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Hi Kazbek,
wouldn´t it make more sense that you open your own journal?


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Thats the thing
So my own journal would look like collection of taken trades, where is fun there ?
I see actually more benefit of combining different top-view analytical approaches on the general state of the market and learning from each other in a journal maintained by disciplined teuton.
Would you agree ?

I agree so I started this thread.

Maybe this could be a perfect solution for your posts. I started a thread for traders to post ideas and they can post charts, ideas, helpful hints, etc.

Your posts there are appreciated and welcomed.
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Yesterday action could be summed up as dancing around Monday 15 Min opening range without taking out both Monday daily high and low liquidity.

Though looks like as of now we are definitely bullish and poised to take out Monday high and probably push higher as we are on the fifth Elliott wave
which by quite conservative Fibonacci estimate can extend to 25915.


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Thats the thing , mon general ... Algotrading as we know is based on algorithms . In my own case proprietory.
Some people are happy to share them, some not as in some circles they are defined as "edge".
So once rules are defined and scripted, there is no thought process, no emotions, no nothing. Just hard coded logics the way founders envisioned it.
So my own journal would look like collection of taken trades, where is fun there ? I can see them any day any time.
I see actually more benefit of combining different top-view analytical approaches on the general state of the market and learning from each other in a journal maintained by disciplined teuton.
Would you agree ?


No, regarding to this journal i do not agree. The sense here is to show ONE APPROACH, in this case AUCTION MARKET THEORY (AMT). The reader can come here and look what the AMT guy did today. In that sense it mixes things up to have different approaches in this journal.

Best what be a journal that is designed to show different ideas from different approaches. Maybe you can open one and set the rules in post 1.

Thanks for your understanding!


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No, regarding to this journal i do not agree. The sense here is to show ONE APPROACH, in this case AUCTION MARKET THEORY (AMT). The reader can come here and look what the AMT guy did today. In that sense it mixes things up to have different approaches in this journal.

Best what be a journal that is designed to show different ideas from different approaches. Maybe you can open one and set the rules in post 1.

Thanks for your understanding!

Sure, will respect your wishes. Would you be open to contribute to those MIxed approach journal ? I looked around and there is not much going on except you, actually. I do remember early 2021-22 when there were bunch of journals. Now all is gone I think.
As for AMT itself, I do admire your sticking to your guns, but in all fairness how one can even talk about idea of Market , which is corner stone of AMT, in this day and age , when price pushed around by market makers and the whole idea of market itself is long gone. From 90-s actually. As far as I see there is only price which can slice through thickest of volumes as knife through warm butter. Not to mention anything else.


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20251111 recap



Scalp Short was for a shake out below onl (= bottom of spike)
Main idea was long


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20251112 pre market



News
Many fed speaker today
1300 bond auction
1300 wh press briefing

Condition 1
otf up

Condition 0
open with small gap up
oni is long

Thoughts


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performance from open



Helpful tool.

Today in first minutes after the open we had big divergence between ES (moving up) and NQ (moving down).


In addition the sectors can show you during the day that the day might be neutral when sectors are very mixed.


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20251112 recap



only one scalp
had an appointment and left early


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20251113 pre market



News
1030 feds kashkari
1200 crude
1300 bond auction

Condition 1
otf up
looks likely to break which woeld bring the daily in ST balance

Condition 0
open around y low

Thoughts
look what develops relative to y l and y value


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20251113 recap


a little too much activity from me


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