{"id":44833,"date":"2017-01-24T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=44833"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:43:05","slug":"see-the-hypos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/see-the-hypos","title":{"rendered":"See the hypos!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m grinning from ear to ear today.<\/p>\n

One of my mentees was tasked yesterday to begin preparing premarket “hypos” each morning. It’s just what it sounds like – a few hypotheses for how the day might unfold, therefore providing a roadmap for the day with key inflection points and potential targets.<\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot of his premarket journal post in our SMBU Performance Center tool, alongside a market profile graphic of the resulting movement today in crude oil futures:<\/p>\n

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Hypo 2 absolutely nailed it! Well done!<\/p>\n

Creating hypos each morning as a part of your premarket does so much for you:<\/p>\n

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  1. Helps develop great process and habit<\/strong> for a trader to better prepare\u00a0for each day. Learn to prepare like a professional. Understand the contextual landscape.<\/li>\n
  2. Allows for more confidence<\/strong> in executing the trade in real time – you’re prepared for the scenario, you stalk the trade, you know where you’re wrong, and you have an idea of potential reward.<\/li>\n
  3. Provides\u00a0objective <\/em>feedback<\/strong>\u00a0each day. There is no hiding behind, “Oh, I should have done this or that!” or, “I knew xyz would happen!” Simply put, if you didn’t write it out before the market opened – you simply did not see the potential for that scenario in advance.<\/li>\n
  4. Maybe you\u00a0did<\/em>\u00a0have a great hypo, and for whatever reason you did not execute your trades well – despite the hypo playing out. Well, this is powerful information for your improvement, simply by process of elimination. Your ability to read what markets is\u00a0fine. You now\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0where your issue is<\/strong>. Review & explore\u00a0where your focus is during the session – at the hard right edge of the chart. Here’s an article to\u00a0Close The Gap<\/a>\u00a0and improve the difference between what you’re able to see as opportunity in hindsight vs real-time.<\/li>\n
  5. Makes stop outs both easier and more meaningful. When you’ve: 1) clearly laid out multiple scenarios for how the day can unfold, 2) also laid out inflection points for those scenarios, and 3) end up taking a trade in accordance with one of those plans and getting stopped out; then you understand there is a contextual shift occurring in that market! Stopping out is not frustrating, because you’re aware that scenario B is playing out now, and you are also prepared to profit from it. The stop out is easier to swallow, and it is providing us with meaningful information<\/strong> about that market.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Begin developing premarket hypos each day as a part of your premarket preparation. You’ll thank me later. If you’d like to discuss working together through mentoring, just click the image below.<\/p>\n

    -Merritt Black<\/p>\n

    *No relevant positions<\/p>\n

    Important Disclosures<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"mentorswhosyours\"<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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