yale student

[paweldobkowski]

sold again

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dropped like 15 ticks
i took it
didnt take any screenshots
so i can go fk myself

sold once more tho
.11 now

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stopped -3

[paweldobkowski]

sold .16
this is going places

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got only this screenshot
took +12 tho

here

[paweldobkowski]

sold .03
this is QUICK

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got this



1/3 closed +20
i was 2 ticks off with the rest haha
so closed the other 2/3 +11

ok im done

[paweldobkowski]

ok!
one last short @ .92
lets go

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i let it go 6 ticks offside
i rarely do that
but i think before going up we should see those two levels i targeted before

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got em

but that was a bad trade
i can see now that the analysis was good
but i got in too early ---- there was nothing in the flow
i let it go behind me without any real reason
many more things i did wrong here
overall execution was terrible
but im tired

thats it for me
have a great day!
have a great weekend!

i will be travelling over the weekend for a wedding
i absolutely hate weddings
so that'll be fun

[paweldobkowski]

bought .04 (oil)

i know
but this is too good of an opportunity to pass

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and by that i mean
great opportunity to give some money back to the market



-3

[paweldobkowski]

bought .99 this time
same general idea
but we might go this time maybe?

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was up around +10
got stopped for +2
im more careful now

[paweldobkowski]

and since i think the buyers are in a bad shape now
just shorted .00

lets get the new low and i can go start packing for the fkn wedding

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ok
im moving my stop to BE right now
because i need to be doing everything else but trading
so its either 0 or +30 at the new low

oh and there is also this scenario where the market skips my stop and i come back here sitting on -300 ticks
still better then the wedding

[LeMercenaire]

and since i think the buyers are in a bad shape now
just shorted .00

lets get the new low and i can go start packing for the fkn wedding

EDIT:

ok
im moving my stop to BE right now
because i need to be doing everything else but trading
so its either 0 or +30 at the new low

oh and there is also this scenario where the market skips my stop and i come back here sitting on -300 ticks
still better then the wedding

You never know, Pawel, something interesting might happen...

couldbefun.jpg (199.7 KiB) Viewed 1771 times

[Mira]

and since i think the buyers are in a bad shape now
just shorted .00

lets get the new low and i can go start packing for the fkn wedding

EDIT:

ok
im moving my stop to BE right now
because i need to be doing everything else but trading
so its either 0 or +30 at the new low

oh and there is also this scenario where the market skips my stop and i come back here sitting on -300 ticks
still better then the wedding

You never know, Pawel, something interesting might happen...

couldbefun.jpg

LOOOL

Everything can happen with an open bar

[Leoheart]

Excellent trading ..I would like to learn more about order flow trading ..specifically how are you spotting your entries ..are candles involved or strictly volume ..Thanks ...

Same here, looking for a additional way to spot target areas.
doji

order flow trading is basically looking at the depth of market for patterns to profit from
its basically mainly scalping for 1 - 5 ticks
you look for people to do people stuff
be greedy or fearful
what they got, what they want to trade, what they dont want to trade, how they trade it etc.
sometimes you can spot an algo doing some shady sht ---- but still its there to trick people so you might aswell just watch people

now way of doing this allows me to scalp but also trade some bigger moves (although i know people who would argue if its still order flow trading)
to make a long story short i dont care about the candles (for the most part)
at least not in a traditional sense ---- im not opening and closing based on candles
of course im aware of my chart placement but thats not because of the chart
i know where are the daily highs and lows
i know where are the previous swings
as TRO famously said: "price is the same on every time frame"
its like scalping the daily candle looking at that daily candle

as i said somewhere here ---- i had to trade for around 3 years without charts
i look at the transactions going in and people moving orders around and form an idea about whats going on
i trade (almost) every day and i watch levels being traded
so over time i get the whole map in my head

of course just because someone bought yesterday @ .10 doesnt mean he will buy again next time we visit .10
and just like with technical analysis there are unfortunately no black and white rules
its all context ---- as always ---- up momentum candle off the low is a different thing then the up momentum candle pushing to new highs

i can elaborate on this for hours
also its my first time talking about it so im surprised at what comes to my mind
but i dont want to bore everyone to death
also you guys are well seasoned traders so im aware there are not a lot of things i can tell you that you dont know about

the questions you asked are very open ended
so please let me know if there are any specific things i can help with or elaborate on

I am no scalper, but if I were I would definitely want to see order flow in conjunction with candle flow.

If you are not using candles for the most part then you're purely using numbers (buying/selling volume) to base your decisions on? You are just sitting there feeling out the flow and entering when you see (feel) it. How do you tell when an algo or other bogus traders are doing 'shady stuff' to fake you out? I suppose its hard to describe this kind of behavior in hindsight.

Do you exit on order flow as well? Btw, what trading platform is that? Thanks Pawel for your contribution, you're a dynamic force.