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Hi, everyone. Today is December 17th,
and this is our final class of the White
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of Practicum.
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This is the last session of the
Practicum as we know it, and it's going
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become WTC Part 2.
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But we're still going to call this
Practicum because this is where a lot of
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thinking is happening.
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This is where a lot of R &D is happening
as well.
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It's just when students go to...
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The level where they understand the
material better and much deeper, you
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they obviously have different questions.
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And that's how this R &D kind of
happens. In a way, you know, me and you
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have a very symbiotic relationship.
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I give you some knowledge that has
obviously a lot of blind spots, and then
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ask questions about those blind spots.
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I address those, but...
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By addressing some of them, it opens up
other blind spots.
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So you kind of could see this perpetual
symbiotic push and pull.
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What about this?
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What about that? Well, let me go and
research on this, and then I'll come
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to you. And when I come back,
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you know, you usually guys are going,
okay, well, that was great.
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But what about this?
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It kind of never stops, and it always
amazes me for almost 10 years now that
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I've taught officially.
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It's always been like this. So I came to
a realization. I want to share this
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with you.
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I have a nonverbal contract with all of
you, my students.
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And that contract is basically you give
me an opportunity.
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to go and research stuff and bring this
stuff to you.
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And you require so that I would explain
that. So that's kind of like my job. My
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job as a teacher is to go and to find
those, I call
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them moments of truth.
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some secret that you know needs to be
uncovered and my my responsibility is
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to do that and then to give this to you
so um kind of like that's my that's
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my purpose um and i'm really happy to do
this it uh brings me a lot of pleasure
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you know to do this all right well that
was a little bit out of the way
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um but uh I guess, you know, I'm a
little bit sentimental because
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this is the last class, you know, and we
had it going so well. I think this was
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probably one of the best practical
cycles that we've had.
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I thank your insistence on the details
of the bias game.
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was one of the greatest moments of this
cycle, for sure. And I'm looking forward
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to see how that's going to transpire,
you know, going forward. Because the
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we do bias games, and the more you guys
are kind
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of like pushing the whole process to a
very structured
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way, the more clearer the solution is.
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I basically kind of see where it's going
from here.
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We're going to have a step -by -step for
the bias game. And we have rule number
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one.
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Go left to right.
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Create your story from left to right.
Use all of the information that you
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So that was a really great moment in the
class in this cycle.
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I really, really liked and appreciate
also.
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All of the honest and sincere,
straightforward emails that I've got
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guys about where you are in trading, you
know, what bothers you, what you think,
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you know, we should be studying in the
class.
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And I'm always listening.
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You know, sometimes, you know, I just
take it as a note. And sometimes, you
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know, I drastically change, you know,
the way how we approach that.
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In a way, again, I'm talking about that
relationship that we have. You are
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driving the product, so to say. You're
kind of like dictating what is the next
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blind spot that we have to go to and
uncover.
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So I really appreciate that.
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Okay, what else?
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I think anatomy of the trade.
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was also interesting in the way how kind
of did not start really well, but
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then, you know, once this election was
good, then we went into the
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of, okay, well, this is betrayed and
this is how it unfolds.
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There were probably I would try to
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figure out
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how to include more exercises on more
different themes.
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So maybe in the next cycle, that could
be my focus.
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So kind of like contemplating and
thinking about the next cycle.
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What else is going to happen in the next
cycle is that once the new website is
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launched, then we are going to have the
capacity to communicate with each other
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via forums.
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And one of the forums is going to be a
closed out protected forum for WICAP
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practicum students.
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And you guys will be able to talk to
each other, post any charts, you know,
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discuss any homework that we have. And
because it's closed, only you in the
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classroom is going to see this.
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Actually, I probably will be kind of
like thinking that.
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For those of you who would like, you
could post your bias game, you know,
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you're done with that.
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And then, you know, other people could
have a look at that work if you'd like.
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Because I can't really, you know, do all
of this, you know, put all of your
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homeworks on the slides, but this could
be the way.
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And then just I had so many requests
from you just to connect, connect,
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So we're going to do exactly that.
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All right.
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What else is here before we go to our
agenda?
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Long -term campaigns. I thought the
first session was great.
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A lot of new material.
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You know, the way how I'm showing
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kind of like the
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price cycle and how we're going to put
the coordinates there.
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And I gave you guys, you know, like a
very, very defined signal as to look for
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this. And then you had a homework. So
for those of you who still want to
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participate, this week is the last
session. But, you know, as always, you
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buy it on demand.
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The practical.
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And this is very serious. And I've
already seen three people who signed up.
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for alumni who signed up for the
practicum again.
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Well, first of all, very smart because
it's an early bird, so please do that.
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And then I'm kind of smiling a little
bit because
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you see what's going on.
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It's like this game never ends.
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Each week you could analyze the chart
and you could come back to the class and
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just listen to the explanation or just
watch for that explanation.
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And I think that the key, especially for
those of you who have jobs from nine to
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five and you guys are so busy with other
stuff in your life, it's very difficult
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and I totally get it.
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There are other things that the market,
and I'm devoting a lot of time during
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the day.
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to the markets from any aspects of it.
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So I'm gonna take myself out of this
equation.
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But there are some things in life that I
really, really would like to do.
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And my job, which is the markets, does
not allow me to do so, right? So
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having just one class a week, it's a
structured way to kind
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of still keep going.
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keep improving and with each week just
think about those concepts to improve
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your thinking to look at some examples
and it's still gonna benefit you in the
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very long run so I could see how some of
the people are kind of like you know
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jumping you know from one cycle to
another into another it's just because
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just never stops so you can never stop
your improvement all right so Register
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for the practicum if you intend to do
so.
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Also consider WMT if you're not a
subscriber.
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Also, if you would like to repeat WTC
course, that's available as well.
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And there are some very exciting
products in 2020 that are coming out,
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on our newsletter distribution list. So
I will inform you this way.
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But one thing to pay attention, actually
two things to pay attention to, for
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sure, is the trusted process,
continuation of that, and then also the
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scanning, which I think that we are
consistently now
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developing this methodology and
knowledge.
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And in my work with John, I'm making
sure that there is that.
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consistency of the progression.
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So if you start from the beginning, you
know, from the first specials, from the
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very basic syntax, the basic
understanding, and I would take first
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special just to understand the momentum
in general and then jump into the
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scanning.
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Then we're going to have part two and
also a very, very advanced part three.
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it's just exciting where we're going
with that.
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And trust the process, that's going to
be a complete thing.
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You know, I kind of like have a specific
vision for that as well. We have, you
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know, Teresa working on that, and she's
doing just a spectacular work.
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So somewhere in the first quarter, we're
going to have that special too.
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Today, and it's session number 15, by
the way, right?
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It's not session number 14. I just don't
want to say goodbye.
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We have a special presentation by Ted.
Ted is going to be showing his way
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of defining and looking for sprints.
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So that's going to be very interesting.
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Then a quick market update, anatomy of
the trade update, bias game, a last bias
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game that I'm going to give you guys,
and then you're off to races with the
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Twitter. And on Twitter, free each week.
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Same bias game.
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We give you the explanation as well, so
you don't have to be in class.
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At least do that.
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That's very educational.
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But if you want more details, obviously,
just sign up for the class.
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Q &A, because this is the last class, we
didn't have a lot of questions,
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although we've addressed so many during
the course of this semester. So I'm
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satisfied with the Q &A in general.
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And then...
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There are some exercises that are left
on the bias game or the tape reading,
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we'll see which one you guys will choose
at that moment.
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All right.
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As usual, everything that we talk about
here is for educational purposes. Stop
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your recording. Read the disclaimer.
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With this, let me introduce you to
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our today's presenter.
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Ted, are you there?
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I think that you have to unmute
yourself.
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Let's see. Is this working now? Yes.
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Yes, I can hear you now. Oh, good.
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Isn't this amazing?
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Yeah. I'm on the side of the road
driving to Chicago.
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Yeah. And, you know, it is amazing, yes.
And I'm so happy that you could make
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it with the, you know, with this
technology that we have. So that's
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So, Ted, I wanted to, and I kind of
prefixed this by
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that you're going to talk to us about
sprints.
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So you sent me an email where you were
showing a case study, so to
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say, on the screen. And it kind of got
me interested, and I thought it would be
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valuable for our students, you know, to
hear this.
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Sure. So walk us through this.
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Well, let me make a few prefaces.
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I'm an old student, not a very good
student.
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took the course from Craig Schroeder in
1982.
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And the only, not being a good student,
I didn't, all I came away with was
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springs and upthrust.
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I didn't understand the A, B, C, D, E.
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That's why I took the course from you
probably nine months ago,
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to understand more about Wyckoff and to
have more points of entry.
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Because good springs don't occur that
often in the market.
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So I put this.
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And how was the course for you, by the
way, Ted?
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Oh, I loved it.
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I loved it.
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I'm going to go back through my old. I
still have the old original course.
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And I'm going to look for the A, B, C,
D, E that I must have missed back then.
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But it certainly has given me more.
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places to look for entries.
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I never would, I didn't buy NVIDIA, but
I could see what a great trade that was
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after, you know, I think it had made a
spring. I don't, I don't have the
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Yeah, it was a high low. It was
attempting to spring and it had, yes,
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it didn't make a loyal low, but let's,
let's also, you know, because we're here
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in the advanced class, let's just,
Remember that NVIDIA on the way to that
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C had characteristics that it wanted to
spring, the way how the spread behaved,
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the way how the volume behaved.
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And that's the main recognition that we
should have, you know, on that type of
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the reaction that goes into spring. And
it just failed to spring.
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Didn't spring.
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And then you missed, so you wouldn't
have bought it there, but on the, you
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there's other places as it was unfolding
that you could have jumped in and made
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a very nice.
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Made a very nice trade still, you know,
which is still unfolding.
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So I put these I'm an investment
advisor, work for a large firm in
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and was an institutional salesman for
many years selling research to
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institutions around the country. So I
got to see how large institutions work.
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You know, there's portfolio managers,
there's there's analysts and there's
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trading departments.
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And so it's kind of fun to see things
unfold and imagine, you know, as you're
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talking about how institutions look at
things and and then try to imagine how
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things are working inside of those
institutions.
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But so you've got you're on the first
part of this PowerPoint.
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And, you know, I think there is a
Wyckoff admonition that says beware of
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springs and downtrends.
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And that's that's correct, because they
often fail.
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But.
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To buy a spring or to get into a spring
position, the stock has to be a little
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weaker than the market has to be in a
downtrend of some kind. But I would say
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that you wait for a spring to get to a
really big spring position.
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Maybe, you know, you're springing
support from two or three years ago. And
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are those are big springs.
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So if we go to the next slide.
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Here we go.
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And, of course, really good springs come
in down markets, which, of course, is
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when it's really hard to buy a good
spring.
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And that's probably what takes all the
practice.
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A good spring, in my opinion, is the
danger points, the danger points that
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Livermore would talk about.
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And I have found that in a really good
spring, most of the gain comes
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in the automatic rally after the spring
is made.
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And we'll see that in just a little bit.
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But if we go to the next slide.
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Here's Lyondell.
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Now, I kind of like dividend stocks
because I think a good dividend puts a
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natural floor underneath a stock. But
you can see this wonderful spring.
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You know, Bruce Frazier was talking
about that switch from growth to value
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in August. And he had that chart, growth
versus value, on
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StockCharts .com. And it kind of shows
you when.
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The values started to get weaker.
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Do you remember that chart he had and
the value stocks were getting stronger?
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Well, that all happened right back in
August, right when this spring in Lion
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Dell occurred.
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Now, another spring in Caterpillar.
There were a lot of large springs right
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that month.
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And you can see Lion Dell is springing
support. One, two, three, four.
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Four years of support. And down there in
that spring at sixty nine dollars.
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It was yielding six and three quarters.
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It was yielding six percent or so.
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So to me, that's that's kind of what I
like to buy.
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If we go to the next slide.
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At this at the same time, this is
Caterpillar.
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This is the spring in August.
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You see a nice trading range.
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And we see the stock is now down at that
spring position in August.
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And what a wonderful thing that's been.
It's up 27 % from the spring. Now,
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Roman, you probably wouldn't buy that
spring. You'd probably wait for the
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automatic rally and the test and all
that.
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And that's fine. But sometimes I would
jump in right there because most of the
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gain is made.
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the recovery from the spring right well
ted um i don't know if you want the
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questions afterwards or durian um
because yeah that kind of you know
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the question is is asking itself why the
majority why do you think the
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majority of the gains come right after
the spring what you're calling an
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automatic rally here after the spring
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Probably we're referring to the sign of
strength here.
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Yes, that's the sign of strength. In
your opinion, why would the majority of
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gains come quickly after the spring?
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I just noticed that in a good spring,
the rally
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after the spring is kind of sharp.
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When you jump in later on, well, maybe a
good bit of the move has already been
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made, and it's more of a slog after
that.
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So that's why I think that.
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Can I really quickly tell you my opinion
on why this happens?
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Yes, please.
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Okay, so this is a very good
observation.
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But we also want to understand, you
know, what... what happens there, right?
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when we look at the volume signature
throughout the whole trading range going
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into phase C, we kind of see a lot of
buys as value buys. So they are buying
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the bottom. They are buying like at the
climactic action.
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Then they are buying maybe like at the
bottom of the spring of the secondary
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test, I'm sorry. And it acts as a
spring, right? It goes down, quickly up.
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Then another...
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kind of type of spring at this support
level.
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We're looking just at this support
level.
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Goes down, there is a little bit of the
increase in the volume signature.
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They are buying right here. So we could
establish like this value zone for
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institutional buyers where they buy it.
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And then by the time that they have
bought this position into phase C, we
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see in the volume signature that supply
has diminished. They have absorbed
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supply. It's visible from the volume
itself and from inability of the price
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commit seriously down.
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So then what happens next?
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Well, first, the spring in August, is
that point C?
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Yes. That's C. That's C right there. And
we could actually include this test
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into C.
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Why? Because we usually would be
thinking that with the local increase of
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supply, there's going to be some kind of
test in action that should happen on
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the lower volume signature and then at
the higher low structurally.
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So that's what we're looking for.
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So we could include both.
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And then imagine that this supply has
been observed.
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it's much easier for the price to move
up. So now we have momentum on our side.
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And not only that, there are fewer
shares that are available because of
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absorption. So they have to bid up the
price.
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And that's when the move starts to
happen much faster. And off the spring,
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usually will have that momentum.
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Now what happens afterwards in some
cases, whenever we've done sign of
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Then they're saying, well, we bought in
on the way up. Now we're not going to do
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anything. We're going to become
inactive.
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We're satisfied. We have a meaningful
position.
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If we're going to see some short -term
value, we're going to step in.
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And that's where the price starts to
kind of like drift into the backing up
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action. And as they see some short -term
value, that's when they start, okay,
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we're going to pick up a little bit
here, a little bit here, a little bit
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Now we're kind of like supporting this
ground because our short -term.
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valuation is here, and that absorbs
final supply at this level, and then
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moves the price up. This advertises the
trend, and then more institutions jump
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on this train because their systems are
saying, what, 52 weeks high, momentum
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breakout, and so on and so forth.
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So all of these institutional trend
followers are jumping on the train, and
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obviously it becomes a trend.
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But it all started with this spring.
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With this spring. With this spring.
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And the problem is you don't have a
beautiful formation like this very
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I mean, you can look for these and look
for them.
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There's not that many of them.
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But when they're there, they're pretty
good.
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Okay. Going to the next.
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The next one is eBay.
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This is years ago, not that many years
ago, but I always thought.
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Here we have a nice long trading range.
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And I kind of look at the bottom of that
range.
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As the bid side of the market in a big
kind of way, that's the bid side and the
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upper range is the offered side in a big
kind of way. And and this is where all
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the big.
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The big boys, the big portfolio
managers, and I used to call on them.
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where they're kind of placing their
orders in a big trading range like this.
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Now, eBay went on to much.
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This was reaccumulation, and this went
on to much higher highs after 2015.
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I don't show it to you in this chart.
I'm just showing you that particular
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trading range.
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The next slide, somehow I went back to
Caterpillar, eBay.
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Oh, so, Roman, you said in one of your
classes,
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and this is, flip down to the next, flip
down
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if you would. It should be TLT.
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Yes. Yes. All right.
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So you said, and this explains things
perfectly.
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that a climax is a liquidity event.
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So you shouldn't fear these things.
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And I can just imagine what goes on
inside of an institution.
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And you've been trying to buy this stock
all year long.
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If you're a big institution, you just
can't buy that much stock and not move
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price.
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And so you...
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You kind of divide up your purchases and
you kind of wade into a stock and you
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wade out of a stock.
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And then suddenly you've been trying to
buy this stock all year. Then finally,
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wham, it's down five or six points on
some sort of bad news.
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Huge spread going down.
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Lots of volume.
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And the trading department is calling up
the portfolio manager saying, look,
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you've been trying to buy this all year.
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Here you can have all you want at down
five dollars from the last price.
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And they're finding the other sides of
these trades. And so the portfolio
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managers, if nothing really is that
different about the company, they come
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and make their purchases.
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Now, this isn't a stock. TLT is, you
know, long treasuries, but it's the
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I was just looking for an example of a
nice big climax where the climax stopped
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the move.
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And this is what happened in the ETF.
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And then this is back in August.
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September and October of 18.
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Then we had a very big rally for bonds
in TLT or
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is shown by TLT, I should say. And then
we had another in August of 19. We had
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a buying climax and that and as I was
watching that, you just knew, oh, this
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the end of the rally because we had this
big climax and everything that was to
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be. Bought and sold is bought and sold
right then, and kind of everything's
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cleared out, and we've marked the end of
a rally. So now this is probably going
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to mark a nice trading range, don't you
think, Roman?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, that was described perfectly.
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The rally itself had kind of like those
characteristics that we've talked about,
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guys, in Best of Wyckoff.
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I've talked about first the momentum off
the floor, right? So where we have that
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volume signature. There's a lot of
buying orders that moves the price
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after the spring.
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Ted has described the spring process to
us.
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Then we go into the second section where
we have profit taken on the way up,
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and that kind of has more reactionary
mode, but it's still upsloping.
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It's a vertical absorption.
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taking is happening other institutional
interest believing that the valuation is
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still going to be higher and they are
going to observe that supply by stepping
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in and buying you know that supply and
then once supply has been observed first
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at the low level at the level of the
backing up action then on the way up
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there is nothing left and we have a pure
speculation um and
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actually There is nothing to fear about
the buying climaxes. In fact, you should
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be looking at the opportunity as a
speculator, and I'm talking to those of
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advanced students who are speculators,
to take this and to take this.
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Unfortunately, I did not take the move
up, but when I saw that it's climaxing
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like this, my entry was here and I got
out somewhere here.
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The purpose of this trade was not to
have a very long -term, short -oriented
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position. It was just to capture the
initial momentum, to capture the initial
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volatility in a very short period of
time, make a relatively good return.
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And that's what kind of like was
achieved with that trade. Ted?
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Yes. So this illustrates climaxes at
both ends of a
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move.
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Now, too bad as we're a big bond firm,
too bad we didn't
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really act. We didn't do anything right
there.
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You're too scared to death.
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Okay, well, let me kind of like
interfere here with your thinking here,
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I do.
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uh work and consult you know um
institutional clients so this is a kind
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uh common dilemma right what do you do
at that spot at the top as an
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you have you're holding a long -term
position you know so what do you do you
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already have you know profits built in
but in a lot of cases i hear that is
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um when there is such a strong deviation
you know uh in the way how quickly the
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move has happened, institutions tend to
take the profits off the table, wouldn't
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you say?
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Yes. As a bond firm, we have most
certainly drawn in our horns because
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we've had such a great year. We want to
preserve it. Yes.
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So the way you do that in a bond firm is
you shorten up your positions.
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Okay. You shorten them up. You can stay
in the same corporate bonds if you like
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the names. You can stay in the same. You
just buy shorter positions because
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they're not going to be as volatile as a
longer bond is going to be.
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In effect, you're making the same trade.
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You are basically trading this short
-term volatility that's going to occur
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you're using just different
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time frame.
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As a firm, we're not using charts like a
Wyckoff person.
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If we were all Wyckoff bond people, we
would have known what to do.
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Hopefully, for your personal purposes
and just an understanding.
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You know, of what are the possibilities
here, how behaviors are going to, you
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know, be exhibited at that buy and stop
in action. You know, I think it's
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useful. All right. Well, what's what's
next for us? So the next next slide.
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Oh, so here's what I emailed you, Roman.
And then you emailed me back. So, you
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know, the market, one of the few things
the market gives you is diversification.
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So is.
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investment advisors portfolio managers
you have diversified portfolios now as
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you get if you become a good wyckoff
trader you don't need as much
451
00:33:57,140 --> 00:34:01,540
diversification because you're more
correct more often on your trades
452
00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:07,080
but remember yeah hopefully but you know
we're trading for other people so you
453
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,900
can't do the things that you would do in
your own in your own account um
454
00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:19,159
But diversification is one of the few
things the market gives you.
455
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,880
And so why not have a diversified
portfolio of springs?
456
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,860
And so from time to time, I sit down in
front of the TV and I'm just flipping
457
00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:34,880
through. I like to use Telechart because
you can just zip through 500, the S &P
458
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,780
500 in no time, just flipping right
through.
459
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,659
And, you know, I just jot down a number
of.
460
00:34:43,340 --> 00:34:47,340
Springs are close to springs or maybe a
few failed springs, too.
461
00:34:48,580 --> 00:34:54,760
So August 22nd, I've done this over the
years, so I've got lists from previous
462
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,320
years. This is just the latest one.
463
00:34:57,020 --> 00:35:01,160
I did not make that list in August.
There are some great springs in August.
464
00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:05,620
This is October 22nd.
465
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,520
And.
466
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,800
So there were about seven or eight.
467
00:35:12,430 --> 00:35:15,170
The stocks that I jotted down noted.
468
00:35:16,770 --> 00:35:18,230
And if we go to the next.
469
00:35:18,910 --> 00:35:19,970
Well, let me say this.
470
00:35:23,310 --> 00:35:26,490
If if you put together a portfolio of
springs.
471
00:35:28,030 --> 00:35:31,990
If you look at the let's go down the
next let's go down the next chart.
472
00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:40,930
This is that portfolio of spring, so you
can see what the stocks were.
473
00:35:41,830 --> 00:35:48,210
Alexian, Clorox, Comerica, Concho
Resources, Disney, Devon Energy,
474
00:35:48,570 --> 00:35:52,930
EOG Resources, Exelon, and Diamondback
Energy.
475
00:35:53,130 --> 00:35:57,250
You notice there's a few oil stocks in
here because they're all making lows.
476
00:35:59,130 --> 00:36:05,650
The green line is the composite is the
average of these stocks.
477
00:36:06,350 --> 00:36:08,810
The blue line is the S &P 500.
478
00:36:11,310 --> 00:36:13,950
begins October 22nd.
479
00:36:15,410 --> 00:36:21,770
And you can see how these springs, how
these companies have rallied
480
00:36:21,770 --> 00:36:26,170
since October 22nd, responding to these
springs.
481
00:36:26,430 --> 00:36:31,730
And you can see how the S &P 500 did at
the same period.
482
00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:35,510
If I were to back this chart up,
483
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:45,800
The composite of these stocks would look
terrible. They'd be down 25 % over the
484
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:46,840
last 12 months.
485
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,240
But then once they hit their spring
positions, they start rallying.
486
00:36:51,620 --> 00:36:57,660
So this chart begins from October 22nd.
So there's two things I note. One,
487
00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:04,020
the springs do better, and they have
over, when I've done this time after
488
00:37:04,140 --> 00:37:06,460
have done better than the S &P.
489
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:11,040
We're investment advisors, so we like to
do better than the S &P or whatever our
490
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,040
benchmark is.
491
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:17,480
And it also the springs triggered you
into positions.
492
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:23,340
So you got triggered into positions and
you did better than the S &P 500 for
493
00:37:23,340 --> 00:37:27,960
this period of time. Now, the effect of
these springs is going to wear off over
494
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,580
time. So four months from now.
495
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,920
That green line is probably going to be
doing worse than the S &P.
496
00:37:36,620 --> 00:37:40,820
Because you went into stocks that are
probably weaker than the market in
497
00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:45,240
general. They're responding to their
springs, but they're kind of weaker than
498
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:45,859
the market.
499
00:37:45,860 --> 00:37:49,700
So this will this effect will wear off
after a while and these will stop
500
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:54,480
outperforming. I've seen that happen in
these lists, which I keep.
501
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,500
If we go down.
502
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,220
So then I put slides in for each one of
these stocks.
503
00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:08,700
So go down the next one.
504
00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:10,660
We'll see Clorox.
505
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,760
Clorox is kind of a spring in a what
could be an uptrend.
506
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:22,060
That's responding not not really well.
Oh, and this is at October 22nd. So this
507
00:38:22,060 --> 00:38:25,320
is what they look like at October 22nd,
not afterwards.
508
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:32,820
I'd confuse everything if I tried to
put, you know, October 22nd, then what
509
00:38:32,820 --> 00:38:34,880
happened afterwards. But you guys can
look it up.
510
00:38:35,310 --> 00:38:36,650
See how these responded.
511
00:38:37,830 --> 00:38:39,710
The next one is Comerica.
512
00:38:43,390 --> 00:38:46,750
That was on this list. The next one is
Concho.
513
00:38:47,010 --> 00:38:50,510
So these are all pretty ugly looking at
the time. That's what makes them hard to
514
00:38:50,510 --> 00:38:51,810
jump into.
515
00:38:52,610 --> 00:38:53,610
So ugly.
516
00:38:54,950 --> 00:38:57,010
Next one is Alexian.
517
00:38:57,830 --> 00:39:00,150
Alexian had a great rally after that
spring.
518
00:39:01,270 --> 00:39:04,450
The next one is Disney. A spring in an
uptrend.
519
00:39:05,580 --> 00:39:07,300
That one sprung very nicely.
520
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,700
Devon Energy didn't quite get to the
spring. It started to rally a little
521
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:26,900
EOG Resources didn't quite get to the
spring, but it rallied.
522
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,840
Exelon, a big utility.
523
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,080
And Fang, Diamondback Energy.
524
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,460
So I just put these on. This is what
they look like at the time of the
525
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,020
And then if you go back up and see the
performance of the springs, you'll see
526
00:39:45,020 --> 00:39:49,460
that most of them have, in mass, have
done all right.
527
00:39:51,820 --> 00:39:53,080
So that was my story.
528
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,580
Oh, one other thought.
529
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,700
When you see a bunch of big springs in
the market, that could be a turning
530
00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:02,700
in the market.
531
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:06,480
especially in big stocks.
532
00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:12,980
I think the market follows big stocks
and big springs in stocks, and I think
533
00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:14,800
that touches off rallies in the market.
534
00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:17,700
Yeah, that's a really good observation.
535
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,940
I think that we are, you know, through
different tools in different classes,
536
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,860
we're coming up with the definition of
the breadth of the market. So you can
537
00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:31,200
spring as kind of like a breadth
indicator of where we are.
538
00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:37,300
At the point of the reversal when the
market is oversold and, you know,
539
00:40:37,340 --> 00:40:44,200
obviously October 22nd is kind of like,
you know, on that one of the
540
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,200
lows there.
541
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:49,120
So we're definitely going to see a lot
of sprints there. Right. And from there,
542
00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:50,400
we're going to have a move up.
543
00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:55,820
I think what's valuable and I would love
to hear your thoughts is.
544
00:40:57,220 --> 00:41:01,920
Definitely, emotionally, it's difficult
to buy a sprain just because we are at
545
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,060
the point of danger, right? So it could
go...
546
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,580
Either way, it could continue its move
to the downside. Usually, it's not going
547
00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:10,640
to have relative strength.
548
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:16,140
It's not going to have other
characteristics rather than maybe like
549
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:21,060
conditions of deterioration of the
downtrend, where momentum starts to slow
550
00:41:21,060 --> 00:41:26,220
down, maybe where the volume starts to
come in in a bullish way, and we could
551
00:41:26,220 --> 00:41:29,540
start seeing this. But usually, it's
going to look very bearish.
552
00:41:30,250 --> 00:41:31,310
It's going to look awful.
553
00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:35,410
And by the way, these have all worked
because we're in a bull market.
554
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:39,330
If we were in a bear market, these
springs would not be working.
555
00:41:39,670 --> 00:41:43,190
And that's how you know if you're in a
bull market or a bear market.
556
00:41:43,590 --> 00:41:50,570
Right. So you have to pick up the
springs in some kind of market
557
00:41:50,570 --> 00:41:51,570
correction.
558
00:41:51,830 --> 00:41:54,130
That's when they're going to work the
best.
559
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,800
So either this is going to be a secular
correction like 2009, and those are
560
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,020
going to be deep sprints.
561
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:07,500
But those are going to present the most
long -term value.
562
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:14,820
Or you're going to have short -term
cyclical lows, 2010, 2011,
563
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,600
2012,
564
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:23,420
2014, 2015, 2016, then 2018.
565
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:29,800
on both sides at the beginning of the
year and at the end, and then 19.
566
00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:35,900
All of those years would have those
market characteristics of a cyclical
567
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:42,700
downturn, which recovers in the second.
Which recovers. Yeah.
568
00:42:43,020 --> 00:42:49,580
Usually during those that are usually
going to be like 10, 15, 20 % down,
569
00:42:49,580 --> 00:42:50,640
going to find a lot of sprints.
570
00:42:51,370 --> 00:42:54,090
That's when you'll see the springs, nice
ones, big ones.
571
00:42:54,310 --> 00:43:00,170
Right. Now, if you're incorrect on some
of these and you fall below.
572
00:43:00,790 --> 00:43:03,570
Oh, my goodness. I was about to ask you
this question.
573
00:43:04,950 --> 00:43:09,310
Then what happens is you have a good
chance of a rally back to the ice.
574
00:43:10,010 --> 00:43:12,050
Okay. So you still rally.
575
00:43:12,450 --> 00:43:18,550
If spring fails, right, this should be
kind of like a title of an article or a
576
00:43:18,550 --> 00:43:20,130
blog. If spring fails.
577
00:43:21,210 --> 00:43:22,770
then what are our tactics?
578
00:43:23,030 --> 00:43:28,150
We are basically saying that this is, as
you said, return to the ISO LPSY rally.
579
00:43:29,630 --> 00:43:30,870
But it's still a rally.
580
00:43:31,310 --> 00:43:33,590
Yes, and you let it go on the rally.
581
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:36,110
Okay, so how do you let it go?
582
00:43:37,310 --> 00:43:43,310
My question was, what is the point of
confirmation for you?
583
00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:44,710
Where do you confirm?
584
00:43:47,090 --> 00:43:49,510
I'm not that good of a Wyckoff student.
585
00:43:50,270 --> 00:43:56,230
I see. Well, I'm thinking maybe like a
breakout, like a local breakout after
586
00:43:56,230 --> 00:43:58,290
the sprint and the test.
587
00:43:58,650 --> 00:44:04,550
So if there is a resumption of this up
move, then we definitely should continue
588
00:44:04,550 --> 00:44:08,350
and actually add to the position because
this is an add -on point.
589
00:44:08,590 --> 00:44:09,830
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
590
00:44:10,090 --> 00:44:13,150
Yeah. Okay. So we are looking for the
confirmation.
591
00:44:14,550 --> 00:44:15,550
Okay.
592
00:44:16,010 --> 00:44:17,970
We're on FAG, right?
593
00:44:18,540 --> 00:44:21,400
Are you on Fang? Oh, no, I wasn't
looking at you.
594
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:27,180
Yeah, well, let's kind of like finish
here, just one more item.
595
00:44:28,260 --> 00:44:33,440
What I thought that was mentioned many
times, but maybe we are overlooking this
596
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:39,980
point, the difference between, let's
say,
597
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:45,100
a secular spring and more of a spring.
598
00:44:46,630 --> 00:44:48,550
in the bull market already.
599
00:44:50,750 --> 00:44:56,670
Because the springs in the bull market
in the previous or in prior leadership
600
00:44:56,670 --> 00:45:00,770
stocks, those are the best.
601
00:45:01,330 --> 00:45:05,770
Those are the springs and uptrends. Yes,
springs and uptrends, exactly.
602
00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:13,510
So LYB would not be one of those, but it
made a five -year spring and
603
00:45:13,510 --> 00:45:15,230
was yielding 6 % down there.
604
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:21,200
So think about what's the difference,
right? Well, first of all, there could
605
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,260
a difference in causality.
606
00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:27,480
Secular springs are going to have
secular type of causalities.
607
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,420
Springs in the uptrend are going to have
smaller causality because those are
608
00:45:32,420 --> 00:45:33,720
reaccumulation points.
609
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:40,900
Yes. And they're going to require even
less effort and less momentum to
610
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:41,900
get out of them.
611
00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:44,640
But they still will require some effort.
612
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,160
of absorption.
613
00:45:46,980 --> 00:45:49,800
So this is actually really good.
614
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:58,120
Well, Roman, from where I come from,
when I was an institutional salesman, we
615
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,120
were a value shop.
616
00:45:59,820 --> 00:46:01,160
So I just like cheap.
617
00:46:04,020 --> 00:46:07,160
That's just the way I was brought up in
the stock market.
618
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:13,640
Well, yes, and we want to understand
that mentality because, you know, The
619
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,360
mentality of value still pretty much
rules the markets.
620
00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:22,900
The mentality of momentum sustains the
trends.
621
00:46:23,540 --> 00:46:29,840
We want to understand how do value
investors operate?
622
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,160
What are the points where they buy?
623
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,440
I think this presentation is just
perfect.
624
00:46:34,660 --> 00:46:40,680
It's kind of like a look inside of
institutional mind and how institutions
625
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:41,680
buying value,
626
00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:44,050
call and spring.
627
00:46:45,170 --> 00:46:50,910
Roman, our bond guys will also refer to
spread and volume too.
628
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:58,250
Bonds are different, but they're really
hard to buy as opposed to
629
00:46:58,250 --> 00:47:04,690
stock because they're so illiquid. You
look for spread and volume.
630
00:47:05,050 --> 00:47:06,050
Right.
631
00:47:07,150 --> 00:47:11,490
There is some liquidity problems in this
market. Oh, huge.
632
00:47:11,950 --> 00:47:12,629
It's huge.
633
00:47:12,630 --> 00:47:17,830
So you have to navigate also in terms of
like if I'm getting into this position,
634
00:47:18,030 --> 00:47:21,610
am I going to get out even if it moves?
No question.
635
00:47:21,890 --> 00:47:28,850
No question. So there should be some
kind of assessment as to what levels of
636
00:47:28,850 --> 00:47:32,890
liquidity you could have and then what
kind of weight proposition you're going
637
00:47:32,890 --> 00:47:35,770
to have as per that liquidity, stuff
like that?
638
00:47:36,990 --> 00:47:41,070
No question. We have to study this to
know if it's a bond.
639
00:47:41,770 --> 00:47:45,530
If we can't trade bonds, we don't have a
business.
640
00:47:46,190 --> 00:47:51,670
So whatever we trade, we have to be able
to sell out. So we look for big liquid
641
00:47:51,670 --> 00:47:55,350
bonds. But even in the big liquid bonds,
they're hard.
642
00:47:56,590 --> 00:48:01,750
Like many things in life, it's very easy
to get into things, much harder to get
643
00:48:01,750 --> 00:48:02,749
out.
644
00:48:02,750 --> 00:48:07,690
So you can buy any bond you want at a
fair price, maybe.
645
00:48:07,950 --> 00:48:10,370
But try selling it. That's the problem.
646
00:48:11,660 --> 00:48:12,660
So, yeah.
647
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:18,300
Okay. Well, Ted, this is great. This is
a great presentation. Thank you for this
648
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:20,120
unique view for us.
649
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:28,160
You know, you kind of like bring in
both, you know, institutional knowledge
650
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:32,280
you know, your experience and then also
understanding of the, you know, Wyckoff
651
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,040
methodology and how we look at things.
So it's just very, very unique for us.
652
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,120
Yeah.
653
00:48:37,470 --> 00:48:42,110
It's not perfectly Wyckoff, and I'd like
to get better at Wyckoff because then
654
00:48:42,110 --> 00:48:47,510
there'd be more traits and better ones.
655
00:48:47,810 --> 00:48:53,730
So there you are. So I'll just continue
driving, and I'll just listen.
656
00:48:54,110 --> 00:48:58,330
Absolutely. Enjoy the class, and thank
you very much again.
657
00:48:59,170 --> 00:49:00,170
Great.
658
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,440
All right. I think I muted Ted.
659
00:49:04,820 --> 00:49:09,840
He muted himself. Well, Ted, thank you.
Thank you very much and just enjoy the
660
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:10,840
class.
661
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:18,720
Well, I think that, you know, this type
of presentation,
662
00:49:18,980 --> 00:49:23,020
we probably could have so many.
663
00:49:23,580 --> 00:49:28,120
with people who are on the institutional
side and they're using, let's say,
664
00:49:28,180 --> 00:49:31,940
technical analysis or they're using
Weikert methodology in particular.
665
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:37,140
It makes a lot of sense where TED would
be looking for candidates.
666
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,900
You know, it's at that point of
institutional value.
667
00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:46,680
They need to be so efficient because
they need to produce good metrics.
668
00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:49,300
throughout the year.
669
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:51,620
Otherwise, they're not going to have
business.
670
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:57,660
So therefore, there is a lot of thought
that's going in their head as to where
671
00:49:57,660 --> 00:49:58,800
exactly they are buying.
672
00:49:59,740 --> 00:50:01,660
That's a really, really good knowledge.
673
00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:02,900
All right, great.
674
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,760
Let's look at the markets really quick.
675
00:50:07,820 --> 00:50:12,780
So we probably would agree that
676
00:50:13,670 --> 00:50:19,930
Tariffs is probably, as a story, is
going away, at least short term, at
677
00:50:19,930 --> 00:50:20,930
with phase one.
678
00:50:21,210 --> 00:50:27,890
I think that we are going to have some
kind of ups and downs there because it's
679
00:50:27,890 --> 00:50:31,610
not resolved completely, but the cost is
clear.
680
00:50:32,350 --> 00:50:36,230
Brexit, and I was talking to one of our
students.
681
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:43,240
My friend, he lives in London, and I was
asking all of the Brexit sentiment
682
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:50,080
news. And even though a lot of people
were objecting to the
683
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,080
Brexit itself or how it's happening,
684
00:50:52,780 --> 00:50:55,920
the markets actually were encouraging.
685
00:50:56,300 --> 00:51:01,980
The London market has rallied at almost
2 .5 %
686
00:51:01,980 --> 00:51:04,600
after the vote.
687
00:51:06,330 --> 00:51:11,450
very decisive vote for Boris's party.
688
00:51:11,930 --> 00:51:18,670
So it's probably a non -event as well.
There is a change of perception,
689
00:51:18,830 --> 00:51:22,490
and we'll talk about this tomorrow in
the WMD class.
690
00:51:23,970 --> 00:51:30,490
Then what are we left with? Fed. Fed is
accommodative, and there is really...
691
00:51:30,780 --> 00:51:36,820
You know, nothing on the horizon in
terms of the unexpectancy of the Fed
692
00:51:36,820 --> 00:51:37,820
behavior.
693
00:51:39,020 --> 00:51:45,900
Economy, well, it's slowly growing. It's
not overheated. And that's usually
694
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:50,880
a really good thing, not to be
overheated, but at the same time, you
695
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,240
So that would suggest that with other
problems going away, then, you know,
696
00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:00,040
is a room for a run, a room for a rally.
697
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,900
And then obviously, you know, we have
the market itself.
698
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,080
And what does the market say?
699
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:14,260
Again, listening to quite a lot of
people just because, you know, I have
700
00:52:14,260 --> 00:52:15,260
to.
701
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,800
I'm hearing a lot of negative sentiment.
702
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:23,100
Oh, this is still going on. Oh, this is,
you know, still going on.
703
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,120
And look, this is an upthrust.
704
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:28,960
I don't see an upthrust yet.
705
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:35,140
If we would be talking about an
upthrust, we probably would be talking
706
00:52:35,140 --> 00:52:40,100
upthrust somewhere here.
707
00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:43,940
But hold on a second. They did talk
about this here.
708
00:52:44,180 --> 00:52:50,540
Okay, well, maybe a more meaningful
upthrust that starts with this change of
709
00:52:50,540 --> 00:52:51,540
character.
710
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:57,140
They did talk about this. No, it's not
that upthrust.
711
00:52:58,750 --> 00:53:05,350
is an action where you would have an
attempt
712
00:53:05,350 --> 00:53:12,110
to go up, and then almost immediately
come back into the range.
713
00:53:14,350 --> 00:53:17,650
And here, we would have to look at the
slope, actually.
714
00:53:18,030 --> 00:53:21,870
So the upthrust would be more like this.
715
00:53:23,370 --> 00:53:26,130
Not a very good representation of the
upthrust.
716
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:32,340
So we would be looking for something
like this, and it doesn't happen, or at
717
00:53:32,340 --> 00:53:38,360
least we don't see it yet. We are
actually in the trend channel, and we
718
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:44,800
facing the resistance that is based on
this point right here. And this is just
719
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:50,780
in the lower part of the trend channel.
If we're going to overcome here, and
720
00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:54,260
we're meeting some resistance because of
different...
721
00:53:55,790 --> 00:53:59,670
trend lines right here different points
of resistance but once we clear this
722
00:53:59,670 --> 00:54:03,430
point right here and i think we're going
to have like a little bit of a pause
723
00:54:03,430 --> 00:54:08,890
around 32 32 50 then we don't have
anything here and we're going to
724
00:54:08,890 --> 00:54:10,850
really fast into 35.
725
00:54:11,550 --> 00:54:18,510
um at least that's how it looks right
now the way how it moves um
726
00:54:18,510 --> 00:54:24,310
and then obviously we want to understand
where the leadership is so technology
727
00:54:24,310 --> 00:54:29,050
is the leadership I still would stick to
Russell as well because it seems like
728
00:54:29,050 --> 00:54:30,410
it wants to explode.
729
00:54:32,990 --> 00:54:39,850
VXX and VIX are confirming the rally, so
there is no bearish institutional
730
00:54:39,850 --> 00:54:45,890
hedges that are coming in, and the ones
that came in were unwinded literally in
731
00:54:45,890 --> 00:54:49,890
a week or so. And that helped to push
the price even higher.
732
00:54:50,270 --> 00:54:51,270
Oil.
733
00:54:51,550 --> 00:54:56,890
The latest update that I had for you
guys yesterday is that we are trying to
734
00:54:56,890 --> 00:54:57,788
break out.
735
00:54:57,790 --> 00:55:04,630
And the way how I look at supply that
came in and supply that is not
736
00:55:04,630 --> 00:55:09,770
coming in at this level, it just
basically suggests that supply has been
737
00:55:09,770 --> 00:55:15,890
exhausted. And if supply is exhausted,
then we probably will have a breakout or
738
00:55:15,890 --> 00:55:16,890
at least an attempt.
739
00:55:17,150 --> 00:55:19,730
At least we'll have some kind of
probing.
740
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:24,320
attempt to overcome this slope and
resistance.
741
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,100
And if we do, that's going to be a
little bit dramatic.
742
00:55:29,620 --> 00:55:33,560
That's probably going to have some kind
of acceleration. And I think
743
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:39,460
acceleration through 62 with a lot of
supply coming in and then into 64.
744
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:46,420
I would expect that we probably would
make a slightly higher high and still
745
00:55:46,420 --> 00:55:48,100
would stop somewhere at 64.
746
00:55:49,420 --> 00:55:53,560
We're kind of going in this slope here.
747
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:03,920
So 64, rejection, and that high,
something like that. But definitely
748
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,980
it feels like it wants to accelerate.
749
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,640
This would be in line with the market
acceleration as well.
750
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:16,320
So if market starts to run away, I
think, you know, that will be on the,
751
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:20,280
kind of, you know, Well, let's look at
the economy. Let's look at earnings.
752
00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:25,480
And it still would suggest that the
prices are going to be higher and
753
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,060
going to bump it up.
754
00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:35,420
Gold, I still don't see a very strong
edge here. So I'm just staying away.
755
00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:40,620
Remember how Wyckoff would say, if in
doubt, do nothing.
756
00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:45,220
Well, it's not like we're in doubt. We
just don't see opportunity.
757
00:56:46,750 --> 00:56:51,530
I would say when you don't see an
opportunity, stay away.
758
00:56:52,370 --> 00:56:55,150
Don't try to create any trades.
759
00:56:55,890 --> 00:57:02,770
Having said this, I think probably if we
are trying
760
00:57:02,770 --> 00:57:09,650
to commit to the upside, we're probably
going to go to 1540 and then meet some
761
00:57:09,650 --> 00:57:10,650
kind of resistance.
762
00:57:11,610 --> 00:57:16,390
And that would suggest that we might...
create a trading range.
763
00:57:16,750 --> 00:57:23,590
Another possibility here is just a
really big capitulation on
764
00:57:23,590 --> 00:57:27,570
market that is just going up, up, up,
up, up.
765
00:57:28,010 --> 00:57:29,730
And it runs away.
766
00:57:30,030 --> 00:57:36,630
And then gold is just basically loses
its value as a instrument of
767
00:57:36,630 --> 00:57:37,930
safety for a moment.
768
00:57:38,150 --> 00:57:41,430
But it still stays in some kind of
trading range.
769
00:57:41,980 --> 00:57:46,220
That would allow the gold to continue
its secular drive up.
770
00:57:47,140 --> 00:57:54,000
So I don't see that edge. I'm long -term
gold, but I'm
771
00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:00,940
not trying to pick any spots here and
would trade cautiously to
772
00:58:00,940 --> 00:58:02,700
the upside if opportunity presents.
773
00:58:05,380 --> 00:58:06,380
All right.
774
00:58:07,300 --> 00:58:09,520
That's it for the market update.
775
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,420
Let's go to some questions.
776
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:21,400
Chris is asking, could you show us what
settings are required to show the rate
777
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,180
of change, relative strength, and
horizontal volume on stock charts as I'm
778
00:58:25,180 --> 00:58:28,080
to move across from my old UK chart
provider?
779
00:58:28,700 --> 00:58:32,200
Okay, and then a second question, if
possible, in the last class of the
780
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:37,100
practical, show us what a reverse trend
line is.
781
00:58:37,420 --> 00:58:38,480
Okay, great.
782
00:58:39,420 --> 00:58:41,620
So we're doing the relative.
783
00:58:43,790 --> 00:58:48,030
Rate of change, we're doing relative
strength, and then
784
00:58:48,030 --> 00:58:52,750
we're doing horizontal volume.
785
00:58:52,990 --> 00:58:56,390
Okay, so the one that we don't have is
the volume.
786
00:58:57,310 --> 00:59:02,350
So the volume, horizontal volume, is
called on stock charts volume by price.
787
00:59:04,410 --> 00:59:07,870
Here we go. So here are all three of
them.
788
00:59:08,750 --> 00:59:10,970
So let's just kind of like look at.
789
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:16,860
what we have here in the settings. So,
horizontal volume, volume by price, and
790
00:59:16,860 --> 00:59:18,400
it's gonna be in overlays.
791
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,920
Then under the indicators, you're gonna
have a relative strength, so you're
792
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:30,320
gonna choose price, and you're gonna
choose, for instance, you're gonna write
793
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:36,660
dollar sign symbol, division sign, and
then a market proxy that you wanna use.
794
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,980
So, for instance, I could say symbol,
795
00:59:43,850 --> 00:59:49,730
and I want to use, let's say, VTI as a
market proxy.
796
00:59:50,590 --> 00:59:55,230
Then I want to say, well, instead of the
total market, I'm going to use this
797
00:59:55,230 --> 01:00:00,510
sector. For instance, I'm going to use
technology sector.
798
01:00:01,830 --> 01:00:03,730
Well, I don't want to use technology
sector.
799
01:00:03,970 --> 01:00:10,570
I want to use a group, and then I would
choose some kind of group that fits the
800
01:00:10,570 --> 01:00:11,850
description.
801
01:00:13,950 --> 01:00:16,070
the classification of the stock charts.
802
01:00:16,290 --> 01:00:18,810
But then maybe I don't want to use the
group either.
803
01:00:19,130 --> 01:00:22,290
And I'm going to compare everything to
Apple.
804
01:00:22,750 --> 01:00:26,270
And that's how you build that relative
strength line.
805
01:00:26,730 --> 01:00:33,710
If you would like, you could use and in
the overlay to the relative strengths,
806
01:00:33,810 --> 01:00:40,570
you could have a moving average and you
could identify the parameter
807
01:00:40,570 --> 01:00:42,190
for that moving average.
808
01:00:42,750 --> 01:00:47,390
And usually I do have, because it's
right away a definition of the trend, so
809
01:00:47,390 --> 01:00:53,850
kind of easily see what the trend is,
and the moving average is sloping down,
810
01:00:54,030 --> 01:01:00,470
trending down, and then the price action
on this relative strength is
811
01:01:00,470 --> 01:01:04,610
predominantly below the moving average,
so it's a downtrend.
812
01:01:06,250 --> 01:01:07,290
Rate of change.
813
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,460
This you could change. 21 is going to be
your short term.
814
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,060
So this is one month.
815
01:01:15,620 --> 01:01:18,440
63 is going to be your quarter.
816
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:22,780
252 is going to be your year.
817
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:28,600
And usually these are the parameters,
and I also use this for moving averages
818
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:33,840
well. Why this? Because these are
institutional type of timeframes.
819
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,020
A month, a quarter, and a year.
820
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:43,980
Usually, we would like to see, on the
institutional side, deterioration within
821
01:01:43,980 --> 01:01:50,400
two quarters of absolute return and
relative return.
822
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:55,640
When we see that type of deterioration
in two quarters, we probably would be
823
01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:02,580
thinking that institutions would be
probably giving up on their positions
824
01:02:02,580 --> 01:02:03,720
this type of performance.
825
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,900
All right, so I think that's it. We've
covered that. And now reverse use of
826
01:02:10,900 --> 01:02:11,900
trend lines.
827
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:18,460
Okay, and let me just get rid of maybe
this volume because it just occupies a
828
01:02:18,460 --> 01:02:24,560
lot of real estate here for us. Okay, so
how would we be doing the, let's say,
829
01:02:24,620 --> 01:02:27,140
conventional way?
830
01:02:27,980 --> 01:02:31,780
And let me just annotate this chart so
that we would be accurate.
831
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,460
We would take a significant high.
832
01:02:35,210 --> 01:02:40,150
for the downtrend and connect it with
the next significant high, which comes
833
01:02:40,150 --> 01:02:43,410
either here at this high, this high, or
this high.
834
01:02:43,630 --> 01:02:48,030
And you kind of have to play around with
this and just kind of like see what
835
01:02:48,030 --> 01:02:50,930
works. So I would say like this is
probably the line.
836
01:02:51,670 --> 01:02:56,310
Just gonna put a thick line like this so
that you guys would see.
837
01:02:56,530 --> 01:03:02,030
Why here? Well, because this touches it
and this touches it. If I would be using
838
01:03:02,030 --> 01:03:06,920
this one, it would not touch both or
just have kind of like this up for a
839
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:12,900
of action. And then after this, what we
want to do is, okay, well, just to kind
840
01:03:12,900 --> 01:03:19,140
of check, would that work on the lows?
841
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:26,300
And if I would go like this, it's
probably going to look like, yeah, it's
842
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:30,920
working. But in fact, I would say that
it actually does.
843
01:03:34,250 --> 01:03:40,250
Okay, so here is our conventional way,
and then, you know, here was the
844
01:03:40,250 --> 01:03:43,750
oversold, yeah, this would be the line.
845
01:03:44,690 --> 01:03:46,570
So let me just do this again.
846
01:03:50,630 --> 01:03:55,070
So this is the conventional way how we
would do the trend lines.
847
01:03:55,730 --> 01:04:00,850
Significant high, significant high,
confirmed by this high, and then a
848
01:04:00,850 --> 01:04:07,450
line that catches the majority of the
support
849
01:04:07,450 --> 01:04:11,050
points and then has an area of the
oversold condition.
850
01:04:11,550 --> 01:04:17,410
Now how would we be drawing the lines
that
851
01:04:17,410 --> 01:04:19,070
would be,
852
01:04:19,230 --> 01:04:25,310
that
853
01:04:25,310 --> 01:04:30,350
would be reversed lines, right?
854
01:04:30,590 --> 01:04:32,170
Let me just take this color.
855
01:04:33,580 --> 01:04:40,500
So we would identify first significant
lows, and then
856
01:04:40,500 --> 01:04:44,360
with that, we would draw that line
first.
857
01:04:44,740 --> 01:04:49,300
So please note that we are not using the
highs in the downtrend. And then we
858
01:04:49,300 --> 01:04:51,980
would try to find and connect the highs.
859
01:04:53,140 --> 01:04:57,500
And in this case, I can't find anything
except maybe for like this level right
860
01:04:57,500 --> 01:04:58,500
here.
861
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,220
So this would be the use of reverse
trend lines.
862
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:10,920
So in other words, conventional way, you
always would be looking for your first
863
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:16,440
point, the highest or the lowest point
in the trend, and then the highest or
864
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,680
lowest point of the same bias.
865
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:20,980
And that would be the conventional way.
866
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:27,380
The reversed use of trend lines, you
would be looking for the
867
01:05:27,380 --> 01:05:28,620
opposite.
868
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:36,280
to the bias the extreme on the opposite
side and that would be in
869
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:42,440
the case of the downtrend oversold
conditions right so as support
870
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:48,000
let me pick another example i'm not
loving this example that much
871
01:05:58,090 --> 01:06:04,790
I've actually been working a lot lately
on trend lines, and it's a
872
01:06:04,790 --> 01:06:06,010
fascinating creature.
873
01:06:06,770 --> 01:06:13,010
By the way, please note that this is
logarithmic, so I actually
874
01:06:13,010 --> 01:06:19,490
find more and more value in using
logarithmic charts
875
01:06:19,490 --> 01:06:26,090
as a percentage chart in the use of the
trend lines.
876
01:06:28,490 --> 01:06:33,850
So here we would be probably connecting,
you know, these highs, these highs.
877
01:06:35,030 --> 01:06:40,210
You would be thinking, okay, all of this
has that type of stride, right? Then we
878
01:06:40,210 --> 01:06:45,810
see how this line is broken into two
parts. And it's not that we've broken
879
01:06:45,810 --> 01:06:49,390
uptrend. We're just traveling at the
different stride now.
880
01:06:50,070 --> 01:06:51,290
And here it is.
881
01:06:51,830 --> 01:06:54,950
And I would say that this is our mean
here.
882
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:59,680
so if that's the case i would just go
and right away check the upper part okay
883
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:05,540
overbought condition i see it's working
okay how about oversold condition right
884
01:07:05,540 --> 01:07:11,800
here working too so this would be my
trend with the mean in the middle
885
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:16,320
okay something like this
886
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:32,760
Something like this.
887
01:07:41,980 --> 01:07:48,800
So that's the true trend channel that
the price has been in this uptrend.
888
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:57,100
We could definitely have other
definitions, right? So we could maybe
889
01:07:59,980 --> 01:08:06,140
and some of you would be saying like why
not this could we do this
890
01:08:06,140 --> 01:08:11,960
yes we definitely can so this is the
conventional way and you know you have
891
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:17,720
quite a few points here one two three
four points before the break so for the
892
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:22,760
long -term investor you could have that
stride um but probably this one is going
893
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:27,979
to be the most effective Now the key
here, and something that I'm going to do
894
01:08:27,979 --> 01:08:34,560
for the next WTC cycle, the key here is
to define
895
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,520
where the mean is.
896
01:08:37,500 --> 01:08:43,859
And this is what I'm finding visually is
the best tool when identifying the
897
01:08:43,859 --> 01:08:45,479
channel itself.
898
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:51,279
And you want basically this mean, the
price, to kind of like, you know,
899
01:08:51,279 --> 01:08:57,840
hug. hug and always find some kind of
support and resistance
900
01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:59,160
at the same time.
901
01:08:59,380 --> 01:09:05,439
The more of those support resistance
points you can find on the same line,
902
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:09,160
more it's gonna mean that this is the
mean, this is the stride of the trend.
903
01:09:09,399 --> 01:09:14,220
And then everything else, you know, is
just around it, overbought and oversold
904
01:09:14,220 --> 01:09:15,220
conditions.
905
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:20,920
And then you also want to, you know,
project some additional lines, you know,
906
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,819
when you have extreme overbought and
oversold conditions.
907
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:27,220
So something, you know, exciting.
908
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:33,620
And we'll look at it like this. All
right, so hopefully we've resolved this.
909
01:09:34,380 --> 01:09:37,819
Let's go to the anatomy of the trade.
910
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:42,479
And here, guys, I'm going to ask you a
question.
911
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:47,700
What do you guys think? Should we keep
this position or not?
912
01:09:48,300 --> 01:09:55,220
And this is our last time when we look
as a group at
913
01:09:55,220 --> 01:09:56,220
this stock.
914
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:02,600
So I want you to give me your
recommendations, let's say, for slightly
915
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,060
term. Let's say going into the first
quarter of 2020.
916
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:11,100
The question from me to you, would you
keep this position or not?
917
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,000
So we're not talking about the stop
losses.
918
01:10:16,500 --> 01:10:21,720
I'm just saying that we are holding this
position right now. What does it mean?
919
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:28,440
Are we keeping it into, let's say, the
first quarter of 2020 or not? And then
920
01:10:28,440 --> 01:10:31,980
the second question is going to be, if
we're keeping this position, then what
921
01:10:31,980 --> 01:10:32,980
our stop loss?
922
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,920
So write it down. Let's see where we are
with that.
923
01:11:10,860 --> 01:11:12,140
All right, guys, what do you think?
924
01:11:13,300 --> 01:11:14,520
What are your answers?
925
01:11:16,440 --> 01:11:22,400
All right, and I would say that, you
know, my expectation was that majority
926
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,780
you are going to have the same type of
the decision.
927
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:37,880
If you're keeping this position, please
let me know where the stop loss is in
928
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:39,120
your opinion, you know, where.
929
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:40,920
We should have it.
930
01:11:44,020 --> 01:11:45,020
All right.
931
01:11:45,340 --> 01:11:50,960
Okay, so all of you are saying keep it
with different type of stop losses.
932
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,380
And they just range.
933
01:11:54,600 --> 01:12:01,140
They range from 240 and then to
934
01:12:01,140 --> 01:12:05,900
180. So kind of like a whole spectrum of
stop losses.
935
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,920
Okay, so let's deal with probably the
first decision here.
936
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:11,820
Are we keeping this position or not?
937
01:12:12,580 --> 01:12:16,700
All of you are saying yes. I would
probably say yes as well.
938
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:21,440
Why? Well, we're not going to go through
the whole logic. We did the analysis
939
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:22,419
many times.
940
01:12:22,420 --> 01:12:27,140
It looks like we have a minor sign of
strength, and now the price just reacted
941
01:12:27,140 --> 01:12:30,740
to the downside, but recovered
relatively quick.
942
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:36,460
And we're staying still in the upper
part of the gains that we've had since
943
01:12:36,940 --> 01:12:39,900
So that's a bullish sign. That's a
really good sign.
944
01:12:40,540 --> 01:12:44,080
So that kind of keeps us in the
position.
945
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,100
The question of the stop loss is much
more complicated.
946
01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:55,320
On the one hand, we want to move the
stop loss to somewhere below 220
947
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,460
at the time when we have the breakout.
948
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:00,580
We don't want to necessarily have it.
949
01:13:00,940 --> 01:13:06,300
here because right now, because we could
have a retest and then a continuation,
950
01:13:06,540 --> 01:13:07,540
something like that.
951
01:13:07,940 --> 01:13:13,900
So therefore we need to look at the
second point
952
01:13:13,900 --> 01:13:18,660
of support where we are probably
953
01:13:18,660 --> 01:13:25,640
gonna be at the point of a
954
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,380
catastrophic failure.
955
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:32,480
of the trade. And by the way, our
original stop loss is here. So it's just
956
01:13:32,480 --> 01:13:35,560
matter of where actually we are moving
that stop loss to.
957
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,960
So where is that second support level?
958
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:40,720
Where do you guys see that?
959
01:13:43,860 --> 01:13:46,880
So the first support level is at 220.
960
01:13:47,940 --> 01:13:49,920
Where is the second support level?
961
01:14:03,490 --> 01:14:04,770
Okay, 190.
962
01:14:05,490 --> 01:14:06,670
Below 190.
963
01:14:08,050 --> 01:14:10,170
Very natural spot right there.
964
01:14:11,990 --> 01:14:14,690
Larry is saying one half way to 190.
965
01:14:15,090 --> 01:14:19,550
Interesting. Okay, so Larry, is it going
to be somewhere here at like 205?
966
01:14:20,230 --> 01:14:21,350
Something like that?
967
01:14:23,510 --> 01:14:24,750
Okay, great.
968
01:14:25,730 --> 01:14:28,610
I would go for 205.
969
01:14:29,610 --> 01:14:31,630
Larry, could you explain why?
970
01:14:32,220 --> 01:14:33,260
What was your logic?
971
01:14:35,300 --> 01:14:40,640
Why would we be looking at 205 as kind
of like this point of, yeah, we could
972
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:47,200
move the stop loss and be closer to
break even, and then at the same time,
973
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:54,040
know, have enough room for the price to
move. But what's the
974
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:55,900
rationale there? Why this level?
975
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,800
I wonder if Larry is going to have an
answer for us.
976
01:15:12,900 --> 01:15:16,400
Well, I'm not sure, Larry, if you're
typing in or not.
977
01:15:17,980 --> 01:15:22,800
So if we're thinking about the second
support level,
978
01:15:22,980 --> 01:15:28,560
then the question is, where is that
second support level?
979
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:34,560
So probably somewhere here in this
action. And let me just see.
980
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:38,080
Have reversal significant bar. Yep.
981
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:40,240
That came from France.
982
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:44,800
I don't want to lose most of my gains.
Larry is saying, yeah, absolutely.
983
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:49,860
So if we've entered, let's say, on this
bar right here, let's say at the close,
984
01:15:49,940 --> 01:15:55,860
and our stop loss was here, by moving it
slightly above, we're effectively
985
01:15:55,860 --> 01:15:58,320
decreasing our risk by a factor of two.
986
01:15:58,830 --> 01:16:02,350
by 50%. So we should be somewhere here.
987
01:16:03,310 --> 01:16:09,970
And if you're a little bit more
conservative, put it slightly below 200,
988
01:16:09,970 --> 01:16:11,990
198. So somebody had it.
989
01:16:12,350 --> 01:16:13,530
Let me see.
990
01:16:14,210 --> 01:16:16,410
I think Sharon had it at 198.
991
01:16:16,950 --> 01:16:23,670
Yeah, so that would be a logical place
to think that if the price would fail
992
01:16:23,670 --> 01:16:30,220
there, then it's a catastrophic stop
loss for us. And we would be losing half
993
01:16:30,220 --> 01:16:31,220
our risk.
994
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,080
So not a full risk amount.
995
01:16:35,380 --> 01:16:37,520
So probably that would be a strategy.
996
01:16:37,780 --> 01:16:41,380
Well then, what about any add -ons?
997
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:44,860
Would we add here to the position?
998
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,340
I mean, do we have a conviction?
999
01:16:47,860 --> 01:16:52,160
If we're keeping this position, we must
have the conviction that the price will
1000
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:53,160
go up.
1001
01:16:53,260 --> 01:16:58,500
So then therefore, is there any place
where we could potentially add to the
1002
01:16:58,500 --> 01:17:04,960
position, you know, if the price
confirms a movement to the upside? Where
1003
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:08,720
guys think we could potentially open
additional position?
1004
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:20,540
Rick is saying 240.
1005
01:17:21,380 --> 01:17:22,700
So we are...
1006
01:17:23,549 --> 01:17:27,090
Assumption here is that we're going to
wait for some kind of high or low.
1007
01:17:28,070 --> 01:17:31,270
270, Larry is saying, on the breakout.
1008
01:17:31,590 --> 01:17:33,210
So two different strategies.
1009
01:17:34,950 --> 01:17:40,870
If the price breaks out of ledge, Sharon
is saying, okay, so something like
1010
01:17:40,870 --> 01:17:43,830
this. And ledge, I would assume, is
this.
1011
01:17:45,750 --> 01:17:51,710
Yeah. So all of these are valid
strategies. So we have,
1012
01:17:51,770 --> 01:17:55,580
you know, a limit by strategy reaction.
1013
01:17:55,920 --> 01:18:00,700
So in this reactionary strategy, we want
to see some kind of reversal. This
1014
01:18:00,700 --> 01:18:01,820
would be a point of entry.
1015
01:18:02,620 --> 01:18:05,600
We could also have some kind of breakout
strategy.
1016
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:08,200
Absolutely.
1017
01:18:08,540 --> 01:18:13,160
We are still not at the point of the
resistance.
1018
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:20,380
And most likely, after this drop, we're
probably going to make a new high.
1019
01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:24,100
And we're going to make an all -time
high in this stock.
1020
01:18:25,380 --> 01:18:30,660
Okay, well, it's definitely been a lot
of fun to go through this stock, to go
1021
01:18:30,660 --> 01:18:31,660
through this trade.
1022
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:34,200
Thank you guys so much for your pick.
1023
01:18:34,540 --> 01:18:41,360
And even though it came late, it was a
really good pick. So most likely the
1024
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:46,860
group will select something else of the
interest to them. So we will have to see
1025
01:18:46,860 --> 01:18:47,920
which stock it's going to be.
1026
01:18:49,420 --> 01:18:54,620
And if you're already in that new group,
think about the stock that you would
1027
01:18:54,620 --> 01:18:56,200
like to trade.
1028
01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:00,840
There are definitely a lot of great
stocks to trade.
1029
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:07,740
I personally would probably, if I would
be assigned to this, I probably would
1030
01:19:07,740 --> 01:19:11,880
trade Roku right now. That's probably my
favorite stock right now.
1031
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,100
Okay, on some sort of reaction.
1032
01:19:16,650 --> 01:19:20,350
But where and when? What about the big
down bar from 260?
1033
01:19:20,950 --> 01:19:25,170
Yeah, so let's go a little bit into
this. You know, Franz has a really good
1034
01:19:25,170 --> 01:19:30,690
point. This bar right here has emergence
of the supply and an ability of the
1035
01:19:30,690 --> 01:19:34,590
supply, you know, to produce even more
damage, although it's been damaging,
1036
01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:35,770
right?
1037
01:19:36,450 --> 01:19:42,170
So usually that supply is going to
require some kind of retest.
1038
01:19:43,230 --> 01:19:49,920
And with this retest, we probably would
see that high or low that
1039
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:53,800
I believe Rick was describing, you know,
if we go to 240.
1040
01:19:54,740 --> 01:19:58,660
So if that happens, reversal bar right
here.
1041
01:19:59,340 --> 01:20:04,220
If we're going to have some kind of
spring situation and then come back,
1042
01:20:04,220 --> 01:20:09,080
probably would need to assess it at this
point just to see whether we would want
1043
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:10,840
to add to the position or not.
1044
01:20:14,350 --> 01:20:16,530
Yeah, and Franz, good question, you
know, right?
1045
01:20:16,990 --> 01:20:19,070
Where do we put the add -on?
1046
01:20:19,450 --> 01:20:22,910
That should be the question on my mind
for sure.
1047
01:20:24,430 --> 01:20:25,650
Okay, bias game.
1048
01:20:26,770 --> 01:20:32,610
So it was a little bit mixed, and I
thought that this would be a little bit
1049
01:20:32,610 --> 01:20:35,710
easier, you know, as a puzzle.
1050
01:20:36,730 --> 01:20:42,510
So it was probably like 50 -50 or 50
-ish, 50 -ish, something like that.
1051
01:20:46,519 --> 01:20:48,700
Let's do it in different ways.
1052
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:55,400
Let's think about this puzzle in
different ways. First of all, by the
1053
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:59,580
we start the trading range, and this is
the trading range under consideration,
1054
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:05,600
and it starts with the selling climax,
what is the bias at the selling climax?
1055
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:07,200
Could you please answer me?
1056
01:21:12,490 --> 01:21:15,390
At the selling climax, what is the bias?
1057
01:21:25,970 --> 01:21:26,970
Okay.
1058
01:21:31,210 --> 01:21:34,730
At the selling climax, what is the bias?
1059
01:21:37,550 --> 01:21:39,990
Okay, and Sharon, please explain your
answer.
1060
01:21:44,970 --> 01:21:49,070
All right, so everybody is saying down,
down, down.
1061
01:21:49,870 --> 01:21:52,150
Sharon, what's the answer there?
1062
01:21:52,350 --> 01:21:56,170
So what's going on there?
1063
01:21:56,610 --> 01:22:03,430
So why are we saying that this is a down
bias at this point? We have a
1064
01:22:03,430 --> 01:22:05,990
low, low, a very clearly defined low,
low.
1065
01:22:06,930 --> 01:22:13,110
And on a short -term basis, we're
definitely in the downtrend. We have low
1066
01:22:13,110 --> 01:22:18,600
high. low a high, low a low, and low a
low.
1067
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:24,900
We are in the downward bias.
1068
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:27,500
Was there a lot of selling?
1069
01:22:27,820 --> 01:22:29,020
Was there selling?
1070
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:34,120
Looks like there is selling here, looks
like there is some selling here, and
1071
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:40,880
then there is some more selling that has
produced a synchronicity of the effort
1072
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:41,880
and the result.
1073
01:22:42,110 --> 01:22:46,370
and there is an ease of movement with
which the price moves down.
1074
01:22:52,710 --> 01:22:59,250
Sharon, the question was, at the point
of selling climax right here, what is
1075
01:22:59,250 --> 01:23:00,250
bias?
1076
01:23:06,970 --> 01:23:10,630
So that was the question, if we're still
there.
1077
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:18,040
Okay, so at this point, at the climactic
action, we are in the downward
1078
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:23,640
bias. So our first assumption that this
trading range is a redistribution.
1079
01:23:25,100 --> 01:23:31,820
And then we need to prove it otherwise,
that
1080
01:23:31,820 --> 01:23:33,320
this is not a distribution.
1081
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:46,380
So how do we do this? All right, well,
we know that going into the secondary
1082
01:23:46,380 --> 01:23:51,200
test of the trading range, we usually
will have that diminished supply
1083
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:55,740
characteristic. Why? Well, because even
in the downtrend, there comes a time
1084
01:23:55,740 --> 01:23:57,600
when the selling is exhausted.
1085
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:02,600
And the selling has been exhausted for
different reasons, actually for two.
1086
01:24:03,520 --> 01:24:09,520
The first one is that it's just
exhausted because they sold and they
1087
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:10,519
they sold.
1088
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:11,680
and now they're not selling.
1089
01:24:13,820 --> 01:24:19,200
They just sold whatever they wanted at
the price that they wanted, and now
1090
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:25,600
they're done. The second reason why the
selling is less here is because demand
1091
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:31,360
has come in at the point of value at the
climactic action. It produced some
1092
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:36,300
presence here in the volume signature in
the way how the price reacts.
1093
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:45,880
And therefore, supply has been damaged a
little bit. You know, it has
1094
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:46,799
been observed.
1095
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,740
And therefore, we are expecting some
kind of rally.
1096
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:56,460
So in the environment that is to the
downside, when we look at the rallies,
1097
01:24:56,460 --> 01:24:59,860
key for us to understand is how does the
rally behave?
1098
01:25:00,620 --> 01:25:05,480
Does it overcome the point of aggressive
selling?
1099
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:10,580
And could it kind of like test that
point, stay there, and then continue
1100
01:25:10,580 --> 01:25:11,580
the move to the upside?
1101
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:17,540
All right, well, what are the points
that we would consider here are being,
1102
01:25:17,540 --> 01:25:22,740
know, kind of like aggressive points of
selling? So anything where the volume
1103
01:25:22,740 --> 01:25:26,920
signature increases on the downside,
then you want to
1104
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:32,380
capture that in the price swing.
1105
01:25:32,740 --> 01:25:34,620
So here is your first zone.
1106
01:25:38,860 --> 01:25:44,800
And then you're gonna have your also
second zone right here
1107
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:49,000
on the way down and this is like the
whole trading range that you have.
1108
01:25:49,380 --> 01:25:53,140
So your all bought and then your fair
value.
1109
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:03,340
So what do we see? That when the price
comes to the overbought
1110
01:26:03,340 --> 01:26:07,600
condition.
1111
01:26:08,650 --> 01:26:09,930
How do we go there?
1112
01:26:11,310 --> 01:26:12,730
To me, it is average.
1113
01:26:14,670 --> 01:26:18,270
So there is not really a lot of
institutional excitement.
1114
01:26:18,510 --> 01:26:21,150
We don't see a lot of momentum going up.
1115
01:26:21,850 --> 01:26:27,090
Reactions are actually, you know,
somewhat of the ones where you're going
1116
01:26:27,090 --> 01:26:31,830
uncomfortable being, you know, like in
this reactionary mode for a week and a
1117
01:26:31,830 --> 01:26:32,830
half or so.
1118
01:26:33,850 --> 01:26:35,550
So those were not that great.
1119
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,460
We are staying up. We are committing to
the upside.
1120
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:44,780
So that's good because we have one
progressive close -up, another
1121
01:26:44,780 --> 01:26:50,880
close -up. I would say even another one.
So the price has the capacity to stay
1122
01:26:50,880 --> 01:26:53,760
up, but ultimately it drops down.
1123
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:57,060
And this is just a function of phase B.
1124
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:02,800
And we would say that we can't really
overcome this supply yet. We definitely
1125
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,760
can overcome this supply, but not the
one.
1126
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:10,980
that is at the top and this supply also
will be associated with this selling
1127
01:27:10,980 --> 01:27:17,840
here um so how do we go down do we have
any selling yes on the way down yes we
1128
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:23,780
do and usually here you know on this
type of selling we might actually be
1129
01:27:23,780 --> 01:27:28,660
thinking that we're going to have a
rally from here so in a lot of cases we
1130
01:27:28,660 --> 01:27:34,320
would be thinking could be a potential
facing and how would How would we
1131
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:40,640
overcome that? Well, we would need to
see some kind of confirmation
1132
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,400
that there is a sustainability of this
move.
1133
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:51,440
If this is phase C, then the price
should go above in the sign of strength
1134
01:27:51,440 --> 01:27:52,840
then back up.
1135
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:55,420
It doesn't happen.
1136
01:27:55,660 --> 01:27:56,840
So here is the failure.
1137
01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:04,180
And then the price actually goes Much
faster down, so momentum increases.
1138
01:28:04,440 --> 01:28:06,420
We see this in the spread.
1139
01:28:06,680 --> 01:28:11,020
Volume signature increases dramatically
and quickly.
1140
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:18,540
And then we have, you know, quite a
substantial result to the downside where
1141
01:28:18,540 --> 01:28:25,480
we are making a new lower low and then
below the original.
1142
01:28:26,090 --> 01:28:28,470
a support level of the climactic action.
1143
01:28:28,710 --> 01:28:31,090
We have maybe like a couple of closes
here.
1144
01:28:32,910 --> 01:28:39,730
Attempt to go up and to come back into
the value zone meets resistance
1145
01:28:39,730 --> 01:28:43,250
right away and meets a lot of volume.
1146
01:28:43,630 --> 01:28:49,410
This is the highest volume signature on
this chart. So most likely supply.
1147
01:28:49,750 --> 01:28:52,410
And what kind of effect does this supply
have?
1148
01:28:53,110 --> 01:28:54,110
This effect.
1149
01:28:55,080 --> 01:29:01,900
So if supply would have a more favorable
kind of like price reaction,
1150
01:29:02,260 --> 01:29:04,480
it would look differently.
1151
01:29:04,820 --> 01:29:11,640
It would look something like, let me
just
1152
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:16,960
see if I could quickly find the example
of this.
1153
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:25,500
Okay, so imagine that, you know, This is
the supply that comes in on this bar.
1154
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:27,480
What do we have here?
1155
01:29:27,820 --> 01:29:29,220
It stays horizontal.
1156
01:29:29,440 --> 01:29:34,480
The testing of the supply is coming in,
you know, is favorable.
1157
01:29:34,820 --> 01:29:39,360
It doesn't really show a lot of
deterioration in the price action.
1158
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:45,580
Whereas here, right away, we have such a
strong deterioration. And then it comes
1159
01:29:45,580 --> 01:29:51,360
with an ease of movement on the
diminished effort characteristics.
1160
01:29:52,140 --> 01:29:58,000
So therefore, you know, we were able to
stay above, then we failed,
1161
01:29:58,020 --> 01:30:04,380
and we're kind of continuing with the
whole down bias where we're just from
1162
01:30:04,380 --> 01:30:08,880
leg to another, we are confirming that
this is a down move, and then the last
1163
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:15,400
move to the downside that looks like a
sprint, you know, returns back, and then
1164
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:16,980
right away has a lot of supply.
1165
01:30:17,440 --> 01:30:20,220
And that defines that there is a new
level there.
1166
01:30:20,830 --> 01:30:25,690
at which supply is being presented.
1167
01:30:26,370 --> 01:30:31,670
This was the NASDAQ composite in 2007,
2008.
1168
01:30:32,630 --> 01:30:39,290
I thought this chart would be easy just
because you got to remember
1169
01:30:39,290 --> 01:30:43,790
your history. You got to know your
history. You got to know your history in
1170
01:30:43,790 --> 01:30:48,230
terms of the index traded this way in
2007, 2008.
1171
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:53,520
So this should be a recognizable chart
for you.
1172
01:30:53,960 --> 01:31:00,340
All right, guys, this is it for the bias
game. From now on, you're on your own.
1173
01:31:00,660 --> 01:31:05,320
This is the first chart that, you know,
we are not going to discuss.
1174
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:11,400
We are probably going to discuss it in
the WICA practicum. We'll have maybe
1175
01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:15,200
two or three charts to discuss right
away on the bias game.
1176
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:18,140
So this is the next chart.
1177
01:31:18,890 --> 01:31:19,970
Have a look at this.
1178
01:31:22,090 --> 01:31:26,110
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what you're
thinking.
1179
01:31:27,370 --> 01:31:31,170
I wonder what you're thinking.
Distribution or accumulation? Really
1180
01:31:31,170 --> 01:31:32,170
just teaching.
1181
01:31:34,810 --> 01:31:36,290
Let me know what you think.
1182
01:31:39,570 --> 01:31:40,570
While you're thinking.
1183
01:31:53,580 --> 01:31:58,880
While you're thinking, we are going to
have the bias game over the holidays.
1184
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:06,540
So just go to Twitter and you will find
that, you know, there is
1185
01:32:06,540 --> 01:32:10,160
a poll. You could participate in the
poll. And then on Fridays, usually the
1186
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:11,440
solution comes.
1187
01:32:15,820 --> 01:32:17,680
All right. So what do you guys think?
1188
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:19,020
Accumulation or distribution?
1189
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:22,700
And you take us on this.
1190
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:30,040
And by the way, thank you for sending me
your score card on the bias game. I
1191
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:31,660
think it's important to keep it.
1192
01:32:32,380 --> 01:32:39,360
And some of you just, you know,
brilliantly, you know, going through the
1193
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:42,240
bias game and, you know, your percent is
really, really high.
1194
01:32:43,180 --> 01:32:48,500
Some of you are still, you know, kind of
struggling here and there.
1195
01:32:50,419 --> 01:32:55,400
If there is some kind of frustration
about that, I think that the key is just
1196
01:32:55,400 --> 01:32:58,420
kind of understand that you have to go
through this grind.
1197
01:32:58,940 --> 01:33:05,940
At the beginning of your studies, you're
going to be more wrong than
1198
01:33:05,940 --> 01:33:11,740
right because of kind of how you are at
the beginning of this journey.
1199
01:33:12,280 --> 01:33:16,500
And then you have to acquire this new
thinking, this new mentality. And once
1200
01:33:16,500 --> 01:33:18,960
do, then it's...
1201
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:23,840
It's going to be a habit, and you will
acquire this habit. So that's why
1202
01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:27,420
habituating in this thinking and the
mentality really helps.
1203
01:33:27,860 --> 01:33:28,860
All right.
1204
01:33:30,820 --> 01:33:33,640
We have 50 -50 on this one.
1205
01:33:34,860 --> 01:33:40,360
We have 50 -50. All right. Well, we're
going to look at this when we come back
1206
01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:43,300
for the new semester.
1207
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:47,200
All right. Next question. This comes
from Dimitri.
1208
01:33:47,740 --> 01:33:49,560
Let me see if Dimitri is here.
1209
01:33:49,820 --> 01:33:55,540
Yes. I notice that sometimes I place
trades at work and I don't have time to
1210
01:33:55,540 --> 01:33:57,740
fill in a log until later.
1211
01:33:58,020 --> 01:34:03,100
I notice that I'm unsure how to properly
document the quantifications when
1212
01:34:03,100 --> 01:34:04,039
trading options.
1213
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:08,160
I notice that sometimes I'm not really
sure what to put in the notes for the
1214
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:12,960
analysis. I'm looking into the automated
system that will pull information for
1215
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:17,740
me. from TD Ameritrade and allow me to
add notes, provide insights.
1216
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:20,580
Do you recommend any trade log services?
1217
01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:22,300
Yes, absolutely.
1218
01:34:22,620 --> 01:34:28,140
And it was just so funny and
whitewashing how Franz actually today
1219
01:34:28,140 --> 01:34:33,540
email with a recommendation for this
type of software and for this type of
1220
01:34:33,540 --> 01:34:40,260
service. And he's showing us here how
he's looking at the gold miners
1221
01:34:40,260 --> 01:34:42,940
juniors stocks and...
1222
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:49,180
he could connect it to the chart,
specific charts and specific timeframes,
1223
01:34:49,180 --> 01:34:55,960
then have the journaling, meaning each
day he could fill out
1224
01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:59,980
his thoughts on what's going on.
1225
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:03,840
Okay, well, I'm going to show you from a
slightly different perspective.
1226
01:35:06,140 --> 01:35:10,700
Software that Franz recommended, we
actually discussed in the June special,
1227
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:11,839
Trust the Process.
1228
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:15,400
So I'm going to show you the slides from
there. This is a trade management
1229
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:20,920
software. You have the capability with
this software to bookkeep and also to
1230
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:22,720
journal, which is very valuable.
1231
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:24,520
And it's called TraderView.
1232
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:30,580
So at the time, I kind of like was
playing around and trying to figure out,
1233
01:35:30,580 --> 01:35:32,380
know, how to get the positions in there.
1234
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:34,300
I'm not using it.
1235
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:41,300
At this point, I'm kind of like
populating everything in the Excel
1236
01:35:41,420 --> 01:35:44,120
which you could use as well.
1237
01:35:44,380 --> 01:35:48,740
But this is something that is so easy.
Why not use this, right?
1238
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:54,340
You could automatically upload all of
your trades from the majority of the
1239
01:35:54,340 --> 01:36:00,460
brokerages or your brokerage accounts,
or you could do this manually. So either
1240
01:36:00,460 --> 01:36:01,460
way would work.
1241
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:08,280
You could look at your position, look at
the charts,
1242
01:36:08,540 --> 01:36:17,440
have
1243
01:36:17,440 --> 01:36:21,580
some kind of note about the position.
1244
01:36:22,860 --> 01:36:27,760
So here I'm saying long -term position
in Shake Shack, looking for the
1245
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:32,020
long -term resistance target.
1246
01:36:32,510 --> 01:36:35,170
is around this area. It went to actually
108.
1247
01:36:36,210 --> 01:36:41,770
Add on the way up during meaningful
consolidations. It's actually very
1248
01:36:41,770 --> 01:36:47,230
interesting how I keep saying this to
myself and then I keep not doing this.
1249
01:36:47,230 --> 01:36:50,890
something to catch as a mistake.
1250
01:36:51,710 --> 01:36:56,310
This is exactly why the notes are so
valuable.
1251
01:36:56,610 --> 01:36:59,670
I would not even remember that I...
1252
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:06,860
you know had this intent to add to the
position that my uh exit uh goal was at
1253
01:37:06,860 --> 01:37:13,660
96 97 close to 100 uh even though i
exited um i think at 92
1254
01:37:13,660 --> 01:37:19,780
or even maybe slightly before like at 90
or 89
1255
01:37:19,780 --> 01:37:25,540
that's why it's so valuable coming back
to that trade and just like revisiting
1256
01:37:25,540 --> 01:37:27,180
the notes what was the thinking
1257
01:37:28,910 --> 01:37:32,850
Then you could have more of
1258
01:37:32,850 --> 01:37:38,970
the analysis that you could
1259
01:37:38,970 --> 01:37:43,050
put as a journal, as a note here.
1260
01:37:43,330 --> 01:37:49,630
So, for instance, for each of the
position, I could write down some kind
1261
01:37:49,630 --> 01:37:53,750
synopsis on what has happened during the
week, also for the market as well.
1262
01:37:55,230 --> 01:37:57,610
You could import it from any of the
broker.
1263
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:02,660
In this case, TDM merit rate even is
being used.
1264
01:38:05,100 --> 01:38:10,160
All right, and yeah, and that's it. So
that would be my recommendation. This
1265
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:13,660
seems like a very easy way to set up and
just to follow.
1266
01:38:15,340 --> 01:38:20,920
I think that at some point on our
website, we're going to have something
1267
01:38:20,920 --> 01:38:26,640
to this, but it's going to be extremely
like Wyckoffian oriented type of
1268
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:27,640
process.
1269
01:38:28,590 --> 01:38:34,590
All right, next question. This one comes
from Simon. And Simon sent us,
1270
01:38:34,590 --> 01:38:41,050
you know, these charts before. This is
the New Zealand dollar against the U .S.
1271
01:38:41,050 --> 01:38:42,050
dollar.
1272
01:38:43,450 --> 01:38:49,790
And a series of questions. I have
questions around the identification of
1273
01:38:49,790 --> 01:38:54,190
time and of the breakout to the upside
out of the trading range. Very
1274
01:38:54,190 --> 01:38:56,010
interesting. Again.
1275
01:38:56,720 --> 01:39:03,520
Hashtag oil, just because of the
breakout, potential breakout there and
1276
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:05,000
how we're looking at that.
1277
01:39:05,460 --> 01:39:10,880
Specifically from the blue arrow from
November 19th,
1278
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:13,500
which is here.
1279
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:21,140
And then this is what one day, 60,
1280
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:24,300
60 minutes.
1281
01:39:30,380 --> 01:39:32,320
And then this is 60 minutes as well.
1282
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:39,060
And I think that we are looking at what
we're looking at the November, right? So
1283
01:39:39,060 --> 01:39:44,280
this is the period that we're looking at
right here before this break. So we're
1284
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:48,580
looking at this breakout right here.
Okay, I just wanted to make sure.
1285
01:39:48,860 --> 01:39:53,580
I've checked the following items when
assessing the price would move up or
1286
01:39:53,580 --> 01:39:54,580
downwards.
1287
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,560
Check each reaction's peak volumes.
1288
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:05,180
to a certain in supply is decreasing as
time progresses.
1289
01:40:05,380 --> 01:40:12,000
I'm sorry. Check reactions peak volumes
to a certain in supply,
1290
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:16,360
if supply is decreasing as time
progresses.
1291
01:40:16,580 --> 01:40:17,580
Okay.
1292
01:40:19,700 --> 01:40:24,820
So we're looking for the diminished
volume characteristics and diminished
1293
01:40:24,820 --> 01:40:26,100
characteristics. Correct.
1294
01:40:26,760 --> 01:40:33,600
Why is this important? Because you want
to see that that supply
1295
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:40,540
is being taken by someone else and the
volatility starts to diminish. So you
1296
01:40:40,540 --> 01:40:45,360
could see how there are two textures
here in this trading range. One has a
1297
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:51,180
of volatility and then suddenly that
volatility is smaller. There are some
1298
01:40:51,180 --> 01:40:56,060
pockets of volatility, but even those
pockets are not that, you know,
1299
01:40:56,490 --> 01:41:02,790
threatening as before so this is a good
observation for each reaction check each
1300
01:41:02,790 --> 01:41:07,730
fragment of price spread and volume if
it makes an intermediate swing law as
1301
01:41:07,730 --> 01:41:14,710
part of the largest uh reaction to a
certain end supply uh is decreasing okay
1302
01:41:14,710 --> 01:41:20,410
yeah so basically we're kind of like
looking for that progression of the buy
1303
01:41:20,410 --> 01:41:25,030
right so uh simon is basically saying
that there is a progress
1304
01:41:25,790 --> 01:41:32,410
of buying with the diminished supply
characteristic for each of the reactions
1305
01:41:32,410 --> 01:41:37,970
yes we could definitely do that check
each swing low to see if supply has been
1306
01:41:37,970 --> 01:41:44,070
observed to see if price would move up
without resistance okay check price
1307
01:41:44,070 --> 01:41:49,830
structure strength higher low being
created and higher high but at minimum
1308
01:41:49,830 --> 01:41:55,630
higher low in my assessment i would
expected price to move out of the
1309
01:41:55,630 --> 01:42:02,510
range around November 25th, where it has
low supply, but the
1310
01:42:02,510 --> 01:42:05,350
trading range continues for some time
further.
1311
01:42:05,690 --> 01:42:08,970
I'm still a little bit confused with the
application of action test
1312
01:42:08,970 --> 01:42:14,510
confirmation. Are you able to point some
of these behaviors on the chart so that
1313
01:42:14,510 --> 01:42:19,930
I would be able to apply this a little
bit better based on the single bars?
1314
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:22,660
the reactions release.
1315
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:26,160
Okay, so let's deal with the breakout
first.
1316
01:42:26,540 --> 01:42:31,600
So the whole idea that supply should go
lower is correct.
1317
01:42:31,900 --> 01:42:38,640
We kind of see supply much higher in
this area, then it's being observed
1318
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:44,540
this area, and then it just becomes
somewhat duller, not necessarily dull,
1319
01:42:44,540 --> 01:42:47,960
duller, and supply is not that great.
1320
01:42:49,100 --> 01:42:55,780
So low supply would identify some kind
of at least attempts to
1321
01:42:55,780 --> 01:42:57,780
break out and then the true breakout.
1322
01:42:58,260 --> 01:43:04,080
So then coming to the second question,
why wouldn't we have that breakout
1323
01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:07,560
before? It looks like the volume
signature was going down.
1324
01:43:07,900 --> 01:43:13,280
So we would be thinking, anticipating
that, yeah, supply goes down. We're
1325
01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:14,600
to have a valid breakout.
1326
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:16,180
Well, apparently.
1327
01:43:17,770 --> 01:43:22,410
You know, this high volume signature is
not just demand, but supply as well. So
1328
01:43:22,410 --> 01:43:23,670
we still have some selling.
1329
01:43:24,150 --> 01:43:31,010
So we need to figure out the timing when
supply is still going to be present and
1330
01:43:31,010 --> 01:43:35,390
yet the reaction to the supply is going
to become less than what we've had
1331
01:43:35,390 --> 01:43:38,950
before. And that actually happens in
this area.
1332
01:43:39,250 --> 01:43:41,690
This is a change of behavior.
1333
01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:47,920
And it tells us that at this point,
yeah, somebody is absorbing the supply.
1334
01:43:48,300 --> 01:43:54,620
And then once that purchase has happened
in activity, then again attempt to push
1335
01:43:54,620 --> 01:43:56,020
down, again absorption.
1336
01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:02,800
And you kind of gauge what kind of
supply you have, right? So this is the
1337
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:03,800
of supply.
1338
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:09,160
This is the level of supply. It's still
pretty high, not going to break out.
1339
01:44:09,620 --> 01:44:12,910
And then as it goes down, Boom.
1340
01:44:13,530 --> 01:44:19,390
Finally, we have something that is
really, really, really, really small
1341
01:44:19,390 --> 01:44:22,290
in a supply signature.
1342
01:44:23,450 --> 01:44:29,430
And now we're going up and we are
closing at the highest level, but we're
1343
01:44:29,430 --> 01:44:34,490
failing. But we closed at the highest
level, so this means that most likely
1344
01:44:34,490 --> 01:44:36,150
next attempt is going to be more
successful.
1345
01:44:36,510 --> 01:44:40,130
And why? Just because supply just
completely dries out.
1346
01:44:42,270 --> 01:44:43,990
The logic is correct here.
1347
01:44:45,130 --> 01:44:47,010
Look at the long -term structure.
1348
01:44:47,550 --> 01:44:51,350
Think about the implications of the
breakout. That's number one.
1349
01:44:51,650 --> 01:44:57,950
Look at the short -term structure and
then try to figure out what's the
1350
01:44:57,950 --> 01:45:04,490
of the supply and demand and where
supply is just so exhausted that demand
1351
01:45:04,490 --> 01:45:06,210
going to just take it out.
1352
01:45:07,110 --> 01:45:11,010
And then look for that synchronicity.
Where is that synchronicity, by the way?
1353
01:45:11,690 --> 01:45:15,870
This is not going to be synchronicity
because supply comes in. Not
1354
01:45:15,870 --> 01:45:17,630
because there is no commitment above.
1355
01:45:17,990 --> 01:45:21,190
No synchronicity because no commitment
above.
1356
01:45:23,130 --> 01:45:26,110
No synchronicity because supply is
coming in.
1357
01:45:28,790 --> 01:45:35,430
This is where it became synched on the
1358
01:45:35,430 --> 01:45:38,210
increased effort and increased result.
1359
01:45:39,950 --> 01:45:44,090
And that's usually when the breakout
would happen on that synchronization.
1360
01:45:44,410 --> 01:45:46,290
So we're looking for that as well.
1361
01:45:47,530 --> 01:45:49,790
All right, good question. Thank you,
Simon.
1362
01:45:50,370 --> 01:45:52,730
All right, let's talk about something
else.
1363
01:45:55,870 --> 01:46:01,230
We're almost at five, 10 to five,
feedback loop, and then the trader's
1364
01:46:01,230 --> 01:46:06,310
development. This is usually the last
couple of pieces that I give to you guys
1365
01:46:06,310 --> 01:46:08,830
in the practicum. We start with the...
1366
01:46:10,540 --> 01:46:16,920
10 ,000 hours that we need to spend, in
my opinion, 10 ,000 charts that we need
1367
01:46:16,920 --> 01:46:19,460
to analyze qualitatively.
1368
01:46:20,240 --> 01:46:26,520
I'm going to repeat this, qualitatively.
This means not just like a quick look
1369
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:28,260
and then this is my bias, no.
1370
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:36,060
It's more about spending time and
working on the chart from left to
1371
01:46:36,060 --> 01:46:37,880
right, looking at each swing.
1372
01:46:38,440 --> 01:46:39,880
at all of the bars, analyzing.
1373
01:46:40,260 --> 01:46:46,940
And if we could do 10 ,000 charts,
analyze 10 ,000 charts like this, we're
1374
01:46:46,940 --> 01:46:47,940
definitely going to progress.
1375
01:46:48,720 --> 01:46:53,740
So we started with that, you know, that
discussion on the quantity versus
1376
01:46:53,740 --> 01:46:57,520
quality. And we're going to finish with
the feedback loop and the trader's
1377
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:01,140
development. So first, let's talk about
the feedback loop.
1378
01:47:01,380 --> 01:47:05,700
And this is something that is a step in
the trust process.
1379
01:47:08,559 --> 01:47:11,700
kind of like guideline that we have
created for you.
1380
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:18,340
This is something that's going to be
unique in the new Trusted Process
1381
01:47:18,340 --> 01:47:23,420
number two. Even though I talked about
this and I talked with the process coach
1382
01:47:23,420 --> 01:47:29,500
about this feedback loop, it kind of is
going to become a cornerstone
1383
01:47:29,500 --> 01:47:33,240
of a change in that process.
1384
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:36,740
So first of all, let's just go through
it.
1385
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:42,240
And this is an article that I wrote and
published way, way back.
1386
01:47:42,540 --> 01:47:44,740
So as you can see, 2013.
1387
01:47:45,420 --> 01:47:48,500
The editor of this article was Hank
himself.
1388
01:47:49,620 --> 01:47:56,420
And we actually had an opportunity to
discuss multiple parts of this
1389
01:47:56,420 --> 01:48:02,360
small, but, you know, kind of like very
effective as a tool article.
1390
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:06,720
Usually we...
1391
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:11,780
When we are faced with some kind of
decision and think about any of the most
1392
01:48:11,780 --> 01:48:18,460
recent decisions in the market that you
did, you're going to be having some kind
1393
01:48:18,460 --> 01:48:23,680
of fight or flight response, right? So
this is where
1394
01:48:23,680 --> 01:48:28,980
you're going to have either withdrawal
1395
01:48:28,980 --> 01:48:35,960
and you're not going to perform a
certain behavior that is needed.
1396
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:43,100
or you're going to fight and you're
going to figure it out and kind of go
1397
01:48:43,100 --> 01:48:44,460
through this whole process.
1398
01:48:44,980 --> 01:48:51,880
So a feedback loop process allows us in
the moment to
1399
01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:58,620
make sure that we are behaving
correctly, that we are making the
1400
01:48:58,620 --> 01:49:01,740
decision, which is based on our trading
plan.
1401
01:49:02,340 --> 01:49:04,900
So let's go through this process really
quickly.
1402
01:49:05,370 --> 01:49:12,090
If our action to take was either entry,
stop loss, or let's say we might
1403
01:49:12,090 --> 01:49:17,630
just increase position size, decrease
position size, move a stop loss, exit,
1404
01:49:17,630 --> 01:49:20,390
type of action that you have with your
position.
1405
01:49:21,130 --> 01:49:23,150
So I'm giving here an example.
1406
01:49:23,390 --> 01:49:30,030
We are entering Google at 600, and those
were very old prices in 2013, right?
1407
01:49:30,970 --> 01:49:33,290
And we are not following the rules.
1408
01:49:33,790 --> 01:49:35,890
So how would that go?
1409
01:49:37,590 --> 01:49:43,790
In the feedback loop process, we're
gonna question our decisions.
1410
01:49:44,070 --> 01:49:49,130
We're gonna question our behaviors and
we're gonna ask, are we implementing
1411
01:49:49,130 --> 01:49:52,550
action according to the rules of our
system?
1412
01:49:53,250 --> 01:49:56,890
Do any other rules contradict our
action?
1413
01:49:57,730 --> 01:50:01,050
Are all of the rules satisfied by this
action?
1414
01:50:02,030 --> 01:50:08,210
And then what is the evidence that this
action is done by the rules?
1415
01:50:09,310 --> 01:50:14,710
So in the example where we are not
following the rules, we're going to say
1416
01:50:14,710 --> 01:50:19,490
are not implementing this action by the
rules.
1417
01:50:20,210 --> 01:50:23,730
Yes, there are some other rules that
contradict this action.
1418
01:50:24,610 --> 01:50:27,630
And no, not all of the rules are
satisfied.
1419
01:50:28,990 --> 01:50:30,110
And what is...
1420
01:50:30,430 --> 01:50:37,330
the evidence that it is not by the rule,
well, rule number X in our trading plan
1421
01:50:37,330 --> 01:50:38,990
states the opposite.
1422
01:50:40,190 --> 01:50:47,170
So in this step, if we're doing it
incorrectly and you're asking yourself
1423
01:50:47,170 --> 01:50:54,030
question before you make that trading
decision, whatever that decision is, you
1424
01:50:54,030 --> 01:50:58,710
can catch yourself in the moment and
become aware that you're doing something
1425
01:50:58,710 --> 01:50:59,710
wrong.
1426
01:51:06,890 --> 01:51:08,850
I'm entering Google at 600.
1427
01:51:10,410 --> 01:51:14,750
Am I implementing this action according
to the rules of my system?
1428
01:51:15,710 --> 01:51:16,710
No.
1429
01:51:18,450 --> 01:51:19,970
Okay. Wow.
1430
01:51:21,150 --> 01:51:24,550
I'm not doing this by the rules. Then
why do I want to do this?
1431
01:51:25,150 --> 01:51:30,030
Well, maybe I'm excited in the moment.
I'm seeing some price action that
1432
01:51:30,030 --> 01:51:33,510
me and it kind of, you know, connects to
my...
1433
01:51:33,790 --> 01:51:36,650
past emotional experiences at the same
spot.
1434
01:51:38,950 --> 01:51:44,130
And unconsciously, I am getting excited
that maybe I'm going to have a
1435
01:51:44,130 --> 01:51:46,530
profitable trade, so I'm jumping in.
1436
01:51:46,970 --> 01:51:49,710
This is an unconscious way of trading.
1437
01:51:50,810 --> 01:51:56,410
A more deliberate, conscious, and
qualitative way of going through the
1438
01:51:56,410 --> 01:52:00,850
is basically checking yourself up along
the way.
1439
01:52:02,590 --> 01:52:06,430
all of the decisions that you're making
around this particular position.
1440
01:52:07,830 --> 01:52:14,630
By the way, I want to point your
attention, especially over the whole
1441
01:52:14,630 --> 01:52:21,610
day's break, if you have a chance, watch
the videos that Franz and I are
1442
01:52:21,610 --> 01:52:28,110
creating for the Anatomy of the Trade
series on YouTube channel that we have.
1443
01:52:28,310 --> 01:52:29,630
Those are not...
1444
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:36,060
very long uh they are usually maybe on
average like uh 10 15 minutes long and
1445
01:52:36,060 --> 01:52:40,980
there we're discussing different trades
that we've made either him or i and you
1446
01:52:40,980 --> 01:52:47,340
know this feedback loop step is critical
in that analysis
1447
01:52:47,340 --> 01:52:54,320
because as through the post analysis we
define the mistakes and then we
1448
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:57,640
could insert it into a specific
1449
01:52:59,679 --> 01:53:06,060
in the process and make sure that each
time that we get to that point in the
1450
01:53:06,060 --> 01:53:10,600
process, let's say we're going through
the analysis and then we have this
1451
01:53:10,600 --> 01:53:16,180
mistake that we commonly make, so we
could ask ourselves a question, are we
1452
01:53:16,180 --> 01:53:21,180
making this mistake again as a part of
the weekly, daily process?
1453
01:53:21,540 --> 01:53:25,960
And this is something that we will
discuss in the Trusted Process Part 2.
1454
01:53:27,630 --> 01:53:33,690
What happens next? Let's say that I said
no and I still want to open the
1455
01:53:33,690 --> 01:53:39,490
position. The next question is going to
be, if you do follow the system's rules,
1456
01:53:39,850 --> 01:53:46,110
if you do not follow the system's rules,
are you a disciplined and profitable,
1457
01:53:46,550 --> 01:53:47,670
consistent trader?
1458
01:53:48,850 --> 01:53:54,370
Well, if I'm not following the rules,
then I know that I'm not. I'm not going
1459
01:53:54,370 --> 01:53:59,640
to, in the long run, I might have
occasional wins trading
1460
01:53:59,640 --> 01:54:06,560
unconsciously, but I'm most likely going
to have losses in
1461
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:11,320
the long run. So you want also to know
the consequences of your actions. So
1462
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:15,520
we are doing is we're becoming aware in
the moment, and then we're doing the
1463
01:54:15,520 --> 01:54:17,260
cost -benefit analysis right away.
1464
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:23,100
So we are identifying, yeah, I'm not
going to be successful, so there is an
1465
01:54:23,100 --> 01:54:24,100
identity.
1466
01:54:24,860 --> 01:54:28,460
question there, and then benefits and
cost.
1467
01:54:29,380 --> 01:54:33,680
I will potentially have a loss and have
emotional frustration.
1468
01:54:33,980 --> 01:54:35,260
That's going to be the consequence.
1469
01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:40,320
And then the last question, what is your
choice then?
1470
01:54:45,680 --> 01:54:50,680
I'm actually okay. And I tell sometimes,
you know, students in the private
1471
01:54:50,680 --> 01:54:51,680
sessions,
1472
01:54:52,200 --> 01:54:57,780
If you're going to take this decision
against your rules and you're fully
1473
01:54:57,780 --> 01:55:03,880
that you're doing this and you're also
aware of the consequences that it could
1474
01:55:03,880 --> 01:55:10,460
be a loss and it could produce an
emotional frustration and you're still
1475
01:55:10,460 --> 01:55:13,120
go for it, I'm actually okay with that.
1476
01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:20,140
What I'm not okay with when I do this or
when...
1477
01:55:20,380 --> 01:55:26,760
students do this and then we discuss
this is that we already know how to
1478
01:55:26,760 --> 01:55:31,600
this and then we are actively choosing
to disregard this process.
1479
01:55:33,700 --> 01:55:40,540
And this is the process where obviously
we are creating so
1480
01:55:40,540 --> 01:55:47,460
much value for ourselves in the way how
we change the behavior. We can
1481
01:55:47,460 --> 01:55:48,880
abort the entry.
1482
01:55:49,400 --> 01:55:55,880
wait for the system signal and that way
we will avoid this loss
1483
01:55:55,880 --> 01:56:01,180
but not only the loss if you think
deeply about what you do here with the
1484
01:56:01,180 --> 01:56:06,540
feedback process is that you're not just
avoiding the loss you're avoiding the
1485
01:56:06,540 --> 01:56:13,540
repetition of the behavior that forms
you know the identity of who you are as
1486
01:56:13,540 --> 01:56:17,560
a trader and more so than you know
1487
01:56:18,350 --> 01:56:19,370
As a person as well.
1488
01:56:20,610 --> 01:56:25,350
If you're consistently making the
mistake and then producing a loss after
1489
01:56:25,350 --> 01:56:28,110
after loss, how would you think about
yourself?
1490
01:56:28,650 --> 01:56:34,850
What kind of trader do you think you are
as a conversation in your head, as a
1491
01:56:34,850 --> 01:56:35,850
self -talk conversation?
1492
01:56:36,390 --> 01:56:38,650
What kind of answer are you going to
have to that?
1493
01:56:39,890 --> 01:56:43,550
And then how could that spiral into
something even worse?
1494
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:50,760
So you could see how our behaviors
produce our actions, you know, produce
1495
01:56:50,760 --> 01:56:55,860
consequences that spread out not just in
trading but, you know, throughout our
1496
01:56:55,860 --> 01:56:56,860
whole life.
1497
01:56:57,240 --> 01:57:01,460
So, therefore, it's extremely important
for us, you know, to make sure that
1498
01:57:01,460 --> 01:57:06,180
we're going correctly through the
feedback loop process and we're
1499
01:57:06,180 --> 01:57:07,420
correct behaviors.
1500
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:11,500
In this example, exit Apple at 400.
1501
01:57:12,360 --> 01:57:14,540
We are following the rules in this
example.
1502
01:57:14,780 --> 01:57:18,480
Are we implementing this action
according to the rules? Yes.
1503
01:57:19,120 --> 01:57:23,120
Are there any other rules that would
contradict this action?
1504
01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:25,700
No. That's with double checking.
1505
01:57:25,940 --> 01:57:27,780
Are all rules satisfied?
1506
01:57:28,040 --> 01:57:29,460
Triple checking. Yes.
1507
01:57:30,080 --> 01:57:35,240
Then what is the evidence that this is
by the rules? Rule X of my trading plan
1508
01:57:35,240 --> 01:57:38,120
confirms the validity of the exit
action.
1509
01:57:38,750 --> 01:57:43,690
Four times we're confirming the same
thing. Why? Well, because we are so
1510
01:57:43,690 --> 01:57:50,610
stubborn as people. We are so set in our
ways, and it's really hard to
1511
01:57:50,610 --> 01:57:56,250
change. Very rarely I find people in
life that change easily. It's their
1512
01:57:56,250 --> 01:57:57,250
characteristic.
1513
01:57:57,670 --> 01:58:00,070
There are quick changes.
1514
01:58:01,390 --> 01:58:06,210
But for a lot of us, we need a lot of
repetition.
1515
01:58:06,840 --> 01:58:11,680
We need to break that habit. So we need
to make sure that we're repeating this
1516
01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:12,820
multiple times.
1517
01:58:13,860 --> 01:58:20,780
Okay? Well, if all of this by the rules,
and if I do this, then am I
1518
01:58:20,780 --> 01:58:23,960
going to be a disciplined and successful
trader? Yes.
1519
01:58:24,800 --> 01:58:26,940
You will be, that will be your identity.
1520
01:58:27,220 --> 01:58:31,780
And then what would be the consequence
of my action and my identity like this?
1521
01:58:31,860 --> 01:58:38,380
Potential win, consistency of the system
implementation, but also emotional
1522
01:58:38,380 --> 01:58:45,120
comfort and confidence that comes with
this. And then what's the choice that
1523
01:58:45,120 --> 01:58:45,739
going to make?
1524
01:58:45,740 --> 01:58:47,080
Proceed with the action.
1525
01:58:47,880 --> 01:58:48,880
exit action.
1526
01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:53,520
And then whatever this is going to bring
you to, whether it's going to be a win
1527
01:58:53,520 --> 01:58:55,960
or loss, that's already for the post
analysis.
1528
01:58:57,240 --> 01:59:04,160
All right, so what do I want to do with
this for you guys? I just want you to
1529
01:59:04,160 --> 01:59:05,160
read this article.
1530
01:59:05,210 --> 01:59:09,390
And I want you to think about how you
could incorporate this into your trading
1531
01:59:09,390 --> 01:59:14,250
and into your process. And I want you to
keep in mind that going into 2020,
1532
01:59:14,670 --> 01:59:19,550
first quarter, we're going to have
Trusted Process 2. I want you all there.
1533
01:59:19,890 --> 01:59:24,070
This is going to be something that we're
going to establish. And there is
1534
01:59:24,070 --> 01:59:29,010
something that is very, very exciting
that's coming up with that particular
1535
01:59:29,010 --> 01:59:30,250
product.
1536
01:59:31,230 --> 01:59:34,910
We're going to have a group that's going
to be dedicated to the process.
1537
01:59:35,230 --> 01:59:39,730
And that's all what I'm going to say at
this point. But, you know, very excited.
1538
01:59:40,490 --> 01:59:47,210
Okay. And then the last piece that I
usually would give at this point is
1539
01:59:47,210 --> 01:59:50,410
the table for the trader's development.
1540
01:59:51,770 --> 01:59:57,950
I have created this table back in 2010,
2011.
1541
01:59:59,250 --> 02:00:00,450
This was...
1542
02:00:02,060 --> 02:00:06,520
On my previous website, if you guys
could believe this, it was called
1543
02:00:06,520 --> 02:00:07,520
Trading Success.
1544
02:00:08,620 --> 02:00:15,520
And I was trading a lot at that time.
And the most important skill to me at
1545
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:19,220
that level was just the mental mindset.
1546
02:00:20,240 --> 02:00:22,280
So I was working a lot on that.
1547
02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:27,460
And that's why my coaching actually came
from that first.
1548
02:00:28,700 --> 02:00:32,920
Hank invited me to teach Wyckoff Method
and then it kind of like took over.
1549
02:00:35,260 --> 02:00:38,520
What are we looking for here in this
table?
1550
02:00:39,780 --> 02:00:44,600
We just want to recognize where we are.
What kind of trader are we?
1551
02:00:45,660 --> 02:00:49,040
And we want to understand where we want
to go.
1552
02:00:51,160 --> 02:00:54,820
You look at this from the different
level.
1553
02:00:56,300 --> 02:01:03,040
you also look at it from the point of
consciousness that you have and from the
1554
02:01:03,040 --> 02:01:06,060
concept of being, doing, and having.
1555
02:01:06,600 --> 02:01:13,580
So being is obviously being the highest
level concept and
1556
02:01:13,580 --> 02:01:14,600
having is the lowest.
1557
02:01:15,100 --> 02:01:21,980
So at the beginning, the beginner is
always going to be kind of like having a
1558
02:01:21,980 --> 02:01:23,620
low self -awareness.
1559
02:01:25,050 --> 02:01:31,570
Just not necessarily generally, but in
most cases, that would be a case as
1560
02:01:31,730 --> 02:01:33,890
but specifically as a trader.
1561
02:01:34,190 --> 02:01:37,050
There is no self -definition as a
trader.
1562
02:01:37,810 --> 02:01:42,850
There is usually a mindset of getting
reach quickly.
1563
02:01:44,780 --> 02:01:49,660
being overwhelmed with the information
and doesn't know how to approach
1564
02:01:49,840 --> 02:01:56,800
So if you could remember yourself during
those first months
1565
02:01:56,800 --> 02:02:03,520
of trading where you could potentially
have been with that type of mindset.
1566
02:02:03,840 --> 02:02:08,640
Obviously, no methodology, so it's still
in the process of searching for the
1567
02:02:08,640 --> 02:02:11,260
methodology. Obviously, no backtested
trading plan.
1568
02:02:14,190 --> 02:02:18,130
And even sometimes, in a lot of cases,
no trading that is being done.
1569
02:02:20,910 --> 02:02:26,310
And on the emotional condition, it's all
about
1570
02:02:26,310 --> 02:02:32,970
incongruences with trading, with low
self -awareness, incorrect
1571
02:02:32,970 --> 02:02:36,390
emotional responses during trading.
1572
02:02:36,970 --> 02:02:38,690
There is no daily routine.
1573
02:02:39,010 --> 02:02:44,020
And as a result, either no trading,
major losses, or occasional wins.
1574
02:02:44,740 --> 02:02:51,540
And I think that all of us have been
there, right? So where am I, let's say,
1575
02:02:51,600 --> 02:02:56,740
relative to where I've been from this
first column? Okay, so let's see.
1576
02:02:59,440 --> 02:03:06,280
I would say awareness of self is present
for sure, and sometimes I get to this
1577
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:07,280
level.
1578
02:03:12,099 --> 02:03:18,280
I would say probably I feel this year
more here. Last year, probably here.
1579
02:03:21,640 --> 02:03:23,180
Definitely feel this.
1580
02:03:24,500 --> 02:03:26,060
Definitely know this.
1581
02:03:27,160 --> 02:03:28,580
Definitely know this.
1582
02:03:31,260 --> 02:03:36,780
Probably here. This is a really hard
state for me, so I'm kind of, you know,
1583
02:03:36,800 --> 02:03:40,460
awareness of awareness is being an
observer of the observer.
1584
02:03:42,270 --> 02:03:48,010
So I've been practicing this, but not
lately, and, you know, my state is
1585
02:03:48,010 --> 02:03:49,050
obviously not there.
1586
02:03:49,850 --> 02:03:54,330
So I know that there is a lot of thing
on the awareness that I still have to
1587
02:03:54,330 --> 02:03:55,330
work on.
1588
02:03:57,110 --> 02:04:04,010
Yes, I would say this, and I still need
to work more on profit management,
1589
02:04:04,090 --> 02:04:08,030
and you could see this from the anatomy
of the trades even today, you know, as
1590
02:04:08,030 --> 02:04:09,110
we were recording this.
1591
02:04:10,010 --> 02:04:15,490
It was interesting to see how my
selection is great, my point of entry is
1592
02:04:15,610 --> 02:04:22,210
and then add -on, which is the profit
management, and exit are suboptimal.
1593
02:04:22,710 --> 02:04:27,790
So therefore, those are my two big
things to work on. So risk management is
1594
02:04:27,790 --> 02:04:31,910
defined, but the profit management is
definitely something that needs to be
1595
02:04:31,910 --> 02:04:32,910
worked on.
1596
02:04:34,140 --> 02:04:38,840
I would say that I'm switching between
consistent periods and long periods of
1597
02:04:38,840 --> 02:04:43,180
discipline trading. And then I still
have some relapses here and there. But
1598
02:04:43,180 --> 02:04:47,940
years, you know, and with more
experience, you kind of see that those
1599
02:04:47,940 --> 02:04:51,080
are going to be smaller and less
frequent.
1600
02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:57,940
And again, smaller in size. So if you
had big drawdowns before, then, you
1601
02:04:57,940 --> 02:05:00,500
after a period of time, your drawdowns,
you know.
1602
02:05:01,120 --> 02:05:07,380
If you study, if you actively
participate in the improvement, they are
1603
02:05:07,380 --> 02:05:08,380
like going down.
1604
02:05:09,800 --> 02:05:10,920
Emotional conditioning.
1605
02:05:12,760 --> 02:05:18,880
I would say that definitely more here.
1606
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:24,720
I wouldn't say that my conditioning is
almost automatic.
1607
02:05:25,060 --> 02:05:29,400
So still, I have to be in the process
of...
1608
02:05:29,690 --> 02:05:36,470
reading my newsletters on the mental
1609
02:05:36,470 --> 02:05:39,910
state in the morning. That's the routine
that I always do.
1610
02:05:40,710 --> 02:05:45,270
And that brings me to that level of
awareness.
1611
02:05:45,650 --> 02:05:52,630
But I think this is the process where
I'm still choosing to be aware rather
1612
02:05:52,630 --> 02:05:53,970
than still being automatic.
1613
02:05:54,410 --> 02:05:57,130
And just my background, it just dictates
that.
1614
02:05:57,420 --> 02:06:03,120
I'm probably going to spend more time
acquiring those emotional skills than
1615
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:04,120
someone else.
1616
02:06:04,840 --> 02:06:07,400
Emotional conditioning is part of the
routine.
1617
02:06:09,560 --> 02:06:16,400
So right now, probably, again, I'm
jumping here. And right now,
1618
02:06:16,460 --> 02:06:18,820
my life is extremely hectic.
1619
02:06:20,740 --> 02:06:25,280
And I would say that I'm probably even
just sometimes here.
1620
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:31,520
I would say that here I want to reside
the majority of the time, and I am
1621
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:35,960
majority of the time, but then I'm kind
of jumping slightly ahead, and then
1622
02:06:35,960 --> 02:06:40,880
sometimes I'm just getting tired, and
I'm aware that I need to be better
1623
02:06:40,880 --> 02:06:43,680
conditioned, but it just does not
happen.
1624
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:50,020
And you have to be kind of realistic and
straightforward with where you are and
1625
02:06:50,020 --> 02:06:51,280
be extremely honest.
1626
02:06:51,520 --> 02:06:55,350
As a trader, as a successful trader,
That is one of the characteristics.
1627
02:06:55,870 --> 02:06:58,210
All right, then responses.
1628
02:07:02,130 --> 02:07:07,290
I would say between this and this. So
kind of like very, you know, I'm feeling
1629
02:07:07,290 --> 02:07:13,130
more and more unconscious about how I'm
mentally responding to trades.
1630
02:07:14,250 --> 02:07:15,730
You know, I don't have...
1631
02:07:16,040 --> 02:07:21,240
Big emotional response, whether it's a
win or loss, even if it's a big win or
1632
02:07:21,240 --> 02:07:27,300
it's a larger loss than usual, usually
that's just kind of like not
1633
02:07:27,300 --> 02:07:30,280
spacing me out at all. Daily routine.
1634
02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:33,020
So definitely developed.
1635
02:07:34,600 --> 02:07:38,280
Probably needs to be a little bit more a
part of self.
1636
02:07:39,140 --> 02:07:41,740
So this means that the routine has to
be.
1637
02:07:43,480 --> 02:07:48,020
developed a little bit more and
consistency has to be a little bit more
1638
02:07:48,100 --> 02:07:53,280
but definitely here. And then the
results, definitely it's a choice.
1639
02:07:53,280 --> 02:07:55,100
I have consistency.
1640
02:07:57,560 --> 02:08:00,500
There are some periods where I'm
extremely consistent.
1641
02:08:00,720 --> 02:08:02,320
There are some periods where I'm
inconsistent.
1642
02:08:02,800 --> 02:08:08,740
And I think that there is a definition
of the market that kind of plays with
1643
02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:12,620
So there are certain market environments
where I'm more consistent as a trader.
1644
02:08:13,389 --> 02:08:18,590
And I think it's also a function of how
I studied for that particular period.
1645
02:08:19,290 --> 02:08:23,430
So usually those are going to be trends
and more consistent in trending
1646
02:08:23,430 --> 02:08:27,630
environments. But, you know, that's very
natural. And then obviously during the
1647
02:08:27,630 --> 02:08:31,670
trading ranges, we're going to be less
consistent. So that's how it comes.
1648
02:08:35,510 --> 02:08:37,490
I would say somewhere here.
1649
02:08:40,460 --> 02:08:45,460
something like this, I still would have
some drawdowns. Those are highly
1650
02:08:45,460 --> 02:08:49,940
associated with the selection that I
have on the momentum side.
1651
02:08:52,380 --> 02:08:58,160
Usually when there is counter reaction
all of the momentum stocks are going to
1652
02:08:58,160 --> 02:09:02,840
produce you know some kind of drawdown
so those I regularly go through and
1653
02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:07,820
regularly kind of like think how I could
mitigate those so one of my mistakes
1654
02:09:07,820 --> 02:09:13,220
getting out earlier out of the position
was the you know more size than needed
1655
02:09:13,220 --> 02:09:18,420
is all about that so kind of like
looking into this right now so you could
1656
02:09:18,420 --> 02:09:25,360
and you can kind of like define where
you are predominantly in what column
1657
02:09:25,360 --> 02:09:30,620
um so obviously i'm putting myself here
into the advanced columns but at the
1658
02:09:30,620 --> 02:09:35,600
same time i'm realizing at any point of
time i could jump back and i could
1659
02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:41,560
regress i could relapse and it's
extremely important to uh you know stay
1660
02:09:41,560 --> 02:09:48,480
humble stay honest with yourself and try
to figure out what's next right so i
1661
02:09:48,480 --> 02:09:51,900
know for sure what i need to do i need
to
1662
02:09:52,640 --> 02:09:57,720
be more consistent with the process, and
then this part will take care of
1663
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:01,080
itself. And then obviously this part
will take care of itself.
1664
02:10:01,580 --> 02:10:06,480
So more of the routine on the top of
what I do. And I want you guys to go
1665
02:10:06,480 --> 02:10:12,960
through this yourself and kind of like
go through the table one
1666
02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:16,720
column at a time and just think about,
you know, how...
1667
02:10:17,160 --> 02:10:18,860
The development happens here.
1668
02:10:19,100 --> 02:10:25,100
And then try to identify where you are.
And then after you identified where you
1669
02:10:25,100 --> 02:10:30,160
are for each of those columns and for
each of those lines, then try to think
1670
02:10:30,160 --> 02:10:36,780
what do you else need. And try to be as
honest with
1671
02:10:36,780 --> 02:10:38,680
yourself as possible.
1672
02:10:39,020 --> 02:10:40,360
So that's your homework.
1673
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:44,520
And then another question.
1674
02:10:45,210 --> 02:10:49,030
This one comes from an index. I usually
swing trade momentum stocks.
1675
02:10:50,670 --> 02:10:56,810
My problem is that even mild market
correction leads to 20, 30 % drawdown
1676
02:10:56,810 --> 02:10:58,030
peak equity.
1677
02:10:58,410 --> 02:11:02,950
Something what I've described to you
just on the previous slide, right? So
1678
02:11:02,950 --> 02:11:09,050
momentum trading is always going to
produce that drawdown off the peak. This
1679
02:11:09,050 --> 02:11:11,850
very frustrating as then I spend a lot
of time.
1680
02:11:12,509 --> 02:11:17,330
and trades getting back to peak equity.
I'm wondering if there is a way I could
1681
02:11:17,330 --> 02:11:22,930
exit at the top of the swing without
giving back too much of my gains at the
1682
02:11:22,930 --> 02:11:25,710
same time capturing the majority of the
swing.
1683
02:11:26,010 --> 02:11:31,670
I'm posting the recent trade as an
illustration of my entry and exit. Is
1684
02:11:31,670 --> 02:11:33,930
way I could have exited earlier?
1685
02:11:36,930 --> 02:11:40,190
I feel I could have done better. I have
taken
1686
02:11:41,679 --> 02:11:46,100
WTC in your swing trading course and I'm
subscribed to the WMT. I know one sign
1687
02:11:46,100 --> 02:11:52,560
to expect a consolidation is a change of
character to exit on that change of
1688
02:11:52,560 --> 02:11:53,459
character bar.
1689
02:11:53,460 --> 02:11:57,780
Is there a place I could have exited the
stock and preserved most of my gains?
1690
02:11:57,860 --> 02:12:01,280
Thanks for your teaching. I think
avoiding big drawdowns is the biggest
1691
02:12:01,280 --> 02:12:02,320
challenge for me.
1692
02:12:05,140 --> 02:12:06,520
Okay, well let's see.
1693
02:12:07,180 --> 02:12:08,660
Entry, exit.
1694
02:12:10,570 --> 02:12:16,530
All right, well, I would say that we
could definitely optimize it a little
1695
02:12:16,530 --> 02:12:23,290
more in terms of the exit, as I
understand correctly. And let me
1696
02:12:23,290 --> 02:12:25,870
this up in
1697
02:12:25,870 --> 02:12:30,610
stock chart.
1698
02:12:52,880 --> 02:12:59,740
The key here, I think, from the
beginning is just what kind of
1699
02:12:59,740 --> 02:13:06,060
trade are you going to have here, right?
So we have quite a
1700
02:13:06,060 --> 02:13:12,620
causality right here, and we are in the
correct group right now that is showing
1701
02:13:12,620 --> 02:13:14,160
a lot of outperformance.
1702
02:13:14,740 --> 02:13:16,600
So what is our intention?
1703
02:13:16,880 --> 02:13:21,320
Is our intention for a short -term swing
trade, the one that we're having here?
1704
02:13:21,840 --> 02:13:24,780
Or is it something where we want to
catch a much larger move?
1705
02:13:25,120 --> 02:13:30,720
So I'm going to assume here, Anindya,
that the intention was the short term
1706
02:13:30,720 --> 02:13:31,379
swing trade.
1707
02:13:31,380 --> 02:13:36,560
Just because how you exited suggests
that it was a short term.
1708
02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:42,220
But as you could see, we're probably
going to go even higher from here.
1709
02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:51,240
Okay, so how would we deal then if this
is such a short time frame that we have?
1710
02:13:51,760 --> 02:13:53,760
How would we deal with the exit?
1711
02:13:54,220 --> 02:13:59,900
Well, first of all, I want to recognize
and I want to take a bow for the trade
1712
02:13:59,900 --> 02:14:04,620
itself. I think this is a really good
recognition of the breakout.
1713
02:14:05,520 --> 02:14:07,920
Supply is coming in, but look at the
test.
1714
02:14:08,180 --> 02:14:12,880
The test is very favorable with the
movement to the upside.
1715
02:14:13,200 --> 02:14:19,060
So we are expecting the continuation of
momentum to the upside. We also expect
1716
02:14:19,060 --> 02:14:20,300
that the momentum...
1717
02:14:20,860 --> 02:14:23,060
is gonna fade at this point.
1718
02:14:23,320 --> 02:14:27,440
And that we're gonna have more of the
laborious move up than we've had before.
1719
02:14:27,960 --> 02:14:33,800
So at the first signs of deterioration,
we should get out.
1720
02:14:36,240 --> 02:14:37,600
Where is that first sign?
1721
02:14:38,300 --> 02:14:39,820
Right here on this bar.
1722
02:14:42,380 --> 02:14:45,860
And then this is just a sign of
weakness.
1723
02:14:46,060 --> 02:14:48,760
So we want to get out on the way up.
1724
02:14:49,230 --> 02:14:53,830
So this bar right here, this first red
bar, this is going to be the bar that
1725
02:14:53,830 --> 02:15:00,610
confirms a low or high plus reversal,
and that would
1726
02:15:00,610 --> 02:15:05,830
equate for the exit. So you would
optimize your exit a little bit better
1727
02:15:05,870 --> 02:15:06,870
let's say, here.
1728
02:15:07,490 --> 02:15:11,530
Alternatively, you could just exit at
the close of this bar itself.
1729
02:15:11,910 --> 02:15:15,370
Also, a good exit right there.
1730
02:15:16,040 --> 02:15:22,680
Another suggestion is just to maybe even
go to let's say one hour
1731
02:15:22,680 --> 02:15:29,320
and just try to find something there
1732
02:15:29,320 --> 02:15:31,340
in terms of the exit.
1733
02:15:31,600 --> 02:15:36,500
And it's probably gonna be close to the
exit that we saw in the daily because
1734
02:15:36,500 --> 02:15:38,820
they're just so closely connected.
1735
02:15:39,560 --> 02:15:46,420
So you could see that there is a trend
here and then this break suggests
1736
02:15:46,420 --> 02:15:47,680
that I'm done.
1737
02:15:48,480 --> 02:15:55,340
So you could kind of wait into the close
and close your position here,
1738
02:15:55,540 --> 02:16:01,040
or you could wait until the next day,
close your position here, or you can
1739
02:16:01,040 --> 02:16:03,980
until the break and you close the
position here.
1740
02:16:04,280 --> 02:16:09,400
Where position was closed somewhere
here, probably on the intraday does not
1741
02:16:09,400 --> 02:16:10,400
any sense, right?
1742
02:16:10,620 --> 02:16:17,270
So again, if you're in this type of
swing, where after the
1743
02:16:17,270 --> 02:16:22,810
initial jump, you kind of have this
movement, but the momentum fades,
1744
02:16:23,110 --> 02:16:29,730
and you are in the short -term swing
position, use intraday for your exit,
1745
02:16:29,910 --> 02:16:34,490
and define where you would exit if that
exit is going to be so fast.
1746
02:16:36,030 --> 02:16:37,090
All right.
1747
02:16:38,610 --> 02:16:42,629
So just kind of like optimizing the exit
a little bit more.
1748
02:16:43,680 --> 02:16:49,320
in terms of where the first
deterioration comes and then on the test
1749
02:16:49,320 --> 02:16:53,940
highs, if it fails, you know, this is
where you would want to get away.
1750
02:16:55,520 --> 02:16:56,520
All right.
1751
02:16:57,840 --> 02:17:03,639
I think we're good. I think that we can
go into the exercise at this point. So
1752
02:17:03,639 --> 02:17:06,040
522. All right, guys.
1753
02:17:06,320 --> 02:17:10,760
I think that's it for today. I think
that's it for...
1754
02:17:11,379 --> 02:17:15,420
for this semester and for this course.
1755
02:17:16,040 --> 02:17:19,639
I want to again thank you, all of you,
for participating.
1756
02:17:19,959 --> 02:17:26,700
Again, I thought this was probably one
of the most active practicum
1757
02:17:26,700 --> 02:17:28,180
cycles that we have had.
1758
02:17:28,700 --> 02:17:33,600
I'm really pleased with the structure,
you know, the class itself now.
1759
02:17:34,240 --> 02:17:37,719
I would love to receive your
testimonials. That's number one.
1760
02:17:38,120 --> 02:17:40,100
And secondly, give me some kind of
feedback.
1761
02:17:40,360 --> 02:17:42,000
What else can we improve?
1762
02:17:43,020 --> 02:17:49,340
And we will send out some questionnaires
soon and going into our early
1763
02:17:49,340 --> 02:17:56,240
2020. But you know me, I'm always kind
of like looking for the new
1764
02:17:56,240 --> 02:18:01,959
ways to improve things. So I would love
to hear your opinion as to what else and
1765
02:18:01,959 --> 02:18:04,040
how else we can improve this class.
1766
02:18:04,340 --> 02:18:07,420
And I really, really would like to see
you.
1767
02:18:07,879 --> 02:18:12,920
So sign up, you know, and let's just
continue with the studies. Let's just
1768
02:18:12,920 --> 02:18:16,799
of like keep going and keep improving
and keep working on our skills.
1769
02:18:17,120 --> 02:18:20,440
With that, have a wonderful holiday
season.
1770
02:18:21,379 --> 02:18:27,240
Health and wealth to you, your families,
and to all of the people that are in
1771
02:18:27,240 --> 02:18:28,240
your circle.
1772
02:18:29,100 --> 02:18:34,879
I really appreciate all of you as
members of our community and as members
1773
02:18:34,879 --> 02:18:35,699
this class.
1774
02:18:35,700 --> 02:18:36,760
It was a lot of fun.
1775
02:18:38,439 --> 02:18:43,639
and hopefully we will reconnect at the
beginning of the new year. With that,
1776
02:18:43,680 --> 02:18:48,299
guys, thank you so much, and I'll see
you in the new 2020.
1777
02:18:48,799 --> 02:18:50,100
Thank you, and bye -bye.
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