Quant Systems

PTM_202512

  • Ali Moin-Afshari
  • Level: Advanced
  • Study time: 12 hrs
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Course overview
Pro Trader Mentoring - Recorded Sessions: March 2025
  • Video time: 12 hours
  • Session: 2025-12-07
  • Session: 2025-12-14
  • Session: 2025-12-21
  • Session: 2025-12-28
  • Trades Charts

Topics

Session: 2025-12-07
  • How to deal with surprises
  • Reality check: most trades lead to negative emotions
  • Why you are likely to be disappointed 80% of the time
  • Learning to deal with disappointments 
  • Why no decision is a bad decision
  • How much rule-based should you be? 
  • How discretionary, fully discretionary trading really is? 
  • Simple rules to get out of a loss
  • How traders' imagination works in discretionary trading 
  • Failure of a Failure
  • Failed spike on the open, what day type to expect
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-12-14
  • Opening range
  • How long does the opening range last
  • Criteria to determine opening range has ended
  • First bar of the day
  • Using context information from yesterday's closing 
  • The effect of bar 1 on day structure 
  • Location of bar 1
  • How location affects probabilities of bar 1 
  • Distance to EMA of bar1 vs. opening gap
  • First swing of the day
  • Probabilities of first swing of the day
  • Using first swing of the day setup later in the day as setup for secondary trades
  • Failed spike on the open, what day type to expect
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-12-21
  • Probabilities of a strong bar 1
  • Probabilities of a strong bar 2
  • Probabilities related to location of bars 1 and 2
  • Type of bars you need to increase odds of a trend
  • How bars 1 and 2 affect probabilities of a pullback entry
  • The role of higher timeframe context 
  • Probability of achieving a measured move based on strong bars on the open
  • Problems with big bars on the open 
  • How the open can lead to good swing trades later
  • Probability switch 
  • The importance of understanding the "switch"
  • Probabilities of opening gap
  • Understanding gap sizes and ranges 
  • The two comparisons required to analyze opening gaps
  • Review of the week
  • Review of students' selected trades
  • Q&A
Session: 2025-12-28
  • Big gap on the open
  • What defines a big opening gap
  • Day structures that follow big gaps on the open
  • Relationship of big gaps to other types of opening gaps
  • Relationship of first few bars of the day to the opening gap
  • The role of EMA in defining the opening range on big gap days
  • First hour structures following a big opening gap 
  • Reversals after big gaps
  • Types of reversal structures following big gaps
  • Directional move (trends) in the direction of big gaps
  • Goals of a 1000 chart study
  • 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.