Quant Systems

PTM_202409

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 14 hrs
Write your awesome label here.
Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: September 2024
  • Video time: 14.5 hours
  • Session: 2024-09-07
  • Session: 2024-09-15
  • Session: 2024-09-22
  • Session: 2024-09-29
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2024-09-07
  • How charts are built
  • Basic structural patterns
  • Fractal nature of price action 
  • How charts of different time frames link up and relate to each other 
  • Using the fractal principle of price action to find trades based on two time frames
  • PTM End-of-Day charts
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-09-15
  • The cause-effect principle
  • Using cause-effect to classify trades based on probability
  • Characteristics of high and low probability trades
  • Contrastive analysis of high vs low probability trades
  • What is a swing
  • How do traders make money
  • Systematic / algorithmic trading
  • Discretionary trading
  • How the two major styles are similar and different 
  • Calibrated Expectation (CE) of a trade
  • Point of Initial Estimation (PIE)
  • The Continuous Estimation Process (CEP)
  • Examples of CE, PIE, and CEP
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades 
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-09-22
  • How does high performance trading look like
  • Comparing a trader's equity curve to a system's 
  • The most important skill in trading
  • The important edge in entries
  • Signal-bar (buy or sell the close) entry vs. limit order entries: what is required 
  • Probabilities of entries on the close of a bar vs limit order entries
  • What is required to make signal-bar entries work
  • Is it possible to win 100% of the time?
  • How do some trades win 100% of their entries? 
  • Perfection vs Excellence
  • How chasing perfection helps developing excellence
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2024-09-29
  • Selective trading
  • How selection works with high and low probability strategies
  • Taking every "reasonable" trade
  • Review of how to read end of day annotated charts
  • Why I mark low probability trades on EOD charts
  • How to read / expect follow through when you see a lower probability signal 
  • Quick review of mechanical stops
  • You are the most important factor in your trading
  • Quick review of how to take care of yourself
  • 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. 
    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.