In a thread with a dozen Hall of Fame type trading posts.......out of nowhere comes the best one yet!!!
By gedigan - Nov. 9, 2025, 11:59 a.m.
Hope you find this insightful.
I'm a intraday scalper and look to sell the highs and buy the lows. It took my years to get to this level. Thus the name I post as gedigan.
Years of trial and error. Years of feeling like I'd never make it. But I kept showing up. There were moments I questioned everything. Moments I almost quit. Moments I begged God for a breakthrough. And He gave it to me. Not in the form of success, but in the form of pain that would mold me. Discipline that would refine me. Faith that would sustain me. Trading didn't teach me about money. It taught me about character, patience, trusting God when nothing made sense. I pray I became the man who's worthy of what he asked for.
Higher timeframe draw on liquidity. Hinge into a gap my A+ setup!
Friday's 1 min. chart.
Capturing an easy short in the am session covered when higher timeframe cycle did it's job.
Capturing an easy long after the draw on liquidity was reached. And an example of the overnight gap as I understand it's value.
Best of trades to everyone!!!
I'll add this one about Black Swan events here just because the stock market thread is getting pretty long:
By metmike - Nov. 9, 2025, 4:45 p.m.
Sunday night opens in NG are notorious for gaps higher/lower.
If I had stayed short on the close Friday, the solution above would be wrecking the enjoyment of my Sunday Afternoon(with me wishing to be flat) because I'll guess we see a higher open. Every huge loss in my life was from holding a position over a weekend when the wx changed and I couldn't get out and it gapped on the next open (long in grains/OJ but I lost 200 K being short in NG 1 time because of the breaking news of the Enron scandal and I think they were in the market buying back all their shorts). Yes, that was it. For the first time ever, early in the heating season of the last 10 years, NG had made a clear top from weather, the forecast turned much milder but instead of going down like it did every other time..........it went UP instead because of Enron. If I remember right, they were just covering all their shorts after going bankrupt. They were THE biggest player in the NG market by a wide margin!!!
Jeffrey Skilling (Tom the meteorologist from WGN's brother) was a key player.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
Always assume the outside chance of an impossible to predict BLACK SWAN event while your trade is on! I had several of them:
1. Enron
2. MF Global going bankrupt with all my money on October 31, 2011
3. PFG Best going bankrupt with all my money in July 2012!