And away we go

One of my favourite comedians is Jackie Gleeson, "The Great One". His humour is timeless, clever and hilarious. When I was quite young and went to NY City for the first time with my parents, we stayed in the Sheraton Plaza where the Jackie Gleason Show did their rehearsal. I can still hear in my head the sounds of the June Taylor Dancers strutting their stuff a few floors above my room. It was snowing in NY and I was at the front door of the hotel waiting for a cab when suddenly next to me appeared George Jessel. I was lost for words and when our cab's arrived and the doorman called, all I could say was Jackie's own line: "And away we go", and we did.

And away we went today. The ES was very smooth and the market allowed both K. and me to achieve a nice harvest. After Friday's big move, the odds were that today was a range day. I only stopped trading when I ran out of puff. K. was full of energy but presently we still trade together so she stopped too. The chart below shows it all. The day needed a lot of focus as there was a lot of changing of direction. Evaluating order flow using the tools meant that I was preparing myself for reversals and not just looking for continuation. Using range bars means that you can qualify the activity bar by bar with the noise removed.

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K. was still entering a little late on some trades and getting faked out too early on some others.  This is fairly normal in the development of a trader, My job is to make this period shorter and I'll talk about how in other posts.