Trading Education

How to Stop Losing Money Day Trading: A Trader’s Guide to Recovery

Struggling to stop losses in day trading? Discover a clear, step-by-step guide to regain control, identify weak spots, and rebuild a profitable strategy. Learn practical techniques to balance risk, refine your edge, and master your trading process for consistent gains.

The Easiest Trading Strategy: Following the Trend

The phrase easiest trading strategy is often subjective, depending on a trader’s experience level and market knowledge. For many, the easiest strategy boils down to one that minimizes decision-making complexity and focuses on high-probability setups.

How a Trading Psychology Coach Can Transform Your Trading

Are you struggling to make consistent profits in the market? Feeling overwhelmed by the highs and lows of trading? You might be facing more than just technical or strategy issues—psychological barriers often hold traders back. This is where a trading psychology coach can make all the difference.

ICT's Order Blocks: Is This A New Concept?

How ICT’s Order Blocks and Steidlmayer’s High Volume Nodes Align. A rebrand of a trading concept that is 50 years old.

Understanding Market Manipulation: Comparing ICT and Wyckoff

This article will explore the similarities between the ICT concept of "seek and destroy" and Wyckoff's "springs and upthrusts," highlighting how these methodologies converge and how ICT largely builds upon Wyckoff's foundational ideas.

Livestream Day Trading

We are excited to announce a new addition to the Trader’s Thinktank®: the Livestream Trading feature. This new offering is designed to elevate your trading experience by providing real-time insights, actionable ideas, and a comprehensive approach to navigating the markets. Whether you are a seasoned trader or just starting, our Livestream Trading sessions are set to become an indispensable tool in your trading arsenal.

How to Identify and Trade the Spring Setup

This setup is a powerful tool because it focuses on traps - Enabling savvy traders to capitalize on market movements that are driven by large players. Here’s a detailed guide on identifying and trading the Spring setup.

What Is the Most Profitable 1 Minute Scalping Strategy?

The Two Hour Trader framework is tailored to enhance the effectiveness of traders who want to focus on the shorter timeframe charts It provides a structured approach that provides clarity to new and developing traders.

Tanner Owings: One-on-One Trading Mentorship Client Case Study

From knowing next to nothing about what it takes to be a day trader, to developing consistent profitability, quitting his job, and trading for full-time income with regular 4-figure days. Here is a look at Tanner’s journey to becoming consistently profitable with Opinicus.

The Overlooked Key to Day Trading Success: Effective Risk Management

The importance of effective risk management cannot be overstated, especially for developing traders. While many aspiring day traders usually focus on finding the next big parabolic mover or looking for the holy grail trading system, they often overlook one of the most critical factors in their success: managing risk.

Mastering Market Openings: Understanding the Opening-Drive Trade

Understanding the different market openings is crucial for intraday traders seeking profitable opportunities. Among the various types of market openings, one stands out as the most forceful and definitive: the Opening-Drive. Let's delve into what the Opening-Drive is, how it impacts trading, and strategies for navigating this momentum play.

What Is Opinicus? The Premier Day Trading Community

Back in 2017, Opinicus was born out of necessity. I knew that the online education industry - specifically trading education - needed a community for intraday options traders and an education offering for new market participants to learn from. At the time, no such offering existed. In what is now a competitive landscape, Opinicus emerges as a premier day trading community and education provider, offering traders the tools, resources, and community they need to thrive in the markets.

10 Ways to Stay More Disciplined In Trading

Most developing traders struggle with discipline. They are usually missing something critical. Here are 10 tips on how to stay more disciplined when trading.

The Best Trading Education in 2024

As the financial markets continue to evolve, the need for effective and accessible trading education has never been more crucial. In 2024, Opinicus emerges as a beacon of simplicity and profitability in the complex world of trading.

Navigating Decision Fatigue in Day Trading: Strategies to Avoid Over-Trading

Decision fatigue in day trading manifests as a cognitive shortcut that prompts irrational trade-offs in trading decisions. The continuous stream of choices faced by day traders can overwhelm their cognitive abilities, making each subsequent decision more challenging. This article explores the implications of decision fatigue in day trading and provides actionable strategies to help traders navigate this challenge and optimize their trading performance.

Why Every Trader Needs a Trade Plan

Interestingly, despite having learned various skills throughout their lives, novice traders often fall into the trap of impulsive trading. They neglect careful planning and fail to adhere to a well-defined trading plan, which is a crucial component for long-term profitability and success in the markets.

Mastering Volume Profiles: A Guide for Traders

If you want to improve your trading performance, understanding and implementing volume profiles is essential. After training hundreds of traders throughout my near-decade-long trading career, I've noticed a common issue among unprofitable traders: they often dive into trading setups and patterns without considering the broader context. Trading without context is not a strategy, it's merely trading patterns.

Why You Can't Sell That Losing Trade

Have you ever been in a losing trade as it approaches your stop and thought… “Let me just see if price bounces at the next level”? If so, you aren’t alone. This a common phenomenon that all traders experience during their early development stages. So, what is it exactly?

What Is the Easiest Money Trading Strategy?

When it comes to trading, simplicity often proves to be the key to long-term consistent profitability for the retail trader. Traders, both seasoned and novice, are constantly seeking to not only simplify, but align themselves with the easiest money trading strategy. In this article, I shed light on a unique strategy known as The Two Hour Trader.