Personal ongoing guidance from Adam Fiske
with 19 years' professional trading experience.
- Learn psychological triggers used to bait and trap people.
- Recognise price-behaviours that lure people into entering and exiting.
- Identify red herring and loss leader manipulation trades.
- Distinguish between skilled market participants and those who are targeted.
- Locate positional walls of defence that stop/reverse price advancement.
- Know whether the competition is accumulating or covering (exiting) trades.
- Identify moves ahead of time by learning to read the tape.
- Arbitrage shifts in relative value to capture minor risk v high-probability opportunities.
- Know market inventory is net long or net short (and who’s offside).
- Skew reward relative to risk using the market’s money for outlier payouts.
- Learn how multiple evidence points filter down to the best trading opportunities.
- Combine VWAP, session VWAP, multiple-period VWAP, and anchored VWAP.
- Shift between aggressive and defensive trading based on the playing field.
- Know when the market is dominated by insiders versus outsiders.
- Spot systematic trading versus market-making versus retail versus professional and institutional trading.
- Develop a professional application of footprint charts, volume profile, market depth, DOM, Delta, data and news events and global market themes.
Advanced
- Uncover uncrowded opportunities that elude the crowd.
- Develop high-probability hypotheses that retain edge.
- Grow a playbook of positive expectancy strategies to express opportunities in a low-risk framework.
- Detect well-disguised and sophisticated chess-like multi-moves that fuel significant price movement.