Quant Systems

TWM Library

MM 20yy Live Sessions

  • Ali Moin-Afshari,
    with the Quant Systems Team 

  • Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced Price Action Traders

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Recordings of TWM live trading  and Q&A sessions

About TWM Recorded Live Sessions

This is the archived recordings of the Trade With Me live sessions for the above month and year. 
Each TWM module contains all sessions from one month.
Each module includes the live trading session(s) and that month's Q&A session(s).
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. 
 Members of the TWM team for this month are shown below.  
Includes other supplementary material, if any.

TWM Team

Ali Moin-Afshari

Author of TWM Program, 
Systematic Trader
ABOUT ALI
Ali Moin-Afshari is the founder of Quant Systems and author of the TWM program. He will be live trading during the hands-on sessions of TWM. 

Brad Wolf

SA2 and TWM Coach,
Professional Trader
ABOUT Brad
Brad Wolf is a professional price action trader and educator. He has been coaching Quant Systems Systems Academy 2 students since 2023. Brad has contributed to the development of the TWM program and will be teaching and supporting you in the live trading and Q&A sessions. 

James Regan

SA2 and TWM Coach,
Systematic Trader
ABOUT James
James Regan is a systematic trader, programmer, and educator. He has been coaching Quant Systems Systems Academy 2 students since 2023. James has contributed to the development of the TWM program and will be teaching and supporting you in the live trading and Q&A sessions. 

Faizal Merali

TWM Program Manager
Systematic Trader
ABOUT Faizal
Faizal is Quant Systems PTM and TWM program manager, a SA2 graduate, and a fulltime trader. He has contributed to the development of the TWM program and will be supporting you and managing TWM live sessions. 

Trade With Me Course Modules

Here is what you will learn in the TWM program. This is a summary syllabus. Each bullet point has sub-sections and a lot more detail, but it should give you a good understanding of the topics covered and in what order. 
1. Basic Concepts 
  • Principles of bar structures
  • Bars, bar types, and formations
  • Market behavior: bar context classification
  • Buy/Sell zones of bars
  • Using buy/sell zones to structure new entries
  • Time of day: the significance time for day traders
  • Why scalping is more appropriate for beginners 
  • Simple math of scalping vs swing trading
  • Why many small trades are better than a few big swings
  • Using AMA_Breakouts_PB indicator
  • How to study to become a competent trader
    • 2. Principles of Price Structure: Breakouts
    • Breakouts 
    • Implied breakouts
    • Unit of price structure: Spikes or simple legs
    • The breakout process
    • Assessing breakout strength (the 10+2 factors)
    • Counting legs
    • The fractal nature of price action
    • The basic price structure: Bulls and bear structural units
    • Failed structural units (everything fails)
    • The role of context
    • Overlap
    3. Principles of Market Behavior - Part 1
    • Principle of Event-Response
    • Inter- vs. Intra-bar energy
    • Principle of Market Control
    • Type 1 market control
    • Type 2 market control
    • Type 3 market control
    • Principle of Cyclical Volatility
    • Understanding volatility regimes
    • Intraday volatility regime shifts
    • Principle of Ambiguity
    4. Principles of Market Behavior - Part 2
    • Principle of Inertia
    • Market tempo
    • Types of market tempo
    • Probabilities of market tempo
    • The First Attempt Principle
    • Second and later attempts
    • Tests
    • The Two-Test Principle
    • H1/L1 and H2/L2 setups
    • Implied and actual tests
    5. Principles of Market Behavior - Part 3
    • Principle of Symmetry and Proportion
    • Symmetry and proportion possibilities
    • Symmetry and proportion are rarely exact
    • Symmetrical but disproportionate
    • Symmetrical range (MM) but disproportionate
    • Asymmetrical but (almost) proportionate
    • Asymmetrical and disproportionate
    • Principle of Two Sides
    • What happened to the market-maker?
    • Market-maker’s probabilities (buy- and sell-side examples)
    6. Principles of Day Structure
    • Principle of Predictable Day Structure
    • Types of day structures
    • Probabilities of seeing different Day Structures
    • Dominant feature of the day
    • Change of behavior
    • Relationship between intraday and daily charts
    • Role of overnight and pre-market trading
    • Opening gaps
    • Opening range
    7. Trading Ranges and Multi-Push Patterns
    • Trading ranges
    • Legs in trends vs. legs in trading ranges
    • Buy/Sell zones of trading ranges
    • Wedges
    • Parabolic wedges
    • Most wedges are complex two-legged structures
    • Triangles
    • Expanding triangles
    • Nested patterns
    • H4/L4 Channels
    8. Reversals
    • Characteristics of a strong reversal signal
    • Reversals often form in trading ranges (TR is prerequisite)
    • Secret handshakes preceding reversals
    • First and second reversals
    • The i1R concept
    • Context: reliable reversals need good context
    • Estimating end of the trend using the Principle of Inertia: counting reversal signals
    • Reversal probabilities of bar 1
    • Reversal probabilities of strong legs on the open
    • Minor and major reversals
    9. Traps and Failures
    • A successful breakout is a trap: failure to pullback
    • Strong signal failures
    • Failure of a failure (FOF)
    • Point-of-Clarity + FT = Trap!
    • The market-maker trade
    • The failed market-maker trade
    • The successful first attempt trap
    • One-legged trading ranges: breakout of a leg in TR
    • Second leg traps in trading ranges
    10. Scalping
    • Understanding BOM (Breakout Mode)
    • Understanding the opportunity cost of not scalping
    • Limit order vs. stop/market order entries for scalping
    • Stop/Market order scalps
    • Advantages of limit order entries
    • Adjusting trading style to market cycle
    • Adjusting trading style to day structure
    • Being the market-maker
    • Trading against trapped traders
    • Hunting for stops
    • Front running reversals