Quant Systems

PTM_202405

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 13 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: March 2024
  • Video time: 12 hours
  • Session: 2024-05-04
  • Session: 2024-05-11
  • Session: 2024-05-18
  • Session: 2024-05-25
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2024-05-04
  • The i1R (initial 1 unit of Risk) concept
  • How to think correctly about a strategy
  • How to validate a trading idea in an unbiased way
  • Role of market regime in i1R analysis
  • Why smaller strong signal bars are important
  • Fractal Trading Range: picking top/bottom
  • How to estimate where a channel is ready to reverse
  • Spike and TTR day structure
  • Spike and Reversal day structure
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-05-11
  • Channels that are more pronto to breaking out
  • Clues to look for to anticipate breakout direction of a channel
  • What to look for for a successful breakout in the direction of a channel (the low probability but successful breakout) 
  • How to classify signal bars as lower probability to avoid entry into losing trades
  • When a wedge is not a wedge but a reset
  • How many bars to decide prior event is now historical and has less effect and why
  • The double bottom bull flag pattern
  • The double top bear flag pattern
  • How to know if a move has gone far enough to be a reasonable test when forming a double top/bottom
  • Breakout mode
  • How to use breakout mode for scalping and trade management
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-05-18
  • Leg count reset on the Daily chart
  • Fade at a distance limit order entry technique
  • How to assess strategy cost
  • What do you need to enter into a swing trade
  • What do you need to enter into a scalp trade
  • Directional probability
  • Estimating duration of a pullback based on market tempo
  • Min requirements to label overlapping bars as a tight trading range
  • How to conduct deliberate practice
  • Small gaps on the open
  • What type of small gap creates opportunity 
  • Close but not close enough tests
  • Estimating duration of broad channels
  • Factors involved in labeling a channel broad
  • How broad a channel should be to expect it not to last long
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-05-25
  • The importance of small gaps on the open
  • Tradable small gaps: what is required
  • Market direction on the open
  • The importance of breakout distance to open in the first hour
  • Implications of breakout distance in the first hour on day structure
  • Inertia
  • Rhythm or Tempo of price action 
  • Estimating pullbacks based on tempo
  • Estimating recurring structures based on tempo
  • Expanding Triangle-Contracting Triangle complex pullbacks
  • Volatility Regimes
  • Shifts in volatility regimes
  • Breakout mode on the open: min requirements
  • The effect of momentum on common day structures
  • When to pull an unfilled limit order (how to recognize danger)
  • 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.
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