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AHWOA EXCLUSIVE CRASH COURSE!

Ladies and Gents,

This week in After Hours with Option Addict, we’ll be conducting a CRASH COURSE in Market Profile hosted by Raul. I’ve been talking up this idea quite a bit for the last few months, as I think this is too powerful of a tool for you to avoid. He has accepted the challenge and will be using the After Hours with Option Addict platform this week to give 5 different presentations this week to help you learn the concepts of this powerful form of market analysis.

Market Profile was first introduced by Peter Steidlmayer back in the mid-80’s. This form of analysis will help you graphically depict the acceptance or rejection of price over time. I don’t read many trading blogs out there, but I’ve been a long time reader of Raul’s work. He provides an objective analysis of the market profile, helping me to see an organization of price, time, and volume. He also offers intuitive scenarios to what the market is likely to do at that point in time. Several years ago when I was actively trading futures, I thrived off this analysis and I believe that even a novice understanding of this will only help you see the day a littler clearer, and will help you develop a broader intuition of price development and direction in the markets.

Members of After Hours with Option Addict, please welcome Raul to the mic next week. For anyone interested in this topic, consider joining ranks, even just to test drive for a month. These sessions will be recorded and indefinitely archived to use at your leisure. In preparation for this event, check out Raul’s blog and go back a few weeks, looking at the terminology, charts, and analysis he uses to discuss the markets.

Please post any questions you have. Thank you.

OA

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98 comments

  1. halloweenpleb

    Awesome. Looking forward to it.
    Thanks Raul for taking the challenge.

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  2. Raul3

    You guys are going to love what I have in store for the week. I look forward to talking live with the AHWOA crew.

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  3. Quality Control Inferno
    Quality Control Inferno

    OA, if I may ask, what drove you away from actively trading futures? Is it just too difficult to beat the machines in this arena?

    One day the machines will make all instruments untradable. I’m just trying to scoop up as much cash as possible until that day. Like Elon Musk I too fear a terminator-like scenario in 20-30 years.

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  4. Option Addict

    We knew in early 2012 that volatility would be sparse. You want to trade futures when the ranges are wide, you want to trade stocks when the market grinds.

    When it gets volatile, I get back into it.

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  5. MRBIG

    Oh goody , this will make for a much less congested chat room . Maybe we can add two or three more live mics….yeah , five or six people talking @ the same time and 30+ people typing “HI OA ” .
    BTW , this week’s o/u on ” is Jeff live , I can’t hear him ” is 29 .

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  6. Twister

    He sounds so far gone he wouldn’t even know what a crack pipe is.

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  7. Todd Powers

    Ban mr little

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  8. matt_bear

    I look forward to heckling the pool boy.

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  9. Swinging for the Fences
    Swinging for the Fences

    Some rules to live by – http://joefahmy.com/2014/06/23/jesse-livermores-trading-rules-written-1940/
    #6, 12, 14 and 17 stand out to me

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  10. Quality Control Inferno
    Quality Control Inferno

    I didn’t get a chance to comment on Fly’s blog, but Geoff am I diversified? 🙂

    1. TWTR weekly 45s
    2. YELP weekly 72s
    3. GOOGL weekly 590s
    4. WDAY Aug5 90s
    5. X Sept 35s

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  11. frog

    lulu has a clear volume profile down to 25

    what do you see here?

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  12. Rastgen

    Gonna be pretty friggin sweet, I can’t wait to get edumucation on, courtesy of Raul.

    Thanks OA and Raul3 for putting this together.

    The iBC crew with all the different areas of expertise put together a level of winship that can’t even be approached from anywhere else.

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  13. bruce keller

    Lots of these takeovers have been at 25-30% over current values, FDO, MNST, HSH(100% lol). That’s probably what will bring more suckers in.

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  14. matt_bear

    Jeff- i didn’t see an alert with X…does this mean you took delivery?

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  15. Option Addict

    Yep, took the stock. Now my third largest position.

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    • bruce keller

      That X has been ridiculous. That and KING(first time) are the two positions I didn’t get a chance to take. Oy!

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    • k_melancon

      and 5% more….geez

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  16. lol

    Normally I love buying on Mondays after raising cash on Friday. Don’t like paying for time decay when market is closed
    For some reason I don’t feel like buying, even though longs in LJPC,ZU,N and adding to LULU look like great trades.

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  17. lol

    What’s wrong with me?! Why am I behaving irrationally today?

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  18. matt_bear

    fly’s description of you was great. lol

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  19. lol

    I managed to man up and put some orders in.
    Yolo’d the ZU.

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  20. k_melancon

    Picked up Sep CELG 95s on the breakout and some Sep NMBL 30s Haev a few other orders in, but I don’t think they are going to hit my price points for the day

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    • hesitation

      hope this thing will pull back for an entry. or explode like GILD did. i have missed the biotech and want in.

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    • k_melancon

      hesitation – not sure if we are going to get a pullback on CELG as there is no price history above 90 – I was watching for a strong move above 91 and got it this morning.

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  21. Kevin

    OA, what is your profit taking target SUNE?
    24, 28,,,. Thanks !

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  22. bensteinsmoney

    Jeff, are Sept 40’s on ZU too high for a strike price?

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  23. Alec

    I am thinking Sept 37 on ZU (high OI there)- what are your thoughts OA

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  24. k_melancon

    DDD is quiet today – I didn’t pick up any last week, but in today’s tape, this is looking attractive to me

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  25. mr

    Hi OA,
    Thinking of getting into LULU .. looks like cup shared … sep 42.5 good idea ?

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  26. matt_bear

    in terms of geometry, i’ve never seen a stock (X) grind with this high of a degree angle.

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  27. matt_bear

    thoughts on LO?

    it’s got the “look” and i also have the JC SQUEEZE flashing red.

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    • twinkies

      this is an odd looking chart, so i decided to go their website. looks like they are getting bought out.

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  28. azulgrana

    convinced FEYE is actually an inverse ETF

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  29. k_melancon

    NMBL caught a bid – woot

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  30. hattery

    Seasonal low periods in Gold, energy and healthcare…
    Have to wait for October for others.
    seasonal data confirms what charts are saying.
    JNUG,XLE,BIB
    OA was all over the biotech rotation. Energy looks to have a handful of wedges developing.
    JNUG looks decent.

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  31. linmoo

    Thoughts on TEVA? Looks a little forgotten today…

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  32. hesitation

    sold ISRG today. added to Z and TRLA. have SPLK and bot FEYE. holding WUBA ZU and UA

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  33. bonobo snores

    Can someone tell me what time the AHWOA chat starts? New to the site

    Thanks

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  34. canalsrb

    Jeff – Are you still holding JRJC or have you let it go already? If yes, what target are you looking for at this point?

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  35. k_melancon

    SOo, I suppose we can expect slow market action until Wednesday afternoon, unless of course, Israel invades Ukraine to kick out the Russians who aren’t there?

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    • hesitation

      yea strange tape. slow moving equals theta burn. I am lightening up some positiion sizes and slow bleeders like my 3s and 4s and hedging some with rut puts.

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      • Option Addict

        Days like this…a lot of stocks move a little. I would read much more into it than that.

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        • hesitation

          frustration talk OA, as none of my ideas worked today, just bled all day. my biggest positions in Z and TRLA at a great location, but did nothing. huge gap and had no Q flyers or bio floaters.

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          • Option Addict

            Wait til tomorrow. Tomorrow is normally a much better day than big market up days, at least for me that is.

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          • k_melancon

            I actually had a great day today – picked up RAX, NMBL, CELG, ZU and DDD – 3 of those are ripping today with further action likely tomorrow.

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  36. lplongo

    A couple WB Sept 22s here.

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  37. MRBIG

    Good idea here to own a slug of SWN for a few weeks and wouldn’t be shocked to see TSL trade back to 52 week high

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  38. market maker 101
    market maker 101

    ZU sucking eggs 🙁

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  39. formergeek

    Spotted CRTO and UNXL setups on Friday, with everything rocketting they look good

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  40. azulgrana

    long some GWPH 94s for YOLO

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  41. chiefton15

    Bought OXY Sept calls and WFM August 29th calls at the close.

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  42. bensteinsmoney

    OA was right about CIMT … Up almost 20% since recommending it to me and 10% today!

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  43. cashmoney

    How do i view todays recorded webinar? When i click on “click here for todays webinar” it loads up the webinar done on friday. Please advice members/OA

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  44. lol

    ANGI was found outside chewing a raw chicken bone, starving to death begging for change. Things were not looking up. No longer wanted by society, she is forced to rummage through trash. I took her out for a trade, bought her a nice cup of soup and some hot cocoa and we reminisced about the days where she danced, performed and did just about everything people wanted, and people still called her a bitch for not doing it sooner. She undoubtedly will still try to steal my wallet when I am not looking, because that is what she tends to do, but I left most of the cash at home safe anyways and she is no longer armed with weaponry as she has already lashed out back at the world and done the bulk of the damage. How much did it cost me? Not much, but at a minimum I shall be rewarded by a improved karma vs the rest of you savages… not to mention a clear conscience.

    🙂
    lol.

    …That is all.

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  45. citywok

    OA, signed up for the TA trial and got the email and don’t really have clear way of logging in? Sent email to support@tradingaddicts, please advise

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  46. matt_bear

    anyone trading GMCR?

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  47. Trent J

    I am ready to bank some coin today. What looks good out there?

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  48. k_melancon

    bchu – regarding GTAT – looks like I was wrong about the news already being baked in the price – some serious action over the past few days.

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  49. dazedflip

    Bought some LULU two days ago when it was beaten down. Decent volume today… looking good!

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  50. hesitation_marks

    watch WUBA. retest of the breakout right now.

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  51. k_melancon

    looks like we may get a fade today

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  52. Noni Kavuri

    anyone playing earnings for the following Chinese stocks?

    LEJU–8/20 BMO
    TEDU–8/19 AMC

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  53. All_Your_Base_Are_Belong_To_Us
    All_Your_Base_Are_Belong_To_Us

    Jeff: Any concern on two consecutive days of relative weakness in $ZU? Hasn’t been big volume behind it but a bit disconcerting to say the least, no?

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  54. frog

    my face when my yge options didnt move from yesterday

    😐

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