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Long 5 MNQ 14007.0, 14007.0, 14007.0, 14007.0, 14007.0, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75,
Long 5 MNQ 14005.25, 14005.25, 14005.25, 14005.25, 14005.25, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0,
Long 5 MNQ 14001.25, 14001.25, 14001.25, 14001.25, 14001.25, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0,
Long 5 MNQ 13991.50, 13991.50, 13991.50, 13991.50, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75,
Long 5 MNQ 13983.75, 13983.75, 13983.75, 13983.75, 13983.75, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25,
Long 5 MNQ 13982.0, 13982.0, 13982.0, 13982.0, 13982.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0,
Long 5 MNQ 13980.25, 13980.25, 13980.25, 13980.25, 13980.25, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25, -2.25,
Long 5 MNQ 13957.75, 13957.75, 13957.75, 13957.75, 13957.75, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75,
Long 10 MNQ 13925.75, 13925.75, 13925.75, 13925.75, 13925.75, 13927.50, 13927.50, 13927.50, 13927.50, 13927.50, -3.25, -3.25, -3.25, -3.25, -3.25, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0, -5.0,
Long 5MNQ 13933.5, 13933.5, 13933.5, 13933.5, 13933.5, -0.25, -0.25, -0.25, -0.25, -0.25,
Long 1 RTY 2295.5, -0.9
Long 10 MNQ 13925.0, 13925.0, 13925.0, 13925.0, 13925.0, 13925.25, 13925.25, 13925.25, 13925.25, 13925.25, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -1.75, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0, -2.0,
Long 10 MNQ 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, 13924.75, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5, -2.5,
Short 5 MNQ 13936.5, 13936.5, 13936.5, 13936.5, 13936.5, -0.5, -0.5, -0.5, -0.5, -0.5,
Short 5 MNQ 13940.25, 13940.25, 13940.25, 13940.25, 13940.25, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75, -2.75,
Short 10 MNQ 13941.75, 13941.75, 13941.75, 13941.75, 13941.75, 13940.75, 13940.75, 13940.75, 13940.75, 13940.75, +6.0, +6.0, +6.0, +6.0, +6.0, +27.50, +27.50, +27.50, +27.50, +27.50,
Total MNQ -33.75
Total RTY -0.9
There are often early entry signals from structure to capture the initial trend thrust of the first frame. Today, I couldn't find that entry, even though it was right in front of me in a contract that I lost focus in. And so found myself buying on bounces, unsuccessfully about half the way down... until a big bounce at the end of the frame finally gave me a short entry I could sink my teeth into.
In the early going, usually before you brain is even warmed up, the action around the ORB can be critical. And you have to stay alert as to what contract it might be showing up in, because it may only appear in one.
Today, my early focus and trade calls to sell the MNQ and the RTY on some modest structure recovery both alternated in coming close... close enough that I ignored the ES/MES contract altogether....which of course was the only one that offered the classic Return-to-the ORB trade, that the bread-n-butter pattern entry in the book Pivots and Patterns.
To my chagrin on this frustrating, losing day, one of my students took that ES short opportunity, which was so clean an in-trend play that it became a one-and-done for him.
Apparently, my students just are not trained well enough to alert me of my own stuff when I fail to see it....ha! Maybe have to add that as a Chapter 11 to my 10 part course... 'When I the instructor doesn't do as he says... wake him up.....