This is by far the best presentation of an approach I have seen from you guys. A clear objective, replicable take on the market.

Excellent analysis and presentation. Thorough, detailed, no fluff.

it's videos like this that keep me coming back to this channel every single day to see what else you put up. Unreal. I wanna learn more from this guy and everyone at SMB!

I have watched a LOT of videos about volume/market profile lately as it really interests me, and I have to say this is THE MOST INTERESTING video I have seen in a long time. Fantastic view point, and very well explained. More of this please! And great moustache! 👍🏼

This might be the best technical trader I have ever seen :) fluently presented

@mbellafiore19

5 жыл бұрын

thank you for the feedback. nice of you to say.

I want this guy more~ The best presenter in your firm!!! Thanks

100% the best moustache on the Street!

@mbellafiore19

5 жыл бұрын

no comment. we ought to adopt a policy on this.

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it might very well be TOO seductive.

@sbespn3820

5 жыл бұрын

Legend has it Merritt placed his first trade under the buttonwood tree in 1792, lol.

@nickk9499

5 жыл бұрын

I can see this guy on a Triumph Bonneville, all class :)

@mason9757

4 жыл бұрын

Bahahahaha

Every video explains more than an expensive book, and you have hundreds of them. Amazing.

Very nice content indeed. It's super nice to see how professionals approach the issue compared to the easy trading fantasies that is sold to retail traders.

Mike and Merritt - Excellent content. Could you please do an in-depth analysis of reading Market Profile and order flow at the POC's and as price trades 2 standard deviations away from VWAP. I'm thinking at both price levels identifying large orders that are stuck long or stuck short and need to puke their position could provide excellent set-ups. Thank you for posting.

Dude, that market profile 30 min bars where prices are spending most time is excellent

thanks for another great video! look forward to more futures content.

Pure gold. Thank you!

Excellent stuff. The guy is a good teacher.

Very informative... Thanks for the great content...

SMBs old videos are gold... Merritt, Steven and Mike Bellafiore the absolute best.

Sierra Charts - nice platform. Love it!

SMB as always The Best!

Awesome stuff Mr. Bellafiore!! Thank you!! Lots of amazing value!!

@mbellafiore19

5 жыл бұрын

you are welcome.

Excellent perspective, thanks.

Best lesson by far all day, Mike! Hope he does more too! Any others you can point to on the ways he uses the point and figure would be great.

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

It's not point and figure. It's Market Profile. www.smbfutures.com for a full course on MP.

Great Video! I'm pretty new to trading futures. What ticker and exchange is the speaker using in this video?

Was trading butterfly spreads on WTI back in 2008. The spread went up to -120 ! Crashed from $145 down to $49 within 6 weeks ( Sept - Oct 2008). My P&L for that period was + $10.00 it was the first month I went live!

rather than taking a purely directional position in WTI, could you enter a pairs trade (long WTI/short brent), considering the spread has recently blown out to US$10+? you could probably gear your position up in multiples and a reversion to the mean of say $2-$3 in the spread could pay off very nicely, especially on some serious leverage? would appreciate your thoughts on this cheers

absolutely fantastic volumetric analysis of the market. Loved it!

@smbcapital

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

this video was legit. thanks for the insight.

Thanks Mike and Merritt. It seems Merritt plotted market profile for the US session only. Would it be correct to create a market profile for the combined European and US sessions in one profile?

Awesome video Mike. Keep Blacks videos acoming.

Some say his moustache has 8 confirmed kills.

Great vid, gotta check out the vwap indicator.

Thanks guys I learned a lot by watching these videos and I still am ...

@mbellafiore19

5 жыл бұрын

awesome!

I am PA day trading / scalping CL on the 1-min Heikin Ashi, 6 period MA, and MACD. Thoughts? Thank you.

Being mentored by Merritt was definitely one of the highlights of my trading year.

@ChrisLutz3

4 жыл бұрын

how were you able to be mentored by Merritt?

Merritt, why does your weekly chart not match up with what I am showing on Sierra Charts and TracingView for that time frame (weekly chart)? Compare your chart to TradingView and let me know if you see a difference. I can't get your chart to match any other historical weekly charts.

Hi, I would like you to talk about hedging more. Also, does your desk trade options? Right now I only trade Bitcoin futures and the new dollar bitcoin (XBTUSD) swaps. I would like to learn how to do spread trades and cash and carry with futures.

Great stuff

trading crude oil futures is one of the best market exist ever!!!!

more from this guy

Good presentation. He reminds me of Ted Lasso.

Just have a doubt , does oil have some sort of correlation with usdcad?

just a great video again, thanks smb. what software is that ?

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

It's Sierra Chart. We have setup videos and great instruction in our slack room- www.smbfutures.com

Something about futures trading seems to good to be true. If i trade a strategy successfully say trading the ES with 1 contract then over time as the account grows you can take on more contracts so $100 trades now trading 5 contracts would be equivalent to $500. But then the question comes in at what contract level do you hit a market ceiling ? At some point you may suffer slippage, partial fills and low liquidity. So how do u know what that point is ?

This was a great video presentation! Being the next day already, what he has said it showing true in the market. He said he is separated from SMB? How can we see more videos with this approach and presenter?

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

Not separated from SMB. Just starting a new desk. www.smbfutures.com

Would love to see more examples of traders expressing their edge in CL. Also let us view some recorded scripts from the slack community room.

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

Have a look at over a year's worth of live streams from the room: kzread.info

Awesome!

that nigga got the funniest mustache while teaching futures😂🤣😆

I am in the us which broker can I use to trade oil please

Great video Mr mustache!! Are you on twitter ? great explanation

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

@merrittblack

In my opinion there can be a temporary uptrend followed by another downtrend move. Market will be stable then.

it bounced quite a bit :)

Thanks SMB

@smbcapital

2 жыл бұрын

You bet

What software are you using to split your market profile???

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

We use Sierra Chart

+SMB Capital Its been 3 months since this video presentation. Would be great if SMB would follow up on /CL futures, as there's always more to learn and the Mkt is always changing/moving away from one type analysis to another.....after so long a time frame (?)....possibly. @SMB Capital 2/20/19

@davidpaul9965

5 жыл бұрын

You can go to @smbfutures video channel that does daily reviews or join the smbfutures community.

Where can I trade oil futures ?

The misconception of this type of trading, such as VWAP, is that you begin to believe that the market is moving to those price levels because that's where VWAP, Pivot Points, Fibonacci numbers, Moving Ave., etc...are currently pointing to, when in reality, all those lines are pointing to those levels because that's where the market is; not the other way around. If you draw enough lines on a chart, eventually the market will hit one, and you can claim your system worked.

@rudimunk7030

4 жыл бұрын

With the VWAP it clearly shows in the example that the price in no way respected the VWAP or support and resistance for that matter. It's a lot more like finding patterns where there are none.

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT VIDEO! It's like you read my last comment and responded when I said, "More Merritt and more Spencer and your channel will explode." He trades using similar indicators to myself so maybe I have an homogeneity bias, but this video is taking the cake. Been waiting on a bounce since the 10th day down- today's flush probably just washed out the DOM for the real move. Please bring Merritt on more often. Can't wait for his presentation of SMB 12yr Bourbon for the holidays. Did he bring his pet pig to the office? J/K- what a boss.

if futures lose carry cost over time, how come there is no decay in value

So you're only a technical trader? does that work for you? you don't look at DX to see if it's cheap or expensive, don't look at the crack spread or Brent/WTI to see if the market is been hedged, don't look at the calendars to determine Demand and supply? just volume profile, tape reading and levels... Well, I guess simple is better.

@ramsesp5009

5 жыл бұрын

You have to keep in mind he has his levels set at longer timeframes, as we all saw how he started his analysis at the weekly chart. Calendar spreads would practically speaking be useless since it's safe to assume he's conducting a Miltiple timeframe analysis and executing his signals, which in my opinion is pretty smart in terms of timing as i'm guessing he look for reversals, which will undoubted give him some pretty neat asymetric Risk/reward setups. Smart way of trading if ya ask me.

Merritt is actually Freddy Mercury. That's bad ass.

Crazy to think that gap closed to 42!

What is the platform plz?

@Jean-PaulCh

4 жыл бұрын

Sierrachart

I can't seem to understand your chart. The prises of the tops and bottoms do not match any of the charts I can see. Take the bottom in oil in 2016 for example, which was 27 and 26 dollars a barrel for brent and WTI respectively. How come your chart show that the bottom is over 36? Reacted to this when i could not find where to draw your thickest line in my chart.

@ApterosTrading

5 жыл бұрын

Nice observation. This is likely due to our use of continuous, volume-based rollover, back-adjusted charts. We're picky about that given the nature of the tools we use, vs just using a normal continuous contract.

@nicklovelight3304

5 жыл бұрын

interesting...checked Crude oil and brent futures...yeah chart looks like not an oil futures(atleast continuous)...maybe ETF?

@vitomikelionis7783

5 жыл бұрын

You have missed the point about the new normal which is $42-70. chart works just fine.

The cat said he dont keep up with fundamentals and I'm over here wracking my brain to find sound company's with solid earnings. I'm doing something wrong or this guy is a TA genius

@chaseramos4865

5 жыл бұрын

You can day trade pure price action.

@SurferTy

4 жыл бұрын

Fundamental traders are usually long term. Technical traders are more short term. Everyone has different styles and approaches

@ImUrZaddy

3 жыл бұрын

He’s daytrading, you’re investing, totally different

what does he meant by increase market share to take down other oil companies?

@nicklovelight3304

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine oil market, where 1 competitor have 50% of oil producing and his cost per producing barrel is $20...and bunch of other companies have production cost at $35-$50. And market current price of oil is lets say $70, so everybody producing oil at market is happy. But if price drops to say $25, than part of producers go bankrupt or stop producing. And if your production of oil is at $20 cost u can take market share of people that gone bankrupt, because u are still profitable with your cost at $20 and current price of oil at $25. Just an example of how i see his(Meritt) point about taking market share by dropping prices

anyone here because crude oil at 1 dollar?

@zsaruultugs

4 жыл бұрын

me

those who produce oil believe they use that oil extraction for too long. it might be some cuts soon. it will be permanent cuts.

Going below $10

My prediction, in 2 years or less, i repeat, or less. The price will be 120 dollars per barrel for wti, brent will be more. Lets see my prediction vs someone's wish. It is not all about what you wish.

@nicklovelight3304

5 жыл бұрын

with all respect, but without arguments/variables of such claim, why it will go to $120, it also looks like a wish. Give some arguments why, so you can take some critics from audience and everybody learn something