PTM_202501

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 14 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: January 2025
  • Video time: 12 hours
  • Session: 2025-01-05
  • Session: 2025-01-12
  • Session: 2025-01-19
  • Session: 2025-01-26
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2025-01-05
  • Algorithmic profit taking using ABR
  • Paying attention to the degree of overlap to calculate 1 ABR for profit taking
  • The First Attempt Principle
  • Principle of Ambiguity 
  • POC: Point of Clarity
  • Why understanding POC helps not getting surprised
  • The three zones of every trade
  • Principle of cyclical volatility 
  • Using cyclical volatility in day trading
  • Using cyclical volatility in higher time frame trading
  • VIX
  • How to use VIX to trade the S&P index
  • VIX-S&P Convergence - What to expect 
  • Cyclical volatility: Expected behavior based on day type
  • Factors involved in discretionary trading
  • Why discretionary trading is difficult even when you know the market behavior principles
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-01-12
  • Factors affecting market behavior to change
  • Factors that signal a chance in market behavior is coming
  • Why a change in market behavior must be a breakout
  • State changes from trend to trading range
  • The effect of momentum on market behavior changes
  • What is a swing? 
  • How dynamics of the open can affect reliability of the fist swing of the day
  • Swing point
  • Factors affecting formation of swing points
  • What is a graceful swing? 
  • Expectations based qualities of the swing point reversal bar
  • Qualities of a strong reversal signal bar
  • Qualities of a strong swing point reversal signal bar
  • Support and resistance
  • Can an outside bar be a reliable swing point reversal bar
  • What leads to a price becoming support or resistance
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades 
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-01-19
  • Support and Resistance
  • Using support/resistance to find accurate limit order entry prices
  • How breakouts change the nature of a support or resistance level
  • Inter-bar support and resistance levels
  • Support and resistance of micro gaps
  • What is the FPL of a micro-gap
  • Breakouts that are vacuum moves
  • Why vacuum breakouts are unreliable for second leg trading
  • Situations where the market is in breakout mode but the market cycle is not complete yet
  • Corrections
  • Depth and duration of corrections
  • Having reasonable expectations for when a correction might not reach its test levels based on its general probabilities 
  • Correction of wedge setups
  • The story of my big Iron Condor loss in 2008
  • Why a failed breakout of a double top/bottom is a wedge
  • The effect of timeframe on expectations for a correction
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades 
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-01-26
  • Structure of second legs
  • Second leg of breakout of pullback of the pullback?
  • Market regime strength varies within a range of probabilities
  • Market regime switch probabilities 
  • Deep pullback: probability of trend resumption
  • Why deep pullbacks need strong reversals
  • Strong double top (DT)
  • Strong double bottom (DB)
  • Expectations after a strong DT or DM
  • When to expect a higher low after a DT
  • When to expect a lower high after a DB
  • Example: When a Bull breakout is actually just a lower high
  • Factors affecting probabilities of strong DT/DB formations
  • 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.
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