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Every journal, week review and guide since May 2022, newest first. One pattern for every title: the type, the date, then the story.
Daily journal 43
2026-11-10Daily journalTue 10th Nov 2026 – CPI liquidation from the top of Monday’s value: the sellers are still here2026-11-10Daily journalMon 9th Nov 2026 – Trend day up: overnight short covering runs through the open to a flat top at 76002024-08-24DebriefDebrief · 23 August 2024 · Jackson Hole: balance holds and buyers trend into a strong close2023-02-06DebriefDebrief · 3 February 2023 · NFP Friday, in charts2023-01-06DebriefDebrief · 5 January 2023 · NFP day: no plan, just the island extremes2023-01-04DebriefDebrief · 3 January 2023 · FOMC minutes day: yields fall into the main event2023-01-03DebriefDebrief · 30 December 2022 · First day of the trading year: stocks and bonds bid2022-10-11DebriefDebrief · 10 October 2022 · Open test drive fails and another RTH island forms2022-10-10DebriefDebrief · 7 October 2022 · NFP liquidation back inside the 7-day balance2022-09-26DebriefDebrief · 23 September 2022 · Rate-hike bets build on the ECB and BoE2022-09-18DebriefDebrief · 16 September 2022 · OPEX and quad witching: profile and price-action review2022-08-29DebriefDebrief · 29 August 2022 · Post-Powell Jackson Hole: the gap fills, then buyers fail2022-08-21DebriefDebrief · 19 August 2022 · OPEX Friday: profile and price-action review2022-07-24DebriefDebrief · 22 July 2022 · Friday's profile and price-action review2022-07-21DebriefDebrief · 20 July 2022 · Sellers can't take out the ON low, and the auction stays OTFU into the ECB2022-07-19DebriefDebrief · 18 July 2022 · Trapped buyers under the monthly high, then a long liquidation2022-07-18DebriefDebrief · 15 July 2022 · OPEX Friday: profile and price-action review2022-07-15DebriefDebrief · 13 July 2022 · US CPI day: review only, watching 3850 for buying weakness2022-07-12DebriefDebrief · 11 July 2022 · Summer markets: a sluggish normal day2022-07-11DebriefDebrief · 8 July 2022 · NFP: sellers fail twice and value stays put2022-07-08DebriefDebrief · 7 July 2022 · Into NFP: balance rules apply2022-07-06DebriefDebrief · 5 July 2022 · Charts only, as recession fears hit oil2022-07-05DebriefDebrief · 4 July 2022 · Opening inside range, no conviction trades2022-07-01DebriefDebrief · 30 June 2022 · Month end: a true gap, a choppy neutral day and a buying tail2022-06-30DebriefDebrief · 29 June 2022 · A normal distribution, then an ON trend into month end2022-06-29DebriefDebrief · 28 June 2022 · Open drive trapped at the ON high, then liquidation2022-06-28DebriefDebrief · 27 June 2022 · Sellers hold the opening price, a bottom-heavy consolidation2022-06-27DebriefDebrief · 24 June 2022 · Breakout from three-day balance, settling on the high2022-06-24DebriefDebrief · 23 June 2022 · Buyers defend the singles twice, then a gap and go2022-06-23DebriefDebrief · 22 June 2022 · Another responsive open, an outside day, still in balance2022-06-21DebriefDebrief · 20 June 2022 · Juneteenth: pick the obvious spot, then a gap and go2022-06-17DebriefDebrief · 16 June 2022 · A weak response at the year lows, then OPEX chop2022-06-15DebriefDebrief · 15 June 2022 · Into the FOMC: all bets are off2022-06-14DebriefDebrief · 13 June 2022 · A WSJ story triggers another liquidation through the lows2022-06-11DebriefDebrief · 10 June 2022 · No buyers after CPI: a b-profile liquidation into the lows2022-06-09DebriefDebrief · 9 June 2022 · The ECB breaks the 8-day balance, then CPI blows out2022-06-08DebriefDebrief · 8 June 2022 · Sellers soak up buyers, then the eight-day balance breaks2022-06-07DebriefDebrief · 7 June 2022 · Fading the extremes of a 7-day balance2022-06-07DebriefDebrief · 6 June 2022 · The out-of-range open fails back into the six-day balance2022-06-05DebriefDebrief · 3 June 2022 · NFP barely an event as longs liquidate into the data2022-06-03DebriefDebrief · 2 June 2022 · Passive buyers absorb at the gap, then a squeeze to the highs2022-06-02DebriefDebrief · 1 June 2022 · A double distribution down to the gap from the 27th2022-06-01DebriefDebrief · 31 May 2022 · The holiday drift reverses at 4202, then a choppy balance day
Week reviews 21
2023-02-05Week reviewWeek review · w/c 6 February 2023 · Out of the multi-month balance and into the September high2023-01-30Week reviewWeek review · w/c 30 January 2023 · Still inside monthly balance, into a big central bank week2023-01-22Week reviewWeek review · w/c 23 January 2023 · ES pinned between the 200 and 100DMA2023-01-08Week reviewWeek review · w/c 9 January 2023 · A breakout in equities? Give me a break2023-01-01Week reviewWeek review · w/c 3 January 2023 · The year ends in balance2022-11-14Week reviewWeek review · w/c 14 November 2022 · Post-CPI: correlations reverse2022-10-16Week reviewWeek review · w/c 17 October 2022 · The post-CPI collapse2022-10-09Week reviewWeek review · w/c 10 October 2022 · The post-NFP collapse2022-10-02Week reviewWeek review · w/c 3 October 2022 · Post-EOQ: a hot PCE print and a jobs week ahead2022-09-25Week reviewWeek review · w/c 26 September 2022 · Post-FOMC 75bp, the BoE, and gilts spiralling lower2022-08-21Week reviewWeek review · w/c 22 August 2022 · Jackson Hole, after the four-week winning streak ends2022-08-07Week reviewWeek review · w/c 8 August 2022 · A balanced week, one time frame up, into CPI2022-07-24Week reviewWeek review · w/c 25 July 2022 · A 'P' week, rejected at the 4016 gap level, into FOMC and big tech2022-07-17Week reviewWeek review · w/c 18 July 2022 · A failed breakout, a short squeeze into OPEX and a 'P' week2022-07-10Week reviewWeek review · w/c 11 July 2022 · An inside NFP week into CPI and bank earnings2022-07-02Week reviewWeek review · w/c 4 July 2022 · The worst first half since 1970, into the holiday and payrolls2022-06-26Week reviewWeek review · w/c 27 June 2022 · Breakouts from balance into quarter-end2022-06-19Week reviewWeek review · w/c 20 June 2022 · Short bias: sell the rallies, cover the breaks2022-06-11Week reviewWeek review · w/c 13 June 2022 · The floodgates open after eight days of balance2022-06-05Week reviewWeek review · w/c 6 June 2022 · A very balanced week, with the ECB and US CPI ahead2022-06-02Week reviewWeek review · w/c 31 May 2022 · Memorial Day week, with the jobs data in focus
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Learn 23
2026-11-02Mindset and processLearn from your mistakes2025-01-25Mindset and processTrading and patience: the conveyor belt analogy2025-01-04Mindset and processVisualising success and failure: a motivational exercise2024-11-03Trading eventsUS election outcomes: strategy thoughts2024-06-11Mindset and processTrading is gambling, and when to stop2024-04-26Mindset and processWriting a trading plan like a pro2023-01-07Mindset and processMy lucky toilet break in trading2023-01-05ResearchDouble tops and back-testing in Python2023-01-02Auction conceptsTrading an inside day, week or month2022-08-24Mindset and processWhat is a trade journal, and how important is it?2022-08-18Mindset and processEmbrace trading failure: lessons from Black Box Thinking2022-07-13Trading eventsCPI and PCE: two measures of inflation, and how to trade them2022-06-25Trading eventsDelta, gamma and month-end flows2022-06-19Auction conceptsGaps and how to trade them2022-06-18Mindset and processA reminder to myself2022-06-06Auction conceptsHow to trade VWAP2022-06-05Auction conceptsMarket profile opening types2022-06-05Auction conceptsTPOs, non-excess extremes and profile ledges2022-06-03Trading eventsTrading non-farm payrolls2022-06-01Auction conceptsUnderstanding market profile day types2022-06-01Auction conceptsMarket profile spike and singles guidelines2022-06-01Auction conceptsMarket profile guidelines and trading balance2022-05-31Trading eventsTrading the holiday effect