Quant Systems

PTM_202404

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 13 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: April 2024
  • Video time: 13 hours
  • Session: 2024-04-06
  • Session: 2024-04-13
  • Session: 2024-04-20
  • Session: 2024-04-27
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2024-04-06
  • Understanding the relationship between higher and lower timeframe context
  • Having reasonable expectations for intraday price action based on the context of higher timeframe chart
  • Role of breakouts leading to bad reversal signals and limit order counter-trend trades based on them 
  • How to pick tops and bottoms before there is a reversal signal bar
  • Price action probabilities on the first bar of the intraday session
  • Stop placement for top/bottom picking trades
  • Expectations for two sided trading based on depth of pullback
  • How to frame a trade
  • The importance of understanding the CE (Calibrated Expectation) of your signals and strategies
  • Outside bar example for CE
  • How to train yourself to become a competent trader
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-04-13
  • Understanding the relationship between higher and lower timeframe context
  • Having reasonable expectations for intraday price action based on the context of higher timeframe chart
  • Synchronizing you expectations with the rhythm of the market 
  • Fading bar 1 probabilities 
  • How to use market response to bar 1 fades to determine high probability secondary entries
  • Stop placement
  • Finding scalp exit targets based on market response to the entry
  • Using market response to decide whether the CE of the trade has changed
  • Dominant feature of the day
  • When to decide there is a new dominant feature 
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-04-20
  • How to organize your strategies based on market cycle
  • How to adjust entry based on momentum 
  • Tests vs. Breakouts
  • What is "price discovery" 
  • Why every move is a test
  • Why breakout to a new all-time high is also a test
  • The relationship between tests and breakouts
  • Understanding failures
  • Determine what failure means for your signals to gain clarity
  • What to look for or expect when taking weak signals
  • Strong and weak entry signals in trading ranges
  • When not take Micro Channel pullback entries
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-04-27
  • Structuring intraday swing trades based on the daily chart
  • When not sure, use secondary trade entries
  • The importance of waiting for market response to first bars of the session
  • When third legs have lower probability of reversing and higher probability of continuation 
  • General factors for analyzing anything
  • Factoring in secondary factors for more detailed analysis
  • Different types of trend day structures
  • Probability of occurrence of different types of trend days
  • Spike and TTR day structure
  • How deep a pullback should be to damage a trend enough (to expect a trading range)?
  • What is the logic of Measured Moves? 
  • Why should someone bet against a spike? 
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's 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. 
Includes trades charts

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.