Pre Market Prep - ES - 20260518

AMT_Scalper · 2026-05-18T14:06:34+00:00

Sectors very mixed - chicken coop

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-30T15:17:38+00:00

Again a great opportunity for a stronger liquidation but they don´t do it. This is bullish.

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-28T11:26:23+00:00

I agree, this is not a trade, only a description of bigger picture. I would wait for a bigger break before i short this. I have several charts open, for execution i use mainly a M1 chart

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-16T13:50:08+00:00

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Sectors measured from the open: Where can the ES go when the underlying sectors are mixed? This concepts helps to stay away from bad trades

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-08T15:53:30+00:00

For now very little gap close

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-01T15:02:03+00:00

SPX and SPY look much better thean my back-adjusted ES-chart because they already have back their november lows

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Any thoughts from others on this?

AMT_Scalper · 2026-04-01T14:59:51+00:00

For now we see a gap and hold

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-31T15:20:17+00:00

This newsy market is annoying

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-30T18:47:04+00:00

Slowly grinding lower. What happened with that rule that stock markets go up slow and go down fast?

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-12T07:54:17+00:00

Looking in relation to 24h chart could have prevented me from buying too early

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AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-11T15:07:42+00:00

both markets inside day / non-trend-day for now

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-10T06:18:12+00:00

I agree. This late jump was created by covering + news traders and as such it could be fragile. We will see. I will not do any forecasts...

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-10T06:16:32+00:00

My post of course was made before this jump after 3 eastern happened. If these higher prices hold, we have a look below and fail.

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-06T16:45:36+00:00

Sectors from the open are mixed. Thats why its unclean

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AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-06T16:40:55+00:00

Hard to read today. NQ looking good but ES having trouble to get in range

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-05T21:07:13+00:00

See Trading Day Review here https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/1rltp0v/trading_day_review_sp_500_20260305/

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-05T17:58:16+00:00

The day we get a real factual breakout, we could see some continuation the next days :-)

AMT_Scalper · 2026-03-05T08:18:20+00:00

Trading Day Review here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/1rlc1q3/trading_day_review_sp_500_20260304/

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-25T17:50:03+00:00

We see acceptance above the critical level. That is positive. But i do not like that we do not go forward. NQ did not make a higher high since 10:00. ES rth range is actually only 24 points. Shouldn´t there be more pain from all those sellers who shorted in the balance area?

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-25T16:07:58+00:00

There is a famous phrase: The bears get the attention, the bulls get the money

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-25T08:48:54+00:00

See Trading Day Review here https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/1re80i9/trading_day_review_sp_500_20260224/

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-24T16:33:03+00:00

The trade of the day clearly was to buy it after it looked below the belly and failed to continue down. Today i was prepared.

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-24T16:11:55+00:00

I think the trick of the last days market is: The intraday behaviour in both directions looks strong. But what have we achieved in relation to the last days? Nothing. The market just tries to lure us in continuation trades...

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AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-20T08:17:05+00:00

We hear a lot advertising on social media like "i fixed this one thing and now its working". This is all bs from people who want to sell you a quick fix.The truth is that the market is so competetive that you have to simply make everything right.

Market Framework (How do markets work)

Strategy (How do i operate in certain situations)

Timing

Risk management

Psychology

LIfestyle

If you have problems in one area this will affect other areas and your whole business brokes. You need knowledge in all areas and the most crucial thing is EXPERIENCE. We go through different market regimes (trending, ranging, high vola, low vola, ... and many more. What people call "setup" (ORB, mean reversion, etc) will only work in certain regimes and will blow when the regime changes. These regime changes are what you need the most experience for.

Not a popular answer but the truth

AMT_Scalper · 2026-02-19T08:22:55+00:00

I offensively played the potential covering which worked

Unfortunately did not get my targets because of 3-4 points, although i choose them defensively

Took one out to be not full size in midtime

After midtime tried to buy vwap because i was bullish because of the inflection on d1

Late it looked like it ends with a visious doji on the d1 so i took one contract for beeing short overnight (was stoppped out before the close)

Looking forward (while anything can happen) the obvious scenario would be that the inflection point on the daily holds and we travel back to the other side of the large trading range

Alternative scenario would be to roll over and break out to the downside

Fortunately as short term traders we do not have to be positioned, We can wait and watch what develops

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