FOMC
FOMO CORP
stock OTC

My average hold time over the last two months is still under 5 minutes, and most trading days wrap up in under 10 minutes total screen time.
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[Tradezella strategy stats](https://preview.redd.it/t5jjzkumvoih1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=d02a6df961b41036eb9671cdddead28e46cb3fd7)
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The first 15 minutes of the session is where liquidity gets grabbed, direction forms, and real momentum shows up. Pair that with imbalance confirmation on the 1 minute chart and you filter out almost all the noise that traps people into fading a move that was never actually done moving. Works cleanest on trending days, NQ responds to this better than almost anything else I've traded.
[Over 200+ sample size for backtested results](https://preview.redd.it/kmk1qp0pvoih1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d88e76284b05e1d2aff62ed8e88da393e34f979)
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[1517 trade automated backtesting results in zella](https://preview.redd.it/o0fq2s5zvoih1.png?width=971&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2d5c7841b67ee26b8bf3b1f4500fb9d48a2b837)
* Mark ORH and ORL off the first 15 minutes
* Wait for a real breakout, candle has to close above or below the range, not just wick through it
* Confirm with an imbalance forming between 3 candles in the direction of the break
* Enter on the break plus the close of that imbalance
* Target 1 to 2R depending on stop size, if stop is under 30 points aim for 2R, if stop is over 30 points aim for 1R on NQ
Before the bell I already know previous day high and low, overnight high and low, session bias, where the next liquidity draw sits, and any major news on the calendar like FOMC or CPI. The entire point is eliminating hesitation before the session even opens, if you're still deciding your bias after the bell rings you're already behind.
# Entry Triggers
Long setup needs a clean break of ORH, imbalance forming in the same direction, price closing outside the range and forming that 1 minute imbalance, stop below the imbalance low, target 1 to 2R.
Example:
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Short setup is the mirror, clean break of ORL, imbalance forming downward, close outside the range with the 1 minute imbalance, stop above the imbalance high, target 1 to 2R.
Example:
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# Risk And Management
Risk stays at 0.5 to 2% max per trade. One trade a day, two max. If the first trade is green, I'm done for the day, no exceptions. Move to breakeven once structure clears in your favor. (we break and internal high or low and close above/below)
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can't wait to have a GenZ Fed chair.. I can imagine the FOMC meeting "Yo inflation is bussin fam"

yeah, if they're just looking for a reason to cut and warsch lied in every single public appearance, they can use it as an excuse. The market won't believe it though, bonds will fucking crash. Same happened during the previous FOMC meeting when he didn't hike / provide forward guidance.

# NOBODY IS SELLING
# BIG MONEY FLUSHED YOU ON ON FOMC AND IRAN FEARS AND ARE NOW JUST SITTING BACK LETTING THIS SHIT RIP ANOTHER 10%
# LAST CHANCE TO GET IN BEFORE NEW ALL TIME HIGHS ON EVERY INDEX

Market was going to dump for sure. It always does before FOMC or CPI, anything linked to interest rate, it shits its pants, Intel just added fuel to fire.

Breaking down a few things.
Literal "LLM" isn't that interesting. "LLMs, as a tool, or to extract some features from textual data". This style of NLP on text data is funnily enough approaching old school at this point. A few firms run this in in HFT fashion. Parse known macro events (FOMC, earnings, etc) and just use it to sweep market on news. Or also in mft/lft as yet another alt data signal. Notice in the HFT case, you don't really want to run attention and modern LLMs for obvious reasons...
What is interesting: things like attention, transformers, any modern DL techniques. Independently from models trained on text, if you want to just do modelling on numeric data with modern architectures, yes many people are doing this. Honestly this isn't even a hard conversation and people who aren't doing this are behind. If someone told you to model a function f(x1, x2, ...) ~ future px prediction. You just do whatever it takes that gives you the best results.
Firms like Jane Street, XTX, HRT really advertise and are generally known in the industry for doing a lot of DL modelling. But most other top shops are also doing this too

He was a college professor of mine that I had built a relationship with. He also traded. I won't throw his name out there as he is not known to the trading world but he steered me in the right direction when I was struggling 3 years back..
I am going on 4 winning weeks and what's crazy is only one losing day (FOMC day) and that day was a winner but I came back to the market in the afternoon and traded after hitting my daily goal and closing my laptop to get lunch. I was losing on the trade in the afternoon and was pissed off for not staying out so I removed my stop and averaged down to avoid the loss and hit my DLL.
The 10 weeks is a good barometer because it proves two things 1. that you have a positive expectancy system and understand how the market moves and 2. that your psychology is in check and you actually have the discipline to follow your system.

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If you arent familiar with seasonality, it is the idea that markets have cycles over the course of the year. Aug-Oct is typically the most volatile season of the year with September having the most crashes and large drawdowns, far more than any other month.
This is great for traders if you recognize it because it gives good entry opportunities for you.....because Nov-Jan is one of the best seasons for Market Rallies. If you position well in Oct you can have a great end ot the year
But the key is to know and understand these typical cycles and take it into account when developing your overall market thesis.
Here is what I mean by that:
With the on again/off again narratives on the Iran war, the markets getting used to Kevin Warsh and Kevin Warsh getting used to his new role, talk of a potential rate hike at the Sept FOMC meeting combined with the seasonality cycle, it is reasonable to expect a pretty choppy season from now through Oct.
Almost any market environment can be traded successfully.....if you understand it. Short term traders will do well in this environment taking base hits, and if you are a trader that likes to trade LEAPS on Mag 7....I would wait tor a good pull back before entering any trades.

You have the right mindset. What you are missing is Gamma exposure.
https://support.spotgamma.com/hc/en-us/sections/1500001160601-SpotGamma-Key-Levels?\_gl=1\*1hyy2eu\*\_gcl\_au\*MTA0MjI3Nzc5NS4xNzg2MTUzNzA1\*\_ga\*MTg0MDM1MDc4MS4xNzg2MTUzNzA1\*\_ga\_SMJRNHH18H\*czE3ODYyNTM2MjgkbzMkZzEkdDE3ODYyNTM3MzIkajE4JGwwJGgw
Check the link out and understand what a gamma wall and all the info listed. Don’t buy the subscription but get an general idea what it’s saying. For confirmation, it’s always a candle closed above the level. Risk/reward has to be minimum $2. Anything below is a risk to reversal and I cannot have that happen. Sizings varies to how high my confidence is. Market condition I made an ai system tell me. When not to trade is based on how chopped the market is and the levels it’s chopped between. I MAYBE trade before FOMC depending on if there is a risk/reward but I stay out of it. Same goes when the market is chopped sometimes because it can always reverse automatically. Chopped market is the riskiest honestly.