The STRAT

All things strat related for stock trading, a methodology created by Rob Smith.
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Definitely a work in progress. Not financial advice.

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Table of Contents

 Overview
o Candlestick Overview
o STRAT PART 1 - Candles and Pricing Action
o STRAT PART 2 - Other Factors
o START PART 3 - Actionable Signals
o STRAT PART 4 - Misc
 Detail
o Cheat Sheets
o Acronyms and Terms
o Social Media
o Links
o Tools

Overview

TheSTRAT is a trading method developed by Rob Smith (@RobInTheBlack).

Candlestick Overview
Before beginning you have to have a basic understanding of candlesticks.
Candle sticks have 5 basic parts.

 WICKS
 o 1 - Top wick / high / very top of the candle
 The highest price the stock trading during the given time
frame of the candlestick
o 2 - Bottom wick / low / very bottom of the candle
 The lowest price the stock trading during the given time
frame of the candlestick
 FILL
o 3 - Open
 The price of the stock at the open of the given time frame
(top or bottom of the fill depending on the color, more
below)
o 4 - Close
 The price of the stock at the close of the given time frame
(top or bottom of the fill depending on the color, more
below)
o 5 - Color
 Green / Hollow / Empty
 3/4 The open was lower than the close, it opened at
the bottom and closed at the top (price went up)
 Red / Black / Full
 3/4 The open was higher than the close, it opened at
the bottom and closed at the top (price went down)
 Example

o
STRAT PART 1 - Candles and Pricing Action

 1 Candle
o Names:
 1 Candle / Inside Bar / Inside Action / Consolidation /
Sideways
o Technical:
 Occur when the current candle falls completely within the
prior candle
o Meaning:
 Balance, equilibrium, buyers and sellers agree on price, no
one is in control, trying to determine where price is going
next
o Detail:
 Never trade a one bar, wait for the consolidation to stop
then it's time to get into a trade
o Example


 2 Candle
o Names:
 2 Candle / Directional Bar / 2 Down / 2 Up
o Technical:
 Occur when the current candle takes out one side of the
prior candle
 A 2 down means it took out the previous candle's
low, but failed to take out the high
 A 2 up means it took out the previous candle's high,
but failed to take out the low
o Meaning:
 Sellers are selling it down or buyers are buying it up but not
both, a 2 can turn into a 3, but never a 1
o Action:
  The market trades in the direction of the most 2's, but only
trade 2's with continuation
o Example:


 3 Candle
o Names:
 3 Candle / Outside Bar / Discovery Candle / Mother Bar
o Technical:
 Occur when the current candle takes out both sides of the
prior candle
o Meaning:
 Price discovery starting over, buyers willing to buy it up,
sellers willing to buy it down, choppiness
o Action:
 Never trade a mother bar, price discovery is happening,
wait for further confirmation one way or anther
o Example:
 

STRAT PART 2 - Other Factors

 Time Frame Continuity

o Price direction is best determined when looking at multiple time
frames rather than lagging indicators or moving averages
o When all time frames point in the same direction in either
direction, or Full Time Frame Continuity, is the ideal trading
situation
o Example:

 Broadening Formations
o Simplest explanation is = it's a compound 3 bar
 Lower lows and higher highs
 Can draw this anywhere on any time line
 Just pick a high, draw the line to a higher high
 Pick a low, draw a line to a lower low
 Bars should be more FLAT than not, otherwise mostly inside
action (which is fine, but if you are looking for trends start
flatter)
o Increasing price volatility and diagrammed as two diverging trend
lines, one rising and one falling
o It usually occurs after a significant rise, or fall, in pricing action
o It is identified on a chart by a series of higher pivot highs and
lower pivot lows.
o Directional bars and outside bars that fit into a triangle and
ultimately lead to reversals or expansions and present trading
opportunities
o Picture:
 

START PART 3 - Actionable Signals

 Hammer
o Candle that looks like a "hammer"
o Little to no top wick, open and close are very close to the top of
the wick, 75% of the candle is mostly wick at the bottom
o Action:
 Entry as soon as the next candle breaks above the top, or
top, wick of the previous hammer candle
o Picture:
 
 Shooter / Shooting Star
o Candle that looks like a "shooter" / upside down hammer
o Little to no bottom wick, open and close are very close to the
bottom of the wick, 75% of the candle is mostly wick at the top
o Action:
 Entry as soon as the next candle breaks below the bottom,
or bottom wick, of the previous shooter candle
o Picture:


 Inside Bar
o Inside bar (explained above)
o Action:
 After price is done consolidating it will break up or down,
take the break at the top or the bottom of the previous
inside candle depending on which way it goes

STRAT PART 4 - Misc

 PMG - Pivot Machine Gun

o A very fast moving upwards or downwards candles taking out
previous highs or previous lows
o As the prior candles are "taken out" it causes those investors to go
the other way, reinforcing the direction of the bar even more
taking out even more highs or lows
 o Picture:


 TTO - Triangle They Out
o Inside action on a larger timeframe
o As consolidation is happening, things will get "tighter" toward a
point and eventually break out up or down and go fast
o Picture:
 

Detail

Cheat Sheets
STRAT Cheat Sheet1
STRAT Cheat Sheet2
Candlestick Cheat Sheet
Kicking Patterns
Acronyms and Terms
TERM MEANING DESCRIPTION

15'r/15er 15 min Candle Candle on 15 min interval

5'r/5er 5 min Candle Candle on 5 min interval

60'r/60er 60 Min Candle Candle on 60 min interval

Stock trading after the market closes

AH After Hours
4PM EST

indicator to measure the volatility by

Average Percentage
APTR percentage of a stock with price
True Range
being neutral

AS Actionable Signal A "signal" to take an action

Volatility indicator - a wedge or

ATR Average True Range
triangle shape of the recent candles

Broadening A compound 3 bar - higher highs -

BF
Formation lower lows - subjectively drawn

Usually a term used for when

Before Market
BMO earnings come out in the AM before
Opens
the market opens

Down trend line Trending down on the magic

DTL
(magic lines) broadening formation trendline

type of moving average that places a

Exponential moving
EMA greater weight and significance on
Average
the most recent data points

EOD End of Day End of the stock trading day 4PM EST
 TERM MEANING DESCRIPTION

A company's earnings per share

EPS Earnings Per Share
outstanding

Reached magnitude or price target or

ER Exhaustion Risk
right at broadening formation line

Extended trading Trading that occures after the market

ETH
hours close 4PM

Full Time Frame All time frames "match" - they are all
FTC/FTFC
Continuity up or down

A stock opens and GAPS up or down

and there is no fill in between.
A gap in stock price
GAP Missing by or sales may lead to
(missing candles
opportunities for that gap to "fill"
quickly when things reverse.

Candle that looks

HAMMER Actionable signal to a move upward
like a hammer or T

Hammer Counter Hammer that counters/turns into a

HCS
Shooter shooter

HOD High of Day The high stock price of the day

Whole day is inside candle from prior

ID Inside Day
day

Whole week is inside candle from

IW Inside Week
prior week

LOD Low of Day The low stock price of the day

How far a price run is or the price

MAG Magnitude
target
 TERM MEANING DESCRIPTION

Company or an individual that quotes

MM Market Maker both a buy and a sell price hoping to
make a profit on the bid–ask spread

MOMO Momentum Usually momentum in a direction

Multiple Time Frame

MTFA Look at more than one interval
Analysis

Rob Smith saying look for the GAP on

MTG Mind The Gap
these it might fill

NATH New All Time High Stock made a new all time high

NHOD New High of Day A new high stock price of the day

NLOD Low of Day A new low stock price of the day

when a price breaks above or below

Opening Range the previous candle high or low from
ORB
Break the open used on 15, 30, or 60 mins
from open

the high price of a stock from the

ORH Opening Range High opening range 15/40/60 mins from
open breaking to the upside

the low price of a stock from the

ORL Opening Range Low opening range 15/30/60 mins from
open breaking to the downside

Traders who trade 4+ day trades over

the span of 5 business days on a
PDT Pattern Day Trader
margin account get their account
flagged with this

PM PreMarket Stock trading before the market

 TERM MEANING DESCRIPTION

opens 9:30AM EST

Trend pivots the other way taking out

PMG Pivot Machine Gun
several highs or lows of other candles

Candle that looks

SHOOTE Actionable signal to a move
like a gun or upside
R downward
down T

moving average calculated by adding

Simple Moving
SMA recent prices and then dividing that
Average
figure by the number of time periods

Flip of the time interval to produce a

The Flip New candle
new candle

corrective pullback/activity - a wedge

TTO Triangle They Out or triangle shape of the recent
candles

statistic used by traders to determine

Volume Weighted
VWAP what the average price is based on
Average Price
both price and volume

WW Worth Watching Keep an eye on a this stock

Above the reversal / continuation

A method/strategy is entry to the upside and below the
IN FORCE
in force reversal / continuation entry to the
downside

Gamble play, risky but very rewarding,

LOTTO Lottery Ticket
usually a fast expiry

Social Media
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Twitter

 @RobInTheBlack is the creator

 @LevJampolsky
 @AlexsOptions
 @TradeSniperSara
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Links

News

 CNBC - premarket
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Analysis

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Scripts

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Misc

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 What Do We Know to Be True

About Price Action?
 BySteve Burns
 FEB 13, 2019
 Click here to get a PDF of this post
 What Do We Know to Be True?
 This is a Guest Post By Robert F. Smith @RobInTheBlack of Smith’s In The
Black YouTube Channel
 There are two things that immediately jump out when we pose the question
“What do we know to be true” when it comes to trading full time for a living.
First, almost everyone will fail. Second, everyone begins excited and eager to
learn. So what goes wrong?? If your journey is anything like mine, it goes
something like this. You begin by devouring as much information as you can,
only to learn that almost every method comes with an asterisk . *Some things
work during certain conditions and others work in different conditions. So the
problem becomes that once you figure out what condition you are trading, the
condition changes. You may then ask yourself, where is the ‘What condition are
we in’- indicator?? There isn’t one. Now that you have learned about patterns
and indicators and still lose, some throw in the towel blaming themselves that
“I’m just not cut out for trading.” That is usually not a true statement. The truth
is that as much as most people learn that their trading ultimately comes down to
subjective analysis. I won’t even go into how most education doesn’t even cover
risk management, but that’s a blog for another time. At this point you are still
capitalized and have the resolve, you resort to something called “Screen Time.”
Screen Time is the belief that if you look at enough charts that over time you
will obtain what I call an “Educated gut.” By this I mean that although you may
not understand why things occur, that by observing what you hope will be a
repetitive nature to price action will eventually become more clear over time. I
would that this is true. However, it took me 20 years and then another 7 years to
refine what I am going to present to you here so be prepared for a long journey.
The moral of the story, subjectivity is the enemy of the trader. So how can We
trade based completely on what we know to be true, as opposed to what we
think? Simply ask ourselves, what do we know to be true? Here’s what we
know, from one bar to the next, there are only three possible outcomes or
scenarios.
 In the first scenario the second bar is too weak to make a new high and too
strong
To make a new low. This is called an inside bar and by definition is
consolidating.

 The second scenario is where the second bar takes out one side of the previous
range.
 This by definition can be considered directional trending as a break has
discernably occurred in one direction.


 The third scenario is where the second bar takes out both sides of the previous
range. Thus reversing
it’s attempt to trend as you can’t have a scenario 3 without going scenario 2 first.
This is
known as an outside bar .

 The fact that scenario 3 exists is one of the most important things you can ever
know when it comes to understanding price action. The phenomenon that ranges
gets taken out on both sides is the only way to properly gauge the potential
magnitude of an expected move
 Since once a scenario 2 fails, We can combine more of what I’m going to show
you to expect the range to indeed expand again to for the outside bar. This
phenomenon is possibly the biggest miss in our industry. Almost every book on
technical analysis claims that the broadening formation is extremely rare, when
the truth is it is one of the only things that can possibly happen. A broadening
formation is a pattern where ranges continue to expand on both sides, thus an
outside bar is a broadening formation when you shorten the time frame of the
chart. It must be because by definition the range is expanding on both sides,
Here’s Google on a 30 minute chart over the past few days and it’s
corresponding outside bar on the daily chart.


 What do we know to be true?? There are only 3 scenarios that can possibly play
out from one bar to the next , it is impossible for price to do anything else, and
 that range expansion on both sides indeed occurs because outside bars exist. So
what else do we know to be true? There is always a debate when the market is
dropping of “Is it near a bottom?” This is to say that most will use subjective
analysis to attempt to identify what a reversal is. You’ll hear things like
“Capitulation volume” etc. The truth is there are only 4 ways that price can
reverse. First, Scenario 2 in one direction followed by a 1, then a scenario 2 back
in the other direction.


 Second, a scenario 2 in one direction followed by a 2 in the opposite direction.


 Third, Scenario 2 fails and goes scenario 3. An outside bar.

 4, Scenario 3 occurring at a high or low followed by a 1, then a 2 back into the
previous range.
 This occurred on the weekly chart of AAPL on it’s recent low.


 Feel free to go look at any chart and you’ll quickly notice any reversal occurred
per one
of the 4 set ups I just showed you. It is impossible for price to reverse any other
way. One
of the most tiresome conversations of 2018 was, Is GE a buy?? So many people
went back and forth
When all you needed to do was wait for the 2-2 reversal on the monthly chart
when it broke
Above $7.95.

 Not to mention October’s outside month to get short, but I mention it.
 Another problem many traders have is relating the term reversal to a major top
or bottom.
 That’s not true. They occur all the time and are extremely useful during a strong
trend.
 You may have heard the term or you use the term “I’ll buy on a pullback.” My
usual response is “What’s a pullback?? 2 cents? 50 cents? 2 bucks?” The usual
responses are things like “It’s coming into my moving average or support level”
or “It looks like it stopped going down!”. So, we can define that a successful
pullback is corrective activity that ultimately resolves higher.
 Therefore, any successful pullback that ultimately resolves higher also is a
reversal and must be one of the 4 reversals I just showed you. This must be true
as there is no other possible ways for that to occur.
 This is not to say that major tops and bottoms don’t have these reversals as well,
they do as these are universal to all price action. Had you known this in October,
you could have easily identified the reversals on the monthly charts of the
broader averages. IWM 2-1-2 reversal.

 The 2-2 reversal in monthly SPY.


 The failed 2 goes 3 in monthly DIA and QQQ.


 You can also see the 2-2 reversal in weekly SPY which called the most recent
low and has still not
been negated by another reversal.


 It is common knowledge that most hedge fund managers don’t outperform the
market. Here’s how badly you would have destroyed the market based on what I
just explained to you using a macro yearly chart of SPY.


 From 1988 to 1999, all 2’s in the same direction. 2000 went 2 but then 2001
triggered the 2-2
reversal to get short. 2003 was an inside year then 2004 triggered the 2-1-2
reversal to get back long. 2004 through 2007 were 2’s. 2008 triggered the 2-2
reversal to get back short. 2010 then triggered a 2-2 reversal of 2009 to get back
long. It’s been 2ing ever since except for 2016’s 3 year.
 So what do We know to be true? There are 3 universal scenarios and 4 types of
reversals. So how do we put this all together? You may have noticed that my
examples are on several different time frames. One of the biggest mistakes
traders make is not using multiple time frame analysis . You need to use at least
4 time frames to understand what you are truly looking at. Most importantly,
you need to understand that charts are simply visualizations of statistical data.
Once you understand how to analyze the data the way I’ve just shown you, the
clearer things become to what is truly occurring. To give an understanding of
how little you know if you don’t, consider this. If a daily chart updated at noon
instead of the opening, you would see a completely different chart. If a 30
minute chart updated at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour, it would also be
completely different than a standard 30 minute chart. You would also have 10
different looking charts if you had weekly charts that updated every day of the
week on the opening and each day at noon. So what you think you see on any
chart is basically irrelevant to what is truly occurring. You are a prisoner of how
software wished to present the data to you. So, an outside bar may not actually
be presented, but we know that phenomenon exists. For instance, look back up
to the yearly chart of SPY. If you look at the sell off from 2007 to 2009, you’ll
 notice that those 3 years were completely outside the previous 10 years. If this
was a 3 year chart that updated in 2007, it would be an outside bar.
 Multiple time frame analysis can help mitigate such problems and continue to
gain more insight on what is truly happening. I basically use the Monthly,
Weekly, Daily, and 60 minutes as My major time frames. As you can see I also
use macro Yearly and Quarterlies for the bigger picture. During periods of high
volatility, the shorter term time frames are equally as important as in October an
hourly bar could have the range of a monthly bar in September. So, by lining up
the scenarios and reversals across multiple time frames, We don’t think, We
KNOW what is happening. if we have a reversal on a monthly chart, We then
know to look for reconfirming signals on the shorter term charts. Multiple time
frame analysis as gives us important information about what other market
participants are doing. This next universal truth to price action is called the Time
Frame continuity principal. Here is a chart of HON on the 4 major time frames.


 You’ll notice that all four charts are green because they are trading higher from
each opening. What we know to be true that when all charts are green and the
openings are at separate times, the aggressive participants by time and price are
on the buy side and taking the offer. You’ll often hear the reason that prices rise
is because there are “More buyers than sellers.” That’s not true because all
buyers need to have a seller to aggregate with. A buyer may sit on the bid and
the price won’t move. However, during periods of full time frame continuity to
the upside, the buyers are all aggressive enough to be taking the offer. This
absolutely must be occurring as there is no other explanation. So, based on what
we know to be true is that there are 3 scenarios, 4 reversals, and the time frame
continuity principal. When We combine all three we greatly increase our
probability of being right. Ideally, We get one of the reversals on one or more
time frames that back into full time frame continuity. This means that we have
had corrective activity with a high probability of resolving higher as every man,
Woman, and Bot is back to taking the offer. So what do we know to be true?
When you put together the concepts I’ve just presented to you, I already know
what your winning and losing trades look like. I highly suggest that you use at
least 4 time frames and keep this checklist on your desk. Feel free to review any
trade you’ve ever done and compare it to what I just showed you and it will line
up. Here’s the check list.
  Losing trades look like…..
1.Chopped up trading a scenario 1.
2. Scenario 2 going against you.
3. Scenario 3 going against you.
4. Time frame Continuity going against you.
 Winning Trades look like….
1. Scenario 2 in your favor.
2. Scenario 3 in your favor.
3. Time frame continuity in your favor.
 And that’s what I KNOW to be true.
 Rob will have been trading for over 30 years. He was a member of the
Chicago Stock Exchange for 16 years where he was an OTC and Listed
Specialist , Independent Trader, and research analyst for several firms. For the
past 8 years he has been teaching his
 methodology and you can follow him on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsintheblack or Twitter @Robintheblack.

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 2U-3D: http://tos.mx/vZMrOLs
 2x Inside Month: http://tos.mx/O19mjam
 3-1 Scan: http://tos.mx/tKXTWdX
 ADR: http://tos.mx/xXthESo
 Anchored VWAP 2021: http://tos.mx/F4jKxbl
 ATR Label: http://tos.mx/eDRGPJm
 Broadening Formation: http://tos.mx/f8hEfJI
 : http://tos.mx/2YRrfU5c
 Daily 2d 3up: http://tos.mx/aZ0PjPThttp://tos.mx/f8hEfJI
 Daily 2u 3down: http://tos.mx/9U2Cvvc
o Double Inside Day: http://tos.mx/T8Qq6CY
 2 D Green Day: http://tos.mx/TNBQxIM
 2U-2D Week: http://tos.mx/lAwNJVc
 Double Inside week: http://tos.mx/ggNfej2
 Double Inside Week: https://tos.mx/gExMrmJ
 Inside week scanner http://tos.mx/IezLU5T
 HAMSHOOT: https://tos.mx/jtv0W8M
 MMInside Hour: http://tos.mx/jOW2FlM https://tos.mx/jtv0W8M
 INSIDE HOURS 2: http://tos.mx/KktbH0k
 312 BULL - https://tos.mx/FZRUMIl
 FTFC With Arrows: https://tos.mx/xfZEnLv
 Gap Up: http://tos.mx/1kDn8Wa
 Green/Red TFC: http://tos.mx/rYd4rhZ
 Imbalances: http://tos.mx/08g5FuE
 Inside 15: http://tos.mx/tN37fFM
 Inside 30: http://tos.mx/ElrVy5o
 Inside Day (ATR>5): http://tos.mx/4eVM1lj
 Inside Day ATR 3+ scan: http://tos.mx/uMhx2ix
 Inside Day Yesterday FTC Up: https://tos.mx/jVn9nZf
 Inside Day: http://tos.mx/Kef6LRV
 JAM Volatility: http://tos.mx/uIEa2nP
 Kicking Bear: http://tos.mx/RJDDjp5
 Kicking Bull: http://tos.mx/IigzVfx
 Leaders & Laggers Custom: https://tos.mx/6RiNtf5
 Leaders & Laggers: http://tos.mx/S8B534Z
 Leaders Laggards TFAANG: https://tos.mx/jHDr3ry
 Liquid Options: http://tos.mx/8NL7E90
 Mind the Flip: https://t.co/5x9VNEwryI?amp=1
 Monthly Rev Strat: https://tos.mx/eLy347U
 Monthly 2up to 2down: http://tos.mx/t5rTDuD
 Monthly 2down to 2up: http://tos.mx/K8mKJxI
 On Chart Strat FTC2: https://tos.mx/goBRH2b
 Outside Day Scan: http://tos.mx/b8kk0tl
 Outside Hour Scan: http://tos.mx/ytJJj6N
 Pivot Machine Gun Daily: http://tos.mx/HqDIH5V
 Pivots w/BF: https://tos.mx/1dIAlIl
 PMG Daily: https://tos.mx/XB8H00P
 Rev Strats/312/212 Day OTC: https://tos.mx/OczgOWQ
 Rip Pre Market:
1 Bar Rev Strat Day
1-2D scan
2 Bar Rev Strat Day
2u to 3d
2x Inside Month
Q W@ AWw3☺️g6
 Scan Query: https://tos.mx/qFaZPA7
 Sector Change % Label: http://tos.mx/TsidmSY
 Sector Strength: http://tos.mx/lNL8rJU
 Spread Custom Columns: http://tos.mx/lVfxL52
 (adjust time frame to an intraday setting of your choice)
 Strat Basic TFC: http://tos.mx/2o5JeAW
 Strat HLM V2: https://tos.mx/7TQya1g
 Strat HLM: https://tos.mx/qrOayCC
 Strat Inside Bullish 2-2: https://tos.mx/UINMm6N
 Strat Inside Bullish TTO: https://tos.mx/KK75EUy
 Strat Inside Bullish: https://tos.mx/EqCPd29
 Strat Inside Quarter: https://tos.mx/2GhMcxK
 Strat Open Levels: http://tos.mx/bxcDOka
 Strat Pivots: http://tos.mx/ku6GTgR
 Strat&Reversals: http://tos.mx/rbd6laM
 TFC & ADR: https://tos.mx/4vrxzpx
 Think Script Study (auto strat and FTC Labels): https://tos.mx/PPUoZBa
o This script will number each candle, also will show FTFC and also
alert on reversals
 Tick Study: https://tos.mx/t5p4Pt
 Time Continuityhttp://tos.mx/rYd4rhZ
 Ultimate Volume: https://tos.mx/1soHWre
 VP 2 Grid: http://tos.mx/j2pzH1shttps://tos.mx/PPUoZBa
 VWAP Boulevard: https://t.co/pdAIr60BZ1
 X-2 Rev Up Week: https://tos.mx/bnIFd83
  Yesterday’s highs: http://tos.mx/2Po5vIg
 Yesterday’s lows: http://thttp://tos.mx/2Po5vIg tos.mx/FfFMrrQ

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http://tos.mx/T8Qq6CY Double Inside Day

http://tos.mx/Kef6LRV Inside Day

Think Like A Professional Trader

• https://youtu.be/tyGQniqsZ0Y

• https://youtu.be/HJAkIFoMkAA

• https://youtu.be/3iRnvulahQM

• https://youtu.be/0liK0wIXR_E

@RickyZane85 Resources
(updated on 8/1/2021)

Resources I created in an attempt to help me better understand and take

advantage of the TheStrat. Will update this list as I continue to improve these
resources.

 Github
o https://github.com/rickyzcarroll/the-strat
o General readme information regarding TheStrat that I documented when
I started learning, hopefully it will help you.
o Tons of information and links.
 TradingView Scripts
o https://www.tradingview.com/u/rickyzcarroll/#published-scripts
o All of the scripts I’ve created in TradingView to help visually assist with
the strat
 StratScanner V2
o https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
1mAKDyabWX2Z7wN2NkPuCT_f-nJCbfu73QaaBHmRzv78/
edit#gid=636936577
o Using paid data for this one, so it should be more reliable. Updating this
routinely. Now includes ATR.
 Strat Journal
o https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1itCdryl2e_eS3ouza9ewNWWOI86JQAS9ewJ0q4mFoIE/edit?
usp=sharing
o A template I use to journal my plays
 StratScanner V1
o https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
1gdHpSeyXwEEYmq50_g4BH1xn7ZDEH6Y63B8241NelKE/edit?
usp=sharing
o First attempt at a scanner, trash now not updating it. I created it to scan
for strat setups after the day is over because I don’t like TOS and TV
limits to 40.
o This uses the GoogleFinance function (which is free and not super
dependable)

 StratScanner Mini V1
o https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o8OTx8qmnyCM-
uedchrJqeyFGKXr_es5KzQXFJaI-HY/edit?usp=sharing
o Mini version of V1 that allows users to enter their own stocks… no
longer using/supporting this one.
 Scripts from Alex’s Discord:
o LINK:https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1itCdryl2e_eS3ouza9ewNWWOI86JQAS9ewJ0q4mFoIE/edit?
usp=sharing
o TOS, TV, Ninja Trader, all sorts of fun scripts for the Strat