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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,919 --> 00:00:07,960 Hi, everyone. Today is December 17th, and this is our final class of the White 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:08,960 of Practicum. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,280 This is the last session of the Practicum as we know it, and it's going 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,120 become WTC Part 2. 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:20,000 But we're still going to call this Practicum because this is where a lot of 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,060 thinking is happening. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,160 This is where a lot of R &D is happening as well. 8 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:28,320 It's just when students go to... 9 00:00:29,050 --> 00:00:33,670 The level where they understand the material better and much deeper, you 10 00:00:33,670 --> 00:00:36,390 they obviously have different questions. 11 00:00:37,210 --> 00:00:44,050 And that's how this R &D kind of happens. In a way, you know, me and you 12 00:00:44,050 --> 00:00:45,910 have a very symbiotic relationship. 13 00:00:46,670 --> 00:00:53,210 I give you some knowledge that has obviously a lot of blind spots, and then 14 00:00:53,210 --> 00:00:54,970 ask questions about those blind spots. 15 00:00:55,230 --> 00:00:57,210 I address those, but... 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,860 By addressing some of them, it opens up other blind spots. 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:07,920 So you kind of could see this perpetual symbiotic push and pull. 18 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:09,160 What about this? 19 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,580 What about that? Well, let me go and research on this, and then I'll come 20 00:01:13,580 --> 00:01:14,920 to you. And when I come back, 21 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:18,780 you know, you usually guys are going, okay, well, that was great. 22 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:22,440 But what about this? 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,320 It kind of never stops, and it always amazes me for almost 10 years now that 24 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:31,420 I've taught officially. 25 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,820 It's always been like this. So I came to a realization. I want to share this 26 00:01:37,820 --> 00:01:38,820 with you. 27 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,160 I have a nonverbal contract with all of you, my students. 28 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:51,620 And that contract is basically you give me an opportunity. 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,880 to go and research stuff and bring this stuff to you. 30 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:05,880 And you require so that I would explain that. So that's kind of like my job. My 31 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:12,720 job as a teacher is to go and to find those, I call 32 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,300 them moments of truth. 33 00:02:18,460 --> 00:02:23,580 some secret that you know needs to be uncovered and my my responsibility is 34 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:30,460 to do that and then to give this to you so um kind of like that's my that's 35 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:37,380 my purpose um and i'm really happy to do this it uh brings me a lot of pleasure 36 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:43,400 you know to do this all right well that was a little bit out of the way 37 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,200 um but uh I guess, you know, I'm a little bit sentimental because 38 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:56,760 this is the last class, you know, and we had it going so well. I think this was 39 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,540 probably one of the best practical cycles that we've had. 40 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:09,260 I thank your insistence on the details of the bias game. 41 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,880 was one of the greatest moments of this cycle, for sure. And I'm looking forward 42 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:20,700 to see how that's going to transpire, you know, going forward. Because the 43 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:27,640 we do bias games, and the more you guys are kind 44 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:34,380 of like pushing the whole process to a very structured 45 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:38,140 way, the more clearer the solution is. 46 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:44,500 I basically kind of see where it's going from here. 47 00:03:44,980 --> 00:03:48,940 We're going to have a step -by -step for the bias game. And we have rule number 48 00:03:48,940 --> 00:03:49,940 one. 49 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,220 Go left to right. 50 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,000 Create your story from left to right. Use all of the information that you 51 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,920 So that was a really great moment in the class in this cycle. 52 00:04:04,420 --> 00:04:07,940 I really, really liked and appreciate also. 53 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:13,460 All of the honest and sincere, straightforward emails that I've got 54 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:19,160 guys about where you are in trading, you know, what bothers you, what you think, 55 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,079 you know, we should be studying in the class. 56 00:04:21,779 --> 00:04:23,220 And I'm always listening. 57 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:30,060 You know, sometimes, you know, I just take it as a note. And sometimes, you 58 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:32,800 know, I drastically change, you know, the way how we approach that. 59 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,980 In a way, again, I'm talking about that relationship that we have. You are 60 00:04:38,980 --> 00:04:44,660 driving the product, so to say. You're kind of like dictating what is the next 61 00:04:44,660 --> 00:04:47,100 blind spot that we have to go to and uncover. 62 00:04:48,420 --> 00:04:50,020 So I really appreciate that. 63 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,280 Okay, what else? 64 00:04:56,620 --> 00:05:00,560 I think anatomy of the trade. 65 00:05:00,970 --> 00:05:07,610 was also interesting in the way how kind of did not start really well, but 66 00:05:07,610 --> 00:05:12,970 then, you know, once this election was good, then we went into the 67 00:05:12,970 --> 00:05:17,190 of, okay, well, this is betrayed and this is how it unfolds. 68 00:05:19,830 --> 00:05:26,710 There were probably I would try to 69 00:05:26,710 --> 00:05:27,710 figure out 70 00:05:28,270 --> 00:05:31,570 how to include more exercises on more different themes. 71 00:05:33,710 --> 00:05:36,650 So maybe in the next cycle, that could be my focus. 72 00:05:37,850 --> 00:05:42,250 So kind of like contemplating and thinking about the next cycle. 73 00:05:42,970 --> 00:05:48,510 What else is going to happen in the next cycle is that once the new website is 74 00:05:48,510 --> 00:05:54,350 launched, then we are going to have the capacity to communicate with each other 75 00:05:54,350 --> 00:05:55,350 via forums. 76 00:05:56,140 --> 00:06:03,060 And one of the forums is going to be a closed out protected forum for WICAP 77 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:04,060 practicum students. 78 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:10,060 And you guys will be able to talk to each other, post any charts, you know, 79 00:06:10,060 --> 00:06:14,940 discuss any homework that we have. And because it's closed, only you in the 80 00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:16,320 classroom is going to see this. 81 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:22,560 Actually, I probably will be kind of like thinking that. 82 00:06:23,359 --> 00:06:28,540 For those of you who would like, you could post your bias game, you know, 83 00:06:28,540 --> 00:06:29,540 you're done with that. 84 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:36,560 And then, you know, other people could have a look at that work if you'd like. 85 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:42,040 Because I can't really, you know, do all of this, you know, put all of your 86 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,740 homeworks on the slides, but this could be the way. 87 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,560 And then just I had so many requests from you just to connect, connect, 88 00:06:48,740 --> 00:06:50,860 So we're going to do exactly that. 89 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:53,880 All right. 90 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,080 What else is here before we go to our agenda? 91 00:06:58,660 --> 00:07:02,240 Long -term campaigns. I thought the first session was great. 92 00:07:04,260 --> 00:07:06,640 A lot of new material. 93 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,420 You know, the way how I'm showing 94 00:07:11,420 --> 00:07:17,780 kind of like the 95 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,420 price cycle and how we're going to put the coordinates there. 96 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:29,900 And I gave you guys, you know, like a very, very defined signal as to look for 97 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:34,420 this. And then you had a homework. So for those of you who still want to 98 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:38,940 participate, this week is the last session. But, you know, as always, you 99 00:07:38,940 --> 00:07:39,940 buy it on demand. 100 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,400 The practical. 101 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:46,780 And this is very serious. And I've already seen three people who signed up. 102 00:07:48,210 --> 00:07:51,790 for alumni who signed up for the practicum again. 103 00:07:52,030 --> 00:07:56,830 Well, first of all, very smart because it's an early bird, so please do that. 104 00:07:57,170 --> 00:08:03,550 And then I'm kind of smiling a little bit because 105 00:08:03,550 --> 00:08:06,490 you see what's going on. 106 00:08:07,450 --> 00:08:10,110 It's like this game never ends. 107 00:08:11,010 --> 00:08:16,370 Each week you could analyze the chart and you could come back to the class and 108 00:08:16,370 --> 00:08:19,650 just listen to the explanation or just watch for that explanation. 109 00:08:20,210 --> 00:08:25,210 And I think that the key, especially for those of you who have jobs from nine to 110 00:08:25,210 --> 00:08:30,270 five and you guys are so busy with other stuff in your life, it's very difficult 111 00:08:30,270 --> 00:08:31,570 and I totally get it. 112 00:08:33,070 --> 00:08:38,730 There are other things that the market, and I'm devoting a lot of time during 113 00:08:38,730 --> 00:08:39,730 the day. 114 00:08:39,770 --> 00:08:43,070 to the markets from any aspects of it. 115 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:46,030 So I'm gonna take myself out of this equation. 116 00:08:46,390 --> 00:08:50,690 But there are some things in life that I really, really would like to do. 117 00:08:51,970 --> 00:08:57,870 And my job, which is the markets, does not allow me to do so, right? So 118 00:08:57,870 --> 00:09:04,810 having just one class a week, it's a structured way to kind 119 00:09:04,810 --> 00:09:06,450 of still keep going. 120 00:09:06,970 --> 00:09:12,010 keep improving and with each week just think about those concepts to improve 121 00:09:12,010 --> 00:09:17,610 your thinking to look at some examples and it's still gonna benefit you in the 122 00:09:17,610 --> 00:09:22,370 very long run so I could see how some of the people are kind of like you know 123 00:09:22,370 --> 00:09:27,510 jumping you know from one cycle to another into another it's just because 124 00:09:27,510 --> 00:09:33,630 just never stops so you can never stop your improvement all right so Register 125 00:09:33,630 --> 00:09:38,090 for the practicum if you intend to do so. 126 00:09:38,570 --> 00:09:41,670 Also consider WMT if you're not a subscriber. 127 00:09:42,370 --> 00:09:47,430 Also, if you would like to repeat WTC course, that's available as well. 128 00:09:47,690 --> 00:09:52,530 And there are some very exciting products in 2020 that are coming out, 129 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:59,410 on our newsletter distribution list. So I will inform you this way. 130 00:10:00,010 --> 00:10:05,090 But one thing to pay attention, actually two things to pay attention to, for 131 00:10:05,090 --> 00:10:10,950 sure, is the trusted process, continuation of that, and then also the 132 00:10:10,950 --> 00:10:17,290 scanning, which I think that we are consistently now 133 00:10:17,290 --> 00:10:20,290 developing this methodology and knowledge. 134 00:10:20,850 --> 00:10:26,910 And in my work with John, I'm making sure that there is that. 135 00:10:27,609 --> 00:10:28,910 consistency of the progression. 136 00:10:29,330 --> 00:10:34,930 So if you start from the beginning, you know, from the first specials, from the 137 00:10:34,930 --> 00:10:40,010 very basic syntax, the basic understanding, and I would take first 138 00:10:40,010 --> 00:10:44,050 special just to understand the momentum in general and then jump into the 139 00:10:44,050 --> 00:10:45,050 scanning. 140 00:10:46,030 --> 00:10:51,870 Then we're going to have part two and also a very, very advanced part three. 141 00:10:51,870 --> 00:10:54,390 it's just exciting where we're going with that. 142 00:10:55,130 --> 00:10:58,050 And trust the process, that's going to be a complete thing. 143 00:10:58,250 --> 00:11:03,310 You know, I kind of like have a specific vision for that as well. We have, you 144 00:11:03,310 --> 00:11:06,710 know, Teresa working on that, and she's doing just a spectacular work. 145 00:11:07,410 --> 00:11:10,770 So somewhere in the first quarter, we're going to have that special too. 146 00:11:11,570 --> 00:11:16,210 Today, and it's session number 15, by the way, right? 147 00:11:16,790 --> 00:11:19,890 It's not session number 14. I just don't want to say goodbye. 148 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:28,640 We have a special presentation by Ted. Ted is going to be showing his way 149 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,480 of defining and looking for sprints. 150 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,900 So that's going to be very interesting. 151 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:42,480 Then a quick market update, anatomy of the trade update, bias game, a last bias 152 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,820 game that I'm going to give you guys, and then you're off to races with the 153 00:11:46,820 --> 00:11:50,780 Twitter. And on Twitter, free each week. 154 00:11:51,340 --> 00:11:52,360 Same bias game. 155 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:58,560 We give you the explanation as well, so you don't have to be in class. 156 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,020 At least do that. 157 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:01,520 That's very educational. 158 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,640 But if you want more details, obviously, just sign up for the class. 159 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,920 Q &A, because this is the last class, we didn't have a lot of questions, 160 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,880 although we've addressed so many during the course of this semester. So I'm 161 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,680 satisfied with the Q &A in general. 162 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:19,740 And then... 163 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:28,680 There are some exercises that are left on the bias game or the tape reading, 164 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,400 we'll see which one you guys will choose at that moment. 165 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 All right. 166 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:43,160 As usual, everything that we talk about here is for educational purposes. Stop 167 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,680 your recording. Read the disclaimer. 168 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:52,380 With this, let me introduce you to 169 00:12:52,380 --> 00:12:58,900 our today's presenter. 170 00:13:02,380 --> 00:13:03,380 Ted, are you there? 171 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,640 I think that you have to unmute yourself. 172 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:13,580 Let's see. Is this working now? Yes. 173 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:15,300 Yes, I can hear you now. Oh, good. 174 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:16,900 Isn't this amazing? 175 00:13:17,290 --> 00:13:20,290 Yeah. I'm on the side of the road driving to Chicago. 176 00:13:23,790 --> 00:13:30,710 Yeah. And, you know, it is amazing, yes. And I'm so happy that you could make 177 00:13:30,710 --> 00:13:34,570 it with the, you know, with this technology that we have. So that's 178 00:13:35,950 --> 00:13:40,850 So, Ted, I wanted to, and I kind of prefixed this by 179 00:13:40,850 --> 00:13:45,690 that you're going to talk to us about sprints. 180 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:53,600 So you sent me an email where you were showing a case study, so to 181 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,260 say, on the screen. And it kind of got me interested, and I thought it would be 182 00:13:58,260 --> 00:14:01,520 valuable for our students, you know, to hear this. 183 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:05,220 Sure. So walk us through this. 184 00:14:06,740 --> 00:14:09,400 Well, let me make a few prefaces. 185 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,500 I'm an old student, not a very good student. 186 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:17,260 took the course from Craig Schroeder in 1982. 187 00:14:18,660 --> 00:14:23,900 And the only, not being a good student, I didn't, all I came away with was 188 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:25,180 springs and upthrust. 189 00:14:25,460 --> 00:14:28,560 I didn't understand the A, B, C, D, E. 190 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:35,380 That's why I took the course from you probably nine months ago, 191 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:41,500 to understand more about Wyckoff and to have more points of entry. 192 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,200 Because good springs don't occur that often in the market. 193 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:48,600 So I put this. 194 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,320 And how was the course for you, by the way, Ted? 195 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Oh, I loved it. 196 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:54,800 I loved it. 197 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,800 I'm going to go back through my old. I still have the old original course. 198 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:05,800 And I'm going to look for the A, B, C, D, E that I must have missed back then. 199 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,360 But it certainly has given me more. 200 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,100 places to look for entries. 201 00:15:13,940 --> 00:15:20,840 I never would, I didn't buy NVIDIA, but I could see what a great trade that was 202 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,640 after, you know, I think it had made a spring. I don't, I don't have the 203 00:15:25,980 --> 00:15:30,980 Yeah, it was a high low. It was attempting to spring and it had, yes, 204 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,000 it didn't make a loyal low, but let's, let's also, you know, because we're here 205 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,650 in the advanced class, let's just, Remember that NVIDIA on the way to that 206 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:48,210 C had characteristics that it wanted to spring, the way how the spread behaved, 207 00:15:48,410 --> 00:15:49,690 the way how the volume behaved. 208 00:15:49,970 --> 00:15:53,770 And that's the main recognition that we should have, you know, on that type of 209 00:15:53,770 --> 00:15:57,210 the reaction that goes into spring. And it just failed to spring. 210 00:15:57,930 --> 00:15:58,889 Didn't spring. 211 00:15:58,890 --> 00:16:03,850 And then you missed, so you wouldn't have bought it there, but on the, you 212 00:16:03,870 --> 00:16:07,390 there's other places as it was unfolding that you could have jumped in and made 213 00:16:07,390 --> 00:16:08,390 a very nice. 214 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,860 Made a very nice trade still, you know, which is still unfolding. 215 00:16:13,460 --> 00:16:20,320 So I put these I'm an investment advisor, work for a large firm in 216 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:26,920 and was an institutional salesman for many years selling research to 217 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:32,660 institutions around the country. So I got to see how large institutions work. 218 00:16:32,820 --> 00:16:37,440 You know, there's portfolio managers, there's there's analysts and there's 219 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:38,440 trading departments. 220 00:16:39,210 --> 00:16:44,950 And so it's kind of fun to see things unfold and imagine, you know, as you're 221 00:16:44,950 --> 00:16:49,890 talking about how institutions look at things and and then try to imagine how 222 00:16:49,890 --> 00:16:52,310 things are working inside of those institutions. 223 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:56,870 But so you've got you're on the first part of this PowerPoint. 224 00:16:58,070 --> 00:17:05,069 And, you know, I think there is a Wyckoff admonition that says beware of 225 00:17:05,069 --> 00:17:06,470 springs and downtrends. 226 00:17:07,690 --> 00:17:11,030 And that's that's correct, because they often fail. 227 00:17:11,390 --> 00:17:12,390 But. 228 00:17:12,970 --> 00:17:18,630 To buy a spring or to get into a spring position, the stock has to be a little 229 00:17:18,630 --> 00:17:22,670 weaker than the market has to be in a downtrend of some kind. But I would say 230 00:17:22,670 --> 00:17:28,270 that you wait for a spring to get to a really big spring position. 231 00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:34,210 Maybe, you know, you're springing support from two or three years ago. And 232 00:17:34,210 --> 00:17:35,890 are those are big springs. 233 00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:39,770 So if we go to the next slide. 234 00:17:44,310 --> 00:17:45,310 Here we go. 235 00:17:48,350 --> 00:17:54,850 And, of course, really good springs come in down markets, which, of course, is 236 00:17:54,850 --> 00:17:57,190 when it's really hard to buy a good spring. 237 00:17:57,890 --> 00:18:01,430 And that's probably what takes all the practice. 238 00:18:03,210 --> 00:18:08,710 A good spring, in my opinion, is the danger points, the danger points that 239 00:18:08,710 --> 00:18:10,330 Livermore would talk about. 240 00:18:11,410 --> 00:18:18,390 And I have found that in a really good spring, most of the gain comes 241 00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:22,890 in the automatic rally after the spring is made. 242 00:18:23,290 --> 00:18:25,510 And we'll see that in just a little bit. 243 00:18:25,870 --> 00:18:27,810 But if we go to the next slide. 244 00:18:31,870 --> 00:18:33,050 Here's Lyondell. 245 00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:38,670 Now, I kind of like dividend stocks because I think a good dividend puts a 246 00:18:38,670 --> 00:18:43,770 natural floor underneath a stock. But you can see this wonderful spring. 247 00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:49,070 You know, Bruce Frazier was talking about that switch from growth to value 248 00:18:49,070 --> 00:18:55,370 in August. And he had that chart, growth versus value, on 249 00:18:55,370 --> 00:18:58,310 StockCharts .com. And it kind of shows you when. 250 00:18:59,470 --> 00:19:01,990 The values started to get weaker. 251 00:19:02,410 --> 00:19:07,170 Do you remember that chart he had and the value stocks were getting stronger? 252 00:19:07,530 --> 00:19:12,410 Well, that all happened right back in August, right when this spring in Lion 253 00:19:12,410 --> 00:19:13,630 Dell occurred. 254 00:19:14,350 --> 00:19:20,010 Now, another spring in Caterpillar. There were a lot of large springs right 255 00:19:20,010 --> 00:19:21,270 that month. 256 00:19:21,670 --> 00:19:26,250 And you can see Lion Dell is springing support. One, two, three, four. 257 00:19:26,910 --> 00:19:31,250 Four years of support. And down there in that spring at sixty nine dollars. 258 00:19:33,610 --> 00:19:35,790 It was yielding six and three quarters. 259 00:19:36,150 --> 00:19:37,970 It was yielding six percent or so. 260 00:19:39,010 --> 00:19:42,070 So to me, that's that's kind of what I like to buy. 261 00:19:42,370 --> 00:19:43,990 If we go to the next slide. 262 00:19:46,690 --> 00:19:50,490 At this at the same time, this is Caterpillar. 263 00:19:50,810 --> 00:19:52,990 This is the spring in August. 264 00:19:53,270 --> 00:19:54,930 You see a nice trading range. 265 00:19:55,590 --> 00:19:59,490 And we see the stock is now down at that spring position in August. 266 00:20:00,470 --> 00:20:06,350 And what a wonderful thing that's been. It's up 27 % from the spring. Now, 267 00:20:06,390 --> 00:20:11,950 Roman, you probably wouldn't buy that spring. You'd probably wait for the 268 00:20:11,950 --> 00:20:14,050 automatic rally and the test and all that. 269 00:20:15,790 --> 00:20:22,350 And that's fine. But sometimes I would jump in right there because most of the 270 00:20:22,350 --> 00:20:23,350 gain is made. 271 00:20:23,790 --> 00:20:28,490 the recovery from the spring right well ted um i don't know if you want the 272 00:20:28,490 --> 00:20:35,010 questions afterwards or durian um because yeah that kind of you know 273 00:20:35,010 --> 00:20:41,850 the question is is asking itself why the majority why do you think the 274 00:20:41,850 --> 00:20:47,410 majority of the gains come right after the spring what you're calling an 275 00:20:47,410 --> 00:20:49,770 automatic rally here after the spring 276 00:20:50,510 --> 00:20:53,490 Probably we're referring to the sign of strength here. 277 00:20:54,470 --> 00:21:00,230 Yes, that's the sign of strength. In your opinion, why would the majority of 278 00:21:00,230 --> 00:21:04,570 gains come quickly after the spring? 279 00:21:05,370 --> 00:21:12,230 I just noticed that in a good spring, the rally 280 00:21:12,230 --> 00:21:14,090 after the spring is kind of sharp. 281 00:21:17,180 --> 00:21:21,220 When you jump in later on, well, maybe a good bit of the move has already been 282 00:21:21,220 --> 00:21:24,340 made, and it's more of a slog after that. 283 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 So that's why I think that. 284 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:33,100 Can I really quickly tell you my opinion on why this happens? 285 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:34,360 Yes, please. 286 00:21:34,860 --> 00:21:37,880 Okay, so this is a very good observation. 287 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:43,740 But we also want to understand, you know, what... what happens there, right? 288 00:21:43,740 --> 00:21:47,480 when we look at the volume signature throughout the whole trading range going 289 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:53,200 into phase C, we kind of see a lot of buys as value buys. So they are buying 290 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,880 the bottom. They are buying like at the climactic action. 291 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,860 Then they are buying maybe like at the bottom of the spring of the secondary 292 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:04,480 test, I'm sorry. And it acts as a spring, right? It goes down, quickly up. 293 00:22:05,060 --> 00:22:06,060 Then another... 294 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,580 kind of type of spring at this support level. 295 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:10,280 We're looking just at this support level. 296 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,800 Goes down, there is a little bit of the increase in the volume signature. 297 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:20,300 They are buying right here. So we could establish like this value zone for 298 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,800 institutional buyers where they buy it. 299 00:22:23,630 --> 00:22:29,110 And then by the time that they have bought this position into phase C, we 300 00:22:29,110 --> 00:22:33,010 see in the volume signature that supply has diminished. They have absorbed 301 00:22:33,010 --> 00:22:39,450 supply. It's visible from the volume itself and from inability of the price 302 00:22:39,450 --> 00:22:40,650 commit seriously down. 303 00:22:40,970 --> 00:22:43,470 So then what happens next? 304 00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:49,610 Well, first, the spring in August, is that point C? 305 00:22:49,970 --> 00:22:56,440 Yes. That's C. That's C right there. And we could actually include this test 306 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:57,440 into C. 307 00:22:58,060 --> 00:23:03,500 Why? Because we usually would be thinking that with the local increase of 308 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:07,240 supply, there's going to be some kind of test in action that should happen on 309 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,220 the lower volume signature and then at the higher low structurally. 310 00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:13,060 So that's what we're looking for. 311 00:23:13,580 --> 00:23:15,240 So we could include both. 312 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,600 And then imagine that this supply has been observed. 313 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,080 it's much easier for the price to move up. So now we have momentum on our side. 314 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,500 And not only that, there are fewer shares that are available because of 315 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,340 absorption. So they have to bid up the price. 316 00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:37,860 And that's when the move starts to happen much faster. And off the spring, 317 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:39,400 usually will have that momentum. 318 00:23:39,740 --> 00:23:45,300 Now what happens afterwards in some cases, whenever we've done sign of 319 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,420 Then they're saying, well, we bought in on the way up. Now we're not going to do 320 00:23:50,420 --> 00:23:52,780 anything. We're going to become inactive. 321 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,440 We're satisfied. We have a meaningful position. 322 00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:59,660 If we're going to see some short -term value, we're going to step in. 323 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:03,920 And that's where the price starts to kind of like drift into the backing up 324 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,860 action. And as they see some short -term value, that's when they start, okay, 325 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:10,800 we're going to pick up a little bit here, a little bit here, a little bit 326 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,760 Now we're kind of like supporting this ground because our short -term. 327 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:22,140 valuation is here, and that absorbs final supply at this level, and then 328 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:27,060 moves the price up. This advertises the trend, and then more institutions jump 329 00:24:27,060 --> 00:24:33,460 on this train because their systems are saying, what, 52 weeks high, momentum 330 00:24:33,460 --> 00:24:36,440 breakout, and so on and so forth. 331 00:24:36,660 --> 00:24:42,500 So all of these institutional trend followers are jumping on the train, and 332 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:44,640 obviously it becomes a trend. 333 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,600 But it all started with this spring. 334 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,420 With this spring. With this spring. 335 00:24:51,020 --> 00:24:56,380 And the problem is you don't have a beautiful formation like this very 336 00:24:57,020 --> 00:24:59,500 I mean, you can look for these and look for them. 337 00:24:59,740 --> 00:25:01,120 There's not that many of them. 338 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,840 But when they're there, they're pretty good. 339 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:12,000 Okay. Going to the next. 340 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,200 The next one is eBay. 341 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:20,560 This is years ago, not that many years ago, but I always thought. 342 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,000 Here we have a nice long trading range. 343 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:27,820 And I kind of look at the bottom of that range. 344 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:35,660 As the bid side of the market in a big kind of way, that's the bid side and the 345 00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:42,060 upper range is the offered side in a big kind of way. And and this is where all 346 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:42,809 the big. 347 00:25:42,810 --> 00:25:46,870 The big boys, the big portfolio managers, and I used to call on them. 348 00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:50,370 where they're kind of placing their orders in a big trading range like this. 349 00:25:53,410 --> 00:25:55,750 Now, eBay went on to much. 350 00:25:56,050 --> 00:26:02,590 This was reaccumulation, and this went on to much higher highs after 2015. 351 00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:08,610 I don't show it to you in this chart. I'm just showing you that particular 352 00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:09,610 trading range. 353 00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:19,220 The next slide, somehow I went back to Caterpillar, eBay. 354 00:26:21,220 --> 00:26:26,300 Oh, so, Roman, you said in one of your classes, 355 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:33,460 and this is, flip down to the next, flip down 356 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:35,520 if you would. It should be TLT. 357 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,580 Yes. Yes. All right. 358 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,660 So you said, and this explains things perfectly. 359 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,740 that a climax is a liquidity event. 360 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,320 So you shouldn't fear these things. 361 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:54,520 And I can just imagine what goes on inside of an institution. 362 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:59,980 And you've been trying to buy this stock all year long. 363 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:07,440 If you're a big institution, you just can't buy that much stock and not move 364 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:08,440 price. 365 00:27:08,540 --> 00:27:10,380 And so you... 366 00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:14,720 You kind of divide up your purchases and you kind of wade into a stock and you 367 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,920 wade out of a stock. 368 00:27:16,660 --> 00:27:21,480 And then suddenly you've been trying to buy this stock all year. Then finally, 369 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,480 wham, it's down five or six points on some sort of bad news. 370 00:27:25,780 --> 00:27:27,720 Huge spread going down. 371 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:29,140 Lots of volume. 372 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,880 And the trading department is calling up the portfolio manager saying, look, 373 00:27:32,980 --> 00:27:34,500 you've been trying to buy this all year. 374 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,160 Here you can have all you want at down five dollars from the last price. 375 00:27:39,870 --> 00:27:43,790 And they're finding the other sides of these trades. And so the portfolio 376 00:27:43,790 --> 00:27:49,030 managers, if nothing really is that different about the company, they come 377 00:27:49,030 --> 00:27:50,470 and make their purchases. 378 00:27:51,290 --> 00:27:56,110 Now, this isn't a stock. TLT is, you know, long treasuries, but it's the 379 00:27:56,490 --> 00:28:01,530 I was just looking for an example of a nice big climax where the climax stopped 380 00:28:01,530 --> 00:28:02,449 the move. 381 00:28:02,450 --> 00:28:05,770 And this is what happened in the ETF. 382 00:28:06,110 --> 00:28:09,010 And then this is back in August. 383 00:28:10,490 --> 00:28:12,110 September and October of 18. 384 00:28:12,450 --> 00:28:19,410 Then we had a very big rally for bonds in TLT or 385 00:28:19,410 --> 00:28:26,310 is shown by TLT, I should say. And then we had another in August of 19. We had 386 00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:32,710 a buying climax and that and as I was watching that, you just knew, oh, this 387 00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:38,470 the end of the rally because we had this big climax and everything that was to 388 00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:43,450 be. Bought and sold is bought and sold right then, and kind of everything's 389 00:28:43,450 --> 00:28:49,730 cleared out, and we've marked the end of a rally. So now this is probably going 390 00:28:49,730 --> 00:28:52,890 to mark a nice trading range, don't you think, Roman? 391 00:28:53,170 --> 00:28:54,170 Yeah, absolutely. 392 00:28:54,450 --> 00:28:56,510 I mean, that was described perfectly. 393 00:28:57,790 --> 00:29:04,470 The rally itself had kind of like those characteristics that we've talked about, 394 00:29:04,590 --> 00:29:07,950 guys, in Best of Wyckoff. 395 00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:15,270 I've talked about first the momentum off the floor, right? So where we have that 396 00:29:15,270 --> 00:29:19,370 volume signature. There's a lot of buying orders that moves the price 397 00:29:19,370 --> 00:29:20,370 after the spring. 398 00:29:20,570 --> 00:29:23,550 Ted has described the spring process to us. 399 00:29:23,890 --> 00:29:30,450 Then we go into the second section where we have profit taken on the way up, 400 00:29:30,610 --> 00:29:35,850 and that kind of has more reactionary mode, but it's still upsloping. 401 00:29:36,050 --> 00:29:37,370 It's a vertical absorption. 402 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,760 taking is happening other institutional interest believing that the valuation is 403 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,240 still going to be higher and they are going to observe that supply by stepping 404 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,020 in and buying you know that supply and then once supply has been observed first 405 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:58,760 at the low level at the level of the backing up action then on the way up 406 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:05,720 there is nothing left and we have a pure speculation um and 407 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:12,120 actually There is nothing to fear about the buying climaxes. In fact, you should 408 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,440 be looking at the opportunity as a speculator, and I'm talking to those of 409 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,760 advanced students who are speculators, to take this and to take this. 410 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:28,540 Unfortunately, I did not take the move up, but when I saw that it's climaxing 411 00:30:28,540 --> 00:30:32,260 like this, my entry was here and I got out somewhere here. 412 00:30:32,860 --> 00:30:38,340 The purpose of this trade was not to have a very long -term, short -oriented 413 00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:42,740 position. It was just to capture the initial momentum, to capture the initial 414 00:30:42,740 --> 00:30:48,320 volatility in a very short period of time, make a relatively good return. 415 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,160 And that's what kind of like was achieved with that trade. Ted? 416 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,480 Yes. So this illustrates climaxes at both ends of a 417 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,760 move. 418 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:09,760 Now, too bad as we're a big bond firm, too bad we didn't 419 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,220 really act. We didn't do anything right there. 420 00:31:14,580 --> 00:31:17,960 You're too scared to death. 421 00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:25,900 Okay, well, let me kind of like interfere here with your thinking here, 422 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:26,900 I do. 423 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:33,260 uh work and consult you know um institutional clients so this is a kind 424 00:31:33,260 --> 00:31:39,360 uh common dilemma right what do you do at that spot at the top as an 425 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:44,720 you have you're holding a long -term position you know so what do you do you 426 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:50,000 already have you know profits built in but in a lot of cases i hear that is 427 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:56,730 um when there is such a strong deviation you know uh in the way how quickly the 428 00:31:56,730 --> 00:32:02,810 move has happened, institutions tend to take the profits off the table, wouldn't 429 00:32:02,810 --> 00:32:03,810 you say? 430 00:32:04,050 --> 00:32:10,790 Yes. As a bond firm, we have most certainly drawn in our horns because 431 00:32:10,790 --> 00:32:15,170 we've had such a great year. We want to preserve it. Yes. 432 00:32:15,390 --> 00:32:20,910 So the way you do that in a bond firm is you shorten up your positions. 433 00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:25,910 Okay. You shorten them up. You can stay in the same corporate bonds if you like 434 00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:31,730 the names. You can stay in the same. You just buy shorter positions because 435 00:32:31,730 --> 00:32:37,250 they're not going to be as volatile as a longer bond is going to be. 436 00:32:38,110 --> 00:32:41,390 In effect, you're making the same trade. 437 00:32:41,750 --> 00:32:47,810 You are basically trading this short -term volatility that's going to occur 438 00:32:47,810 --> 00:32:50,050 you're using just different 439 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,200 time frame. 440 00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:59,740 As a firm, we're not using charts like a Wyckoff person. 441 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:08,900 If we were all Wyckoff bond people, we would have known what to do. 442 00:33:10,220 --> 00:33:16,580 Hopefully, for your personal purposes and just an understanding. 443 00:33:16,990 --> 00:33:21,530 You know, of what are the possibilities here, how behaviors are going to, you 444 00:33:21,530 --> 00:33:27,510 know, be exhibited at that buy and stop in action. You know, I think it's 445 00:33:27,510 --> 00:33:31,730 useful. All right. Well, what's what's next for us? So the next next slide. 446 00:33:32,830 --> 00:33:39,690 Oh, so here's what I emailed you, Roman. And then you emailed me back. So, you 447 00:33:39,690 --> 00:33:44,710 know, the market, one of the few things the market gives you is diversification. 448 00:33:45,730 --> 00:33:46,730 So is. 449 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:53,040 investment advisors portfolio managers you have diversified portfolios now as 450 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,140 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. 157716

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