Quant Systems

PTM_202502

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 13 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: March 2025
  • Video time: 12 hours
  • Session: 2025-02-02
  • Session: 2025-02-09
  • Session: 2025-02-16
  • Session: 2025-02-23
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2025-02-02
  • Market Cycle
  • One-legged trading range
  • Market cycle reset
  • Probability of a reset after a leg in trading range
  • Comparison between swing trading and scalping 
  • Why swing trading is actually an expert level skill
  • Why beginners should initially focus on scalping, only
  • A correction is sometimes a trend resumption attempt
  • A correction is sometimes a reversal attempt 
  • Probabilities of corrections as influenced by the market regime
  • Why options trading is not recommended for beginners
  • When to expect a two legged pullback vs. one legged
  • Why an open profit is not a cushion, but same as the money in your account 
  • Why scaling out of a trade is generally not a great idea for intraday trade management  
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-02-09
  • Market cycle (continued)
  • Primary structures found in each phase of the market cycle
  • Broad channels
  • Probabilities of broad channels forming intraday
  • Transitions from bull to bear trends
  • Transition without a signal bar
  • Market control 
  • Types of market control
  • How to measure market control
  • Methods for measuring market control
  • Measuring inertia and the role of reversals 
  • The effect of Globex of price action of Monday (big bull breakout)
  • How the shift in transition point intraweek affects the expectations for the rest of the week
  • Scalping out of a profitable trade when the swing point shifts too much against you
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-02-16
  • Symmetry and Proportion
  • How to use symmetry and proportion to estimate future price action 
  • How to research symmetry and proportion to form reasonable expectations
  • How momentum affects symmetry and proportion 
  • Role of time in proportion 
  • Cycles
  • Repeating patterns and their probabilities
  • Tempo
  • How to use tempo to estimate futures price action 
  • Energy
  • Different components of market energy
  • How price patterns form with respect to market energy
  • How energy changes volatility 
  • How to create a "focus-of-the-day" to develop skills in an organized manner 
  • Review of the week
  • Review of student's selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-02-23
  • Energy: Momentum and Acceleration 
  • How changes in energy results in various pattern formations
  • How to use changes in acceleration to find high probability scalps
  • Detailed explanation of BSB pattern from acceleration point of view
  • How to use acceleration to determine pullback probabilities 
  • Reversals of high momentum legs 
  • Effects of momentum and acceleration on day structure
  • How to use changes in acceleration to estimate follow on price action 
  • Traps created by acceleration bars
  • How to use acceleration to forecast depth of pullback and test targets
  • Finding proper limit order entries based on acceleration traps
  • Changes in volatility due to acceleration 
  • How to use momentum and acceleration to determine whether a strong reversal is minor or major
  • Trade frame
  • Probability of seeing a small pullback bear trend, intraday
  • 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.