Quant Systems

PTM_202311

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 13 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: November 2023
  • Video time: 13 hours
  • Session: 2023-11-04
  • Session: 2023-11-11
  • Session: 2023-11-18
  • Session: 2023-11-25
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2023-11-04
  • Surprise weakness leading to climactic reversals
  • Example of climax - reversal on current charts
  • How to estimate correction range and duration of nested wedges
  • Market response to weak reversal signals, what to expect
  • Issues with the reversal signal bar
  • A reversal that is too early
  • When to expect simple legs to fail
  • How to think about market regime
  • Probability estimations within market regime model
  • Using the market regime model for order type selection 
  • Using the market regime model for trade selection 
  • How can a trading range contribute to a trend on a higher time frame
  • Opening gaps and day structure expectations in a high momentum environment
  • Nested triangles
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2023-11-11
  • Change of behavior in a trading range: breakout soon
  • BSB Pattern
  • Support and resistance of BSB patterns
  • Expectation of follow-through of a BSB
  • Cyclical volatility and BSB
  • Failure cases of BSB patterns
  • How to use failures of BSB for high probability limit order trading
  • Wedges that form after a double top or a double bottom
  • Climactic behavior of a bear channel with respect to tests of the EMA
  • Climactic behavior of Micro Channel
  • Expecting and timing the pullback of a climactic micro channel
  • Small pullback trend that is a breakout on one time frame higher
  • How to use bar numbers to see the 15 min bars without looking at the 15 min chart
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2023-11-18
  • Scaling-in/out decision tree algorithm 
  • Exit management decision tree algorithm 
  • Wedges
  • Probability estimation for a wedge reversal trade
  • When not to take the wedge reversal entry
  • When to expect trend resumption after a wedge
  • When is a wedge a flag rather than a top/bottom formation
  • Why shape of a wedge is important
  • How does the shape of a wedge influences its probabilities 
  • Inside-Outside-Inside pattern: various shapes
  • General probability (of any pattern)
  • Practicing to develop skills for estimating General Probabilities
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2023-11-25
  • Bar life concept
  • How to estimate when to enter intrabar
  • The importance of strong swing points
  • The relationship between a swing point and the reversal breakout
  • What to expect following a weak swing point
  • The importance of the distance factor in breakouts
  • Expecting a first pullback failure situation and what to check for
  • Where to expect to see a first pullback failure to form
  • Understanding limit order entry zones and how to find them 
  • Basing your limit entries on the general probabilities of the chart context
  • Find-tuning the cost average of the trade using scaling in
  • CE (Calibrated Expectation) and how to use it in limit order entries
  • When not to use limit orders
  • When to cancel a limit order to place it further away
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A

About PTM Modules

This is the archived recordings of the Pro Trader live mentoring session for the above date and month. 
      For example, PTM_202207 contains all sessions for month 7 of year 2022.
Each PTM module contains all sessions from one month.
Each session is about 3 hours long. 
Live sessions are conducted over Zoom (or other online meeting tools) and recorded. 
 Recordings are not edited to give you the same experience as being in the session with everyone else. 
Videos show mentor's screen, trading platform, and the electronic whiteboard. 

Ali Moin-Afshari

Systematic Trader
ABOUT ALI
Ali Moin-Afshari is the founder of Quant Systems and course creator of the Systems Academy program. He has had a successful +20-year career in IT and telecom, working as an architect, consultant, and founder of two IT companies. He began his trading career initially as a side business in 2007 and became a full time trader in 2014. He is a systems expert and has designed,  developed, and programed more than 200 trading systems.
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