Playbooks, post-mortems, and the data behind them.
Every post is a trade plan or a teardown — written by traders who run the open. Skip the influencer noise and read the work.
CPI day: the four 5-minute bars that actually matter
How to trade CPI release mornings without getting whipsawed — and the historical edge hiding in the first 20 minutes after 8:30 AM.
The Opening Range Breakout, broken down bar by bar
A clean breakdown of how the first 15 minutes of the cash session set the day's tone — and how to trade the break without getting trapped.
Earnings IV crush: the post-print drift is where the money is
Why trading earnings options into the print is a coin flip — and what to do the morning after instead.
VWAP reclaim: the cleanest mean-reversion setup nobody talks about
Why VWAP works, how to size a reclaim trade, and the one filter that separates the live trades from the chop.
Sector rotation: a simple relative-strength scan that beats the index
The two-line ratio that surfaces leading sectors in real time — and the scan we run every morning before the open.
Risk of ruin: the position-sizing math day traders never run
Why a 55% win rate isn't enough to survive — and the simple Kelly-derived formula we use to size every intraday trade.
Multi-timeframe alerts in Pine Script: the right way and the wrong way
How to fire alerts based on conditions from a higher timeframe without repainting, lag, or duplicate fires.
Pine Script vs thinkScript: which platform should you build on?
A side-by-side comparison of TradingView's Pine and ThinkorSwim's thinkScript — strengths, weaknesses, and which to learn first.
FOMC week: a Monday-to-Friday playbook
How experienced traders structure FOMC week — what to trade Monday and Tuesday, why Wednesday is two trading days in one, and how to read the post-Powell drift.
Breadth thrusts: the rarest signal that actually still works
What a breadth thrust is, why it's a 50-year-old signal that still generates outsized 6-month returns, and how to position when one fires.