Interesting stuff. Looking forward to you sharing the study.

Here is the next video I will be submitting to Apex.

This video does not have any cuts to give a true experience of the time I spend on analysis, identifying a possible opportunity, waiting for the setup, and finally taking the trade.

This is one of my standard strategies:
1. An up-trend breaks bearish.
2. I wait for short speculators to enter on the first pullback. The short speculators expect this to be the start of a move lower.
3. I wait for these early short speculators to be wrong.
4. I enter long just above them. They provide protection to the downside, and I take my profit at the trend line retest.

Here is the 3rd day of trading that I need to submit to Apex. This video shows two trades.

I will update here if and when Apex approve the videos.

I have received a lot of questions about my indicator. This is what the 4 columns represent:

1. AB - First, Fast Large buyers (as described in this video)
2. AS - First, Fast, Large sellers
3. SS - Stop Sells (I will describe the importance of this and how it is used in a future video)
4. SB - Stop Buys

There is a lot of noise in the order flow. By filtering these events, I find it a lot easier to understand what is happening.

The stop data is reorganized to show absorption, which is useful to see how much demand there is for the involuntary liquidity. This gives a big clue as to where the market may be heading.

Just my opinion but this feels like asking a trader to tap dance to get their earnings.

are you scalping a few ticks on 1 to 2 contracts across 10-20 accounts, or trading for big point moves?

shokunin 

Apex Trader Funding asked me to submit videos explaining my strategy, indicators used, and examples of me trading with market analysis and commentary. They want proof that I'm actually trading, and not taking lucky gambles or copy trading. Seeing as I have to share my trading strategy and trades with Apex, I thought I'd share them here as well. I see a lot of traders asking for a profitable strategy. I'm a trading mentor, so I was able to cut the strategy explanation from a training video I already had: Here are 4 examples of me trading the strategy: 1. Market analysis followed by a 3 tick counter-trend scalp to demonstrate the basic setup. 2. Counter-trend move into resistance, attempting to take out stops above resistance. 3. With-trend move into support, taking out stops below support. 4. Making over $12k before breakfast. I've just woken up and I'm trading from my laptop in bed. This is a longer video; this was a very technical session that contains lots of examples of the strategies listed in the first video. Happy to answer any questions here. I'm currently on probation with Apex while the videos are reviewed. I'll also keep you updated on Apex's response, and my next payout request (which should be another $20k).

Hello shokunin,

Great Video.

Question please:

1. I notice your stop loss is 14t and profit target is 3t, which is a 0.2 Reward to Risk ration. Per Apex rules, the reward to risk ratio must be 0.25 and higher. Does Apex allow you to trade with RR less than 0.25?

2. How many trades do you take per day?

shokunin 

I recorded another video using the new format Apex require. It isn't pretty and I'm struggling to get what they ask. I don't talk much about strategy as I'm concentrating more on getting the shot. But I do an analysis at the end and talk about not using a Stop. I explain how it can be better to wait and get out on the next favourable cycle.

Are you trading real or funny money?

goodoboy 

Hello shokunin, Great Video. Question please: 1. I notice your stop loss is 14t and profit target is 3t, which is a 0.2 Reward to Risk ration. Per Apex rules, the reward to risk ratio must be 0.25 and higher. Does Apex allow you to trade with RR less than 0.25? 2. How many trades do you take per day?

It's easiest to show you. Attached is every trade I've taken so far this week. I don't usually trade this much, but volatility and price action have been amazing.

This is what the columns mean:

DCA = increases each time I add to a losing position.
AIP = increases each time I add to a winning position.
MAE = maximum number of ticks the trade goes against me. The perfect number is 1 as this guarantees a fill. (I always enter on a limit order).
TC = profit of loss in ticks on this trade. Positive = profit, negative = loss.

Apex expect an average risk:reward of 4:1. My average winner is 11.78 ticks over a sample of the last 58 trades, so that allows for a stop of 47 ticks. I am well within that.

In this video from the 14m mark I explain why only scalping 3 ticks isn't sustainable.

tradergino 

Are you trading real or funny money?

It's funny money until Apex pay out.

This week I did not want to trade with Apex while they are still reviewing my videos. So the trades in the post above are with my own broker account. But I would trade Apex the same way.