Scalping Was Hard, Until He Discovered This Little Trick

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[@razzy1476]

Love this video! 😀👍

[@TheTalkingApe]

A little disappointed in this video. I signed up for the presentation and it turned out to be a hardcore sales pitch for the course, with the promise of an interview. How does that work? You have to pay to get the chance to interview? Any trader that can afford that type of money doesn’t necessarily need the course. Lost a bit of trust here

[@Bighomie1911]

@@TheTalkingApe u have the wrong mindset in the wrong line of work most successful traders are optimistic

[@doobydoo88]

do you have people working for you from other countries ie England?

[@stresseddude]

​@@Bighomie1911 No. If they're selling a course and not providing an apprenticeship, it's to fund their prop firm from suckers, bro and get the best of them to join in to trade such funds. All prop firms financially rely on both realm until they're highly profitable. If they're offering such a high ticket product, they're probably not as profitable on average or get rid of the ones who aren't profitable to retain a reputation. They're just a high-class version of typical prop firm experiences. Think about it, would you spend $x,xxx on the chance you might not get hired or evern continue to trade if it didn't work out for you? Education is one thing, gauranteed/apprenticeship a job is a another. Who knows, they might even have a time limit to trim the numbers and say "Well, it took you too long to reach our criteria, etc, etc" or "You need more training to join our current criteria it seems" it's a circle-jerk to a corporatize level if this is happening. There's so much money grab in this space that companies, which naturally are amoral by nature to survive, would think the other is stupid to NOT seek the more draining measures out of people's pockets. Even the most popular prop firms can have bad glassware/indeed/reddit/etc reputations that aren't publicized on their end for the sake of reputation management to, again, get more money out of the people rather than focus on training for the market as advertised.

[@christinedavies6371]

One of the best videos produced so far. I've done some of your courses, and follow your trading techniques. Awesome stuff guys

[@simonhuber6859]

The new ad for the workshop is wayyy better than in previous videos. You put it to the end and don't disrupt the video, which is important as one needs focus to understand the learnings you are talking about.

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[@thomaskupka8377]

Wonderful presentation, Jeff, really enjoyed it! Concise & to the point.

[@stocksinplaydaily]

SMB with the steady bangers. Thank you all greatly!

[@johnotaran]

Oh wow , this is amazing, the thought process and the example

[@realtimeforextraderthebrut8571]

Thank you for sharing. Sharing the experience and knowledge of professional traders benefits the trading community as a whole. Lots of pearls of wisdom from SMB. Please keep posting more of these informative and very positive interviews. Sharing your analysis of the market, market structure, and scalping is very generous. Thank you.

[@shanebrown8242]

Man I wish I had the opportunity to know and interact with you guys!! I always get excited when I watch your videos. Thanks

[@jeremyhasak1010]

Thanks for more context to add to the previous short video from the weekend! I will look to study charts in this way when looking for scalps and adopt the ranking system. Really good way to make sure traders stick to higher probability setups

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[@Ironboots123]

Thank you for your contribution to new traders. We really appreciate it ❤

[@jaysoegaard]

100 percent correct....I look for a possible breakout and see how hard the resistance is and current market conditions...I always say when a stock has stong big order bulls it's bull..Thats why certain stocks keep showing up repeatedly on the top gainers list and become your money wells. You see it in the chart with higher highs. Usually happens more in bull markets...Took me months to figure out to wait for the right scalp moments and have tight exits. Variables like 10x avg volume, low float, low short interest and watching for manipulation in the level 2 is also important.. There might be a lot of variables but when you've seen the patterns on a daily basis you can spot a winner at a better success rate.

[@tone5875]

this works, sometimes several times in a month. but you will need lots of tape read experience before knowing how to spot the failed attempt. the statement let it consolidate after break is what tells you, the speaker knows what hes talking about. being late is a confirmed decision but need higher stop loss points, thus high risk high reward is always something to tradeoff of. timing is everything and its what makes it hard to do consistently

[@joefeinstein6804]

I definitely see this all the time. Your example is from 2022 and AMD just did a very similar move on 2/23/24. It was looking like a backside potentially back up to vwap but then it failed and became an excellent short, exactly as you describe.

[@tonymontgomery7708]

Great lesson! Its really going to help my scalping

[@hectortechera]

Thanks guys! I love your work in this channel and I can say this is my favorite video ever! Please make others videos explaining this kind of psicology trading! The best for you! 👏🏻

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[@bhobba]

Thanks again for posting these very informative videos. I like Mike's new speil at the end.

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This company brings in very niece videos, Thanks for sharing lot of great Knowledge I live in Bangalore in India and we love all your videos.

[@ryanlee6781]

I'm curious to hear how you would change number 1 if you only scalp ES? Figure out what type of market day ES is going to have? Choppy, rotation, trend, etc?

[@joshtap]

How would you apply this to futures? Thanks for your time :) love the videos!

[@williamli9329]

Like the SMB videos. Hope I can improve myself after learning.

[@dirkdarwin2571]

This is solid advice. I developed a mean reversion trade that needs about 10 criteria to be met for it to be a 10/10 quality trade... when all the criteria are present, it works so easily it's crazy. Cut that to only 6 and it's like a 50/50 probability. I've learned to base my position size on the number of criteria I have in my favour.

[@kylerrrr]

On the example at 6:50, I personally would find the breakout below the support and then the hammer to be a bullish sign. I really need more patience

[@TraderAnatoly]

Thanks for the valuable experience. Scalping is really not for every trader. It is especially cool to scalp those stocks from the opening that you traded positionally yesterday and understand the situation well today.

[@jackjack8390]

So good. Thanks for another video that's as good as gold.

[@justinstu2972]

What kind of lvl would be a 7/10 would that be levels of more weeklys or would they be strictly lvl you would see on a one year or greater

[@DM-qq7cr]

I had to watch market for 4 years before i saw that price action , where have you guys been on this video 4 years ago ? lol . Good one!

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[@reallyeasy5088]

Amazing content. I learned a lot thx!

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[@henriettatan]

Excellent video!

[@joefeinstein6804]

Pro advice right here!

[@psj800]

How can you measure/ forecast high volume days in ES1?? What would be the proper tool? (RVOL as well ?)

[@John--qh9xl]

Great advice, thanks.

[@REMAX_CCA]

It's funny... I came across your channel 2-3 years ago, but I wasn't ready for it, and I didn't like it honestly. Now that I am at this stage of development, your channel is one of my favorites. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge!

[@swapnilkshirsagar7177]

When it starts ti range i generally get hasty. Good video.

[@ObviousArtists]

I was mentored to scalp off algo type price action....8-21ema flip, 8-21ema crossovers, vwap 5 min reversals off gap ups and gap downs. These algo types are scalps that payout but burn you if you leave the risk on longer than an instant.

[@spontaneousbootay]

Whatever works for you but those to me only tell me about the trend

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[@jeffholden3736]

yea- whats super interesting to me is the context around trades like this, the flips as you mentioned. What I really like to do is take the core concept but spend time understanding why that concept could work, and then identifiy the situations where it should work, and then just let those highest EV moments show up.

[@traderryan713]

Right on. Will do. Always working on getting better. I'm on paper now since i burned all my mental capital up. Not going live until i'm profitable on paper for starters.

[@wigen__]

Developed a playbook and figure out your A+ setup and trade only those

[@traderryan713]

@@wigen__ ya def. 1 thing im going to do. Needs to be a setup out of my playbook. I get it.

[@djham2916]

@@wigen__ what's a playbook?

[@wigen__]

​@@djham2916A playbook is your own document of setups you take in the market. The point is you grade your setups which is highest quality and probability. The A+ or A is the one you wanna focus on.

[@djham2916]

@@wigen__ thank you.

[@StephenB2005]

How are the levels around the price action quantified and scored? What makes a 1 or a 5 and what makes a 7 or 10?

[@rogerbeecroftchannel4972]

I like this video, great job! I have been transitioning my scalping to trend trading (move2move). I have great charts, I just get in my way of entering on my signals. I avoid entering late because the probability declines with each tick that the run will continue. Patience rewards.... total patience totally rewards!

[@rewritereality394]

Thank You

[@WilliamusTrades]

What is "an 8+ higher timeframe technical level" mentioned @2:24 in this video?

[@moonlightandsunshine6875]

Thank you for the explode view on what a scalp truly can be! The bar by bar walkthrough is incredible and letting the moment happen, 1.5 move within 20 mins. In my mind I'm misled that the scalps plays were 1st 30mins of market open or during economic events release where volatility swings ensures a point or more scalp and under a minute trades. Thank you Jeff and Mike!

[@moonlightandsunshine6875]

EASYTRADE

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[@mohammadfarzan230]

Thanks

[@MelonCapital]

This value is incredible - I’ll definitely be putting this into action when I start trading. Question; when looking for stocks in play do you want all 3 catalyst, daily key level and 3+ RVOL? Or is just one sufficient? Obviously just all 3 would be best. But just wondering if one is sufficient.

[@jeffholden3736]

to play it safe, look for all 3. If one of the 3 is really good, like a really important catalyst, say like GOOGL today on the AI presentation, you can get away with not needing all 3, but most times, all 3 factors can keep you focused on the right stocks.

[@terryneal5569]

Gosh I have looked all over for the powerful little trick.

[@mulemule]

2:24 *What is "an eight-plus, higher time frame, technical level?"*

[@gruposcalybursadecv997]

agree this business is a high performance type of sport.

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[@barshalom4249]

Price action below VWAP has a high probability of falling lower. Great content.

[@tuna3875]

how do you know

[@barshalom4249]

@@tuna3875 Backtest and see for yourself

[@tuna3875]

@@barshalom4249 whats the logic/reasoning behind your claim.

[@barshalom4249]

@@tuna3875 backtest on different markets and you will see for yourself

That zone probably was a 4hr supply zone. So theoretically, it didn’t break. It broke dtrong to the downside, price had a retracement that lasted several days, touched 4hr supply and sold and broke structure heavily to the downside. So yes, my friend, it is a high probability sell zone 💯

[@NeptuneAlpheccaChild]

this is one of my favorite trades on MES or ES ... what should have happened didn't - go in the direction of the failure !!!

[@alexjoseph8828]

Great stuff especially the rule about important levels and reversing the trade.

[@leilakr7746]

ThankYou so much for this, Its genius. Especially taking the trade in opposite Direction HACK ;) Happy Trading

[@rayherman9713]

Gold once again.

[@scottseablom6659]

Futures?

[@JB-hk2gt]

IF AMD had a - negative news catalyst, why would you be expecting a breakout to the upside and then play an “unexpected” break to the downside? Shouldn’t you be expecting a downside move?

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[@someguythatlookslikeme8306]

lol. #5 Hits it on the head. I diddnt start making regular earnings until I held back, waited for it to happen and when it diddnt watch for the signal to go the other way.

[@anthonynguyen8031]

same.. all the time buying all these breakouts and failing definitely taught me to be more patient

[@MohammedOmeir]

Hey guys, just putting this out here for anyone who sees this to reply. I needed your take on what I should do to get into prop. I had dropped out of college in 2019 and that was a year into trading . It took me a little over three years to start seeing any consistent profits. However, I intend to go back to school to pickup from where I left off. I reside in India, I trade the Indian markets and that has made it really hard for me attend my lectures. I have come to a work around to that problem- trade the US market at night (on account of the fact that I worked night shifts to get to where I am as a trader now). However, I lack the capital, and the infrastructure to make that switch on my own, and am hence looking into prop desks that trade the US markets around me. I've been seeing more green months than red this past one year and even though the markets have changed in the past 3 months or so, I kept my losses small and have adapted and I think I will put up another green month in November. All that said, in the past, I have been rejected by firms on account of my lack of degree and that was not making any money when I applied earlier. What can I do to stand out and really nail any trading position? Love the work that you do and would love to have your opinion on this. Cheers.

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[@AfricanWifeinPakistan]

What in the early 90s is this video. 😂 Reminds me of those videos for long commercials back then.

[@marketsqueezer]

I do this every day.

[@saimonbilalov3839]

is the vwap there is 1day period or 2 day?

[@jeffholden3736]

1 day

[@MrJupton1]

Nice video: Just stating the obvious: Wouldn't have been better strategy, and considerably more profitable to trade on the long side of AMD at the open instead of trying to pick loose change in front of a steam roller on the short side? I see the scalp but damn... Don't miss the hour and half +4 point 7++% upside move where the real $$$ was! Vs a 1pt 1.5% move down! Just my op! 🤷‍♂

[@jeffholden3736]

Very valid point, and true. Much of the real opp was to the long side earlier in the day. But thats what I love about scalping, different opportunities just get presented through the day, so I just have to identify what Im looking for and let it set up for me. If I missed the entire open, I still can make a really nice EV trade here.

[@kiklocus4660]

in other words be patient

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[@gradydorn4431]

Oh, he's natural.

[@matthewvlogs4937]

Is there always fake outs before it runs ?

[@bpenguin]

No

[@wigen__]

Nope but most of the time. Stops hunt always happened

[@getmoney5922]

Don't say the word always and trading.

[@wigen__]

@@getmoney5922 Central Bank or some people would call market maker produce liquidity by doing these fakeouts over snr retails thinks as significant. Retail stops hit, liquidity produce. It always happens, its their job to keep the game moving.

[@moonlightandsunshine6875]

COIN had the same setup today😅 incredible nov8 2022

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[@nc1975]

AMD was not in play on the 4th. What setup was this? Levels were good though.

[@smbcapital]

This was the day after earnings and Fed day (weds)

[@MrJupton1]

Damn straight it was in play on the 4th... Tested support@60.5 tested Premarket high @62.65

[@b2bbogey735]

I guess that was more than one secret.

[@JohnSmith-zs1bf]

U guys are giving away my fobo technique for free

[@mo938]

"your" technique lmao

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[@matthewclarke5008]

Most breakouts fail, so this should be a high-probability strategy.

[@chewie1355]

Someone got scalped

[@marsmellow1589]

I would really like to apply but it would take one of the key pillars away from trading for me. Total responsibility and that is something rare to find in the world we live in today.

[@kidpoker007]

I trade the ES, so I guess this doesn't apply to me

[@jeffholden3736]

same pattern sets up in /es a lot, even in crypto this exact trade sets up.

[@YouLoveMrFriendly]

Prove it. Show some audited P&L statements.

[@mo938]

that's one thing i dont like ab SMB. they never show proof.

[@michaelmaran4473]

@@bpenguin giving you free advice and you cry like a twat

[@casanova1012]

@@mo938 for compliance reasons they're not allowed to.

[@nc1975]

Why? Who are you?

[@casanova1012]

@@nc1975 a prop trader, thanks for asking

[@timothyaldous1200]

Liked the thought process, but didnt like the entry

[@jeffholden3736]

what entry would you prefer?

[@Thomas_Rosco]

If the adult children here expending their energy complaining about a prop firm not showing it’s PNL decided to instead use that energy to learn new skill sets and put in the work they would: A) Be profitable too B) Not have to worry about comparing themselves to others C) Wouldn’t have to spit on successful people attempting to pass along knowledge D) Would probably not have to wake up every morning and see an adult child in the mirror.

[@newera3757]

Basic stuff.

[@goodman1127]

If it is secret why did you betray it?

[@dubbya57]

I'm so sorry you guys are getting hit with so much Spam. But, regular viewers are here because their smart and won't fall for the "crap".

[@lucatonipeperoni]

Scalpet the first comment ✌🏻

[@moonlightandsunshine6875]

Its a second upload

[@smbcapital]

had a slight audio issue to fix :)

[@marlowops]

Lol. All that for a scalp? Scalping is way faster bud. Maybe this is day trading but it's not scalping. I would go crazy if I had all these set ups etc....

[@jeffholden3736]

Maybe we are talking about the difference between a high EV scalp on the chart and a tape scalp (intrabar). There are just so many different ways to scalp and I wanted to share a scalp that makes sense to me.

[@marlowops]

@@jeffholden3736 I understand

[@HamsterHearthstone]

How do you talk for ten minutes showing a chart and never even say where precisely your entry is...

[@jeffholden3736]

yea- will get better at using this in the videos. Realize that the disconnect between the video and the charts can make it really tough to follow along.

[@danadanko1684]

You guys hire only males traders ? I don’t see any female trader in this channel 😅

[@lmtrades]

oh, just a bear flag inside a distribution range

[@Sinekyre14]

boomer-level trading

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So what’s the millennial level? 😂

[@Sinekyre14]

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Totally useless video

[@johntillman8352]

Totally Agree...Still guessing on a trade...Only 5 times instead of one....Would've ..Could've ...Should've !!

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Prove it sir....dnt tell orally just prove it sir

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