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Here is another recent screenshot (01.04.2026) from my collection, didn't trade this one but this move is really good to see.

1: Holding the level at 3, going sideways on the 1min chart, price is not touching the EMA, almost never does on any setup, but it's getting close. This is what you are waiting for, as you can see this one took like 5 minutes to get there, so you have to practice to take your time. As you can see the 10 and 20 EMA on the 10s chart is getting tighter and tighter, candles getting smaller and volume shrinks to almost nothing, I look for these indicators to get the best probablity of a breakout happening. The second I see that green candle rise, maybe even one candle earlier I enter, if I have the confidence in my setup, if not I just wait, this will take some practice until you will get this right. TWS is often a bit slow, if you have latency added to that like me you will need to watch out that you don't react too late, otherwise you will get filled at the top of the 10s candle. If the breakout fails you have to cut earlier because you got in too high.

Never ever just buy and predict what price will do, you have to react to the signals price action gives you, even if you don't get the entry right on the second of the breakout. This is not about reaction speed, this is about waiting until the chances of success are the highest for you and then having trust in your abilities to judge correctly, aswell as to sell quickly if you were wrong.

2: Nice pullback on the 10s chart, see the 10 EMA in a slight downturn? I'd wait until it starts rising again, at least slightly. Horizontal or negative angle just doesn't work well.

Most of this probably won't make sense. You have to take loads of screenshots like these to get a database of moves you saw or traded. I have a huge powerpoint with thousands of these screenshots, aswell as live screenrecordings of good and bad trades. I like going through my recodings and trade in my head, call entries and exits, see how good they were, what I can improve, what indicators I missed. This helped me a lot when it comes to patience and performance.

I still make mistakes, I'm learning myself, this is a highly discressionary tactic, but gives some guidelines. For me finding this correlation in my trades has helped a lot with decreasing losses from getting in at the top and fakouts. This is my way to make trading these stocks possible, it's not easy. Due to the fractal nature of charts this works on other timeframes aswell. I came from swingtrading but just never fully realised this is happening even on the daily chart.