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.
Should New Traders Focus on Scalping? Key Considerations for Beginners
Curious if new traders should focus on scalping? This article breaks down the pros and cons of scalping as a strategy for beginners, with insights on location precision, balancing time frames, and leveraging the Two Hour Trader framework for skill development. Learn how mastering short-term trades can pave the way for holding larger positions.
The 2 Hour Trading Day: How to Hit Your Goals with the Two Hour Trader Framework
Discover how the Two Hour Trader framework can help you achieve consistent trading success with just 2 hours a day. Learn how to focus on high-probability setups in index futures (ES, NQ, RTY) and options (SPY, QQQ) to hit your daily goals efficiently. Maximize profits, minimize screen time, and build a sustainable trading routine.
Fair Value Gaps: Is this ICT Concept Something New?
Though FVGs are frequently touted as a unique approach to market imbalances, they are largely inspired by Peter Steidlmayer’s pioneering work with the Value Area and LVNs within the Market Profile framework. This article explores how FVGs and LVNs align in their principles, helping traders recognize that FVGs are part of a well-established tradition in price and volume analysis.
Transforming Your Trading Journey: The Trade 30 for 30 Challenge
For many traders, finding consistency in the markets can feel elusive. The ups and downs of the trading world often lead to frustration, especially when mistakes go unaddressed or certain habits prevent growth. This is where Trade 30 for 30 steps in—a unique challenge designed to help traders break through their barriers and build lasting, positive habits in just 30 days.
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.
Day Trading For Beginners - How To Get Started in Futures
This guide will walk you through the essentials of getting started, focusing on popular futures markets, learning technical analysis, and managing risk. We’ll also cover how prop firms can help you if you’re undercapitalized.
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.
The Myth of Talent in Trading: What Really Defines A Successful Trader
In the competitive world of trading, the belief that only the innately talented can achieve significant success is widespread. However, through my own personal trading journey, and the work I have done coaching and mentoring traders (to consistent profitability) suggests otherwise. Talent, while beneficial, is not the cornerstone of trading success. Here is what it really takes to become a consistently profitable trader.
The Psychological Battle of Trade-Offs In Trading
Trading is ultimately about trade-offs. Every decision you make in the market comes with its own set of pros and cons, and understanding these can significantly improve your trading strategy and results. In this article, which was inspired from a recent Trading Mentorship Group session, I’ll highlight some of the common trade-offs that traders deal with on a daily basis.
How To Find A Good Trading Mentor
One of the most effective ways to accelerate your learning curve is by finding a good mentor. Here are four key points to consider when searching for the ideal day trading mentor.
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 Power of Daily Trade Documentation in Trading
Daily trade documentation, also known as archiving your best setup, is the process of recording and analyzing the best opportunities at the end of each trading day - Regardless of whether you were in those trades or not.
Trade Journal Template + Video - The Power of Daily Trade Journaling
In this article, we'll delve into the benefits of trade journaling, the key components of a trade journal, and how you can implement it effectively in your trading routine. Plus, if you want a built-for-you template, there is one that can be downloaded as well.
Trade Review Feature: Learning & Feedback in the Trader's Thinktank
The Trade Review feature in the Trader's Thinktank represents a significant step forward in enhancing the learning and feedback loop for traders within the community. By leveraging the collective knowledge and experience of the active members, traders can improve their skills, make more informed decisions, and ultimately, achieve greater profitability in the markets.