Academy · Momentum & Intraday Trends
PATH 3 · CATCH THE MOVE
Momentum & Intraday Trends
How momentum moves start, how to tell a real break from a fake one, and how to stay with an intraday trend long enough for it to pay.
2chapters
10lessons
Chapter 1 · Catching Momentum
5 lessons- 01The Anatomy of an Intraday Momentum MoveWhy momentum moves persist instead of reversing, the three phases every move passes through, and why most bad momentum trades are taken in the last one.7 min
- 02Momentum Ignition: Telling a Real Break From a Fake OneFive signs a breakout is real, the signature of a failed break, and an ATR yardstick that makes range expansion objective.7 min
- 03Opening Range Breakouts Done ProperlyDefining the range, two sound ways to enter, where the stop and targets go, and the three filters that remove the worst days.8 min
- 04Buying Strength: Entry Location, Not ChasingBuying strength is momentum trading. Buying it at the wrong place is the mistake. How to enter on the pause inside the move.6 min
- 05The Second Leg: Where Big Intraday Moves Are MadeWhy strong moves pause and run again, how to read the pullback between the legs, and how to trade the continuation with a defined stop.7 min
Chapter 2 · Riding Intraday Trends
5 lessons- 01Trend Day or Range Day? Reading the Session EarlyThe first-hour signs that separate a trend day from a range day, and how to change your entries, targets and holding time to match.7 min
- 02Holding Winners: The Hardest Skill in TradingWhy traders cut winners early, the rules that keep you in a trend, and how to measure what early exits are costing you.7 min
- 03Adding to Winners: The Pyramid That Can't Blow UpHow to add to a winning position so that total risk never exceeds the original risk, and where the adds belong.7 min
- 04Big Winners Pay for Everything: The Math of Asymmetric TradesWhy a handful of large winners make most of a trend trader's year, the expectancy arithmetic behind it, and how to live with a low win rate.8 min
- 05When to Get Out: Exhaustion, Climaxes and the End of a TrendThe four ways intraday trends usually end, turned into exit rules, and why divergence is a reason to tighten rather than to exit.7 min
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Indicators used honestly, complete intraday setups, and trading the right hours around the session opens.