:39:48comes back around
2:39:49because it could be that I lost because
2:39:51the market has shifted a little bit and
2:39:52we're going into a colder market and
2:39:54look that happens that's part of trading
2:39:56there's going to be hot markets there's
2:39:57going to be cold markets but you want to
2:39:58learn to ease off the throttle when it's
2:40:00cold and then put the pedal in the metal
2:40:02when it's hot and that's something
2:40:03beginner Traders struggle with beginner
2:40:05Traders chronically keep their foot on
2:40:07the gas even when things are slowing
2:40:08down they dig themselves a big hole and
2:40:11now they've dug a hole and the Market's
2:40:12cold which means it's going to be hard
2:40:14to recover those losses until it heats
2:40:16up again and when it does heat up again
2:40:18they'll make money but they're recouping
2:40:20the the losses from when it cooled off
2:40:23so the better you can get at getting
2:40:24your foot off that gas really quick the
2:40:27better off you'll be and then once
2:40:29you've had these recoveries those are
2:40:31huge confidence boosters that you know
2:40:33what you're doing and you're on the
2:40:34other side and you just have to
2:40:36recognize that there is an e and a flow
2:40:38the market has hot cycles and cold
2:40:40Cycles it's easier to be aware of these
2:40:42when you're trading in a community like
2:40:43at Warrior trading you can see hear
2:40:45comments from other Traders you know
2:40:47when it's cold you got to reduce your
2:40:48risk and when it's hot I like to size up
2:40:51so I I push my comfort zone and my risk
2:40:53tolerance when it's hot to maximize
2:40:55profits and I rain it back in when it
2:40:57cools down and so I'm constantly going
2:40:59through that expansion and then
Day Trading & Taxes
2:41:00contraction the expansion the
2:41:02contraction in my own
2:41:08trading so now you're at a point where
2:41:10we got to talk about day trading and
2:41:12taxes now I know it's not a fun topic
2:41:14but it's actually pretty interesting
2:41:15here because let me put it to you this
2:41:17way you could have two traders who the
2:41:19exact same amount of money in trading
2:41:21profit but one keep substantially more
2:41:23money in their pocket because they've
2:41:26implemented some very specific tax
2:41:28planning strategies and so what's more
2:41:31important being more profitable or being
2:41:33more tax efficient well if you're more
2:41:35tax efficient you could actually be net
2:41:37more profitable than someone who made
2:41:39more money and gross profit because
2:41:41you're thinking smarter so let's work
2:41:42smarter not harder so most day Traders
2:41:45are overpaying on their taxes due to
2:41:47number one paying short-term capital
2:41:49gains tax on all the profits number two
2:41:52by facing higher income due to wash
2:41:54sales disallowed I'll tell you what that
2:41:56is in a second number three because
2:41:57they're limited to writing off only
2:41:59$3,000 in losses against income number
2:42:01four because profits cannot be used to
2:42:04contribute to retirement accounts and
2:42:05number five because they're unable to
2:42:07write off expenses related to trading
2:42:09this is a problem so being more
2:42:12profitable versus being more tax
2:42:14efficient you want to know how to pay
2:42:17zero capital gains taxes on all your
2:42:20trading profits there are two ways to do
2:42:22it now you might not like the first one
2:42:24it's move to Puerto Rico now I'm not in
2:42:27Puerto Rico right now I have been to
2:42:28Puerto Rico my so I hired after I had
2:42:31some made some really good money trading
2:42:33I hired a great
2:42:35CPA and he said all right Ross you're
2:42:37paying a lot in tax um I'm going to
2:42:40throw out some ideas for you you just
2:42:41tell me where they land how do you feel
2:42:42about moving to Puerto Rico and I was
2:42:44like well I don't know it sounds nice
2:42:47maybe I don't know tell me more he said
2:42:49Puerto Rico is part of the United States
2:42:51right so if you move to Puerto Rico
2:42:53you're not giving up your US citizenship
2:42:55but if you move to Puerto Rico they have
2:42:57something called act 60 it's an
2:42:59incentive to encourage us residents to
2:43:02move to Puerto Rico and the incentive
2:43:04gives you a well what it is is it gives
2:43:07you a 100% exemption on all capital
2:43:11gains taxes so you have no capital gains
2:43:13taxes if you're a US resident who moves
2:43:15to Puerto Rico now the hitch with this
2:43:18strategy is you got to move to Puerto
2:43:20Rico and you got to live there for six
2:43:22months and one day so I went down to
2:43:23Puerto Rico I brought my laptop and my
2:43:25couple of travel monitors and I checked
2:43:27it out and I thought it was okay but you
2:43:29know my my family is here my wife's
2:43:32family is here and and we just can't
2:43:33move to Puerto Rico right now now my
2:43:35attorney uh my my CPA really tried to
2:43:37convince me he said Ross think about how
2:43:39many flights you could purchase they
2:43:41could fly back and forth all the time
2:43:42with all the money you'd save on taxes
2:43:43and I said I know I know it does sound I
2:43:46you know I I can't I can't disagree it
2:43:48sounds like good idea um in fact I even
2:43:51pulled up the um Dorado Beach real
2:43:53estate listings just to check it out and
2:43:55I noticed that oh my goodness property's
2:43:58expensive down there $42 million this is
2:44:01where um Jake Paul lives the guy who
2:44:03fought Mike Tyson uh $40 million
2:44:05properties I mean this is insane but
2:44:08there's a lot of very wealthy people
2:44:10that move to Puerto Rico because of the
2:44:11tax incentives so that's your first
2:44:14option you might say Ross uh that's not
2:44:16going to work so well for me all right I
2:44:18get it didn't work for me either tax
2:44:20strategy number two day trading in a
2:44:21Roth IRA so if you create a Roth IRA and
2:44:27you trade in it your profits and
2:44:29distributions are 100% taxfree you have
2:44:33no income tax on your trading profits or
2:44:35your distributions the only hitch is
2:44:37you've got to wait till you're 59 and a
2:44:39half years old to take money out of the
2:44:40account o that's a tough that's a tough
2:44:42one too but there's a couple ways to
2:44:45think about this so the way I thought
2:44:47about it I trade in Roth IRA now so my
2:44:50profits are 100% tax-free and I thought
2:44:53that right now I think I can do that now
2:44:56I've written my book which of course is
2:44:57a best seller on Amazon I have a copy of
2:44:59it around here anyways I get royalties
2:45:01from my book I've got the software at
2:45:03Warrior trading I make some money on the
2:45:04software so I figured I could trade
2:45:07exclusively in a Roth IRA I could
2:45:09protect that profit I could let it grow
2:45:11and I'm okay with not touching it right
2:45:13now right now I'm in a high income
2:45:16bracket in the future Maybe slows down
2:45:19maybe I decide to retire early and I'm
2:45:21not in a higher income bracket I could
2:45:24take money out of my Roth IRA I would
2:45:26pay a penalty and I have to pay income
2:45:28tax on it but if I was at a lower income
2:45:31bracket maybe I wouldn't mind paying the
2:45:33tax so that's kind of the way I thought
2:45:35about it day trading is one of the few
2:45:37ways that you can rapidly grow a
2:45:40retirement account it's kind of it's
2:45:42kind of incredible so if you set up a
2:45:44Roth IRA you do have a Max annual
2:45:47contribution limit currently of
2:45:49$1,000 and you've got a max income for a
2:45:52direct contribution of under 40 146,000
2:45:55if you're a single filer or 230 for
2:45:58joint filers now when I made my
2:46:01contribution to the Roth IRA I was above
2:46:04this income level and so I did what uh
2:46:07most people do which is a traditional
2:46:09IRA and then at any time you can convert
2:46:12a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA you do
2:46:15the conversion and from that point
2:46:18forward you're in a Roth IRA so the way
2:46:20it works is with traditional uh Ira
2:46:24versus a Roth with a traditional IR
2:46:27let's say you make um just for example
2:46:29let's say you make $50,000 salary and
2:46:31you contribute $7,000 so your taxable
2:46:35income would be 43,000 with a
2:46:37traditional IRA because the contribution
2:46:40comes off your total taxable income so
2:46:42you pay less tax initially the
2:46:44government is incentivizing you to make
2:46:46this contribution but then this account
2:46:49grows you know 7,000 and then it grows
2:46:50in the future and when you take money
2:46:52out you pay income tax on the
2:46:54distributions with a Roth IRA you make
2:46:58$50,000 you have $77,000 in
2:47:00contributions you still pay income tax
2:47:02on the full 50k all right so you pay a
2:47:04little more income tax but the 7,000 now
2:47:07grows taxfree and the withdrawals the
2:47:10distributions are taxfree so the Roth is
2:47:13the preferred strategy for a retirement
2:47:16account okay so this is the second way
2:47:19to grow an account uh and have zero
2:47:21capital gains taxes the Brokers that
2:47:23allow day trading in a Roth IRA and also
2:47:26offer settlement margin which means you
2:47:28can day trade in them as much as you
2:47:29want as long as you're above 25,000
2:47:32include light speed trading Charles
2:47:34Schwab and interactive brokers
2:47:36interactive brokers is not great for
2:47:37people that like to trade stocks under
2:47:39$5 so I would not recommend them if you
2:47:42have a Roth IRA that's like $10,000 or
2:47:44lower you would just trade it as a cash
2:47:46account where you would take as many
2:47:48trades as you could take take until you
2:47:49ran out of buying power and then it
2:47:51would reset and you could trade again
2:47:52the next day and that would be fine as
2:47:54well so if you're thinking well Ross you
2:47:57know for some of you you might already
2:47:59have other income you have you have W2
2:48:02wages or you've got a 1099 you you know
2:48:04you you're a freelancer so if you can
2:48:07keep generating that income and make all
2:48:09of your trading be in a Roth IRA you're
2:48:11giving yourself a huge gift for the
2:48:14future I mean think about it so for me I
2:48:17grew this Roth IRA to what was started
2:48:19with $188,000 in contributions that was
2:48:22three contributions of $6,000 which was
2:48:25three years of contributions I have now
2:48:27grown that account literally to over $7
2:48:30million in trading profits $7 million in
2:48:33fact I've grown it even more than that
2:48:35because I reinvested that money into
2:48:38long-term investing so that's invested
2:48:40longterm and that account is growing on
2:48:42the side so in addition to my trading
2:48:44profits the long term is still growing
2:48:46so it's like it and and I'm young I
2:48:49still have more than 20 years before I
2:48:51can hit 59 and a half years old so when
2:48:54I get to the age of of being able to
2:48:56take that withdrawal $7 million over the
2:48:59course of 20
2:49:01years it should be it could be easily
2:49:03$20 million by that time so that's kind
2:49:06of incredible because it's going to keep
2:49:08growing compound interest uh taxfree and
2:49:10then continue to trade so if you're able
2:49:13to do the Roth IRA I highly encourage it
2:49:15it's a great way to grow your account if
2:49:17you need the money for covering your
2:49:20cost of living which I did when I first
2:49:22started trading so I get it because I
2:49:23was there too then tax strategy number
2:49:26three is to use Trader tax status and
2:49:28Mark toar Market accounting so you can
2:49:30maximize your deductions and allow wash
2:49:33sales all right so the IRS code says
2:49:37under topic 429 that if you're an
2:49:40eligible Trader in Securities you can
2:49:43deduct all necessary and reasonable
2:49:45expenses related to producing your
2:49:47trading profits and that would include
2:49:50Education costs so you're a warrior Pro
2:49:52member you paid for the cost of your
2:49:53education boom you write that off you've
2:49:56you're a uh you you go to seminars
2:49:58related trading you write that off you
2:50:00do uh you have software subscriptions
2:50:02for scanners for charts for you know
2:50:05whatever a news feed something else you
2:50:07write that off you buy computers you
2:50:10have monitors that's a deduction you do
2:50:13your you've got your internet connection
2:50:15I mean I look around right here and this
2:50:18this whole whole Space this whole
2:50:20building is my office so everything
2:50:22related to this building is an office
2:50:24expense for me so there's the
2:50:26electricity for the building for this
2:50:28space there's the the heating the
2:50:30cooling there's the equipment cleaning I
2:50:34mean everything you know if I go to the
2:50:35grocery store and I have to get things
2:50:36for you know for the office all of that
2:50:39is a deduction so you know you you
2:50:41should always consult with a CPA I'm not
2:50:45an a a tax uh attorney I'm not a CPA so
2:50:48you should consult a CPA to make sure
2:50:49you're doing it the right way but
2:50:51there's a huge opportunity to deduct the
2:50:53necessary and reasonable expenses
2:50:55related to producing this income so it's
2:50:57a no-brainer in order to be eligible for
2:51:01your Trader tax status you got to meet
2:51:03all the following conditions you must
2:51:05seek to profit from daily Market
2:51:07movements done your activity must be
2:51:10substantial but they don't really
2:51:11quantify exactly what that means you
2:51:13must carry on the activity with
2:51:15continuity and regularity so my view on
2:51:17this is that if you're trading every
2:51:19single day and you're making an effort
2:51:21of learning this craft and trying to
2:51:23become a Trader that you would be
2:51:25eligible again confirm that with a
2:51:28CPA um now while you can write off
2:51:31expenses related to trading you would
2:51:34continue to Face Wash sales and you're
2:51:37continued to be limited to the max of a
2:51:40$3,000 um deduction on your Capital
2:51:43losses unless you enroll in marketto
2:51:47Market accounting
2:51:49so let's talk about wash sales so wash
2:51:52sales originated from investors who
2:51:54would sell entire positions at a loss in
2:51:56December to write off that loss against
2:51:59other gains and then they would buy back
2:52:01basically the same position in January
2:52:03the IRS said no you can't do that so if
2:52:05you take a loss on a trade and then buy
2:52:07back a quote substantially similar
2:52:10position within 30 days you're
2:52:11disallowed from writing off the initial
2:52:14loss disallowed wash sales have the
2:52:16result of increasing your taxable gain
2:52:19beyond the amount you actually made so
2:52:21I've known traders who you know let's
2:52:24say let's just say for instance they
2:52:25made $100,000 in trading profits they
2:52:28knew that's how much they made they had
2:52:30$25,000 in their account at the
2:52:31beginning of the year they have 125,000
2:52:33at the end of the year they made 100
2:52:34Grand but then on their $ 1099 it shows
2:52:38that they're they made
2:52:40$130,000 and it says under this line
2:52:44that they have
2:52:45$30,000 in wash sales that are
2:52:48disallowed and so what that means is
2:52:50that they had losses to the tune of
2:52:53$30,000 but they're not allowed to write
2:52:56them off against their gain because they
2:52:58occurred within this 30-day window where
2:52:59they bought back a substantially similar
2:53:01position so now all of a sudden they're
2:53:03sitting here thinking are you kidding me
2:53:06I have to pay tax on
2:53:08$130,000 even though I only made
2:53:10$100,000 what is the deal that doesn't
2:53:13make sense and it doesn't make sense and
2:53:15rather than revise the the code um or
2:53:17the rule on wash sales to not um you
2:53:22know to not be valid on uh day trading
2:53:25positions they instead they that's the
2:53:28the only work around is to do Mark
2:53:30tomarket accounting so a mark tomarket
2:53:34accounting is um is is a change in
2:53:37accounting method where you become
2:53:40completely exempt from wash sales you'll
2:53:43have no wash sales which is great and it
2:53:45does something else it means you can
2:53:48write off off all losses against income
2:53:51you're no longer limited to a $3,000
2:53:53Capital loss now some of you guys are
2:53:55saying Ross I I'm at the beginning of my
2:53:56learning curve I'm not even making money
2:53:58yet but let me just put it you this way
2:54:00so let's say you made um
2:54:03$50,000 from a W2 wage or whatever other
2:54:07income doesn't matter and let's just say
2:54:09this year you um you did trade and you
2:54:13lost 15,000 so you lost $15,000 trading
2:54:16and you also spent $5,000 on you know
2:54:18set up and all that stuff so how much
2:54:20money did you really make this year Well
2:54:21you made 30 grand right you've got
2:54:23$330,000 that that you earned but
2:54:26because of the um $33,000 max that you
2:54:31can deduct against your losses you would
2:54:33actually only be able to take
2:54:35$3,000 and you wouldn't be able to take
2:54:38the 5,000 if you hadn't enrolled if you
2:54:40aren't considered uh eligible for Trader
2:54:42tax status so that means you would
2:54:44actually pay tax on
2:54:46$47,000 and the remaining 12,000 so you
2:54:49had a $115,000 loss you could take
2:54:52$3,000 a year for the next you know X
2:54:55number of years and you have to just do
2:54:573,000 a year so what if let's say let's
2:55:00make the numbers a little bit bigger
2:55:01let's say you had a year where you made
2:55:04$200,000 in income from W2 wages but you
2:55:07just you lost $200,000 from Trading it's
2:55:11insane but it happened so now you're
2:55:13zero on the year well again not if you
2:55:16don't have Mark to Market accounting
2:55:18you'd only be able to write off $3,000
2:55:21of that loss even though you lost now
2:55:23you got another 197,000 that you can
2:55:25deduct over like the next 30 Years so
2:55:28you're going to pay income tax even
2:55:30though at the end of the year your net
2:55:31worth is unchanged you're going to pay
2:55:33more in tax so Mark tomarket accounting
2:55:36is um something that Traders will do
2:55:39that will exempt them from wash sales
2:55:40and it allows them to write off the full
2:55:42amount of their loss so now you're
2:55:44actually able to write off that full
2:55:46$200,000 that you lost all right right
2:55:48so at least make the loss worth
2:55:50something in offsetting other income and
2:55:52if you say well I don't have other
2:55:54income then what you end up having is a
2:55:56carry forward
2:55:59loss that you can apply to future income
2:56:02so you know how Trump didn't have any
2:56:03income tax for like 20 years it's
2:56:05because that big loss that he had on
2:56:07that casino he had such a big loss he
2:56:09was able to carry it forward and offset
2:56:11future income so this is something that
2:56:13is in the tax code and that people do
2:56:15and you again like I said you should
2:56:17consult a CP but a good CPA will tell
2:56:19you that you've got a carry forward loss
2:56:21and you should utilize it just like
2:56:23every other wealthy American does so in
2:56:27order to um in order to switch to Mark
2:56:31to Market accounting you have to file
2:56:33form 3115 and notify the IRS of your
2:56:36change in accounting method under
2:56:37Section 475 F and you've got to do it by
2:56:41there's a deadline of April 15 the tax
2:56:44due date of that year so right now if
2:56:46you're watching this and you didn't
2:56:48already and it's December and you didn't
2:56:50already do your mark to Market
2:56:52accounting for this year it's too late
2:56:54you could file it now and immediately
2:56:57after filing it what do you do you got
2:56:59to notify your broker that you've done a
2:57:01change in accounting method and they'll
2:57:03change your um your accounting Style on
2:57:06your tax report so you'll no longer have
2:57:07wash sales and then all of next year
2:57:09you're good you can't do form 3115
2:57:13retroactively it only works from the
2:57:16date you file it and notify your broker
2:57:19moving forward now the trader tax status
2:57:22if you've been trading all year you
2:57:24haven't filed your return yet then you
2:57:26could say I was a Trader all year I made
2:57:29this money or lost this money and I have
2:57:31these reasonable expenses your only
2:57:33issue is that if you had a loss you're
2:57:34limited to the
2:57:36$3,000 that you can write off this year
2:57:38in that loss because you're not on Mark
2:57:40tomarket accounting so the best thing is
2:57:43Trader tax status and marketto Market
2:57:45accounting you'll get the benefit of the
2:57:46losses and you can write the reasonable
2:57:48expenses related to producing your
2:57:51trading profits you just have to
2:57:52remember the deadline for the marketto
2:57:54market accounting and you want to make
2:57:55sure you consult with the CPA to make
2:57:57sure that they agree with um with this
2:58:00idea and that you do it the right way
2:58:02now if you want to really take this to
2:58:04the next level tax strategy number four
2:58:06is incorporating your day trading as a
2:58:08business so this includes the trader tax
2:58:11status it includes marketto Market
2:58:13accounting you got to do both of those
2:58:14things but if you trade in an LLC or an
2:58:17escorp and the LLC if it has S election
2:58:20then you can additionally make
2:58:22contributions to a solo 401K of up to
2:58:25$69,000 per year and deduct that against
2:58:29your income and you can also deduct
2:58:31Health premiums against your income so
2:58:33that's kind of like the ultimate is
2:58:35creating the LLC or the corporation
2:58:37which is an es Corp which is these are
2:58:39passed through entities so it's not
2:58:41double taxation you pay the tax on your
2:58:43return you open a bank account you open
2:58:46a brokerage account and you open aedit
2:58:48credit card in the name of the business
2:58:50you segregate all the expenses related
2:58:52to the business into the business
2:58:53account and you then do your
2:58:55contributions to a 401k that gives you
2:58:58retirement savings yes it's deferred tax
2:59:01because a 401k you'll have the income
2:59:02tax when you take the withdraws later
2:59:05but right now you're in a high income
2:59:06bracket if you're making some money and
2:59:08so this is kind of the final level now
2:59:10getting to this level I probably
2:59:13wouldn't do this part unless well I
2:59:16guess two things unless number one you
2:59:18do have Healthcare premiums that you
2:59:19want to deduct which is possible health
2:59:21insurance or you're at a place where
2:59:23you're producing enough profit that you
2:59:24feel like it's worthwhile the the the
2:59:27the sort of in between is just doing the
2:59:29um Trader tax status and the marketto
2:59:32market accounting because that works
2:59:34even if you're trading in your personal
2:59:35name you don't need to be trading in an
2:59:37LLC to itemize your deductions related
2:59:40to trading you could still put that on
2:59:41your schedule D is it schedule c
2:59:43Schedule D so that's that's kind of the
2:59:46way I would approach it now is this all
2:59:48necessary like I said you could try to
2:59:50be more profitable or you could try to
2:59:51be more tax efficient or you could do a
2:59:53little bit of both and I think that
2:59:54there's a happy medium here and it
2:59:56depends on your comfort your risk
2:59:58tolerance what you want to do and what
Most Common Day Trading Mistakes
3:00:00your accountant Fields makes the most
3:00:01sense for your personal situation so as
3:00:04always consult a CPA on
3:00:10this now let's talk about some of these
3:00:12beginner mistakes to avoid I want to
3:00:15tell you that most beginner traders who
3:00:17lose will lose for one of two reasons
3:00:19the first is because they trade with
3:00:21zero strategy whatsoever they don't know
3:00:23what they're doing so they jump into the
3:00:25market with real money shooting from the
3:00:27hip buying a little of this buying a
3:00:29little of that chasing stocks that are
3:00:31talked about on you know Mad Money
3:00:33Kramer CNBC whatever and following
3:00:36stocks on Twitter Reddit and they lose
3:00:38money it's no surprise and then what
3:00:40happens is after the big loss emotional
3:00:42response desperation fuels the downward
3:00:44spiral and they're gone they're out of
3:00:45the market now there's a second group of
3:00:47Traders well and first of all you're not
3:00:49going to be in that first group of
3:00:50Traders you shouldn't be because now you
3:00:52know the outline of the strategy that
3:00:54I'm trading every single day and you've
3:00:56downloaded these PDFs you've got
3:00:57resources so you should be smarter than
3:01:00those Traders out there they're just
3:01:01throwing money on this and that all
3:01:02right so the second group of traders who
3:01:04fail they've been given the strategy but
3:01:08they lack the discipline to follow the
3:01:11strategy and this is where I said the
3:01:12ball's in your court I'm going to give
3:01:13you my strategy and you'll have the full
3:01:15strategy if you become a warrior Pro
3:01:17member over at Warrior trading so the
3:01:18ball's going to be in your core can you
3:01:20have the discipline to follow the rules
3:01:22of this strategy I'm going to share with
3:01:24you some tips to improveed discipline
3:01:26number one keep share size well within
3:01:29the Lost Comfort levels to keep your
3:01:30emotions in check follow the strict loss
3:01:33guidelines outlined in the trading plan
3:01:36consider activities that require
3:01:38discipline such as meditation or
3:01:40exercise journal and track your metrics
3:01:42this helps gain perspective take notes
3:01:45on potential triggers that cause you to
3:01:47become emotional
3:01:48develop a list of triggers to be on the
3:01:50lookout for and to stop trading the
3:01:52moment they occur and don't spend your
3:01:55time comparing yourself to others keep
3:01:57your head down keep grinding keep
3:01:59learning and keep trying to gain
3:02:02experience so now we've got a final quiz
3:02:05that's coming up if you have not already
3:02:07downloaded the small account strategy
3:02:08worksheet and my um small account
3:02:11trading plan PDFs make sure you guys
3:02:13download those their links uh pinned at
3:02:15the top of the comments and in the
3:02:16description and now let's what kind of
3:02:18progress you've made should I buy here
3:02:21what's the answer yes or no you know the
3:02:24answer it's no the macd is open but the
3:02:28high volume selling is a red flag and if
3:02:30one of those two say no the answer is no
3:02:33we don't buy that position more selling
3:02:35volume indicates weakness what about
3:02:37this one it's the same the answer is no
3:02:41high volume selling we can't buy that
3:02:44what about this one answer is no high
3:02:47volume selling we can't buy that we as
3:02:50soon as we see those high volume bars we
3:02:52know it's a noo what about this well
3:02:56we've got a high volume red candle right
3:02:58there and the macd is negative one of
3:03:01them is saying no definitely they're
3:03:02both saying No this is a no we don't
3:03:04take this trade
3:03:06good next one same issue macd is
3:03:10positive volume profile it's negative
3:03:12you've got too much selling we can't
3:03:13take that trade that's a nogo now what
3:03:16about this is open volume profile is not
3:03:20bad you've got a couple topping Tails
3:03:22maybe I take this trade with slightly
3:03:23smaller position size just to be careful
3:03:26because we do have a couple of topping
3:03:27Tails here and a little higher volume on
3:03:30this
3:03:30candle but still pretty good maybe small
3:03:34position it works not fantastic but it
3:03:37works wasn't a hard no I will say that
3:03:39generally as a beginner if it's not a
3:03:41hard yes then it's a no what about this
3:03:44one now that's a hard yes this looks
3:03:47awesome this is a really great pattern
3:03:49open macd strong volume profile that's a
3:03:52hard yes from $5 to $7 a share in two
3:03:55candles we love that cadl what about
3:03:58this one well this one this is a yes the
3:04:01macd is open it's coming down a little
3:04:03bit but the volume profile is good and
3:04:05the stock is up a lot this is a stock
3:04:07that has a potential the potential to
3:04:08keep going because of how much it's
3:04:10already moved especially if it's a
3:04:12number one leading Gainer people are
3:04:13going to be watching it it's obvious
3:04:15this one went from $10 to $14 a share
3:04:18what about this one macd is open volume
3:04:20profile looks good we should take that
3:04:22trade what about this one macd negative
3:04:26the volume profile is not a problem but
3:04:27the macd is negative this is no good we
3:04:30can't take that trade as a beginner
3:04:32Trader something that's great is being
3:04:34able to listen over the shoulder to hear
3:04:36the market commentary of another Trader
3:04:38to hear where they're getting in where
3:04:40they're getting out why they like
3:04:41certain setups what they don't like
3:04:43because you're able to piggyback on all
3:04:45of their years of educated intuition and
3:04:47that's exactly what you guys get as a
3:04:49warrior Pro member I stream while I'm
3:04:52trading every single day but it's only
3:04:54for members that are part of my course
3:04:56for students I want you to understand
3:04:58that my stream is an interactive
3:05:00classroom it's an opportunity where I'm
3:05:02putting my strategies on display where
3:05:04you can learn from me it's not designed
3:05:07for you just blindly follow me that's
3:05:09not the goal the goal is for you to
3:05:11learn the strategy so you can become an
3:05:14independent Trader that is what success
3:05:16looks like now if you want to take the
3:05:18leap and do a twoe trial I'll put a link
3:05:20I'll pin it to the top of the comments
3:05:21I'll also L it link it in the
3:05:23description where you can check out that
3:05:24two-e trial you can watch over my
3:05:25shoulder you can use the scanners use
3:05:28the software use the charts the news
3:05:29feed be in the chat room you can start
3:05:31going through some of the classes that
3:05:32are part of my curriculum and see
3:05:34whether or not this is the right fit for
3:05:36you I think the best way to learn this
3:05:38language of the financial markets is to
3:05:40fully immerse yourself in a community
3:05:42that speaks the language and you'll find
3:05:44that here at Warrior trading so I want
3:05:45to thank you guys for tuning in if you
3:05:47enjoyed this episode and you got value
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3:05:51and I'll remind you again as always
3:05:53trading is wi my results are not typical
3:05:56I've been doing this for a long time so
3:05:57there's no guarantee that you'll find
3:05:59success whether you trade with me or you
3:06:00learn on your own so I encourage you to
3:06:01take it slow and always practice in a
3:06:03simulator before you put real money on
3:06:06the line thanks again for tuning in I'll
3:06:07see you for the next episode real soon
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