Five Mistakes To Avoid as a New Futures TraderAcross ten trades, a $10,000 account can shrink to $4,000. Each individual trade looks reasonable at the time. The framework to contain them doesn't exist.
Year one is where this pattern takes hold. The losses accumulate before most traders can identify what's producing them. Small structural decis
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Your Best Backtest Might Be Your Worst Strategy - Here's WhyYou built a trading strategy.
You backtested it.
The results look great.
Now comes the dangerous question: Which parameters should you actually trade?
This is where strategy development gets much more complicated than simply finding the settings that produced the highest historical profit.
Opti
NQ Range (09-24-26)This current Churn Zone will produce 1 of 2 moves by year end. Chart will show the 216 day CZ in 2025 and forecast this 2026 CZ out to 12/08, by then we should see a breakout. When that happens look at 34K above as 1st upper and 42K max, in line with 2 prior 150% runs on attached chart.
Lower targ
NQ: Weekly Recap and the Map for the Week of Oct 5Week of Sep 28 to Oct 2 on the 1h, then the map for next week.
THE WEEK
Monday's low held all week. Every high and low after it printed at a level that was already on the chart.
Monday: sold from the weekend gap. The low at 30,356.75 swept the Sep 24 low into a stacked 4h and 1h FVG. ES and YM did
NASDAQ | NQ — 4H MARKET OUTLOOK📊 NASDAQ | NQ — 4H MARKET OUTLOOK
My higher-timeframe view on Nasdaq remains BULLISH.
Both the Daily and Weekly structures continue to support the broader bullish narrative, with external buy-side liquidity above the current dealing range remaining a major higher-timeframe objective.
However, bef
NASDAQ - 4H BEARISH SETUP Price has shown a strong bullish recovery from the support zone and has continued to form higher lows . The market is now approaching a key resistance area ,where Price action will be crucial .
Entry : 31.340
Target : 30.500
Stop loss : 31.500
Trade with conformation, manage your risk, and never
NQ weekly: previous week high swept, wait for the close.
New month, and the weekly chart is setting up something worth waiting for.
1. The sweep
This week ran the previous week high at 31,088 and got rejected back below it. Buyside above the old high has been taken.
2. The close decides the path
If this week closes below 31,088, it prints a weekly C2
NQ Targets (09-25-26)Special 2 day view to wrap inside December CZ Post. Pop or drop time for the NAZ at some major KL's. Busy chart, stay with me (hidden tricks).
Of the 1,844 point run from lower channel bottom only 586 came by way of Reg Session. That move just got retested (like and FA retest).
The Diablo (Red D
Nasdaq 100 (NQ) Analysis, Key-Zones, Setup for Wed (Sep 30)Bias: The December Nasdaq-100 contract settled Tuesday at 30,613.25, up 47.00 points or 0.15 percent, after trading between 30,725.50 and 30,372.25, a 353.25 point daily range. The settle finished 68.2 percent of the way up from the low. Those extremes are the completed-session inputs behind the pu
9/29/2026 OHM & Results+1 MNQ lip entry > 100-point SL > 62-point PT > SL hit double size.
Trade management: set-&-forget (unless otherwise noted).
Opening Hour Model.
15s microstructure trading.
Color-coded trades.
Reproducible with provided data.
S1 +1 red
sweep 9.30.30 l
lip 9.30.30 h 684
P/L -200
S2 +1 red
9.35.30 l
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A representation of what an asset is worth today and what the market thinks it will be worth in the future.
Displays a symbol's price movements over previous years to identify recurring trends.
Frequently asked questions
The nearest expiration date for Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 Index Futures (Sep 2023) is Sep 15, 2023.
Traders prefer to sell futures contracts when they've already made money on the investment, but still have plenty of time left before the expiration date. Thus, many consider it a good option to sell Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 Index Futures (Sep 2023) before Sep 15, 2023.









