Day Trading Blog: Trading Plan: S&P Gap Fill & Opening Range Breakout

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Trading Plan: S&P Gap Fill & Opening Range Breakout

After the S&P open at 9.30 am the market most likly will come back to its opening price

so either this movement or a failure of this rule can be traded to catch the trend that happens after the S&P breaks out of its opening range.

Also for the DAX the opening price plays an important role:

The market most of the time first needs to test the opening price before a big move/trend will happen, so for example on tuesday often the market moves away from the opening price and then reverses to make a trend going through the opening price.

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how to trade profitable? with KSE. knowledge, strategy, execution.
Knowledge: You need to buy low and sell high. So I wait for the price to first go to a prior support level on the daily, 4h, 1h chart.
Strategy: Timing is important so I trade when there is a good setup on the dax, s+p, nasdaq or oil market. My goal is to make few trades with high risk reward, that is archived by either holding a trade till the market closes or reaching a level that sets up a counter trade.
Execution: Usually there is only a 20 point risk involved, so I try to get into a prior support level on the 10 min chart and automatically set a stop and multiple take profit targets.
All the little details how to trade better are listed here but I like to keep it simple: just enter the market at prices with a target that it at least 3 times the initial risk.

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