AXIA Elite Trader trades Trump Address to the Nation after Iran Attack | Axia Futures

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In this video, Adam is going through the execution of our AXIA Elite Trader on Tuesday 7th of January 2020 and Wednesday 8th of January 2020.
This was a record breaking day for our Elite trader and a huge personal milestone in daily PnL.
With the beginning of 2020 there was a dramatic escalation in tensions between the US and Iran, after Trump ordered an airstrike on Jan 3rd that killed top Iranian military commander Soleimani. After this, Iran pledged to take “severe revenge” and markets started getting nervous on the prospect of a military conflict between the two nations.
Oil and Gold surged on geopolitical risks after the US strike while equities and risk-assets sold off. The markets were nervously awaiting for Iran’s response although there was the hope for a diplomatic solution and an avoidance of Iran’s retaliation.
At around 11pm London on Tuesday 7th January, various twitter sources started reporting that Iran started firing missiles at Iraqi bases that house US soldiers. With both US and European cash markets closed, futures were slow to react. However as more sources started confirming the attack and more specifically when Iran Revolutionary Guard confirmed that they were hitting US forces, markets were on the move. Oil, Gold and US bonds started rallying sharply while SnP futures started selling off aggressively.
The elite trader started buying oil and gold very aggressively (around 200lots in each), buying Tnotes (300+ lots) and selling S&P (200+ lots). Executing with his usual trading style he kept managing the trades in these 4 markets by adding and scaling out as he saw fit. As the news kept getting more and more traction so was the market reaction. The moves from 11pm to 11.40pm were quite large across oil, gold, bonds and S&P and he managed to capitalise big on them.
After the initial reaction to the attacks, the market was fearing the worst (potentially a full-blown war between US and Iran) and thus the very big risk off move. However, soon it was reported that there were no US casualties and Iranian Foreign minister Zarif said that IRAN CONCLUDED PROPORTIONATE MEASURES, NOT SEEKING WAR. In addition to this, Trump tweeted saying “All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good!”
All the above feeding into markets made participants realise that the situation seemed like it was contained and that the US probably wouldn't have to retaliate back. This caused the V-shape reversal in all markets with Gold, Oil and US bonds selling off and Spoo rallying retracing the original move. Our Elite Trader managed to reverse his initial risk-off positions and sold Gold and Oil while buying SnP to add to his PnL. By 3am most markets had retraced most of the moves.
On the morning of Wednesday 8th of January, after this massively volatile overnight session, the European session was a lot quieter. Equity markets kept drifting higher while safe haven assets (Bunds/Gold) and Oil kept drifting lower as markets were relieved on the limited response by Iran and the fact that there were no casualties. Trump was scheduled to address the nation at around 4pm London time and it was clear that this would be the catalyst for the next move.
The market price action was indicating that Trump was probably going to sound harsh on Iran but refrain from announcing further conflict or retaliation after the latest attacks. If that was the case we would expect probably another leg of risk-on (but possibly short-lived as this was now priced in). If on the other hand he chose to escalate tensions further, then we would expect risk-off to hit the markets again.
Trump started his speech by saying that IRAN APPEARS TO BE STANDING DOWN. This was the first hint that he acknowledged that the Iran attack was limited and that hinted that he would not choose not to retaliate. Our Elite trader instantly sells 90 lots in Oil and then sells 80 lots in Gold and buys 280 S&Ps.
As Trump continued talking he struck a very de-escalating tone by saying that he was seeking a diplomatic solution and peace with Iran. This was the best that the market would hope for and as a result risk assets rallied and safe haven assets and oil sold off to completely unprice any war premium. The elite trader played for a final risk-on move by adding to his positions and scaled his positions out as he started seeing signs of exhaustion in the moves.
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[@jonjontrdr9630]

I salute you for this great achievement Demetri, so inspirational. Legend!

[@rambomiranda6600]

Mind blowing trading, respect to this guy

[@kkqd0784]

Amazing, congrats and thanks for the content. Keep'em coming.

[@satoshigerbil8789]

What a great video putting the video side by side as the trade occurs

[@Kloutkulture]

I can’t believe this is free

[@bauble0097]

🧡💛💚💙Your content is amazing. Thank you! Is it right to say that he is mainly reading the DOM for speed & ranges rather than taking into account volumes? Does he generally aim to have a specific size on that he's comfortable with and then makes sure he doesn't exceed that by scaling out beyond the extremes? It just seems so insanely difficult to work out how much you want on at any given moment and correctly place scaling limits - which is probably why everyone else just hits in & out. Also how does he figure out how much he will hold offside?

[@mohammedalabar8677]

OMG this is insane. how skilled you have to be to do something like that?

[@ajt7125]

Does this trader now record his screen on the same computer he trades off of? I know before he used a separate computer to record. Doesn't the recording process slow down the computer speed and eat up CPU usage?

[@MrKahunadog]

RockStar... love it

[@PatrickRooney]

Platforms make a difference. His use of TT certainly attributed to the great order execution. Viewing contracts on static price ladders gives a great feel for execution flow across markets.

[@algoluvr1816]

@Patrick Rooney Is TT still offering this version of MD Trader?

[@PatrickRooney]

Algo Luvr yes

[@algoluvr1816]

@@PatrickRooney Thanks for the quick reply!

[@johntitor2303]

@@algoluvr1816 Patrick Rooney always replies quickly :)

[@satoshigerbil8789]

So he doesn't use stop losses?? What if it flushes down for the s&p?

[@kentbrook2568]

Respect

[@Newgrist]

damn, if I could trade like him, my problems would be solved.

[@sommi888]

🧡💛💚💙 Amazing. Can we can see a video of his "average day" scalping & execution? Maybe when he makes a small $5,000 to $10,000 in the Bund scalping a mildly interesting session? Strategies & patterns behind it. any insight.. we'd all love to see it 🧡💛💚💙

[@AxiaFutures]

Although he used to scalp small winners more often back in the day, now as he increased his size he is aiming for bigger moves (over 10-15 ticks) when the flow is there and when he has the conviction. An example of him trading a grindy choppy no-news day (from 1.5 years ago) is this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3mqp42Mm9qZnMk We will be posting more of those and go through his execution strategy in future streams

[@sommi888]

@@AxiaFutures 🧡💛💚💙 Thankyou, any insight into chart patterns or order flow patterns he looks at to get 10-15 ticks would be great as well. We enjoy these videos greatly and appreciate you sharing Forever grateful

[@rms_6401]

@20:55 how did those -90 shorts appeared on Oil out of blue? Short by market with keyboard would have to send it to 61.15's? Its possible only on demo account. Sorry i never used TT please explain.

[@drcl1694]

He clicked into the offer column. You can set up TT so if you click lower in the offer column under the current price it will just hit at market. Note there are 2 mouse cursors in the video - the second one with a yellow circle is the one the presenter is using. The other non-highlighted one is the trader's cursor at the time of the recording

[@mikestuart6731]

Out of the blue? Here is the explanation. He doesn't use keyboard. Oil is trading 6125, his mouse cursor is hovering to sell 6117. He is clearly hovering much lower as he expects the market to move fast on news. As he smacks 3 clips of 30 lots with his mouse he pushes the market down and gets average price of 19s. It's actually the perfect example to see that this is a live account

[@rms_6401]

@@mikestuart6731 Ok, thanks i see it now, i'm so much used to jigsaw and fluid speeds, i realized YT video encoding hides most of its stuff, watched 0.25x you right, moment of click was 61.26 and next moment it's 61.19. Live you can clearly see those orders filled and only demo orders are instant. I do record live with OBS studio which gives 60 fps distinguishable quality, watching DOM on YT is not a good idea i guess :)

[@johnb8229]

rms _ trading technologies will have a yellow simulation strip at the top of the trading ladders (actually says simulation)if in simulation or demo mode. This is in live mode

[@ajt7125]

TT allows 2 different position sizes (one for right and left clicks of the mouse). What software is being used to be able to use more different trade sizes to enter with one click? How is he doing that?

[@AxiaFutures]

He is using a piece of software that he runs on the background that lets him allocate different sizes (clips) on his mouse side buttons. So he effectively has 4 different clip sizes (left & right clicks + 2 side buttons). He would normally use his main big clips to enter the trade, and then use the small clips on his side buttons to lay resting bids/offers in order to scale out and trim the main position as seen on this video)

[@ajt7125]

@@AxiaFutures Ok thank you. I thought it was something like that. What is the software he uses in the background to be able to do that? What is the name of it?

[@AxiaFutures]

@@ajt7125 We are not familiar with the software used. The coding was developed by the IT/technical team.

[@ajt7125]

@@AxiaFutures Ok thank you.

[@Kloutkulture]

This guy is INSANE

[@AxiaFutures]

Thanks for watching!

[@ajt7125]

Can you show this elite trader taking a loss on some trades? it'd be nice to know how he handles losses and how he has the discipline to throw in the towel on a trade idea. And since I don't believe he uses hard stop-losses in the market, how does he determine when a trade idea is no longer valid? And exactly when does he know to take the loss and give up on the trade (for the time being)?

[@Kloutkulture]

Guys like this don’t lose man. Or when they do it’s not like a normal trader. Their very next trade is a winner

[@andreasmitas2971]

Wow-what a day! Execution at its finest

[@tradergrind6812]

Big Boy trading ... nice

[@ajt7125]

Does this trader ever trade when the market is slow and there is no clear news driver (say, technical setups/breakouts, stops hit, just trading a fundamental sentiment, etc.)?

[@AxiaFutures]

Yes he trades in multiple environments both news and technical orientated. Yesterday he actually traded the Bund bid on a structured profile trade where we will review next Thursday on our members channel. It is a specific market profile play we will be reviewing of his live trading that we will walk through.

[@ajt7125]

@@AxiaFutures Ok thank you. I assume the members channel you referred to is the one that can be free trialed for 2 weeks?

[@AxiaFutures]

@@ajt7125 that is correct

[@alexgg13]

1 million USD with how many lots/contracts?

[@standruck5488]

Between 2 and 5, he ran the shit out of the last one.

[@georgef8678]

Stan Druck 2 and 5 ? Lots ? Lol

[@alexandere3479]

Just watch the video, you see his size the whole time

[@alexgg13]

@@alexandere3479 they said 200..so yeah.. I feel poor now

[@alexandere3479]

@@alexgg13 who doesn't, looking at those numbers 😂

[@LESVIDEOSDEMOI]

Decent size for a retail trader.