The Balanced Trader

25 years, ex floor. Love J Dalton. Nothing should be construed as investment advice!

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

🚨 200 Traders. 3 Months. One Experiment.

What if we stripped trading back to what it used to be?

No gurus.
No shortcuts.
No Lamborghinis.
No nonsense.
Just process, discipline and screen time.
For 3 months, I'm considering taking 200 traders under my wing.
🕖 7am - 6pm. Every day.

You'll go through many of the same principles, routines and standards I went through as a developing trader.

You'll learn the things nobody teaches:

✅ Risk management when it actually matters
✅ Professional routines and preparation
✅ Market behaviour and auction principles
✅ Discipline under pressure
✅ Accountability
✅ How real traders think

What you'll get:

📈 Mentorship from a trader with 25+ years of experience, much of it in professional prop environments

💻 Access to an institutional-grade trading platform for 1 month.
📊 Your screens. Your decisions. Your routine. Your P&L.
And here's the truth...
Your P&L doesn't matter. Your behaviour does.
Break the rules three times and you're out.
Not because losing money is a crime.

Because failing to follow process is.

The objective isn't to make money in three months.

The objective is to build the foundations that can help you survive and potentially thrive for years to come.

Every applicant will be interviewed.

I'm looking for people who are serious about becoming traders.

Not people looking for shortcuts.

🎯 The first 200 accepted will receive the programme free of charge.

⚠️ Fair warning: this is as much an experiment as it is a training programme.

Guinea pigs welcome.

If there's enough interest, I'll explore making it happen.

👍 A like, comment or share helps me gauge demand.

Who's in? Criteria will apply.

#Trading #FuturesTrading #PropTrading #OrderFlow #MarketProfile #TradingEducation

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

ES pre-market: the mother candle broke overnight. Through Tuesday's high at 19:35, through Monday's high at 03:30, up to 7620 on light Veterans Day trade. The open decides whether it's accepted. #ES_F $SPY

https://t.co/fXpkkLdcuV

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

Probably not a session worth trading today, given the holiday. Might be worth paying attention to CL trying to get back inside last week's slows. Headline-sensitive. #IranWar‌ #CL #crude #WTI #fibonacci

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

Today we're taking a moment to recognise #ArmisticeDay and remember those who served, sacrificed, and never came home. -"For your tomorrow, we gave our today."

Lest we forget. 🌺

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@_sierratrading That's the best way. Homework's always done the night before :)

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@Enzotradez Next time, show me proof. So I don't have to get out of bed for that:)

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

Tuesday's ES journal: another inside day.
CPI whipped into 7600 and liquidated to 7509. The open test failed above the CPI low, the drive was sold where the CPI Fibs meet, and the session rotated, tails at both ends.
https://t.co/SBjtrEnjue
#ES_F #technicals #tradejournal $spy

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

⚡️ The revamped Trading Balance website went live just minutes ago.
New look. New content. New features.

And yes... the link to the free course is in there somewhere. 👀

First person to find it wins absolutely nothing except the satisfaction of proving they can navigate a website. 😂
https://t.co/DP3h5tPq9S

Let me know what you think. 🚀 And please share -We need 200 people For the free course.

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@RHerman 7600 is def a magnate of sorts, but it depends on the day. The preceding context made it def a target for the first 90 min of the RTH open. Then that idea faded.

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

https://t.co/ghWUeSejSW Trend day up: the overnight short covering ran through the open to a n unresolved high at 7600 #ES_F $SPY #technicals #marketprofile

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

Yesterday's auction, it wasn't a true trend day. It was more like a P. A P profile tells us that buys got stuck. And this pattern is typical of a short covering rally where sellers re-engaged at predetermined points. the persistent Inability to break 7600 yesterday and in particular the CPI liquidation were critical clues, Now the next clue will be if sellers can take us all the way back down to take out yesterday's low. ES

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

ES into the open. Pay attention to yesterday's overnight highs and the CPI candle high. If ES can hold below 7535s yesterday, it may get some traction back down into the overnight low which sets the tone for some short-term balance to lower. The daily auction is coming into balance weekly OTF lower. Buyers regain the upper hand through yesterday's highs. sellers 7600+

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@_sierratrading @bbtooooooo DOM is archaic = I am archaic

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@MPX_Trader Both ways up and down, if you removed #NVDA from $SPY it would move about 500 points lol

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@Ziggy4l7c Process always starts out complicated and then becomes filtered down into a few simple steps. That's natural.

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

I started trading in 2001. At least six people are still trading from my cohort. We all learned to trade in a very different way to all of you guys. We didn't even look at charts. I wonder if those skills that we learnt are the missing components today. With more tools than ever, I don't think survivability has increased. What do you think?

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@CorcelCapital This retail space operates under a completely warped mindset. So I'm going to try to change that a little bit for some.

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

🚨 200 Traders. 3 Months. One Experiment.

What if we stripped trading back to what it used to be?

No gurus.
No shortcuts.
No Lamborghinis.
No nonsense.
Just process, discipline and screen time.
For 3 months, I'm considering taking 200 traders under my wing.
🕖 7am - 6pm. Every day.

You'll go through many of the same principles, routines and standards I went through as a developing trader.

You'll learn the things nobody teaches:

✅ Risk management when it actually matters
✅ Professional routines and preparation
✅ Market behaviour and auction principles
✅ Discipline under pressure
✅ Accountability
✅ How real traders think

What you'll get:

📈 Mentorship from a trader with 25+ years of experience, much of it in professional prop environments

💻 Access to an institutional-grade trading platform for 1 month.
📊 Your screens. Your decisions. Your routine. Your P&L.
And here's the truth...
Your P&L doesn't matter. Your behaviour does.
Break the rules three times and you're out.
Not because losing money is a crime.

Because failing to follow process is.

The objective isn't to make money in three months.

The objective is to build the foundations that can help you survive and potentially thrive for years to come.

Every applicant will be interviewed.

I'm looking for people who are serious about becoming traders.

Not people looking for shortcuts.

🎯 The first 200 accepted will receive the programme free of charge.

⚠️ Fair warning: this is as much an experiment as it is a training programme.

Guinea pigs welcome.

If there's enough interest, I'll explore making it happen.

👍 A like, comment or share helps me gauge demand.

Who's in? Criteria will apply.

#Trading #FuturesTrading #PropTrading #OrderFlow #MarketProfile #TradingEducation

[The Balanced Trader @Trading_Balance]

@XennialTrader It's all gone tits up now.