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The NQ's US session: 3:30 pm to 10 pm

The Nasdaq hour by hour, from the Globex book to the closing cross

Six and a half hours that decide almost everything. The Globex terrain and the NQ's thin book, the day hour by hour up to the 9:50 pm MOC flow, the seven stocks that make the index and earnings season, the intermarket (NQ / ES ratio, rates, VXN), four session cards including a non-trade, then sizing by volatility, slippage, the funded account and the journal by regime.

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What you will be able to do

  • 01Read the NQ book for what it is: a big contract on a thin book, where a wall is measured in proportion and a stop run is cheap
  • 02Split the US session into regimes and trade only its two readable windows, with the 9:50 pm MOC flow as an exit filter
  • 03Infer the invisible stock book from the leaders, and know when arbitrage, not a participant, stops a move
  • 04Qualify every setup with three witnesses (leaders, ES, ZN) and recalibrate every distance on the day's VXN
  • 05Apply four session cards, one of them a non-trade, and keep a journal by window and by regime on a funded account

Who it is for

For those who already read the footprint, delta and heatmap on the NQ and know its ten setups. The NQ and Heatmap courses are the prerequisite; the Trading Floor course helps for microstructure, the GEX course for module 4, neither is required.

Syllabus

Module 01

1 · The Globex terrain for the NQ

01Globex and FIFO: the queue you joinStudents only9 min02A thin book at 0.25 point: NQ depth against the ESFree preview10 min03What CME MBO shows on the NQStudents only9 min04MNQ and NQ: where to read, where to executeStudents only8 min
Module 02

2 · The NQ day, Paris time

05A day in the NQ, Paris timeFree preview10 min062 pm to 3:30 pm: the 2:30 pm numbers, the gap and the pre-marketStudents only9 min073:30 to 4:30 pm: the opening cross, the initial balance and the first hourStudents only11 min084 pm, the 10 am New York numbers, the European close and the lullStudents only9 min097:30 to 10 pm: the restart, the 9:50 pm MOC flow and the closing crossStudents only11 min10Quiz: the terrain and the dayStudents only4 min
Module 03

3 · The seven stocks that make the NQ

11An index of seven stocks: the weights, and the aggregate book you cannot seeStudents only9 min12Reading the leaders in session: ahead, behind, divergenceStudents only9 min13Earnings season: the night of a release and the next day's sessionStudents only10 min14NQ, QQQ, NDX: basis, fair value and arbitrageStudents only9 min15Quiz: the stocks behind the NQStudents only4 min
Module 04

4 · The intermarket

16The NQ / ES ratio: who leads todayStudents only8 min17Rates and the dollar: ZN, the 10 year, and why the NQ is the most sensitiveStudents only9 min18VXN, VIX and the volatility regime: adapting distancesStudents only9 min19When decorrelation cancels a setupStudents only8 min
Module 05

5 · Four session cards

20Card 1: the opening rotation, 3:33 to 4:15 pmStudents only11 min21Card 2: the initial balance rejection on the 4 pm numberStudents only10 min22Card 3: the lull non-trade, 5:30 to 7:30 pmStudents only7 min23Card 4: the afternoon absorption and the exit on the MOC flowStudents only11 min24Quiz: the four cardsStudents only4 min
Module 06

6 · Risk, execution and journal

25Sizing in NQ and MNQ by volatility regimeStudents only9 min26Slippage, market orders and the cost of a thin bookStudents only9 min27Trailing drawdown and the NQ: the nervous coupleStudents only9 min28The journal by window and by regimeStudents only9 min29Final quiz: the session end to endStudents only5 min
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