MickoTrades☄️

ES/NQ futures trader. 18 years of opening-range data, GEX & order flow.
Founder of Chronvel, my trading journal.📖
Tools, videos, socials ↓

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Why is price action lowkey better since midterms?

Up 8R this week so far🔥

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@aleks_rosme AI bubble potentially finna pop cuz unc couldn't keep his dick in his pants🥲

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Tested the most-taught footprint pattern on 12 years of ES:

Stacked imbalance zones held 57% of the time. Random zones of the same size, same candle: 57%.
Entry on the stack close: target hit first 50.5% of the time.
Strongest 20% of stacks: no better.

No edge on its own. Study 03 adds context next.

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

I tested 3 opening ranges on 13 years of ES.

Breakouts that fail:
15-min: 44.8%
30-min: 34.1%
First hour: 20.3%
A shorter range gets you in sooner. You pay for it in fakeouts.
Which one do you trade?

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@nicktarmo_ I just unlocked them. How many should i post a week on top of my main posts?

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

XMAS CAME EARLY!!!!🎅🎄

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.

They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

How to tell if a gamma strike is really getting hedged?

Go check out the full video!

#trading #gamma #orderflow #daytrading #futures

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Dude you're killing it. Im also in MTL, I daytrade fulltime and am part-time finishing my biomed degree at UdeM.

It's definitely a grind, but I have hope that my knowledge from the degree will help me one day for a bigger project. Started building my personal brand seriously last month as well.

Would love to connect! send me a DM

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Most traders quit at the same stage.

Clueless
Reality hits
It clicks
Automatic
Mastery

Stage 2 is where every loss feels personal.

The way out: stop grading yourself on P&L. A loss is a business expense. Did you follow the plan? That’s the grade.

Which stage are you?

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Can you spot a big trend day from how the market opens?
I tested it on 18 years of S&P and Nasdaq futures data: it didn't hold up. So I wait for the first hour to close before I pick a side.

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Posted this video today (GEX series part 2)

In this one I cover:
-Premium flow
-Cumulative Net Delta
-Charm

Def some value here for people trying to integrate GEX in their trading. Go check it out!
https://t.co/yQSIGG9hqB

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

Market makers don't care if price goes up or down. That's exactly why they move it.
Their only job is to stay neutral, and the hedging that keeps them there trades in S&P futures (ES).

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@traderjamesfx then it gets hard in a different way. staying profitable is the boring part: same plan, same journal, every day, nobody warns you about that

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@martinfxtrade you can’t have discipline on an edge you don’t trust. get the strategy backed by data first, the psychology mostly fixes itself after

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@TheH0n3stTrader that’s what evals are for. flip the eval, protect the funded. flipping your own small account is just the expensive version of the same thing

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@raytrdss “cracked it” twice myself and lost everything both times. the edge doesn’t make you safe, following the rules does

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@wannabechamp true, but find out why it blew before you buy the next one. i blew a funded account once on a chart i couldn’t read fast enough. same mistake twice is the expensive part

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@timeframeking same here. first green year was 2024 after blowing it all twice, and it was boring as hell. nobody posts the breakeven months

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@notthreadguy perfect excuse to finally move execution to a footprint chart😂 tradingview stays for drawing lines only

[MickoTrades☄️ @mickomode]

@tradermike1234 lived it. lost everything twice trying to go fast, the first green year only came once i slowed down and backtested 40k+ trades