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In this video learn the essential trading indicator you may need to add to a trade strategy to make it profitable. Alan McGrath, veteran Australian equities trader and well-known trading mentor, and Mike Bellafiore team up to teach a developing trader how to make his trade strategy profitable.
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in this video learn the essential
\ntrading indicator that you may need to
\nadd to a trade strategy to make it
\nprofitable hi I’m Mike bellafiore
\nco-founder of SMB Capital proprietary
\ntrading firm located in midtown
\nManhattan and I’m also the author of the
\ntrading classic one good trade in the
\nplaybook
\nwell in this video alan mcgrath veteran
\nAustralian equities trader and
\nwell-known trading mentor and I team to
\nteach a developing trader how to make
\nhis trade strategy profitable
\n[Music]\nthis is a trade that I called a momentum
\ninside fiber or the mif and I got two
\nexamples we’ll see how minute how much
\ntime we have if I can get to both but
\nthe first one came with JD comm and this
\nwas on November 15th of 2019
\nthere’s a nice set up that was happening
\nin JD that day so it’s a two-year chart
\nfrom the highs back in January of 2018
\ndown to the lows over here in late
\nNovember early December and there was a
\nbut we were at about a 50% retracement
\nfrom the highest to the lows at that
\nparticular point JD had just reported
\nearnings the day before and we had a key
\nresistance level here in about 34 68 so
\nyou can see it coincides with the 50%
\nretracement as well as where the stock
\nmoves relatively work and closed the the
\nprior day
\nso JD is they operate in an e-commerce
\ncompany or an e-commerce company and
\nretail infrastructure service provider
\nin China with two main segments their
\nretail business and new businesses
\nbasically they’re the Chinese Amazon a
\nyear earlier they were mired in a CEO
\nrake scandal but all that looks to him
\npast and from Steve Spencer’s pre market
\ncommentary maybe revenues by five
\npercent twenty nine percent
\nyear-over-year growth
\nnow I’m gonna freely admit to you Mike
\nat the outset that I need to get a whole
\nlot better at being able to read the
\nnews and and figure out how how to trade
\nit best like I’ve seen a lot of the
\nreviews that you guys that you’ve done
\nwith with your junior traders and your
\nsenior traders and they know so much
\nmore about what’s going on fundamentally
\nand are able to apply it to the trade so
\nyou know so there’s a lot of different
\nways to look at markets and we have a
\nspecial guest in the room all the way
\nfrom Australia Alain McGrath who is a
\nveteran Australian equities trader and
\nhas mentored tons of traders
\nsuccessfully there we were just at lunch
\nand you have a little bit of a different
\ntake on how you look at markets
\nterms of looking at news yeah and I knew
\nyou were gonna throw that one to me
\nI actually don’t read the news and I try
\nto take as much a head in the sand
\napproach as possible in that I don’t
\nwant to have my vision of the price
\naction impaired in any way by having
\nsome sort of predisposed opinion of how
\nthe report reads so yeah I choose to say
\nvery ignorant to the fundamentals of the
\nmood from other pipefitting I need to
\nknow is in the price action yeah so you
\nknow there’s many ways to skin a cat and
\nand I take my hat off to the the people
\nwho do use fundamental knowledge to to
\nbase their trades on but I certainly
\nfind it it’s it’s an anchor for me
\nbecause I make my worst trades when I
\nhave an opinion and the market has a
\ndifferent opinions so I like to keep
\nthem keep a blank canvas as much as I
\ncan and some of the better guys that
\nprop X did they all file that they all
\nfollow that thinking or some of them
\ndive a little bit deeper into the
\nfundamentals oh absolutely they do yeah
\nin our morning meetings as always
\ntraders that that will be analyzing
\nwhether a result was a beat how it
\ncompared to market what was expected
\nunderlying sector strengths and
\nweaknesses and so on and I’ll listen to
\nthat but I try very hard not to form an
\nopinion on it
\nThank You bulk because I actually that
\nactually makes me feel a little bit
\nbetter it’s so in some ways but the
\nquestion that I was asking then at
\naround you know the the free market
\nhours that was at such an important
\ntechnical resistance level is all the
\ngood news priced in so basically I was
\ngonna be going off exactly what you just
\ndescribed if the price action was gonna
\ntell me that we were gonna extend higher
\nthen I would go with that trade or if we
\nwere gonna start to sell-off then I
\nwould go with that trade as well so here
\nare my stock stats my checklist that I
\nwas going through that particular
\nmorning I had average volume in JD’s
\nabout 11 million which is above a
\nmillion which is check for me free
\nmarket volume it’s about 15 percent of
\nthe average daily volume I just wanted
\nit about 10
\n80 are about point eight six is about
\npoint five gap of four point two percent
\nlarger than that by three percent on my
\nchecklist short float four percent so
\nI’m saying here the risk of short
\ncovering rally is low and institutional
\nownership forty one point three nine
\npercent Mike this was something I wanted
\nto ask you about but I think it’s gonna
\ntake too much time I you can certainly
\ncut me off and tell me to move on that’s
\nhow you do a video the other day where
\nyou had a guy he had over a hundred
\npercent it’s to still ownership and you
\nmentioned that that’s the risk of
\ninstitutions being short so they could
\nbe short covering at some point during
\nthe day but when it’s so low like this
\nwill they what does that would indicate
\nsome type of support that’s going to be
\navailable for the stock or would you
\nwant it to be in the 90s in it somewhere
\naround there yes so if the institutional
\nownership is higher as opposed to lower
\nthat is going to make a difference
\npotentially in whether or not a stock
\nthat sold off a bunch gets supported or
\nwhether or not a stock that has good
\nnews to support it or in this case
\nwhether or not a stock that’s trying to
\nreclaim where it was in the past starts
\nto catch a bid from some some more
\nbig-money traders in your case when
\nyou’re trading something like JD I mean
\nthe biggest mover of JD recently if you
\nhad asked me you know what’s the big
\npicture for what moves JD recently it
\nwould be the us-china trade war and
\nthat’s it’s a really good proxy for
\ntrading the us-china trade war it’s been
\nyou know one of the go-to stocks that
\nyou might want for exposure to China
\nwhen news is good or news news is bad
\nlong or short yeah you know certainly
\none of the one of the better movers so
\nyeah I mean this is it’s you know
\ninstitutional ownership that’s it’s a
\nlittle bit more on the on the lower side
\nwant to be factoring that into our
\ndecisions so you have long term
\ntechnicals identified okay you got your
\nshort term
\ntechnicals identified as well okay yeah
\nand I’ll just sort of say because they
\nknow I’ll get questions about this so we
\nlike to put variables together to make
\ntrades we say this quite often which is
\nthere’s lots of different ways to trade
\nand so for us we’re gonna know what then
\nwe’re gonna want to know what the news
\nis because one of the difference between
\nthe US and Australia is that we have
\nmore algorithms one of the differences
\nbetween the US and Australia is it’s
\nharder for us to read the tape these
\ndays then it used to be and then it
\nwould be in the Aussie markets but there
\nare traders that do not want to know the
\nnews do not read the news would trade
\npoorer if they knew the news we teach
\nyou guys at the start to look at the
\nnews and put that together when you’re
\ntrying to make certain trades we are
\nlooking for things that are going to be
\na little bit more directional the news
\ngives us a way to identify some of those
\nstocks that are gonna be the Jake charts
\nup really really strong with the Jake
\ncharts down really really weak if we’ve
\ngot really we’ve got a really really
\npositive news catalyst it’s unexpected
\nthat can bring in a lot of buying we
\nhave a really really weak news catalyst
\nthe downside that can bring a lot of
\nselling and so no right answer to a lot
\nof the stuff but but I think a good way
\nto start for you to be developing your
\nPlayBook there will be one there’ll be
\none of you in the in this room who is
\njust going to be a flat out scalper and
\nif you’re gonna just be a flat out
\nscalper it’s fine if you don’t want to
\nknow all the news if you’re gonna be a
\nswing trader if you’re gonna be some
\nsort of hybrid swing trader you’re gonna
\nwant to put the news into your variables
\nwell for the most part so this is the
\nlong term technical analysis I already
\nshowed a picture of this on the two
\nprevious slides just identifying the key
\nsince level of 3468 right now prior
\nlong-term support oh oh and just the 50%
\nretracement from the all-time highs to
\nthe lows from fifty fifty eight sixty
\neight down to nineteen twenty one
\nso next slides got the short-term
\ntechnical so here was the prior 52-week
\nhigh support which is now resistance in
\nthe pre-market and 3409 here’s that
\nlong-term resistance level that I had
\nidentified aftermarket high resistance
\nat about thirty six and then once the
\nthe institutions start coming in at
\nabout seven which is what Steve has been
\nsaying in trader DNA that’s a pretty
\ngood resistance around thirty five
\nthirty nine thirty five fifty area so
\nthere’s my short-term technicals so now
\nthere’s my general trade management for
\nthe momentum inside fiber on a risk
\nbasis my stop is gonna be my daily stop
\nfor just getting away from my desk is
\ngonna be able about one percent of my
\nequity and my single trade risk right
\nnow I’m keeping very low at point one
\npercent of my equity as I continue to go
\nthrough the DNA for this particular
\ntrade my focus is just on the first 60
\nminutes of trade using five minutes
\nsharp my setup I got criteria one I need
\nthe first two bars to close in the same
\nprice direction relative to the V walk
\nsecond criteria I want the inside bar
\nand it doesn’t have to be the second
\nfive unit borrow the prints it could be
\nthe fourth five-minute bar the prints
\njust need an inside bar that’s going to
\nbe less than seventy five percent the
\nsize of it smuggling bar and my trade
\nentry I’m going to initiate it upon
\nbreaking the inside bar in the direction
\nthat price was moving my stops gonna be
\nfifty percent the size of the inside bar
\nright now I’m shooting for target of for
\nour and management at this time which
\nwas about a month ago looking to add I
\nwasn’t necessarily at that level yet I
\njust wanted to get comfortable with this
\nparticular setup and see how it was
\ngoing to start working for me and if
\nstopped out I’ve looked to re-enter at
\nthe same level because what I had seen
\nwhen I was just back testing it it was
\nonly for about a couple weeks and I was
\nback testing
\nat trades like this where if a stop out
\noccurred re-entering at the exact same
\nlevel with the exact same stop and the
\nexact same target actually ended up
\nproducing some pretty nice results one
\nof the other things I was going to do is
\nwhen managing these traders pay close
\nattention to the flip what I’m calling
\nthe flip which is the switch from the
\nhourly 9:30 bar to the hourly 10:30 bar
\nand then just in general just to let the
\ntrade play out Alan and Alan any
\nthoughts if you want to learn three
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\nthat turned one of our traders into a
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\ncouple of hours from this trading
\nworkshop then from years of online
\neducation not really except for me given
\nwhere we’re dealing with a catalyst on
\nmarket open oh I’m probably waiting for
\nthe market to give me the signal to add
\nrather than a set bar or set pattern to
\nset up I’m just waiting for the for a
\ndiscretionary moment where you know I
\nfeel where I feel that one sides getting
\non control in control I might want the
\nthe confirmation by a break of your your
\ntwo bars or or whatever your individual
\nsetup is but I’m really looking for and
\nagain it’s it’s it’s different for
\neveryone but I’m just really looking for
\na sign that it’s the right the right
\ntime to take that trade I’m a very
\ndiscretionary trader though so I can’t
\ncomment too much on on you know someone
\nthat has really solid and I really love
\nthat I have really solid rules but it’s
\ncertainly a different way of looking at
\nthings than I have and the same as
\ntargets as well I tend to my target is
\nis when the markets telling me that
\nthat the trades getting tired and I
\nmight start to phase out once that
\ntrades feeling tired but I wanted to get
\nto three point eight hour and not take
\nany off the table because I wanted for
\nif the markets telling me that’s enough
\nso I want to listen I want to have some
\nguidelines but then I want to be willing
\nto to amend those guidelines if the
\nmarkets telling me – yeah so Alan are
\nyou talking about getting additional
\nconfirmation from the overall market or
\njust from this particular stock that I
\nwould be focusing on from the from the
\nparticular stock and probably in this
\ncase because you’re dealing with a
\ncatalyst it involves the China trade
\ndeal
\nI’d be looking what other stocks that
\nare affected by that deal are doing as
\nwell yeah thanks thank you so you’re
\ngonna look for more confirmation from
\nthe tape from the level – from the order
\nflow yep you’re gonna want to feel that
\nthe stock is stronger weak yes from
\nthough from the level – from the order
\nflow a little bit more than the criteria
\nhere yes but that doesn’t mean that’s
\nright or wrong that’s just how our tribe
\nyep
\nknow exactly what you’re saying has
\nactually been playing out for the past
\nthree weeks as I now I I’m not a tape
\nreader at all right now but what I’m
\nfinding just by watching the stock trade
\nis I’m getting more information by
\nwatching it then sticking to my you know
\nset rules that I have in place there
\nwere two trades today that I could have
\ntaken off at about a two hour or a two
\nand a half hour but I didn’t because I
\nwas sticking to this for our target and
\nended up losing on them so thank you
\nvery much I appreciate that
\nalright so on to the specific trade
\nmanagement for this guy initially opened
\nthe first 5-minute bar here opens below
\nV WAP as does the second one and it just
\nso happened that the second one did go
\ninside of the first one so we also saw
\nthere indicated to me a potential trend
\ndown day second bar went in sighs I’m
\nsorry
\ninside the size of it was 32 cents
\nmother bar was 81 cents so that my trade
\ncriteria was met and then I shorted at
\nthe
\nbreak first inside bar the second
\n5-minute bar once it got below there
\nthat’s when I got in my target was down
\nhere at $33.99 with my stop up here at
\n34 84 so as the trade started to play
\nout I got a nice big candle down on the
\nfourth 5-minute bar and a little bit
\nmore extension on the fifth and this
\nsupport here there was a prior 52 week
\nhigh at 3409 looked like he was starting
\nto hold
\n3406 was low on that one so I’m starting
\nto get a bit of a retracement coming
\nback up here and then there was a
\nconsolidation these three small 5-minute
\nbars actually ended up being an inside
\n15-minute bar and they are below V walk
\nand I certainly could have added at this
\npoint but I think as I mix it to you
\nMike in my email when I initially
\nemailed you about this I was just
\nnervous about having a positive example
\nto show you and also I’m not I wasn’t at
\nthe time good at adding and reading the
\naction of what was going on but in
\nhindsight this is what I saw here at
\nthis point with these three
\nconsolidation bars because and there was
\nanother nice breakdown it did put in a
\nbit of a higher low compared to the 3406
\nbut it didn’t put in a higher high which
\ngave me a little bit of confirmation
\nthat maybe my target was going to be hit
\nso then the 3406 support was broken all
\nright so tell me why you get short so
\nthree short at 34 67 below long-term
\nresistance what is the specific reason
\nwhy you are short the reason why because
\nit met my trade criteria the price
\nactually met my trade criteria I go back
\nto that and explain that to me again
\nso my trade criteria set up so I wanted
\nthe first two bars to close in the same
\ndirection price direction relative to V
\nwell so the first bar second bar they
\nboth closed below
\nD WA and then my second trade criteria
\nis I wanted an inside bar less than 75%
\nthe size of the mother bar which is what
\nI had here with the the second bar $0.32
\nthe mother bar was 81 cents for this
\nto actually work what are you gonna need
\nto add to this criteria trade cannot
\nwork is presently constructed what do
\nyou need to add to this you need a
\nvolume indicator for this Oh what are
\nyou looking for with regard to volume
\nwell you want in I mean you want to you
\nwant increasing volume you want to know
\ngo back to your trade slide so you want
\nto know that these two bars that are
\nclosing in the same direction are
\nmeaningful and for you to know that
\nthese bars are meaningful you need to
\nconfirm that with elevated volume and so
\nthere’s lots of different ways you can
\ncome up with you’re seeing additional
\nvolume with these first two bars but
\nyou’re gonna need to add that yeah and
\nso in short what I mean by that is those
\ntwo bars need to be meaningful and they
\nonly are meaningful if there is
\nadditional volume in those two bars as
\ncompared to other types of moves you
\ncould just have two bars that are in
\nthis case red with very very light
\nvolume and would mean anything right
\nthat’s what you’re trying to say Jake
\nyes yes we’re all trying to say that all
\nright good thank you all right so where
\nI left off was number seven year where
\nthe 3406 support was broken came within
\nthree cents of my target at $33.99 and
\nso I like I mentioned before it’s just
\nwanted to have a positive positive
\nexample so I actually moved my stop to
\nthe top of the one-minute bar sweet I
\nswitched to a one-minute chart on this
\nand ended up getting stopped out at 34
\nsixteen roughly for a three-hour game
\nbut what ended up happening the way much
\nthe trade ended up playing out was there
\nwas a nice move below that 3406 that
\nended up
\na hammer down here in the bottom and
\nthat’s a point where I could have
\ncovered some right there and then I got
\nfor number nine here I could have
\nreentered either on this shooting star
\nor this shooting star I’m here and then
\nas the trade continued to play out as we
\nwent into the afternoon I’ve heard you
\nmentioned before Mike on other other
\nvideos where you say look for the real
\nmove well here was the here was the real
\nmove where we got a nice push down here
\nin price
\nnot necessarily in volume but now that
\nyou guys are mentioning it here’s a bit
\nof elevated volume as you got a nice
\nnice collapsing in price here and this
\nwould have been a real nice spot to to
\nclose the entire trade out it’s the jig
\nchart and so when we see jake charts
\nlike that jake charts our directional
\nclean smooth and you know when we go
\nback and review these charts we want to
\ntry and figure out you know why that was
\nyou know why was it so clean why were
\nyou so right to be trading this I didn’t
\nhear that yet from your presentation and
\nmaybe you sort of did this you know why
\ndo you think this trade works so nicely
\nwell there what’s the additional
\ncatalyst coming from the overall market
\nwhere we had the China News where the
\ntrade deal was in jeopardy but then the
\nother thing that I can postulate that at
\nthis time I don’t have confirmation
\nright now but that that the the news
\nwere for a JD was priced in and it
\nactually had a good technical level
\nwe’re selling could occur you know what
\nyou can’t do is walk away from a day
\nlike this and say well the first two
\nbars closed negatively therefore the
\ntrade worked that isn’t the takeaway
\nfrom this trade all right a better trade
\nis we’ve got a news catalyst we’ve got a
\nnegative news catalyst for this
\nparticular product we’ve got a
\nparticular strategy that works well with
\nelevated volume on this particular trade
\nand price is confirming
\nthat this is really working does that
\nmake sense so the trade is so-so a good
\ntrade is a news catalyst with to canoe
\nwith to clear red bars in the same
\ndirection below view up on elevated
\nvolume does that make sense yes it does
\nokay that is that’s a better trade
\nthat’s something for you to study for
\nyou to for you to measure for you to
\nback test maybe it work for you maybe it
\nwon’t but that is that is a trade worth
\nstudy over all dinners as I continue to
\ngo through DNA right now I’m setting my
\nrules to be rather concrete so you’re
\nsuggesting than to get AI have more
\ndiscretion you know I like I like you
\nhaving concrete rules I think that’s a
\ngood place to start
\nI think Alan’s point is excellent which
\nis as you get more experienced you’re
\ngoing to make a decision as to whether
\nor not you are more of a field trader or
\nwhether or not you need to be more of a
\nsystematic trader and so good to start
\nwith organization and then be cognizant
\nof how you want to attack markets there
\ngonna be some people like shark for
\ninstance shark is a field trader shark
\ndoes not want to be a systematic trader
\nthat takes him away from his particular
\ncognitive strengths okay Austin would be
\nmore in the systematic organized thinker
\ntype of way and so he’s not gonna be
\ntotally systematic but he’s gonna want
\nmore structure behind his trades where
\nthat just wouldn’t work for shark both
\nof them have excellent success looking
\nat markets a little bit differently
\nthere’s a whole heap of space in-between
\nthose as well you know and and that’s
\nwhere it’s important to find where you
\nfit and for me if you go back to your
\nfive minute chart was it betrayed if
\nyou’re in that trade and you’re looking
\nfor four reasons to stay in it there’s a
\ncouple there and and one almost right at
\nthe beginning you know when it dumped
\nand it almost got to you
\ntarget if that had powered straight back
\nthrough the vo up and stopped you out
\nyou were so close to your target and
\nyou’re taking them off and it turns into
\na loser like you said so that’s that’s
\nwhere I’m questioning my target was
\nthere which meant I I had a feeling that
\ncould be a level that’s bounced it might
\nbounce from its bounce from just above
\nthere so should I take some off at least
\nyour highlighters there it is exactly it
\nfor me the first point that suggests I
\nam on the right side of this trade
\nbecause it failed it to be wipe almost
\nperfectly so is that a spot in future
\nthat I can add to this short especially
\nif I’ve taken some off near the bottom
\nis this a point I can add because it’s a
\nlittle bit of confirmation with low risk
\nif if I if I add a little bit as it
\nfails it to be what I can always cover
\nthat if it breaks back above it but
\nthere’s there’s one point for me and the
\nother point is you’ve got you your two
\narrows there that your support at 3406
\nand the next one that makes you higher
\nlow when it when it bounces at point 8 9
\non your slide so if you go across as it
\nas it bounces where that big arrow is at
\nat dot point 8 & 9 on your you know that
\nlevel where it bounces to is basically
\nat where that previous support was so
\nthe previous support on the 5-minute
\nthat yellow line that’s held held a
\ncouple of times early has now provided
\nresistance so it’s another little bit of
\nconfirmation that you’re on the right
\nside of this trade support off previous
\nsupport office often becomes resistance
\nit’s become resistance almost again to
\nthe dot and there’s another little bit
\nof you know you collecting little pieces
\nof information that tell you you’re
\nstill on the right side of that trade
\none of the things Mike that I really
\nliked and thank you
\nthat I’m gonna incorporate now in my my
\njournal daily is the question that you
\njust asked me which is why did this
\ntrade work that’s the question I’ve been
\nasking myself when I go to do my journal
\nat the end of the day so that’s
\nbrilliant thank you yeah particularly
\nwhen the stocks are really clean really
\nclean and strong really clean and weak
\nthose are trades really really worth
\nstudying right good
\nso on my review here watching us and be
\ntraders go through this exercise online
\nand and YouTube has been eye-opening
\nobviously doing it with you guys is even
\nmore eye-opening and for have Alan here
\nas well adding additional commentary is
\nphenomenal
\nso for me to actually go through this
\nthe first time has been incredibly
\nimpactful i’m unwinding so many bad
\nhabits that i developed over the years
\nit’s given me opportunity to think about
\nexecuting trains very differently than
\nin the past taking my focus away from
\njust quote-unquote making money now or
\ntrading like BNL which is a huge problem
\nthat I’ve had in the past so I got a lot
\nmore to learn I’m not even have just
\nfinished module 5 and DNA and I
\nanticipate incorporating level 2 data
\ninto my analysis as I get further into
\nit about a month ago an additional trade
\nidea that could have come out of this
\nwas JD had the potential for a good
\nsecond date play if that 52-week high
\nresistance held and it could have moved
\ndown to 32 and the next day yet next
\ncouple days it actually did have a nice
\nmove down past 32 I hadn’t taken the
\ntrade but that was a potential that was
\nthere alright great appreciate you
\nsharing that with us dr. MTV thank you
\noh thank you Mike and arrestor you guys
\nsound everybody appreciated a special
\nthank-you from smb2 veteran trader and
\nmentor alan mcgrath for helping us teach
\nthis developing trader and SMB DNA
\nstudent now it’s your turn which
\neffective trading technique discussed in
\nthis video are you going to implement
\ninto your trading are you going to pay
\nclose attention to volume when designing
\na trade strategy or are you going to
\nincorporate reading the tape like Alan
\nand SMB does with your trading let us
\nknow by leaving a comment below right
\nnow
\n<\/div>\n

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