How To Trade Around News Releases. Methods Every Trader Should Know Trading around news releases is extremely important due to the risk involved in market movement responses. The reactions to news are often unexpected and can be extremely erratic. This alone is the primary reason why we want to avoid trading around news releases altogether. Let me share a story, an insight from a trader: There was a time roughly 7 or 8 years ago when there was an extremely successful trader. This […]
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Introducing Our New Day Trading Penthouse in Medellin!
Everything is coming together with day trading centers. Our long term plans have been to train locals in our centers around the world. For the last 5 years we have been able to day trading and travel in over 80 countries. Now it is time to give others the opportunity to live their dreams through day trading. Colombians and others from emerging third world nations make a fraction of what we are able to make in the markets. In Colombia, university graduates […]
Introducing Our All Star Master Trader Seminar
Our pro traders seminar scheduled for this year is going to be a very special event and something that we are very excited for. We are considering it an All Star Master Trader Seminar since many of our most successful master traders will not only be attending but also presenting at this year’s event. We will be hosting our usual powerful and intensive two day seminar with an unprecedented bonus master trader day for a chance to have one-on-one training with our most successful traders (Monday, […]
Oct 24th Master Trader Recap Oct 14th: Dr. Z makes 6.25 Points
Dr. Z strikes again. We’ve just come back from a trip to open a handful of accounts from a few of our in house traders that are ready to start trading live. Our plans are moving much faster than anticipated with our new day trading center here in Colombia. Look forward to sharing our in house trader’s progress as they continue to improve and we integrate them into the training program with our master traders. We are also in the middle of […]
Master Trader Oct 17th Recap: Meet DR. Z – 8.5 Points 75% win ratio
I would like to formally introduce Dr. Z which has been absolutely killing the markets as of late. He has started to become one of our Master Traders. Since we always like to incorporate our Master Traders into the program to both improve the strategy and make their own trading better we asked Dr. Z to start sharing his trades with us. He has a unique philosophy that he plans on sharing in more detail called market physics. Look forward to introducing […]
October 15th Master Trader Recap: Ice Man's 5 pts (with mistakes)
An overall great day in the market and a lesson on extracting profit by identifying market trends. Below is a guest post from our resident master trader “Ice Man” on losing your focus and why you must keep it cool to take advantage of market momentum and subsequent opportunities. Enter Ice Man: Had a mid morning skate today so I missed about the first 45 minutes. Probably a good thing I did because I probably would have been expecting a continuation to […]
October 14th Recap: Not All Days Are Home Runs
Today really highlights what we have to learn in order to become a consistently profitable day trader. There are going to be beautiful trending days and other times we are going to have slow-moving and sideways markets. Another one of our traders arrived today in Colombia and he was exposed to some of the ability of how we are able to read the markets. The behavior of the market today was more unusual due to the Columbus Day holiday. The volume was […]
October 10th Recap: 6+ Points (Over $3,000 Available)
The market has definitely moving exceptionally well the last few days. Whether or not we make a million dollars a day or not is relative. The goal is be able to make money consistently every single day. We always try to put this into perspective for new traders that are excited about making money in the markets. If we are able to read the markets and understand market structure that is when we are going to be able to make money every […]
October 9th Recap: 4+ Points (Over $2,000 Available)
It only took twelve minutes in the market today to take advantage of the beautiful trending market to the downside. If you compare today’s activity with yesterday we will see that today was the day to allow trades to run and maximize profits. Yesterday was a day to show discipline and restraint in the market. This is one of the concepts that we are going to be speaking about at the International Finance and Economy Symposium at EAFIT University here in Medellin, […]
October 8th Recap: 2 Trades 2.25 pts ($1125 Available)
Full write up coming shortly… see video at bottom of post As traders it is as important to learn when to stay out of the markets as it is when to get in them and make money. The chart above is from the early morning session and the chart below is after the market broke out of the range. We were sending live updates via The Day Trading Academy twitter page. Notice how the market eventually hit our overall target areas (watch […]